SeanLuke

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by SeanLuke 5y ago
This guy seems to think that engineers only make things that are dangerous. Sure, there are engineers that build bridges. But there are also enormous numbers of computer engineers that build custom ASICs for, I dunno, TVs and Furbies. The
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
I as almost able to get a K3m locally a while back, but no... :-(
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
Yes, I wrote Edisyn. Hmm, Edisyn has never had a K3 editor; it's on my list if I ever come across a unit. It's got a K1, K4 and K5 editor. How are you using Edisyn with your K3?
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
If you get frustrated with your PolyEvolver, feel free to ship it directly to me :-) Seriously though, I build patch editors in my spare time ( https://github.com/eclab/edisyn ) and would really like to make an editor fo
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
Interesting that he mentions the Dave Smith Instruments (now Sequential) Prophet 12. I have a Prophet P08, and have opened it up to repair it, and it is a work of design elegance. It contains five boards, each connected via an easily remo
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
Alaska?
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
Sure, but Canada is just the US with a health plan. :-) Canada! The Maple Leaf State!
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
Maytag was US-only as far as I knew. It had a reputation for extreme long life and reliability, much like the reputation Volvo used to have for cars. And, like Volvo, this reputation was then squandered. Back in the 1980s Maytag used to r
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
I think physical modeling is a poor choice. The advantage of subtractive synthesis is that each of its elements (oscillators, filters, amplifiers, modulation, effects) has an impact on the sound more or less independent of the others, and s
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
The term dynamo comes from metaphoric relationship to electric generators and the power they produce, not the notion of being "dynamic" (a modern usage of the word).
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
> For me (being Dutch), a dynamo is an electricity generator That's what a dynamo is in English as well. But yes, a dynamo is also a forceful energetic individual (or thing).
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
I'm confused. MTS is quite exhaustive on MIDI 1.0. How is microtonality in 1.0 a hack compared to what's being provided in 2.0? There are obviously a number of 2.0 features that are much more advanced than 1.0 (MIDI is primitive
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
Given C++'s grotesque track record of insane new syntax, this wouldn't seem to be an advantage.
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
I can think of many reasons why MIDI 2.0 might be advantageous. But microtonality? Why? MIDI 1.0's MTS supports everything Scala can throw at it, doesn't it?
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
I'm not sure this counts. Their similarity in name notwithstanding, MIDI 2.0 is explicitly a different protocol from MIDI 1.0. It's not meant to replace it, but to exist in parallel with it. Which is good because I suspect it&#
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
Actually, this kind of a collective lie perpetrated in the synth community. MIDI's version number never changed from 1.0, but it has had numerous revisions, including LSB+MSB CC values, NRPN and RPN, General MIDI definitions, MIDI S
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
> It was enormously expensive, it would have been cheaper to have a human on the other end. This sounds exactly like what someone might have said about early IBM mainframes.
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
I think it's possible that the blue links do in fact derive from earlier work, but the article seems pretty muddled. The connection it makes from the earlier work to the web browsers seems to be via the impact it had on Tim Berners-Le
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
I don't think he's saying the links were green here. At any rate, the links were clearly blue on early color WWW.app screenshots. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WorldWideWeb#/media/File:World... ht
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
This is a fun follow-on article building on another fun article. Unfortunately it seems that with a decent probability the entire premise of the first article is wrong. The original article concludes that Marc Andreessen added blue hyperl
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
I don't understand why the Telescope requires fuel at all, except to change its orbit position. Couldn't it just rotate counterweights via electric motors, powered by solar cells?
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
Meh, apologetics. Either the water was first or the land was. Either man was explicitly created before the plants, or he was explicitly created 3 days after them. On and on. There are tons of irreconcilable differences among the cre
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
Actually there are TWO incompatible accounts of creation in Genesis, one in Genesis 1 and one in Genesis 2. Genesis 1: the world initially all water. God has to dry it to create land. Genesis 2: the world initially all land. God has to ad
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
I am far from an expert here, but it was my understanding that Kawa could only do "forward" continuations (or whatever they're properly called) because the JVM lacked stack manipulation. The only realistic alternative was to
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
WebAssembly permits stack inspection to the degree that you could fully implement call/cc? Java of course does not. This would seem to be a security risk.
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
> According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness, borderline personality disorder is extremely rare -- only 1.4% of the U.S. adult population is estimated to have this condition and it is rarely diagnosed in adolescents. Wait, sin
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
This headline is what Betteridge's law was made for.
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
When I took a compiler class back in the early '90s, the project was to write the compiled machine code into an array, then cast the array into a function, and execute it. I and another student were doing it on 68040 NeXT workstations
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
Or maybe his grandson Astro! That'd have been a fun interview.
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
rtbh.com (Russia Beyond) is a state-sponsored propaganda outfit. I don't think it's appropriate on HN. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia_Beyond

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