Posts by GeoffWozniak@mastodon.club
(DIR) Post #581951 by GeoffWozniak@mastodon.club
2018-10-17T01:20:36Z
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@thomasfuchs It was very sad (my wife claims the cat loved me to the exclusion of all others) but we will probably be adopting a couple new cats within the week. They need to get cleared by a vet, then we get to meet them.
(DIR) Post #723504 by GeoffWozniak@mastodon.club
2018-10-24T01:32:13Z
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@TheGibson You willing to go with XLR connectors? Willing to spend gobs of money?Beyond expensive, but a Neumann U87 is a stellar voice mic. I used a version of it years ago. Amazing if you can get it. (Pretty much any other Neumann is good, and there are cheaper.)I tried an AKG last year and was quite happy with it. Forget the model though.I have not been impressed with Apex mics.Rode is okay. I've heard good things about the CAD E-100S.Sennheiser is always a good bet.
(DIR) Post #723522 by GeoffWozniak@mastodon.club
2018-10-24T01:33:56Z
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@TheGibson I have not tried any USB mics yet.Best advice: rent a mic if you can and try it out. You never know how it's going to respond to you voice until you try it.I rented a good mic last year (can't remember the brand!) and I was not impressed.
(DIR) Post #723632 by GeoffWozniak@mastodon.club
2018-10-24T01:39:22Z
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@TheGibson When I was in music production I was able to look at the ancient ribbon mic the studio had but I was not allowed to use it.I can't remember mics but even a Shure SM57 can work for voice, although it's probably more for vocals that speech.
(DIR) Post #723633 by GeoffWozniak@mastodon.club
2018-10-24T01:40:22Z
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@TheGibson Actually, that's the SM58. The SM57 was for pretty much any instrument.
(DIR) Post #916378 by GeoffWozniak@mastodon.club
2018-11-02T02:04:37Z
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@ink_slinger Christmas is ruined by starting it so early. Consumerism be damned. Wait until December, goddammit.
(DIR) Post #948110 by GeoffWozniak@mastodon.club
2018-11-03T18:02:01Z
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Hands up if you hate smartphones.
(DIR) Post #978665 by GeoffWozniak@mastodon.club
2018-11-05T01:37:33Z
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I can totally see why there was a rejection of this model in the world of mini/micro/personal computers.
(DIR) Post #1312115 by GeoffWozniak@mastodon.club
2018-11-19T02:53:10Z
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@calvin Save yourself.
(DIR) Post #1320740 by GeoffWozniak@mastodon.club
2018-11-19T12:48:45Z
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@ink_slinger My wife and I love the train. We want to do a cross-country trip on it and we'll have to save for a while for that to happen.That said, Toronto to Montreal is a pretty crowded trip. We've done it twice, once in the summer in a train car that had the heat on. We still liked it, though.
(DIR) Post #1403571 by GeoffWozniak@mastodon.club
2018-11-22T05:19:21Z
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@ink_slinger Part of the reason I detest flight travel is the security theatre.
(DIR) Post #1438203 by GeoffWozniak@mastodon.club
2018-11-23T19:33:26Z
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@ink_slinger Because it just doesn't taste good. ;)
(DIR) Post #1518723 by GeoffWozniak@mastodon.club
2018-11-27T01:39:38Z
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As much as you may want it to be, this book is not very good.https://archive.org/details/howtodebugyourpe00jimh
(DIR) Post #1518724 by GeoffWozniak@mastodon.club
2018-11-27T01:43:50Z
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If you don't want to read it (and I don't blame you), the examples are mostly badly designed programs -- even for BASIC -- with a stream of consciousness describing how to fix them. As you read it, you think, "Uh, maybe the design is no good?" This is never brought up.
(DIR) Post #1518725 by GeoffWozniak@mastodon.club
2018-11-27T01:45:53Z
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There is a whole chapter on patching. This is trivial in BASIC, but the examples are so contrived it's ridiculous. The argument is that you may not be able to rewrite or reload the program. But the scenarios presented are, laughably, less than 50 lines long.
(DIR) Post #1518726 by GeoffWozniak@mastodon.club
2018-11-27T01:48:29Z
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One example uses a floating point number X.Y to represent two ASCII characters (!). This is "patched" to deal with two special cases by just hard coding a string in the code. But then it's revealed there are only 15 cases in total. You might as well hard code the strings anyway since the data set is so small, thus avoiding the bizarre numerical representation of characters.
(DIR) Post #1518964 by GeoffWozniak@mastodon.club
2018-11-27T01:55:52Z
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@calvin Uhhh...
(DIR) Post #1518965 by GeoffWozniak@mastodon.club
2018-11-27T01:57:24Z
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@calvin Can you point me to that? I'm now curious.
(DIR) Post #1545964 by GeoffWozniak@mastodon.club
2018-11-28T03:02:41Z
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@TheGibson Are registrations still closed?
(DIR) Post #1546291 by GeoffWozniak@mastodon.club
2018-11-28T03:08:04Z
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@TheGibson It'd be appreciated. I wouldn't mind another account.