Jorchime

Yeah, this can be confusing. This is referring to the "growl" effect in complete vocal technique. Imagine Christina Aguilera making a dramatic car engine growl when you kick down the gas pedal. I think this is roughly what this is about.

Not growl as in death metal vocals.

I use FabFilter plugins all the time.

I wondered about the same thing. Not an answer, but my guess would be that it's just a new package and they hoped someone picked it up by accident? In that case, it was patched with malware :)

I wonder, how do you decide to care about something?

You have a multitude of things to measure in breathing air. For each you can establish thresholds for safe levels through the scientific method with evidence. Likely there is a transition area, but also regions with a very high likelihood of being unhealthy.

If any of these measures is "in the red", your air is unhealthy.

Why not?

Why? If critical levels of "unhealthy stuff" is exceeded, it's not safe. Your spectrum is on the threshold of "unhealthy stuff"

Which probably doesn't reflect the real costs of extracting, processing and discarding resources and their effect on humans, life and nature very well.

I used to love the Discovery Weekly list as well. But since a couple of years, my account recommendations went into some strange niche solution and they recommend the same rubbish over and over again. I even get annoyed at certain genres that I used to mildly enjoy before.

If you try to look for a solution, apparently the only way is to cancel the subscription, delete the account, resubscribe and start over ... I wish there was a way to reset the "intelligent" recommendations for an existing account.

The only workaround I found: put a couple of similar and interesting songs into a playlist and let Spotify continue with recommendations.

I think it is because of what is described through Conway's law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law

    Any organization that designs a system (defined broadly) will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization's communication structure.[2][3]
    — Melvin E. Conway

The problem isn't necessarily software itself, but how we organize people (more than 2 or 3), how we communicate, how we mirror operations, expectations, etc. in software.

Scaling sustainable software feels like an "unsolved" Problem, because the society hasn't figured out how to organize better.

How do you apply the mind-shift to projects where you have to finish something in order to advance? I have a couple of songs here that need mixing, but since they entered my to-do list, they are in procrastination realm ... But sometimes the thing you like is mostly about doing the thing and leaves little room for playing.

Hubbles pictures were probably new to you, so in a sense this is "just" an iteration. I think you just had the perspective/expectation that this will be new as well. Maybe a bit much for the very first public results of a scientific experiment.

I think you underestimate the inspiration you get from touching a physical instrument and turning knobs with direct effects. It's the same with GUI design in music software, really. How you make the music affects the music itself a lot. I don't think we'll see instruments and gear disappear.

I love both worlds though.