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by rvense 3y ago
The funny thing is when you view them as raw files, at least on Firefox, they look fine. (Maybe that part of Firefox is old enough to have actually needed to support Mac files..)
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by rvense 3y ago
"Why learn to play an instrument when you can just buy a CD?"
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by rvense 3y ago
TBH this looks like the MPC Live (except done with by people with a bit of taste.) Sketch out things when you're out and about, some simple recordings etc., then bring it back to the studio and just plug it in and have everything there
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by rvense 3y ago
> GPT doesn't have anything to sell us. It will either find something to sell us, or we will be giving it ourselves to sell. "If you're not paying, you're the product, not the customer"
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by rvense 3y ago
Of course it matters how one-sided it is, and of course it matters whether or not this was obvious at the time of purchase. There's absolutely no way this is legal in Europe, but unfortunately it's sometimes hard to make these big
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by rvense 3y ago
That's not a more apt analogy at all, that's the stupid explanation they might give to tell themselves they're not being bastards, which they objectively are. It's not about laws or contracts, why are you twisting yourse
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by rvense 3y ago
I'm quite sure you can go to prison for stealing a printer. Why not for breaking one?
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by rvense 3y ago
Imagine if IKEA sent someone to your house to smash your plates if you used cutlery they didn't like. The CEO and board who are supervising this ought to be barred from ever running a company again.
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by rvense 3y ago
The 68000 is one of the most successful embedded CPUs of all time and you could buy the CMOS varients, 68HC000 and 68SEC000, brand new from NXP until maybe two years ago ago, and derivatives of it (the Coldfire series) are still available -
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by rvense 3y ago
When it started, the native text editing on the Mac was limited to 32K chunks! Need anything more, you could start with the raw APIs that lay out a single line of text and do it by hand.
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BBEdit is 30 years old as a commercial product(barebones.com)
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by rvense 3y ago
There's plenty of stacks that I'd say qualify as "simple, cheap, straightforward, and fast" (modern Java, for instance - huge red flag to me if people still turn up their nose at Java), including some that you'd pro
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by rvense 3y ago
Nono, this is called "let it crash" philosophy, you just reinvented Erlang and you're actually a genius!
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by rvense 3y ago
Governments make these things called laws. If you don't follow them they have people with boots and clubs that can take your money, lock you away and/or just rough you up a little when they take your phone to look what's on t
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by rvense 3y ago
There were many things going on at the time. Digidesign made the Sound Accelerator boards for Mac and Atari in 1988 or so? Roughly contemporary to this. I don't remember the exact year, but I think the first instance of commercial 3rd
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by rvense 3y ago
The Typescript/Angular project I dayjob on sometimes takes minutes to compile, depending on whatever optimization settings the last Angular update has changed/messed up. (The compilation also frequently spins out of control until
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by rvense 3y ago
I think it depends which type of 'electronic music' you're talking about. You're probably right that approximately noone was making rave and jungle on NeXT machines, but on the other hand it's true that approximatel
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by rvense 3y ago
I wonder what the environmental impact of this would be, and I wonder how much different it would be if the trip took an hour and a half, or two instead. Because, like, probably not very things are actually in /that/ much of a rus
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by rvense 3y ago
It was kind of like that system tray thing in Windows, wasn't it? I think it was mostly functionality you'd otherwise have in control panels, but I've always hated the Control Strip myself - how often do you really need to ch
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by rvense 3y ago
I use an iMate to connect my Extended II to my Powermac G4. I recently replaced the battery to be able to turn on the computer. I appreciate the traces, but I actually thought this was all well known. I use the G4 every day to make music an
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by rvense 3y ago
Conceded, that's the wrong word use for the PC hardware market. But Windows + Intel definitely had something approaching a "desktop computer platform" monopoly in the mid-late 90's. And it could have become much worse, h
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by rvense 3y ago
It sounds like you're speaking from the assumption that a monopoly is inevitable in computing - the PC was so good, all other platforms had to fail. But all other platforms didn't fail. If Commodore had run their company properly
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by rvense 3y ago
Have you considered just hosting mp4s in <video> tags on a simple web host? I think it'll work a lot better than you'd think.
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by rvense 3y ago
Which things?
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by rvense 3y ago
The next major release of GCC will have a Modula-2 frontend. I look forward to trying that out. edit - Apparently it was released yesterday?
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by rvense 3y ago
That sounds right, thank you for the reference.
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by rvense 3y ago
When I first got into Linux it seemed like a lot of people mostly used Linux to configure desktop environments and Conky to take screenshots of. There's a Buddhist parable about someone spending their whole life building a boat to cros
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by rvense 4y ago
Yes, it is useful when you want to contrast Iranian Persian with other varieties used in Afghanistan, Tajikistan etc., but when talking about all of them together it is confusing.
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by rvense 4y ago
Do you have a source beyond your own "clear" interpretation of this verse? I think if you dig deeper you will find that it's what the tradition says, what the recognized commentary on these verses say, and certainly if you as
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by rvense 4y ago
My understanding is that hieroglyphics can be read and written in either direction, and that the animal characters in particular give it away, if they're face right you read from the right and vice versa.

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