jlarcombe

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by jlarcombe 2mo ago
Used to write all meeting notes by hand to help me focus on the meeting and actually retain information. Fell out of the habit but must get back into it! Definitely helps especially if it's not a topic that's naturally gripping to
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by jlarcombe 3mo ago
Very good. Full details of the development of Test Cards J and W here, which I read years ago and thoroughly enjoyed: https://web.archive.org/web/20100123102758/http:/www.barney-... Also, Richard Russell&#x27
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by jlarcombe 3mo ago
The thing is, vinyl (and tape) typically can't reproduce waveforms like that accurately, so it's difficult to compare. You can take a hyper-compressed master, cut it to vinyl or record it to tape, then play it back in to a compute
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by jlarcombe 3mo ago
yes, they mostly use a digital delay, although some mastering houses still have a reel-to-reel equipped with an extra 'preview' head that gives the required lookahead for the lathe without any A/D conversion in the audio path
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by jlarcombe 4mo ago
Hah this is getting worse and worse
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by jlarcombe 4mo ago
A depressing thought that all that work is just so you can "command AIs better"
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by jlarcombe 5mo ago
before Affinity was a "loss leader" for Canva, it was a profitable suite of applications in its own right
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by jlarcombe 6mo ago
Actually yes, I have all windows overlapping and none expanded to fill the screen, unless I'm really doing something very specific that needs as much space as possible. But the rounded edges are still slightly annoying.
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by jlarcombe 6mo ago
Apart from the bit where he was hospitalised for "full manic psychosis", you mean?
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by jlarcombe 6mo ago
If you think this is anything like working with a bright junior developer then i simply can't understand why.
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by jlarcombe 6mo ago
Do you not find that depressing and sad? Do you never work with enthusiastic and talented junior developers at the start of their careers? Do you not enjoy interacting with them?
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by jlarcombe 6mo ago
I enjoyed that too when I was a youngster but there are good reasons why it is impractical for day to day work.
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by jlarcombe 6mo ago
FidoNet was great fun. Despite finding it difficult to remember any useful numbers in my life (credit card, NI etc) I can still remember my FidoNet addresses from when I was a youngster. I'm not sure how I'd feel about an archive
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by jlarcombe 7mo ago
it's fascinating / astonishing
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by jlarcombe 7mo ago
How on earth does this count as "clean room" in any way, when many open-source Z80 emulators will without doubt have been part of its training data?
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by jlarcombe 7mo ago
I am bound to say that turning to another large language model to seek some insight into the original output is unlikely to convince those of us for whom it is all completely meaningless and devoid of anything other than purely academic i
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by jlarcombe 7mo ago
I struggle to see anything good or interesting about any of this. "Here's a conversation I had with a large language model and here's the completely uninteresting artwork that resulted." Reading through the comments, per
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by jlarcombe 8mo ago
Saw it in the British Library a few years ago. Hopefully the new owner is as generous with loaning it out to public museums as the current one.
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by jlarcombe 10mo ago
Agree totally. Reminiscent of the Paul Erdös reaction to the proof of the Four Colour Problem. It's been quite good reading these comments because a lot of them have put into words my own largely negative feelings about the AI ubiquito
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by jlarcombe 10mo ago
Yes I remember your comment to that effect on the last thread that touched on this topic! From memory I think I was ten years after you and either I had different expectations or the course had changed radically because I had a much more po
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by jlarcombe 10mo ago
the Oxford joint schools degree was called "Mathematics and Computation" for many, many years
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by jlarcombe 10mo ago
Extremely enjoyable place to visit. Unique and intriguing atmosphere within.
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by jlarcombe 1y ago
yes it's hard to understand why people feel the need to do this and I worry it's just going to become ubiquitous and ruin everything
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by jlarcombe 1y ago
There are quite a few of these on the Victoria line, one next to my friend's house and it is really really noisy!
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by jlarcombe 1y ago
To this day I miss the way RISC OS handled focus, window/app activation, file loading and saving, menus, and the three-button mouse.
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by jlarcombe 1y ago
yes. it's absolutely horrible looking.
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by jlarcombe 2y ago
yes, surely a good approach, and as you say the performance is likely to be fine given the vast increase in raw speed since the old days...
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by jlarcombe 2y ago
Don't think Pi 5 can run 'supervisor code' (in old ARM language) in 32-bit mode, so RISC OS surely won't run. The bulk of it is written in assembler so reworking it to AArch64 would be an epic task. Probably take no long
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by jlarcombe 2y ago
the author explains his reasons in considerable detail in the article...
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by jlarcombe 2y ago
Not a single useful thing? A complete waste of time? Really not anything that you found intriguing or thought-provoking for its own sake? I did the same course nine years later and found it very stimulating, even if it wasn't always di

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