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An affordance is a relationship between the properties of an object and the capabilities of the agent that determine just how the object could possibly be used. A chair affords ("is for") support and, therefore, affords sitting.
The Design of Everyday Things
Don Norman
Sidechain compression listens to a second track to decide when to bring the input track volume down. The most common use is to use the kick drum track as the second trigger track. This means when the kick hits, your sidechained track momentarily comes down in volume. This means the kick has fewer sounds to compete with, which makes it sound clearer in the mix.
How Kaytranada Produced Glowed Up
Reverb Machine
That's the fundamental problem with self-documenting negative information. "Self-documentation" rides along with written code, and so describes what the code is doing. Negative information is about what the code is *not* doing.
Why not "why not" comments? Not why "not comments"
Computer Things
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