Philip Potter

It's here! #InternationalBassoonDay

@superhighfives Omg this is my favourite example I’ve seen

Absolutely bananas. We are living in the future. replicate.com/black-forest-l… prompt: "Make this image into an oil painting with heavy brush strokes while keeping the person in the exact same position, scale, and pose. Maintain identical subject placement, camera angle, framing, and perspective, only change the style." (@ChappellRoan 4 eva.)

@DRMacIver A particularly stark example is Sibelius second symphony second movement. It starts with double bass pizzicato played super quiet, but later has some moderately loud brass bits later. If I listen on headphones on (say) the tube, the first few minutes are basically inaudible

@DRMacIver The classic problem with classical music reproduction is that classical music has an enormous dynamic range. Either the quiet bits are below background noise level or the loud bits risk causing hearing damage

What are some examples of classical music that literally brings you to tears?

@DRMacIver The last movement of Tchaikovsky’s 6th symphony. Intense melodrama. The folklore is the composer was dying as he wrote it and the tam tam near the end represents the moment of death

I'm going to be in SF from 28th-4th. Anyone want to meet up? Any events I should check out?

@GabriellaG439 They transcribed it wrong but I know the truth open.spotify.com/track/11EOvxJR…

@GabriellaG439 open.spotify.com/track/11EOvxJR… awooooooooooo

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@diptanu I mean having old iPhone model batteries degrading is what’s motivating my upgrade

Apple does very little these days to justify upgrading to new iPhone hardware.

@colmmacc 👏🏻 very cool. I’m from Scotland but all my music making has been classical, I wish I could do Celtic music like this

6 years since we made this. Chris's playing is so good and I hung along for dear life. Recorded 100% live as we played it. IDC if it's a brag but I can't convey the decades of practice it took to match and chop syncopated beats like this. youtube.com/watch?v=ZTURM_…

@noteed @GabriellaG439 Sometimes the right tool is the one you happen to have in your toolbox rather than the one in the hardware store 20 miles away

@GabriellaG439 I never saw anyone explain, given a job, what are the criteria to select the "right" tool anyway.

me: pick the right tool for the job also me: use haskell for literally every programming task

@nomilkinmytea @namvdo @ChShersh This. We’ve been doing vhosting since http/1.1 in 1999. Two hostnames with the same IP address can be two different websites. So as well as being slow and wasteful to make this a blocking call, it’s just wrong for the 21st century web.

@namvdo @ChShersh Those could be completely different websites

Your brain on Java is when comparing two strings REQUIRES A DNS LOOKUP

Anyway it’s fascinating to me that we’ve managed to build web authentication infrastructure that is neither secure, nor possible for most people over the age of 70 to make sense of. It’s kind of brilliant.

Never even liked tennis anyway.

“Oh my god how did you make this taste so incredibly deli—“ “Butter”

Just spitballing here, but maybe we should wait for a more detailed analysis of the failure mode before we move on to the solutions phase?

@Susannavega Yes they sorted it in DM. Still baffled that as far as I can tell this is the official support route

@philandstuff Hi Philip, have same problem, did you had it fixed?

@sykescottages I have a booking with you but it's not showing up in my account. And because I don't have a booking in my account, there's literally zero way to contact you as far as I can see. Help! I want to ask questions like "how do I pay the balance"

@lb_southwark @willnorman @peddlemywheels I tried using the cargo bike code but peddlemywheels website errors with “These Coupons have been used”. Is the code out of date?

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