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Question: How are you
Asked by Arturo (181.126.35.x) on August 19 2020, 7:48pm
Reply on August 20 2020, 1:17pm:
    OK!
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Question: Are you a pro the total abolition of the police force?
Asked by Rob The Questioner (213.205.197.x) on August 19 2020, 9:00am
Reply on August 19 2020, 1:03pm:
    I'll only speak to NYC and the NYPD, since it is where I live, but I would imagine it is similar in other places in the country:

    I think the scope and funding of the NYPD is an order of magnitude too large, and those resources would be far better spent on other social services.

    Reducing the budget and headcount is probably not sufficient, I think there is a culture that is problematic and probably needs a bigger overhaul, but I leave how to do that to the experts...
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Question: Hey justin. Long time no see for a few months. I hope you're doing fine. I was hoping if you would like to work with me on getting more people to use Ninjam to obtain a pretty big following of Ninjam. Old and Young audience. Cause i think ninjam is good, just needs some more people during the pandemic (which I have been doing on platforms such as Twitch since I've ran Discord Online Jamming Central). Would be a great help for the Ninjam community all round
Asked by David (108.21.103.x) on August 18 2020, 5:29am
Reply on August 18 2020, 8:26pm:
    Getting people to use things isn't really my thing
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Question: Aether doesn't make sense to you? Dude, come on, you gotta believe in miracles - we're spinning on a massive rock filled with sludge revolving around a nuclear explosion and you don't believe in aether? :D
Asked by John (93.138.108.x) on August 15 2020, 7:07pm
Reply on August 18 2020, 8:26pm:
    I believe in ether(net)
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Question: The one time I was in SF, we went into the park and there was like 100 people jamming on instruments, percussion and stuff. How often does this happen?
Asked by Apantz (119.18.0.x) on August 11 2020, 3:43am
Reply on August 11 2020, 1:16pm:
    I have no idea! Golden gate park?
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Question: Is there a way to track the zoom change in the Reaper midi editor without taking a chunk?I've tried catch WM_STYLECHANGING messages lparam of child window "midiview".But it changing in different builds.
Asked by Anthony (188.187.124.x) on August 10 2020, 9:08pm
Reply on August 11 2020, 1:16pm:
    Hmm not that I can think of
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Question: hey- Religion! do you #belive in either a.einstein's theory of sound wave particle emissions...or... n.tesla's theory of sound wave aether disturbances/ perturbations? (a wave not being a 'thing' in itself)
Asked by 2020 (31.124.45.x) on August 10 2020, 8:26pm
Reply on August 11 2020, 1:16pm:
    Shrug, not sure if I believe in aether though ;)
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Question: Hey! Ok,so no reaper q's... < licecap > will it ever get more * love * (adding audio for eg??)
Asked by 2020 (31.124.45.x) on August 7 2020, 8:56pm
Reply on August 8 2020, 1:54am:
    Love sure, audio? haven't thought about it. at one point I had it integrated into REAPER and let REAPER's audio get encoded to webm, but the whole thing sorta sucked.
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Question: What do you think about TikTok? Is it good USA wants to block it? Is it good China blocked dozens of American services?
Asked by Vitali (148.81.197.x) on August 7 2020, 5:55pm
Reply on August 8 2020, 1:55am:
    I haven't used TikTok but it seems like the government getting in the middle of these things is not a good thing. If the government wants to get in the middle of things, they should do things that are helpful for its citizens, like regulating and breaking up facebook and google etc. Not just forcing more consolidation. :/
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Question: So when your company is acquired, I assume they might tell you they need you to hang around x months/years for the transition, and you have to stay around to vest your stocks (if it was a heavy stock deal). What prevents them from firing you early then claiming you didn't vest?
Asked by Will (23.125.224.x) on August 4 2020, 5:37pm
Reply on August 4 2020, 6:53pm:
    I guess it depends on the deal and the contract language involved? But I would be wary of a deal that was too back-loaded...
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Question: GDK/SWELL: Weird crash (swell-wnd-generic.cpp:315) if I try to use WDL_ChooseDirectory in DEBUG mode. Release works as expected, bug?
Asked by Gio (2.87.166.x) on August 3 2020, 4:40pm
Reply on August 3 2020, 7:18pm (edited at August 3 2020, 8:39pm):
    Looks like that's a WDL_NOT_NORMALLY() failing, meaning SendMessage() was passed NULL hwnd? Can you show the call stack to see why? Edit: ah I think I see why this is (the crash is an assertion, anyway, to catch possible errors)... fixing! Edit again: fixed, thanks! Note that in release mode there is no issue (the old code was harmless in release mode).
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Question: I have been working as a coder mainly of web apps and database stuff (sql server, oracle, informix) for about 15 years. My passion is music, and I went to school for recording at MTSU. I want to finally bring those two things together, but I don’t know where to start, really. I have little experience working with audio in code, and I haven’t touched C or C++ since college. Any advice on where to begin? I can obviously just dive in head first, but I would value your feedback. Thanks!!!
Asked by Mike (107.77.232.x) on August 3 2020, 12:51pm
Reply on August 3 2020, 7:19pm:
    It's always hard to advise people how to start, considering I started this stuff so long ago. Writing JSFX and ReaScripts in REAPER can be a fun way, though, since you can live-program and don't have to deal with too much boilerplate...
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Question: How much space does the stash currently take up in mb/gb?? does the storage need topping up regular,or how does that all work >?
Asked by 2020 (95.151.177.x) on August 1 2020, 11:05am
Reply on August 2 2020, 1:41am:
    It's only doubledigit gigabytes I think
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Question: What are your feelings regarding Pro Tools' gain reduction meters and would there theoretically be any way to include them in a DAW that can be had for $60 but which cannot be mentioned here?
Asked by Danwhoneedsalongername (86.123.196.x) on July 31 2020, 10:59pm
Reply on August 2 2020, 1:41am:
    Embed yer fx
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Question: Are you voting for biden? I am. He reminds me of my late mother with dementia. (:
Asked by Jack Nicholsan (174.253.214.x) on July 31 2020, 1:02am
Reply on July 31 2020, 1:32pm (edited at July 31 2020, 4:09pm):
    Absolutely. Not sure what you're talking about though, he seems fine (older than I'd like but way more coherent than 45). While there are a lot of video clips of him stumbling over his words, and he does say some shit that gives away his age, but he seems to be pretty sound of mind, unlike certain other people.

