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hazebooth··on Creating the Aetheryte Radio
Thanks! I've fixed the radio. MariaDB for Azuracast doesn't tear down gracefully and some log file is always left around that prevents a restart from happening. I'll figure it out eventually.
hazebooth··on Creating the Aetheryte Radio
My dad always wanted me to create a VST but I'm not close enough to production to find it interesting, especially when there are already so many out there that are so versatile. This isn't my introduction, I've done a lot of exploratory work with hardware accelerated FFTs in the past for BPM algorithms and visualizers. I've also worked extensively with codecs and file formats. I wasn't happy with the performance of taglib and wrote my own to parse my ~600GB music library.
hazebooth··on Creating the Aetheryte Radio
> I went to the site and listened to the track. Sounds nice!

Thanks! I played a lot of FFXIV and idled a bit in between dungeons and often sat at the Aetherytes (teleport / fast travel locations). The ambiance was nice enough that I didn't feel the need to mute the game when tabbed out.

> What about the sound is so nice / interesting / soothing that drives you to these lengths? What about it do you like?

Most of the audio I keep playing (either music or ambiance) is usually unobtrusive. I appreciate less demanding audio because I can focus cognition towards the task at hand, usually work or games. This means I gravitate towards genres without vocals, like EDM, jungle, IDM, etc. I actually used to use a tool to loop music without gaps because the clip would annoy me[1].

For the aetheryte ambiance in particular, it was just low and novel enough to be relaxing, without constantly drawing my attention to it.

> I find your whole project really fascinating. I want to do something similar at some point, even though I don’t have the same kind of sound capturing my interest at the moment.

You could also try recreating my project on a new platform! I've actually recreated this tool as an iOS app because background play on iOS is toxic and changed between iOS versions. [2]

Even if you don't have an earworm it's fun to explore new APIs. I really liked CoreAudio and Web Audio.

[1]: https://github.com/NolanNicholson/Looper [2]: https://github.com/haze/Aetheryte.app

hazebooth··on Creating the Aetheryte Radio
Hi! I'm the author of this. Please let me know if you have any additional questions!
hazebooth··on Show HN: KayZeer – Vimium-style keyboard navigation for macOS
How does this compare to Shortcat? https://shortcat.app/
hazebooth··on Plasma Bigscreen – 10-foot interface for KDE plasma
you can assign a shortcut to do just that?
hazebooth··on Guix System First Impressions as a Nix User
seems like they have pretty clear goals in mind. if they were changing distributions haphazardly id otherwise agree, but to me it reads that they're refining their taste.
hazebooth··on Surprisingly, Emacs on Android is pretty good
what is preventing you from using eglot on android?
hazebooth··on Package management on macOS with Nix-Darwin
Without reading the article: I've used Nix on macOS without nix-darwin or home-manager for some time now. I define my packages in a flake.nix that exports an environment and I use install using `nix profile`.
hazebooth··on Show HN: Mazelit - My wife and I released our first game
Congratulations on the launch!
hazebooth··on I just wanted Emacs to look nice – Using 24-bit color in terminals
this 10,000,000,000%!! (dr stone ref.) I love modal editing and vim a ton, but I couldn't stand the half baked solutions terminal editors gave me. We have an entire rich graphical platform, why not use it?
hazebooth··on I pwned half of America's fast food chains simultaneously
i love the picture of your cat on the home page :)
hazebooth··on TypeScript is surprisingly ok for compilers
I could be wrong, but can't Common Lisp do this?
hazebooth··on Can't take it anymore. Guilt, imposter syndrome, depression, and anxiety
You think you can “try” crack? sorry this comment has me in tears
hazebooth··on Threads users down by more than a half
I want threads to succeed so badly. It's the only app I've ever actually liked the UI of. I've tried numerous Mastodon apps (Ivory included), BlueSky, Twitter, and all of their web variants. I find myself returning to Threads even if the functionality is limited, because it's just that enjoyable. I'm rooting for 'em!
hazebooth··on Better code highlighting on the web: rehype-tree-sitter
I chose Rust here because that was what the command line tool that I referenced were written in. I'm not going to argue on HN about memory management (because I too, prefer Zig over Rust) because it's all about the program you're trying to write.

In terms of generating the object file with a single toolset, It's just not something I care about. This was like, a two day project. I don't need to make it more complicated than it needs to be

hazebooth··on Better code highlighting on the web: rehype-tree-sitter
I haven't used 'Next Content', but one big difference is that Astro is framework agnostic. I'm not a huge web dev so I wouldn't know how different these frameworks are, but not being locked in/being able to try another framework is cool
hazebooth··on Displayport: A Better Video Interface
Were you thinking of Level1techs?

https://store.level1techs.com/products/14-kvm-switch-triple-...

hazebooth··on Problems of C, and how Zig addresses them
I think for the first point you wanted a block that evaluated to the map, unsure if that’s what you wanted though
hazebooth··on Problems of C, and how Zig addresses them
Would you mind elaborating on the complications you ran into? I ask because I think you used std.HashMap instead of std.AutoHashMap, the latter of which automatically chooses a hash function based on the types provided.
hazebooth··on Ask HN: Alternatives to Reddit
I’ve seen https://tildes.net/ pop up but it’s invite only atm I think, would totally be down for an invite from anyone here though :)
hazebooth··on Notes on Vision Pro
I tried the HoloLens ages ago and honestly the only upgrade would be the display & how often the inputs worked. Microsoft was demoing the HoloLens @ some hackathon and had a program where you could flip pages in a virtual book. On top of the book looking super low quality / illegible, I could never get the controls to work. The only thing that will make the vision pro seem like a worthwhile purchase would be if the controls worked flawlessly. I already have faith in the displays & picture.
hazebooth··on Tell HN: It's 2023 and you still can't import .ics files into iOS Calendar app
Welcome to HN
hazebooth··on Petals: Run 100B+ language models at home bit-torrent style
As much as I like private trackers, very few use the ratio-less model to protect against serial leechers.

Typically on a tracker you’re given a currency (although not as sound as some e-coins) and can use that to influence your upload or download statistics, which in turn affect your ratio. Some trackers might employ rules where your user class has to have a certain ratio, or else you’ll lose privileges like certain forums or even the ability to download at all. (The trackers are private and can control which peers you can see)

hazebooth··on Amsterdam looks incredibly realistic in the new Call of Duty
[spoilers ahead]

Thankfully, this is not like the "No Russian" mission in the original Modern Warfare 2. Instead, you're tasked with intercepting a known terrorist, and have to protect yourself against the cartel. You will be punished for harming anyone that isn't part of the cartel.

hazebooth··on Taildrop
I’ve been using Tailscale and browsing media on network shares using native file sharing on macOS (SMB) through Infuse
hazebooth··on Ask HN: Super slow network preferences pane on M1 Mac
I'm on 12.3 Beta (21E5196i) and the preference pane loads just fine for me. Maybe it would help to include your OS version? (M1 Max)
hazebooth··on Tile buyer Life360 reportedly sells precise user location data to nearly anyone
AirTags also have an audible sound that can be played, I use this feature for when I lose my keys
hazebooth··on Addio Redis, I'm leaving Redis Labs
I solemnly welcome my Zig Software Foundation Community VP overlord.
hazebooth··on Ask HN: Favorite Monospace Font?
San Francisco Mono
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