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arghdos

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Live music geek, enthusiast of cooking, cocktails, coffee and tea, TTRPG afficianado, GPU performance engineer who reads assembly for fun.

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arts, to vinylrecords
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a lazy Saturday morning listen to Bobby Charles’ self titled country funk style album from 1972 (2014 LITA reissue). With musical support from members of The Band, a chilled out soulful song based record. Kind of a playful humour going on too, which I enjoy.

@vinylrecords

arghdos,
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@arts @drummmerandy @vinylrecords great record! At some point I need to do a deeper dive to chart Bobby’s path from swamp pop to this sound

bourgwick, to books
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recent-ish reading/rereading. #books @bookstodon

arghdos,
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@mrcompletely @bourgwick @bookstodon seconded, it’s good, but not to the level folks get excited about (especially never got the hype for the sequels)

grumpygamer, to random
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I think the root is my problem is I'm generating floats from n-m. I needs it to be blazing fast and it can't use any libs because I need 100% consistency across platforms.

arghdos,
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@grumpygamer @TomF division by a compile-time constant is usually just shifts, no?

arghdos,
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@grumpygamer @TomF possibly a dumb idea, as I don’t know the cost, but one trick I’ve used in the past is to use a sobol generator to generate 32 random bits, then bitcast that to a float. Very useful to sample random bit-patterns for math libraries: https://people.sc.fsu.edu/~jburkardt/cpp_src/sobol/sobol.html

mrcompletely, to random
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Good news for fans, Scavengers' Reign is moving to Netflix. Why is this good news?

  1. it's the best science fiction show around despite the cheesy name
  2. not enough people saw it on Max
  3. so it got canceled (this news was out before the linked article)
  4. more people can see it on Netflix
  5. now maybe season 2 will happen?

I'm ok with it if one is all we get. It's that perfect and ends well. But if the same people do it I'd be glad for a second.

https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/scavengers-reign-canceled-max-netflix-1235998046/

arghdos,
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@mrcompletely I still think that a Planet Earth style “documentary” of the ecosystems we see in the show would be absolutely peak.

arghdos,
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@mrcompletely we also got two, maybe three, episodes I can think of that we’re kinda this already (lifecycle of an organism) in S1, and both were utterly terrifying and brilliant. Gimme the mid-2000s between seasons webshorts baby

arghdos, to funk
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It’s wild how having Toussaint do a horn track can just drop a healthy dose of Nola #funk on almost anyone:

https://open.spotify.com/track/4qB39mU0yP8deXVQpQ6E2B?si=VwPE8uSESEGNSvEc81Dztg&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A5AGEtvnz7g4k1EI6wbekv2

arghdos,
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Was waiting for Toussaint to kick in on this album, and … yup, there it is:

https://youtu.be/CDj-CtwKSYU

Then I got bombarded with carbon-copy Toussaint tracks from half a decade earlier 😂

arghdos,
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Here's a thing I didn't know existed:

https://open.spotify.com/track/2YaAWbf2S8nMUBDjLCfe0P?si=d9c744890c0b4f48

Toussaint, Dr. John and a bunch of the early #NOLA RnB studio musician crew layin' down some #funk in the mid 90's.

Stoneycase, to random
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“Download the free app so we can sell your data and send you targeted ads”

arghdos,
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@Stoneycase “maybe we’ll store it as plaintext on an accidentally open server, who could say? We hope you appreciate the constant glowing ‘journalism’ about how we’re changing the world”

arghdos,
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@Stoneycase either pay via app, or by LaundoCoin: the laundry currency of the future, today. Only 37.99$ per 50c transfer.

LaundoCoin is a wholly owned subsidiary of East Gorteau Banana enterprises, LLLC, and may use your transaction to help a weird cryptobro finance their new jet ski. LaundoCoin: enjoy the liability

mrcompletely, to random
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So how can we get Boeing mad at trump

arghdos,
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@mrcompletely fabricate an accounting record that shows sustained focus on EHSA at trump enterprises?

