Notices by zac anger (zacanger@mastodon.social), page 9

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHh EVEN MORTE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6EKc8VLGLA

When I say that I have a laptop running Puppy, I mean that I have Puppy on a thumb drive and a laptop that's too old and useless for anything except sometimes booting up from little distros on thumb drives. I should probably just trash it.

If I wanted to move over to #BSD as a daily driver, which BSD would I go for? Right now Arch is my daily driver, and I also have laptops running Ubuntu Studio, Debian Sid, and one that has some Puppy variant (idk which, probably Slackware based though).

I recorded right into Audacity because I already knew it, but it's too limited for mixing. I also should probably hunt down some decent plugins, since none of my VST library will work on Linux, I guess?

Audio and music folks who use Linux, I just finished recording an album (the first time I've done any serious recording in about 6 years), and want to start mixing next weekend.

I used to always mix in FL Studio, just because I was comfortable with it, but don't have Windows anymore. I DO have one laptop dedicated to Ubuntu Studio with JACK and everything working.

What do you recommend for mixing? Ardour? LMMS? This is all single-take single-track acoustic guitar music.

(tumblr link because you can't upload video to masto)

https://zacanger.tumblr.com/post/179267569679/a-few-seconds-of-the-guitar-from-a-thing-i

a few seconds of the guitar from a thing i recorded today. this is straight in from the mic, no preamp or compressor, just guitar -> amp -> mic.

i spent so much time when i was younger trying to get cheap gear to sound good. turns out all i really needed to do was not be poor anymore.

@ivan @riking @joshsharp @artragis

Thanks everyone! What I'm gathering about generics is "don't do that"

An example of a thing I have no idea how to do, the simplest possible function. In other languages it's straightforward:

haskell:
id :: a -> a
id a = a

js (flow, TS):
const id = <T>(a: T): T => a

rust:
fn id<T>(a: T) -> T { a }

But in Go I don't even know where to start.

I'm not saying this to diss Go, because it feels like exactly the language I want to be learning right now, I just don't know what to do about this stuff and no one seems to agree on the right ways to solve these problems. So if anyone has authoritative/definitive answers, I'd be super grateful.

I get the feeling these are touchy topics in Go, like JS's type coercion, the mass of Python 2 that's still out there, or how truly awful Cabal is, but as a newcomer to Go I don't know how to deal with these issues, and I'd bet a lot of folks get turned off completely by them.

Folks, I really want to get into #Go, but I can't seem to get over this mental block about these two huge issues in #Golang right now. I know they might be fixed in 2.0, but they're not right now, and I don't know what to do. Can anyone point me towards good resources/docs on how to handle dependency management and the lack of generics?

todo: http://angry.technology and http://loonaverse.co

yay, https://zacanger.com and https://heterophobiaisnotreal.com are now on gh-pages, and are secure for some meaning of the word secure

what i'm saying is, any of my sites may or may not be up for the next 24 hours while dns changes propagate and i wait for certificates and i debug an issue with tumblr's API

little demo of my new (to me) swart SRT combo, going through a (also new) keeley compressor pro.

this is phone audio so you can't really tell, but this rig sounds fucking sexy.