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by cannam 9y ago
My favourite as well. I have one on my desk here. (It was £17 on eBay a few years ago. The USB converter for it was a lot more expensive than the keyboard.) There's a problem though. The Type-5 used to be one of the quieter workstation
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by cannam 9y ago
I love the fact that people are prepared to be so open about this. Wish it would happen more. I don't know anything in detail about these people and their work, and so won't name names, but there are certainly people there that I
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by cannam 9y ago
With a collaborative spreadsheet like this, my assumption is usually that it was set up by the first person in it.
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by cannam 9y ago
Aren't the Ocaml and F# examples relying on some dedicated compiler support for the format string type, though? The Idris example is interesting because its printf implementation can actually be written in Idris.
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by cannam 9y ago
I believe Perl 6 does so as well, see e.g. https://perl6advent.wordpress.com/2015/12/07/day-7-unicode-p...
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by cannam 9y ago
"Haskell is, in my view, the world’s best imperative programming language, and second-best functional language" - Robert Harper ( https://existentialtype.wordpress.com/2011/04/09/persistence... )
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by cannam 9y ago
Any idea what the small circular lake with the island in the middle, at bottom right might be? That's an interestingly precise shape. (It's surrounded by labels for desert, but I can't make out the labels on the island itself
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by cannam 9y ago
Not just the body, but also the layering or overlap of the wing segments which makes the sheathing mechanism apparent - that is very beautiful in itself (even if I don't know the right terms for these things). The typical image looks u
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by cannam 9y ago
I read it as a young teenager while listening repeatedly to one of my few cassette tapes - Beethoven's violin concerto on one side, 5th piano concerto on the other. By the end of the book I was having trouble mentally distinguishing be
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by cannam 9y ago
Turns out they do have a FAQ about this: https://www.qt.io/faq/#_Toc_3_12 It suggests that LGPL + iOS app store is not OK, but doesn't fully explore why not.
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by cannam 9y ago
I don't know whether this has changed, but they used to forbid you from developing with the open source edition and then releasing under a commercial licence. (They did this with a term in the commercial licence that specified that it
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by cannam 9y ago
In time for the Linux Audio Conference in Saint-Etienne, which starts this Thursday. ( http://musinf.univ-st-etienne.fr/lac2017GB.html )
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by cannam 9y ago
My first thought was "older? really?" - but hosted at SourceForge, I guess it could be. I started using offlineimap in 2008, which feels like a long time ago but of course is a lot more recent than the first appearance of imap.
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by cannam 9y ago
"Human Harp is a clip-on instrument that transforms suspension bridges into giant harps" http://dimainstone.com/project/human-harp/
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by cannam 10y ago
Indeed. Now that I can agree is a phenomenal accomplishment.
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by cannam 10y ago
I'd like to agree, but this does nothing in Chromium on desktop, does nothing in Firefox, and won't run in Chrome on my Android phone. It's not much more than hearsay to me that it exists at all. I think a certain amount of H
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by cannam 10y ago
A charming article. A Texas Instruments calculator (scientific, non-programmable) was practically my best friend at school in the 1980s, though I don't even know what model it was now. I'm not sure how to find out, as it seems tha
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by cannam 10y ago
Yep, I'm from the UK. And it may have had to do with exchange rates, but I think even the BBC Micro (£400 then, £1300 in today's money) was only about half the price of the Apple II. Though I can't seem to find a good source
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by cannam 10y ago
Here in the UK, I think schools in the 70s often had the Research Machines 380Z ( https://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/13/archaeologic_the_re... ) which was a marvellously chunky Z80-powered machine running CP
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by cannam 10y ago
I wonder how many individuals there are in the world who have sufficient space for this, something to use it for, and the ability to maintain it? A bit like musing about the potential global demand for high-end yachts. It's not on anyt
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by cannam 10y ago
The idea that an Apple II could have been "the computer you used when you were growing up" was a rather late and surprising discovery to me. Nobody I knew could afford an Apple II, and to this day I don't think I've ever
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by cannam 10y ago
Yes, the .svl file is a single layer from the session format, in XML. (The session format is itself an XML file, but compressed with bzip2 compression.) One thing SV does lack is a layer file format that can easily be interchanged between S
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by cannam 10y ago
More detailed dedicated visualisations, broader support for analysis plugins, and a focus on visualisation and analysis work rather than editing. (Audacity can use some of the same analysis plugins though.)
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by cannam 10y ago
That's good to know -- if you'd like to be any more detailed (e.g. how would you ideally like it to handle levels in order not to blow your ears off, or where are the controls most awkward) that would also be useful.
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Sonic Visualiser: Viewing and analysing the contents of music audio files(sonicvisualiser.org)
94 points by cannam 10y ago|19 comments
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by cannam 10y ago
I think you're right, but even if they were effectively doing these things already, it does seem likely that individual users don't actually have the ability to give permission for them (on behalf of other contributors to their re
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by cannam 10y ago
Section D7 seems to specify that they're talking about moral rights. I understood these to be intrinsic rights in some legal environments, e.g. France, that were distinct from anything that any open source licence might insist on. (As
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by cannam 10y ago
Even with "only" 5-10 support emails a day, though, you have to be very organised. I'm guessing you probably just are, and that's why you think that's no big deal. If you're used to carving out a slice of your
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by cannam 10y ago
> I have an old ThinkPad T42 I have a T40p running Arch which I still occasionally use, even for development, because it's just such a pleasing machine ergonomically. So I'm a bit concerned about this as well -- but then, I&#x2
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by cannam 10y ago
No idea what individual voters thought they were voting for, but it's worth remembering that the official Leave campaign said that the UK would be staying in the free-trade zone. That may be impossible to reconcile with the other thing

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