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

rmnclmnt — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 09:36:39 +0000

Loved this book when I was a student! This is for DSP enclined audience with a focus on musical applications. Not very in-depth if you want to develop your own plugins or DAW but still very informative

New comment by rmnclmnt in "Copilot edited an ad into my PR"

rmnclmnt — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 06:40:10 +0000

Isn’t this more of a Raycast issue (apparently an agentic ai service) instead of GH Copilot itself?

New comment by rmnclmnt in "The case for becoming a manager"

rmnclmnt — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 07:17:02 +0000

Is this still a debate? It all depends on personal goal/wishes and constraints from your working contrxt (e.g company size, country of residence).

Take France with medium to large size companies: ICs (whatever the seniority) are usually paid less and have a hard time evolving so they are naturally encouraged to take on management roles by their hierarchy. In some other contexts, ICs may have more leverage thus not wanting to go the management route and that’s okay.

Anyway, in the next 5 to 10 years this all might change for better or worse so…

New comment by rmnclmnt in "Conway's Game of Life, in real life"

rmnclmnt — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 16:00:24 +0000

Thanks for the heads up! I have been out of this loop for quite a while, glad to see it's still there!

Yes Monome was this initial inspiration then followed by many, but it was way more expensive and niche IIRC

New comment by rmnclmnt in "Conway's Game of Life, in real life"

rmnclmnt — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 07:34:46 +0000

Novation Launchpad used to be exactly that: you send MIDI CC messages with proper values and you can light up the grid (with different colors).

Did that a few years back, i guess this might still be possible

New comment by rmnclmnt in "1B identity records exposed in ID verification data leak"

rmnclmnt — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 13:43:15 +0000

Unrelated to the story but TIL AOL is still a thing in 2026!

New comment by rmnclmnt in "How I use Claude Code: Separation of planning and execution"

rmnclmnt — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 09:03:54 +0000

And maybe writing an article or a keynote slides is one of the few places we can still exerce some human creativity, especially when the core skills (programming) is almost completely in the hands of LLMs already

New comment by rmnclmnt in "Evaluating AGENTS.md: are they helpful for coding agents?"

rmnclmnt — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 10:05:27 +0000

And that makes total sense. Honestly working since a few days with Opus 4.6, it really feels like a competent coworker, but need some explicit conventions to follow … exactly when onboarding a new IC! So i think there is a bright light to be seen: this will force having proper and explicit contribution rules and conventions, both for humans and robots

New comment by rmnclmnt in "Evaluating AGENTS.md: are they helpful for coding agents?"

rmnclmnt — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 06:25:35 +0000

Yesterday while i was adding some nitpicks to a CLAUDE.md/AGENTS.md file, I thought « this file could be renamed CONTRIBUTING.md and be done with it ».

Maybe I’m wrong but sure feels like we might soon drop all of this extra cruft for more rationale practices

New comment by rmnclmnt in "Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself"

rmnclmnt — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 18:01:04 +0000

Yeah I got that but more often than not now the growl vocal technique is associated with extreme metal genre

New comment by rmnclmnt in "Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself"

rmnclmnt — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 17:11:55 +0000

Yeah but at least that was funny!

New comment by rmnclmnt in "Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself"

rmnclmnt — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 14:57:31 +0000

> Growl > > Famous examples: > Christina Aguilera, James Brown, Tina Turner

I was not expecting these names!

New comment by rmnclmnt in "Show HN: I used AI to recreate a $4000 piece of audio hardware as a plugin"

rmnclmnt — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 13:49:49 +0000

I wonder if we could then have released the *stressor in a few months then...

New comment by rmnclmnt in "Ask HN: What did you read in 2025?"

rmnclmnt — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 22:21:31 +0000

My highlights were the Edward Ashton books « Mickey7 » and « Antimatter Blues » (sequel to the first).

Haven’t seen the movie adaptation yet but the books are such delightful dark humor SF, loved them

New comment by rmnclmnt in "The dawn of a world simulator"

rmnclmnt — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 07:45:42 +0000

This should be interesting then: we’ll finally be able to assert whether time is deterministic and the future and past can be modelled/predicted (if you’ve seen the show you know what I mean)

New comment by rmnclmnt in "The dawn of a world simulator"

rmnclmnt — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 23:45:08 +0000

For a minute I was like (spoiler alert) « wow the creepy sci-fi theories from the DEVS tv show is taking place »… then I looked up the video and that’s just video generation at this point

New comment by rmnclmnt in "Our new SAM audio model transforms audio editing"

rmnclmnt — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 07:06:13 +0000

Bighead is back! « Fart Alert »!

New comment by rmnclmnt in "Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work"

rmnclmnt — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 17:52:20 +0000

Yeah that’s what I do also when I have to (and it can be done, not everytime).

But it requires some advanced local testing setup and knowledge to do so, hence my initial remark on this type of developers not being real professionals in the first place…

New comment by rmnclmnt in "Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work"

rmnclmnt — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 15:24:50 +0000

> As software engineers we…

That’s the thing. People exposing such rude behavior usually are not, or haven’t been in a looong time…

As for the local testing part not being performed, this is a slippery slope I’m fighting everyday: more and more cloud based services and platforms are used to deploy software to run with specific shenanigans and running it locally requires some kind of deep craft and understanding. Vendor lock-in is coming back in style (e.g. Databricks)

New comment by rmnclmnt in "If you're going to vibe code, why not do it in C?"

rmnclmnt — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 06:49:30 +0000

> I also think it takes a lot of the fun out of the whole thing.

I used to say that implementation does not matter, tests should be your main focus. Now I treat every bit of code I wrote with my bare hands like a candy, agents have sucked the joy out of building things