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> - The website says: "With Elk hardware companies can move away from dedicated chips and use general purpose ARM and x86 CPUs without any compromise in terms of latency, performance and scalability". Is this intended as a ready-made OS for hardware synthesisers, or as a way to host VSTs on consumer SoCs?

Seems like both and more.

> is writing a bare-metal executive the most difficult or expensive aspect of engineering a synthesiser?

Likely being a big part of the expense, yes. Obviously the hardware parts being a big chunk of it too, programming the software side of things are also expensive and sometimes makes the product receive less updates in the future because programmers who did understand the platform left the company. See Octatrack as an example, where the code is so complicated it's unlikely to see any bigger features released to it now as the original programmer left the company.

Also, consider that many people have experience with general computing platforms while not having special expertise about particular chips, this solution on a general platform can help more people get started, learn more and maintain their own setups with skills that easily translate as well.

> Is real-time Linux not overkill for most synthesisers? From the outside looking in, it looks like it would add more overhead and complexity than solve problems

Probably, but probably not. Music making is more about having options available and use those in creative ways. Being able to use a general computing platform opens up more options than specially programmed OSes for particular instruments. Being able to revive old synths with new software would be wonderful.
>If you charge more than the actual cost, why would anyone in the chargeable bracket not pursue a private alternative?

1) "cost" is not equivalent to a value gained by studying there. Even in extremely costly US universities, on average it's advantageous to pursue education.

2) If you charge over "actual cost" in Europe, it's still way less than US prices, inflated among others by byzantine administration.

3) In most of Europe, private universities are complete joke.
Agreed. I'm always impressed by the stickability of these things. No one has said "this is bs, fix your own roof, it's not 1400 anymore".
Try it with Ublock Origin. It works best with FF.

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-b...
Cycling 74's Max is a really good way to get into audio (and visual) programming. It introduces the concepts of programming and DSP whilst still keeping things beginner friendly.
It's a lot more beginner friendly that something like JUCE which, while super powerful, has a much steeper learning curve and requires you to know C++. Major downside is that it's not suitable for making full audio plugin products, rather I would use it to prototype a plugin, the DSP logic and even the UI before writing any text-based code for a VST/AU.

You can absolutely make a nice synth that takes input from pretty much anything you can attach to a computer.

And as everyone else has said - theAudioProgrammer is good too.

(Edit) - Pure Data (PD) is an open source alternative to Max which is free. I've heard people recommend it but never used it myself.
You type LP/ABC123/MAY25 and pull up the loading list.

This doesn't give you information about load factors or overbooking profiles which is the actually commercially sensitive information.
Poland has been strongly anti-Lukashenka for a long time, and since 2007 broadcasts a Belarusian-language satellite TV channel (Belsat). It's probably the only non-regime-controlled Belarusian speaking TV.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belsat_TV
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It was Polish plane that was kidnapped (still Ryanair but registered in Poland) which also doesn't help ;)
COVID-19 is unique in the sense that it sits in a neat "uncanny valley" of virulence and lethality where it's able to attack our healthcare infrastructure (aided by modern travel), but is sufficiently non-lethal that it can keep spreading. The notable issue with SARS (which was incredibly lethal) was that the incubation time was too short - one or two days before you weren't going anywhere, way too high visibility.
It appears you have subscribed to overly-simplistic tribal political rhetoric regarding Poland and Hungary, which is far from constructive.
Yes, as far I know, every at least international flight from EU, the US gets the full information about every passenger, inclusive payment (credit card info).
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Such a much more helpful name!
Holidaymakers who were unlikely to be Lukashenko supporters in the first place and who now can't come home and tell people how great the West is.

I don't think he's losing out that badly here. Indeed, increased isolation from the West may have been a goal from the outset. Having the West do it for him is even better.
PiS right now needs some wins. They have consistently screwed up and their avid fans are even sick of it.
> Maybe you aren't a native English speaker

Lol I'm English.

> If something is "on your left" <side>, I'd hope it should be easy to realize that you should either move to the right

But it could just as likely mean 'please step off the path on your left so I can pass by your right side'.

People make up these conventions and then assume everyone else knows them!

Ideally I'd say don't cycle where people are walking in the first place!
> Every now and then I think about trying skateboarding again, but I wince just thinking about all that force on early-30s knees.

Warm up diligently, skate respectful of your body.

Lots of tips at https://www.thedailypush.com including a very recent post about impact.

Good posture, some workout, and proper insoles go a long way towards being able to skate forever.
This is a bizarre take on the popularity of C. It completely ignores the notions of existing ecosystems (compilers for every platform, kernel code, immense number of APIs) and programmer population (C is taught in every uni).

