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by dietrichepp 5mo ago
I also run some accounts on BlueSky and Twitter that focus on 1-bit art: https://bsky.app/profile/1bitdreams.bsky.social https://x.com/1BitDreams I see maybe 10 or 15 new pieces of 1-bit art posted on
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by dietrichepp 6mo ago
I remember playing this, but also a puzzle game called “dstar”, which I ported to the web: https://www.moria.us/games/dstar/play
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by dietrichepp 7mo ago
This is great stuff… basically, an easy way to get much higher quality audio out of a GBA emulator. I’ll add some context here—why don’t more games run their audio at 32768 Hz, if that’s such a natural rate to run audio? The answer lies in
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by dietrichepp 7mo ago
Recently fixed bugs in an audio encoder / decoder (VADPCM) I reverse engineered from the Nintendo 64, and some people are apparently using it to dub Conker’s Bad Fur Day into Spanish. On-and-off again working on a Mystery Dungeon style
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by dietrichepp 9mo ago
If we only had trucks on the road, we’d need less road, right? The street where I live could be about a third of the width if it were not for personal cars.
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by dietrichepp 9mo ago
The civic barely does anything to a road, except require its existence and maintenance, and it turns out that roads are expensive to build and maintain (even if only damaged by weather).
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by dietrichepp 10mo ago
> Why are you using the locale-specific [:space:] on source code? Because it’s the one I remembered first, it worked, and I didn’t think that it needed any improvement. In fact, I still don’t think it needs any improvement.
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by dietrichepp 10mo ago
Somebody wanted to set breakpoints in their C code by marking them with a comment (note “d” for “debugger”): //d You can get a list of them with a single Awk line. awk -F'//d[[:space:]]*' 'NF &g
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by dietrichepp 10mo ago
Awk is still one of my favorite tools because its power is underestimated by nearly everyone I see using it. ls -l | awk '{print $3}' That’s typical usage of Awk, where you use it in place of cut because you can’t be both
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by dietrichepp 11mo ago
I have the Heritage HA-609A. I considered going 500-series. Maybe some day in the future. For now, I have two preamps and the HA-609A in a 4U rack, and most of my other gear is in storage. Keeping things light.
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by dietrichepp 11mo ago
It would be like this either way. The N side has negative charge carriers. It has a positive charge in the depletion region because the charge carriers are missing. Likewise, the P side has positive charge carriers, and when they’re missing
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by dietrichepp 11mo ago
Conspicuously absent are some of the analog circuit applications. Here are three of my favorites: 1. Frequency mixer, used for heterodyning, important in radio, so I hear. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_mixer
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by dietrichepp 11mo ago
Fantastic—I’ve written a QuickDraw PICT converter, but I focused narrowly on just extracting pixel data. The format is basically a way to encode QuickDraw drawing commands, and getting the original image back (in the general case) means rei
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by dietrichepp 11mo ago
Yes, other Mac AV models did the same thing. I remember doing this on the 6100/60AV that we had.
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by dietrichepp 1y ago
I listen to a fair amount of choral music, from plainchant and organum up through modern and contemporary works. I think the short answer is missing, which is that most choral music just isn’t that exciting . The Wikipedia article for the
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by dietrichepp 1y ago
Company I worked at back then used XMPP. There was something that you could paste into the chat that would make all of the Mac clients crash, and to fix it, someone with a different client would have to join the chat and type a lot of comme
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by dietrichepp 1y ago
Taking this moment to promote 1-bit art! I run a couple accounts which promote 1-bit art and I’m trying to figure out how to expand what artwork is included. These are just personal accounts that retweet art from 1-bit artists on BlueSky an
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by dietrichepp 1y ago
The one complaint about sound design is how the background music works. I think it starts playing when you’re not active, but on any given playthrough, it never gets a chance to trigger. There are separate soundtracks for each faction, I th
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by dietrichepp 1y ago
Interesting, I have a Roland S-330 from the late 1980s and my main concern getting it was the floppy drive viability. It didn’t occur to me that the mouse would be difficult.
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by dietrichepp 1y ago
Sounds like you are assuming that I have a server always running for this stuff? That assumption is wrong. I don’t want to run CI servers. If I had servers always running, I would install Jenkins on them and the problem would be solved.
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by dietrichepp 1y ago
What I want is something like “please run this command on a server somewhere when event X happens”. Seems like the options are along the lines of: 1. SaaS CI/CD products, like GitHub Actions, 2. Run your own Jenkins cluster, 3. Figur
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by dietrichepp 1y ago
I just started using GitHub Actions for a personal project, and as you do, I trawled HN for opinions on how to use it. At first I built a workflow out of steps published on GitHub. Use ilammy/mms-dev-cmd, lukka/get-cmake, lukka&#x
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Shaker Desk – Paul Gold of Salt Mastering [video](youtube.com)
3 points by dietrichepp 2y ago|1 comments
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by dietrichepp 2y ago
Paul Gold, owner of Salt Mastering in Brooklyn, NY, describes the custom A/B path console he designed and built to master audio from open reel tape to lacquer master in order to create vinyl records without using a computer.
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by dietrichepp 2y ago
I don’t think you could fairly say Windows 95 is an exokernel to DOS. Windows 95 is a whole OS, which happened to go through DOS during the boot process, and keep bits of DOS around for certain pieces of functionality (device drivers?) Mayb
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by dietrichepp 2y ago
Logic has support for adding lyrics. Create a MIDI region, select it, and press N to open the score editor. Make sure the inspector is open on the left, press I to open it if necessary. There is a block which says “part box” and inside it,
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by dietrichepp 2y ago
I don’t see how this would help me, sorry. It looks kind of like a more advanced thesaurus or something. I understand why some people might like this sort of thing but it’s kind of the opposite of what I want. I’m not using RhymeZone less a
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by dietrichepp 2y ago
Currently working on an album. Software I use for songwriting: mostly Logic, also Dorico. Voice memos. Rhymezone sometimes. Rhymezone seems less and less helpful as I go on. I hardly use text editors for lyrics, paper seems to work a lot be
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by dietrichepp 2y ago
I’ve been going back and working on retro development. These days, making software for the 68K Macintosh, which is where I learned to program in the first place. I dug a lot through old books, comp.sys.mac.programmer posts, and the source c
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by dietrichepp 2y ago
> Normally, I would expect floating address pins to be completely random, but this was very consistent. I think “random” assumes some kind of perfect conditions. There will be leakage current to ground, leakage current from Vcc, and the

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