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by valdiorn 5y ago
Having worked somewhere where I had a large deferred bonus, which I had to walk away from after the company turned hostile very quickly, I'd much, MUCH prefer to get my bonus paid out at the end of each year, vs. having it deferred, ev
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by valdiorn 5y ago
There were some news reports yesterday about insurance companies dropping cyber-ransom insurance from their offerings (AXA, I think). Very likely more insurance companies will do the same soon, or at least, refuse to insure the company unle
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by valdiorn 5y ago
you want anti-perspirant, not deodorant. Try Mitchum Unscented (It's for "women" but it's completely odourless, so who fucking cares). It's BY FAR the best deodorant I've ever found. As someone who used to suff
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by valdiorn 5y ago
btw, you may not be the problem, it's more likely it's your clothes. I had this problem for years, I was basically smelly 30 minutes after a shower and a fresh set of clothes. I then learnt several tricks on how to wash my clothes
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by valdiorn 5y ago
not just FUD, the entitlement that shows through is staggering. This is from one of the comments: "" You have failed from the very outset to identify that as a widely used and well loved FOSS, you will be, and must be, at all time
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by valdiorn 5y ago
dumb question; can someone explain to me how a private company (muse group) "acquires" an open source project with lots of contributors? Who "sells" it? Who receives payment (if anyone?) Who decides the IP is now Muse Gr
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by valdiorn 5y ago
honest question; as someone who is currently building an audio application which has telemetry, how else would I discover bugs or problems that might be affecting my users, if I can't upload crash reports, etc. ? I mean, I'll do m
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by valdiorn 5y ago
I'm pretty sure OP has just designed a look-ahead compressor with a slightly over-engineered response envelope, which in practice will probably respond worse than most existing mastering limiters with lookahead capability on the market
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by valdiorn 5y ago
yet they're trying to ban cars just about everywhere (if you've lived in urban areas for the last decade).
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by valdiorn 5y ago
That has nothing to do with the company being his. He's one of the larger share owners. The owners can shutter the company if they want, because it IS their company.
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by valdiorn 5y ago
It's actually really good now. It used to be the epitome of FOSS "jank", but is as polished as any commercial offering in that space... well, that isn't hard when Sibelius is the market leader :) (incidentally, watch tan
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by valdiorn 5y ago
and now you've got places like jlcpcb.com that will do pick and place on many common SMT components for like pennies per unit (there's even a free tier for common resistors and capacitors) I've long ago retired me FeCl acid a
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by valdiorn 5y ago
this is not isolated to microsoft, or the US. Everywhere I've worked, the contractors we've had have been treated like second class citizens. The smart ones even insist on it. Why? Because if they are allowed to enjoy the amenit
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by valdiorn 5y ago
Reaper is just Rock. Solid. It is very feature complete, and extremely flexible. It's fast, small, no-nonsense, and works well on every platform. I've only tried Ardour a bit, but the first word I'd use to describe it is: Jan
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by valdiorn 5y ago
you could and it would still be much smaller.
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by valdiorn 5y ago
What would they use other than IBAN/swift?? Edit; I think your parent comment is confusing concepts. IBAN is international bank account number. You enter an Iban as the target address for your swift transfer. I wasn't aware of a d
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by valdiorn 5y ago
The same way it works when a bankrupt company can't pay an invoice. You can sue a company if it doesn't hold its financial obligations, and get your money, and so can the customer, like in this case. When a company goes bust, if y
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by valdiorn 5y ago
Hi Oli. Just wanted to use the opportunity to say thank you for all your contributions to the audio developer and DSP discussion over the years. I've learned a lot from reading your posts and articles on various sites :)
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by valdiorn 5y ago
This is incredibly thorough, thanks to the author for undertaking all this work! I truly despise audiophile snake-oil, it's anti-intellectualism dressed up as expert knowledge. The fake blue light on these DACs is one of the most braze
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by valdiorn 5y ago
This quote, in particular, makes this whole article a bit hypocritical: "In part, I think these tools are arriving as a reaction to JavaScript tooling fatigue". So, the solution to tool fatigue is to... add more new tools? https:
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by valdiorn 5y ago
woah, I was a pretty expert C#/.NET developer until about 5 years ago, when I switched to Python and C++ for my dayjob. I've not kept up with the ecosystem since then. .NET Core was sort of in its infancy, and we were debating mov
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by valdiorn 5y ago
There are a lot of great ideas in WPF, but sadly the implementation of those ideas is really, really clunky. If you're experienced with WPF you can build very complex applications quickly, but the learning curve is very steep. There&#x
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by valdiorn 5y ago
I'm sad to say I agree, because building apps with WinForms and WPF is incredibly fast and enjoyable. Using the RAD approach to application design makes it super easy to stick together working, *useful* software very quickly, that does
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by valdiorn 6y ago
This sounds insanely complicated for data that could just be stored in a SQLite database...
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by valdiorn 6y ago
Hi there - was wondering if you had come across my Pentatonic scale github repo by any chance? :) It's a very similar type of study, where I attempted to generate all possible pentatonic scales (within reason). https://githu
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by valdiorn 6y ago
The current silicon chip shortage is showing just how dependent we are on chips, and while Arm doesn't have their own fabs, they are an important part of that ecosystem. There's a good chance that the current drought may play a ro
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by valdiorn 6y ago
The problem is that, once that policy becomes known, bad actors will abuse it, and go in multiple times, steal $13.99 of products, in the knowledge they won't get stopped.
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by valdiorn 6y ago
I work London finance. Bonuses are a big part of the pay package (in many cases over 100% of your base, sometimes even 10x base for guys who work on successful algo-trading projects). Every place I've received a bonus from gave me a gi
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by valdiorn 6y ago
Bobby Fischer as well. He was stuck in Japan for months until receiving an emergency passport from the Icelandic government. That fact that this is legal is... sketchy. Same with Shamima Begum, for that matter.
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by valdiorn 6y ago
I feel like this isn't really useful, given that c#, winForms and visual studio community edition is still a really potent combo if you need quick Windows client apps. I still love whipping up a quick gui once in a while :)

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