Rochus

Very kind, thanks. Suno is indeed a great technology and opens interesting possibilities for musicians. I consider posting more videos. Stay tuned.

Scientific publications (including ACM) should be openly accessible to anyone. I find it very annoying that there is a paywall everywhere. And for the (few) people here seeing AI as something useful, …

How can it run when there is no MMU? Isn't this like rewriting a large part of the kernel?

Still the same, even after waiting a day.

The central insight (consonance involves both physical properties of sound and active perceptual pattern recognition) is interesting, but as a musician I see the following issue: the harmonic series c…

I spent a lot of time with Minix 3 (see https://github.com/rochus-keller/Minix3/tree/Minix3_Book_TCC ). The intention was to make the book version compile with TCC. It t…

I still wasn't able to get on your https://abject.world/ implementation. I tried yesterday and today and always get the message below. I'm on Linux debian bookworm with Fire…

You have to consider that there is actually no true message passing in Smalltalk. Smalltalk just uses that term for dynamic dispatch of compiled methods and calling them (synchronous local invocation)…

> The person who coined the term "object-oriented programming" See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36879311 for who coined the term. > before he developed Smal…

Mach is not a representative proxy for “microkernels” in 2026.The L4 family demonstrated that Mach-like systems were slow because they put too much policy and too many abstractions in the kernel path,…

It's obviously the expression of a symptom how the world today designs systems (whether a compiler or a runtime) and how they could be improved if sustainability really was a concern.

So we can make an estimate on how much waste all the fancy web technologies actually cause. That said, even on desktop and smartphones, web technologies are still on the rise. Not really sustainable.

I should indeed make a video which shows the sound assignments on the bass pedal and how my feet operate on them. Let me see what I can do (video is not my medium). The "muscle memory" is ex…

Thanks. I have mostly audio recordings (and even MIDI files from all devices connected to the computer). There are a couple of videos and one short on my youtube account ( https://www.youtub…

The relevant issue is independent or coordinated control of concurrent musical parts, not whether those parts happen to use different instruments. Piano, Organ (with bass pedal) and drum-kit playing a…

Isn't there a pattern jokingly called "Nobel disease"? I remember that it refers to cases where a laureate’s justified authority in one narrow achievement becomes overconfidence in unre…

This is about the MUMPS 1976 standard. I'm not aware of any jobs where this is required. It's purely interesting for historical reasons. The article is part of my anniversary project ( https…

I have never touched Claude Code and don't have any plans to use it. This is about the history of MUMPS. No reason to dwell on this if you're not interested in the topic (and even less reaso…

I built BUSY as a lean, statically typed build system inspired by GN, targeting GCC, Clang and MSVC. This release adds CMake package export, so CMake-based consumers can use BUSY-built libraries throu…

Interesting documentary; nice to see all the people involved; Simula is not mentioned in the documentary, though in an earlier lecture, Gosling was very specific that Java implemented the object model…

This is an argument that, for an independent "middle-class" musician, giving recordings away in return for direct fan contact can be economically superior to selling individual downloads. Fu…

Unbelievable. I guess because of a lot of bored software people rather than trained musicians.

Yes. If we assume only 5-10% of musicians with a decent, self-supporting living from composing/playing/performing alone (most others work somewhere in the “music-sector”, e.g. as teacher or …

> but I'm glad they exist for professional musicians to use The irony is that a professional musician in most cases has less budget to buy those expensive things than someone working e.g. as…