Instead it ties down C's popularity to the language's ability to separate interface from implementation via header files, and claims no other language can achieve that.

It also overlooks the downsides of header files (like unnecessary recompilation).
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There you go.
If you're associated with the Belarus KGB it's probably not too hard to have some passengers suddenly missing their flight for one or another reason. Probably they don't even need to buy a ticket, flash your badge at the airport and most guards/staff there lets you through.
Emails are sent over different servers, sometimes several, before being delivered. Each of them has to push the attachment forward. Making attachment sizes too permissive opens the door for a pretty neat DDoS vector.

Most EMail servers do not accept more than 10MB, and considering the file sizes of your typical PDF, Word Document or photo, that seems sensible.
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I love Inkscape, and even more so now that I found the included tutorials. A pleasure to use. Can’t wait until it works again on the latest OS X! (Not whining, to be clear - I fully understand how little Apple cares about making it easy to support this type of software across upgrades).
Isn't that what they call the euphemism treadmill?
> why is it so cheap to drive yourself? Shouldn't it be far more expensive? If people abuse free public transport that is actually a good thing.

Yearly taxes on my car are higher than a yearly public transport pass, yet I still have a car. Public transport could be free, they could even pay me for each trip and I would still have a car, simply because my car takes me to places/times that public transport doesn't.

I'm all for public transport, and I use it regularly, but it is not a complete replacement for a car. In fact if you make it free people might even use the savings to buy a bigger car.
Bad governance is possible and even if you win 90 percent of the vote, it doesn’t mean you are governing well but it does mean you are governing to your constituents priorities. Obviously if people actually were bothered about these issues they wouldn’t continue to vote the same people in. Locals actually want this to happen, but indirectly just as a side effect of their other higher priorities. They are willing to make the sacrifices needed to allow people to stay out of jail, not be prosecuted for small crime, not be prosecuted for drugs, trespassing, not ruin people’s lives with criminal records. They allow people freedom to be a little bad. It’s just unfortunate that this kindness actually multiplies the people that want to receive this kindness. Where are people going to, we’ll the place that doesn’t kick them out, tell them to move their tents, doesn’t prosecute them, let’s then have freedom to do drugs. It’s not bad governance, it’s just different governance. And now anyone who doesn’t like that governance has to just leave, politicians get even more votes than ever before, and this validates that they have had the right priorities all along. Long story short the city gets exactly what it’s citizens want, it may not be perfect but I’m the trade offs are desirable. Personally , I come from Seattle, city with a large homeless population and I went to Portland Oregon and I was shocked how much homeless there are camping on the sidewalks of Portland, and just how it felt like I was surrounded by mentally ill people. It sounds like San Francisco is the same and for people like me that doesn’t feel like a dying city, it feels like a dead city, just inhabited by those who have accepted it as is. No doubt there are some nice outskirts or nice areas, but the threat you feel with unpredictable people constantly around isn’t something I’m at all used to and would never want at that level.
> "ripping" for me is associated with "ripping media" which is copying video/music/data from CDs to local hardware

For many others, the OP's use is common and correct—in a lot of areas.

"They ripped me off" is very prevalent in English speaking countries too, outside of tech.
Worth noting in all of this that Belarus recently closed their land borders to citizens [1], under the guise of COVID, but in reality to stop people leaving. The only way out was flying from Minsk, which is now even less of an option if there are no flights to the EU.

As others have said these sanctions will likely do more to harm the repressed citizens of the regime than Lukashenko

[1] https://www.bnt.eu/cs/zpravy/pravni-novinky/3137-belarus-int...
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The effbot takes down his Python pages, and this is what is being discussed now. Sic transit gloria mundi.
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I live in Russia, the situation here is not as bad as Belarus (yet), but has similarities nontheless.
The sad thing is that almost 50% of the population still believes Putin, and the reason is propaganda, the main point of propaganda - that Russia is a fortress surrounded by enemies, anything bad you hear about the government is foreign agents trying to descredit him.
What are "tram stations"?

In Poland, most tram stops are not isolated from streets, and look like that:

https://www.transport-publiczny.pl/img/20170721121933StareMi...

https://www.ztm.poznan.pl/assets/Uploads/Przystanek-tramwajo...

Seems like "isolating" them would increase friction. It makes a lot of sense in case of trains or metro but don't see it for trams.
Of course, but both of them can be true at the same time. I wouldn't call either of those countries an authoritarian regime, but they've both moved several steps in that direction.

Your parent said: "disagree with the EU when the EU points these things out". And that definitely happened, the EU has been saying "we're concerned about that" for a while now, and the only response has been "nah, it's fine".
How is this identity politics?

