Notices by Don Romano (alt) (thor@noagendasocial.com), page 24

@byllgrim @jack That's the point though. No need to be at the top of the food chain. There is much success to be found further down.

If you ever need to make very accurate colour measurements, here is an affordable I2C module for it:

https://no.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Mikroe/MIKROE-3061?qs=gTYE2QTfZfRcXDZ%252BdfkWAA%3D%3D

Datasheet for module:

http://www.farnell.com/datasheets/2687424.pdf

Datasheet for chip:

https://ams.com/documents/20143/36005/AS73211_DS000556_3-01.pdf/a65474c0-b302-c2fd-e30a-c98df87616df

This sensor module can basically see colour the way the receptors on the human retina do. It can only see colour, not an image, but it's very accurate, and you could use this for monitor and light calibration, for example.

If you ever need to make very accurate colour measurements, here is an affordable I2C module for it:

https://no.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Mikroe/MIKROE-3061?qs=gTYE2QTfZfRcXDZ%252BdfkWAA%3D%3D

Datasheet for module:

http://www.farnell.com/datasheets/2686339.pdf

Datasheet for chip:

https://ams.com/documents/20143/36005/AS73211_DS000556_3-01.pdf/a65474c0-b302-c2fd-e30a-c98df87616df

This sensor module can basically see colour the way the receptors on the human retina do. It can only see colour, not an image, but it's very accurate, and you could use this for monitor and light calibration, for example.

Which one are you?

[ ] Idealist
[ ] Pragmatist

@jack @byllgrim The CEO of RC Cola, when it still existed as an independent company, probably made more money in a year than you did in your entire lifetime. There are way more successful but unsexy businesses that you have never heard of, and they're way easier to get right than the giants you keep hearing about.

@jack @byllgrim No, but the whole idea was to show that you shouldn't necessarily give up on your idea just because someone already implemented something similar.

@jack @byllgrim Looks like it was acquired, if that's what you mean. That means it made a successful exit.

@wistahe They say even chickens can enjoy music. It seems to be a side effect of the auditory system.

@wistahe I could tell you that major chords tend to evoke happiness while minor chords evoke sadness, but I couldn't explain why, no more than I can explain why the colour red looks livelier and bolder than the colour blue.

Some say that singing came before words. Some singing resembles animal cries. I suspect that crying out in emotion is a very primal thing for us.

@byllgrim Good luck! Even RC Cola makes a lot of money.

Ah, yes, Enron, the oil elf, from Lord of the Rings...

@wistahe Well, it's just a tool for making music, and is pretty much the best free DAW you can find. I don't know what else I'd use if I didn't want to spend money on MIDI software and just wanted to experiment.

I need to do something with this mixing console I have sitting around. I wish I could do some gigs live streaming and/or doing PA for medium size events.

@wistahe Go and download REAPER if you want a free (nagware but very cheap) thing for advanced audio and music experiments.

@abouix @clacke @badrihippo @njoseph That's the convention, yes, and it's the lousiest and least elegant way of key exchange possible. Hell, most email clients can't even use that public key to actually encrypt an email, and you'd need an external tool like GnuPG to pull it off.

What's needed is a service you can query to download public keys from, preferably from the email server of whoever you're sending an email to, and email clients need to implement it.

- What do you do?
- I'm a penetration tester.
- Like what? You test condoms?
- No, no, it's on a computer.
- Like cybersex?
- Nooo, we check for security holes.
- Is that what you call a vagina?
- D'ahh! Forget it.

On a related note, I should stop thinking that my tech ideas need to be completely original. They don't. They only need to be better implemented than the competition.

Ideas are cheap, so if someone had the same idea as you, that doesn't matter.

Just because your idea has already been implemented, you shouldn't abandon it. You could create a better implementation. Also, if the idea is out there and has paying customers, this means it's a viable product. Every Coca Cola has a Pepsi.

In his talk on creativity, John Cleese says you should give yourself about an hour and a half of time to play with ideas — the first half-hour to calm your thoughts down and the next hour to actually have ideas.

I've noticed that I tend to suddenly get ideas when I take long walks. It's hard to use a smartphone when you're walking, which is good for you, since you have to invent your own thoughts instead of consuming other people's thoughts.

Which one are you?

[ ] Idealist
[ ] Pragmatist

@wistahe The Piano Roll editor works like a piano roll, with horizontal bars representing notes. Wide bars are long nodes. The vertical axis represents semitones, 12 per octave. The bars sit on a grid to help you align notes with beats (ticks of the metronome) and measures (commonly 3 beats per measure for a waltz; 4 for a march). Note velocities (intensities) are often colour coded. MIDI is a good format to understand if you want to know how to represent music on a computer.