Erik J. Martin

Insights on creating in a digital world for positive people. Audio Engineer & Producer.

[Erik J. Martin @soundanswer]

So I’ve had my @Behringer Flow 4V for a few days now. It’s very cool, and very weird.

They need to come up with a way to normalize audio files on the device itself, automatically. With normalization they sound great, no noise, no distortion: beautiful. Without normalization, importing the files into DaVinci Resolve, they are essentially unusable.

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@Andrew_OSU I never understood the hate.

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Who’s pumped for The Murph today? @CrossFit

[MUSKOSOPHY @muskosophy]

“Be stronger than those who hate you, so that they cannot destroy you, and then forgive them.”

– Elon Musk

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My 2018 model 3 is essentially a perfect car. I would get destroyed on trade-in value.

I’ve driven the new ones, they’re great, but they aren’t worth 40k to me when the car I have now is more than fine.

When I bought FSD unsupervised & robotaxi were promised.

I don’t want a new car, I just want the actual full features of the car I already bought.

Waiting another 6-8 months for them to sort out the retrofit is nothing. I’ve waited 6 years. I absolutely love this car and have zero reason to trade it in.

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To the shock of literally no one

[The Associated Press @AP]

BREAKING: A jury finds that Ticketmaster and Live Nation had an anticompetitive monopoly over big concert venues. https://t.co/s5xWrjAfYq

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@rhensing That start was breathtaking. I could not believe LH popping from 7th almost to fight for the lead before the first corner. UNREAL!

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@MattP1Tommy one crazy prediction nobody would have made:

Cadillac starts both cars AHEAD of Max on debut…

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Hats off to the @AppleTV audio team mixing @F1 - the Spatial Audio is jaw dropping on my 12 speaker ATMOS system…

AND THIS IS ONLY FREE PRACTICE 1!!!!

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@MattP1Tommy guys, this is insane. You can put 4 live feeds of whatever drivers you pick around you with an Apple Vision Headset. TV DIRECTION BE DAMNED show me the action!

[Vincenzo Landino @vincenzolandino]

https://t.co/HdApdqLDcZ

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This is freaking exciting. I’m. It going to drop $3500 on a Vision Pro headset just to watch F1, but if I HAD and extra $3500 to drop i most certainly would!

[Vincenzo Landino @vincenzolandino]

https://t.co/HdApdqLDcZ

[Erik J. Martin @soundanswer]

@xai @grok here is the bug I have with version 4.20:

With my super long thread I have for my meal planning I give it my morning stats (weight, what my workout calories were, etc) and then ask for my recovery snack and meal plan for the day. The agents get stuck in a loop, and then each one says “done, the plan is sent, the user is waiting, the plan is good, the plan is sent, final plan sent,” etc to infinity. I stopped it and added “don’t get stuck in a loop chatting amongst yourselves” and it gave me the response instantly.

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@MattP1Gallagher so are you and Tommy going to come to the US to watch a race on IMAX?

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@archer_rs I own two EVs.

Even I think this hybrid crap is nonsense. Let’s just see racing at the limit!

Not some energy harvesting who has more deployment BS.

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Apparently my calendar saw the movie

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I was ALL IN.

It has just gotten so bad over the years. Especially HomePod integration.

I need to replace my current router (HomeKit router) and am realizing that a lot of integrations will break when I swap it out. Will need to re-add devices.

Somehow the OG HomeKit to thread to matter it’s just gotten worse and worse.

I’m hoping for some kind of Apple home renaissance!

[The Polymathematician @Doc_Polymath]

Daughter just passed her state psychologist licensing test last week. It was an online test, "supervised." Masters also in hand because it's required.

First job interview - offer is $3600/month for the first 6 months. She's expected to see 30 patients/wk. Lose 5% of those patients for any reason in that period and she's fired.

If she maintains, pay goes to $7500/month but she has to continue to "perform".

Her job here is not to help, but to foster dependence. If at any time she helps someone become self sufficient, she's risking her own livelihood.

This is the very definition of perverse incentives, and it is one of the clearest views of what we see so much of in medical field writ large that I've seen yet (and I've seen a lot).

Know this every time you talk to your therapist. You're nothing more than a paycheck to most of them. Especially if you're going through a clinic.

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@TesCalendar1 I agree completely.

There was a time period when we had just one car that my wife used for work and it was me hauling kids around to birthdays etc in an Uber. Freaking nightmare.

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@wholemars They need to announce the YL