I've been mixing music now for a long time. It's a hobby, a way of relaxing, and just a nice way to listen to music.
I'm not bad - I've got all the technical skills. Despite this, I've never played in front of a crowd.
So the skill that I am told is t...
What a great idea!
Get a load of batteries, speakers, and DJ equipment, and lead thousands round a city while doing a live set.
Drum and bass on a bike
It was so much fun.
Magnesium is a natural substance that is required by humans, and that is used in over 300 processes in the human body.
It's used in a few main areas:
Energy production and metabolism - it is required to unlock the energy we get from food (ATP, gluc...
I had my old TV for about 13 years, but a year ago, dark shadows appeared on the screen, and I knew its time was up.
Finally one day, it turned off, and wouldn't come back on, and it was time to get a new one.
After some investigation about the va...
I have been carting around some old audio cassettes with me for decades now, and I recently thought I should try and listen to them before they totally degrade.
I couldn't find anyone who had a working cassette player, so I paid for someone to conver...
AI image generation is not new any more, and produces some pretty good results.
I thought I'd try and get it running locally. However, I don't have an expensive GPU, so when I say locally, I mean in AWS. These are the steps I took.
Create an accou...
You're in a health food shop and you see a can of Whole Earth "Organic Cranberry".
Naturally you assume it's full of cranberry.
But when you get it home, and look at the ingredients, they look like this:
Grape juice (54%), cranberry juice (4%),...
How much code do you think it takes to calculate the power of a number? Say 6^3? (216)
Can't be hard.
Just loop around twice, multiplying 6 by 6, right?
OK, it might be harder with negative numbers - 6 ^ -4
Oh, and with decimals - 6 ^ 2.7
And n...
A friend of mine's son is soon starting at university, and he sent me the following message:
I'm getting together a list of life lessons or things people wish they had been told earlier. If you two have anytime have a think about what has helped sh...