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by iainctduncan 8mo ago
nice... ;-) Funny how we don't hear that movement much...
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by iainctduncan 8mo ago
The real story here is "how the hell did Dick's Sporting Goods get to #3 and how can I get me some of their magic dust?"
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by iainctduncan 8mo ago
Oh come on, that is complete nonsense. I can reunderstand complicated code I wrote a year ago far, far faster than complicated code someone else wrote. Especially if I also wrote tests, accompanying notes, and docs. If you can't unders
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by iainctduncan 8mo ago
Did anyone ever doubt sama would just follow the money? weasels gonna weasel
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by iainctduncan 8mo ago
Finally silicon valley is being shown who they sucked up to.
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by iainctduncan 8mo ago
I think the worse situation is the bad AI summaries from search on health issues. We had a potential pet poisoning, so was naturally searching for resources. Google had a summary with a "dose of concern" that was an order of magni
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by iainctduncan 8mo ago
The thing that makes me crazy about this article, others like it (and so many of the comments in response to them ) is the naive assumption that whatever the author is used to is always the case. It's just not. I've been a develop
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by iainctduncan 8mo ago
Would this be the same place that Coalton came out of? (just curious)
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by iainctduncan 8mo ago
Regardless of the sleep effect (or lack of) they absolutely do work for reducing eye strain for migraineurs. It's noticeable to me all the time, but if I'm borderline migraining, or recovering from a migraine, the difference betwe
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by iainctduncan 8mo ago
gatekeeping is just a synonym for curration by people who don't like the currators choice. And we are going to need more curration so goddamned badly....
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by iainctduncan 8mo ago
The easy way to do this is to hide them with custom CSS - Install Stylebot extension for your browser - make an entry for youtube.com - enter this css: .shortsLockupViewModelHost { display: none} Bam, no more shorts.
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by iainctduncan 8mo ago
This. This is what people aren't talking about. LLMs are like slot machines for developers, and slot machines are fucking awful for your brain.
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by iainctduncan 8mo ago
At the risk of sending you down a giant rabbit hole, the book Designing Sound is all about making programmatic sounds with Pure Data, and open source low-code programming environment available for all platforms. From what I've read, th
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by iainctduncan 8mo ago
Nice, I was going to mention that there had been several game devs on the mailing list, thanks for sharing. The single C file convenience really is helpful. When I was figuring out the byzantine build process for incorporating s7 into a mix
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by iainctduncan 9mo ago
yes, it really is. In my music pedagogy project I use it as the domain layer via WASM sitting between JS and C/C++ audio workers. It's been great that way.
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by iainctduncan 9mo ago
That I don't know, but the s7 author, Bill Schottstaedt (who I will ping about this) is very helpful on the email list and is deeply, deeply knowledgeable about Lisp, so you could definitely ask there! https://ccrma-mail.sta
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by iainctduncan 9mo ago
Hmm, it's been a while. It was partly the fact that it was not as simple as s7, and also was complicated a bit by the compiled-to-C nature of Chicken. I did really like what I saw in Chicken though.
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by iainctduncan 9mo ago
Oh right, that was a thing too. LGPL would have complicated some plans. Forgot that details.
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by iainctduncan 9mo ago
Author here! Funny to see this arise now, I shared links to the project a number of times but never got much interest here. For what it's worth, I would (and should!) update that page, but the choice of s7 has worked out really well. I
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by iainctduncan 9mo ago
OP: it was a two factor decision. The first is that it seemed at the time that Scheme was going to be easier to work with, and that has proven true. It's a lot easier to do music theory hacking and integrate with Max using a lisp 1. Be
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by iainctduncan 9mo ago
Cat added. Best HN site today, IMHO.
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by iainctduncan 9mo ago
Mmm, good point!
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by iainctduncan 9mo ago
"If you believe the AI researchers–who have been spot-on accurate for literally" I do not understand what has happened to him here... there was an entire "AI winter" in the 90's to 2000's because of how wrong r
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by iainctduncan 9mo ago
I wound up going back to C in a big way about five years ago when I embarked on Scheme for Max, an extension to Max/MSP that lets you use s7 Scheme in the Max environment. Max has a C SDK, and s7 is written in 100% ANSI C. (Max also ha
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by iainctduncan 9mo ago
No, it suggests the sarcasm that is the Registers in house style. See the page tagline.... "Biting the hand that feeds IT"
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by iainctduncan 9mo ago
One interesting reason this happens, at least in the music field, is the adult disadvantages that often go along with various forms of savantism. I have spoken with a number of fellow music academics about this, and it's not uncommon t
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by iainctduncan 9mo ago
People into this sort of stuff might be interested to know that s7 Scheme also runs really well in WASM. It's 100% ansi C and uses its own GC, so getting it compiled and running in WASM is very simple. I use it in both my audio project
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by iainctduncan 9mo ago
Almost like some strange new technology is increasing the number of people making low quality projects they want to show off....
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by iainctduncan 9mo ago
Bad assumption. I taught myself to code in the early 2000s while scrapping by earning just above minimum wage in Vancouver, one of the most expensive cities in the world. So uh, you would be hard pressed to be more wrong. And I used free re
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by iainctduncan 9mo ago
From the article "And yet these tools have opened a world of creative potential in software that was previously closed to me, and they feel personally empowering. " I keep seeing things like this, about "democratization"

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