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by pierrec 9mo ago
Jeskola Relativion does exactly what you describe. Relatively obscure because it's exclusively a Buzz plugin and it's not documented anywhere. I believe it comes with Buzz, it's mentioned in the changelog here: https:/&
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by pierrec 10mo ago
The only urban legend I heard about the origins of aspirin is that it was originally snorted, hence the name. Allow me to clarify: in french, "aspire in" could mean "snort it in", though in a goofy brand-name-ified sort
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by pierrec 10mo ago
This showdown benchmark was and still is great, but an enormous grain of salt should be added to any model that was released after the showdown benchmark itself. Maybe everyone has a different dose of skepticism. Personally I'm not eve
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by pierrec 10mo ago
Well, that was way cooler than the title makes it sound. I would rephrase it to "abstract algorithmic art generator" or something, otherwise it sounds like yet another prompt-to-slop app. Could really use an accompanying readme&#x
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by pierrec 10mo ago
" the distributed “trillions of Tamagotchi” vision never materialized " I begrudgingly accept my poor grade.
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by pierrec 10mo ago
Personally, I would change the article to anonymize the actual plugin that was cracked. The plugin author seems to be a solo dev/musician, actually more a musician than a developer, which might explain the poorly implemented copy prote
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by pierrec 10mo ago
7/4 happens to be approximately 30 cents away from 16/9. It's hard to tell what's "simple" when looking at fractions, but 16/9 is indeed simple: divide by 3 twice and adjust the octave. If we assume octave
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by pierrec 10mo ago
Way off what? Complex ratios are likely to be heard as out-of-tune simple ratios, that's why they sound off. A concept sometimes called tolerance in music cognition. Note that by "complexity" and "simplicity" I&#x27
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by pierrec 10mo ago
The language certainly looks nice! Is it open source? I think it makes sense for this kind of tool, since it's inherently "hackery". I mean people who want to write music with code also probably want the ability to understand
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by pierrec 10mo ago
Both statements are true. We have a strong tendency for integer ratios in harmony, and just intonation often sounds out of tune. Integer ratios are the base upon which harmony is built. Temperament is a subtle modification that sounds very
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by pierrec 10mo ago
It would be unergonomic, if not painful, to use a western classical approach to rhythm in a programming environment. Alex McLean, the main author of Tidal/Strudel, is very much into Indian classical, and this is reflected in the approa
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by pierrec 10mo ago
That's funny, I was trying to do other stuff after posting my comment, but my brain kept working in the background, against my will, looking for the best approach to actually model this. Honestly, I was probably being pessimistic about
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by pierrec 10mo ago
Having done a fair amount of audio physical modeling, I'll just say a synthesized version that's both fast and realistic would be possible but difficult. The difficulty is at least "it would make an impressive presentation at
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by pierrec 11mo ago
I'm guessing you worked on the Stokt app or something similar! It's certainly become one of the best established apps in climbing.
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by pierrec 11mo ago
The death of VR has been greatly exaggerated. The only thing that died is the hype, and the hype will not be missed. It's just nice to have so much less bullshit.
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by pierrec 11mo ago
The source has a distinct face-melting vibe. Judging from leftover variables, seems like part of the original plan was to make a 7-way Venn diagram of these broad disciplines: "ART INTERFACE SCIENCE LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY HUMANISM NETWORK
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by pierrec 11mo ago
This website is an ethnomusicology goldmine! Great work from someone who seems to be doing it out of passion. I've been reading/listening through it and my favorite so far is the piece on Papuan highland Wisisi: https:/&#x2F
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by pierrec 1y ago
No, this seems to be quite recent. At least the discovery, disclosure, and post are recent, as always, who knows how long the vulnerability has existed... I'll admit I was also confused because their "screenshots" is an old o
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by pierrec 1y ago
The lack of context is kinda funny. This page from 6 months ago is a clearer demonstration and explains the idea: "HDR‑Infused Emoji" https://sharpletters.net/2025/04/16/hdr-emoji/ Discussed on
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by pierrec 1y ago
"That's odd, but at least it's better than having the negative ones at the top." You're being too kind, but I suppose your work requires diplomacy. When multiple top-level comments basically say "I can't
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by pierrec 1y ago
I believe yarr fills all your requirements. Can run as standalone on linux, and if you click "read here" the video gets embed. Assuming an extra click is not disqualifying. Note I have not verified this because I host it on a VPS.
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by pierrec 1y ago
Counterpoint, I've been using yarr almost daily for about a year and I can't say I share any of your wishlist items. I love how simple and elegant it is, and anything that makes the UI more complex or distracting would only take a
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RIP Robert Murray-Smith (1963 – 2025) [video](youtube.com)
21 points by pierrec 1y ago|0 comments
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by pierrec 1y ago
Very cool, but this page is just not ready for prime time. I tried it on a few different devices/browsers and it either crashed or lagged so much I couldn't scroll down to read the content. And I'm saying this as someone who&
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by pierrec 1y ago
No proper calibration, but the closest I've seen is in the Myst series. According to my fuzzy memory, either Riven or Exile (or both) had a setup screen with shades of gray, it instructed you to adjust the brightness / contrast of
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by pierrec 1y ago
I believe the event you describe is pretty ancient, and Buzz recovered and continued development for many years after. I wrote some plugins for the more recent versions of Buzz, the plugin API was always nice to work with (compared to VST a
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by pierrec 1y ago
This definitely adds a grain of salt, but as far as I can tell, none of that shows in the article, especially in the final paragraphs explaining how the elitist system is overall bad for the country. But it does make me wonder about possibl
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by pierrec 1y ago
Thanks. Uncommon but I would prefer if it worked :D I'm guessing your version of FF behaves similarly to Webkit as described here: https://github.com/pac-dev/AmbientGarden/blob/master/Web/ver...
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by pierrec 1y ago
OK, it should now display an error message when WebGL is missing.
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by pierrec 1y ago
Firefox on Windows happens to be my main browser and one of the first things I already verified to work, so you'll have to be more specific!

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