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by aa-jv 1y ago
Its a good read, provides a good introduction - but imho, loopops incomplete guide to electronic music is a much better investment of time and energy .. http://patreon.com/loopop .. very definitely worth the effort to get i
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by aa-jv 1y ago
>Unfortunately the citizens of these countries don't want to live in functioning democracies. That is utterly incorrect. They want to live in sovereign democracies with control over their own nations resources. The USA and its alli
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by aa-jv 1y ago
What you want, is loopop: Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/loopop Loopop's in Complete Book of Electronic Music: https://www.patreon.com/loopop Have fun! Welcome to the club! :)
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by aa-jv 1y ago
Do you know what we call religious zealots who use their ideology to justify the wanton murder of other human beings, here in the Free World™? They're not combatants. Its the "T-word", which is pliably used in another contex
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by aa-jv 1y ago
Lets see if this expansion of the atrocity you describe comes to pass. IMHO, the mere fact we are discussing this on HN, traditionally very resistant to propagating news such as this, may signal a change in tide.
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by aa-jv 1y ago
Thus the notion that we, the people of the Free World™, should keep the heat on this issue until it is properly resolved per the mores of our own sovereign democracies.
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by aa-jv 1y ago
"Israeli settler Yinon Levi, whom Trump removed from US sanctions list, arrested after death of Awdah Hathaleen" At least there is some hope that the settlers will face justice. IMHO, this is of utmost importance to the matter of
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by aa-jv 1y ago
What options did the Palestinian people have after the atrocities of October 6th?
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by aa-jv 1y ago
The US is not a moral standard worth an ounce of spit when it comes to war crimes, crimes against humanity and massive violations of human rights at scale. It literally murdered 5% of Iraq's population in cold blood on the basis of out
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by aa-jv 1y ago
The problem is Likud, which transferred money to Hamas and bolstered it in an attempt to divide the West Bank from Gaza Palestinians.
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by aa-jv 1y ago
Tens of thousands of people have been murdered because the justice latency of Western politicians is too damned high. The justice latency won't ever be what it needs to be until we jail our own war criminals, and that is never going to
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by aa-jv 1y ago
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/nov/03/un-inves... https://historicalarchives.europarl.europa.eu/files/live/sit... https://wikileaks.org/nsa-german
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by aa-jv 1y ago
It wouldn't be oppressive at massive scale, violating the human rights of billions of people, if the UK hadn't roped its lackeys into its co-criminal behaviour ..
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by aa-jv 1y ago
>But I just can’t imagine this, in the UK’s example. No need to imagine it. Read the Wikileaks. Names are named. The class division is real, and it is fomented by those who seek to profit from the subterfuge - and they DO profit, at m
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by aa-jv 1y ago
>The U.K. is pretty middle of the road as far as “surveillance” Just, no. 5-eyes is the most heinous human-rights-destroying apparatus under the sun, and it wouldn't be happening if it weren't for the British desire to undermin
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by aa-jv 1y ago
In the 80's I apprenticed under a greybeard programmer who gave me all the shitty network code to write, while he experimented with neural networks instead of writing "old school" error correction logic for said network code.
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by aa-jv 1y ago
Same. I grew up with computers. I wrote games on my Oric like my life depended on it (well, it was because that was the only way to get any games on the Oric..) I stopped playing video games after a stint at a popular video game company, w
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by aa-jv 1y ago
Its all relative. Maybe they evolved the life spans they have, for reasons we humans cannot yet comprehend.
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by aa-jv 1y ago
There has also been an 'octopus nursery' (social behaviour) discovered in the deep sea, which sort of re-wrote the rules on the 'solitary octopus' hypothesis: https://schmidtocean.org/scientists-discover-
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by aa-jv 1y ago
I've seen them playing, and whenever I visit the coastal tidal pools of my youth back home in southwest Australia, I make it a habit of sparing a gold coin for the task of luring them out of their cubbies wherever I find them .. I once
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by aa-jv 1y ago
I share your enthusiasm for all of these questions .. as a fellow octopus enthusiast, are you familiar with the recently discovered octopus civilization? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octopolis_and_Octlantis https:&#x
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by aa-jv 1y ago
I have spent many days entertaining myself by feeding octopus, showing them shiny things, luring them out of the tidal pools and reef shelves I find them in .. I've seen them use bait to lure stupid white fish closer for attack, I&#x27
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by aa-jv 1y ago
The WebView is not great for realtime UI's and encourages all the mistakes of the Web, in a realtime environment. Sure, its optional, I suppose that is a benefit.
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by aa-jv 1y ago
JUCE 8's WebView is an abomination that tarnishes an otherwise amazing framework. Yes, coming from the web, JUCE' Flexbox and paint()/resize() semantics are going to be 'weird' - but thats the point. You have the p
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by aa-jv 1y ago
The splash screen is a condition for using JUCE for free under the AGPLv3 license, particularly when distributing open-source projects or plugins without purchasing a commercial license.
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by aa-jv 1y ago
A good example is a vector addition kernel, which is simple, embarrassingly parallel, and well-suited for SIMD: void vector_add(float *a, float *b, float *c, int n) { for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) { c[i] = a[i] +
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by aa-jv 1y ago
A pill, a nipple, bit of fried halloumi, lovely ..
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by aa-jv 1y ago
I found The Thick of It very realistic, having travelled quite a few corporate realms. That show made me re-think my involvement in society.
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by aa-jv 1y ago
I have been programming since I was 8 years old. In 1978 I touched my first computer, a Commodore Pet which had been added to the office of a friend of my family, who had no idea what to do with it. I was immediately drawn into this world
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by aa-jv 1y ago
>we are really starting to embrace a culture of defining "normal" down People forget that apsergers and autism as a subject were born from the eugenics movement. Asperger’s work on autism was shaped by the Nazi regime’s eugeni

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