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by vortico 7y ago
VCV Rack can mostly simulate an analog computer. DHE makes some of the most math-related modules. https://library.vcvrack.com/DHE-Modules
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by vortico 7y ago
See my other comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22525533
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by vortico 7y ago
Google Patent's interface is dumb. This means "Today (on 2020-03-09), the patent application is not in a state of pending to be filed." The fact they put this in the Events section is horrible UI. It's not an event, it&#
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by vortico 7y ago
Slightly unrelated, but why does the stock market close each night? If trading was open 24/7, we wouldn't have large spikes like this every morning. We'd only have them when certain news is announced.
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by vortico 7y ago
People now buy CPUs and GPUs based on primarily one index: how many fps their favorite games can run at their desired resolution and quality. So manufacturers of QCs should do the same by specifying what problems at what sizes their hardwar
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by vortico 7y ago
Type systems are 0.1% what I'm talking about. There's WAY more to a function contract that its type. For example, consider the function `round(x)`. Does it round toward infinity, toward negative infinity, toward zero, bank roundin
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by vortico 7y ago
Programming is easy. Read the documentation for all functions you call. Make no assumptions. Read the RETURN VALUE section of man pages. Read about the behavior of NULL arguments. Don't do anything outside of the function "contrac
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by vortico 7y ago
Good idea. This does change the optimized assembly, but it doesn't seem to make a measureable difference in performance on my machine.
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by vortico 7y ago
It might not be faster, but unfortunately the computer I'm typing this on doesn't support AVX2. :(
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by vortico 7y ago
Hmm, I can't think of a way to use the mathematical structure of those numbers to speed up checking. However, the reason I said AVX is because it can be used for checking equality of 5 (well, 8) numbers simultaneously. This solution re
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by vortico 7y ago
#1 got me and I had a good laugh. I wonder if there's a faster method for #2 using AVX and bit tiddling, or if the optimizer is smart enough to find the most efficient code for a particular architecture.
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by vortico 7y ago
If you think my comment implies that drunk people should be banned from public transit, you are very wrong. My comment is about an ideal world where everyone has virtues, not about regulation in an imperfect world.
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by vortico 7y ago
I guess it's just about the virtue of integrity. Even casual house parties attract integrity-less people who will destroy your carpet by bringing food into carpeted rooms and then trampling it over without seemingly noticing. That&#x27
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by vortico 7y ago
In my personal ideal world, this would be a great idea! Passengers on best behavior, no food/drink, no being drunk/high on the train, obviously no urination/defecation except in restrooms, etc. And if you do make a mess, be r
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by vortico 7y ago
As with nearly all of the Behringer clones, there is nothing the legal system can do to provide what is "fair" to the original designers of their cloned circuits and interface likeness. In my opinion, there is no way to solve this
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by vortico 7y ago
Just thinking numbers, there might be 100 free software projects that you'd consider "security related", and each might take a couple person-years of development time to port on average. If you put a ballpark salary of $50k t
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by vortico 7y ago
Not if you have a sudo timeout enabled. Or, the proof of concept could be changed to alias sudo='sudo ./badscript' where badscript runs `exec $@`.
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by vortico 7y ago
The difficulty in this case is that the user must use this service. Most users want to use credit card or PayPal.
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by vortico 7y ago
Running sudo requires the user password, which a script might not know. Unless of course sudo is configured with NOPASSWD.
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by vortico 7y ago
I've always considered root escalations to be pretty minor because you can just launch a phishing attack by adding the following to the user's .bashrc. alias sudo='sudo ./badscript; sudo' Most Linux/Ma
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by vortico 7y ago
The difficulty of micropayments in my experience is 1) payment processing and 2) taxes. Our payment systems and laws just aren't set up to make this feasible. I think it would actually be common and well-accepted if these obstacles mag
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by vortico 7y ago
Sorry, it doesn't look like it's 14-bit, my mistake. https://github.com/asb2m10/dexed/blob/master/Documentation/s...
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by vortico 7y ago
Your quote doesn't specify the order of LSB and MSB messages sent by controllers. Nowhere in the standard does it specify the order. The issue is this: If MSB arrives first, you'd want to reset the LSB to 0. If LSB arrives, the va
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by vortico 7y ago
The question in the original post was >Is theer a open source tool or web based tool where records can be maintained chronolgically for me and family members. A file repository satisfies these requirements. If it's insufficient for
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by vortico 7y ago
Why would you ever want perfectly deterministic rendering? I've never met an audio engineer that would care about this, and I've never personally run into the problem of my audio projects being too undeterministic. We're not
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by vortico 7y ago
Yeah, I don't understand the need for software/apps/SaaS's that can be functionally replaced by files on the filesystem (in this case) or a text file (for note-taking tools). Simple files should always be the first attem
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by vortico 7y ago
>The syntax of MoonScript has been heavily inspired by the syntax of CoffeeScript. MoonScript is CoffeeScript for Lua.
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by vortico 7y ago
CC MSB/LSB is still my absolute least favorite method because you have to tell customers to manually set up their DAW/synth to handle each command, or to load a preset/config that does this for them. Of course, customers ar
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by vortico 7y ago
For completeness, there are a few 14-bit MIDI control standards that I'm aware of, and all of them have major disadvantages. - MPE pitch wheel: You can only have 16 controls with this method. Otherwise, it's an efficient protocol.
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by vortico 7y ago
Access Analog ( https://accessanalog.com/ ) is already doing something similar, and their system is around 300-2500ms latency ( https://accessanalog.com/support/#1534876416634-f660a710-8f4... ). A company

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