    (I should add, in the primary here, I voted for Warren, even though she had no chance obviously)
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Question: Hey- Do any of your bandmates programme,or have any other unusual or exciting jobs/work?
Asked by 2020 (95.151.177.x) on July 30 2020, 10:49am
Reply on July 30 2020, 3:41pm:
    Things relating to music, graphic design/visual arts, and some construction thrown in there too
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Question: Theoretically: What would be needed to port Reaper to Android/iOS? Would it be possible at all or are there too many limitations that would be impossible to circumvent?
Asked by Mespotine (2.247.248.x) on July 29 2020, 2:24am
Reply on July 29 2020, 9:39pm:
    No idea on Android (does one have to do a lot in Java, still?). Re iOS -- the UI work would take ages. So many windows that would need to get ported. Also basic things like dragging the edges of things with a mouse are really not practical for touchscreens. So, to be usable, you'd have to redesign a lot. Which then raises the question, separate code base?

    Set that aside, afaik iOS doesn't allow you to generate code and execute it... so EEL2/JSFX would have to run in (slow) bytecode interpreted mode.

    (general feeling: no thanks! and then there's the business side of things, app stores, ugh).
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Question: Binge-Watch Netflix?
Asked by Ask-Justin Frankel? (122.161.246.x) on July 28 2020, 10:15am
Reply on July 28 2020, 2:18pm:
    I try not to watch more than one (or sometimes two, maybe) episodes of anything a day
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Question: Have you ever seen Hard Core Logo? (The Spinal Tap of ''our generation'' film) Just, watched it again-found it so freaking good 25 years later.Also, those photos you posted of your bike with the cargo attachments etc - are they like the W1A (the show) Collapsible bikes? they look awesome & should be compulsory for Commuting=Al Gore style.;).
Asked by Dr. Octagon (199.229.249.x) on July 27 2020, 1:43pm
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Question: Einstein said that: "Imagination is more important than knowledge,for knowledge is limited to all we know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand." < would you agree?
Asked by 2020 (95.151.177.x) on July 27 2020, 10:11am
Reply on July 27 2020, 11:16am:
    Sounds about right, as long one doesn't think that they know a lot more than they do...
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