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frankzander··on FreeBSD Home Audio Studio
The problem is, that it's crackling also in normal use. The log always says, that the client is too slow. Maybe it's my sound card (driver) which I doubt because it should make no problems with a Focusrite interface. However ... I'm tired of tuning the system when I want to make music. So pipewire is really cool but not usable for pro audio yet (IMHO)
frankzander··on FreeBSD Home Audio Studio
That's often also the problem with Linux and audio. The easiest way is to connect Ardour directly through ALSA to an audio interface . The second easiest way is IMHO jackd and if you want to get in some trouble it's Pipewire (at least within the development state mar 2023).
frankzander··on Plant-based meat is turning out to be a flop
Turns out to be true tbh. I've tasted all kinds of fake meat and sausages and some is pretty good. But at the end tofu (pulled is the best) and saitan (not satan) is the easiest and most versatile. You can do almost anything with it. Chickpeas, beans and bean-cheese (aka tofu) and except from spices and herbs nothing more is needed.
frankzander··on MSI's (in)Secure Boot
I have a over 10 years old second hand computer. Works great. But from the comments ... is it nowadays not possible to work without secure boot if I buy a new motherboard?
frankzander··on Ask HN: We found a cracked version of our software on the web, now what?
Best is 2. because it's human and fully open and clear in communication and also sane because you acknowledge that every other step is a fight against windmills and swimming against the stream. Using what has been given to you is the best thing, the smartest thing and with that you show, that you outsmart the situation and also respect the users (payed and unpayed)
frankzander··on Show HN: Vim online editor using WebAssembly, storing files using IndexedDB
What's the use case for that?
frankzander··on How to Polish CSS?
I only try new things if i really need them ... nothing in advance because often it's useless because you forget it so quick. I also read about new features in CSS from time to time. So I remember what's possible with actual browsers. In new projects I try to incorporate new CSS features if they fit and if it's useful ( caniuse.com ). Becoming better in CSS is always exercise on real use cases. What you also can do is to solve others CSS problems. Maybe you know someone who has CSS as an arch enemy so you can say that he can call you if he has problems and you can try to solve his problems together.

This helps a lot with understanding and getting better.

frankzander··on Tough time building components of a site using vanilla CSS. What to do?
Atomic CSS at least ties code and visuals together ... not a good idea IMHO
frankzander··on Tough time building components of a site using vanilla CSS. What to do?
And stay away from this frameworks like Bootstrap or Tailwind because with that you only learn to build something fast but you do not know how it works. But you can use this frameworks for studying how something can be done.
frankzander··on Tough time building components of a site using vanilla CSS. What to do?
For this timeline there are for me at least 2 easy ways ... each point is relative and got before and after elements and both positioned absolute (one becomes the dot - the other the line).

You have to think through what you need and how you can reach your goal with at least effort as possible (in this case with virtual elements). If more complex graphics should be painted you have to think about alternatives like SVG. You always should ask yourself "how can I paint this or that" Learning CSS is IMHO something which takes a while. This means that you should look at how others did something. Than you some day got a gut feeling how something should be done so and so. There is no golden path in CSS mastery other than exercise exercise exercise and look and the ideas of others and copy them. CSS is hard but cool and many people hate it but if you know what to do CSS is a great tool.