Jk, it wasn’t believable by the time I finished typing

Stoneycase, to pdx
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Best veggie food and Indian food in Portland , Oregon? #pdx #travel

arghdos,
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@mrcompletely @Stoneycase going on the name alone, Chaat House sounded like an all timer

mrcompletely, to music
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You Can't Blame The Youth
Peter Tosh - Bob Marley - the Wailers
Live in studio 1973

No Bunny, funny false start, still the sharpest OG version on the tubes


https://youtu.be/xIZCr_LT__M?si=PAt4wD4DyebWyO1e

arghdos,
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@mrcompletely ah, that hits just right.

arghdos,
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@mrcompletely went and found the entire thing (audio only), and this also whips: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoJi5Oe5Brw

mrcompletely, to random
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Okay a lot of us have had various "okay, the Fediverse has arrived" moments, and while I never thought it hadn't arrived (I like it here), asking for an upgrade to the song Set Your Chickens Free late on a Sunday and having it in a reply when I wake up Monday is absolutely 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

arghdos,
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@mrcompletely reposting this for absolutely no reason

https://www.mixcloud.com/arghdos/wieh-124-032018-fowl-funk/

mrcompletely, to music
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Gilbert Shelton/Hub City Movers "Set Your Chickens Free"

long shot - anyone have a better recording/transfer of THIS version (the original) of this song - not any of the other fine versions out there, lovely as they are. If so, please share in whatever format you can, thx

(lyricist Gilbert Shelton is the creator/artist of the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, but they have nothing to do with this song really)

#music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoYJh6ZRj8o

arghdos,
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@mrcompletely @SidFudd hell yeah.

arghdos, to random
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Pitch for a mix I don’t have time to make: the opening beats for every Beat it on Down the Line played back to back. Never play the song.

Bonus points if you count how many beats it is and create some convincing banter a la “Bob voice: 45,373? Jerry: yeah man, outta sight”

arghdos,
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@bourgwick @mrcompletely bonus cut: play all the tracks at once. See how consistent the tempo was over the decades.

lol

arghdos, to funk
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This track is bending my brain a bit this morning:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUVcZnN86fc

You have the classic start of late RnB / early Funk: "Have you ever heard of: <X>, fake audience: yeaaaaaaah"

Then it drops into sorta a standard afro- for awhile (till ~2min), after which they just abandon the song structure entirely in favor of an extended psych meltdown (complete with dubious mixing!)

It's... kinda great? And kinda jank?

Sorta like someone smashed three different songs together

arghdos, to random
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Here's a thing that no one asked for.

(I mean, I guess someone did, but please lord drop me from this mailing list)

mrcompletely, to music
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A surprisingly sophisticated and thoughtful introduction to from the a guitar player's perspective - based on the design of the page and the lead in I was expecting very little, but this article is actually quite on point and thoughtful in its examples and explanations.

https://www.musicradar.com/news/the-grateful-dead-guitar-songs-jerry-garcia-bob-weir

arghdos,
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@mrcompletely and very typical to say "5 songs" and provide 20 links :)

coffeegeek, to fediverse
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We've been noticing an issue related to Mastodon and our website. I hope the might be able to help.

About 75% or more of the times I post a URL link to CoffeeGeek from our website - especially a brand new link (like a new article), our website's database connection breaks... for a few minutes. The site is inaccessible. Then it sorts itself out, and is back online. Only happens with Masto-posted links.

Anyone have a clue what's causing this?

arghdos,
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@coffeegeek I believe this has been called “the mastodon stampede: https://www.jwz.org/blog/2022/11/mastodon-stampede/

chopaganda, to random
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Hard to wrap my head around Billy not just playing arenas but doing multi-night stands.

arghdos,
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@mrcompletely @LostReflector @chris @chopaganda that tuvan throat singer show at MSG last year was 🔥 🔥 🔥

mrcompletely, (edited ) to music
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Nina Simone - Love Me Or Leave Me (live on the Ed Sullivan Show, 1960)

Last music post for the afternoon due to internet outage. Did you know Nina was a genius on piano? I used to post this on the birdsite once a year, so if you followed me there you probably do know it, but if not, check this shit out! The switch from the swinging jazz feel of the song into the Bach style classical instrumental break is amazing & the move back is even better👑

https://youtu.be/5cnZjClf6zM?si=uTzS7Es5rOxEmIyw

arghdos,
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@mrcompletely I only read headlines bruh 😂

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