I responded to a comment that was essentially saying “all viewpoints are political” in response to a comment that literally said

> Only dictatorships have historically wanted to permeate every aspect of life with politics. The USSR used to say "everything is politics".

The communist jab was due to them using the same strategy that the USSR used. I’m not sure if they were doing that intentionally or unknowingly out of habit or ideology, in either case they were being obtuse.
> Seriously. How many times have you crashed out on a knotty problem and awakened with a clear solution?

It's the opposite that is usually happening to me: I go to sleep thinking I finally solved some problem. When I wake up, literally the first thought is a clear counter-example on which the solution does not work. It's frustrating.
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FreeBSD includes a realtime scheduler priority class (round robin per priority level).
"As others have said these sanctions will likely do more to harm the repressed citizens of the regime than the Lukashenko"

I feel that that is true for almost all sanctions everywhere sadly. The Russians love their children too. In fact we have to really think hard on who they benefit, short and long term. Making markets more independent of each other is only making a war more likely. If goods don't cross borders armies will.

What is a better alternative? I don't know, but perhaps targeted educational pieces, like scientific papers to educate populations? Yeah it sounds like propaganda, but perhaps one can add methods to verify claims or something? Show how exactly a policy is detrimental to the population in question? It's a hard problem, I'm not claiming otherwise.
I guess they shouldn't have done what they did, right? :-)
I think the fine is same as in France (60 Euros for Schwarzfahren) or at least in Munich it's 60 Euros.
I came here for a technical discussion about Fuchsia and it's microkernel approach instead this is mostly fill with complains about Google as a company.

Is there a social justice forum I can visit where I may be able to have a technical discussion about Fuchsia?
Lukashenko already has much less than 50% support of the ppl and he has lost his last elections. But he holds the power by force. What do you want Belorussians to do, go and die fighting the police?
It appears that elected officials have an extremely strong bias to adding/amending versus repealing/scaling back. I'm not sure the current approach is long-term viable.
> Are stunt scooters safer in this regard?

Nope (or barely so), impact is impact. See https://www.thedailypush.com/footprint-insoles

> Also, should I be worried that Bad Influences characteristic to the skateboard/scooter scene are going to turn my kid into a junkie?

You can't help a teenager having the rebellious feelings ;)

That said, if you're worrying about a cultural aspect being a bad influence, part of the skateboarding crowd is moving towards a healthier lifestyle, because it's the right thing to do if you love skateboarding for what it is (which means you want to skate forever).

The days of Dustin Dollin and Ali Boubala are by and large gone.

Look into Andrew Reynolds and Neen Williams, the latter of which turned his life around 180degs.
Hungary is objectively an authoritarian regime because it

removed separation of powers,

stacked court with political appointees,

closed down virtually all independent press,

made state TV into a propaganda piece for Fidesz,

etc.

Not because it "disagrees with the EU".
What an arbitrary sanction. What do Belarusian airlines have to do with any of this?

The only value of picking airlines over anything else must be of symbolic nature. Unless maybe you see it as "balancing the competition" if other airlines loose the flights to belarus and have to use more fuel avoiding the airspace.
Hmm, I jumped to the conclusion that a lot of traffic in and out of Belarus will be via land. Not really sure why!
Apparently happens if you’re very intensely interested and focused on solving an issue. If you’re just frustrated and tired of it, it doesn’t.
Tony Gardiner was in charge of the maths olympiad training in the UK for many years - he produced some very good material for that including a book on maths olympiad preparation and the fact that he was one of the authors made me definitely interested in having a look at this.
With them eating crops, it might be difficult to achieve 'no food left around for them to eat'
I can totally imagine myself doing this when I'm old. I just love taking the train along the coastal line.
A similar, but general purpose, tool to this is https://comby.dev/.

I've used it before locally for some structural code changes. The author is super helpful/responsive too.
You most likely still need to do all the work to manage texture caches because first of all, you need to create texture objects in the host graphics api based on what's essentially just memory. On top of that, GC/Wii texture formats might be different from what the host can support.

From my understanding it's not that useful for reading back either as the main bottleneck there is the fact that you need to sync gpu and cpu rather than transfer speed.
Not sure how Emirates are relevant, that airline is from the UAB so can't really control their actions exactly.

But when it comes to Lufthansa (since they are German), seems unlikely they'll be able to use Lufthansa as using the airspace of Belarus was just advised against...

From the same link as before (give it a read: https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2021...)

> calls on all EU-based carriers to avoid overflight of Belarus
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Interesting and fun read, but don't see how it relates to the near future, and even longer term. Energy demands likely closely follows population growth, which has been trending down for the last 50 years or so. Once it levels out so will energy demands, with some time lag as some countries catches up with standard of living.
Unless your argument is that we will be unable to meet our energy demands at that point in time even with large amounts of renewables and nuclear I don't really see your point, even so Germany can likely meet their demands using renewables in the near future and go back to using nuclear at some later point in time.
Hi,

I started with Csound and Cabbage framework[1] which I used to create some VST plugins.