frankzander··on Ask HN: Top Skills to Learn for 2023?
* be kind

* be empathic

* be humble

frankzander··on You can hook your MIDI keyboard up to a website with Firefox 108
Well good luck with that. I doubt that you can beat 15ms line latency to at least 5ms ;-)
frankzander··on You can hook your MIDI keyboard up to a website with Firefox 108
Because classical audio streaming does the work.
frankzander··on You can hook your MIDI keyboard up to a website with Firefox 108
Collaborative music making is IMHO more than pushing midi events around. And TBH this is nowadays fully possible but AFAIK not in real time.
frankzander··on You can hook your MIDI keyboard up to a website with Firefox 108
But is there a really need for that?
frankzander··on You can hook your MIDI keyboard up to a website with Firefox 108
Ok fair point.
frankzander··on You can hook your MIDI keyboard up to a website with Firefox 108
Can anyone explain to me, what's cool on web midi? I me for me it's totally useless. I have a lot of sequencer, synth and midi help plugins in the DAW ... what does a JS interface to the web offers other than the next 100th "I just wrote a little useless javascript music script"-show HN posts? For me it doesn't solve any problem or satisfy any need. It's just another other thing almost nobody uses in the browser.
frankzander··on Ask HN: Someone is proxy-mirroring my website, can I do anything?
Had the same problem. They used a scraper which runs on Amazon AWS ... so I blocked all Amazon AWS IPs (google for the list of IPs ... and than for a script which creates you NGINX rules for all IPs). Works quite well.
frankzander··on New CSS units that account for mobile viewports with dynamic toolbars
Good point ... at the end it's what you expect from vh ... just make it work without 10 different distinctions you'll never use in your life.
frankzander··on Working with Tailwind CSS every day for 2 years
no problem. I work every day with CSS ... you can't know every new feature unless you have at least one use case to get know the new feature. The "old" technics are still working but if you want the benefits of new technics like text-decoration-skip-ink you have to use the new ones. So as long as you do not run into such problems like "skip-ink" you do not have to learn ne new ones.
frankzander··on Berlin artist transforms waste plastic into an inflatable isolation chamber
I would call it fart recycler ... because if you far in there it's sustained and you have a long time a personal odor around you and the next person after you also have something from it.
frankzander··on Berlin artist transforms waste plastic into an inflatable isolation chamber
sustainability means not producing trash at the first place (or at least as few as possible).
frankzander··on Berlin artist transforms waste plastic into an inflatable isolation chamber
YMMD
frankzander··on Beyond Meat is struggling, and the plant-based meat industry worries
Since the rise of Beyond and the whole hype of this lab-grown alternative products, something has really changed (at least here in Germany): There are a lot of good tasting meat-like products on the market and they improved very well over the last couple of years. They improved in texture (IMHO a completely underrated factor) and flavor. I mostly buy steaks and sausages for BBQ. Nowadays there are some differences in taste and texture but when I was beginning eating only vegetarian (20+ years) there was nearly nothing on the market and that, what was on the market, was disgusting.

But I have to admit ... the best products are products which don't want to be meat replacements. That are well flavored (with herbs and smoke) tofu products from one german company/brand. They are too expensive for day to day use like the most other meat replacements but if I want to spend my money on that than I buy the really good stuff.

Vegan/Vegetarian has, depending on the intention behind this decision, often a health related reason. Meat alternatives are often highly processed food which is not healthy at all. Proteins from peas, soy, mushrooms or whatever remind me more at dog food with hydrolyzed protein content for allergic dogs ;-)

The replacements may or may not taste good ... at the end they are not as healthy as self cooked food.

frankzander··on Beyond Meat is struggling, and the plant-based meat industry worries
So you seem to know what's complex on this products. Share your knowledge. I claim that this products are not complex or not more complex as meat based products
frankzander··on An interactive guide to Flexbox
this depends on what you know ... grid is way more mighty and you have to take know what to do if you want to behave like flexbox.
frankzander··on An interactive guide to Flexbox
I use CSS basically every day but flex-basis, flex-grow and flex-shrink now clear. I had a gut feeling but no motivation to investigate further. If something doesn't work with flexbox I just use grid. Now Flexbox gets maybe some more use cases where grid is bit of an overkill.
frankzander··on A lobbying blitz made sports betting ubiquitous
Well said, Well said!
frankzander··on The Terayacht Project
Turtles can dive you know ;-)
frankzander··on Stretch iPhone to its limit: 2GiB Stable Diffusion model runs locally on device
Nothing. It's IMHO just a hype of the younger nerdy generation. The real world applications of NN-based (there is no I in A) image generation are limited. One hype comes the other hype goes. IMHO it did not come to stay ;-)
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