teknico

Not a Raspberry Pi but an Arduino Due, a much less powerful CPU with much less RAM and storage.

> I've been creating an annotated disassembly of the Yamaha DX7 synthesiser's firmware ROM.

That's awesome! Hopefully you'll publish it once you're done. :-)

facebook.com DNS is not resolving in most of the world right now (click Search on the top left):

https://dnschecker.org/#A/facebook.com

There will never be 10 billion people alive at the same time, let alone 20.

Go to your account and tap on "Switch to lifetime".

So, you sing and play songs. Maybe you use song sheets like the ones on Ultimate Guitar, Chordie and similar websites, and write a few of your own. Maybe you use ChordPro to get easier and better formatting, and other goodies.

However, something is missing: the rhythm.

You don't want to use lead sheets, sheet music, or anything that has staves in it, but you'd indeed like to be able to write down when those chords should change, and when those syllables should be sung, in a simple and readable way.

Well, it's your lucky day: now you can use the LCR format to write those songs, and then convert them to HTML and PDF using the LyChoRhyce program. (LYrics, CHOrds and RHYthm, get it? I also like licorice.)

The LCR format works somewhat like ChordPro but it's simpler, and adds those juicy rhythm features. LyChoRhyce is a free/open, command line program written in, and requiring, Python.

The docs include the "Time in Music Notation" article, a detailed comparison of the most common song notations, and why LCR is special.

I created these two things to scratch an itch of mine, as they say, and then documented and published them. I hope you find them useful, and I welcome your thoughts!

This made me laugh:

"(And what does “behave” even mean? It’s not like we are talking about children here.)"

Are they serious? :-D

Is this accurate?

I wanted to donate to such a non-profit and I found three comparison websites, quite different from each other, that all recommended Trees for the Future: http://trees.org/ .

They've been working for twenty years, already planted 150 million trees, and most importantly, train people in Africa to create forest gardens while lifting themselves out of poverty.

Now they plant eight trees per day for me too. <3

Did anyone force you to have kids?

You have your life now: go and fuck it up as much as you want.

Pocket Premium stores the web pages on a server. If there was a way to batch export and access them locally, I'd gladly pay for it.

Been using it for so long. Currently it's Scrapbook X under Pale Moon (that I keep around just to run that).

Looking for an alternative that would import my thousands of saved pages.

Shell scripts and doing a good job don't go well together.

For simpler, more expressive Python system scripts use Plumbum: https://plumbum.readthedocs.io/

From the article:

"That frees up the FPGA to do audio only."

Here are two audio Rasperry Pi 3 based, no-FPGA projects.

Zynthian: http://zynthian.com/

Patchbox OS: https://blokas.io/patchbox-os/

Negative/weak atheism ("I do not believe there is a God") expresses the absence of a belief, and therefore is compatible with the scientific method, and with agnosticism.

Positive/strong atheism ("I believe there is no God") expresses an unproved and unprovable belief, and therefore is incompatible with the scientific method, and with agnosticism.

The above is true for any definition of God.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_and_positive_atheism

The security of virtual machines with the speed and low resources of containers, and written in Rust? Sign me up!

The article's author, Chris "Monty" Montgomery, is one of the authors of Ogg Vorbis [1] and Opus [2].

It puzzles me that many people don't yet know about Opus. Let me quote the FAQ [3]:

"Does Opus make all those other lossy codecs obsolete?

Yes.

From a technical point of view (loss, delay, bitrates, ...) Opus renders Speex obsolete and should also replace Vorbis and the common proprietary codecs too (e.g. AAC, MP3, ...)."

[1] https://xiph.org/vorbis/

[2] http://www.opus-codec.org/comparison/

[3] https://wiki.xiph.org/OpusFAQ#Does_Opus_make_all_those_other...

Already discussed. Main posts:

[2012] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3668310

[2014] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8689231

[2015] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10520639

[2017] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15127633

"Punchtop is an audio game"

No, it is not: it is a drinking game (as the Wikipedia page linked by the author clearly states). Music is only incidentally used to mark the passing of time: a timer works just as well.

Here is what is usually meant by "audio game": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_game

Not affiliated either, just an amazed customer.

Never needed glasses until I was in my late forties and had to start using reading ones.

I bought the Personal Vision Tracker (the black one) on the Indiegogo campaign. It's not very easy to use but gives fairly consistent data if handled with care. I did not yet compare the device data with the ones from a doctor's visit.

(The data for my right eye are slightly worse than for the left, and I have indeed not ideal results with standard reading glasses.)

I bought prescription glasses on a UK site (I live in Europe) based on the device data. Both the reading glasses (short distance) and the computer glasses (medium distance) are perfect: I have not seen this good in years.

Because of that excellent result I have also ordered the VisionCheck (the new, white one) on the Indiegogo campaign. It is purportedly easier to use, not gotten it yet.

Meanwhile I had also got the Insight model (larger white one). That is for visual acuity and it confirmed that I have 20/20. Interestingly, it also showed I have a light form of tritanopia, which might explain past naming disagreements around colors between green and blue.

Their product page: https://www.eyeque.com/pvt/

foobar2000 is excellent on Android too.

If you're going to test, you might start from 64, Opus is that good. I didn't perform extensive tests and use 128.

I once went to an audiophile's place. He had one wall covered with equipment, paid tens of thousand of euros (actually liras, back in the day).

He had twenty records. Ten of them were test signals.

This. Just looking at a graph for resonances in a room, or moving around while playing a low-freq tone, is enough to give you an idea of the enormous difference a properly treated room would make.

[OFF-TOPIC] Katniss. <3

(From the Hunger Games books and movies: "Catnip" is how Gale used to call Katniss Everdeen. May the Odds be Ever in your Favour.)

It is nice indeed.

Also, PostgreSQL is described as powerful, reliable, full-featured, and fast, while MySQL as the most popular: that's all.

What is not said can be as important as what is.

Excellent overview of the language, ecosystem and community. Thank you for writing it.

Yes, pun intended: "And like a classic example of itself, the decline has been long, gradual, and barely noticed."

I read PDFs on an Android 8" tablet without problems with the EasyPDF app. It mostly works on the phone's 5" screen too if the text is not too small (reflow mode doesn't work well for many files).