This looks like it might bring windows on par with OSX for MIDI, but while windows has that terrible driver architecture that allows for one hardware driver to interrupt another hardware driver I'm afraid audio will always be second to OSX.
These "Deferred procedure calls" are ever present and make windows audio completely unpredictable. Having random audio buffer underruns because your video card decided to do something that stopped the OS from sending data to your sound interface is really a big problem.
If you would have made this comment 20 years ago, I would have agreed. Nowadays, I'm not so sure about the superiority of Apple for audio use, I think it's mostly a myth and Apple is resting on its laurels.
For example, there's quite a few cross platform DAWs (e.g. Cubase) which perform better on macOS than Apple's first party DAW Logic Pro. And features like ARA2 are still broken in Logic 12 on Apple Silicon.
There are many studios running just fine on Windows. Where Apple still is popular probably is songwriters and producers, mainly because they have nice laptops.
Also, when Apple introduced their Apple Silicon architecture and their new DriverKit, they had huge performance issues with USB audio interfaces. Basically exactly like what you blame Windows for. I'm actually not even sure if this has been fully fixed by Apple in Tahoe (but I think it has improved). But I think people still have issues with USB 3 interfaces with a large channel count, devices like a RME UFX III for example. Things are better via Thunderbolt, as this bypasses Apple's USB architecture.
For the DPC problem, Windows has the Multimedia Class Scheduler Service, which helps a bit (but doesn't fully solve the problem).
Lastly, Microsoft has been quite open in communication recently, for example one of the authors of the article linked is active in various audio engineering forums.
This is a refreshing contrast to Apple to be honest, which are always very secretive and seem to have the attitude that Apple cannot do wrong. So if there are problems like the above mentioned USB issue or the ARA2 issue with Logic, you never actually hear something official.
This is awesome! I started experimenting with LLMs and Ableton over the break too. I used a few off the shelf VST templates to create a VST that leverages an LLM that can create LilyPond format music. This creates multi track VST output (MIDI) from the parsed LilyPond. I have a system prompt that explains LilyPond to the LLM (it already knows anyhow), and then I give it a prompt like "Megaman, 64 bars, ice man level", and it pumps out 4-5 tracks of MIDI that is just what I asked for. I get nice sheet music on top of that.
I like this because I'm really in the creative process still, it feels like a tool like "Scaler" (nice tool btw) where you're picking origin notes, but really putting the song together yourself. It can suggest "Synth Bass" but I'm the one assigning it from one of my other VSTs sounds, mixing, picking, etc.. And if all goes well playing some lead on the guitar or seaboard and then deleting it all and starting over.
> "As the letter states, based on the agency's thorough review, neither the Numident database nor any of its data has been accessed, leaked, hacked, or shared in any unauthorized fashion," an SSA spokesperson told The Register. Again, no mention of that copy.
Wouldn't "any of its data" qualify as an answer to the question: "was the data in the database leaked"? It seems like SAA did answer, but we needed to generate clicks.
I'm not at all surprised that the majority of top level comments are saying things in the spirit of "Trump is trying to kill us to make money!" when if you were following along this _multi decade long regulatory battle_, and knew about the not-so-recent Chevron Deference rulings you could have predicted this. You wouldn't even need to leave HN to keep up, it gets posted here all the time!
And these comments have an air of erudite smugness about them that can only come from a person completely without doubt of their convictions - even while being completely devoid of any value to the conversation.
The title is at best hyperbolic and at worse at outright lie - in any case the pattern of the title was intended to stoke whatever mental illness we see at play here: "I speculate endlessly on my own world view to the theme of the article title so I can signal to my peers that I'm doing righthink.".
But this is what makes the article get engagement, so to hell with communicating ideas, let's stoke division and get those clicks!
Conspiracy theories coming true are going gangbusters as of late. Maybe they should be re-labeled "narratives that while they are true might disrupt the current power structures so we will paint anyone who believes them as a loon.". For every "we didn't land on the moon" there are several fairly devastating theories that turned out to be very true:
Ahhh yes, the current conspiracy theory that is about to crack. Watch the propaganda at full power. Better than the wiki article do a web search for "covid 19 origin" and watch as "Eco Health Alliance" pops their sponsored ad at the top of the search results, for those not studying the topic ecohealth is the the group that created the virus project (https://theintercept.com/2021/09/23/coronavirus-research-gra...) DARPA said it was too dangerous so they rejected it, so they went to the NIH who gave us COVID19. The NIH has already been caught dead to rights paying specifically for "gain of function research on bat coronaviruses in the Wuhan lab" from which the virus escaped. And if you read that wiki article, it still a "conspiracy theory". (https://abcnews4.com/news/nation-world/nih-letter-conflicts-...).
I wonder if the wikipedia editors will allow you to update the page with this "new" information. Something tells me this page is locked. So with this one we can watch the "conspiracy theory" slowly turn into just a plain old boring "conspiracy" and everyone can say "See! We all knew the whole time! It was super obvious!" like the rest of the list.
Crazy how these very true super evil transgressions by our own government get balled in with "the earth is flat" huh. Almost like it was intentional. Oh right operation mockingbird, duh!
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