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Question: hey jf.. if we can,should we? (example being: bringing back dinosaurs or extinct vegetations)
Asked by 2024 (109.158.137.x) on October 28 2024, 7:31pm
Reply on October 28 2024, 8:20pm:

Should is definitely a separate question from can. 2 Comments...

Question: Hi Justin, a musician here :) I wanted to ask if there is any way to make super 8 be able to play midi files? So that for instance you insert different midi drum loops and that trigger a vst. Second question: I'd really would love to collaborate with you just for fun on some music, how can I get in touch with you musically (my email is danielj.golden.official@gmail.com). Ps don't worry that email has the biggest spam filter possible and is my main music email :)
Asked by Danje (80.146.218.x) on October 28 2024, 12:17am
Reply on October 28 2024, 5:37pm:

I've thought about adding support that, but it would require some work, so I haven't gotten to it yet. My email is firstname at companyname dot com Comment...

Question: How much music theory you'd need to know to make a daw like Reaper?
Asked by Rano (223.223.147.x) on October 26 2024, 1:29pm
Reply on October 27 2024, 12:11am:

Hmm I dunno some but not a ton? Comment...

Question: Are you joining critical mass bike event in NYC (if there is?), if so, how big is it?
Asked by wasereb4 (95.90.106.x) on October 24 2024, 11:31pm
Reply on October 25 2024, 12:29am (edited at October 25 2024, 12:33am):

I did it once, in 2019, and it was awesome! Probably 100 people the time I did it? guessing... No idea how big is typical though.

here's a picture

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Question: Do you know of any synth preset managers in the same vein as Big Tick Zen?
Asked by Gary Mullen (1.152.28.x) on October 24 2024, 10:45am
Reply on October 24 2024, 8:44pm:

no idea Comment...

Question: What was your (and the group's) initial reaction to GEISS and what was Ryan Geiss like to work with?
Asked by Noah (24.130.50.x) on October 23 2024, 10:12pm
Reply on October 24 2024, 1:41am:

Geiss the visualizer and the human are both excellent. Comment...

Question: What are your thoughts on Valgrind? Especially with bug hunting? Personally I find it to be quite useful for my use cases. You?
Asked by Matthew (184.52.122.x) on October 21 2024, 3:34am
Reply on October 21 2024, 1:14pm:

Yes it is great! Only problem is with very large projects/test cases it can be very slow. but very valuable regardless! Comment...

Question: Hi, Justin, this free simple vu meter I have linked below uses little resources in reaper and I love how it works. However, I have been struggling to use ai to edit the code to display the maximum VU readout for Left and Right channels and hold the values indefinitely. Can you help me display the max vu readouts (not max sample peaks) and hold them indefinitely even when playback stops? redacted
Asked by W.Garby (102.176.101.x) on October 20 2024, 3:18am
Reply on October 20 2024, 7:11pm:

upload that somewhere reasonable, that page was full of bad download links. 5 Comments...

Question: Did you see this about winamp github pulled
Asked by dspeirs (98.97.116.x) on October 19 2024, 5:13pm
Reply on October 19 2024, 9:02pm:

yeah there was a pretty good flail there, too bad. 1 Comment...

Question: Can you arrange these computer related things in descending order? Means the topic which you know the most, is in leftmost side, whereas the topic which you know the least, is in rightmost side. Topics are : DBMS, Software Engineering, Computer Networks, Operating Systems, Data Structures & Algorithms, C++ (lol), Python, Java, HTML, CSS, Javascript, AI & ML, Cybersecurity, REAPER (again lol), SQL, Word, Excel, Powerpoint. I think these are enough for now XD
Asked by Abhi (106.219.68.x) on October 19 2024, 8:20am
Reply on October 19 2024, 9:17pm (edited at October 19 2024, 11:14pm):

DBMS - uh I can apt-get install mysql and create some databases, tweak caching/memory parameters, etc, but I would have to go do a lot of reading to do something like replication or big scaling
Software Engineering - what does that even mean anyway?
Computer Networks - I can set up LANs and such and configure linux packet filters and dhcp servers or whatever, but if you wanted me to change some BGP configuration of a network I would have a lot of reading to do
Operating Systems - not sure what this would mean, exactly.
Data Structures & Algorithms - I can write you some linked lists and binary trees that with enough testing might prove to be without obvious bugs
C++ - mostly use C++11 or earlier syntax, avoid STL so if you ask me questions about STL use I'd have to look it up
Python - bleh I avoid writing it, but I know that it traditionally has a global lock which makes it suck. I've also had to deal with integrating Python with REAPER and I don't enjoy it.
Java - only used it occasionally, in the 90s I wrote a mandelbrot generator for the browser, but I avoid it at any rate.
HTML - still living in the 90s here.
CSS - something I've never spent enough time on to thoroughly understand, usually it ends up googling + tweaking + testing multiple browsers to find the things that work.
Javascript - I like javascript a lot actually, fun integrating it into otherwise basic web pages. See e.g. WHUMP and the auto-player-stuff on my blog. Lots of similarities to Lua, despite being completely different.
AI & ML - General ideas about how these things are done (side note, Francis was playing with small neural networks back in the early oughts for Winamp vis), but no real expertise to speak of.
Cybersecurity - What does that mean? Securing your systems against attacks? Keeping them up to date? Or attacking? REAPER - I do stuff with it almost every day. Probably use a small percentage of its capabilities though.
SQL - Can write basic SQL but for complex stuff I often end up RTFM Word - uhh is there any expertise to be had here? I do miss Wordperfect 5.1 though.
Excel - I know the diff between =SUM(A1:B2) and =SUM($A1:$B2), remember various functions (COUNTIF() maybe?), but for complex things it's RTFM time
Powerpoint - Stay the fuck away