Then I moved to javascript lands (as everyone already has runtime called web browser) and I am creating sort of DAW using webaudio. I used Tone.js, but it was somewhat confusing, so I started my own library[2].

It's not finished yet but I have already nice and usable demo - comb organ playable with computer or MIDI keyboard with built-in "tape recorder"[3]. Good news is that is open source so you can actually stole some ideas from me.

[1]: https://cabbageaudio.com/

[2]: https://github.com/severak/cyber-music-studio/blob/main/js/h...

[3]: https://severak.github.io/cyber-music-studio/regenschori.htm...
In the Netherlands, boys also get the HPV vaccine since this year. It's now part of our (free) National Immunisation Programme.
Just shows how we have very low standards.
Note that DX now supports MACsec in some locations/configurations: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/03/aws-direc...
Making Google authentication the sole sign-in option reduced my curiosity from 'moderate' to 'zero'.
I'd like to see a worldwide agreement that no country will ever stop a citizen from leaving, as long as they have permission to enter another country.

Even if the person is in prison or debt, they can always leave with just themselves to another country willing to take them.

If all nations agreed to that, we could stop worrying about most other human rights abuses, and country governance becomes more of a free market. If you don't like your own system of government, you can move to another. Countries would have an incentive to treat their people well, or see a mass exodus.
Ever heard of Paks 2?
Despite your opinion, viruses do not penetrate walls. Density has nothing to do with spread of viruses.

Also, it does not make sense to design cities around events like this.
I agree that a blanket ban on necro-posting has the negative consequences you mention. It is commonly discouraged as a heuristic, because necro-posts often have a high time cost to those who were previously involved. First, because by that time they've forgotten the context, and since the new post often does not summarize the entire previous conversation, it forces someone who wants to make sense of it to go back and re-read it to understand that context. In contrast, a new issue is more likely to stand on its own and be easier to process. It can still link to the old issue in order to keep the chain intact. And second, because the new commenter is often wrong that their bug is the same, or has missed some of the context and is just adding duplicate information. Note that both of these apply more to long threads.

I think this suggests two things:

1. There is an opportunity for better tooling. I'm thinking something like those annoying infinite scroll news/blog sites, where you reach the end of the article and it dynamically sticks another one on the page below (& updates the url). Imagine that but with any bug that's been marked as a duplicate (which the bug reporter should be able to do). Now you get the best of both worlds -- a way to view the new post with or without context.

2. Necro-ing would be less problematic if bug tracking were less centralized. More long, support-type bugs between distributors and users, where is preferable to log a new issue than necro an old one; more short summaries of confirmed bugs submitted by maintainers to the upstream repo. GitLab's separation of issues and epics is a good idea here, although their implementation is awkward at best.
I completely agree. I would say that in that case the best is to have a specific shared account, which only contains stuff you want to exchange between your devices, but that means juggling with multiple accounts from the sender's device.
Yeah, that's my understanding as well, from "ripped me off", implying stealing or something negative.

Having the (almost) same API surface as another MIT library is hardly a "ripoff" but a re-implementation.

Edit: since new evidence has come forward (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27275379) I think we can all agree that Lodash is a fork of Underscore.js, nothing more and nothing else.
What do you mean by voxel based games?

And why would software rendering be fast on the M1?
> Are you saying a kid is the property of his family...?

As far as kidnapping or any other kind of forced movement goes, yes basically.
But I was smiling when I wrote my comment, isn't that enough?
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It's very sluggish on a Mac. Even on my shiny new M1 is feels sluggish. Safari is way snappier.
Different problems, as in Philadelphia these are not retirees but people trying to escape the street.

How bad is the street in Philadelphia?

So bad that drive-through videos of Kensington are their own _genre_ on YouTube.
> That's how the EU works. It's the case for every decision taken and law passed by the EU.

Not exactly. It depends on the area of law one is in.

For some areas of law the EU itself can create law in itself which immediately becomes law in the member states, overriding member state's laws (typically via EU Regulation)

But this works only in areas where EU contracts give those powers to EU.

Of course this then still depends on execution by the member states, but it is a law and affected citizens can sue accordingly if a member doesn't execute.

Air control is related to defense etc. and is not such an area, thus EU's powers are limited and individual member states have to agree according to their individual legal frameworks.
I'm not sure how kindly the Greek authorities would take having KGB operatives on their soil
Whatapp's client applications already do this before encryption to check against a list of hashes of child abuse material.