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by ofalkaed 2y ago
Gimp and Libreoffice both seem to go out of their way to do everything their own way and ignore what has been demonstrated to work well and has essentially been established as a standard, this is one of the major issues with OSS for me alon
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by ofalkaed 2y ago
As a humanities sort I appreciate this but the scripts sort of go against the general thrust of the text since the scripts can not understand context or semantics, it feels like they would push many towards blindly following prescription in
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by ofalkaed 2y ago
>They are a relic of C style arrays Doesn't it predate that by a good amount? I would think it is a relic of the EEs who built the digital world, those early languages show a great deal more relation to the bare metal than modern la
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by ofalkaed 2y ago
Grey makes dark mode work better in the light; pure black + glossy glass screen = mirror, a good dark grey greatly reduces the mirror effect. I suspect I am not the only one who leaves things in dark mode all the time and has developed an a
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by ofalkaed 2y ago
Creating Rhythms by Hollos and Hollos. I am not much of a fan of it but my expectations were high, the person who recommended it to me made it out to be exactly what I was looking for and it was not at all what I was looking for. It primari
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by ofalkaed 2y ago
>I have the book still but the CD is long gone and so is owning a CD rom drive. https://github.com/SamKomesarook/The-Csound-Book
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by ofalkaed 2y ago
Do you think it is worth upgrading from the first edition? Does it update much of the old information? The new chapters alone are not really enough to sell me on buying, at least not until my first edition falls apart.
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by ofalkaed 2y ago
>Boulanger - "The Csound Book" Probably the gold standard for such books, wish all the audio DSLs had a book of such quality. Between it and The Computer Music Tutorial Csound is ahead of the rest when it comes to books. Edit:
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by ofalkaed 2y ago
What is the best book? Don't think I would call this about PureData, it just uses PureData for examples and the knowledge it provides is more general.
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by ofalkaed 2y ago
What do magic beans go for these days? Surely it must be more than a cow? Article left this out.
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The Theory and Technique of Electronic Music (2006)(msp.ucsd.edu)
313 points by ofalkaed 2y ago|81 comments
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by ofalkaed 2y ago
>It's interesting that you didn't once mention the sound of humans. I think they are implied by the din of the city which is the din of people even if it comes from a loud car, that loud car is loud because of a person. For the
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by ofalkaed 2y ago
I sometimes miss the constant din of the city, I have heard nothing but wind and waves for the past week and those are louder than any densely populated area I have lived in. Now that they have settled down the crows can hear each other so
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by ofalkaed 2y ago
The bass heavy tendency of western consumer grade headphones/speakers is tuned for western pop music and does not sound very good with much else, some of the non-western pop traditions are not bad. Headphones/speakers with a flat
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by ofalkaed 2y ago
>from an oddly-capitalized fragment I did. I was done with the thread by that point and put zero effort into parsing the acronym, only responded because of the nostalgia. Half suspected I got it wrong which is why I left "COL"
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by ofalkaed 2y ago
>but I reckon most people can't turn that musical talent into a $600/month hustle. Most people can't do most things but the vast majority of people who succeed at their goals in life have one thing in common. Lots of peopl
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by ofalkaed 2y ago
>So with that metric: what scene are you in that brings in $600 in tips or 6-12 gigs a month? Why only in tips? $100 weekly gigs are not terribly difficult to get these days especially since no one wants to do them anymore, that is $400
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by ofalkaed 2y ago
That is entry level for people who have no audience, the musicians equivalent of a paid internship and pays better than most entry level jobs with a bar so low, three chords will get you through the door, two if you are good. Beyond the fla
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by ofalkaed 2y ago
From what I have seen as an occasional musician and running sound is that these days most musicians are not willing to make the sacrifices and put in the time, they will not take that poorly paying weekly gig and spend a year or two refinin
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by ofalkaed 2y ago
Never heard of Kap before, I find the use of APL symbols and left to right parsing very difficult to read, my brain immediately starts reading right to left when I see APL symbols. I think Kap kills a lot of the elegance of APL as well but
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APL Cultivations(xpqz.github.io)
11 points by ofalkaed 2y ago|0 comments
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by ofalkaed 2y ago
Years ago I found myself in your situation, I put most of it in a big box and sold in on craigslist and started over because organizing it all just demoralized me. Bought a bunch of resistor and capacitor kits from mouser or digikey that ca
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by ofalkaed 2y ago
The use of CODE/;CODE/;ENCODE for defining words in lisp is great. I can see myself using this a good amount especially if I can get it playing well with Tk either through the FFI or lTk/nodgui.
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by ofalkaed 2y ago
Cell phones. Reasons seem obvious and too numerous to mention but I miss dial tones and busy signals and trying to catch someone when they are at home and within hearing of their phone's ring; knowing that every call was a sort of inva
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by ofalkaed 2y ago
99% translation dictionaries and grammars from what I have seen. AI does not really translate, it does not understand the context but can sort of fake understanding the languages in a very technical sense which works well enough when you do
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by ofalkaed 2y ago
This seems possibly interesting but the general style of it being an endless chain of interjections and conjunctions from no where makes it difficult to care or believe. Anyone have a link to something topical but less obnoxious?
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by ofalkaed 2y ago
Hello13 is one better than Hello12.
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by ofalkaed 2y ago
The main benefit for me is that it provides a very stable user experience since it is not under the influence of the war between linux distros; you learn the system once and you might spend 5 minutes after a major update learning what is ne
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by ofalkaed 2y ago
John Ousterhout's Tcl and the Tk Toolkit is great and has been updated to Tcl/Tk 8.5 which is recent enough to not cause headaches. Don't think it goes into self contained executable but covers everything else very well. Edit
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by ofalkaed 2y ago
If I am not sure how things should be laid out I just sketch it on graph paper or on my tablet, I consider each square of the graph to be 10 pixels or what ever suits and have at it. 10 or 15 minutes will generally be enough to go through m

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