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New comment by nuxi in "Introduction to Computer Music (2009) [pdf]"

nuxi — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 18:57:11 +0000

Oh this is just awesome, thank you!

New comment by nuxi in "Firm boosts H.264 streaming license fees from $100k up to staggering $4.5M"

nuxi — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 19:41:47 +0000

Note that OGG is not a video codec, it's just a container format. I.e. an OGG file can contain MPEG-4/H.264-encoded video.

New comment by nuxi in "Show HN: Axe – A 12MB binary that replaces your AI framework"

nuxi — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 21:42:14 +0000

golang doesn't statically link everything by default (anymore?), this is from FreeBSD:

    $ ls -l axe
    -rwxr-xr-x  1 root wheel 12830781 Mar 12 22:38 axe*
    
    $ ldd axe
    axe:
        libthr.so.3 => /lib/libthr.so.3 (0xe2e74a1d000)
        libc.so.7 => /lib/libc.so.7 (0xe2e74c27000)
        libsys.so.7 => /lib/libsys.so.7 (0xe2e75de6000)
        [vdso] (0xe2e7366b000)

New comment by nuxi in "Booting from a vinyl record (2020)"

nuxi — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 21:13:26 +0000

Here's the ZX Spectrum version: https://www.racunalniski-muzej.si/en/40-years-later-a-game-f...

New comment by nuxi in "Nuclear energy key to decarbonising Europe, says EESC"

nuxi — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 22:36:08 +0000

We need more Kohl, that'll do the trick...

New comment by nuxi in "FBI Making List of American "Extremists," Leaked Memo Reveals"

nuxi — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 20:28:12 +0000

Agreed, it's some sort of a Venn diagram of "traits" present in both -isms.

New comment by nuxi in "FBI Making List of American "Extremists," Leaked Memo Reveals"

nuxi — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 18:10:43 +0000

Also Umberto Eco's essay Ur-Fascism.

New comment by nuxi in "Kelp – simple replacement for homebrew on macOS"

nuxi — Mon, 19 May 2025 20:19:04 +0000

That's not a proper explanation IMO. The thing is - all these settings are introduced "quietly" as new defaults and you have to opt out. So one day you decide to upgrade a package, brew updates itself, and then starts doing all these things that weren't present before (and are most likely not needed at all). It's very annoying, and a dark pattern to say the least.

New comment by nuxi in "Kelp – simple replacement for homebrew on macOS"

nuxi — Mon, 19 May 2025 19:52:22 +0000

I got bitten by broken upgrades in the past, when you were still able to simply "brew switch" to the old version if it was there. In addition the cleanup time is annoying when upgrading a lot of packages, so I kept the setting.

New comment by nuxi in "Kelp – simple replacement for homebrew on macOS"

nuxi — Mon, 19 May 2025 19:24:49 +0000

Maybe also these, to limit other annoyances:

  export HOMEBREW_NO_EMOJI=1
  export HOMEBREW_NO_ENV_HINTS=1
  export HOMEBREW_NO_INSTALL_CLEANUP=1

New comment by nuxi in "New Vulnerability in GitHub Copilot, Cursor: Hackers Can Weaponize Code Agents"

nuxi — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 18:11:28 +0000

And then they don't ever open the page, right?

New comment by nuxi in "HDMI 2.2 is set to debut at CES 2025"

nuxi — Sat, 14 Dec 2024 20:31:39 +0000

CEC is probably one of them, but I'm not sure that's a bad thing.

New comment by nuxi in "An oral history of "We Built This City," the worst song of all time (2016)"

nuxi — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 18:09:57 +0000

Maybe you'll like the reverse, (possibly) the most REM song by non-REM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSltuCqOzJY

New comment by nuxi in "Automat"

nuxi — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 15:11:14 +0000

I think that's on purpose/by design, so that users are nudged into exploring. Things like these were pretty common in adventure games back in the days, which I probably spent too much time on playing...

New comment by nuxi in "Automat"

nuxi — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 15:01:57 +0000

Clicking on the right side (pointy hand) worked for me.

New comment by nuxi in "Automat"

nuxi — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 10:05:43 +0000

Open the notebook and flip through it. Drink the coffee (drag the mug downwards). Put the floppy in the device. Put the VHS tape in the device.

New comment by nuxi in "Refurb weekend: the Symbolics MacIvory Lisp machine I have hated"

nuxi — Mon, 14 Oct 2024 19:41:39 +0000

I'm not German, but if I recall correctly: - "Eins" is for the actual number "one" - "Ein" is "a" for masculine/neuter genders - "Ein" is also used for expressing the amount, e.g. "ein Auto, zwei Autos"

That said, high school was a long time ago, so I might be way off :)

New comment by nuxi in "Amusing Ourselves to Death (2009)"

nuxi — Sun, 29 Sep 2024 18:50:53 +0000

The precursor to both "1984" and "Brave New World" is a novel titled "We" from 1921 by Yevgeny Zamyatin[0]. The mass surveillance by One State is an apt analogy for the adtech-ruled world of today.

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_(novel)

New comment by nuxi in "Safe Assignment"

nuxi — Fri, 13 Sep 2024 18:21:56 +0000

You can avoid the SyntaxError by abusing boolean expressions a bit:

  > obj = {}
  {}
  > obj != null && (obj.bar = 42)
  42
  > obj
  { bar: 42 }

Not as pretty as your LHS case, but it works.

New comment by nuxi in "Winamp has announced that it is "opening up" its source code"

nuxi — Thu, 16 May 2024 21:50:33 +0000

it’s Wesley Willis, all the way down…