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blackhole89
Posted on 11-28-10 01:22 PM, in DeaDBeeF Link | Quote | ID: 138195


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Winamp-style players: bad playlist management, typically only supporting one playlist open at a time, not having features like sorting by tags or performing retagging, effectively forcing you to go through the filesystem frequently while changing songs - which would be slightly more bearable if it wasn't for the general horribleness of GTK+'s file chooser dialog, and only really meshes well with a file system where all music is organized into a small set of folders that are close to each other in the file system tree anyway

iTunes-style players: usually bad support for less commonplace formats (as apple users only care about band music anyway), use simple search as a basic paradigm for song finding which doesn't work well with tags of wildly varying quality across a collection and precludes the straightforward manual creation of structure (like by perceived similarity or relation between the sources) unless you start polluting your tags, a problem of potentially exponential (in the number of songs) complexity.

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Posted on 11-29-10 12:27 AM, in DeaDBeeF Link | Quote | ID: 138201


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SPC. 64KB per song.

Similar considerations apply to about every chiptune and tracker format out there.

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Posted on 11-29-10 12:54 AM, in DeaDBeeF Link | Quote | ID: 138203


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Well, it's not like anybody is asking you to store all your music in it.

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Posted on 11-29-10 03:43 AM, in DeaDBeeF Link | Quote | ID: 138206


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Posted by chungy
I'm usually in the mindset of "I feel like playing album X", and selecting a folder in the file chooser suits that just fine. Speaking of which, what's wrong with GTK's file chooser?

Okay, let's pick the example with folders up.

Imagine you start the file chooser and want to load, say, /data/music/unsorted/.

Enter that in the location entry field and press return.

Guess which folder gets loaded.

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Posted on 11-29-10 11:08 PM, in DeaDBeeF Link | Quote | ID: 138224


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chungy: I counter-checked it in another program, and the folder example seems to work in that; the behaviour I described, however, very definitively occurs in LinuxDC++ and its "choose target folder" facility for downloading, so I'd assume it's tied to some other configuration switch that at least does not obviously (from a programmer's point of view) induce the erroneous behaviour. Furthermore, still, entering "/data/music/unsorted" without the trailing slash makes it go "Error creating directory: file exists" even in the better example program.

Trax: For my definition of "decent", that's most certainly the case. However, I don't consider any player that forces me to go through the filesystem for normal playback operation "decent" as my files are scattered over various HDDs and even network locations, some of which take a painful amount of time even just to perform a folder listing on.

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Posted on 11-29-10 11:21 PM, in I can whistle! Link | Quote | ID: 138226


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Posted by KP9000
I'd like to put myself on-par with the great whistling wizards of this generation, but I simply can't.

Any sample of the great whistling wizards of this generation?


How good are you guys?
Okayish, I suppose. If you suggest a tune, I could try recording it.

Can you whistle 64th notes?
Given a sufficiently slow beat.

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Posted on 12-01-10 02:02 AM, in DeaDBeeF Link | Quote | ID: 138265


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Well, yes. They are basically ROMs/savestates for the Super Nintendo's audio coprocessor. There are open source libraries reliably emulating them around.

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Posted on 12-01-10 04:46 AM, in SNES Disassembly Link | Quote | ID: 138277


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Hold it. Hold it.

6502 emulation mode and 8/16 bit registers are distinct aspects of 65c816. The former is toggled by setting the emulation flag from the carry flag (XCE), while the latter is controlled by the $20 and $10 processor flags for the accumulator's and the index registers' 8bittiness (on=8bit, off=16bit) respectively.

But yes, both of those essentially mean that you can't produce a coherent disassembly without either assumptions and heuristics or control flow analysis.

Still, SNES ROM hackers have been dealing with it just fine. In practice, the garbage that results from you disassembling a piece of code with wrong bittiness is all too easy to recognize (and a good disassembler would do at least a partial job at autodetecting it), and I've yet to see an SNES game actually use 6502 emulation mode for relevant code.

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Posted on 12-02-10 09:48 PM, in board2 Town Square - Down'n'Up Link | Quote | ID: 138296


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So the NASA press conference that was discussed on IRC a couple of days ago... it was the arsenic thing indeed. Not little green men, but still quite an interesting find.

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Posted on 12-03-10 12:34 AM, in Ahhhh, memories Link | Quote | ID: 138299


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Why, the same to you!

Go back to bed, Xk.

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Posted on 12-03-10 01:27 AM, in Arsenic bacteria Link | Quote | ID: 138307


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What I wonder is to what degree the incompatibility between them and "normal" organisms goes - would a piece of DNA [if you can even still call it that] that is based on arsenic work in another organism's cell at all, and if it would, would the cell be capable of long-term survival or would arsenic fallout from decomposition of single strands destroy it?

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Posted on 12-03-10 04:28 AM, in Zombie Invasion OMG... Link | Quote | ID: 138314


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If they have human-like intelligence, I don't see why it shouldn't be possible to reason with them or they should be considered "inferiors" or "zombies" at all; if they don't, I'm sure careful evaluation of the situation (instead of just going outside and running in circles as seems to be a necessary precondition for the plot of roughly every zombie apocalypse film out there to function) will yield some simple solution that will make the invasion not constitute the slightest bit of a problem.

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Posted on 12-03-10 09:42 PM, in Minecraft Link | Quote | ID: 138341


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Exactly how does the multiplayer mode work, anyway? (Cooperative or PVP?) I played Alpha for a while when it was free, but the servers had crashed and the whole game was frankly feeling like an inferior first-person knockoff of Dwarf Fortress.

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Posted on 12-04-10 02:29 AM, in Firefox 4 beta Link | Quote | ID: 138356


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You don't understand what "a shitton of ram" is before you tried Chrome under Linux.

Right now, it's at 2.5GB.

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Posted on 12-08-10 03:25 PM, in board2 Town Square - Down'n'Up Link | Quote | ID: 138485


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So, Assange has been arrested, 4chan has joined the fray to a degree (measured in news mentions) that might well irreversibly engrave them as the gun of the anarchist elements of the internet in the mainstream consciousness - how come we still aren't talking about the Wikileaks stuff anywhere?

On that matter, I think this is a decent article.

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Posted on 12-08-10 05:09 PM, in board2 Town Square - Down'n'Up Link | Quote | ID: 138488


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In Germany, most media except for Spiegel (which Wikileaks more or less forced to be on their side by having them break the story) are severely anti-Wikileaks, be it due to the usual kowtowing to authorities or that typically German "Imagine a world without government control on what media can say! Your neighbour could put your medical records online or even write totally nasty and wrong things about you and you couldn't even stop them! Horrible, isn't it?" reaction.

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Posted on 12-08-10 06:27 PM, in board2 Town Square - Down'n'Up Link | Quote | ID: 138490


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Well, personal data is Germany's terrorists and child pornographers. Mention it and all reason will be suspended.

On that matter, apparently, the office of the Vice President of Bolivia has started mirroring cables related to South America.

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Posted on 12-08-10 07:54 PM, in board2 Town Square - Down'n'Up Link | Quote | ID: 138493


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Well, I suppose the conservative argument for that goes along the lines of "the governments have the people's mandate to keep secrets and work for our good, which may include being able to inspect individuals to every degree they deem necessary to prevent harm to others".

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Posted on 12-08-10 08:15 PM, in A vote-changeable, multivote poll... Link | Quote | ID: 138494


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Oh, yes, and if this works, those switches that have been used by thread.php correctly for years or so now are actually exposed to users who create polls.

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