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by ajxs 2y ago
I've never had any problems! I'm surprised airport security would be so concerned about an old laptop. I'm sure they see way strange things on a daily basis.
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by ajxs 2y ago
My x220 has traveled around the world multiple times. It's been through dozens of airport scanners, dropped multiple times, and shared a few cups of coffee with me by accident. It just keeps on kicking. My x220 running Debian is actual
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by ajxs 2y ago
That's an awesome idea! Very cool! I might just do that for my own RSS feed, and credit you for the great idea.
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by ajxs 2y ago
Being interested in archaic technologies, I built a website using XML/XSLT not that long ago. The site was an archive of a band I was in, which made it fundamentally data oriented: We recorded multiple albums, with different tracks, an
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by ajxs 2y ago
USYD's website states that mature-age entry students are only eligible for a select set of courses: https://www.sydney.edu.au/study/applying/admission-pathways/... Being fair, they do make it sound as th
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by ajxs 2y ago
UNE is a great option if you're looking to enter university as a mature-age student. The requirements differ widely between universities for mature-age entry, with some of the Go8 universities excluding mature-age students from certain
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by ajxs 2y ago
Are you referring to Australia's AML/CTF Tranche 2 reforms? If so, these actually come into effect on 1 July 2026.
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by ajxs 2y ago
I owe a debt of gratitude to Microsoft Publisher. Back in 1997 I was regularly using Microsoft Publisher for my primary school assignments. As soon as I realised that you could use it to create webpages, I was hooked! I was a bit too young
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by ajxs 2y ago
When I created the SSG I use for my blog, I tested a bunch of different markup formats for the article content, but in the end I settled on plain-old raw HTML. Over the years, I've needed to render so many different specific visual ele
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by ajxs 2y ago
Very cool! A similar app that I've been using a lot lately is: https://grayscale.design
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by ajxs 2y ago
There's a GPL version of GNATprove, which you can install with Alire ( https://alire.ada.dev ). That's the version I use.
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by ajxs 2y ago
> I don't think safety is a 1 dimensional spectrum (say from 0% to 100%). I view it more as a multidimensional thing, and tradeoffs between these dimensions. Absolutely. This is evident in the different language features of Rust and
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by ajxs 2y ago
> ...never heard this in Ada circles... I tried to track down where I read someone advocate this, but I can't find it now. I probably shouldn't have accused the whole Ada community (of which I'm a member) of this attitude.
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by ajxs 2y ago
I've never done it myself, but I know it's possible! The GetIntoGameDev Youtube channel has recently done a few videos on the subject[0]. 0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZSvlaQ2uHI
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by ajxs 2y ago
> Directly using Unchecked_Deallocation is frowned upon... This is true. I admit that I didn't really acknowledge this in the article. I personally don't really like the Ada community's consensus on this matter. In many ap
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by ajxs 2y ago
The history of computing has many examples of products and languages winning out over technically superior alternatives for non-technical reasons. Like Linux gaining a lot of momentum because of the BSD lawsuit. This[0] is one of my favouri
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by ajxs 2y ago
I look at the problem the other way around: There are certain domains that significantly constrain the choice of programming language, for reasons like compatibility, or performance. If you're already limited to a small set of statical
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by ajxs 2y ago
Author here: Thank you so much for posting! Happy to answer any questions anyone might have about the article.
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by ajxs 2y ago
I'd never seen [1] before. Thanks for the link! That's a great and even-handed discussion of the topic. I've written a lot of hobby Ada code. I really like the language. Recently I did some research into how memory safety in
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by ajxs 2y ago
I gave Zed a try, and it seems great! The only problem is that I can't seem to get GPU acceleration working on my laptop (Thinkpad x220 running Debian), which negates the performance benefit Zed has over other editors. I know I'm
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by ajxs 2y ago
Albania is definitely worth visiting. BUNK'ART in Tirana is an easy way to see the bunkers for yourself. Somewhat related: Famous Russian urbex photographer Lana Sator is still stuck in Albania, after being arrested for espionage while
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by ajxs 2y ago
Right now I'm just having fun poking around the code, investigating if there's much room for firmware modification. The CZ101 uses the NEC uPD7811 CPU, which has a really interesting architecture: It doesn't have any conditio
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by ajxs 2y ago
> And if it hadn't been cut down enough it would have cannibalised sales of the more expensive synth. I think you're right about this. I originally thought that maybe removing velocity sensitivity would have been enough, but lo
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by ajxs 2y ago
I imagine if Yamaha ever starts going after the people eating into their FM synthesis profits they'll have a long, long, long list of people to deal with before they get to me! In 1983 this firmware would definitely have upset someone,
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by ajxs 2y ago
For what it's worth, they're actually totally different machines under the hood. They share the same main CPU, sound chips, and D/A section, but those are about the only similarities. I think you and GP make great points abou
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by ajxs 2y ago
Thank you! I agree with you. I find it hard to believe that leaving out the sub-CPU, one RAM chip and removing the velocity sensitive keyboard would've made a big difference to the manufacturing cost. My guess is that they always plann
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by ajxs 2y ago
Author here: Thank you so much for posting the article! I'm happy to answer any questions about the project. If you find this interesting, I wrote an overview of how I approach these projects: https://ajxs.me/blog/
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by ajxs 2y ago
Really impressive achievement! I love the name too!
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by ajxs 2y ago
Yes, you're right. I could have made that clearer. I think the filter is just there to remove harsh high frequency artefacts from the final output for the sake of the overall sound.
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by ajxs 2y ago
Great post! I always thought that the keyboard scaling was entirely for musical purposes. Such as emulating the difference in timbre in a plucked instrument as you go up in pitch. One of the main DX7 patents talks about adding an averaging

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