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Question: we have a theory about storage-considering the vast amounts of data/info people can gather throughout their lives..do you think it may be possible that we do not actually "store" all this data in our brains directly..we use more of a portable drive (the aetheric consciousness field) & we simply upload & download relevant momentary info at will..yay/nay?
Asked by 2023 (165.120.114.x) on December 13 2023, 9:13pm
Reply on December 13 2023, 11:42pm:

We've got plenty of neurons and neural connections! 2 Comments...

Question: Would you screw the pig to save the princess?
Asked by Will (23.125.224.x) on December 12 2023, 2:58am
Reply on December 12 2023, 3:23pm:

Am I the prime minister? As a private citizen, no. 2 Comments...

Question: WDL: It's strange and somewhat confusing you don't use character literal prefix for wchar_t. e.g. correctlongpath(). Is it possible to become a problem in the distant future if the compilers start to become more conforming?
Asked by Gio (85.75.197.x) on December 11 2023, 9:34pm
Reply on December 11 2023, 9:48pm:

Not sure why it matters? Some old VC versions don't support wchar_t anyway 1 Comment...

Question: Does REAPER use a xplatform lib to work on Win/Mac/Lin?
Asked by Luke (73.70.204.x) on December 11 2023, 5:04pm
Reply on December 11 2023, 6:29pm:

It uses

SWELL

Comment...

Question: What's your opinion on the Cmajor programming language? (cmajor.dev Is there substance to the promises?
Asked by Sunblister (46.88.105.x) on December 11 2023, 12:10am
Reply on December 11 2023, 4:42pm:

No opinion but I'm not much a fan of JUCE. Comment...

Question: when are you retiring
Asked by Stephen Falk (184.68.23.x) on December 10 2023, 10:48pm
Reply on December 11 2023, 4:43pm:

Not this decade Comment...

Question: How much RAM do you have in your machines? How much RAM do you think is the minimum acceptable on laptops these days?
Asked by Mmmbop (5.77.77.x) on December 10 2023, 6:36pm
Reply on December 10 2023, 7:27pm:

Depends on what you're up to I guess, but for a Windows/Linux box I'd be fine with 8GB, for M1-M3 mac probably 16GB. Comment...

Question: Win32 / Dark mode themes possibly more possible? this might be of interest? github.com/MicrosoftDocs/windows-d...
Asked by dom64 (82.132.215.x) on December 10 2023, 5:21pm
Reply on December 10 2023, 7:26pm:

ah the part for enabling dark titlebars via DWM is helpful. Though that doc still lacks some actual win32 code for querying darkmode state. And even once you query it, enabling it for MS-provided win32 controls is also non-obvious/involves hackery. Comment...

Question: Hey, Justin! Could not get answer on the forum, so I'll try to ask you) is there possibility to load automation item from file in Reascript? (Those which were saved by right clicking AI and "save")
Asked by Alex k. (86.102.18.x) on December 8 2023, 10:44am
Reply on December 9 2023, 5:00pm:

I'll look into this 3 Comments...

Question: What do you want to say about GTA 6 trailer. Do you like it? Are you waiting for it?
Asked by Abhi (27.58.109.x) on December 8 2023, 6:54am
Reply on December 9 2023, 5:00pm:

Looks good but in general, yawn, games. I need to spend more time with FS2020 still 2 Comments...

Question: Did wealth make your happiness set point change in a remarkable way, or do you feel like the same guy as before?
Asked by Will (23.125.224.x) on December 7 2023, 6:06pm
Reply on December 8 2023, 12:05am:

Hard to tell considering when it happened in my life, so I'll assume I'm the same guy I was... Comment...

Question: What do you think of ball pythons?
Asked by Penny (67.249.139.x) on December 7 2023, 5:12pm
Reply on December 8 2023, 12:05am:

Neutral, would prefer them not to be in my house though. Comment...

Question: What do you think about Scrum and are you practicing any particular software development methodology?
Asked by AbsurdJack (212.200.181.x) on December 6 2023, 9:41pm
Reply on December 8 2023, 12:06am (edited at December 8 2023, 2:12pm):

Don't know much about it and the methodology I practice is whatever-seems-to-work-over-the-last-25-years or so, which does change I guess. Edit: With additional thought, when you're sick and miserable and uncomfortable and you find the local minimum of discomfort that allows you to sleep. There's some of that in there teoo. Comment...

Question: Could we have the ability to return custom IVideoFrame objects from a video processor in the future? Alternatively, could some userdata fields be added to IVideoFrame objects? Thanks!
Asked by Francesco (87.17.203.x) on December 6 2023, 6:25pm
Reply on December 8 2023, 12:09am (edited at December 8 2023, 12:14am):

Hmm returning custom implementations would be more difficult. We could add a userdata, I think, via the Extended() interface. But what is the use case of such? 4 Comments...