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OliverM commented on Redesigned Swift.org is now live swift.org/... · Posted by u/lawgimenez

SwiftyBug · 3 months ago

I would love to try Swift for things other than iOS if it had nice development tools. I don't ask for much. A decent LSP and code formatter are all I want. I refuse to use Xcode, so being able to code Swift in my code editor of preference would be great.

OliverM · 3 months ago

It has both of those. I use them from Emacs comfortably.

OliverM commented on James Joyce was a complicated man thefitzwilliam.com/p/jame... · Posted by u/apollinaire

sourcepluck · a year ago

B) "From then on, Joyce lived in Europe." Isn't Ireland in Europe...?

-- technically yes, of course. In reality? Eh, it's complicated. There's probably a few reasons, but if you told an Irish person they were European, people would be bemused, at least.

OliverM · a year ago

Not this Irishman…

OliverM commented on A physicist runs the math on direct air capture and warns it's a distraction wired.com/story/the-stupe... · Posted by u/miguelazo

ceruleanseas · a year ago

When I was in college, a physics professor said investment in solar is a waste of time and that we should invest in nuclear instead. A part of his calculation was the efficiency of solar cells at the time, but he didn’t take into account the radical increases in efficiency that investment was able to bring, making our investments in solar worth it today.

I think this may be similar, in that maybe the current solutions are not going to solve the problem, but by investing in these, in the long run, they may prove to be necessary as we get better at it.

OliverM · a year ago

No, not in this case. The article already assumes the existence of a near perfectly-efficient process. It's just looking at the minimum energy needed to remove the carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, according to long-established physical laws, no matter what mechanism is used.

We could definitely work harder at supporting the existing natural mechanisms for removing CO2 from the atmosphere, but it's far, far easier to reduce the amount we're emitting.

OliverM commented on GPT-4o openai.com/index/hello-gp... · Posted by u/Lealen

OliverM · a year ago

This is impressive, but they just sound so _alien_, especially to this non-U.S. English speaker (to the point of being actively irritating to listen to). I guess picking up on social cues communicating this (rather than express instruction or feedback) is still some time away.

It's still astonishing to consider what this demonstrates!

OliverM commented on Ardour 8.0 ardour.org/whatsnew.html#... · Posted by u/6581

ninjin · 2 years ago

It is not really a commercial product, rather it follows an old, but somewhat rare, tradition of making usage slightly more difficult in order to raise funds. OpenBSD used to do the same and not provide pre-built images to raise funds via CD sales from those that could not be bothered to learn how to build images from the source code. You can certainly object to this, but I do find it reasonable as there are few good ways to fund open source software.

As for Ardour itself, it is clearly completely open source [1].

https://git.ardour.org/ardour/ardour/src/branch/master/COPYI...

OliverM · 2 years ago

I don't object to it at all, I think it's a great idea. We need more models of supporting open-source, including financial ones. BTW I also don't see commercial and open-source as intrinsically opposed to each other - projects can be both, and I wish more were.

OliverM commented on Ardour 8.0 ardour.org/whatsnew.html#... · Posted by u/6581

diggan · 2 years ago

Looks to be a extensive update with lots of new and useful features, thanks as always PaulDavisThe1st :) Especially Arrangement and Quick Groups will be good time savers for me!

> For several years, people downloading Ardour for macOS have had to deal with various kinds of messages (from Apple) saying things like "This program comes from an untrusted source" to "The file is damaged". As of Ardour 8, macOS users downloading Ardour won't see this stuff any more, because we have given up and paid $100 to join Apple's pay-to-play scheme. Our builds are all notarized now, and so people on macOS should have the same smooth experience they get from other macOS software downloads.

Hope macOS users live up to the commonly referenced "Apple users are more likely to pay for software" and donate either time or money to Ardour if they use it, as it seems making applications available to them cost developers actual money now.

OliverM · 2 years ago

I thought Ardour was a commercial product? If you want to download a binary from their site it's either a demo version with injected silence every 10 minutes, or a paid-for option (either a small monthly sub or a larger one-off payment). You can build it locally yourself for free of course, but I don't know if many non-devs would do that.

OliverM commented on Irish Gov Makes Critizising Big Tech and Irish DPC a Crime noyb.eu/en/irish-gov-make... · Posted by u/dotcoma

OliverM · 2 years ago

Also see the ICCL's statement on the same amendment (it's a lot more direct about the issue and the implications): https://www.iccl.ie/news/last-minute-government-amendment-se...

The ICCL is the Irish Council for Civil Liberties. They're fully independent of the government and are funded by memberships. If you're an Irish citizen they're well worth supporting (only €40 per annum). I'm a member.

OliverM commented on The Cargo Cult of the Ennui Engine medium.com/@max.p.schlien... · Posted by u/pfix

OliverM · 2 years ago

I like the sentiment but this could have been a tweet. If it was it wouldn't be preaching to the choir.

I am being glib above but in the spirit of useful feedback, the article needs editing for length. It's not that it's badly written, I just found that it took too circuitous a route to make its point.

OliverM commented on Deluge – sequencer, synthesizer and sampler – goes open source synthtopia.com/content/20... · Posted by u/weatherlight

OliverM · 2 years ago

This is genuinely thrilling. I know it’s likely to be a C++ codebase, which I don’t have a huge amount of experience in (yet). But having open source access to a music machine of the Deluge’s calibre is phenomenal.