jmkr

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by jmkr 1mo ago
No, but I think a lot is, and it makes it (more) difficult to discover new music. There's still in person music, which is what it's about anyway.
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by jmkr 1mo ago
Indeed, I also don't listen to music after 2024. I'm also not interested in anything my friends have made (with claude or others). Or how so much of creativity is now a prompt away. A lot of our culture is disappearing before ou
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by jmkr 6mo ago
Pretty much every vst, clap, etc plugin on Linux requires X calls because of how windows get created and then managed by the host. I've moved to running Bitwig in an Ubuntu distrobox container. Hope you're enjoying 6, it seems th
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by jmkr 6mo ago
Costco and similar do have them at a decent price, currently see them 20$ for 10. I think most people just look at the 2 packs, which are more expensive.
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by jmkr 6mo ago
I play with generally lighter strings. 8.5-40 mighty slinky fender scale. I noticed when I switched my fingers pay much more attention to pressure, and being in tune with microbends. Been thinking of going a bit lighter recently, and also g
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by jmkr 10mo ago
I have been building music theory/midi related vst plugins in JUCE. It's mostly targeted at me, or others that make music, but are not piano players. There isn't much to show currently, but I have a rhythm generator, and have
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by jmkr 1y ago
Isn't it that you sign up for Star Fleet, go through school, take tests, and then get assigned to a position? Not everybody is in Star Fleet, so I assume people want the ability to travel the stars and they'd be happy enough scrub
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by jmkr 1y ago
I think in the western world, Art, and music are both long term projects. So much so that we seem to have "reinvented" music at least twice. Once after the Greeks into classical western music, then again when jazz went into tona
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by jmkr 1y ago
Awesome OP. I'll give it a shot because I've been considering doing something similar for chord charts. Glad to see abc notation support.
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by jmkr 1y ago
This is a really important point that I think a lot of people who aren't vegan don't get. There might be an understanding that food is culture (lets order chinese, or italian), but realizing that's not a culture you exper
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by jmkr 1y ago
I think Lisp is more on the liberal arts side of programming languages. That the "enlightenment" of Lisp is that you can use functions everywhere. Write macros that look like functions and modify behavior, and build your code as
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by jmkr 1y ago
A few weeks ago I was looking into `XReparentWindow` because certain things use it (DAW Plugins). I don't think Wayland can do something similar (but I guess XWayland works), GTK and Qt both seem to have their own version. Looking more
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by jmkr 1y ago
Shut up n play yer guitar. You can practice playing over the changes, or you can go to the bar, watch netflix, or do anything else. But in 10 years are you going to be able to play over the changes? If you remove llms from the article every
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by jmkr 1y ago
My Bitwig template: limiter on master track. My Renoise template: limiter on master track. Now I have no fear of loading random presets.
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by jmkr 1y ago
One of my goals for this years was to get a jazz teacher, specifically for guitar. A layoff killed that goal for the foreseeable future. Theory has helped me practice like I think you're supposed to. More structured, more analysis. It
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by jmkr 1y ago
A midi sequencer, which does or is supposed to do what you expect. In the process of adding stuff like euclydian sequences, and trying to figure out how to generate melodies. Been considering using something like a simple markov probabilit
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by jmkr 1y ago
Yes this is pretty much it and it's obvious to me. There's a big corollary to FOSS and gpl, but a lot of people seem to miss it. This future isn't for our culture, it's for business. And since our culture requires makin
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by jmkr 1y ago
I really hate that companies are allowed to use "natural flavors" and I refuse to buy any products that say that unless they are able to specifically tell me what's not in it. Lots of people don't realize that "natu
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by jmkr 1y ago
> Musicians love a good trend to dump money into. If I get just one more thing my music will sound good :) Euroracks will not go out of style in any serious way, in the same way guitar has not gone out of style over the years even though
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by jmkr 1y ago
> This is why learning guitar when I was younger was so difficult to me I agree. The downvoted op is right in a way. Guitarists have a way to make things difficult. Just learn to play the 1 octave major scale/arpeggio, and triads
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by jmkr 1y ago
A symbol being arbitrary doesn't influence the reality of the meaning behind a thing. I've always thought about `zero` while counting, it never was about `0`. I observe zero. I don't think zero is an absence of quantity. I
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by jmkr 1y ago
+1 for peano arithmetic club. I never realized it was controversial. I think I've always included 0 in the nat numbers since learning to count. But there are some programming books I've read, I want to say the Little Typer, or si
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by jmkr 2y ago
Thanks. Yeah that makes sense for low hanging fruit. Going through the gcc flags it does seem like a lot of tradeoffs have to be made so you can't cover everything. A quick look through compiling Rust it seems it does at least some o
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by jmkr 2y ago
Thanks that's helpful I'll take a look at model checking.
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by jmkr 2y ago
Can you explain what that low hanging fruit is (or refer me to docs), and also explain it being a decision problem a bit more thoroughly. I will accept that if you have to run a program to decide if it's memory safe then that fits the
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by jmkr 2y ago
I think this is addressed in the link under that section https://paulgraham.com/power.html > I think that the main reason we take the trouble to develop high-level languages is to get leverage, so that we can say (and mo
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by jmkr 2y ago
This is probably a common; lisp/scheme type of thought. Dan Friedman also said something about how he only likes code that he can hold in his head to think about in the shower. I forgot the source, but it's in one of the talks.
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by jmkr 2y ago
There's some idiom that says something like "you don't understand something if you can't explain it." I think this is the real point of code review. To make a case for why your code is valuable. If it's just
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by jmkr 2y ago
Been interested in parser combinators for a while now but never really understood how people use them outside of toy examples (including watching this video multiple times). Are there any books like the popular compilers books that use them
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by jmkr 2y ago
Thanks! I've been chipping away at something similar. I mostly keep writing "what is art," "who are artists," and "what is programming" "what is a programmer?" So I may reach out. It's no

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