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by Rochus 2mo ago
I was in a similar situation many years ago. I was using Ecco Pro on Windows but then had to move to Linux. When I first looked at CherryTree, it was a shaky Python/GTK app; meanwhile it was re-written in C++, which likely improved sta
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by Rochus 2mo ago
Censorship and bureaucratic authoritarianism are real issues in Europe, but in a true democracy, citizens should engage in reasoned debate, not insult one another.
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by Rochus 2mo ago
> Copyright does not protect regular people. It never has. True. It is the number one tool for big corporations, particularly the big three record monopolists, to assure their rents, and a major income stream for many law firms. It eve
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by Rochus 2mo ago
Very kind, thanks. Suno is indeed a great technology and opens interesting possibilities for musicians. I consider posting more videos. Stay tuned.
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by Rochus 2mo ago
Scientific publications (including ACM) should be openly accessible to anyone. I find it very annoying that there is a paywall everywhere. And for the (few) people here seeing AI as something useful, it's definitely better if it is tra
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by Rochus 2mo ago
How can it run when there is no MMU? Isn't this like rewriting a large part of the kernel?
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by Rochus 2mo ago
Still the same, even after waiting a day.
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by Rochus 2mo ago
The central insight (consonance involves both physical properties of sound and active perceptual pattern recognition) is interesting, but as a musician I see the following issue: the harmonic series can motivate certain local sonorities, bu
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by Rochus 2mo ago
I spent a lot of time with Minix 3 (see https://github.com/rochus-keller/Minix3/tree/Minix3_Book_TCC ). The intention was to make the book version compile with TCC. It turned out that this version only covers
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by Rochus 2mo ago
I still wasn't able to get on your https://abject.world/ implementation. I tried yesterday and today and always get the message below. I'm on Linux debian bookworm with Firefox. Tried both http and https. Secu
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by Rochus 2mo ago
You have to consider that there is actually no true message passing in Smalltalk. Smalltalk just uses that term for dynamic dispatch of compiled methods and calling them (synchronous local invocation). Since Smalltalk 76 methods are compile
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by Rochus 2mo ago
> The person who coined the term "object-oriented programming" See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36879311 for who coined the term. > before he developed Smalltalk See https://dl.acm.org
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by Rochus 2mo ago
Mach is not a representative proxy for “microkernels” in 2026.The L4 family demonstrated that Mach-like systems were slow because they put too much policy and too many abstractions in the kernel path, not because a minimal protection-domain
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by Rochus 2mo ago
It's obviously the expression of a symptom how the world today designs systems (whether a compiler or a runtime) and how they could be improved if sustainability really was a concern.
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by Rochus 2mo ago
So we can make an estimate on how much waste all the fancy web technologies actually cause. That said, even on desktop and smartphones, web technologies are still on the rise. Not really sustainable.
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by Rochus 2mo ago
I should indeed make a video which shows the sound assignments on the bass pedal and how my feet operate on them. Let me see what I can do (video is not my medium). The "muscle memory" is extremely important, since the feet are wo
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by Rochus 2mo ago
Thanks. I have mostly audio recordings (and even MIDI files from all devices connected to the computer). There are a couple of videos and one short on my youtube account ( https://www.youtube.com/@RochusKeller/videos ) b
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by Rochus 3mo ago
The relevant issue is independent or coordinated control of concurrent musical parts, not whether those parts happen to use different instruments. Piano, Organ (with bass pedal) and drum-kit playing are canonical examples of the same underl
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by Rochus 3mo ago
Isn't there a pattern jokingly called "Nobel disease"? I remember that it refers to cases where a laureate’s justified authority in one narrow achievement becomes overconfidence in unrelated science, medicine, politics, or ph
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by Rochus 3mo ago
This is about the MUMPS 1976 standard. I'm not aware of any jobs where this is required. It's purely interesting for historical reasons. The article is part of my anniversary project ( https://github.com/rochus-kell
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by Rochus 3mo ago
I have never touched Claude Code and don't have any plans to use it. This is about the history of MUMPS. No reason to dwell on this if you're not interested in the topic (and even less reason to complain about it).
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by Rochus 3mo ago
I built BUSY as a lean, statically typed build system inspired by GN, targeting GCC, Clang and MSVC. This release adds CMake package export, so CMake-based consumers can use BUSY-built libraries through normal add_subdirectory()/target
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Show HN: The BUSY build system now generates CMake so you can easily use LeanQt(github.com)
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Show HN: The BUSY build system now generates CMake so you can easily use LeanQt(github.com)
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by Rochus 3mo ago
Interesting documentary; nice to see all the people involved; Simula is not mentioned in the documentary, though in an earlier lecture, Gosling was very specific that Java implemented the object model of Simula 67, which he had used before
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by Rochus 3mo ago
This is an argument that, for an independent "middle-class" musician, giving recordings away in return for direct fan contact can be economically superior to selling individual downloads. Fully agree. I started to do so more than
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by Rochus 3mo ago
Unbelievable. I guess because of a lot of bored software people rather than trained musicians.
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by Rochus 3mo ago
Yes. If we assume only 5-10% of musicians with a decent, self-supporting living from composing/playing/performing alone (most others work somewhere in the “music-sector”, e.g. as teacher or as clerc of a record label or collecting
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by Rochus 3mo ago
> but I'm glad they exist for professional musicians to use The irony is that a professional musician in most cases has less budget to buy those expensive things than someone working e.g. as a teacher or clerc.
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by Rochus 3mo ago
Nice, but I guess it's pretty expensive.

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