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New comment by gbertasius in "Music for Programming"

gbertasius — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 23:19:42 +0000

I love progressive techno for this. No vocals and sounds are in the lower frequency range. Easy to tune out.

New comment by gbertasius in "Conway's Game of Life, but musical"

gbertasius — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 23:32:02 +0000

Reaktor vst has a drum synthesizer that generates midi patterns from a small grid that simulates Conway's Game of Life. It's pretty fun to play with.

New comment by gbertasius in "Microsoft formally deprecates the Windows Control Panel"

gbertasius — Sat, 24 Aug 2024 05:35:12 +0000

The amount of clicking around I have to do on the Settings window to get find where the hell things are is infuriating. Of course the search feature is just useless. I resort to Control Panel to just get most shit done. God forbid I need yo check a setting on another page and I forget how I even ended up on the page I needed.

New comment by gbertasius in "LLM Visualization"

gbertasius — Sun, 03 Dec 2023 17:27:26 +0000

This is AMAZING! I'm about to go into Uni and this will be useful for my ML classes.

New comment by gbertasius in "Totenpass is a permanent digital storage drive made of solid gold"

gbertasius — Thu, 20 Jan 2022 08:21:02 +0000

This is a good way to extract money from people.

New comment by gbertasius in "A Quadrillion Mainframes on Your Lap"

gbertasius — Tue, 21 Dec 2021 22:49:43 +0000

Last I checked the new calculator has graphing and math notation support.

New comment by gbertasius in "Alexander von Humboldt: the first Solarpunk"

gbertasius — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 02:11:13 +0000

Pretty cool. Just listened to a podcast where they talked about solarpunk. I appreciate the movement for its optimistic outlook of integrating humanity with nature as opposed to the dystopian cyberpunk narratives we see where everything is techno-centric and completely apart from the natural place we originate from.

New comment by gbertasius in "People Staring at Computers"

gbertasius — Mon, 12 Jul 2021 16:19:24 +0000

This is fascinating. I'm sorry for what he had to go through. Sometimes we just don't think things through before executing the idea :). Would be cool to see another attempt in various locations around the world like internet cafes or some-such places. With the blessing of the location owners of course.

New comment by gbertasius in "Did Windows 10 slow down with each feature update?"

gbertasius — Mon, 21 Jun 2021 21:50:23 +0000

I'm still on an 2nd gen i5 with 12gb of ram. Haven't noticed any slowdowns even with the huge amount of processes in the background. I've been updating regularly and have enjoyed Win10 for years.

New comment by gbertasius in "Why I’m a sucker for pen and paper"

gbertasius — Sat, 27 Mar 2021 07:28:27 +0000

I got a tablet with a pen from a popular South Korean company and I love it precisely because it serves as a great alternative to typing. I take notes for class with its native app. This format works for me because I love paper notes but can't get over how hard it is to organize my chaotic style. Having it all located and organized on in a single object I can pick up any time is amazing. Lots of potential there but what is available already has led me to replace pen and paper with digital handwritten notes and papers. I live with limited space so this saves on space and allows me to maintain an easily searchable database of my work.

New comment by gbertasius in "NFTs Are a Dangerous Trap"

gbertasius — Sun, 07 Mar 2021 09:00:56 +0000

You'd want some system of verification and notarization by parties involved. Analogous to real world where art is inspected, verified, and notarized. If you own the mona lisa you'd wanna be damn sure you have the real thing. Kinda like a certificate authority.

New comment by gbertasius in "NFTs Are a Dangerous Trap"

gbertasius — Sun, 07 Mar 2021 08:53:10 +0000

Seems like case better suited to staking than NFTs.

New comment by gbertasius in "NFTs Are a Dangerous Trap"

gbertasius — Sun, 07 Mar 2021 08:50:31 +0000

Seemed like a good start to an argument. I don't see the blockchain power use as a consequential issue for NFTs. From what i understand its just a concept that can exist on any blockchain based system. Also, the vicious cycle he refers to would apply to a small niche of the digital market. The race to put out content is real in any new market. I hope this becomes a sustainable way for artist to make a living. At this point it seems open ended in where this lead to. I can imagine NFT's being a thing in games like Destiny, Warframe, etc(whatever genera bucket fits) where devs can release unique assets. I wonder what an NFT from 2021 will mean in 2121. Is this a fad or the beginning of new paradigms? Will that peice of digital art exist 100yrs from now or even be verifiable?

New comment by gbertasius in "2020 Game"

gbertasius — Thu, 14 Jan 2021 00:20:23 +0000

Heh, this this is pretty cool. Donated a couple $. Hope the dev is able to pursue his passion!