Hacker News: fit2rule

New comment by fit2rule in "Barbed wire fences were an early DIY telephone network"

fit2rule — Sun, 06 Feb 2022 15:24:09 +0000

I used the barbed wire fence of the horse-ranch I was on, out in the bush, as an antenna for a broken TV I'd found ditched on the side of the road a few days prior .. I got through the static and tuned into RAGE, Cabaret Voltaire Sensoria, and was baptised in electrons for life ..

New comment by fit2rule in "Ask HN: Any piece of hardware that was more of game changer than you expected?"

fit2rule — Sun, 06 Feb 2022 11:45:41 +0000

Zynthian audio/synthesis platform: I got it to act as an FX processor, and it has become an extremely rich resource for creative instruments and digital music-making. Not just an FX box, its really more like an entire studio.

Synthstrom Deluge: so incredibly deep and complex, it also started life as a simple tool that is now becoming a lynchpin in my studio operation - not just for drums and sequencing, also for recording quick takes and samples and so on. This machine has replaced the DAW for pure creative modes.

NORN+Grid: Again, was purchased for one thing and is now being pressed into use for so many other purposes, un-dreamed of previously.

Arturia AudioFUSE Studio: THIS was just supposed to be a neat desktop mixer that fit on the table, but it has become so, so much more - the STUDIO in the name is no nonsense! Again, way more power than expected, and it has expanded beyond the original purpose of having a quick desktop mix available - now practically everything in the studio is going through it (ADAT for the win) and it is the central console for production. I haven't touched the other mixers in weeks ..

New comment by fit2rule in "“Fast Kernel Headers” Tree -v1: Eliminate the Linux Kernel's “Dependency Hell”"

fit2rule — Mon, 03 Jan 2022 13:33:36 +0000

Hey now, the full quote is a little cheekier:

    > platitudes hardly provide compelling evidence for ignoring 20 years
    > of networking/OS research and architecting unnecessary copies into the.  
    > core of an OS that wants to be taken seriously...

    dont forget that Linux became only possible because 20 years of OS research was carefully studied, analyzed, discussed and thrown away.

    -- mingo

.. don't you go ignoring the fact he was talking about zero-copy in the kernel!

New comment by fit2rule in "How Japanese technology shaped dance music"

fit2rule — Sun, 23 May 2021 09:31:46 +0000

It should be understood that the MPC is actually a Japanese clone of an American invention, the LinnDrum MidiStudio.

Roger Linn kicked off the innovation around the sampling/sequencing revolution - Akai just made it affordable.

Disclaimer: have worked in the digital musical instrument market for decades, including for Yamaha and other (German) major players in this space. This industry is incestuous in many ways - but it follows the 'musicians rule', which is 'its okay to copy each others riffs as long as it improves the groove' ..

New comment by fit2rule in "NNCP: Lossless Data Compression with Neural Networks (2019)"

fit2rule — Sat, 22 May 2021 08:49:55 +0000

You're in it.

New comment by fit2rule in "Solved by 1440p HiDPI: MacBook Pro 16“ is hot and noisy with an external monitor"

fit2rule — Sat, 22 May 2021 06:38:52 +0000

I recently had to go through the hell of setting up a Java development environment, plus Android emulation, on my new M1 MacBook .. mid-way through, I was cursing myself that I wasn't just using a Linux machine .. but okay, eventually, SDKMAN came to the rescue. For a while there it really felt pretty regressive ..

New comment by fit2rule in "Sir Douglas Nicholls"

fit2rule — Sat, 01 May 2021 08:33:01 +0000

With over 67,000 years of culture and heritage - the worlds longest-running mine operation (Wilgie Mia), its oldest known still-extant school (Gabarnmung), the longest successful oral traditions of any culture, ever - the original land owners don't need to adapt to us: We need to learn more about them. And it can't happen a moment too soon.

New comment by fit2rule in "Home-Built Scanning Tunneling Microscope (2015)"

fit2rule — Thu, 08 Apr 2021 20:18:24 +0000

This is an amazing project, in so many ways.

My first thought is, the implant business has now got a problem. Soon enough, anyone and their pal will be able, finally, to validate their silicon at adequate scale.

New comment by fit2rule in "Lunatic Python: Lua Inside Python, and Python Inside Lua"

fit2rule — Sat, 03 Apr 2021 23:05:33 +0000

As a huge fan of Lua, but not Python, I'm not sure whether to be terrified or impressed by this. Probably a little bit of both.

Actually, I can already see ways this is going to be good for Lua adoption on some of my projects, but also simultaneously threatening, since it means a 'more widely accepted language' could predispose continuing in Lua.

Actually, this is going to be very weird, once word gets out that Pythons batteries are up for grabs in certain circles ..

New comment by fit2rule in "MapLibre GL is a free and open-source fork of mapbox-gl-JS"

fit2rule — Sat, 03 Apr 2021 16:02:03 +0000

Hungarian villages are fascinating. Are you tuning into something, in particular, about them? (For me, its the village sun alignments/road-parallelism that fascinates..)

New comment by fit2rule in "50 Years of Pascal and Delphi Is in Power"

fit2rule — Sat, 03 Apr 2021 15:58:58 +0000

I also wrote a hypertext-like front-end with Turbo Pascal, pre-Internet, back in the day .. there was a 3rd-party UI framework that made it so reasonable to mix graphics and GUI elements in MSDOS, so .. we made a bunch of internal company apps that rendered the data off the network, allowed the execs to point and click things, change graphs, etc.

I remember seeing a plethora of amazing GUI plugins for Delphi too ..

New comment by fit2rule in "Do you really want Linux phones"

fit2rule — Thu, 25 Mar 2021 13:27:56 +0000

I just want to be able to write software on computers that I own, using tools I choose.

Linux gives that option. None of the other phones do.

New comment by fit2rule in "Sensible macOS Defaults"

fit2rule — Fri, 19 Mar 2021 17:14:07 +0000

This is nice, but for the MacOS users who have a hard time dealing with the terminal, I've lived by the Secrets prefpane for some years and find it most handy:

https://github.com/ecnepsnai/Secrets

New comment by fit2rule in "An Object-Oriented Language for the '20s"

fit2rule — Sat, 13 Mar 2021 17:51:06 +0000

All of this can be done in Lua.

New comment by fit2rule in "507 Mechanical Movements (1868)"

fit2rule — Sun, 07 Mar 2021 09:25:42 +0000

This is one of those sites that I try to turn into a PDF every time its posted ..

New comment by fit2rule in "Open Letter from Laura Poitras"

fit2rule — Thu, 14 Jan 2021 22:28:13 +0000

The repair shop made disk images (part of the repair process), then gave the laptop to the FBI, and then shared the disk images.

New comment by fit2rule in "Horrifying PDF Experiments"

fit2rule — Sat, 02 Jan 2021 12:34:11 +0000

Cromulent.

New comment by fit2rule in "ViennaSuperiorCourt: Facebook can skip GDPR consent but must give access to data"

fit2rule — Wed, 30 Dec 2020 16:29:30 +0000

I've used GDPR a few times to protect myself from nefarious actors. Its a valuable tool if you use it right, like all the things.

New comment by fit2rule in "The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News (2019)"

fit2rule — Wed, 11 Nov 2020 09:21:42 +0000

I'm banned right now, and I find it refreshing.

New comment by fit2rule in "Microsoft and the NSA"

fit2rule — Sun, 01 Nov 2020 09:38:03 +0000

Depends on whether you are actively engaged in promoting views and beliefs that the mainstream don't want out there.

Or maybe you're interested in securing the future for our children by degrading state secrecy.