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vortico

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About vortico

Founder of VCV. https://vcvrack.com/

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    Comment #46750015

    I built a site to browse which songs include samples of others. It's common in hip hop, electronic, pop, etc to reuse drum breaks, melodies, or vocal snippets of other tracks. Samp…

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    Comment #43910237

    I want to specify heat, cool, or auto. I don't want to cool in the winter under any circumstances. I can simply open a window. Vise versa for the summer.

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    Comment #43780065

    >Scientists claim to have discovered a ‘new color’ no one has seen before. LOL!

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    Comment #43699830

    Cool! Some random requests to consider: Could the range x~y be uniform instead of 2 std dev normal (95.4%ile)? Sometimes the range of quantities is known. 95%ile is probably fine a…

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    Comment #41931741

    As a workaround you can type a trailing slash: example.internal/

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    Comment #40519660

    The cafeteria manager likely had no idea they were running out of forks. A simple email or phone call to the cafeteria department would have probably solved the problem, since mana…

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    Comment #40432185

    Why so many posts about Firefox bugs getting fixed after N years? https://hn.algolia.com/?q=firefox+bug+years

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    Comment #36841860

    Have you tried contacting support? https://www.oracle.com/virtualization/contact-form.html

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    Comment #36450806

    The reason is surprising but perfectly valid once you remember the spec of map() and parseInt(). Love JS WTFs.

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    Comment #32806667

    Also http://ai./

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    Comment #32025806

    Notepad++ refund request form Product price: 0 USD Name: _______________________ Email: _______________________ Purchase Date: _______________________

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    Comment #31591170

    Mindustry https://anuke.itch.io/mindustry

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    Comment #31502964

    Reminded me of my favorite article. http://worrydream.com/ABriefRantOnTheFutureOfInteractionDesi... I'm willing to pay extra to avoid touch screens in my cars, washing machines, do…

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    Comment #31247615

    Very cool, although index funds like S&P 500 and DJI don't seem to work. https://betagainst.fun/asset/_gspc_spy/ https://betagainst.fun/asset/_dji_dia/

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    Comment #31071544

    Why did they have to add the super slow scroll lag? That ruined the whole site.

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    Comment #31040925

    How so? I can buy a modified Thinkpad ( https://minifree.org/product/libre-t440p/ or http://www.cnmod.cn/x210/ ) because enough people demand it. If enough people demand dumb TVs b…

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    Comment #31038102

    Wouldn't the free market simply provide modifications with the cell networking removed for an extra $50 or so? The "discount" you get from buying a smart TV verses a dumb TV (which…

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    Comment #29960648

    Was going to say PDF but this is close enough :)

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    Comment #29949849

    Bonus: Can this be a pure CSS library?

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    Comment #29669211

    Agreed, it looks like a really nice product and I wish people would pay for quality software like this, but the market is super saturated, and even free, cross-platform chat platfo…

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    Comment #29638521

    Isn't base64 encoding/decoding bound to memory bandwidth? If so, won't all 4/3 memory formats encode/decode at the same speed?

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    Comment #29306786

    Here's a list of hundreds of funny examples. https://www.androidpolice.com/2021/09/29/gboard-emoji-kitche... Someone could probably make a huge table of all of them on one page.

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    Comment #29294548

    Ownership goes to the author's heirs.

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