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so-called “free thinkers” when it's the end of the line and the subway car doors open:

guy who calls it the “nintendo one hundred” because 64 is hex for one hundred

an unempty world of unforeign, unmysterious things

chat, should i try to be what i can be, unburdened by what i've been?

PSA: the default AAC encoder in ffmpeg is terrible even at very high bitrates, you are literally better off telling it to use MP3, even at a similar bitrate (e.g. -acodec mp3 -b:a 256k) https://twitter.com/puella_meiberu/status/1819373771280535810

if the purpose of a system is what it does then the purpose of github dot com is to make git commit history useless

i think it would be funny if, should i eventually learn guitar, i only play it through a hexaphonic pickup into a midi converter.

i'm really glad that nukeykt made Nuked SC-55, a fully accurate software emulation of the Roland SC-55. the SC-55 is a very important device: it's the original General MIDI and GS synth, used for e.g. DOOM's OST. but most people know it only through bad imitation soundfonts

programming is still overwhelmingly a single-threaded discipline. this is because most programmers are men,

shout out to the Polyphone soundfont (.sf2) editor, it's free and open-source, it runs natively on Linux, but more importantly the interface is lovely, very easy-to-use and well-thought-out. enjoying speedrunning making a soundfont for the first time with this