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Question: Sorry if the question is not appropriate, but do you own an apartment or do you rent one? What is the reason behind this decision? Thank you. Asked by asafonov (222.155.100.x) on October 11 2025, 4:49am Reply on October 11 2025, 4:45pm: Own at this point, no good reason just paths of least resistance/the place itself/etc. Comment... Question: This has probably been asked before, but I just wanted to hear your thoughts on wacup. Asked by Austin (75.87.63.x) on October 11 2025, 3:49am Reply on October 11 2025, 4:44pm: Shrug, I'm over Winamp 1 Comment... Question: Do you still in contact with Brennan? Is he still away from the internet? Asked by Ruchira (111.223.176.x) on October 11 2025, 2:53am Reply on October 11 2025, 4:44pm: I am! He's not so much away from the internet, afaict, but more passively consuming it, maybe? Comment... Question: Isn't success the point where others are getting successful under the umbrella you created? Asked by Success (197.251.240.x) on October 10 2025, 9:08pm Reply on October 11 2025, 4:40pm: But then those people are successful with their umbrella? is this a multi-level marketing thing? ;) Comment... Question: What do you think about the latest update to Spotify's terms and conditions? Some members of the music community were initially outraged, but it later turned out there was no reason to worry because the update applies to "user content." I don't really understand the difference because I don't use Spotify, but in any case, this new provision in Spotify's "TOS" is suspicious in my opinion (in short, it's about the irrevocable consent to all Spotify rights to "user content" for sublicensing, adaptations, etc.) Asked by Muzg (89.64.28.x) on October 10 2025, 6:01pm Reply on October 11 2025, 4:44pm: Haven't really followed it, but in general I'm not a fan of these services, they're just the new way to screw over artists. Comment... Question: Should pierre come to my show on Saturday or hang with his girlfriend at a show he doesn't like? Asked by Jordan (151.225.134.x) on October 9 2025, 4:07pm Reply on October 10 2025, 1:06am: That's up to him I guess? Comment... Question: Justin, if you had to pick one sampler plugin to keep forever, what would it be? :) Asked by deee (49.228.209.x) on October 9 2025, 1:17pm Reply on October 9 2025, 2:10pm: I mostly use rs5k heh but that figures 1 Comment... Question: do you know John Woo Asked by ininfinn (212.104.215.x) on October 8 2025, 1:43am Reply on October 8 2025, 8:45pm: I know of him Comment... Question: should I use callback function or window messages for receiving midi in values? Asked by Ruchira (111.223.191.x) on October 5 2025, 11:25am Reply on October 5 2025, 11:53am (edited at October 5 2025, 11:54am): I'd use callbacks, but not sure what the performance differences are! I'd imagine that the window messages would require an extra step of having to get sent across threads etc Comment... Question: Not looking for debate, just curious. Why are our IP addresses being shown for everybody to see even if they aren't in full? Why not just the names? Asked by ?????? (102.176.65.x) on October 5 2025, 3:19am Reply on October 5 2025, 11:55am: To give a little bit of extra identifying information. If two questions get asked with a diff name but a similar IP, that's meaningful, and if two questions get asked with the same name but vastly different IP in a short timespan, that's also meaningful. 2 Comments... Question: Have tried nushell? Just discovered and it's really dope Asked by Chris (77.23.250.x) on October 4 2025, 11:03pm Reply on October 5 2025, 1:20am: neat, haven't tried it though 1 Comment... Question: Is there any tutorial on how to create the freeform skin? I ve tried looking around, but it gets me in circles to the rectangle solid one. I have two very specific in mind, but I feel it would get lost the vibe in a square. Cheers Asked by Broke (79.155.64.x) on October 3 2025, 1:57pm Reply on October 3 2025, 4:58pm: see e.g. SetWindowRgn (MSDN) Comment... Question: are you using any AI coding tools in your day to day develipment these days? Asked by travis (71.125.194.x) on October 2 2025, 5:14pm Reply on October 3 2025, 2:19am: hell no, your brain is use it or lose it, why would I want to lose it? also who likes reviewing other people's code? 2 Comments... Question: Hey Justin, I was wondering - who currently holds the rights to the original Winamp Llama Intro jingle? would that be the company who bought winamp? I am an independent musician and am interested in licensing, or should I say "sampling" it as an intro to one of the tracks on my upcoming LP. If you have any knowledge on that, I'd be grateful if you could advise. PS: 10yrs+ Reaper user here (music producer, editor, sound designer) - kudos to you sir. Great stuff! Asked by Kuba (89.64.26.x) on September 30 2025, 8:46am Reply on September 30 2025, 9:03pm: it was made by JJ McKay, not sure if he ever assigned rights to AOL, you could ask him. Comment... Question: I once saw a statement somewhere on the forum that, if one desides to specify dimensions at the @gfx, there are minimum dimensions and these minimun dimensions are different for Windows, Linux and MacOS. Is this true? If true what are those minimum dimensions, especially the width? Asked by Question (102.176.101.x) on September 29 2025, 10:46am Reply on September 29 2025, 2:04pm: they are just suggestions 2 Comments... Question: Do you know John Carmack? What do you think of this piece of content?twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1... Asked by titi (221.215.214.x) on September 29 2025, 5:10am Reply on September 29 2025, 2:03pm: of him, obviously, but not personally. yes, OS from scratch, in its entirety, is just too big of a project to be worthwhile. any individual component exists in an ecosystem etc. Comment... Question: Were you contractually obligated to come back and do Winamp 5 before moving on, or was that a moral decision to leave the Internet with a solid product before parting ways with AOL? I'm in a similar situation and I'm curious about your thought process for that final effort push. Asked by Will (99.100.219.x) on September 28 2025, 11:38pm Reply on September 29 2025, 1:19am: No I had to fight to stick around at that point lol. Wanted to make something good, yeah. Comment... Question: Do you have a homemade text file note-taking system for you work/stuff? I don't want to use things like org-mode but I struggle with many bits here and there and I'm curious about how other people do it. Cheers Asked by namer (31.37.8.x) on September 25 2025, 2:16pm Reply on September 26 2025, 1:15am: no real system, the digital equivalent of post-it notes everywhere Comment... Question: Hi, this is supposed to be a simple playback counter, but only the first playback gets detected and updated to 1 but then gets stuck at 1 even when we've stopped and played back multiple times. Could it be that the built-in playstate is sending wrong values? I'm struggling to find whats wrong. pastebin.com/z2DbtZJa Asked by debug (102.176.65.x) on September 22 2025, 9:22pm Reply on September 22 2025, 10:23pm: by default in JSFX, everything (all memory, variables, etc) get reset to 0 and @init gets called on each playback start. you can disable this behavior by setting ext_noinit=1 in @init. 1 Comment... Question: There's chessboxing, you probably know. How about codeboxing? lol Asked by wasereb4 (95.90.179.x) on September 21 2025, 9:31pm Reply on September 22 2025, 1:25am: sounds painful Comment... 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