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by ssalazar 6y ago
Agreed. Its also pretty amazing what Yamaha was able to accomplish in the 1980s with the DX7 and successors using entirely digital synthesis without capable DSPs or microcontrollers. Some interesting background here: https://ww
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by ssalazar 6y ago
A naive digital square wave will absolutely generate aliasing, there is an entire area of audio DSP research aimed to generate alias-free waveforms (another poster mentioned BLEP which is a popular technique). You can trivially see this by
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by ssalazar 6y ago
Scientifically perfect output has rarely been a primary desideratum of musical instrumentation and in fact is somewhat limiting in terms of the number of timbres you can create. Ergo why historic analog synths included multiple oscillators
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by ssalazar 6y ago
Does that distinction change the point that I’m making?
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by ssalazar 6y ago
Scifi is much more satisfying when it sets up a fantastical world/premises and then keeps an internal consistency as the narrative develops. It’s far less satisfying to force the use of fantastical elements as a crutch for a weak narra
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by ssalazar 6y ago
> Here we have the richest country in the world, inventor of the internet with the most innovative tech companies with the absolute worst internet experience among developed countries It makes sense when you consider that the US has a mu
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Reflections on Building an Audio Plugin with Web Technology [video](youtube.com)
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by ssalazar 6y ago
Captcha is cutoff/ unable to be completed on mobile :|
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by ssalazar 6y ago
Lol it certainly reads like satire. Shows me to “assume good faith.”
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by ssalazar 6y ago
> To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand pg This isnt the defense of pg you think it to be.
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by ssalazar 6y ago
There are many cheap watches; this article is about why this particular cheap watch is more popular than the others.
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by ssalazar 6y ago
> They also seem to have much less used gear in each store Reverb.com completely kneecapped this side of their business, and probably lots of their new product sales also. Between competition from Reverb (who have minimal warehousing ov
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by ssalazar 6y ago
Ah, “you’re holding it wrong.” Good languages make it easy to build and maintain robust, scalable, and secure solutions to problems.
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by ssalazar 6y ago
Silicon Valley tech workers were sold on a dream of “changing the world” rather than building any other normal business, so I would not expect any different really.
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by ssalazar 6y ago
Skype is a very loud example of a poorly handled acquisition by Microsoft. The client has been turned into a real fan-spinner and it seems like they sacrificed a great standalone service for something that pushes consumer and business users
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by ssalazar 6y ago
One functional advantage of a microcontroller over a single-board computer is lower latency due to not having the overhead of an operating system. Also, the Pi's built-in audio output is basically unusable, but easily replaced. Howeve
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by ssalazar 6y ago
Sending a noteOn with 0 velocity instead of noteOff is surprisingly common among MIDI keyboard implementations, so Im surprised that a lot of software wasn't handling it well.
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by ssalazar 6y ago
Capital and expectations for growth are the common denominator between these examples. Building a business and making money doesn't mandate user hostility; hockey-stick or growth in a saturated market does.
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by ssalazar 6y ago
In the US ignorance and overuse of force go hand-in-hand, so I don't think this is going to work out too well.
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by ssalazar 6y ago
Not all of the value they provide can be replaced by a pull request. That said, theres equal if not greater motivation for this hypothetical contributor to raise their own $100mm and compete with Redis Labs.
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by ssalazar 6y ago
Web development absolutely epitomizes this same technology churn. Regardless if one personally sticks to older standards but its impossible to ignore the large section of commercial web applications that are just as much on the tech churn
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by ssalazar 6y ago
Many of the bars, restaurants, and smaller cultural institutions will be gone. The larger, well-funded museums and nature will stay of course. But much of what is interesting about a city comes from the people who live there and shape its
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by ssalazar 6y ago
Its insane to me that Neilson/highly opinionated contrarians get any attention for this. Browse https://arxiv.org for 30 seconds and tell me PDFs are "unfit for human consumption." While its annoying to go to sit
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by ssalazar 6y ago
Certainly, but considering how much of their business is hardware manufactured in China, it would destroy basically every corporate performance metric their executive team has for some time and this is ultimately how their bread is buttered
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by ssalazar 6y ago
> But when it comes to things that actually harm profits and challenge shareholder responsibilities, they stay mum. Cynical but this is why- it would cost them a lot , at least today. The Chinese government has zero reservations about
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by ssalazar 6y ago
Its true, basically all of the old European and Eurasian empires were dissolved. As for democracy, the period between WWI and WWII was quite the opposite with the rise of fascism across Europe. Modern European democracy largely came later
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by ssalazar 6y ago
This is a tired argument that lacks much nuance. Ill believe this when people regularly gather in the thousands to see a brilliant coder at work or view amazing code in a gallery.
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by ssalazar 6y ago
I can leave my positive story here- on a trip from SFO > Maui I accidentally left my laptop in a luggage bin in the SFO security check. Called the airport as soon as I realized it, in Hawaii, and they said they could hold on to it until
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by ssalazar 6y ago
Gotcha, that’s an interesting history and the additional context definitely illustrates the authors point.
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by ssalazar 6y ago
Theres a decent point in here, but the examples given are far less convincing than the author seems to think. > C/Unix developed to improve global telephony (important) > the world of businessy/officy/enterprisey softwa

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