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Re:A lot of population numbers are fake on Thursday January 29, 2026 @10:55AM (#46811878)
Agree. I feel that it is beneficial to present yourself larger than you really are.
Re:I switched to eSIM in 2025, and I am full of regret on Monday December 29, 2025 @05:08PM (#46426369)
But no way to backup to cold storage last time I checked. Took a picture of the QR code with another phone and printed it.
It is possible that the concept of intellectual property could be classified as a mistake of our era by the history teachers of future generations.
Re:How to Synthesize a House Loop on Wednesday December 03, 2025 @12:12PM (#46137074)
I route midi generated by strudel.cc in to my DAW.
Check out this clip by tossing where he ports a GLSL Shader to C without using any graphics API.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNX9H_ZkfNE

Peak usability by being able to type a url in to the file manager or a local path in to your browser and have it open in the same window.
My operating system teacher was a hardcore Linux zealot and "M$" hater. But one day he praised Microsoft for Active Directory and group policies. Comparable, well integrated easy to use solutions didn't exist at the time. (mid 2000s). Batch scripts were lame though...
Yes! The next generation of computer scientists will be more passionate than we are because they have mastered their craft and got curious despite growing up with dumbed down boring computers.
Re:How to Create an OS from Scratch on Monday September 29, 2025 @11:24PM (#45421601)
"NCommander" on YouTube could probably be a good starting point to get a feel for what is required and to ask some questions. Features very interesting/insane archaeology builds like bootstrapping Linux from Scratch on WinXP SFU which ships with an incomplete toolchain from 1993 (?). 8)
Re:Online Collection of Keygen Music on Sunday August 03, 2025 @03:57PM (#44779227)
Sound can be synthesised out of few basic waveforms. It’s the most common approach.
See TR-069
Re:What Do You Visualize While Programming? on Friday October 18, 2024 @11:08PM (#41885353)
Same here...
I am really grateful for this effort! Because of it ancient gems like z0r.de can continue to exist.

z0r had a profound influence on my younger self by introducing the art form of looping way before it was widely understood (Snapchat, TikTok) and combined it with a heavy dose of dadaism.

Re:Google I/O and the Coming AI Battles on Monday May 15, 2023 @07:27AM (#35946500)
Can't they massively improve their add targeting by analyzing conversations with the AI?
Re:Show HN: Narr – Download Netflix audio for sampling on Saturday May 06, 2023 @09:36AM (#35841232)
pirates are also saying "arr" xD
Sonobus a VST plug-in to stream audio between DAWs for collaboration. https://sonobus.net/
Re:LeanQt – GUI is here, Widgets are near on Saturday November 12, 2022 @01:42PM (#33575765)
In an interview I can't find anymore a developer from Farbrausch said that they used such a method to optimize the .kkrieger demo and ended up having a bug in the main menu because while recording the coverage the user never scrolled to a certain main menu item. So once you scrolled there you couldn't scroll up anymore.

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