bnastic

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by bnastic 7d ago
Apple Music, Netflix, Disney+, BBC. That's four. I don't want any of them. Three I have to take due to kids' nagging, the fourth I have to take due to state apparatus' nagging and legal threats.
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by bnastic 7mo ago
Long time Fastmail customer. Let it learn a bit about your inbox. I barely see any spam these days that’s not been caught. Except LinkedIn, that somehow goes through
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by bnastic 8mo ago
> technical failure during migration Showing my age when the first thing that came to mind was ' but ma.gnolia was more of a social bookmarking...'
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by bnastic 9mo ago
Everything after Win 2000 was a bad idea. Enterprise or not.
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by bnastic 9mo ago
I dont/didn't use Jack at all, straight into pipewire, which makes for a super unintuitive way to select 'audio device' in Reaper (iirc, something like select ALSA and 'default's for input/output and someh
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by bnastic 9mo ago
I used this site as a reference earlier this year quite often, as I attempted to establish some baseline for a Linux DAW. I use Mac for serious audio stuff, but 'what if' (since I use Linux for everything else anyway). I came back
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by bnastic 10mo ago
Isn't Apple taking UK gov't to court over this, and the reason they have abandoned encryption for everybody is to avoid being forced to provide backdoors. On this you should be on their side, not against them.
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by bnastic 10mo ago
You can run your own software, but if asked by UK authorities to provide the keys/password and you don't comply you face prison time.
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by bnastic 11mo ago
Or if you work in trading, IOC made it a very confusing title
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by bnastic 1y ago
Macintosh has always been application-centric, instead of window-centric desktop. Hence the top application menu that controls the 'application'. There is nothing inherently wrong with that approach. And I'm not sure why anyo
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by bnastic 2y ago
Remember when OS X Snow Leopard 10.6 was released with 'zero new features' and with focus on fixing bugs and improving things? Good times.
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by bnastic 2y ago
There are a lot of small companies / single devs working in very technical, pro-oriented, industries. They still thrive in the days of browsers and javascripts and what not, writing super optimised, super inovative, native code. Like a
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by bnastic 2y ago
A lot of this stuff has been investigated in Mr Alexandrescu's ironically named book Modern C++. Typelists (before variadic templates) recursive templates and componenet-like assembling of classes, etc. I imagine there is a modern-mode
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by bnastic 2y ago
Thread devolved into petty politics quicker than expected.
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by bnastic 3y ago
It's not about programming, it's about the domain it's applied in.
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by bnastic 3y ago
> the main insight was that rather than wait for market signals to then decide what to do, you can precalculate your responses up to and including the actual message to be sent to the exchange Ah those nasty market opens in the morning
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by bnastic 3y ago
Indeed. Although I don't know what precisions are required in crypto products, in traditional trading an 8 byte double is quite enough - the price submitted will have to be rounded to the instrument's precision anyway (e.g. most s
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by bnastic 3y ago
Used to that... but once I accumulated a heap of AU plugins I just couldn't bear the thought of spending a weekend reinstalling all that again (plus most of them won't work with the new macOS on day one). Maybe time to upgrade to
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by bnastic 3y ago
Don't know if it counts, but RME Audio are now providing drivers for their pro audio gear via DriverKit instead of the ole kext. Installed yesterday, works just fine (modulo checking forums if any widespread issues)
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by bnastic 3y ago
Thanks for that! I remember reading something on the subject years ago and scrolled through comments hoping someone would dig it up! Kudos! (But there was another, similar article, much longer, with the actual frames from the movie, going t
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by bnastic 3y ago
_Our_ politicians are not like _their_ politicians.
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by bnastic 3y ago
> There is no reason to pay the money I am paying here if I can get better food, climate and general quality of life for the same (or even less!) money elsewhere in Europe Sure. And you should probably do that. But then a lot of other pe
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by bnastic 3y ago
UK government bodies are not known for speedy infrastructure installations/upgrades, which is why the UK has always been at the arse end of broadband speeds in Europe (let alone compared to the rest of world).
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by bnastic 3y ago
UK: hold my beer while I show you our ANPR that's literally everywhere
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by bnastic 4y ago
Truth to be told, A* over navmeshes and path smoothing ('string pulling' by eliminating points with LoS) with adding occupancy/weight to individual triangles (or polygons? Not sure what's used here) is nothing particular
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by bnastic 4y ago
I remember the Knight Cap event, I was working on order routing at the time. Things have changed a lot since 2012, and at the same time haven’t. Circuit breakers and position monitoring are no.1 in any sane market making firm. What happene
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by bnastic 5y ago
I wish there was a bit more overlap between US and UK writing supplies. For some reason, certain Japanese pen companies will sell Pen A in the US only, while having Pen B for European markets. Eg. Pilot C4 0.25, you can still only find it f
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by bnastic 5y ago
It's effective enough to have bombed the shit out of a chinese embassy in '99. Look it up.
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by bnastic 5y ago
It’s a like a deja vu, this website. It’s been linked repeatedly, for years, having the same kind of discussion on HN over and over
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by bnastic 5y ago
Iirc, Borland literally had to add closures to C++ to make their C++ Builder work and be as simple as Delphi in the UI editor.

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