foxhill

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by foxhill 4y ago
> USB is a well known standard and power saving in USB is also well understood and exercised. PCIe power saving was not even a thing until relatively recently well i mean it's all PCIe at the end of the day - all the USB stacks run
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by foxhill 4y ago
> What would be the benefit of that? well, aside from principle simplicity, you wouldn't need to have a USB stack to have bluetooth connectivity - a protocol plagued with "mysterious" connectivity issues - any reduction in
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by foxhill 4y ago
i was trying to say that switching to SPI to reduce latency would be redundant, given that the rest of the stack seemingly adds so much..!
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by foxhill 4y ago
ah, i didn't mean to suggest that SPI is adding additional latency (i'd have bet the opposite), i'm pretty confident it's everywhere else in the stack causing it.
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by foxhill 4y ago
this is one thing i can’t stand with macs anymore - they have enormous input latency. if SPI results in lower power usage, then great. USB can easily manage single digit millis, and i’d estimate 4 or 5 (?!) frames of composition and/or
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by foxhill 4y ago
this is something that has always puzzled me about bluetooth, which this article has reminded me of: why are there no bluetooth controllers that operate over pcie? well, with the now notable exception of these macs, apparently. i’d looked
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by foxhill 4y ago
it’s easy to make some people’s lives better when your degrading the lives of others. the trick is to make it better for everyone.
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by foxhill 4y ago
i was unable to update my driving licence for the best part of a year because of some (still unknown) internal issue. i hope they have better luck bringing back up a degraded/read-only etcd service after a power cut. unrelated - i gues
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by foxhill 4y ago
> This is correct if you implement parameter events naively (i.e. following the documentation!) interesting, i tried to solve this issue - i ended up talking to rob major at AVID (as far as i can tell, the lead engineer behind AAX), over
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by foxhill 4y ago
> Nothing about VST3 guarantees sample accurate automation, next to no plugins implement it correctly, and users don't seem to care all that much about it. i’m not entirely sure what you mean here; > It's actually hard to wr
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by foxhill 4y ago
> What does this mean? so the particular use-case was for a sampler. we had a bunch of different samples that had their own domain parameters, which needed to be automatable. hell, even multi-sample sample selection (the process of choos
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by foxhill 4y ago
> [sample accuracy] is part of both the AudioUnit and AAX specification heh, i did wonder if i'd get picked up on this :) whilst practically speaking often true, this is actually not the case. w.r.t. AAX: during parameter automation
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by foxhill 4y ago
quite some time ago, i used to write audio plugins. i'd started by using WDL-OL[1], but quickly ended up re-writing most of the front-end code to use Direct2D/Cocoa + OpenGL, as i began to run into limitations with the rendering c
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by foxhill 4y ago
> I get the feeling this entire debate would have been non-existent had this been a Jetbrains product instead. why so? > The whole thing is just bizarre when the vast majority of developers constantly look at OSS code daily and lift i
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by foxhill 4y ago
i agree - it’s a significant distinction that often gets overlooked. whilst a company is ran by (ostensibly) moral agents, the overall entity is not the sum of those parts.
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by foxhill 4y ago
if i recall correctly, this is basically the premise of apple’s Grand Central Dispatch API. which, unfortunately, never seemed to go anywhere..
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by foxhill 4y ago
right, that’s basically my point: i think we can draw a distinction between a coercive control here (i.e. forcing someone to do something they otherwise wouldn’t want to do), and an incentive/root issue correction (i.e. encouragement&#
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by foxhill 4y ago
would you consider, say, making camping in public a felony the same sort of “control” as education, affordable housing, job opportunities, etc.? specifically with respect to solving homelessness.
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by foxhill 4y ago
sorry to pick you up on this, and i’m unable to phrase this in such a way as to not sound inflammatory (again, apologies): * which ethical AI would that be? * how many people has elon sent to mars now? elon has marketed an image to people,
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by foxhill 4y ago
> Labour party antisemitism goes way beyond criticism of isreal, including support for hezbollah and hamas. corbyn famously laid a wreath on the grave of a hamas fighter[1]. an interpretation - more in line with how corbyn has historical
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by foxhill 4y ago
for what it’s worth, i’m yet to find an individual that was able to concretely identify a single anti-semitic action or statement both in the run up to, and after the november 2019 election. edit: probably worth mentioning, i read the repor
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by foxhill 5y ago
> No, I don't recognize that. Citation needed. fair enough. finding data wasn't easy. the best i could get that is somewhat related was this article from 2015 on teenage communication habits, which states that around 6% of teen
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by foxhill 5y ago
> Ugh, my main point is that the concept of "free speech" in the US is not relevant at all to the question of whether a private entity can remove you from their platform for saying something they don't like. and i'm s
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by foxhill 5y ago
> This morning, a few hours ago. surely you must recognize that you are likely in the minority of e-mail users? > Just as there are plenty of phone service providers two or three, really. and many areas in the US are limited to one or
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by foxhill 5y ago
> is my free speech being impeded because Twitter allows these people to block me? of course not. if you choose to block me, i am not prevented from communicating with others. > What about the algorithm, if Instagram's stories fe
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by foxhill 5y ago
> Uh, the US constitution and a few centuries of case law? i'm sorry, i interpreted your point to broadly be "free speech with limits", which i understand to be at-odds with the constitutional definition. > The one exam
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by foxhill 5y ago
> Use one of the thousands of other available email hosts when was the last time you sent (or received) an e-mail outside of the context of work, or to interact with a company? > Pick up the phone apple and google make the phones! my
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by foxhill 5y ago
> In the US, it's the _standard_ definition that was widely accepted citation needed > There are even web hosts that have an explicit policy of letting you host _any_ content you want as long as it's not against the law in t
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by foxhill 5y ago
where does this argument end, exactly? it seems that the majority of people grossly underestimate corporation's level of involvement in our every day lives: if i were to become a persona non grata to google, apple, HN, social media, et
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by foxhill 5y ago
sorry, i thought it was clear from my smiley & general tone that i wasn't being serious with that part of the response.

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