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by blub 4y ago
Vaccines don’t make a major difference against Long Covid. 14-25% reduction in risk I read. At this efficiency level they’re not an adequate preventive measure.
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by blub 4y ago
I’ve been watching the vaccine discussions on HN these years and one can see that too many people are stuck fighting vaccination windmills from days gone by, while downplaying vaccine risks which by now are established and continue to be in
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by blub 4y ago
There’s nothing inherent to the Juno 60 (to take something with the simplest architecture) that makes it sound like the 80s vs 2022. For electronic music it’s the drum beats, melodies, arrangement, the modulation, filter use and effects tha
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by blub 4y ago
Roland say that their ACB machines are DSP-based: https://www.rolandus.com/blog/2014/02/14/analog-circuit-beha... . That would include the System 8 and Boutiques. I imagine that the ZenCore stuff runs on
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by blub 4y ago
I like Korg, have a couple of their products and think they’re okay. I just never had the impression that they’re “winning” against Roland or even that they’re direct competitors. The former are focusing on analog machines with some wave&#x
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by blub 4y ago
What’s an innovative instrument and does that matter when making music? There’s quite a fetishization of gear happening nowadays, making and buying gear for gear’s sake. By now one can see that subtractive is king, because it’s easy to unde
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by blub 4y ago
It’s not Kanban, because that revolves around minimizing work in process, balancing ins and outs at each step of the process and making work visible.
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by blub 4y ago
Open source or open synths is a pretty arbitrary category that few are rushing to compete in because most musicians don’t care how hackable their instrument is. According to their financials, Roland are doing fine: profit’s down for 2022, b
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by blub 4y ago
I don’t think it’s killing it, but it’s definitely a pain in the ass. Not sure what major malfunction our industry is suffering from, but we seem to have settled on continuously running just to keep in the same place. Apps, operating system
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by blub 4y ago
You’re obviously wrong, it’s very hard to add stuff. Both technically and from an ISO perspective.
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by blub 4y ago
I would flag assigning a return value to a string_view in code review. Same as assigning to a pointer. Yes, it’s one more thing nudging the programmer toward unsafe use, but this is C++ we’re talking about: only the strong survive.
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by blub 4y ago
You guys would have almost replaced almost developers by now, if you weren’t so rare and precious :-)
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by blub 4y ago
And I want to hear the uncensored opinions of those dev teams. This here was a blog for managers.
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by blub 4y ago
PHP is alive and well in Europe, you need to look more carefully. And C++ is the cutting edge for performance-intensive work.
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by blub 4y ago
Syntax is one of the most important characteristics of language. It’s the difference that makes the difference between Rust-like and C++-like gibberish and poetry.
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by blub 4y ago
Parent’s suggestion about typography is nonsense, the Rust project desperately needed somebody with skills in user experience and usability engineering. Now it’s too late.
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by blub 4y ago
They’re not saying that C++ can or can’t be saved. And there’s no “they”, there are hundreds of teams with different expectations and policies. You’re merely reading what you want between the lines.
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by blub 4y ago
C++ is still essential for Android, but you won’t hear that from the security team bubble. They should have the dev teams write about the good, the bad and the ugly of using Rust instead of having the security team write a sanitized rainbow
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by blub 4y ago
No such luck in having some technical discussion or at least a link to the sources. If the Rust community can be insufferable when trying to sell Rust at any and every opportunity, Lord have mercy when they see any kind of success because t
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by blub 4y ago
And if each of those outcomes had a percentage associated with them, I suspect that most undefined behavior would cluster around less than 5 outcomes matching the expectations of even the most junior C programmer. The bunch of amateur bards
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by blub 4y ago
But those officials do speak for the two strongest economies in the EU, from which Eastern Europe also depends. And Poland’s complaining too about the prices of Norwegian gas. Turns out the government forgot to negotiate long-term contracts
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by blub 4y ago
You said first that “The article is baseless because it echoes unnamed sources” and the parent responded to that. Now that you’ve learned that top German and French politicians have complained about this very thing you’re moving goalposts.
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by blub 4y ago
I (re)wrote a < 1kloc program in it from C++ and I found that it had its good and bad parts, like everything. But there’s too much overlap with C++ and not enough projects. IMO Rust has proven that it can survive, but by far hasn’t reach
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by blub 4y ago
Not much, have enough on my plate with C++.
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by blub 4y ago
Give it 10 years and people will feel similarly about Rust. They’re both just super-complicated languages. Some devs thrive on that, but most people can’t and shouldn’t have to. And you can see that contrary to what some in the Rust communi
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by blub 4y ago
The positive aspect of all of this is that it will be an interesting case study in what happens if you shove a square Rust into a round Kernel.
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by blub 4y ago
The confirmation that NATO will definitely not go to war with Russia is not as boring and uninteresting as you’re making it to be. After the original news broke out the “correction” on the source of the missile was the most important piece
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by blub 4y ago
On one hand there’s a story which hints at an escalation that may lead to a world war which is understandably very interesting. But on the other hand the story which would calm the potentially panicking population is not important? This i
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by blub 4y ago
That is such an extremely low-effort proposal that it would already be rejected by kids in primary school. De-escalation happens gradually and with steps taken by both sides. You may have noticed that there’s mixed signals coming from the U
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by blub 4y ago
From the polls that I’ve seen it precisely the people on whose houses bombs are falling that want the war to end - including by negotiation - whereas those living far away want to continue the fight. Makes sense when one stops to think abou

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