tomc1985

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by tomc1985 5y ago
Google's ecosystem != Windows ecosystem. There's FLStudio (or Bitwig, or Reaper) to match Apple's Logic, 1Password (or Bitlocker from what I hear) to match Google's passwords.google.com, and Backblaze+others to match Tim
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by tomc1985 5y ago
Covid death rate is 1 for every 477 people (US population / US covid deaths)... given that those deaths are not being distributed equally it's not surprising
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by tomc1985 5y ago
One man's clutter is another man's treasure. I hate dongles and extra parts, give me a fuckton of different ports!
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by tomc1985 5y ago
Funny, I've never had issues with PS4 controller range but my joycons have trouble with dropped inputs if I use them more than a few feet away from the switch Not to say the PS4 controllers are good... they just love to drain their bat
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by tomc1985 5y ago
Dear god no. If upgrade cycles slow down to like 3x what they are I'd be quite happy
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by tomc1985 5y ago
I made one of these for when I was a repair technician at a computer shop. They used WinPE, which is the same sort-of-Windows environment that installers run. UBCD4Win was the toolkit I used. It had all my virus scanners, data recovery apps
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by tomc1985 5y ago
A decade? So that iPhone 4 I purchased around 2011 should be a viable phone up until about now or so? As a pure phone, sure, but I don't think it'd be able to run much, even if its OS was still being updated.
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by tomc1985 5y ago
Hey now, lots of startup hackers are interested in geopolitics
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by tomc1985 5y ago
Is it still possible to feed C# code through a translator and have it spit out VB.net? Not a perfect (or even preferred) solution but before I learned C# it helped me do stuff. I run into the same issue trying to work with Kotlin. It's
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by tomc1985 5y ago
The USPS will likely not do anything to disrupt one of its largest sources of revenue
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by tomc1985 5y ago
Hah, I have a copy of Reason Lite that I got for free that loads as a VST. Mainly use it for ReBirth, but now even that's redundant since FL has its own 303 emulation that's pretty good Back in the day producers used to complain t
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by tomc1985 5y ago
Loving all the 2000s era meme references. What cultured taste.
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by tomc1985 5y ago
I've already given them away
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by tomc1985 5y ago
Not saying no code reuse. But if you're going to reuse code across multiple DAWs, then a plugin system is the established standard. Do you think those existing developers are just going to drop their code into your environment and hit
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by tomc1985 5y ago
How is that much different from a plugin system? Because now you have developers writing bespoke code with a shim for each host DAW. At that point you've pretty much developed your own modular component protocol... literally a step awa
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by tomc1985 5y ago
A large part of the reason those developers can exist independently is because they can target every DAW. So either you will have to hire them all or find new specialists, or develop that specialization yourself. Even in the case of devel
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by tomc1985 5y ago
The thing is, doing something that would 'be equal or surpassing' is pretty much impossible at an acceptable cost. You can probably write something that's 'good enough' that some people might be happy with -- that i
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by tomc1985 5y ago
Second on watching the plugin stores, particularly Plugin Boutique. Some of their sales are nuts, and they even have a very well organized free section. Ableton Live Lite (1 step up from intro) comes free with a lot of music gear. I had a b
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by tomc1985 5y ago
> Regarding plugins, I know that I'm not the only lead developer of a DAW who, if they possibly could, would refuse to support plugins entirely. The problem is that most users want more functionality than a DAW itself could feasibly
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by tomc1985 5y ago
Ah, that's right, I had my wires crossed. The chart I made got lost in a move.... +/-7 is still mixable, as is +/- 3 (not 2). Just gotta be quick. https://www.bestdjgear.net/camelot-wheel-tricks-to-advance-y..
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by tomc1985 5y ago
Actually you hit on one of the lesser-known rules of Camelot system, that +/-7 (aka perfect 5th[edit, this is not right see below]) is mixable, though at a higher danger of clashing. Same with +/-3, at even higher risk. When I rea
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by tomc1985 5y ago
Just a quick note... Mixed in Key is no longer necessary as both Pioneer and Serato's DJ apps include this functionality in the base, free versions. Also, GP might want to look up the 'camelot system', which relabels keys in
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by tomc1985 5y ago
I think it's more that the possibility space for exploits is so large that a dedicated force of highly creative reverse-engineers is all you need to dig them up. From what I've heard it can be almost trivial to find them if you kn
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by tomc1985 5y ago
You could realize that dream with a free DAW and a wave editor... No web app needed.
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by tomc1985 5y ago
Be the change you want to see, then?
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by tomc1985 5y ago
> Why do we even have the collective fiction where corporate messaging around a sore topic is treated as trustworthy? Especially with companies that we know lie all the fucking time? Yeah I don't get that. PR people are adversaries,
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by tomc1985 5y ago
Lazarus comes close
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by tomc1985 5y ago
> Also, nothing wrong with paying for content — I'm a Medium subscriber, among many other publications. There is when your publishing medium gatekeeps you for no other reason than to drive its own metrics. (Also nice humblebrag?)
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by tomc1985 5y ago
My point wasn't so much a dig at FP as it was at programming in general. For example, I started my career writing Perl, which uses the word 'hash' to describe a dictionary-like datastructure. But Python uses the word 'di
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by tomc1985 5y ago
Kind of reminds me of an old saying I heard somewhere, that I'll paraphrase here: "novice writers use little words, intermediate writers use big words, and expert writers use little words." Like, it's fun to communicate

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