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New business idea: reverse lottery.... Basically we randomly select a person every month and whoever is selected we send someone over to their house and rob them of everything they have at gun point. Buying a ticket to the lottery ensures your name never gets called.

@freemo We should make them exercise intensively until they are the best they can be. It's far more sinister than taking everything.

@thor It also isn't good with bosses. It's necessary sometimes but it usually gets one fired.

Winning every discussion is how you lose friends

I only wound up even hearing about Hogwarts Legacy **because ** of the boycotts. Now I find it turns out to be the best selling game of 2023.

I wonder if people realize that boycotts often do more to advertise a product than it serves to cancel it.

@freemo It's like Pegasus Group and the outcry about it. It's free advertising and it's very effective.

I'm not saying that PG is bad or unethical, it's just the governments that make them look bad. They just specialize in computer security tools so it's more of a benevolent company than anything else.

@thendrix Public schools at least teach the skills that students can use. Drugs are not going anywhere and it's well past time that we stop curb stomping our economy and allow it to flourish.

It wouldn't be government if it wasn't highly corrupt and incompetent. :/

@thor Sorry but I was having a bit of a laugh about someone using Fruity Loops. I think DJ Mustard does but isn't it barely better than LMMS? It's just rather funny to me to see it. I was hoping for something weird and new but lol.

@AmpBenzScientist I'm using Logic on macOS and he's using FL Studio on Windows. Exporting and importing some WAV files isn't the issue. But no tempo data in the MIDI file. There were only 3 tempo changes, so I wrote them out for him, but apparently, the GUI in FL Studio doesn't permit you to actually type those in. You have to screw around with automation curves, so you can't get precise changes.

@thor For the case of Computer Science in the US, it's not uncommon for some to take courses with FPGAs or Assembly. At my former University the department of Computer Science was started by grabbing a fresh graduate from Yale and making them the Department Chairman. His field was Mathematics and his thesis was in the subfield of Abstract Algebra.

In the early days of computing there were no degrees in computer stuff. There was Mathematics, Physics and Electrical Engineering. So many of the early pioneers of computing were from the aforementioned fields. This would change much later but Computer Science was built as the science of using the computer.

I agree that the title is a bit odd but some of the courses dive into the Mathematics and Science of computers. So it's not inaccurate but rather dated. There were many courses that CS majors shared with EEs, Physics and Mathematics. So there's a tight relationship between the fields. I got headhunted from Mathematics for research work after I became involved with a few projects. I actually got in trouble and they kept me from getting expelled for hacking.

So Computer Science does contain what we would consider informatics but not Analysis like Mathematicians learn to do with computers. So while the field continues to change from its roots, it's still Computational Science and they are all required to be competent to a certain extent outside of Microsoft Studio or whatever it's called now.

I will note that CS majors are more than likely doing their work on Windows while Mathematicians are using Linux or Mac. Physicists require more than Apple can offer so fortunately they are forced into Linux or BSD. Engineers might use Windows or Linux. Oh and we required the use of Linux in CS courses.

It could also be a problem with translation. It was a fun hobby for the nerds until it became popular. With Formula Translator finally all but completely dead presumably for the last time and the focus of CS shifting to shiny new Languages, the ties to Mathematics are starting to disappear.

American Universities might be pretentious but the nerds they imprison are usually not. They are also a business like those cert monopolies that keep people from working unless they identify something that lost reliance a decade ago.

So no. If it's wrong then it's the business side of it that screws everyone over and they get paid better than the experts. I don't care if you punch a University in the balls, just be sure to get the money side and not the side that wants to make the world a better place.

@thor What DAW are you using?

(The brilliant developers of DAWs have made efforts to complicate cooperation with different DAWs.)

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