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from another world; anime girls on the internet who are terrible at playing guitar and slightly less bad at programming; EN/SV/DE/ζ₯ζ¬θͺ
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so-called βfree thinkersβ when it's the end of the line and the subway car doors open:
guy who calls it the βnintendo one hundredβ 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