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Question: What exercise routine do you have? Have you tried Oculus Quest 2's Supernatural or Les Mills Body Combat VR?
Asked by Afzal (182.185.210.x) on September 20 2023, 3:36pm
Reply on September 20 2023, 10:00pm (edited at September 20 2023, 10:04pm):
    running (when I'm not injured), walking a lot (40-60 miles a week as of late), hiking when geography allows, some bicycling, various strengthening exercises as PT for injuries heh (lunges, dips, pullups, pushups, single leg deadlifts, bulgarian split squats, planks, ab roller, etc etc) , occasional elliptical, kayaking and SUP.
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Question: How would you code in JS an effect that sounds exactly like a bitcrusher, but you are not allowed to use anu JS function/module/effect/whatever that actually does bitcrushing (nothing else than 16-bit (say) is allowed all along). Please be as specific as you can :)
Asked by OPUS 500 (31.37.8.x) on September 20 2023, 9:39am
Reply on September 20 2023, 1:16pm (edited at September 20 2023, 1:18pm):
    If you mean JS as in JSFX:
    @init
    scale = 2^15; // 16-bit
    iscale = 1 / scale;
    
    @sample
    spl0 = floor(spl0 * scale + 0.5) * iscale;
    spl1 = floor(spl1 * scale + 0.5) * iscale;
    
    If you mean JavaScript, well, not sure what that would look like but the same logic of Math.floor would be useful...
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Question: How can one find balance amidst the daily demands of modern-day living?
Asked by JacekPlacek (83.238.122.x) on September 20 2023, 8:06am
Reply on September 20 2023, 1:16pm (edited at September 20 2023, 1:17pm):
    a day at a time, I suppose ((tm) (c) omar little)
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Question: Did you ever got anger or anxiety problems?
Asked by GYGEXMACHINE (201.48.183.x) on September 19 2023, 5:09pm
Reply on September 19 2023, 5:24pm:
    I am sometimes anxious but exercise helps with that.
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Question: In media representations in Europe, NYC appears to only have summer and winter. Do you have fall too and what is it like?
Asked by polish potatoes (77.190.138.x) on September 19 2023, 6:53am
Reply on September 19 2023, 5:24pm:
    Fall and spring are amazing! I mean I love the heat of summer too but fall and spring are incredibly pleasant. Winter can suck it though.
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Question: Might be a tough question: What will you do if the next major audio/midi feature that you need to adapt to REAPER requires you to remove some(or all) of the backward compatibility that REAPER has?
Asked by Reapetitive (216.247.81.x) on September 19 2023, 2:35am
Reply on September 19 2023, 5:23pm (edited at September 19 2023, 5:25pm):
    There are absolutes in that question ("need", "requires", etc)... in practice software development is about choosing compromises.
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Question: how does this website work ?
Asked by now... (146.70.113.x) on September 19 2023, 12:20am
Reply on September 19 2023, 5:22pm:
    From a user perspective, you ask questions here and I then I answer them. Internally it is written in PHP and writes a lot of files to disk...
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Question: I saw a video of Linus Torvals talking about how the main issue with desktop linux is the difficulty for application develeopers having to support all the different desktops, which seems to be the point of Flatpak. You seem to manage distributing just the one version of Reaper on Linux. Was that a propblem or is it just becasue Reaper doesn't rely on lots of Linux libraries that makes it easier?
Asked by todd_r (86.134.155.x) on September 16 2023, 5:10pm
Reply on September 17 2023, 7:54pm:
    Not exactly sure what's meant by "different desktops." Supporting different desktop environments, there are some quirks but it's pretty standardized. The bigger issues are around certain shared libraries, and we deal with this by dynamic loading when possible, and by using old libraries/toolchains when they can't be dynamically loaded. So we compile with gcc 4.x (so that we can support systems that have old versions of libc++ or whatever it is).
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Question: Hey Justin, hope you're well. How has your commenting style evolved over the years? Personally I like to add a dated comment outlining a system's general structure, and that's about it. Also, have you seen Unity's (game engine) latest misstep? Crazy.
Asked by Jack (91.90.123.x) on September 15 2023, 8:57am
Reply on September 15 2023, 1:09pm:
    the problem, of course, is when the design evolves and the comment doesn't get updated with it... I haven't seen the Unity misstep, lemme google that
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Question: Hi Justin, have you ever thought about creating a mobile sequencer that would be as simple and fast as a reaper?
Asked by Aidy (176.59.211.x) on September 13 2023, 9:43pm
Reply on September 14 2023, 1:35pm:
    For mobile it would have to be a completely different UI in order to make sense, and I don't want to make two things so nah...
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Question: Have you tried modeling amps with NAM, or jammed with any community uploads? (Neural Amp Modeler)
Asked by Dom64 (82.132.245.x) on September 13 2023, 4:40pm
Reply on September 14 2023, 1:35pm:
    I haven't really, nope!
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Question: It will be 68°F outside today, kind of overcast, forecast of light rain for the afternoon. Shorts or long pants?
Asked by Dr Glendrik (188.241.177.x) on September 13 2023, 6:24am
Reply on September 13 2023, 12:41pm:
    If you're going to be mostly sitting around, pants. If there will be a lot of walking or bicycling or things that generate heat, I'd still go shorts.
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Question: Nothing you can think of worth posting in your feed about coding? I always read with interest, last one is from January. :)
Asked by wasereb4 (83.135.15.x) on September 12 2023, 12:18am
Reply on September 13 2023, 12:41pm:
    Hah coding is usually pretty boring these days, let me think about that.
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Question: hey jf- do you have powers to *unban the banned* on reaper forum? (asking for a very confused friend!)
Asked by 2023 (5.81.138.x) on September 7 2023, 11:31am
Reply on September 7 2023, 2:15pm:
    Banned by IP or banned by username?
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Question: By your experience, how often did you have to reinstall Linux from scratch, because of unexpected issues (corrupted system, slowdowns etc.)? Does Linux installation have "lifespan", like Windows, for example??? I mean, do things happen or change without any obvious reason on Linux, causing issues?
Asked by zabukowski (95.176.130.x) on September 6 2023, 11:14am
Reply on September 7 2023, 2:16pm:
    Not often, sometimes if you let a distro get very behind you run into problems upgrading to newer releases, but rarely is it something that is not recoverable.
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Question: Was nullsoft ever hacked back in the day when you guys managed your own infra, or was fdc just that good?
Asked by Will (23.125.224.x) on September 5 2023, 2:43pm
Reply on September 5 2023, 3:53pm:
    Not that I know of!
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Question: Do you think of REAPER as the punk DAW? In comparison with the other companies? Maybe the hacker of DAWs?
Asked by EternoReterno (187.201.243.x) on September 5 2023, 3:41am
Reply on September 5 2023, 3:53pm:
    haha maybe there's a little bit of that vibe...
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Question: would be great if we can integrate ChatGPT into REAPER. hahaha
Asked by ArthenLin (212.107.30.x) on September 4 2023, 5:43pm
Reply on September 4 2023, 10:36pm:
    Would it? I'm not so sure...
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Question: Do you keep painting/drawing?
Asked by heya (179.104.134.x) on September 4 2023, 6:11am
Reply on September 4 2023, 10:36pm:
    I keep meaning to but my time gets sucked up by other things! I must return!
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Question: If you want to cry, watch & listen to this youtube.com/watch?v=VKTF1ggnfjU
Asked by :'-( (27.58.70.x) on September 2 2023, 7:34am
Reply on September 4 2023, 10:37pm:
    Hmm I'll save it for when I'm ready for a cry
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