ofalkaed

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by ofalkaed 9mo ago
I look around and see what is going on around me, things have changed since last you looked; you can get surprisingly good at judging what time it is based off the sunlight through a window. Sometimes I think about something if something ha
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by ofalkaed 9mo ago
Is it possible (practical) to reverse engineer a synth that uses a custom and undocumented DSP? The Alesis Micron is probably my favorite synth and I have always wanted it in a little laptop groovebox type of package, considered just repack
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by ofalkaed 9mo ago
>What would constitute being asked to be more than a user? That was mostly a way to say that I really don't want your job. Mostly, I want to retain my ability to occasionally make posts like the one I made in this thread. >practi
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by ofalkaed 9mo ago
Reading a few hundred mostly low effort reactionary posts of people using the events in Venezuela as validation for their politics had a strong effect on my mood. These sorts of events are tricky on HN, all the user can do is flag flag flag
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by ofalkaed 9mo ago
We already have lobste.rs. I would not mind if flagged/dead got removed from active but I understand why they are kept. Flag and hide political threads which are likely to derail you.
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by ofalkaed 9mo ago
I just spent way too much time reading through this thread looking for a single post more concerned about Venezuela and its people than the poster's own politics. I gave up when I noticed I was only a 1/4 of the way through thread
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by ofalkaed 9mo ago
You read the Guidelines and FAQ as you should have done when you made an account.
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by ofalkaed 9mo ago
Thanks for letting us know, hope it works well for you.
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by ofalkaed 9mo ago
The internet died in 2003, no one noticed.
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by ofalkaed 9mo ago
If you hate it, leave and go somewhere that politics are not off topic, let us have our little corner of the internet.
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by ofalkaed 9mo ago
I use it to explain and explore things I don't understand and I will have it give me code examples in multiple languages, explain the benefits and differences which each language offers for the task, and ask questions about each. I sti
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by ofalkaed 9mo ago
2026, YOTBSDD. This is the story of 2025 computing for me, FreeBSD is where I will probably go when Patrick calls it quits and steps down or ends Slackware. Although Haiku is also possible, I really like it but I am not sure if I can change
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by ofalkaed 9mo ago
YOTLD has nothing to do with my needs and wants and I am perfectly happy with my thumb drive and the weird little ways linux imposes itself on my life.
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by ofalkaed 9mo ago
I actually intended to set everything up but did not have time and needed to copy some files, so dusted off a thumb drive. I am liking it quite a bit and I think I prefer it to the alternatives.
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by ofalkaed 9mo ago
The personal desktop has fallen in relevance enough for that to be possible. The goalposts moved, now linux needs to have phone, tablet, and laptop with smooth effortless integration between them all. I recently switched to using a thumb dr
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by ofalkaed 9mo ago
Every assertion in this article is completely alien to me to the point that I can not even comprehend that people live like that, it seems untenable to life to me. A year did not feel like a fifth of my life when I was 5, I could not even c
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by ofalkaed 9mo ago
I use cmus on my laptop and vanilla music player on my phone, I like things to be simple. I have never used a streaming service but I did just decide to go back to listening to the radio and ordered myself a radio good enough to pick up sho
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by ofalkaed 9mo ago
California will take them to court and/or block them from doing business in the state, have various ways to penalize them, etc. California is big enough that many will want to play game with them and having a state as powerful as Calif
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by ofalkaed 9mo ago
One of the ways federal legislation gets passed is by state's passing their own laws, eventually industry gets fed up with having to comply with a dozen or more variations of the same law and starts harassing congress to take care of i
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by ofalkaed 9mo ago
I said that was something which would happen in the future, as in not the current level LLMs. But this is what people will pay the programmer for, the programmer will (hopefully) know when and where the LLM can be used to offload the grunt
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by ofalkaed 9mo ago
Occasionally when right clicking on a misspelled word to correct it, I bump the track pad and accidentally add the misspelled word to my dictionary. Business is one of those words I apparently did that with. I have never been able to figure
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by ofalkaed 9mo ago
I find it interesting but not surprising that this got downvoted. Sure my idea of the craft is different than the article's and of many people but if the craft only there if it is pure hand written code then it is a craft which the vas
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by ofalkaed 9mo ago
Sure, that is still a ways off, but being able to hire a programmer to meet my personal modest software needs is almost there. Also, the needs of any company that required a hundred people and millions of dollars is very different from the
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by ofalkaed 9mo ago
Personally I think AI is going to turn software into a cottage industry, it will make custom software something the individual can afford. AI is a very long ways off from being able to allow the average person to create the software they wa
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by ofalkaed 9mo ago
>Which of course causes issues when languages with more proper strings interact with C but there you go. Is is an issue of "more proper strings" or just languages trying to have their cake and eat it too? have their sense of a
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by ofalkaed 9mo ago
Something I read somewhere years ago was that after the fall harvest there was generally a glut of food, all the stuff they did not have room to store for the winter, the crops which they did not have a way to preserve, the crops which kept
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by ofalkaed 9mo ago
https://archive.ph/MeyfL ft.com is not loading for me so here is the archive.
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by ofalkaed 9mo ago
>Sometimes I wish there was a commercial company behind 'linux for audio' that will give me a finely tuned Linux distro on a finely tuned desktop machine, based on whatever distro, That would be Ubuntu Studio or Kx-Studio. Mint
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by ofalkaed 9mo ago
PipeWire seems to solve all the audio stuff for me, zero problems since I made the switch. I had audio fail on resume once when I first installed PipeWire; if memory serves it was that the default settings for PipeWire was to restart the au
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by ofalkaed 9mo ago
I am not arguing about a 20 pixel slider, not even arguing, that was just a random number which works just as well as any other number to demonstrate the problem and why knobs have their place despite having their own problems. Shift clicki

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