u/nelson_fretty

Working on design of a finance app to calculate npv (net present value) need to use addition / multiplication/ pow

I could do with decimal type for money as floats/doubles are based on binary

I see there is fixed point decimal paper being worked on.

In the meantime - what is best way to handle this in interface ?

Thinking of asking client to use string and then use long long for the maths after parsing (pennies)? “1500.23” = 150023

What do I return ? String/int? Either way the client would need to transform. I can’t use doubles for this unfortunately.

I suppose I can use double if could give idea to client what error amount is - npv is estimate anyway.

Any idea what causes different harmonics based on the direction of strum/vibration of steel string ? Up / Down

The pitch is the same but the sound varies slightly. I guess it has something to do with angular momentum but that is guess.

What’s the best way to handle midi controllers on reaper (Linux) - like simple foot switch and a more complex instrument with pads/keys/controllers

Have an old atom sq in the cupboard and wondered I can get working or if someone had already done work.

Does anyone have stats on level of shutdowns/recycle?

I’m trying to record electric guitar - my mate who is playing insists on driving it really hard close to 0 and sometimes clipping.

I’ve researched this and studio typically record clean -18 to -6 or -18 to -12

What is the recommend gain - he insists on using his fuzz pedal - I’m trying to convince him to go clean.

Is the level -18 to -6 okay for fuzz and clean? He is trying to tell me we need record loud but I’m not sure.

Need to use buses in Cambridge over summer - does anyone know if I can buy tickets in train station - u2 / stagecoach or if it’s tap on.

Don’t want prepay as I don’t exactly know where I’m going or how many times I’ll be travelling until day of travel.

Ta

Do gen2 flows give the same error reporting as gen1 - when running 3 queries - when 1 fails but other 2 complete we need to know that when flow fails

I have library I use in a workspace to make data slicing and dicing patterns easier with spark.

Is there a way to make this library available tenant wide ?

Would like folks to be able to : import lib

If I select an upstream DNSSEC provider does this give a little more protection?

I don’t want use vpn as that requires open ports

I don’t want click enable DNSSEC as that bloats logging .

Note the DNSSEC test page works

Has anyone been able to wineasio working on fedora 44 with wine 11?

Only need it for 1 app but can’t get it working

Trying to play some Gary Moore material - was he classically trained ? Almost look like jazz

I thought he was blues player 😀 learning a lot but much harder than I thought.

When I’m practising something tricky I close 1 eye or both eyes - unsure but I guess this lets my neural head focus on playing - the amount of data coming into eyes can block learning - is anyone else doing this ?

One of my old school mates who taught be to draw cartoons told me about closing 1 eye is good for precision.

Sick to death of working on gigs where folks use
ISO date in the data layer and on the app layer we get non-local dates.

4/4/2026 is ambiguous and can lead to disaster.

With chord transitions for the open chords like C - G - Em as example. C - G and G - C is tricky. The only way I've found to move fingers fast enough for beat is to put 1 finger down first as anchor - this seems to help me place other fingers on the right notes - it all happens fast but is that recommended approach? I tried placing all fingers down at the same time but that leads to misfires towards end of songs.

Thinking of trying to pickup sounds of nature from garden - over summer - including insects - birds - plants

Not sure what type of mics I’d need for that but they would need to be outdoor for weeks.

Any ideas ?

Using ccp for realtime audio (dsp) and need to develop ui - thinking of doing terminal ui (cli) - just need a few parameters but with modern cpp what is the best way pass data (floats) into realtime non blocking thread ;1-way?

Threads have shared memory right ? Is it just case of using struct to pack params and use raw pointers?

Or should I develop some kind of hub ie in future ui may be something else hence thinking to isolate it from audio

Audio thread <——— hub thread <———ui thread

Are there any multithreaded libs available or is this so low level I need craft my own?