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"More than two-thirds of Republicans (68%), compared to 26% of independents and 6% of Democrats, believe that the election was stolen from Trump."

I wish I could say that's not surprising, but now that I see it, that looks really high.

30 burpees, 12 pull-ups.

- Dropped off, picked up, dropped off.
- Picked up some winter supplies.
- Client B work.
- Emailed a friend back.
- Tried out Bitwig Studio because their sale was ending today, and I wanted to decide if I wanted to buy it. I decided it the cheap version (which was not on sale anyway) would be fine.
- I happened to get Guitarix to work by playing a direct input recoridng in another program into it via JACK. On one hand, kinda cool that to have a realistic amp modeler running on Linux. On the other, it doesn't have the kind of sound I want, so maybe I need to find a virtual distortion pedal for it.
- Finally went back to watching Puckette lectures and did more of Homework 5. I think I'm close to finishing it exactly?
- Went to the electronic music group. We talked about the unintuitive way pd reads audio files, Homework 5, and some C audio stuff. We're back!

10 burpees, 12 pull-ups.

Mini-golf is a genius way to get people how strange a strange area, like a gerrymandered district. I gotta hand it to Amazon Journalism.

- Put insulation on two more windows. Really tried to get a third (even got out the superglue), but that window was just too awkward to allow tape to stick on its frame, and I also found out I was short by an inch of plastic.
- Did some Client B work.
- Edited Orm Mines enough to make it "publishable".

If you want a solo D&D adventure to play with a kid, I put up Orm Mines, which is what the guy and I played over winter break. Thanks to mdzk, it was relatively easy to take an Obsidian vault and make it into a web site.

This is one of the things I say all the time, albeit less articulately:

A mantra of software design is to hide complexity. If our desire is to make a program as complex as possible, we will be more successful if this complexity is kept out of sight. The process ofhiding complex code behind simpler interfaces is called “encapsulation” in coders’
jargon. The idea is that a program may be made more complex if the complexity is well divided up into smaller portions, all hidden away to keep those portions from mixing and making a larger tangle.

Arguably, though, an even more powerful strategy for managing complexity is simply to avoid it altogether, that is, try to think of simple things a program could do instead of doing complicated ones. This is because, if to be able to do complicated stuff we have to hide the complexity, then the user probably won’t understand what the program is really doing.

+1000 to Miller Puckette.

- Did a little bit of Client B work.
- Shoveled the walk and shoveled out the car, which was worse and more awkward.
- Took the guy sledding.
- Made dinner.
- Ordered a new vacuum battery. (Had to do it over the phone because their web site would not allow it.)

That's about it. I'm 1000% wiped.

Have ever noticed that Chuck uses the word "obsurveillance" in 1000 Eyes? I bet it's, like, extra surveillance, in which you are both surveilled and observed.

I talked to a former colleague today. It appears that the place where we worked has progressed in a way that I expected.

Something I didn't expect, though, is that his band records everything with real mics and real instruments — no amp modelers — and plays together when they record their tracks. They do not record the drums, then record the bass, then the guitar, etc.

I was actually going to hit him up on advice for a direct input workflow. (You can record the unamplified sound of an electric guitar, then later amplify it with software amp models. It's sort of like making the amp sound the CSS to the HTML of your playing.) He brought up that you won't play the way you would if were actually playing through that amp and hearing it as you play, which is food for thought.

Anyway, the way his band does it is extremely hard, but probably worth it if you have a lot of band chemistry. (Blood Incantation does it that way.) I, however, am way too lazy to do the work of miking an amp, even if I had a place in which I could turn up an amp.