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by bgribble 13d ago
The direction Audacity has been heading now is ok, but it's not for me. I really miss the days when it was just an editor for audio files. I have a DAW already, thanks, but I do still need to just quickly pop open a sample file to trim
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by bgribble 3mo ago
I guess I don't really have an opinion about that. Certainly an exact representation of decimal numbers was essential, and was something we needed to implement at the time, but going to a fully rational numeric stack was arguably overk
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by bgribble 3mo ago
I seem to remember that we were aware that fractional commodities were going away, but exact rational values would still be important to be able to represent historical holdings and transactions.
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by bgribble 3mo ago
I committed to the GnuCash codebase pretty regularly in the 1999-2002 era... I think maybe I actually implemented the fractional representation that the article discusses? Not sure, it was a long time ago! I definitely remember receiving so
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by bgribble 8mo ago
One thing I think is missing is an understanding of why there is such a top-down push for timelines: because saying "we aren't sure when this feature will be delivered" makes sales people look like they don't know what t
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by bgribble 1y ago
As it turns out, the magic sauce that makes everything taste better is just ketchup. It's good (maybe even indispensable) for some things. Please don't go "ketchup native" on my ice cream.
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by bgribble 1y ago
How else are you going to liquidity-stalk that company you left with some options or even shares? I take my first cup of coffee with a little tea-leaf reading based on the activity of the CEO and my former coworkers. If you ever see more th
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by bgribble 1y ago
I feel some genuine grief about what GTK has become. It started out as a toolkit for application development and leaned heavily into the needs of the C developer who was writing an application with a GUI. It was really a breath of fresh air
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by bgribble 1y ago
I am still skeptical about the value of LLM as coding helper in 2025. I have not dedicated myself to an "AI first" workflow so maybe I am just doing it wrong. The most positive metaphor I have heard about why LLM coding assistance
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by bgribble 1y ago
I don't know that the hardware is dead yet. They got a cash infusion last year and there are occasional hardware updates in their Discord. It's just a slow process with 1-2 engineers total working on the many different hardware an
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by bgribble 2y ago
There's no hurt feelings like the hurt feelings of a junior engineer, who has spent the last year kvetching about how much they hate working on legacy junk, hearing someone else refer to one of THEIR projects as "legacy junk"
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by bgribble 2y ago
I ran face-first into this effect at a successful startup where I started as employee number 9. When everyone can sit around one big table, you don't have to consciously polish your "brand" all the time -- most people have di
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by bgribble 2y ago
You can still buy bikes like that. There are plenty of people still making frame sets that will work with standard drive train components, standard sized stems, and plain ol handlebars in a variety of shapes. And they will build a bike for
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by bgribble 2y ago
I worked for an Intel spinoff whose CEO was a former high-level Intel exec from the 1990-2010 era. Internal goss attributed much of Intel's decision to stay out of the iPhone to him... there was a supposed quote that went something lik
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by bgribble 2y ago
I love the developer experience of Dear ImGUI, even though I use it through Python wrappers that confuse things sometimes. It just slices like a sword through several layers of often-pointless abstraction and puts the control over the main
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by bgribble 2y ago
I was tech lead on a team with a guy like this. We sat down and had a long discussion and whiteboard sesh about a piece of code that could/should have been about 500 lines of code in half a dozen files. Walked out of it thinking that h
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by bgribble 2y ago
For medical procedures, I think it makes sense to check ID - just for the potential testimonial "audit trail" in case of actual or purported malpractice. "Are you CERTAIN that the X-ray we are looking it is of the plaintiff?
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by bgribble 2y ago
If you are working on a large collaborative project, switching between branches can mean needing to rebuild your container images. It's not something I do every day, but it happens enough that the difference between 1 minute (doesn&#x2
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by bgribble 2y ago
> But it's a bit disappointing to see that it's still pretty much a one-man project. I don't know much about this project and I have never used it. But in my experience as a developer and user of software I couldn't d
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by bgribble 2y ago
You can't really have a GOAT in a creative field -- I would never ever want to diminish Nina Simone, Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan -- but really Ella is the GOAT. She just makes perfection sound so easy. Listen to the live recording &q
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by bgribble 2y ago
Marathons have been my tire for about 15 years of city and road riding, and I have only flatted once -- direct hit on a nail IIRC. I am always amazed at their longevity and reliability.
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by bgribble 2y ago
I have used unstable as my daily driver since they named it "unstable", which I don't even remember what that was but at least 20 years ago. I have never (yet!) gotten myself into any trouble, by following a very simple princ
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by bgribble 2y ago
I feel a lot of sympathy for the GNOME developers. They are 15 years past the "let's build something cool!" stage and into the long, long grind of support and compatibility and being expected to work everywhere all the time.
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by bgribble 3y ago
I don't think the meaning is anything terribly sophisticated. I read it simply to mean that if you invest money in the company, that's money that is at risk of going poof if the company folds. If you take the money out of the comp
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by bgribble 3y ago
The graphical dataflow languages that are popular for music and audio programming (thinking Pure Data, Max/MSP, Reaktor etc) do this in a way that makes the value of "namelessness" a bit more clear. When you connect the outpu
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by bgribble 3y ago
I'm not saying this is a good practice, but it's not valueless. Exceptions are failures. If you have code that is straight broken -- refers to an undefined variable, assumes something that's not true, syntax error that could
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by bgribble 3y ago
> and quadrupled the survival at 36 months compared to placebo-chemotherapy There are lots of ways to slice the data. I think the one I quote is probably what got the researchers so excited. The problem is that the 36-month survival is p
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by bgribble 3y ago
I was a grad student in Austin in the 1990s. If Dijkstra showed up for one of the regular department-wide "lunch and learn" type talks, there was a bit of a buzz among the grad students in the room... you knew he was going to pop
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by bgribble 3y ago
JACK is far from perfect but one thing worth mentioning is that the API is really stable. I have been hacking on one audio app for about 13 years; in that time the GUI toolkit has deprecated the key UI elements I use, which have bitrotted t
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by bgribble 3y ago
I have been a fairly devoted user of Gtk in my Python programs for about 20 years. Back then, it was a clean, simple, functional toolkit that just worked. Dear ImGUI cleans Gtk's clock in the "clean", "simple", &quo

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