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by cesaref 2y ago
Well, from my experience of going both seriously digital and seriously darkroom, i'd keep the two apart. Get a lovely 5x4 enlarger (or join a darkroom where one is available) and you'll enjoy making B&W prints from those negat
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by cesaref 2y ago
Well it's good to know that once they abandoned the project, they cleared the site and left it how it was before they turned up. Oh wait, no, actually they left it with all the waste still there, under the assumption that it would be e
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by cesaref 2y ago
I'm not sure why you need midi 2.0 to achieve this? Recording midi on windows is totally trivial, and for this sort of application, only capturing the notes and relevant CCs (e.g. pedals) is all you need.
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by cesaref 2y ago
I believe the Logic team are still based in Germany, where the original Emagic team that produced Logic were based, so it's not that they are languishing, but an intentional decision has been made (either by them or Apple) to keep this
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by cesaref 2y ago
Unless you are on a greenfield project, you don't get to make these decisions like that. You start with a jumble of libraries and helper classes, or a complete app which needs its functionality amending. The right choice will alter dep
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by cesaref 2y ago
Ah, ok. So the frequency locking was to reduce jitter on the performance tests? If so, this makes sense.
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by cesaref 2y ago
'We'd also like to thank Intel for helping with AVX-512 optimizations for aws-lc-rs recently. This was an important part of achieving our performance goals.' Testing on an intel processor, with frequency scaling disabled, whi
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by cesaref 2y ago
The problem I have with articles like this is that if we were to substitute anything in for 'Rust', it would read the same. I imagine if they had re-written it in C it would also be better than before. If it was an advert for anyt
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by cesaref 2y ago
I had an 11-23, and that had a monitor in the CPU (proper CISC!), writing to a serial port. That meant that I typed the boot loader into a terminal, and hence had a pre-recorded sequence I replayed to the port to boot the machine.
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by cesaref 2y ago
stuck doesn't mean twiddling your thumbs wondering what to do next - i'd certainly expect someone to ask if they were in that situation. No, stuck can often only be observed by looking in, the person or team may think they are doi
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by cesaref 2y ago
Breaking news - introverts don't want to have daily stand ups, whilst extroverts think it's fun and useful. I personally found them quite helpful to ensure I could help out team members who had got stuck. It's sometimes lonel
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by cesaref 2y ago
Somewhere in between. It was a static composition (as in, it had a start and an end) but there were multiple loops per instrument, so more competent players would reach a more frenetic musical performance of the piece if they kept more of t
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by cesaref 2y ago
Junior programmers tend to either document nothing, or document everything. With experience you realise that you just want to document the unusual stuff, and as you get more experienced, you realise there is less and less unusual stuff, so
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by cesaref 2y ago
This reminds a bit of a project I coded the audio for an art exhibition around 20 years ago, which was for multiple simultaneous players. As the game got more intense it became apparent that the ball/wall sounds were playing music, and
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by cesaref 2y ago
Yeah, that's definitely an option. I've got an ethernet board for the SE/30, and also for the IIcx, and enough RAM to keep A/UX happy.
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by cesaref 2y ago
It's easy to pick up a bit of an old computer habit. I'm in the process of putting a machine I used to own back together, a Mac IIcx with Trinitron monitor, running Emagic Logic (a midi sequencer) as this was a hugely influential
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by cesaref 2y ago
It sounds like geothermal without using the earth as the heat source. What benefits does this have over geothermal, which is proven and safe, and also ticks the 'non-nuclear' box which makes it considerably easier to convince a po
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by cesaref 2y ago
The 'pop' example given at the beginning of the article when switching on an 80s machine with built-in audio is typically caused by a DC blocking capacitor in line with the speaker. Because those machines typically only had a +ve
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by cesaref 2y ago
The final conclusion though stands without any justification - that LLM + RL will somehow out-perform people at open-domain problem solving seems quite a jump to me.
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by cesaref 2y ago
I think all the early B&W windowing systems had a stipple, as otherwise you are limited to either black or white which is pretty grim as a background. The Alto certainly had this, from screenshots i've seen of Smalltalk demos runni
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by cesaref 2y ago
I interpreted this as 'don't write crappy functions taking confusing arguments'. If the function had taken 4 floating point numbers, the argument would be the same - it would be confusing to know what is what.
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by cesaref 2y ago
It's not about peers and poor, it's about immigrants, and racism within the post office - the abhorrent assumption that immigrant families who get contracts as sub postmasters were 'on the make'. It was reported in the l
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by cesaref 2y ago
Here in the UK it was pretty common up to say the 1940s for plasterers to curve the corners on outward pointing walls in hallways. This usually extends from the skirting up to the picture rail. There is a lovely transition from the curve to
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by cesaref 2y ago
I imagine much of the weight is for the tube to be strong enough to hold the vacuum without shattering. As the screen area increases, you need stronger electron sources, and higher HT to get the electrons to the phosphor. I think small 14 i
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by cesaref 2y ago
Is there a decent overview of what the aim of mathematics solvers is these days? In light of Hilbert's effort at formalism in the 1920s, and the incompleteness theorem, I was wondering where this was going, and what the known limitatio
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by cesaref 2y ago
Yum, global variables to avoid a call to malloc/realloc. This is not progress.
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by cesaref 2y ago
Agreed, I had a long chat with him at an audio conference years ago, and I have a LinnStrument 128. One of the very cool things people may not know is the LinnStrument has open firmware under the Apache License, and you can download the sou
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by cesaref 2y ago
From the description of the product, I think the intention is that the tone is received electrically at the end of a cable run, so receipt of the tone indicates continuity of the speaker cabling. This high frequency has been chosen to ensur
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by cesaref 2y ago
If it is a flash type circuit, the capacitor will be connected directly across the xenon tube, and a separate trigger circuit will generate a much higher voltage to start the xenon conducting, and allow the capacitor to discharge it's
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by cesaref 2y ago
I think you are missing the point. People do stuff because they enjoy doing it. The fact that they enjoy doing stuff you don't is their business, and frankly it would be a boring world if we all liked the same things.

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