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A lot of people in the US don't like tomatoes as well. One of my friends told me he hated them until he moved to another country and then found out what they were supposed to taste like.

The only good tomatoes I've had in the US come from friends' gardens.

Oh man, if only I knew what was wrong with it half the time. I've replaced the ROM with 1.9 since it supposedly has diagnostics but they don't tell me much. I've been trying to design a new cartridge for it, but writing to it is always super funky. The service manual doesn't exactly say what the timings are supposed to be, just the pinout.

Mostly though I've just got some weird dirty hiss (sounds like a rainstorm) on the output all the time that makes it unsuitable for recording. I use DEXED + midi in that case, but it's still fun on it's own (also weirdly I find menu-diving to edit patches easier than being presented with that big DEXED UI)

Thanks for keeping these things alive

Looks like the whole video is just someone screen-recording their mac playing the game in an emulator. It's not even edited.

I've done this hack for a point&shoot that couldn't understand the film I was loading (and would therefore default to 100).

I really wish one of these articles would go into the meaning of the barcodes on the film strips themselves, because I have a number of negatives that I'd like to scan and being able to automatically recognise the frame number and film stock would help me build a raspi controlled solution for it. I used to have an automated scanner that could do whole rolls at once and automatically apply a colour profile and number all the files - I just want that again.

':' was the traditional directory separator on Macintosh systems before OSX, therefore it can't be used on HFS+ either. I remember there being some FS funk when OSX came out since it was very common for people to put dates in their filenames using slashes, and well, UNIX doesn't like that. I don't know what APFS does.

The DX7ii I have is a fucking tank of a machine and I'm playing it until it breaks, fixing it, and then playing it some more. I guess I kind of understand typical "car guys" now.

The best part is being able to map the sliders to /almost/ any parameter within a patch, so it's possible to have expressive control over the tonality of your instrument while playing live. Sure it involves menu diving to figure out ahead of time, but I'm a programmer. It's really more about the joy of being like "this sound needs more wonk, lets tie this parameter to the output of this other function and ooOOOH not what I was expecting but let's go"

Would sacrificing an operator and setting it to constant mode instead of mult work for this? You'd have to use the feedback operator if you wanted something noisy though.

I think I saw somewhere that you can actually tell the LFO is done in software because it actually slows down if you move the sliders a lot while the CPU tries to pay attention to too much at once.

Home internet in Japan is IPv6 only. Usually you have to sign up for a separate NAT-like-thing that the ISP runs as well, sometimes for an additional charge.

My old mac muscle memory is telling me option+e, c.

I don't have one anymore to test though, but I used to use the mac layout on Linux for a while exactly for composing using alt.

Talkin' out of my ass here, but is this an artifact of the parameter having to fit in the same instruction word as the opcode ('cause RISC) and because the register is the size of a word (which is partially used by the opcode now), you can't actually load a whole register with an immediate in one go?

Right but I know Yamaha OPL sound when I hear it.

That and the later drives were made cheaper and click-of-death was beginning to become an issue. My 100MB SCSI drive still works and reads the old Maxell disks no problem though.

for clojure there's

    #(f %)

or

    (fn [x] (f x))

Nah I'm talking about the US unit of volume being related to itself by powers of 2. 16oz to a pint, 8 pints to a gallon. Everything is just halves and doubles. I feel like that's legitimate and convenient. Can't say the same for the rest of the US system.

I think the US pint is something like 476ml (checked; it's 473), and the UK pint is 20 /slightly/ smaller than US oz instead of 16.

I first ran into Xiaomi when I used a build of their MIUI rom on my Sony Ericsson X10 back in the day. It was amazingly better than default android (2.3/gingerbread era), so I wanted to keep using it.

Got a new phone at some point and tried it again, and they were on some real shit by then. All the default built-in programs for like, /music playing/ would force you through a Xiaomi Cloud sign up process just to play music /already on your phone/.

Granted, Google is now on the same shit; I found with my latest android they've removed all the basic apps for file browsing, music playing, and the like. Now only "Google Play" versions remain, that of course require a Google account.

