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by aa-jv 5mo ago
Get your kid a Zynthian instead: http://zynthian.org/ .. a far better investment, with way more utility for the forward-thinking electronic-music making youngster ..
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by aa-jv 5mo ago
It helps the hipster justify their investment by differentiating an otherwise normal function found on other devices, with 'applied automation'. There is no other purpose.
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by aa-jv 5mo ago
Being a Debian Guy, I recently found that RPM's .spec-file macro format was an unnecessarily tedious affront to my dignity, requiring immense ergs of patience to learn and understand - that is, until I discovered that underneath it all
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by aa-jv 5mo ago
Easily the most overrated company in audio electronics to date. They make expensive bespoke parts with barely enough features to lure in the punters, who delight in being special while devices 1/3rd the cost do far, far more ..
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by aa-jv 5mo ago
Its an utter fallacy to state that you have to stop doing quality processes if you want to deliver software, rapidly. Abandoning quality review steps only seems to be 'more efficient' if you're utterly crap at doing quality p
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by aa-jv 5mo ago
Agreed, 100%. If you cannot formulate a specification, or describe a requirement - or indeed, if you cannot fathom the difference between a spec and a requirement, and why its needed to differentiate these from each other prior to doing a p
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by aa-jv 5mo ago
Its kind of astonishing to see years of traditional software engineering practices being tossed aside in the rush for the Latest Cool New Thing™ ... have people really forgotten that you have to apply a workflow to software development, in
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by aa-jv 5mo ago
pwnagotchi makes a pretty bad-ass portable linux system that can be used for development when its not crunching wifi ..
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by aa-jv 5mo ago
Can I develop without using tools that snoop on my private system and exfiltrate data while I'm trying to develop? Yes, very definitely. Can you?
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by aa-jv 5mo ago
True developers don't leak the keys to their sources just because they need convenience-features from a "free IDE with tons of sexy bells and whistles" .. Features that would, incidentally, be obviated by making just a bit of
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by aa-jv 5mo ago
How about just don't become dependent on an IDE and don't use technologies which require that dependency...
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by aa-jv 5mo ago
Its trite until you have to explain to your boss why your editor brought down the business.
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by aa-jv 5mo ago
>Microsoft hasn't yet fucked it up I beg to differ. Have you inspected its network traffic?
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by aa-jv 5mo ago
>The security model I just don't use VSCode and I discourage its use in any environment in which I have to work. It has already been demonstrated that it is a major security hole - not just through the public extensions, but also i
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by aa-jv 5mo ago
Ah, yes I remember that the DSE kits were at first all mail order, which was an essential element to learning such things way out back in the bush, where I lived at the time .. had a HAM-radio afflicted uncle who delighted in giving me old
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by aa-jv 5mo ago
I don't know why you were flagged because this is quite relevant to the discussion .. it should be noted that this gated processing technique is quite common and not just for bass/drums - its also used in M/S techniques for r
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by aa-jv 5mo ago
Sidechaining is the technique of gating one channel with the envelope of another - doesn't have to be applied to bass guitar+kick drum - its also popular as a technique in synthesis, such as on a 303 acid line, gated by whichever part
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by aa-jv 5mo ago
You're Australian, didn't grow up on Dick Smith Fun Way kits .. but some German thingy sourced through Dads adventures instead? Mate .. strewth! Hand in your Vegemite card, ocka! Disclaimer: I had all the Fun Way books, all the b
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by aa-jv 5mo ago
Node is the Visual Basic of our day, if Visual Basic had the ability to update itself from a thousand strangers, any minute of the day, without the user-developer having any clue what is going on behind the scenes unless they apply the very
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by aa-jv 5mo ago
> Why are more people being born today than yesterday? Because souls split. Like rain and the ocean.
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by aa-jv 5mo ago
Ooh yes, that is a great arcade-style flight sim, if I remember correctly. Worth keeping a machine around just for that! ;)
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by aa-jv 5mo ago
The Windows emulator is pretty fun too ..
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by aa-jv 5mo ago
Tranquility, Mekton, ElectroGig:3DGO, Maya, Lightwave .. so many fun toys to play with on Octane if you've got the gumption ..
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by aa-jv 5mo ago
I have worked on systems that have a thermite charge under the RAM and EPROM chips, wired up to GPIO for 'terminate and stay that way' instructions. It is not an urban legend - just a highly protected secret. Those products whic
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by aa-jv 5mo ago
There are plenty of great things to run on old SGI hardware that are still quite fun - Tranquility, Mekton, all the 3D apps you can find, flightsim, etc.
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by aa-jv 5mo ago
Argue with someone who gathered evidence scientifically to demonstrate that we really, really don't know what we're talking about when it comes to the human soul: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty_Cases_Sug
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by aa-jv 5mo ago
Oh yes, you could indeed enjoy a fair bit of flipping spinners and bumping dodgers in Vienna, while having all the other great things to see and do as well .. if you time it right, you might even get to participate in a tournament - check t
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by aa-jv 5mo ago
Kraftwerk killed nuclear power (Radio-Activity) and promoted petroleum consumption (Autobahn), like the true factory-idol industrialists they are ...
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by aa-jv 5mo ago
Here's a mental exercise - do you immediately think you know what this command does? PING Junior developer: PING is used to check if a host is reachable by a network Middle developer: PING constructs and sends ICMP packets to
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by aa-jv 5mo ago
You don't have to belong to any particular in-group, except maybe humanity itself , to want to protect the human rights of people living outside ones' own nation/cultural identity. In fact, its kind of essential to the surv

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