tomc1985

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by tomc1985 4y ago
My other thing is... why does something like this need to run in a browser? What's wrong with desktop apps? I have FLStudio mobile and some other mobile DAW on my iphone and ipad. And to be honest, I never use them, other than as a t
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by tomc1985 4y ago
Do any of these browser projects support existing plug-ins? A lot of people making music have spent $$$ on plugins, and just on the sheer R&D they've received, are going to sound considerably better than anything someone who is foc
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by tomc1985 4y ago
Knott's Berry Farm on Thanksgiving used to be one of my family's best kept secrets. People have since caught on but you you used to be able to walk up to a ride and ride it within minutes.
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by tomc1985 4y ago
Ah yes, corporate-sponsored, mandated happiness with childrens characters smoothed over for maximum appeal/profit. The perfect salve for these troubled times Give me the carnies any day of the week!
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by tomc1985 4y ago
They do, at least in some cases. Another comment here suggests the following Google query: "Glassdoor Alert: Employer Legal Action" site:glassdoor.com Which does indeed highlight many other companies that have taken legal a
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by tomc1985 4y ago
Considering that said microwave uses a lot more electronics than said oven and lasts 1/3 to 1/5 as long as one (per your own observations), between the energy consumption (because you are almost certainly not getting your energy f
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by tomc1985 4y ago
My point is that those things are a red herring. The people peddling this shit peddle a narrative of increased efficiency, better life, and so on, focusing us on these little incremental improvements, while they pillage other parts of the w
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by tomc1985 4y ago
> More goes to society. You don't see it because it is spread thinly. Think of how nice it is to have a microwave, for example. The value of my time saved is far more valuable to me than what I paid for the microwave. This was the p
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by tomc1985 4y ago
Nobody owns ideas or designs
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by tomc1985 4y ago
I'm not so sure about the end of musical subcultures. The house/techno/dnb underground here is still strong, there are events focused around those genres every weekend and during the week here. I almost went to a warehouse pa
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by tomc1985 4y ago
That really depends on your background... I find Python harder to read than Ruby
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by tomc1985 4y ago
That's funny. In a previous job I was the biggest Ruby supporter on a team of Pythonistas. To show them how similar the language was I translated a couple of their scripts from Python to Ruby... it was surprisingly easy and the linecou
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by tomc1985 4y ago
So, C++ and Java have just a couple of years of life left?
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by tomc1985 4y ago
I have never had this issue, other than with some of its more complicated constructs (like class << self). And amongst the community, this is not a complaint I hear very often. I still think of Ruby as the language that maps closest t
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by tomc1985 4y ago
They choose to take drugs with widely-known addictive properties, so yes. I'm not talking about opoids which were sold to folks as non-habit-forming for a long time. Or other cases of addiction without consent. But I don't think t
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by tomc1985 4y ago
And at what point do those people who made the choice to be drug addicts deplete the goodwill that is afforded to them? This isn't Minnesota or New York City. Our winters are mild; you don't need meth to stay warm at night, and th
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by tomc1985 4y ago
So how do we get these people to stop harassing folks?
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by tomc1985 4y ago
The games I mentioned are fantastic, but I feel like they are hobbled by overweight tech.
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by tomc1985 4y ago
Many , not most. Meth is a huge problem here.
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by tomc1985 4y ago
The other day at the transit station there was a man sitting on a bench with a shopping cart of his stuff, having a loud argument with nobody in particular. Like shouting at the top of his lungs, for at least a half hour. A couple of weeks
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by tomc1985 4y ago
Do you live somewhere that is being overrun by homeless? Like the west coast for example? Because it is really, really hard to be empathetic with the homeless folks here, based on how they behave.
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by tomc1985 4y ago
Hmm, they mention it at the top of their Mac portal ( https://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Portal:Mac ) but I don't see it anywhere else. Emulation works pretty well from what I hear, is the lack of support that big of a
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by tomc1985 4y ago
Interesting... Last time I brought this up there were some very fervent Delphi fans that seemed to agree with you. My first dev environment was VB, so I am probably biased.
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by tomc1985 4y ago
Lazarus on the FreePascal compiler does exactly that, borrowing from Delphi's heritage. It copies VB6 almost literally, in many ways, but can output binaries for win/mac/linux. I've written a few toy apps in it and in my
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by tomc1985 4y ago
I wonder, would this make analog synths more competitive? Like why do they even need DSP chips, might as well just run a VST softsynth with a MIDI keyboard
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by tomc1985 4y ago
It doesn't matter. Crap like this makes the web worse. We cannot keep catering to people who refuse to learn better practices. If the industry got itself together enough to start teaching people good internet hygiene we'd all be m
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by tomc1985 4y ago
Fuck magic links. What a horrible login flow. Am I the only person taht doesn't have my email open in another tab?
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by tomc1985 4y ago
Unity games run horribly on desktop.... how they think its legit a good mobile engine is beyond me Like, Valheim runs like ass, all things considered. Battletech takes up like 50gb for a game without more than a couple of cutscenes and a ca
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by tomc1985 4y ago
Seamless updating for most things is a relatively recent development. And yes, I notice it all the time, it's annoying as hell. Again, only occasionally do said updates actually improve anything. If we're lucky it will be as good
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by tomc1985 4y ago
What about all the other times a dominant force occupied lands that weren't theirs? That's like... all of history. So are we going to cancel Roman and ancient Mongolian influence too? Or what about the time natives of north americ

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