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mcc, to random
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If you ever feel like you're not good at anything, don't worry! Even if you don't realize it yourself, you are an excellent nuclear moderator

mcc,
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I sincerely hope you never find out just how incredibly talented you are at moderating free neutrons

mcc,
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@grumpybozo "I didn't ask for these powers"

mcc, to random
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Good tagline https://mastodon.social/@moshboy/112507008361276318

mcc, to random
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I hate Unity!! I hate Unity!! I hate Unity!!!

mcc,
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Clicking the little "X" in the above screenshot only brings up this message

mcc,
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My morning:

  • I have a task to do.
  • Unity is printing a new error message I have never seen before.
  • I think: This is the sort of thing that might be caused by needing to update my Unity.
  • I go to update Unity.
  • The Unity updater fails in a new way I have never seen before.
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Update: After crashing while installing then refusing to let me cancel the install (and subsequently being force quit) the Unity Hub now shows an entry for the version of Unity I was trying to install (left) but, curiously, the "uninstall" option which is usually there (right) is missing. You may notice a "Remove from Hub" menu item. Although this menu item seems like a bad idea to actually click, it doesn't matter, as it doesn't do anything.

Unity 18f1 LTS gear menu, options: "Show in Explorer, Remove from Hub, Uninstall".

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Now the upside of having this problem is that while trying to muck about in C:\Program Files manually deleting this zombie install of Unity, I found three entire additional (and extremely ancient) installs of Unity which I previously uninstalled, but which the Unity Hub simply removed from its own UI while leaving on disk. No wonder my hard drive seems fuller than it should be!

ChateauErin, to random
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I may have picked the wrong evening to try Control. 90 minutes and one bossfight in and I'm just...bleh.

mcc, (edited )
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@ChateauErin this is going to depend on what you're not jibing with but fyi, in terms of mechanical complexity, it takes a bit to build out its full kit of verbs

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    mcc,
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    @futurebird ratio of wild mammals to livestock staggers me every time I see someone run these numbers.

    …Maybe this isn't fair since livestock probably includes a certain number of birds, but

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    It is kind of darkly funny watching so many giant tech companies completely gut their institutional expertise by promoting people who not only do not understand the most basic realities of their own products, but cannot be convinced of the most trivial of truths.

    mcc,
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    @whitequark @xgranade i had to do a Twitter pageload this afternoon and while I definitely agree it's up I think "very much up" might be an exaggeration

    The defining characteristic of this era of Twitter is that every page or content load takes so long to complete that I have time to realize I've accidentally opened/clicked through to Twitter, remember I don't want to do that, and close the tab before I'm actually shown what it was going to show me. It's shockingly convenient really

    mcc,
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    @whitequark @xgranade (I recognize you're referring to specific doom predictions of "it's going to go down and not come back up" and that these predictions did not bear out. But I believe Xgranade was talking in more general terms which would reasonably encompass partial-doom scenarios like "site performance is now so poor that the site is not going to experience any organic growth ever again")

    whitequark, to random
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    normal RF things: the transmitter only works properly if i'm sitting downstairs at my desk (both the boiler and the transmitter are downstairs)

    if i'm upstairs, it does Nothing

    am i antennamoding now?

    mcc,
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    @whitequark Ways I can explain this

    • At least one component in this system is performing nuclear fission, and a moderator is needed

    • Radio transmitter is shy

    mcc, to random
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    Dev Patel

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    That is my post

    maks, to random
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    @mcc sorry for the barrage but one last question: I was actually very tempted to get a Pocket because it has midi support built in but it seemed only for In not OUT, would you know if it now supports MIDI out either on its TRS or USB sockets?

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    @maks Ohhhkay so this one's complicated

    "MIDI support" refers to a particular cable that connects the Game Boy to USB-A. It is used, at present, exclusively by the Nanoloop core. The Nanoloop dev is somehow responsible for this cable. If you ask Analogue how it works they will suggest you email the Nanoloop dev.

