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by ajxs 3y ago
Does the Reface DX support the alternate waveforms that the TX81Z does? I was under the impression that it only supports sine waves. Which would make it more like an updated DX100 I guess.
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by ajxs 3y ago
I've done a bit of embedded development for 8-bit machines in the modern era, and I sincerely tip my hat to the engineers who were doing it in the 80s. Even with the best tooling available, you'd have needed an enormous amount of
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by ajxs 3y ago
Thank you very much for your kind words! 'Overhaul' might have been too strong a word. I've been considering adjusting the colours a little, but the overall 'minimalist' approach would definitely not change. When I
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by ajxs 3y ago
I run the https://webri.ng/ platform, which got a mention in the article. It provides a simple platform for managing your own webrings, without any extra bells and whistles. It's in bad need of a UI overhaul, but other
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by ajxs 3y ago
I'll have a look at what I can do with prefers-color-scheme . It seems like a good solution. Thank you for the suggestion!
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by ajxs 3y ago
I've never heard this term 'text measure' before. Do you mean the number of characters per-line in the main content column? I tried to research the optimal column width, but the answers seem to vary so much. Just doing a quic
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by ajxs 3y ago
I think the earliest you can reproduce the layout is probably somewhere around 1997, which was when HTML4 was standardised. Earlier than that the block model was really primitive, and didn't support things like arbitrary margins and pa
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by ajxs 3y ago
Unfortunately Mosaic didn't support much in the way of layout elements. The <table> element wouldn't even be added to the HTML standard until May 1996, in RFC 1942. These were the earliest days of HTML, and things were still
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by ajxs 3y ago
That's okay, I really appreciate the feedback! I'll give this some thought and see if I can tweak the colours a little. I often find myself falling back on Firefox's 'Reader View' if I find a website's colour t
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by ajxs 3y ago
Hi, author here. What was too much? Are you talking about my colourscheme, or my writing? I've actually been trying out different colourschemes for my site lately, and I'm genuinely open to suggestions. I actually took the contras
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by ajxs 3y ago
There were other factors at play. Many professionals transitioned to a permanent work-from-home arrangement, which caused a large interest in more affordable property outside of the major cities. Since things have gone back to the 'old
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by ajxs 3y ago
Thanks for pointing that out! It's not a pedantic nitpick at all. It's my mistake. I didn't really know what to call Pink Trombone, so I plucked 'formant synthesiser' out of thin air. The distinction seems really ob
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by ajxs 3y ago
Here's a fun little formant synthesiser that runs in the browser: https://dood.al/pinktrombone/
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by ajxs 3y ago
Fellow Australian here. I can confirm every word of this. The TIO gets things done . The telecom companies live in fear of the ombudsman's office, to the point that even mentioning their name can get things moving.
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by ajxs 3y ago
I personally think that its 'representation clauses' are a really awesome feature for bare-metal programming. It's a shame other languages haven't borrowed this idea.
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by ajxs 3y ago
I like your use of "Ada: The Next Generation". I replied to your comment in GP. I'm not really too hung up on the Pascal-ish syntax. I don't think these things matter too much. If I had to design the syntax myself, I&#
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by ajxs 3y ago
Sure. I write a lot of Ada, and I'm a big fan of the language overall. My criticisms are minor, and it doesn't stop me enjoying the language: I feel like the 'begin', and 'end' tokens can be a bit verbose, and
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by ajxs 3y ago
Thank you for clearing this up. My use of the phrase 'designed by committee' was more of a reference to a common criticism of Ada, than to any actual historical fact. Not that I was actually any the wiser, I admit. I'm a bi
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by ajxs 3y ago
I completely agree. 'Design-by-committee' gets a bad rap, but Ada's designers got a lot of things right when it came to bare-metal programming. The ability to specify the in-memory representation of a type is one of my person
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by ajxs 3y ago
Here's a website set up to track crashes involving another infamous bridge in Perth, Australia: https://www.howmanydayssincebayswaterbridgehasbeenhit.com/
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by ajxs 3y ago
Hi Jacques! That would be awesome. I've seen the inside of quite a few DX7s and DX9s now, but I still haven't come across a ceramic EGS chip yet. I've seen photos, so I know they exist. They must be super rare though.
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by ajxs 3y ago
I actually used one of these things[0] during development of the DX9/7 firmware mod. I like your Mirage tools by the way! I've actually got a very battered Ensoniq Mirage I picked up for free that's badly in need of some main
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by ajxs 3y ago
Very cool! I've been doing a lot of work reverse-engineering the firmware from Yamaha's 1980s synthesisers[0], all of which feature Hitachi 6303-series processors. The 6303 is Hitachi's second-source implementation of the Mot
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by ajxs 3y ago
I think I'm a little late, but my personal blog is https://ajxs.me/ So far, I've mostly written about my hobby of reverse-engineering vintage synthesisers. I'm currently writing more 'general' tech
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by ajxs 4y ago
This is true. Ironically, when we're talking about an area as heavily regulated as aerospace, I don't think language choice matters as much as it does elsewhere. My understanding is that if you're aiming for certification wit
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by ajxs 4y ago
> ...some rando in his basement couldn't write a good compiler for it like they could with C, BASIC, Pascal, Fortran, LISP... I see Ada as having a fundamentally different philosophy from languages like C and BASIC. Ada compilers we
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by ajxs 4y ago
I got a bit excited seeing this thinking it was new. I think there have been more recent interviews with him. I don't think he made any more maps after this period, but I'm pretty sure ztn went on to work on some other pretty high
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by ajxs 4y ago
When I was young we had a family friend who regularly flew to Hong Kong for work. Whenever we wanted software that was expensive he would kindly pick it up for us there on one of his business trips. He must have known all the right places t
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by ajxs 4y ago
I have a music studio here in my home, for my own personal use. It's fairly common for high-end studio hardware such as signal processors, and synthesisers to be made in rack-mountable format. At some point I figured I could save some
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by ajxs 4y ago
I live in a highrise apartment building close to the center of a major city. It has an parking garage below the building which stretches many floors underground. During the several minutes it takes to get my car from the 6th floor undergrou

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