Philippe Back philippeback

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Hakai v2026-06-21:

This will give you MPC firmware 3.9.0 + All of the Hakai Mojo.

Trouble shooting: If your MPC doesn't want to update with this Hakai firmware please make sure that you are not running the Hakai driver, if so unplug your external midi controller and reboot and try again. If you're not running the Hakai driver just reboot and try again. If it still not working than check your USB Drive/SD card name it anything but not "HAKAI" and try again. As a last resort do the official Akai update by using a PC tethered with a USB cable. After doing so try this firmware again, this will surely work.

Eliot Miranda Eliot Miranda, Author of the Cog and BrouHaHa Smalltalk VMs. Ex tech lead for VisualWorks Smalltalk ('99 - '06). Updated Dec 6

I’m not qualified to answer this question; I’m a very experienced and quite strong programmer but I’ve not studied the development and maintenance of large programs, I’ve not managed teams, and I’ve not invented a programming methodology. That said, my experience tells me that the following (none of which are mine) are the rules to live by

KISS, Keep It Simple, Stupid.

When possible, use a simple approach. Adapting Einstein, programs should be as simple as possible, but no simpler. In the absence of perfect optimizers this principle may have to be violated if one is producing a system whose performance is critical and which is run many more times than it is written (such as in an optimizer).

Make it run, make it right, make it fast. In that order.

Cleaning Audio from Lecture

Noise removal
Limiter (-8,21.5) (need to install)
Normalize
Compressor
Low pass filter 8000
Hi pass filter 100

	class Solution:

	def wanted(this, number, target):
	return target - number

	def twoSum(self, nums: List[int], target: int) -> List[int]:

	wanted_dict = {}

	for i in range(0, len(nums)):

	#
	# To be able to install packages in the VM (since the Linux version used is not supported anymore)
	#
	# (I wanted vim and mc in there)
	#
	# Run this as root / sudo

	cd /etc/apt
	cp sources.list sources.list.backup
	sed -i -- 's/\/security/\/old-releases/g' sources.list

	s := World instVarNamed: #worldState.
	l := s instVarNamed: #stepList.
	morphs := l collect: #receiver thenSelect: [ :e \| e isKindOf: TransferMorph ].
	morphs do: [ :each \| s stopStepping: each ].
	morphs := nil.

	Transcript announcer initialize.
	Smalltalk garbageCollect.

	SystemWindow allInstances

	words := #('Peek' 'Geek' 'Coke' 'Poke' 'Meaning' 'Zapping' 'Delta' 'force' 'GEEK' 'CoKE' 'ORCa').
	forbiddenWords := #('ok' 'eek' 'orc').

	words
	select: [ :word \|
	(forbiddenWords
	inject: 0
	into: [ :sum :forbidden \|
	sum + (word
	findString: forbidden


	RubFindReplaceService cleanUp.
	EditorFindReplaceDialogWindow cleanUp.
	SystemWindow allSubInstances do: [ :each \| (each privateOwner: World) ].
	SystemWindow allInstances do: [ :w \| w openInWorld ].
	100 timesRepeat: [ World doOneCycle ].
	SystemWindow allInstances do: [ :w \| Halt now. w delete ].
	100 timesRepeat: [ World doOneCycle ].
	SystemWindow allInstances.
	Smalltalk garbageCollect

	a) Spec

	~~~~~~~~~~~
	tm := TextModel new.
	tm autoAccept: true. "otherwise you would have to pres ctrl+s to 'save' the result in memory"
	tm openWithSpec. "this will open text window

	"and then you can do"
	tm text. "retrieve current text from the TextModel (returns an instance of Text)"
	tm text: 'new content' "set a new content"