jamesb93

This is your own painting with a massive brush. Obviously people who devote a lot of their lives to figuring this stuff out know there is not one solution. It's important to at least create a hierarchy of species that we've evolved from and something will inevitably be closest to our genetic makeup.

I don't want to start an argument but you are splitting hairs. It is quite clear from his disclaimer that he is an intern and it is pretty obvious to most people around here what that means socially within his company. You don't need to be patronising about it.

Just wanted to say that it's great you are crediting and empowering your students with your leadership. It's responsible and inspiring.

Yep and you know a shell will be on whatever device you want. I've even got it tightly ordered so it creates an SSH key, waits for me to go to GitHub and then I resume and it pulls all my repos down along with dot files.

In my experience a lot of people who post on hn have a shallow view of how technology relates to a diversity of people who use it. Most are coders for a company who make web apps, or business applications or have been in coding long enough to develop esoteric affectations for LISP. Every time I see an incredibly strong worded opinion I get the impression they've never stepped outside working with a computer company driven by a 'demand' for a 'product'.

Just look at the comments of this thread right now. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20672051

I used a bash script with homebrew to reimage my MacBook fresh. With cask I can get almost every app I need and reinstate python and necessary packages. As you're working on the command line you can also modify most settings with defaults.write. I'm sure there is something similar you can do with windows and Linux.

Their guide for getting your discord token is broken afaik.

I was able to find it by:

1. Go to discord

2. Control + Shift + I

3. Application Tab

4. Storge/Local Storage/discordapp.com

5. Refresh with Control + R

6. Token will appear, quickly copy it.

Programming sound is hard. Real-time stuff is almost always coded in C or C++ because it needs to be performant and latency is always a consideration. One dropped sample can be heard and you can't afford to delay because things need to feel responsive if they are real-time. There are lots of interesting projects out there but there is also a wealth of creative coding in the area, especially in environments like Max/MSP, PureData who are creating algorithms from scratch inside and possibly porting them out to other code bases. One good project is [1] which is aimed at making C++ coding for audio easier and more accessible. The focus is quite wide and aims at webaudio, VST, faust code etc.

[1] https://github.com/iPlug2/iPlug2

Also a number of different specifications for how it is measured.

https://auphonic.com/blog/2012/08/02/loudness-measurement-an...

This is great! Thanks for your work. Can V be integrated into existing c++ projects? I work in audio and constantly working in c++ is tiring. I'd love to work in something like V and transpile down.

I personally don't want to have kids and don't see that changing. Although I don't see how your suggestion isn't 'prozelytizing' as well, it is much easier to change your diet (even partially) than to possibly de-rail massive life plans which may already be in motion. There are tonnes of great foods you can eat which are just vegetables and as a previously MASSIVE meat eater, I no longer miss it. Just to be clear I don't disagree with you, but one choice is not interchangeable with the other.

Cool, thanks for clarifying. I learned something.

I don't get this. You don't have to do anything you don't want to on the internet. Seems like the previous utopia you are referring to people were making the programs/features/facilities to do more stuff. I go on my computer and do what I want. It brings me joy. Why is that so hard?

To anyone reading this and thinking - well what can I do? Become vegetarian. TODAY. I eat 95% vegetarian now and I don't notice the difference whatsoever, if anything, I don't crave meaty foods anymore. The 5% is once a month kind of things such as pizza that have some ham on them. Changing to vegetarian is one of the best things you can do to help.

Is this sarcasm? I don't see how this package is of use to anyone.

There are ways similar to what you've described and certainly doesnt even have to be that clever. Just adding a small random offset using uniform white noise helps.

People go to immense ends to get their programmed drums to sound good though - and the techniques that are coupled with this go beyond a statistical approach.

Great marketing campaign. Definitely not staged...

I had the same inclination as you. Dropbox was cooking my 2015 Macbook Pro. What I can tell you might reduce research time.

Google Drive has no differential sync. Any changes you make re-upload the whole file. This is a hard no for me. Also Google.

I moved to Sync[0]. The pricing tier was more what I wanted (500GB). They support symlinks, differential syncing, selective sync as well as a 'Vault' for storing files in the cloud but not on your machine. I think it's end-to-end encrypted as well, not going to commit to saying anything specific in that regard. The Mac app is also a lot better, I find it spinning up a lot less for me and its a lot lighter in general. To be fair though, even with iCloud I get my fans whirring up when I start uploading lots of changes.

I've also heard good things about pCloud[1] but I don't see any reason to change my workflow now after have to already change it.

[0] - https://www.sync.com/ [1] - https://www.pcloud.com/

Technological proficiency is very distributed too. Some people are really good at web apps but have no idea how to program in a compiled language. There is so much out there and its not really feasible for everyone to know about everything.

What's super interesting to me is the differences in flat prices for my particular building. My building is mirrored, but the flats on my saide of the building are cheaper than the other side by a huge margin. I wonder if people overpayed because they didn't have tools like this to inform them.

Trust me, a lot of Australians hate the current leadership and would love to see them gone. Unfortunately we are tending towards the trial version of USA.

Aren't these just terrible business-people then? If I'm in charge of something I should know the field/cost. Most people have that expectation in their job and if everyone chalked up overpaying to rounding errors a lot of money would be wasted.

So much waste - I'm not saying he didn't earn his money but how is it possible for a company to run cash positive when it wastes like that?

That's just poor research.

To me this thread encapsulates why over engineering is bad. We don't need complex solutions to the problem of re-usable cups. We don't need an external company that will sanitise a returnable mug for you. The solution is right in front of everyone - buy a reusable container/mug/cup, fill it up, clean it when you're done. It isn't hard.

Got any papers? I'm interested in unsupervised creativity.

You mean like a government?

This depends if you're interested in creative applications or analytical (MIR) ones. The two fields share a lot of techniques, but the way they are used is wildly different.

It's the difference between focused and diffused thinking.

https://youtu.be/WTr12dK2Se0

Make one with a direct application. I did one to model melody from Bach in a stupid way. It was made in Max, so I can't provide the size of the code in any meaningful way, but its basically just a text file with an index and a number of possibilities related to that index.

https://soundcloud.com/jamesbradbury/9th-order-markov-chain-...