ericwood

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by ericwood 1mo ago
Browsers intentionally add jitter to timing methods like setTimeout and setInterval to avoid fingerprinting and other side channel style attacks. When I've messed with building in-browser sequencers in the past you had to use a webwork
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by ericwood 5mo ago
CSS suffers from one of its original design tenants in that it's very easy to throw some shit at the wall and kind of get it working without fully understanding it. This is especially true for people who have dabbled in it from time to
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by ericwood 6mo ago
Those are pretty wild accusations from someone who doesn't know me or my beliefs. I definitely have not been calling for those things, especially not through the lens of religion. Everything I said here in regards to his beliefs can be
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by ericwood 6mo ago
They would be liars, then.
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by ericwood 6mo ago
There's disagreement then there's being an outspoken supporter of systematically trying to strip rights away from others because of your religious beliefs. It's much deeper than having differing views on fiscal policy.
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by ericwood 7mo ago
love this, in a similar vein real heads will remember The Echo Nest https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Echo_Nest
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by ericwood 7mo ago
These are super cool and I've never seen one before! I'd imagine most of the passes I'm in are within spitting distance of at least one town so powering a substation isn't out of the question. It seems like most of the i
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by ericwood 7mo ago
One of my favorite games when traveling is spotting the iconic horn antennas that are still in operation or the various towers that were a part of it. A good chunk of the site are still in active use with all kinds of new equipment bolted o
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by ericwood 8mo ago
It is so disappointing; I started getting into photography over the past few years, shooting rolls of film here and there and need some basic library management tools to track my shots and add EXIF data for film stock, camera, etc. Photos.a
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by ericwood 8mo ago
It's honestly incredible they're bringing this to market! This style of incubator tends to work on a lofty goal and the research and ideas explored on the way trickle down into other parts of the company and find their way into mo
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by ericwood 8mo ago
If speaking strictly in terms of audio effects this is a delay, with "echo" usually implying feedback so the delayed signal is attenuated and fed back into the delay line, getting quieter each iteration and fading naturally.
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by ericwood 8mo ago
Very similar in theory to Bob Widlar's legendary "hassler" circuit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Widlar#Personality
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by ericwood 8mo ago
Yes and no, and the answer will depend a little bit on your background. It's Rust, and the learning curve around that still exists. The HAL does a very good job at papering over some annoying details, e.g. if you're working on STM
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by ericwood 11mo ago
Fond memories of a job circa 2013 on a very large Rails app where CI times were sped up by a factor of 10 when someone realized bcrypt was misconfigured when running tests and slowing things down every time a user was created through a fact
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by ericwood 1y ago
This is exactly how I feel; I'd love a switch that performs like the modern apple keyboards. Anytime I've dipped my toe into mechanical keyboard waters I've lost speed and accuracy, even after weeks of practice. The extra key
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by ericwood 1y ago
I've always viewed computers as being an obvious complement. Of course we worked so hard to build machines that are good at the things our brains don't take to as naturally.
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by ericwood 1y ago
All of this and the only image linked is a collage clocking in at a whopping 512x218px...anyone know where we can see the full resolution? It looks spectacular from the thumbnail!
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by ericwood 1y ago
Labor is a factor but it helps to have the insane manufacturing synergies they have where almost all of the parts are made down the road from you.
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by ericwood 1y ago
Macs still have target disk mode but it requires rebooting. Highly recommend using thunderbolt to transfer over to a new computer!
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by ericwood 1y ago
To be fair, this is the case with any styling approach; if the style is applied to the element, it's there for you to toy with in the inspector.
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by ericwood 1y ago
But you have recourse! It’s not ideal, but it beats being at the mercy of a vendor in most cases. Trying to hack around a closed source format is an even bigger drain.
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by ericwood 1y ago
100%, there's weeks I just plug straight into an amp because that feels right! At the end of the day it's great to have options.
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by ericwood 1y ago
Just like real life I have a tidy put together functional board, then a disturbing spaghetti mess tucked away in a corner that few are allowed to see
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by ericwood 1y ago
> Like a few good sounding pedals that, ideally, each have just a knob or two. It makes for a nice narrative but I haven't found it holds much water; musicians are all over the place on this spectrum. You'll find both extremes
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by ericwood 1y ago
Why stop there? Clearly any kind of medical intervention is against nature’s wisdom.
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by ericwood 1y ago
I'm glad that works for you. Ultimately I think different people will prefer different ways of working. Often when I'm starting a new project I have lots of boilerplate from previous ones I can bootstrap off of. If it's a new
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by ericwood 1y ago
This is where the disconnect is for me; mundane code can sometimes be nefarious, and I find the mental space I'm in when writing it is very different than reviewing, especially if my mind is elsewhere. The best analogy I can use is a s
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by ericwood 1y ago
Hey both things can be true. It’s a long ways from the AI renaissances of the past. There’s areas LLMs make a lot of sense. I just don’t find them to be great pair programming partners yet.
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by ericwood 1y ago
I naively bought into the idea of a future where the computers do the stuff we’re bad at and we get to focus on the cool human stuff we enjoy. If these LLMs were truly incredible at doing my job I’d pack it up and find something else to do,
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by ericwood 1y ago
It’s totally valid to see a new piece of tech, try it, say it’s not for you, and move on. With LLMs it feels forced-fed, and simply saying “eh I’m good, no thanks” isn’t enough. Lots of hype and headlines on how it’s going to take our jobs

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