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by reggieband 5y ago
That supercollider/scsynth wasm thing was actually what I was thinking about. Unfortunately the implementation is still in a fork and hasn't been merged upstream. [1],[2] Thanks for the other links, sema-engine was new to me and n
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by reggieband 5y ago
I definitely did checkout Glicol, sorry I didn't call it out along with the others but I wanted to focus one the "uses existing old-school C/C++ audio engine compiled to wasm as a server" question. I understand you wrote
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by reggieband 5y ago
What a crazy coincidence. I just spent the last couple of days doing a survey of audio engines with a mind to find those that could run in wasm. Did you write your own engine or are you built on top of csound, supercollider, ChucK or someth
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by reggieband 5y ago
I wish the popup would link to the actual zoning by-law documents. I haven't read the ones for Vancouver specifically but generally they are pretty readable and interesting. One minor bug I noticed was the popup title bar color usually
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by reggieband 5y ago
I understand his point but I actually think micro-services can be simpler than monoliths. Even for his architecture, it sounds like they have an API service, a queue and some worker processes. And they already have kubernetes which means th
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by reggieband 5y ago
> Stand at a flight of stairs in the NYC subway with a stroller. Someone will grab the other end, help you carry the stroller, and then walk away without saying a word. This is one of my enduring memories of NYC as I saw this precisely p
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by reggieband 5y ago
I think it depends on the moment it happens. When I managed a larger team I could get a bit of communication overload. I'm trying to juggle ten requests at the same time, prioritizing who/what needs answering/updating and gen
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by reggieband 5y ago
One thing I learned in a class on negotiation was that many people look at negotiation as a one-time thing. Examples like buying a car happen for most buyers once every 5 to 10 years. It is also a negotiation that most often happens with a
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by reggieband 5y ago
Maybe a bit in the weeds on the technical side ... but any reason you went with HLS vs. dash? I spent a good few years streaming video (2d) and my personal preference was HLS (mostly due to the intransigence of Apple and thereby its ubiquit
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by reggieband 5y ago
I agree a complete system capable of something as magical sounding as I described would be both extremely complex to implement and probably even a nightmare to program within. As to the specific discussion of free variables and open/cl
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by reggieband 5y ago
This idea touches on (or rather, even expands on) an idea I've had brewing for a while. For those unfamiliar, there is a programming language called Unison [1] that has a nice feature where each function is identified by a hash of its
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by reggieband 5y ago
> The connectx() functionality is valuable, and should be added to Linux one way or another. It's not trivial to get all its use cases right. Hopefully, this blog post shows how to achieve this in the best way given the operating sy
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by reggieband 5y ago
I hate that I always end up referencing the Lex Friedman podcast but it is often relevant to discussion on HN. Recently Lex spoke with Yann LeCun and they had a brief chat about AI at Meta/Facebook [1] (where I believe Yann is currentl
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by reggieband 5y ago
There is a comic I remember from my childhood, "Tom the Dancing Bug" written by Ruben Bolling. He had a character called "Harvey Richard, Lawyer for Children". I linked a couple of examples [1], [2], [3], [4] but the sat
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by reggieband 5y ago
Not totally related, but something like kinopio + spreadsheet would be pretty neat. So often I find myself annoyed in Google Sheets that I either have to section off some subset of cells for some sub calculation or move that sub calculation
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by reggieband 5y ago
Reminds me of Kuhn's idea of Paradigm Shift. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradigm_shift
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by reggieband 5y ago
Those kind of issues are really the tip of the iceberg IMO. Writing a 140 character tweet or taking a photo with a modern mobile phone has a higher average quality with minimal effort. Yes, not every tweet is poetry but a huge volume of ave
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by reggieband 5y ago
I think everyone's TicToc experience depends on how the algorithm sorts you. I know that if I open it up right now (which I won't since I should be working and the app tends to distort time and fast-forwards 2 hours of my life) I
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by reggieband 5y ago
I must admit I am a bit surprised that a social network based on music never really took off. If you really squint at it, TicToc kinda sorta is. Instagram made photos social in a way that Facebook never really did. I think taking a photo an
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by reggieband 5y ago
I am not trying to speak ill of the dead. I am expressing my opinion on their work. The work of an artist is not immune to criticism because they were a nice person. I read Ian M. Banks for the first time recently. About halfway through &qu
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by reggieband 5y ago
This may be the most gen-x piece of writing ever. It reminds me of early Simpson's episodes. The juxtapositions of pointless and detailed erudition, obvious humor and subtle satire, and breaking the fourth-wall moral mirror. It's
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by reggieband 5y ago
My examples were chosen, of course, to be ridiculous. "Compromise" is a major point of the work done by the political philosophers who are identified with Pragmatism. The fact that the word compromise is so liberally used in moder
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by reggieband 5y ago
> It's just more dialectic materialism, where to even start a conversation with someone using it, you have to accept ontological premises that are necessarily absurd. Imagine, if you will, two legislators arguing some bill in some p
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by reggieband 5y ago
I have one of these and I use it about once or twice a week. I have one major design gripe with mine: the Keep Warm functionality is enabled by default. It does at least remember if you turn it off but for some reason it resets to default i
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by reggieband 5y ago
> "I thought it was gambling and immoral, but now that it has made billions there might be a point" That is an inaccurate/misleading summarization of my post. It is a least-charitable interpretation structured to forward y
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by reggieband 5y ago
> Andreessen Horowitz’s cryptocurrency fund made one of its largest investments to date in Sky Mavis, leading a $152m financing that valued the company at $3bn. > Sky Mavis, which takes a 4.5 per cent cut of transactions within the ga
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by reggieband 5y ago
I was going through goodreads yesterday and came across my review of The Martian there. I gave it 5 stars because I use what I understand is the Roger Ebert style of rating. The Martian is imperfect, pulpy and at times a bit over sentimenta
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by reggieband 5y ago
This article has a very "you're all a bunch of phoneys" kinda vibe that I both love and hate. I think this kind of optimistic cynicism is much derided in Western culture and especially so in North America where we live under
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by reggieband 5y ago
I'm surprised no mention of Amazon / AWS. > there remains a huge opportunity long squandered by Google: to be the enterprise platform that competes with Microsoft’s integrated offering by effectively tying together best-of-bree
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by reggieband 5y ago
I'm sure some are aware but in case you are not, Lex Friedman podcast recently had an episode with Richard Wrangham [1] where they discuss this. Wrangham is a primatologist that studied alongside Jane Goodall. His theory suggests human

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