Three more facts about the song Clint Eastwood:

1. The drum beat is just the Rock 1 preset of the Suzuki Omnichord: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDX6l9_58RA

2. Del tha Funkee Homosapien wrote the full lyrics in 30 minutes with the help of the book "How to Write a Hit Song": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qq2qSq6NpNY#t=373

3. The first version of the song didn't feature Del, but the British group Phi Life Cypher: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZM-DK3b5yuo

> The drum beat is just the Rock 1 preset of the Suzuki Omnichord

I wonder if you need to pay royalties or get permission for that kind of thing... or is license to use it commercially included in the price of the instrument?

This came up recently, but generally musical instruments include a license for any music performance with that instrument.

Includes: "STYLES, VOICES, PERFORMANCES, PATTERNS, ARPEGGIOS"

https://usa.yamaha.com/about_yamaha/proprietary_rights_notic...

There are limits to prevent copying of raw sounds and reselling.

IANAL, but you don't need a license to publish yourself playing a piano or a guitar, and synthesizers are also musical instruments. That said, I'm not sure that's ever been tested in court, so if someone wanted to be a right-wing asshole about it, like take over Suzuki and try to get royalties from every hit song that used it, I guess it might be interesting.

Deltron 3030 (the song) is a work of art. I can recite it in full. Lol.

So that's the Left Hand Suzuki Method? :v

Re: 1, When I found this out I couldn’t decide whether I felt disappointment or admiration. Currently leaning towards the latter!

Exactly this. In terms of recording quality, my approach would look something like this:

1. Use a decent microphone.

2. Make sure you know how to handle the microphone.

3. Use closed-back headphones.

4. Record in a suitable environment/studio.

5. Consider adding a video track as well.

AI tools can't make okay-ish video recordings suddenly look great.

Yes, I opened the CSS file and there it was.

Think about screen readers.

You may want to look up the CCC‘s founding history.

Was there not some rather dramatic change in the leadership in the last ~5 years?

Admittedly it's very murky to see how it's organized and run..

Do you realize that a forum is social media?

"That's a cat." "No it's not, those were around long before the word 'cat' existed".

Just because the term "social media" came later and was popularised by certain kinds of social media networks, it doesn't mean it doesn't encompass regular old fashioned forums too.

What is this right now other than a social interaction about a piece of media (the article)? This is a very arbitrary distinction for you to draw.

see comment below. you are wrong no matter how nerdy your logic.

I'm just here for the spectacle of someone using the "you are nerdy, therefore wrong" argument on hacker news, of all places.

you're here for the upvotes and validation that your comment was witty

Ah, "everyone knows." The only argument that can't possibly work against anyone.

I could replace "everyone knows" with "it's common sense"

The term "social media" was coined in 1997 in reference to AOL chatrooms. It can totally apply to web forums as well.

Not sure if you are trolling.

I'm think GP means we could launch a rocket to the place where Voyager thinks Earth is supposed to be (where its antenna is pointing towards) and fire off a signal to tell it to move.

Probably because saying benign stuff like "there are only two genders" is considered transphobic by radicals.

There are (1) people like J.K. Rowling, (2) people like Kiwi Farms, and (3) people who can’t tell the difference between (2) and (3). (3) likes to use the word “transphobic” indiscriminately.

To be fair I don’t know if the people involved are complaining about (1) or (2) or both but they are using a word that I am putting in quotes.

See, this is exactly the kind of thread I would not want to see on Threads (or HN)

There's only ever one reason...