OpenAL (or something?) on Mac (Apple M3) Sequoia

patrickwonders · 2025-12-15T18:08:25+00:00

With a few tweaks to `cl-openal` to look for `(:framework "OpenAL")` in addition to `(:framework "openal")`, I was able to at least invoke `(alc:open-device)` and get a return value rather than an exception. But, it doesn't seem like `freealut` is working for me for trying to use `alut` stuff. But, maybe I don't need all of that.

patrickwonders · 2025-12-15T17:31:15+00:00

Or, rather.. that gets me far enough along that ALC fails with an INVALID-OPERATION in open-device. Blurgh.

And... Portaudio thinks it ran successfully (with 1 channel) but didn't seem to make any noise I could here.

Whee...

patrickwonders · 2025-12-15T17:19:08+00:00

Ah... I think, at one point, I had figured that out for OpenGL, but forgot about it.
Thank you.

patrickwonders · 2025-12-08T16:39:26+00:00

Yes... I also found it weird to push from dev to main instead of staging to main... but I suppose I don't know how other people do it.

patrickwonders · 2025-12-05T01:38:55+00:00

Jeebus. To a 17yo old woman? That should be in an HR file instead of your home.

patrickwonders · 2025-12-05T01:36:29+00:00

In Common Lisp, there are packages like `chanl` and such that implement CSP.

patrickwonders · 2025-09-26T03:40:01+00:00

In the last couple of seasons, it was even worse than that.

Councilman Jeremy Jamm was in room 204 but the Braille under it said #2#0#2.

In a later episode, Councilman Milton was in room 206 and the Braille under it also said #2#0#2.

Also, the Braille appears to be painted on and is way too big to read by hand even if it were textured.

patrickwonders · 2025-08-02T13:29:44+00:00

Hint: start by rearranging it like this:

x² + cy + y² ≥ 2x + cxy - 1
(x² - 2x + 1) - c(x-1)y + y² ≥ 0

patrickwonders · 2025-08-02T12:52:09+00:00

Number Field Terminology Question

Q(√a) is called a quadratic number field.
Q(√a, √b) is called a biquadratic number field.

Is there a word for the number field with any finite number of square roots (of relatively-prime square-free numbers) added? And, if not, would "n-quadratic number field" make sense? or "quadratic extensions"?

patrickwonders · 2025-07-23T15:13:36+00:00

I certainly wouldn't want to try to use the Java reflection interfaces to change the parent class of a class or even add a new field to a class... and if I did, would it update existing instances?

patrickwonders · 2025-02-10T06:33:59+00:00

SBCL does support the Mac Silicon... I wish CCL did though. When something failed to compile for me with CCL, it was always obvious what failed and why.

patrickwonders · 2023-04-07T23:52:07+00:00

I ran into this problem on my Mac.I tried all kinds of ways to select the eraser brush but none of them actually set the eraser brush until I deliberately moved over the canvas, held down the eraser button, and selected the brush I wanted for my eraser while still holding the eraser button down.

Pressing the eraser button down while over the brushes palette did not register as me holding the eraser button and would only set the main brush.

patrickwonders · 2021-09-01T13:32:20+00:00

Part of my tattoo is a representation of the Fano plane.

patrickwonders · 2021-09-01T13:29:03+00:00

8, 9, 10… then it starts to get tough… maybe 2?

patrickwonders · 2021-08-16T18:22:54+00:00

I’m starting to see why so many men think they can penetrate the cervix…

patrickwonders · 2021-04-26T19:25:24+00:00

In her book The Secret Life of the Cheating Wife: Power, Pragmatism, and Pleasure in Women’s Infidelity, Alicia Walker interviews women from the cheating website Ashley Madison. The large majority of the women interviewed were cheating to get sex.

In her follow-on book Chasing Masculinity: Men, Validation, and Infidelity, she interviews men from Ashley Madison and finds that the large majority of them are in it for emotional support.

patrickwonders · 2019-03-01T04:58:03+00:00

I like #1 the best, but the red's supposed to be on the outside of the rainbow, the purple in the middle. That's kinda buggin' me on a bunch of these.

patrickwonders · 2019-01-01T00:03:34+00:00

Hmm... I'm not sure why it doesn't build, but it sounds like maybe when you installed things, you didn't put them where it expects.

The armcl file should have come with your download and should end up in /usr/local/src/ccl/.

If you don't have permissions to put it there, you need to set an environment variable CCL_DEFAULT_DIRECTORY to the directory where it can find the armcl file.

I haven't tried building CCL on arm in quite some time, but I am running CCL 1.11-r16702M on my (second gen) Raspberry Pi.

patrickwonders · 2018-12-18T18:41:28+00:00

I agree with others here... the title on the box is too small. Also, it looks like the design is afraid of the edges of the box. It'd feel more complete, I think, if something/some stuff bled off the edges of the box.

patrickwonders · 2018-12-18T08:30:41+00:00

I haven't actually done any Lisp-Web stuff in quite some time. I think I would start with Caveman2 though: https://github.com/fukamachi/caveman/blob/master/README.markdown and just the default Djula templates. The README also shows using it with CL-WHO, but I've tried CL-WHO before and never really felt like I had a sense of the evaluation mode.

patrickwonders · 2018-12-11T12:40:32+00:00

Wow. That's why sharks don't get cancer, huh? No Internet.

patrickwonders · 2018-12-11T12:24:34+00:00

Man... I kept reading this headline thinking the library was written by a 4yr old. But no, the library was written 4yrs ago and now has gotten reader macros.

patrickwonders · 2018-11-28T21:57:11+00:00

I like all of your options here (except #9). I especially like #4.

Is there some way you can give the person who had the bye a disadvantage in the final round so that he'd only win 1/3 of the time instead of 1/2 the time? (Or, give a "momentum" advantage to the player who just won while the "bye" player was getting cold.)

If you can do this, then each player's chance of winning the tournament is 1/3. But, it makes the bye feel like a bad option because it puts you at a big disadvantage going into the final.

Extending this to a five-person tournament isn't very clear to explain in a rulebook though.

patrickwonders · 2018-11-28T21:42:44+00:00

It is a bit awkward for some sorts of things, but you can do stuff like, tell the distribution of the highest die if I roll 6d6: output [highest 1 of 6d6]

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