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I've been building a platform upon which people can host webrings. Unfortunately it's not public just yet. I know this won't succeed in any shape or form, however I like the idea of doing my little bit to help the resurge
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This was one of the little things that impressed me about Ada when I first found it. In spite of the murmuring about camels, and designs by committee, my first impression of Ada was a language where attention had been given to the little de
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The first programming language I put serious time into was C. When I first found Ada I was struck by how easy its syntax was to understand. I think that if you needed Ada talent in a pinch you could do well to recruit experienced programmer
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Thank you very much for linking this video. It's great viewing, and does much to dispel many commonly propagated myths.
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Not the author, but I'll answer as someone who has owned many of Yamaha's classic FM synths. Without a doubt I think that the original DX7 Mk1 is the most interesting. The latter 6-operator FM synths such as the DX7 Mk2, or the SY
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It certainly is. The Korg Volca FM is implemented in this fashion, just to name one. From memory it uses an ARM Cortex-M chip for both the UI, and DSP. Many other modern synthesisers use COTS general purpose chips for DSP these days. At som
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I posted in the last DX7 chip thread about Dexed's interesting history. I know that at least one of the original developers frequents this forum. Dexed is a fantastic emulation. I remember Raph Levien mentioning that one of the most el
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Under Australian consumer law most of what's discussed in this Twitter thread is actually illegal. Just because it's part of a company's business process doesn't mean it's legal. I ran into the same problem when try
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Very cool! The interface is great, nice work!
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A guilty pleasure of mine is that genre of YouTube videos showing where famous songs used the Korg M1's presets. It was absolutely all over the music of the 90s! When I was younger I unfortunately didn't pay these early romplers t
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I think by 1988 the world was well and truly suffering from "DX7 preset fatigue". To quote Philip Oakey from Human League: "They get really bland after a while. And when we get into what I call the DX Sound Hunt, it drives m
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I originally wanted to reply to this comment saying _"The age of MIDI music in games wasn't that short, was it?"_. I thought I'd look it up first, and you're right. It looks like by around 1994 most computer games w
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When I started doing my research into the DX7 I pored over Dexed's source code to understand how its emulation worked. It was really amazing to discover what an interesting legacy its source code has! The bulk of Dexed's code is d
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This is a very interesting move from AdaCore. I've been a vocal advocate of Ada as a general purpose programming language for a little while. I hope that this helps expose the language to a wider audience, and gives the wider programmi
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It would be really great for me if any of these CSS preprocessors offered a standalone command line version that didn't need npm to install. My developer blog ( https://ajxs.me ) is built by a homegrown static-site-generator
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Are there equivalent services that broker data of citizens in other countries? As a non-American, my layperson understanding of American legislation is that it's extremely lax when it comes to protecting individuals from privacy invasi
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What do you mean this isn't one of Rust's limitations? It's a common, well-understood feature of systems languages, which Rust doesn't have. Look for yourself on Rosetta Code[0]. There are many languages that feature a w
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> Bitfields are hard! They are... Again, like so many others in this thread, you're talking about C's problems . C is not the only language to implement this feature. I keep bringing up Ada because it's a language that fe
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Like I said above, I don't see the relevance in pointing out that the C standard has problems related to bitfields. Rust is supposed to be an improvement upon C. Ada managed to implement a standard for defining structures at the bit le
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> They're only really used often in very low-level niches like mmio registers ... which are actually an incredibly common, totally everyday problem encountered by tens of thousands of developers everyday? > autogenerating handler
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Bitfields are a construct that I use all the time in my work. If Rust chooses not to implement semantics for defining bit-level fields, then it's just harder for me to accomplish what I need to using Rust. Again, bitfields are somethin
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> Rust is a systems programming language. It offers precise control over data layout and runtime behavior of the code... It really doesn't. It doesn't even have native support for bitfields. When I tried doing low-level progr
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A few years ago, the charging port in my Samsung Galaxy S7 caught fire while charging in my car. Luckily in this case I was present, and was able to disconnect the phone when I smelled the smoke. The fire just fizzled out as soon as I disco
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My favourite telling of the DX7's amazing history is in this video by MadFame: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXt_NXjc7oY His Youtube channel has some absolutely amazing patch tutorials also.
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A large reason why I have not moved on from Firefox is that Gecko remains the only independent full-featured browser-engine. If Firefox were to be discontinued by Mozilla, Google would gain even more control over web standards than it alrea
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Can you provide more information on this? I'd be interested to read about this topic.
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This is an amazing accomplishment! One that will definitely prove invaluable for the community working to emulate this classic synthesiser!
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To this day I don't think anyone (outside of Roland) really knows how the 'LA synthesis' in the D-50 actually works. Unlike Yamaha's work on FM synthesis, Roland didn't file any patents for their LA synthesis techni
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I recently watched Trent Reznor's clip from the 'I dream of Wires' documentary, where he blames the DX7 for the decline in synthesiser culture. His hatred of the DX7 is pretty well known at this point. He complained that af
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This isn't quite FM, though Jean-Claude Risset from Bell Laboratories did some contemporary experiments using additive synthesis with analog oscillators to achieve similar complex tones. I'm guessing that Yamaha probably experimen

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