Megranium

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by Megranium 6mo ago
Huh, I've always understood that quote very differently, with emphasis on "premature" ... not as in, "don't optimize" but more as in "don't optimize before you've understood the problem" ...
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by Megranium 7mo ago
I guess it's exactly the opposite for me ... I always hated using "normal" language with the computer. I often quip that I became a programmer specifically to avoid having to use spoken language. I always twitch at the though
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by Megranium 7mo ago
I don't really have nostalgia for that, I prefer the immediacy honestly. Nowadays people are captured by music differently, as they were captured by music differently before music could be mechanically or digitally reproduced.
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by Megranium 7mo ago
Oh I do remember Napster, but that was way after 1993 as well ;) Either way, that still took ages to download, etc, so, it was less immediate. And somehow, I remember it more as a source for stuff that's already well-known ... Never wa
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by Megranium 7mo ago
I honestly don't share the nostalgia. I enjoy having a computer that allows me to create all kinds of things that weren't possible in 1993 ... mash together all kinds of audio, video, text ... put it in a backpack, bring it somewh
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by Megranium 7mo ago
I'm always amazed how Youtube can be so many different things for different people ... It's true that it used to be better a few years back, but people still upload great content even it it's harder to find nowadays. Also, mu
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by Megranium 1y ago
I've carried my laptop around in so many different bags over the years ... sling bags, tote bags, waterproof messenger backpacks, IKEA backpacks with laptop sleeve compartment, drawstring bags. I usually pick the bag depending on the o
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by Megranium 1y ago
I wouldn't agree with this all-or-nothing view that ignores public transport. Yes, plenty of people want to live in the city, so it's dense, but if you live a bit outside, you can hop on a local train and be in the city in 30 minu
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by Megranium 2y ago
Just so I can choose and compare as a consumer, so I can filter just as I can filter by genre.
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by Megranium 2y ago
I really hope we'll get around to make it mandatory to watermark AI-generated content in a way that makes it easy to filter out ...
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by Megranium 3y ago
Heh, I'd just call it practicing ... I mean, it's pretty much a very common way to practice for every serious musician I know (apart from practicing in a group setting, of course).
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by Megranium 3y ago
Unrelated to the topic content-wise, but what's the link format? Like, with the object identifier ...
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by Megranium 3y ago
It might also have to do with how programming was taught to a certain generation? At least from my own experience, when I was at university OOP and UML was all the rage, so we had to specify through diagrams in fancy diagram editors, then g
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by Megranium 3y ago
I guess it was at a time when computers weren't ubiquitous as they're today, and an average non-technical person might have never touched one. In that days, designing on paper was probably just the default mode of working ...
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by Megranium 3y ago
I'd say not all guys enjoy the kind of "guy talk" you're describing ... maybe it's harmless in your experience but it can be quite aggressive, or perceived as such, even if you're not emotionally bothered by it
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by Megranium 3y ago
Hmm in German you could also say "Betriebssicherheit" (safety) vs. "Angriffssicherheit" (security), or at least that always was the translation that made most sense to me personally. I'd say native speakers of Germa
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by Megranium 3y ago
Hehe totally, even though it's a bit overwhelming ... I've been active in live coding scene for years now (and my little language is on that list), yet I still don't know all of these ... But I guess there's something fo
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by Megranium 3y ago
The Rust audio environment might need help, if you're into that: https://rust.audio/ Maybe this might be worth a look, too: https://plugdata.org/ It's a recent attempt to make Pure Data more acces
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by Megranium 4y ago
And, in passing, basically spearheaded and popularized (amongst others) an entire culture around coding live on stage.
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by Megranium 4y ago
One of the key aspects of the live coding scene was, and still is to a certain degree, to provide a contrast to this kind of perfectionism. To allow people to experiment, and allow or even encourage them to fail, live on stage, rather than
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by Megranium 5y ago
Well, to do my part in scaring potential expats away, air pollution and noise pollution (it's LOUD) are pretty bad here and you might find lead pipes and asbestos in your building. If you live in a bajo (ground floor) in the old town,
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by Megranium 5y ago
Hmm I don't agree, really, and I live in BCN, for 5 years now. People living here twice as long tell me how bad it was in the early 2000s, and it's nowhere like that today. There's pickpocketing, sure, but it's not at al
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by Megranium 6y ago
It doesn't feel "right", there's resolution issues, and I never got real-time, low-latency sound running in any VM ... so, I'd say yes, by all means.
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by Megranium 6y ago
Well I use Comic Mono as my terminal and code font, even for live coding performances in front of an audience ...
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by Megranium 6y ago
I know that it's controversial, but I really feel using Comic Mono for coding reduces cognitive strain ... I've been using it as my main coding font for a while now.
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by Megranium 6y ago
My story is somewhat different ... it took me more than 25 years to get passionate about programming. I started the first experiments with BASIC around the age of 12, took programming lessons, but never really knew what to do with it. After
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by Megranium 6y ago
Interesting that you percieve it that way. Like, accents becoming dialects, not the other way round. I'd think "dialects" like lower german, Plattdeutsch, Bavarian etc. are older than current standard German, and what remains
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by Megranium 7y ago
I'd say if you want to make it last learn how to apply it. Music theory is one of these things I learned multiple times (even as a minor in University) and forgot multiple times. The theory I learned, though, was never really relevant
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by Megranium 7y ago
This topic comes around every couple of months, here and elsewhere. I tried to run some of my CL stuff in JSCL, but the browser just froze, so I quickly gave up on that. Guess it can't handle more complex stuff. I wonder if someone eve