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by fenomas 6y ago
> Using popular apps like Chrome, Firefox, Windows, Fedora, Debian, etc., I don't have a snowball's chance in a hot place at even getting my issue looked at.. Is this based on experience? In building a browser game engine, over
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by fenomas 6y ago
Um. That article describes a study where the researchers took recordings of different violins, looked for a difference in the strads, and found one. That doesn't establish that strads sound different, it presupposes it. Surely if they
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Self-organising textures from cellular automata(distill.pub)
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by fenomas 6y ago
This isn't generally true at all. Ella Fitzgerald has been "the First Lady of Song" since forever, various women have been called the First Lady of rock, pop, this or that sport, etc. In general I think I've only heard &
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by fenomas 6y ago
Am I missing something, or is this basically an unmaintained snapshot of Aseprite from 2016 (when it was last released under GPL)? Since Aseprite has come a long way since then, interested parties might want to check there instead. It'
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by fenomas 6y ago
They're equivalent to a first approximation, and the numbers we're talking about are from a poll where respondents could make only one choice.
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by fenomas 6y ago
Negatory - the sets being compared aren't independent. That is, the overall population is (roughly) half red and half blue. If you divide that population into groups - on whatever basis - and the largest group is 93% red, then it follo
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by fenomas 6y ago
> if the media outlets weren't increasingly becoming echo chambers. This conclusion doesn't stand up. If the most popular network skews 93% republican, the alternatives are going to skew democrat regardless of how balanced they
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by fenomas 6y ago
> You can have an automated tool, usually a plugin for your front-end bundler, compile a pretty good notice file for you, I think the tl;dr is that this is feasible but not common, and there's no single widely-used default way of do
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by fenomas 6y ago
> Which the browser does not provide you. WebAudio does indeed provide it. The audio data doesn't live in the JS VM, and isn't GC'ed like regular JS.
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by fenomas 6y ago
You can do all sorts of realtime audio in the browser! Especially now that audio worklets are a thing.
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by fenomas 6y ago
Even when I google it verbatim it's often not the first hit ;) Feel free to open an issue if anything isn't clear.
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by fenomas 6y ago
You might try `wasgen` (which I maintain). Basically you pass it an object that describes your audio graph, and a frequency/duration/volume, and it creates/disposes all the audio nodes. https://github.com/andy
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by fenomas 6y ago
It's hard to imagine who this is for. If you don't already know the words/particles involved, the sentences coming out of this would be gibberish. And if you do, aren't you pretty likely to have access to an IME? Also a
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by fenomas 6y ago
I can't speak for him, but I understood him to be sardonically answering my question. If he was genuinely afraid to say anything bad about the place I imagine he'd have said "it was okay" or the like.
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by fenomas 6y ago
That's certainly one possible way to interpret what he said. Here's another: he wasn't refusing to answer my question, he was sardonically answering it.
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by fenomas 6y ago
A good friend of mine worked at Apple in a mid-to-senior role for about two years; when he joined he told me not to ask him anything so I didn't. Shortly after he left we were having a drink, and I say: "Just tell me this, did you
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by fenomas 6y ago
If it was possible to open source the Flash player, Adobe would have done it back around 2009 when they stopped charging licensing fees for it.
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by fenomas 6y ago
"Police business is a hell of a problem. It’s a good deal like politics. It asks for the highest type of men, and there’s nothing in it to attract the highest type of men." (Raymond Chandler, 1943)
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by fenomas 6y ago
> This is wrong. Modes are (typically) permutations of scales. The fact that a permutation of a scale is also a scale doesn't mean it's wrong to say that scales have permutations.
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by fenomas 6y ago
What I've done has all been ad-hoc logic to build melodies out of patterns and whatnot, as opposed to an ML-style algorithm that learns from input data. That said, here are some samples: a jazz chiptune: https://fenomas.com&
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by fenomas 6y ago
I think the short answer is nomenclature. Much of what makes music theory difficult is that the terms and notation systems have built up over centuries, and they come from musicians who were concerned with what's useful, not from progr
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by fenomas 6y ago
Do you mean tone.js? If so then yes I started out using it, but wound up rolling my own engines. I don't remember specifically why, but something to do with wanting less magic and more low-level control. I wanted everything to be realt
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by fenomas 6y ago
I don't really remember finding any good dense sources, I mostly slogged through wikipedia articles and gradually decoded things. I really ought to get around to that article...
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by fenomas 6y ago
To be honest the math is super simple, but standard music theory piles a heap of messy terminology on top of it. For years I've been meaning to write a "programmer's guide to 85% of western music theory" article, but nev
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by fenomas 6y ago
As someone who's worked on this a lot , this article resonated but I disagree with the conclusions. (Or at any rate I feel like my procedural stuff is listenable, though I can't read or compose music.) I think the author's b
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by fenomas 6y ago
> apple developer relations Is there such a thing? Honest question, not snark - I've never heard of them doing any. Where/who?
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by fenomas 6y ago
Agreed, I love the site greatly as well. As a data point though, the one time I found an error there I mailed the maintainer a fairly detailed writeup with sources, but I never heard back and the entry never changed. (The error was for &quo
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by fenomas 6y ago
TFA isn't paywalled, or on Pinterest, or similar.
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by fenomas 6y ago
I always particularly loved how Lehrer's subtle, erudite style let him get away with comparatively racy material for that buttoned-down age. Like my all-time favorite line: > His education began in agricultural school, where he majo

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