iainctduncan

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by iainctduncan 3mo ago
I think we are going to see a lot of programmers quitting the biz in the next couple of years. Everyone talks about the increased pressure, stress, and monotony of grinding with LLMs, and individual coders aren't seeing the benefit .
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by iainctduncan 3mo ago
Some of this is sensible. The copyright authority (can't recall right this moment what it is called in the US) has said only works by human beings are copyrightable. A good argument is that therefore there is no reason to pay royalties
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by iainctduncan 3mo ago
After 30 years I've made thousands! Of course, the collection of instruments and their respective value goes up on the same line, sooo.... ;-) The most annoying part is having to declare everything properly on the tax returns even when
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by iainctduncan 3mo ago
I teach some music private lessons and play jazz gigs. An easy side hustle that should require not more than 10 years of work for a couple of hours a day to qualify if you apply yourself. You could be a hundredaire! :-) "Jazz Musician&
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by iainctduncan 3mo ago
Of course it's ruining skills. Anyone who has a really well honed mental skill knows that we get rusty really damned fast (e.g. musician at a professional musician level, which happens to be my reference point). You keep shedding, you
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by iainctduncan 3mo ago
This is a weird title, because what is a perfect shuffle? The word shuffle does not necessary imply a rifle shuffle, and does perfect mean "it mixes the cards well" or is it meaning "cards go down left-right-left-right".
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by iainctduncan 4mo ago
nope, it's an old man yelling get off my lawn. And as a fellow old person with an open source lawn, I 100% sympathize. My lawn == I'm not wasting any of my dwindling old man time on bullshit people vomit out. You want to do that,
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by iainctduncan 4mo ago
This is fantastic. There is a shortage of places that can press vinyl, making it very difficult to start an indy label. Vinyl (believe it or not) is going up in sales, many young people want to own a physical product of music, even if they
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by iainctduncan 4mo ago
Clippy, that cute little crack dealer from the 90's!
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by iainctduncan 4mo ago
What strikes me about the post is that it goes to great lengths to talk about proper statistical methods, but then is written in the most clearly biased language ("what stupid AI haters get wrong etc). If you want people to take your s
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by iainctduncan 4mo ago
You specifically brought up "scheduling tasks". There is a JS task scheduler, but it comes with a caveat - the scheduled timing is accurate but the time of executing is not accurate because it runs in the UI thread. Hence my comme
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by iainctduncan 4mo ago
Doing interrupt level scripting in it works just fine - lots of people have done it in C, C++, Scheme, and other extensions. I take it on stages and have produced music with it extensively. Scheme for Max is written using all the same C pri
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by iainctduncan 4mo ago
There's a big caveat there though that is widely misunderstood. Max has separate scheduler and UI threads. JS only runs in the UI thread, and thus cannot be used for reliable timing tasks - timing will seem to be ok until there is
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by iainctduncan 4mo ago
For people into this sort of thing, another option is using my foss Max extension, Scheme for Max, to script Live through the live API using Scheme. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0sKBA-Pv2c&t=1s The live object model
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by iainctduncan 4mo ago
Yeah, that was what got me into Live in the first place! Writing custom control surfaces in python from the reverse engineered stuff. Nice to see they have put out options they will officially support though. I do admire that instead of say
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by iainctduncan 4mo ago
I wonder how many of the responses here bifurcate by age. The post resonates with me, but I am now in my early fifties. When I was in my 20's and 30's, I would have happily chased rabbits down all those holes, but now that time se
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by iainctduncan 4mo ago
Lots of "but I don't have those friends" replies here.... ..which is only going to get worse the more you rely on a statisical model for things instead of talking to people.
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by iainctduncan 4mo ago
Spotify would love to have you listen to AI music... it means they can make it internally and pay no royalties on it all all. Interesting, techno/trance producer BT was talking about this like 5 years ago. Very smart guy.
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by iainctduncan 4mo ago
Nice to see that, after all these years, "car commercial techno" is still a thing. Man, I miss the 90's. Best decade for electronic music ever.
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by iainctduncan 4mo ago
Strange that the post makes no mention of the Little Schemer series, because teaching you to "think Scheme" is exactly what those books do. Some people are put off by the weird style (combination of children's book visuals an
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by iainctduncan 4mo ago
You don't. Customers who need it don't buy from solopreneurs. And if they did, they wouldn't expect it.
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by iainctduncan 5mo ago
This is how all good comedians work. It really works! If you write 10 bad jokes a day, in a year you are almost certain to have three good minutes.
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by iainctduncan 5mo ago
people who don't read articles make really silly comments about them
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by iainctduncan 5mo ago
Serious question, is there any advantage to Zed if one does not use LLM assisted coding?
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by iainctduncan 5mo ago
And of course anyone involved in fraud, whether legal or illegal - and by that token anyone selling services to help fight fraud. Infosec companies are loving this period.
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by iainctduncan 5mo ago
Another generous gift to the ransomware and fraud "industries".
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by iainctduncan 5mo ago
Grifters' gonna grift. The streaming indy pop world is toast. On the other hand, this does seem to be rekindling, at least somewhat, an interest in people going to see small shows of real people making music. Which was historically wha
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by iainctduncan 5mo ago
I did similar stuff for many years (and sometimes still do). By far the most effective was going and meeting people in adjacent or similar fields and making sure they knew about me. My favourite was helping scientists - not the highest payi
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by iainctduncan 5mo ago
National geographic is considered a complete joke by scientists and is funded by right wingers so i wouldn't waste a second reading anything there about recreational drugs....
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by iainctduncan 5mo ago
I've been working in software dilligence for 7 years now and have worked with 100+ companies getting purchased or raising late-stage investement as an assessor, so I've had the rare privilege of seeing the insides of a whole bunch

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