av500

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by av500 1y ago
the Doepfer A187 I returned immediately, it's barely usable. I got the OpenTheremin instead and I love it
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by av500 4y ago
https://vpme.de/zeroscope for the budget minded :) shameless plug, it's my product
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by av500 5y ago
and of course they couple could have shared access to each other's bank accounts
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by av500 5y ago
Nedit is still my go to text editor for programming
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by av500 5y ago
he did, at least a few years ago a former coworker worked with him in Paris at a French streaming provider or so
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What3Words legal threats about open source Whatfreewords(techcrunch.com)
9 points by av500 5y ago|0 comments
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by av500 7y ago
remember, with a broken camera mirror, you car won't even start ;)
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by av500 7y ago
BTW, the original motivation to write that code was a bug in an early version of the DSP chip, it would produce a loud "click" each time the MP3 data stream stopped or started. so instead of stopping the stream I would either play
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by av500 7y ago
MPEG layer 3 (MP3) differs from layers 1 and 2 in the fact that the frame data for a given audio frame can be spread out over several consecutive MP3 frames, that makes the stream effectively VBR (variable bitrate) even if the total bitrate
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by av500 7y ago
nope, the MAS had MP3 decode fixed in ROM and while you could upload your own algo into the RAM and run it, that meant no MP3 decode at the same time :)
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by av500 7y ago
true, but as said below, I was a bit green at that time. what we did have was that we would remember a song not by its full path which could be like 256 bytes long, but by only 8 bytes, so when we read in an playlist, we would convert each
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by av500 7y ago
I was more upset that Archos took our original design with a 4 line LCD and a rotary encoder and reduced it to a single line and U/D/L/R buttons - missing the whole point of "all" your music with you, thus needing a
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by av500 7y ago
actually JB6000 was still USB 1.1 I think, only the JB Recorder would add USB2.0 speed
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by av500 7y ago
hey, that makes two of us :)
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by av500 7y ago
basically the "mp3 player engine" that was used by Archos (and a few other companies at that time, TerraTex M3PO, SSI NEO25/NEO35) was our first project out of high school, so the code is pretty bad looking at it today :) I
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by av500 7y ago
thanks :)
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by av500 7y ago
not in code, but I think I answered a few questions. there was also the fact that another MP3 player I was involved in, the Terratec M3PO had a feature to change the MP3 playback speed and the Rockbox people wondered for years how we did th
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by av500 7y ago
the problem with global shuffle was that you could have a LOT of music on the device, thus for a global shuffle you would need to hold an index of ALL the music in memory, and I did not like that. Also, I was never a SHUFFLE ALL type of per
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by av500 7y ago
I "caused" Rockbox, being the original firmware developer for the Archos Jukebox 6000. apparently the firmware I wrote was so bad around playlist handling and our CEO unwilling to open source the code so that the boys and girls wr
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by av500 9y ago
because they are French. meaning that French patent laws allow for it.
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by av500 9y ago
a cheap dumbphone that retails for less than $20 has a BOM of around $5 and has CPU, battery and screen. so $20 retail for your cartridge is achievable in volume
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by av500 10y ago
what SF and bandwidth were you using for the range tests? what packet lengths?
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by av500 10y ago
868 MHz band in Europe
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by av500 10y ago
there will be also microcontrollers from ST incorporating LoRa soon
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by av500 10y ago
the overall verdict from Lora alliance members on Sigfox is that they are big on words but small on revenue or customers. add grain of salt
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IBM model-M keyboard sound emulation to annoy co-workers(github.com)
94 points by av500 10y ago|165 comments
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by av500 10y ago
I was expecting more Dirk Pitt in this post
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Ask for it – my experience from being a woman in tech(medium.com)
2 points by av500 11y ago|0 comments
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by av500 11y ago
please find a mailing list post where Michael is being attacked like that.
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by av500 11y ago
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.ffmpeg.devel/13099... posts like this one is why it went off the rails a long time ago. there is also the one where he suggested a libav dev should commit suicide and later lab

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