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Yes, a shame. I honestly expected this could get picked up as a mainstream news story over Christmas (except I think the actual story is older than this video); Young people with t…

The best of the internet, engineering and humanity... all in one video.

It was magical and very exciting seeing these things emerge!

Acquiring one of these "ScratchAmp" boxes that was missing its software is what started the whole project. These earlier systems deserve a lot of credit. If I'd had access to the s…

It's something I have seen before! Seeing xwax reduced to very small hardware is interesting. Thanks for sharing here.

I don't know of any these days, though in the past I received some great photos of packed large venues with xwax laptops on display. Check the xwax built-in Jack module, likely to …

The records used by xwax have about 100 kilobytes of data on each side of a 12" record. However, the goals are very different here; it's designed to decode the position under speci…

Pre-dating xwax and Mixxx there was "TerminatorX", sounds like it might be what you're interested in.

How do you propose that you'd select and load tracks? Or view time remaining. Even if you don't care about a waveform display, some sort of computer (ie. display) seems to become n…

xwax /is/ meant for end-users, but right at the beginning it only had actual live professional use in mind. I was literally DJ'ing in clubs at the time and I wanted the digital equ…

xwax author here, nice to see it submitted to HN front page. Must be 20+ years now since I wrote the original code for DJ'ing live. Very happy to answer questions

Interesting to see the implementation is basically a two-pass process: strlen() to count the source string, followed by a memcpy(). My intuition would be to give some importance to…

Fair, I was thinking that because its not actually an X11 GUI (though it is X11 of course) Its fun to query or set information on a remote. The same applies to xdpyinfo, xset, xran…

If you're thinking of an X11 GUI, I think perhaps you mean xfontsel?

Not necessarily obscure, still rather useful. xterm & xv remain my daily tools, and xosview is still maintained here: https://www.pogo.org.uk/~mark/xosview/

There's lots of smaller VPS and VM providers -- even local IT companies. Mythic Beasts and Bytemark have been good for me. If you want to use Linode for your CPU time and disk, pro…

Don't throw in the towel, switch ISP. You can do everything right but are being judged by the history of your IP address with it's neighbours in the same AS block.

Who are you hosting on?

I can call the phone and tell which country you're in

That's how you don't make a profit

> The time where Xorg is a well-maintained project is past us. That's the point. This statement continues to sound like its trying to become self-fulfilling. Xorg releases still ha…

A split keyboard has been an excellent change for me, but it doesn't have to come with other changes such as unusual layout or orthogonal. I went for Mistel Barocco. Its basically …

> For example, in London Citymapper will suggest to wait and board front/mid/back This never seems as useful as it should be because I'm missing a reliable way to know which direct…

It's a reasonable hurdle; an employee who previously signed an NDA (or any one, for that matter) needs to be able to design new systems without regurgitating verbatim parts of an o…

Yup, the key thing is let the candidate pick -- any technical system they understand.