    I emailed the Nanoloop dev and I got a interesting response, which I will share with you out of band if you like—

    mcc,
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    @maks —but the short version is, apparently there are very little smarts in the cable, it somehow presents itself as class compliant(?) MIDI to a PC but then you just send whatever you want over the wire. You just write raw MIDI bytes to SPI and they get delivered to the PC. So this seems to suggest you can do both input and output but only if the Pocket is a USB-MIDI client, it cannot act as USB-MIDI host, and there is no obvious way to link to for example 5DIN.

    mcc,
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    @maks If you are able to make your own circuit boards you have a great deal of freedom with talking to either the cartridge port or the link port (people have made very interesting custom peripherals that plug in the cartridge port). But this is not on the horizon for me.

    I am very interested to try doing general MIDI over the nanoloop cable but haven't had a chance. (So many things to try out.) As far as I know no one but the Nanoloop dev has attempted it.

    mcc,
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    @maks To summarize, your IO options:

    USB: No direct access
    TRS: No direct access, can only write digital 16bit stereo PCM to a 48k DAC.
    Cartridge pins: Full and direct access but limited by what hardware exists to plug in
    Link cable: Full and direct access but limited by what hardware exists to plug in BUT an existing link cable to USB-MIDI cable is available (acting as device)
    IR: Full and direct access but no one I have talked to has yet done anything with it

    There's a good FPGA dev Discord

    mcc,
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    @maks You might be happier buying a Norns

    mcc, to random
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    Heeeck I dunno if I'll be able to test it before the stream but I think I just got .xm/mod tracker file playback working on the Analogue Pocket

    Screenshot is highly significant to me but it is complicated to explain why this is proof I can run it on the Pocket

    mcc,
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    Update: Okay so I thought part of the problem might be that instead of using libm (the math library in rust std) I was using "micromath" which is a fast approximations library, and maybe micromath either has a problem or somehow runs wrong on the RISCV softcore. So I switched to Libm. And suddenly instead of slightly unnerving chirpy hissing noises I got really cool and interesting chirpy hissing noises. Farmers Manual.

    This is fascinating. I've found two entirely unique ways to do it wrong

    mcc,
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    @maks Note your assumption would have been right for MiSTER, which is the same FPGA as the Pocket plus a regular Arm core.

    I very well could switch out the xm library for a different one. I picked this one for this particular project because it was pure Rust and this particular project I haven't worked out c lib integration. But there is also a music player project for the core (not mine but I may contribute to it) and for that one I'll be looking for something that can do both .xm and .it.

    theluddite, to random
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    The point of solar panels is not to ensure "solar profitability," but to make for a greener, better world. Its profitability is only justified insofar as it moves us towards that goal. If we want to switch to renewables, then sometimes we're going to have surplus, because of how renewables work. This is well known and discussed ad nauseam. If that makes power markets unstable, then the problem is with markets, not with there being too many solar panels.

    mcc,
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    @theluddite I do wish hydrogen tech had panned out. It would be great if there were an always-economically-productive sink for surplus energy.

    mcc, to random
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    For the last two years I've been semi-daily posting "What I'm Listening to Today" links here. Mastodon has some problems with threads containing hundreds of posts, so I re-create the thread once a year.

    If you'd like to see, here's my "year two" thread: https://mastodon.social/@mcc/110266770603341546

    Or, alternately, every song from year two in the least practical format possible: A 301-song, 38-hour YouTube playlist (note: video #1 contains flashing):

    https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLIjft6ja7DM_kacOW8zo2vtr-aWpTNX6

    And here's the thread for "year three":

    mcc,
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    What I'm listening to today: "Techno Live Jam 3 || Subharmonicon, Dfam, Eurorack, Ableton", Sorrowless

    This is a driving electronic jam I think I'd describe as "industrial" or "dark trance". The sounds are made on a couple modular synth racks so a neat property of this one is far as I can tell all the drums are being generated live from analog circuitry. Intense, exceptionally clean, effective production and it's all done on some evening's whim for uploading to YouTube.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsVyQ1zS3mY

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