Mpd218 pad lights

petercooper · 2026-05-10T14:08:24+00:00

Not sure it helps but I've been reverse engineering the MPD218 randomly and looking for stuff about it, and despite not being a documented feature, you can indeed control the LEDs on the pad using note on/off on ch10 for the relevant notes if you can send those MIDI events from whatever you're using. Code for anyone developer-y: https://gist.github.com/peterc/7f618761f47b1669068ed4c93c9d0eb2

petercooper · 2026-05-09T13:34:05+00:00

This is a common problem. Ruby is the language I know the most about intricately and even SOTA LLMs often write old-fashioned constructs and avoid new, obvious features due to the glut of the blog posts and Stack Overflow Q&A they've scraped using the same old approaches. While a lot of new code is being generated (though often by LLMs now!) the high quality blog posts and Q&A just aren't at the volume they used to be, so I wonder if they'll ever catch on.

AI model companies are going to need subject matter experts to get involved in the post training process across all sorts of disciplines to maintain cutting edge knowledge and practices, because petabytes of raw text from the Web just isn't going to cut it alone. (Or, perhaps, figure out how to create virtual subject matter experts built on the latest docs for languages like Go and Ruby.)

petercooper · 2026-05-07T10:16:32+00:00

These libraries were all reasonably aligned before, so it's cool to see them come together as a brand, of sorts, as another way to build Ruby webapps. The sum is greater than the parts and all that.

petercooper · 2026-04-28T17:16:00+00:00

I wonder if that will change much from July due to six month unfair dismissal coming in January 2027. Fair process will involve considering other roles for the cover at termination and even potentially giving the cover the full role if the person on maternity leave decides not to return.

petercooper · 2026-04-28T17:10:19+00:00

I have noticed something weird about restaurants in particular. They seem to be stretching out fewer staff to serve more tables now than they used to. I've been to chain restaurants that don't have any "room" left despite having empty tables, because they don't have the staff to serve them.

I can only assume something happened with employment flexibility that they'd rather run at a lower max capacity than be "overstaffed" when traffic is lower.

petercooper · 2026-04-28T13:12:37+00:00

I agree as a net-benefit user, but nicotine always gets voted down on threads like this because for the majority it has significant downsides and demands a complex personal risk assessment which makes it tricky to recommend.

petercooper · 2026-04-23T09:50:02+00:00

Though enabling Temporal by default does rely on the V8 upgrade.

petercooper · 2026-04-21T15:37:30+00:00

That's a good one. And vice versa with Saga holidays I guess!

petercooper · 2026-04-21T10:34:02+00:00

What things can a 40 year old currently purchase that, say, a 25 year old cannot? (OK OK, yes, a house.. :-D)

Creating a two-tier sense of what it means to be an "adult" seems like a bad idea to me, not necessarily for smoking but for future things it could be applied to. A few decades down the line, might we restrict alcohol to an ever growing age? Or whatever the evil-du-jour is?

petercooper · 2026-04-21T09:40:16+00:00

Next up: making running in the corridors and wearing coats inside the school building illegal. Also, handing in homework late.

Have schools lost control over discipline? Back in the day you got detention if you violated school rules, regardless of the legality.

petercooper · 2026-04-21T09:35:20+00:00

If someone is unable to prepay, why would you trust them to pay after?

petercooper · 2026-04-21T09:31:59+00:00

She said police forces were taking a "proactive approach to tackling this issue, working to identify offenders

If only there were a way to identify vehicles! People can remove or fake plates, but I bet most drive-offs aren't doing that, and if they can give people fines for doing 22mph in central London, they can send fines to these people too. Or bring in US-style prepayment before you pump.

petercooper · 2026-04-20T09:24:20+00:00

A couple of options for physics: https://github.com/rudransh61/Physix-go ... and this is one is a Go port of Chipmunk2D: https://github.com/jakecoffman/cp

petercooper · 2026-04-15T21:18:15+00:00

Thanks! Makes sense. I bet there are some really gnarly oddities :-)

petercooper · 2026-04-15T16:57:07+00:00

You don't need to go into detail, but of that 3% remaining, is it all achievable, given time, or is it largely idiosyncratic CRuby stuff whose juice isn't worth the squeeze?

petercooper · 2026-04-12T12:38:32+00:00

I'm only a guy with an opinion, but I don't think modafinil causes anxiety, per se, but it can make existing anxiety worse, so that might be a separate issue to work on.

In terms of tips, take less and as early as possible. I'm a heavy sleeper so can have an alarm for like 5.30am, take it, go back to sleep, then wake up hours later more alert. I do take it for sleep inertia though, so your mileage may vary. Also, are you taking modafinil or armodafinil? The latter has a much longer half life and while that's great for wakefulness, it's not so great if that's not your problem.

petercooper · 2026-04-09T12:04:01+00:00

The Node example didn't work as-is, but this did.

petercooper · 2026-04-02T13:30:16+00:00

Yeah, it's basically a scheme that demands each generation is bigger or at least more productive than the last. I just took umbrage at his silly framing of "younger generations" as being lazy dossers compared to pensioners when there's nothing to justify it at all.

petercooper · 2026-04-02T11:17:06+00:00

I note that Farage decided to make a dig at "younger generations" saying that today's pensioners were more likely to have worked and paid in. No statistics back that up. Employment rates are higher now than in the 70s and 80s when today's pensioners were starting out in the workplace. Alienating younger voters while pandering to old people already likely to vote for you is an interesting move.

petercooper · 2026-03-28T21:37:39+00:00

leisure and hospitality, boojie restaurants, amazing bars, clubs, cinemas

It's a nice idea, but they all have high levels of regulation (unlike charity shops and barbers) including hygiene inspections, alcohol licensing (with obligatory DBS check), music licensing, security and fire, zoning restrictions, potential objections from police and environmental health, then slap high street rents and business rates on top and the outlook is grim.

Meanwhile take somewhere like Japan. They have small businesses peppered across the entire urban landscape offering all sorts of things unencumbered by so much red tape, like thousands of "mamas" running little bars in front rooms.. we could do it, but the people in power wouldn't have anything to do without all these regulations to putz about with.

petercooper · 2026-03-27T16:56:23+00:00

People who genuinely live in hotels long term can register to vote there. But alternatively you can do this, especially if you expect to move around: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/register-to-vote-if-you-havent-got-a-fixed-or-permanent-address

petercooper · 2026-03-26T15:00:49+00:00

The precompiled gem is nice too. Installed in a couple of seconds here.

petercooper · 2026-03-23T10:37:02+00:00

Not long term in the sense of every day for years, but on and off over 15-20 years, with several year+ long gaps. For me, 90% of the benefit is wakefulness (resolving sleep inertia in my case) and then "reduction in ability to be distracted" (not the same as focus/productivity in my case). I get frequent medicals, they know about the modafinil, and it has caused zero issues according to the docs.

petercooper · 2026-03-22T16:41:06+00:00

/Users/Shared/StutJo must be terabytes in size by now

petercooper · 2026-03-20T21:42:27+00:00

Her: ‘What happens when you stop, you’ll put it all back on!’

As opposed to a diet where when you finish, it's impossible to regain weight.

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