A native text editor with VS Code's capabilities.
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#92Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, but economies of scale couldn't apply as much, increasing unit prices.
But competition could be much higher, pushing down unit prices...
It would be potentially much cheaper without licensing negotiations, royalties and IP policing adding to the price too.
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#93Why do we only serve user interfaces over the web via HTML/JS interpreter inside the browser? If you can somehow provide some isolation (something docker like) and not yet thinking about delta changes, why would we not able to load e.g. a native QT application over the network (i.e. using DNS but instead of serving HTML over the webserver, serve a native application)?
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#94A P2P file sharing application based on Publius technology. Allows anonymous uploads, splits and encrypts files redundantly across servers. The hosts don't know what they're holding. Privacy enhancing and censorship-resistant.
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#95Why do we only serve user interfaces over the web via HTML/JS interpreter inside the browser? If you can somehow provide some isolation (something docker like) and not yet thinking about delta changes, why would we not able to load e.g. a native QT application over the network (i.e. using DNS but instead of serving HTML over the webserver, serve a native application)?
You can. Flutter does this by making the app run in a canvas element with WASM.
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#96A native text editor with VS Code's capabilities.
Check out Onivim 2
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#97Great question. My answer would involve so many things in the music space. These are mostly actually impossible right now, but being able to think about things that you want that should be possible and seem completely out of reach is a great technique for finding motivation. The world is much, much, much bigger and more full than our little brains with our little problems can usually understand. So, some of mine: 1.…
Those are superb points!
You might want to know that (4) has been IMO solved (long time audio enthusiast here, spent more than 15 years on solving that exact problem, developed my own startup that was focused on making DACs with the best possible analog sections - I gave up to a better idea done by someone else, which I'm going to mention next.
Rob Watts, a DAC designer from the UK has solved the problem with his FPGA based DACs and pulse array analog sections. Instruments' transients and how they impact a listener (human hearing is far, far more complicated than vision) seems to be the key for the brain to mark a given sound a "natural one" and properly place it into 3D space. Watts works exclusively for Chord Electronics nowadays, but he'd started his own kind of DACs in the 80s. The guy is a genius, I have nothing more to say. My long time quest for properly sounding audio source has been finished. Currently he's working on his Davina project which is going to bring the same technology for audio reproduction (and rebuilding) to studios, leveling up his game even more. Stay tuned, because it's going to take some time. The only other company that does something similar is DCS, but they're extremely expensive and they're rather on the fun side of listening than accuracy.
Myself, I use Chord Electronics Hugo 2 DAC (that's the cheapest one having all important Watts' technology, ca. $2500; there's also Mojo - very cheap, but it's mostly for the on-the-go listening) paired with either Audioquest NightOwl headphones or my valve custom made stereo. It's a bliss.
PS: Regarding (3) there's no way noise cancellation technologies can produce superb audio. Not possible (unfortunately) at this point of technological advancement of how speakers are being build (and close to nothing has changed during the last 60 years in that area), so they should rather be saved for dealing with unpleasantness of very loud environments, not necessarily suited for music listening.
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#98Why do we only serve user interfaces over the web via HTML/JS interpreter inside the browser? If you can somehow provide some isolation (something docker like) and not yet thinking about delta changes, why would we not able to load e.g. a native QT application over the network (i.e. using DNS but instead of serving HTML over the webserver, serve a native application)?
You can. Flutter does this by making the app run in a canvas element with WASM.
Look cool, but I was envisioning a more general approach I suppose, not limited to a single specific language/tool. Flutter still outputs a x.js which is interpreted by V8 and runs within the Chrome sandbox, what I meant was more along the line of a supercharged browser able to run e.g. the JRE allowing to run any random java program out there, but then accessed over an URL and requiring no manual "installation"/copying/extracting files or interpreter setup. Same for e.g. a native Dart app. So you would be able to run any native application (given it's built for your platform obviously) within this kind of browser, you could run chrome in it and access the web like usual I suppose?
So I guess just hassle-free native apps with a focus on client/server architecture like websites, running gimp/paint doesn't seem like a good fit for something like this :')
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#99Great question. My answer would involve so many things in the music space. These are mostly actually impossible right now, but being able to think about things that you want that should be possible and seem completely out of reach is a great technique for finding motivation. The world is much, much, much bigger and more full than our little brains with our little problems can usually understand. So, some of mine: 1.…
Those are superb points! You might want to know that (4) has been IMO solved (long time audio enthusiast here, spent more than 15 years on solving that exact problem, developed my own startup that was focused on making DACs with the best possible analog sections - I gave up to a better idea done by someone else, which I'm going to mention next. Rob Watts, a DAC designer from the UK has solved the problem with his FPG…
Thank you very much, am very interested to learn more.
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#100Earlier quoted context omitted.
You can. Flutter does this by making the app run in a canvas element with WASM.
Look cool, but I was envisioning a more general approach I suppose, not limited to a single specific language/tool. Flutter still outputs a x.js which is interpreted by V8 and runs within the Chrome sandbox, what I meant was more along the line of a supercharged browser able to run e.g. the JRE allowing to run any random java program out there, but then accessed over an URL and requiring no manual "installation"/copy…
Looks like you're looking for WASM apps then. Native programs including games if they're compiled to WASM can run on the browser.