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by beetwenty 8y ago
The SF2 spec implicitly expects the sample data to be one very large sample buffer, which are subsequently resampled and looped on each new note. So it's possible to reuse the same set of single-cycle waveforms in various combinations
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by beetwenty 8y ago
I can't speak for OP, but I've been addressing "leisure planning" primarily with logging and reminders instead of planners: I received a Fitbit over the holidays which has done a great job of encouraging me to block out
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by beetwenty 8y ago
The MD2 model format is considerably extended over MDL, in size limits, vertex resolution, and features like texture animations. And while Q1 had the split between Netquake and Quakeworld networking, Q2 has a single system. Those kinds of r
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by beetwenty 8y ago
This is definitely where my mom has gone. She thinks Alex Jones is very funny, but then ends up buying the books of conspiracy theorists and interjecting paranoid right talking points into everyday conversations. Given that it happens so co
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by beetwenty 8y ago
The best motivator for me was to start building a Standard MIDI Format sequencer and test its output on MIDI files. The underlying MIDI standard is a well-understood protocol with many resources, while SMF adds some room for creative interp
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by beetwenty 8y ago
Cassettes have a versatile DIY aesthetic about them: you could record all your sources off radio, TV or CD, sample it into a synth, build up and trade mixtapes, and so on. It isn't just a format for pre-recorded, and digital doesn&#x27
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by beetwenty 8y ago
One trick I use is to identify whether the duplication involves something that would ultimately be the domain of different modules. If it creates a dependency across modules, it's a design problem significant enough to probably not res
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by beetwenty 8y ago
Yes, it's just not viable to develop for browsers unless you have the maintenance budget for a moving target. I decided on that after living through the Flash era and trying HTML5 for a little while. The browser is backwards compatible
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by beetwenty 8y ago
It bears saying, despite being obvious: You can't have all the experiences the world has to offer. And the ones that are in media are both constructs of a prior generation - media is selling the aspirations of the experience - and in
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by beetwenty 8y ago
In general, people will code to the API they have. For graphics that mostly means GPU hardware and shaders. The old raster tricks still come out from time to time, and there are reasons to software render certain effects, but there are many
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by beetwenty 8y ago
It was in wrestling before any of those, too. Mirriam-Webster dates it to 1671.
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by beetwenty 8y ago
In practice I never went away from GIMP for most Photoshop-like tasks. Which isn't a signal that GIMP is great, but that I grew used to its deficiencies many years ago. And it has gradually improved: It has single-window UI now, after
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by beetwenty 8y ago
In bytecode interpreter VMs, one often encounters the "computed goto" [1] pattern in use to dispatch opcodes. This is one that tends to be a little faster than a switch statement, enough to matter in the dispatch inner loop. Of co
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by beetwenty 8y ago
This scenario happened not in San Francisco, but in Oakland with Jean Quan's election. Since then the second-tier candidates have done what you say about promoting each other: "vote for me and for X". If one loses, the other
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by beetwenty 8y ago
Finding the nearest three light sources is the main bottleneck, and in scenarios with many lights, is highly dependent on having a broadphase algorithm to filter them out early. If they did it the naive way, the algorithm becomes O(number o
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by beetwenty 8y ago
I was just reviewing Hypercard's history yesterday and realized that it's really one of many tools from that period circa 1985-1995 where everyone was driving commercial dev tools towards the "RAD" paradigm and merging I