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It's been a year since many VSTs based on JUCE8 stopped working on Linux due to nonstandard handling of Wine inside JUCE. Now the patch was merged, so hopefully we will see plugins coming back soon!

Kolakoski Sequence 5 months ago

it doesn't repeat at least:

More generally, the sequence is cube-free, i.e., has no substring of the form w w w with w some nonempty finite string.

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I love how windows-linux discussion is populated by DAW/VST incompatibility. I'm still new to the industry, and therefore also open minded about daw/plugins.

I actually had good experience with setting up yabridge, it could have worked for me I think. But the elephant in the room is that many big commercial plugins use JUCE as a framework, and the recent release of JUCE (JUCE8) just broke compatibility with wine and seem to be sabotaging wine-based usage completely, and are not considering going back at the moment.

https://forum.juce.com/t/juce8-direct2d-wine-yabridge/64298/...

https://github.com/robbert-vdh/yabridge/issues/386

There are patches based on binary diffs to JUCE7, but it is just so much pain to simply run the commonest plugins in the field :/

So I'm now kind of stuck between using windows with commercial plugins or use linux with mainly smaller scale alternatives (although there are good ones: lsp, decent sampler, cardinal, surge)

I'd prefer one digest of essential highlights of the week across all segments.

I like to be interested in "other segments". But if they are in a separate subscription/email - I will never prioritize to open it.

Thank you!

some packages that I use for development need to be part of the virtual env. for example ipdb.

so i do uv pip install ipdb.

but then, after uv add somepackage

uv sync happens and cleans up all extras. to keep extras, you need to run uv sync --inexact. But there is no env var for `--inexact`, so I end up doing the sync manually.

reminds me of the difference between fasttext and word2vec.

fasttext can learn words it haven't seen before by combining words from ngrams, word2vec can learn better meaning of the whole words, but then missing out on the "unknown words".

image tokens are "text2vec" here, while text tokens are a proxy towards building a text embedding of even unseen before texts.

If multiple services have multiple owners it becomes also a question of trust. You either validate one service that fits 80% of your requirements, or validate ten services where each solves one specific requirement.

Also, of course - economy of scale for the infrastructure / integrations between features. Monoliths are still a thing.

But yeah, I agree developer experience may be traded here.

Very nice! I liked this one:

grug quite satisfied when complexity demon trapped properly in crystal, is best feeling to trap mortal enemy!

I will just share my struggles with Asus Tuf A15 (FA507UI) bought in March 2024. It was really frustrating, and I spent so many hours debugging. Unfortunately I wasn't as skilled to decompile dsdt/acpi, but all these keywords look familiar from my deep dives into the issue.

In the beginning I had sticky keyboard issue, with a button repeatedly triggered for no reason. This got fixed after one of the bios updates.

Later, for a while I had the stuttering issue when the GPU was in standby (when loaded in hybrid mode) [1]. I then switched from PopOS to Manjaro with a hope that newer kernel might fix it, and it did.

Today I'm struggling with a new issue - GPU sometimes gets disconnected, and requires system reboot to turn it on again. I generally use GPU for compute, not for graphics - so you don't see it until you do. New Nvidia drivers might have fixed this [2].

[1] https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/random-freezes-rtx-407...

[2] https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/bug-sporadic-hang-on-s...

Hi! That's really useful tool!

I wish it also explained the decision making process, how to understand from the picture what is the right answer.

I'm really getting lost between melanoma and seborrheic keratosis / nevus.

I went through ~120 pictures, but couldn't learn to distinguish those.

Also, the guide in the burger menu leads to a page that doesn't exist: https://molecheck.info/how-to-recognise-skin-cancer

Interestingly, the mechanism in the "prostate" article also refers to the reversed blood flow. It is not the same as retrograde menstruation, but it kind of rings a bell to me as non-biologist.

it was also my first thought on abstractions of abstractions, thanks for sharing :)

could you elaborate a bit more on why HPC world is special when it comes to configuring the environment?

I always feel it is a typical problem in software development, to separate operating system env from the application env.

do you use spack / easybuild on your personal computer, for example if you need to install a package that is not part of the distribution?

came here to mention Feeder :) it's very good.

it was a bit painful without search, but they finally merged the long-hanging merge request, and now the search across posts is available in the stable version!

totally recommend!

also, a bit aside, but for podcasts: antennapod seems to be doing a good job too!

I have a thought on "sharing" the snapshots. Many pages nowadays are behind a paywall.

Typically you are required to log in (pay or not) to remove them. I'm aware of archive.org and others, but it is not the main point :)

The point is, that if you are logged in, some private information about yourself may be stored in the snapshot. It is less dangerous when it is something on the screen -> you can make a decision. But if is is some hidden field with your ip address for example.