I feel like the camera and calculator are the only non-play-required default apps left, but I won't be surprised if I find one day that the camera is somehow integrated into Google Photos, which will of course not open until you sign in.

Unfortunately my track record of "That Device I Longed For" has a habit of not matching what other people wanted, so what I longed for wasn't made in enough quantity and went straight from "expensive" to "rare"

...or "only collectors/completionists want that" when I want the damn thing to actually /use/ it.

Ah yes, named for the one part of the US unit system that actually makes a lot of sense (being powers of 2). I wish we could resize the US pint to 500ml and then have two actually useful systems, just in different bases, with an easy conversion point.

(though I can't actually tell if this is the US pint or the UK pint)

One thing that grinds my gears is that ebook font licensing is somehow separate from pdf font licensing and on a per title basis, despite them being /the same thing/.

Similarly, application embed licensing and webfont licensing are separate, which kinda makes sense, until you make a webapp. (In reality though, I believe the spirit of the distinction is whether the user of the app can enter any text and have it appear in that font, but they don't say that.)

Oh cool did they finally finish that? Time to get buildin' (I only use rust in my hobby so unfortunately it has to take a backseat a lot of the time)

Not enough CPUs supported by LLVM. (personally, I want m68k and MIPS-I)

I was gonna say this reminds me of the curved film planes on cheap plastic cameras including the back of many disposable cameras. Almost as if it's good to make the focal point the same distance away from the lens in all places.

If only sony is making these, a lot of other cameras will see them as well since sony is the sensor manufacturer for say, nikon. That' doesn't mean prices will go down, however.

One of the things I've noticed is that Signal doesn't seem to care about privacy at all. They care a lot about security though, which is a different thing, and tell you that's privacy.

Reminds me of a piece of software that was part of some human-computer interaction study that I can't find right now. I swear it was called "Glance" but that's proven to be ungoogleable

It was a mac menu bar icon (or systray icon) of a closed eye. You could click on and see a menu of who was "in the room" with you. However, if you hovered or interacted with this menu for a bit, the eye would open on everyone else's screen indicating that someone was "looking around." From this menu you could initiate a chat with whoever was also "in the room"

The whole idea was to try and emulate glancing up from your desk and catching the eye of someone who was also glancing up at the same time, so people wouldn't be interrupting people currently "in the zone" Thus you could create the feeling of working in the same space with people while teleworking, but not have to commit to the definite action of messaging someone in order to feel out whether it was good to talk with a "hey"

I think an always-open connection is good for this too, but I agree that I'd much rather it be audio-only.

So because you believe that one group of people can't learn a particular language, nobody should be allowed to post using that language on the internet? I both have been taught racket and taught racket myself in schools, and at no point was coding presented as 'only for elites.'

I'm not sure why you hate lisp-like languages so much and can't accept that it's actually more comfortable for some people. I'm sorry if you were hit with one too many "lisp is for a more civilized age" people.

Coding is for everyone, no?

Clojure is hardly bougie or a circle jerk considering it's focus on pragmatism. The first programming language taught in both my highschool and college was PLT-Scheme (now Racket), which is arguably more bougie than clojure considering its' academic focus as a PL research language.

Zero people dropped out in HS. In college I'm pretty sure you're going to have people dropping out of the intro course for programming no matter what language you choose when it's taught in 60-100 student lectures with professors and TAs that have been steeped in CS so long they no longer remember what being a beginner is like.

That's simply not true.

VC funding distorts this, since at that point what you can afford is no longer based on productivity, but how good you are at convincing investors. As a customer of the cafe, you're no longer serving my interests at that point since that has nothing to do with my experience.

Also, I would like to reward the service-oriented business that provide me the most enjoyment regardless of their 'productivity,' or, to put it another way, my (as a customer) enjoyment is exactly the 'productivity' that should be measured, not how much rent they pay.

(has? (previous-experience 'lisp))

This has definitely been a problem long before last year. Heck, in 2018 Harvard Square lost a great cafe everyone liked that had been there for years because a landlord firm off in North Carolina figured they could charge triple the rent if they brought a VC-backed NYC chain restaurant in.