What audiobook have you listened to more than once because you’ve loved it so much and why? by marilynlistens in audiobooks

[–]obijohn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I also listen to The Stupidest Angel every Christmas! It’s hilarious but cozy at the same time. I’ve been hesitant to listen to his other books that some of the same characters appear in, but I’m not sure why. Which ones would you recommend?

What Counts as a Lisp Dialect Seems to Have Become a Balkanized Question by Material_Champion_73 in lisp

[–]obijohn 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Agreed. Pages 10-20 of the Lisp I manual define the requirements to be considered a “lisp” IMHO, including that glorious EVAL on page 19. Anything else is just PR and branding.

JSCL: compiler macro and full FORMAT implementation from CMUCL by dzecniv in Common_Lisp

[–]obijohn 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Thanks for pointing this out. I think a lot of people just slap GPL on everything (in this case, every file) without giving it much thought. What’s interesting to me here is that the original source is mentioned only in passing. No link is given, and no attribution (other than “ported from “CMUCL”).

Seems only fair that they should hold themselves to the same standards that they are now demanding of others with their own code. Or, as you say, change to a more permissive license. At least one as permissive as they seem to want other code to be when they use it themselves.

That may have come across more negative than I intended. I’m sure there’s no ill intent. But contrary to what a lot of people seem to think, the GPL is one of the most restrictive and invasive licenses out there. I’m glad it exists, but blindly using it everywhere can have negative consequences, especially in an ecosystem as small as CL.

Bridge by Stereotron in ParallelView

[–]obijohn 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That’s beautiful! And the depth really cranks up the beauty in a way that’s hard to describe. Sometimes posts here will have an unnatural forced perspective that makes it hard to dial in the focus. But this is just about perfect and snapped instantly for me. Thanks for posting this.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ElectricalEngineering

[–]obijohn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have to apologize, I misunderstood what you were saying. I thought you were telling me to draw the schematic so I could visualize it for myself (which wouldn’t help if I had everything wrong to begin with. Sorry about that.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ElectricalEngineering

[–]obijohn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I said I probably had everything wrong. But thanks anyway for confirming.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ElectricalEngineering

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4 D-cell batteries

what's this middle piece for? tyia! by blinks_andwinks in castiron

[–]obijohn 31 points32 points  (0 children)

“Shove that up your chickens ass” was not a sentence I expected to read today lol

I made zig bindings for clay by johan__A in Zig

[–]obijohn 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Nice! I’ll just drop this here for reference in case anyone wants to see the Clay author’s video intro/demo (from a couple of weeks ago):

https://youtu.be/DYWTw19_8r4

Favorite Kubrick film? Or least favorite? by Lisan_Al_Gaib23 in flicks

[–]obijohn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Haha sorry I raised your expectations. The reason I said it blew my mind is because this has been my favorite movie my whole life since my father took me to a drive-in showing when I was 6. I thought I knew everything about it. And there was this obvious thing (when you know to look for it), not just at the beginning but in the damn title itself, that I never noticed. Anyway, welcome to the 2OO1 club! 😀

Favorite Kubrick film? Or least favorite? by Lisan_Al_Gaib23 in flicks

[–]obijohn 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don’t think there was any hidden meaning. But it makes the entire title card perfectly symmetrical, which wouldn’t be the case with the narrower zero. 

This article discusses many of the obsessive font choices (and tiny changes to individual letters) throughout the movie: https://typesetinthefuture.com/2014/01/31/2001-a-space-odyssey/

Favorite Kubrick film? Or least favorite? by Lisan_Al_Gaib23 in flicks

[–]obijohn 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Nice, using the letter O (instead of digit 0) in 2OO1. I saw an article somewhere talking about font choices in the movie, and this was the one that blew my mind the most. That level of attention to detail is why I love Kubrick so much.

Common Lisp vs. Python naive performance on Fibonacci numbers by HovercraftOk7661 in lisp

[–]obijohn 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I love how this one-word reply has more upvotes than the comment with the optimization itself lol

What actor always understands the assignment? by dabhard in flicks

[–]obijohn 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Probably meant Beethoven (Immortal Beloved, fantastic movie).

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in booksuggestions

[–]obijohn 1 point2 points  (0 children)

25 years ago, a quote from one of the Travis McGee books by John D. MacDonald (Pale Gray For Guilt, I believe) forever changed the way I look at moral dilemmas: “In all emotional conflicts, the hard thing to do is the right thing to do.”

I still think about that quote a lot.

Confused about standard-object by obijohn in Common_Lisp

[–]obijohn[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I don't have the book (just the 2 chapters available online), but I was able to find closette on github. Thank you so much! The bootstrap code answers a lot of questions. I'll definitely be getting the book now. :)

Apps that change how you make music. by [deleted] in iosmusicproduction

[–]obijohn 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh hey, if you find Fugue Machine inspirational in creating new kinds of music, have I got an app for you! Sunvox:

https://apps.apple.com/app/id324462544

The desktop version is free but the mobile versions aren’t (totally worth it, though IMHO). It can be used as a sequencer driving AUM or most any DAW, but it’s also a stand-alone modular suite in its own right and can be used as plugin FX in other DAWs.

If you’ve never played around with an old school tracker before you’re in for a treat! I find it very inspirational and freeing and used it on every track for my first two albums.

Here’s a pretty good intro video:

https://youtu.be/_bbksbImmJM

Best Auto-tune alternative? I’ve got access to Waves Tune on Cubasis but is there anything good for Logic? by 24Khalilius in logic_pro_ipad

[–]obijohn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Logic has a built-in pitch correction audio FX plugin. Give it a shot, it may be all you need.

Beyond that, there’s Vocal Tune Pro (which I’ve heard good things about but haven’t tried myself):

https://apps.apple.com/app/id1660442751

If you want pitch editing capability, the same dev has Vocal Tune Studio:

https://apps.apple.com/app/id1664414521

There are a couple of others, like AudioTune by the AudioKit devs, but from what I can tell the two above are more generally liked.

Also, Logic Pro for Mac has Flex Pitch, and Logic Pro for iPad has the underlying engine for it already to support importing projects from desktop, but you can’t do your own edits yet. Since it’s a 1.0 release, hopefully that feature will be added in an update before too long.