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by ssalazar 10y ago
If one thing a STEM professor says can lead to ruining your life, then you probably have a lot worse things going wrong in your life. DISCLAIMER IAMA academic
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s/isn't possible to write correctly/is difficult to write correctly cheaply in non-trivial applications/ and you pretty much have it. Building higher-level abstractions has historically been a good thing, unless your day
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Its trivial in Jekyll to add support for a 3rd party comment service, e.g. Disqus.
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by ssalazar 10y ago
Don't conflate compression in general with the aggressive mastering-phase compression of the loudness wars. Some degree of compression is essential to pretty much any type of audio engineering. Tasteful use of compression is a real art
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by ssalazar 10y ago
People seem to be misinterpreting the intent of HTTPS; it doesn't give you any reason to trust a given site. HTTPS only verifies that the site you are talking to is in fact the domain name in the URL, rather than a government agency, I
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Perhaps, but this article is about a restaurant called Marin in Orange County.
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Nice! If you ever are working on something like that in the future, I am working on libchuck[1] which should make embedding easier, in spite of pervasive global state. Currently iOS/Mac only but plans are in the works to make it cross
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by ssalazar 10y ago
You can play around with a lot of this stuff in the ChucK programming language[1]. ChucK was co-created by one of the early advocates for physical modeling sound synthesis, of which Karplus-Strong is an instance. A few examples are in [2] [
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by ssalazar 10y ago
Nice! Another "trick" is to take the buffer with the impulse response of the body of the instrument you are modeling, e.g. a piano soundboard or violin body, and filter the excitation (noise, or ramp, etc.) before putting it in th
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by ssalazar 10y ago
The more interesting application of this IMO is not replacing current popular/practicing musicians and artists but enabling non-professionals who have some musical inclination but limited time/skill/etc. Imagine a synthesizer
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> The best, brightest, smartest, pedigreed, hardest working most motivated people on earth. Silicon Valley has the brightest minds in software engineering, which is great for building the world's most advanced ad-serving network or
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by ssalazar 10y ago
> At that point it becomes difficult to justify any particular point on the tough shit dial - especially when todays tough shit was, four generations ago, essentially heaven on earth. I don't see how this follows. You are arguing t
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> Y'all "young gods" will just have to figure out some other place to hatch the singularity. Move away. Build a floating "Seastead". Just please stop trying to cram a million more people into the Bay Area. Money
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> What's the difference between a single-page web application in WebAssembly and a single-page java applet in java bytecode? What's the DOM adding? With the DOM you don't have to reinvent the numerous wheels it provides (t
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by ssalazar 10y ago
I dont pay for private GitHub repos but I do prefer their UI over Bitbucket's.
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> We’ve found bootcamp grads as a group to be better than college grads at [skills that require a medium level of abstract thinking], and worse at [skills that require a higher level of abstract thinking]. Seems pretty clear to me. Im no
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by ssalazar 10y ago
> Are you telling me that to "make a marketable product" you would need to pay 10 engineers $100k for a year? Engineering, product design, graphic design (these are not the same), marketing, and sales are all needed in various
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by ssalazar 10y ago
This. I assumed this whole feature was bought and paid for when stories like "Jennifer Lawrence shares pictures of her dog" would regularly pop up. If you assumed their curation process was fair or unfiltered, you fooled yourself.
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by ssalazar 10y ago
> In a city where disagreeing with law enforcement's wrong or illegal activity risks violent reaction or death People challenge infractions in court all the time. Theyre not in much danger. There is a process for this that involves
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by ssalazar 10y ago
> I believe Harvard has the highest pass rate of any university (except, perhaps, diploma mills), at 98%. Using a Harvard degree as overriding credentials is a misstep. You appear to be assuming a rather uncharitable interpretation of th
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by ssalazar 10y ago
Unsubstantiated complaints of "omg brackets" were already tiring in 2008 when they were repeatedly voiced by many the new Objective-C programmers flocking to iOS development. If you have some reasoning for why Objective C's
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by ssalazar 10y ago
> It's more or less subject to the same "pitfalls" that go against C Only if you write C code in Objective-C. > PLUS it is a syntactical nightmare. [whatTheHell:is this:shit]; Honestly, get over it. This is largely a su
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by ssalazar 10y ago
> Adobe products Adobe products have codebases going back decades, of course they are written in C/C++. Furthermore most Adobe apps have fairly advanced processing needs that your run-of-the-mill CRUD GUI does not. > anything bui
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by ssalazar 10y ago
My understanding is that 1/8" has this problem because it mates signal connections before ground, which is why its less common in RCA or XLR connections that mate ground at the same time or before signal. Also, a digital interconn
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I would love a standard that doesn't produce a loud pop when you plug it in to amplified speakers.
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In addition to what others have said, Arduino has 8 built-in ADCs, which are essential for some physical computing applications. Pi (Zero or otherwise) has no built-in analog input capabilities.
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> Of course you have to get the information from somewhere the first time you learn something. What's the problem with that? The first time, and the second time if you haven't looked at it in a month, and a third time a month a
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by ssalazar 11y ago
> we need to invest in the intellectual property that artists make, not the artists themselves At first approximation, this sounds like a worse scenario for the artist. > Why should we do that? Because it works and its a foundational
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> Literally anyone can put a streaming app into the major app stores these days and bypass all of this. Barring circumstances of pure chance, an app needs marketing and promotion to gain any traction, and this costs money. It also usuall
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by ssalazar 11y ago
> I'm not seeing any remote access (it's all client-side) Anything that can be accessed client-side can be easily uploaded via XmlHttpRequest or whatever people use for that now. This is not a new concept. > Granted, like I

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