chris_j

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by chris_j 15d ago
Overtone [0] is a precursor to Sonic Pi that uses Clojure. Sam used to work on it before he created Sonic Pi. I remember having great fun playing with it at a Clojure meetup in about 2011. Overtone appears to still be going if you want to c
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by chris_j 15d ago
Sam previously worked on Overtone, which is a Clojure library for driving the Supercollider synthesiser. I understand that he decided to create Sonic Pi in Ruby in order to make it more accessible to beginners. (And Ruby was all the rage ba
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by chris_j 2mo ago
I take a different view. For a lot of candidates that I've interviewed in recent years, they made the decision to move to London, and _then_ decided to apply to us. Some of the best engineers that I've worked with have joined that
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Mythos Discovered a CVE in Its Training Data – and That's Still Worrying(rival.security)
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by chris_j 4mo ago
Indeed. I've lived in the UK my entire life, and I've only ever heard "sorry" used to mean "excuse me, can I get past please?" in and around London. It still sounds weird to me. Where I come from (further from
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by chris_j 8mo ago
In my father's accent/dialect (South Wales), the number seven is monosyllabic: it sounds more like "sevn" (with the v pronounced quite softly). The number "eleven" is similarly monosyllabic, and sounds more l
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by chris_j 1y ago
One thing that I heard from folks who do development for retro Atari platforms is that the 68k support in GCC has been getting worse as time has gone on, and it's very difficult to get the maintainers to accept patches to improve it, s
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by chris_j 1y ago
What happened? Did they stop using FreeBSD? Did they continue to use it but jsut stop contributing?
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by chris_j 2y ago
I'm not familiar with the iOS 20. What is meant by "non-notarized websites" and what did Apple do?
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by chris_j 3y ago
My favourite example of this sort of redundancy is the fact that there are numerous rivers in England called the River Avon. Avon is believed to come from the Proto-Brythonic word "aβon" [0], meaning "river". [0] https:
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by chris_j 3y ago
What differences do you think you'd see if ARM directly sold a silicon product?
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by chris_j 3y ago
What does "AEism" mean in this context?
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by chris_j 3y ago
I played Ur-Quan Masters for the first time earlier this year. Despite its age, I found it to be one of the finest games that I'd ever played. The story, in particular, is just perfect, and has just the right mixture of seriousness and
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by chris_j 3y ago
> I look at welsh and still go wtf lol Ironically, Welsh is a much simpler language than Irish, and easier to learn for an English speaker. Almost completely regular orthography, much simpler grammar (with no grammatical cases). But, sim
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by chris_j 3y ago
What is it that makes USB perfectly fine for spinning rust but not quite ideal for SSDs? I've been booting a couple of Pi 4s from USB SSDs for a while, in order to avoid relying on SD cards, but I'm not really familiar with what a
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by chris_j 3y ago
What is it that would make big moons of terrestrial inner planets vanishingly rare? And how likely is it that a planet without a large moon would fail to retain a short day? Mars has a day of similar length to that of Earth (though no magne
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by chris_j 3y ago
What is meant by 'a bit "FC"' in this context?
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by chris_j 3y ago
Many thanks. I did use gedit for a while, though I confess I never became as fond of it as I had been of NEdit. It does tick the "uncomplicated text editor" box though.
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by chris_j 3y ago
NEdit was my main editor for a few years after I started using UNIX in the late 90s but couldn't get the hang of vi and emacs. I have fond memories of using it and I'm pretty sad that it was so tied to Motif that it never develope
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by chris_j 3y ago
Many thanks, makes sense now.
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by chris_j 3y ago
What does SSBC mean in this context?
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by chris_j 3y ago
What does "T levels" mean in this context?
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by chris_j 3y ago
Why was a 68030 a curious choice for a machine launched in 1988?
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by chris_j 3y ago
You can write apps for an Android phone without jailbreaking/rooting it. And you don't need an expensive license to use Android Studio. Point taken that the barrier to entry is higher though.
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by chris_j 3y ago
Why wrongfully? Is there something wrong with the term "micro-computer" that I'm not aware of?
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by chris_j 4y ago
On the subject of TDD, the way I've done TDD has been very similar to the technique described in the article. Work in very small increments, try to get a very thin vertical slice of functionality working through the system as soon as p
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by chris_j 4y ago
Did I hear that you're looking for an emulator? I recommend Hatari [0] if you want to run games and demos. You'll likely need a TOS ROM image [1]; Hatari comes with EmuTOS, which doesn't work with a lot of games that make ass
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by chris_j 4y ago
What was it about the war that prevented finance moving out to the continent?
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by chris_j 4y ago
The ST in mono was alas only around 71hz. Still very nice. Sadly my family could not afford a mono monitor and and I used my ST through the family TV but I used a friend's mono monitor a few times and it was very nice.
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by chris_j 4y ago
I bought Amiga Forever a few years ago in order to get the Kickstart ROMs that I needed to play some games in FS-UAE on my Mac. Trying to actually get the content onto my Mac was more painful than I'd anticipated. "To install the

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