vnorilo

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by vnorilo 5y ago
Are you me? I've found digital life is much better if you don't make the platform part of your identity. It's comforting when there's something familiar like bash or POSIX or your favourite open source software available
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Why shocked? Certainly a micro-optimization, but order of things often matters if the compiler cannot prove it's safe to speculate about the execution order. Maybe the surprising thing here is the theme of TFA, that the order of argume
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The optimized evaluation order would depend on the situation near at the call site, not the architecture or platform.
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If you think about how it interacts with inlining, it's easy to see how optimizers like this freedom. Suppose there's just one call that may throw and the others are pure functions. The compiler could bunch the pure ones together
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Most optimization uses of UB that I've seen is to take full liberty to remove branches and instructions. For example, if the result of UB is used in a comparison, the compiler is free to pick whichever side of the branch (even inconsis
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by vnorilo 5y ago
Well, if you would survey the Italian and French restaurants in other parts of Europe, I'm not sure the majority of them would be run by ethnic Italians/French, and I'm pretty sure nobody cares if the food is good. Some cuisi
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by vnorilo 5y ago
I believe Thailand has methodically promoted its cuisine abroad as a way to garner cultural soft power. I, for one, do not mind in the least! Welcome our new larb moo overlords.
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I think they mean it's more efficient to tax/price energy as heavily as needed to reduce emissions across the board. Playing with virtual coins then becomes much, much less appealing to the average user, but we won't need to
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I skimmed a lot of low quality C++ intro books to try and find some good ones for beginning students. Slim pickings. I recognized this pattern of solving some ridicilous non-problem to exhibit inheritance very early on. The message readers
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by vnorilo 5y ago
I recognize the object graph spaghetti the author is talking about and do find that distasteful. However, as everyone knows, even a functionally inclined guy like me, there are great OOP codebases all around us. I wonder if the problem is h
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by vnorilo 5y ago
That is true of course, although the more modern codecs most significantly outperform mp3 at lower bitrates. At 256kbps mp3 should be enough, and iirc Spotify offers 320kbps ogg in hifi mode (not sure, I mostly don't ever use it unless
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Mp3 relies on the fact that loud sounds mask spectrally and temporally adjacent softer sounds (psychoacoustic masking) and allows the noise floor to rise for some bands in such conditions to reduce the required number of bits to encode the
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I believe Fraunhofver did a pretty rigorous scientific test that established the CD transparency quality to be around 256kbps mp3. I don't dispute or doubt that. However, obvious encoding artifacts abound on Spotify. Do I have a superh
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There's a decent-looking hires 6in/6out hat on the site store, albeit "out of stock". Bela is indeed fantastic, but the CPU is a bit weak.
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With a virtual instrument you would usually not face the full round trip latency, but rather control latency (MIDI?) and audio output latency (usually 50% of roundtrip). So in the VSTi case that might be closer to 25ms than 40ms in practice
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I've played with Bela [1] which uses the same real time kernel IIUC. It had super stable audio performance down to a 2 sample buffer, which felt like programming hardware. I'm very happy to see more work in this field. 1: https:&
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I can deal with 10ms roundtrip, but not much more. One issue is when you get some acoustic sound too (open headphones, bone conductance, singing) and pretty much any delay in the headphone signal causes phase interference.
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prof. Julius Smith has a huge amount of music dsp resources available freely [1] 1: https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~jos/sitemap.html
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I have personally recommended for publication papers written by people who do not have a master's degree. In most cases I did not know that at the time of review, but it did not occur to me to care about it when I did.
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Same here. In addition I like the fact that if some of the materials get absorped in the food for some reason, it's just .. iron. Contrast with fraying teflon (which you should immediately discard, of course) that we ought not ingest.
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by vnorilo 5y ago
Yaxell Gou Santoku knife. It's just beautiful to look at and hold, and cuts completely unlike the supermarket knives I've had before. Neumann KH120A speakers for my office. I'm somewhat spoiled by 4-5 figure audio pro control
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Nyquist [1] is a XLisp derivative that shares temporal recursion with Extempore. Not sure it had any connection to Emacs though. 1: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~music/nyquist/
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I had a chance to sit down with Mr Sorensen some years back and talk PL design. I can easily recommend Extempore (xtlang) especially if you're a bit more advanced programmer. The underlying core is a tasteful mix of C-aligned semantics
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This. As a flexitarian trying to increase veg protein to decrease my footprint I find I enjoy cooking with tofu, dried soy crumbs, chicpeas and home made seitan the most. They are also very versatile and do not introduce seven conflicting f
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In the case of the piano, it is definitely stiffness.
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Thank you for writing it! I think perhaps the way I would state the subset problem is that white keys are in a way the "subset that sounds good" to the culture where the piano keyboard arose. More in the vein of discussion than su
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The featured article.
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Surely not related to black keys, that is what I tried to say. Most pentatonic music traditiona predate keyboards.
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Yes, but while fifths are off by 2/100, major seconds by 4/100, thirds are by 14/100 or 16/100. The former create gentle swirling interference, the latter a rough stuttering. If you hit a fifth on a piano and listen care
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(disclaimer: music degree) I often huff and puff at articles like TFA, but here I found myself nodding: the method is sound and makes sense. Some comments I must leave though: Clustering is not the point of black and white keys. Rather it i

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