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People complaining about the slop - what about the atrocious text/bg contrast? Burning my eyes out faster than a B300 ever could
Re:OpenMW: Open-source TES3: Morrowind reimplementation on Friday June 09, 2023 @01:49PM (#36261381)
I tried to play NV vanilla a few months ago and ran into multiple of these within the first couple hours. Never went back
Re:Video games are kinda boring on Wednesday April 13, 2022 @10:14PM (#31022709)
As someone who played Rust and had to remove it from my steam account because of how much I loved it - can you elaborate?
Re:How big was the Tonga eruption? on Monday January 24, 2022 @02:44PM (#30062900)
I have a great aunt who lives in Tonga - my Grandma spoke to her a couple days ago. Apparently people on the main Island (Tongatapu) are mainly fine - her main issue is a bunch of ash on her roof, which apparently is going to cost for $500 to get removed from local tradespeople.
Re:Neural networks emulate any guitar pedal for $120 on Monday May 31, 2021 @09:27PM (#27349892)
Thanks, this made me laugh out loud.
Re:New version of Apple-1 DIY kits start shipping on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @01:31AM (#25427627)
I bought Ben's kits and built the 8 bit breadboard computer. It was the most educational experience I've ever had learning computer architecture. I'd be lying if I said it wasn't a lot of work though and breadboards are fraught with issues.

The difference between this and the apple-1 though is that Ben's computer is effectively a third gen computer on breadboard, whereas the apple-1 is pure fourth gen. I guess the fair comparison is ben's 6502 kit.

Re:Researchers’ AI aligns sheet music with MIDI audio on Monday November 16, 2020 @05:15PM (#25117745)
There's a lot of "annotations"[0] in sheet music which allow the performer to use their judgement for playing.

Sure you can extract these patterns from MIDI based on things like velocity curves, but by default raw MIDI won't tell you that.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamics_(music)

Re:Hum to Search Song on Thursday October 15, 2020 @08:19PM (#24795986)
Welllll..... did it work?
Re:Benchmarking TensorFlow on Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @11:40AM (#24629147)
Honestly I had an RTX Titan for home use for a while. Eventually I moved to just using a 2080 Super and it performed at nearly the same power for my models. If you don't need ALL the extra memory and have the space for a triple slot then the better value proposition by far for last gen seemed to be a good super.
Re:Ask HN: How do I learn to write better code? on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @01:08PM (#24557081)
I think the fastest way to grow is to have your code reviewed. If you're not in a professional software setting then making a pull request to an active project with patient contributors will probably be your best bet. Find an open issue for k8s, docker(-cli), figure out how to fix it, open a PR and I would try to preface it with a "this is my first PR, I'm very open to critique" type of intro. With any lucky you will find someone who can gently (or maybe not so) nudge you in directions of better quality code.

Best of luck on your journey!

all I can say is that we have a 2 yr old and a 4.5 month old. I have no idea what we are going to do when my wife returns from mat leave to work. all options currently have high impact on both of our workable time. (we are > 13 hrs flight from any family)
This is awesome!!!! It would be cool if there were some binary releases, at least for the shooter example. I'm not sure if there's anything huge blocking that though?

Also I'm admittedly not rust-proficient yet but would the cargo run command be cross-platform dependent, or is this a windows-only thing right now?

Re:Hoarding critical knowledge is a way to stay employed on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @02:49PM (#24424349)
I had a team where we always talked about our bus factor - how many of us it would take to be hit by a bus to royally screw the team. We also got nervous when too many of us shared an elevator together, hah.

In all seriousness though, knowledge silo'ing can be a nasty problem

I used to LOVE reading GameFAQs walkthroughs for RPGs as a kid. The fact it was just a big text document made it super easy to hide in my "computer typing" classes too.

I'm kind of sad that the whole scene has largely slowed down, at least for modern games... Now you can just find video guides on any subsection of a game you're playing; or follow an IGN guide. I have huge respect for authors of the oldschool guides though.

It would help if you defined exactly what type of issues you experienced. Packet loss? Early RSTs? Latency? Single AZ or cross AZ? Same for VPCs or NAT'd internet traffic?

You should take some tcpdumps and open a support case.

Re:Audio from Scratch with Go: Stereo Panning on Monday July 27, 2020 @11:38AM (#23966118)
Yeah you're right it is. I was strongly considering just writing a bash script but I had a bunch of probabilistic stuff going on for using effects, so stuck with python.
Re:Audio from Scratch with Go: Stereo Panning on Sunday July 26, 2020 @07:05PM (#23960851)
Having had to do some mass audio stuff on datasets recently I discovered SoX - a self proclaimed "swiss army knife" for sound processing. Delighted to find multiple bindings in Go, I eventually decided to just do it in python as there was a very solid library there and it was just simpler for my use case.
Re:How to Run a Live Coding Stream on Twitch Using OBS on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @01:24PM (#23834876)
I've livestreamed coding before. It turned into a pretty cool multi-peer programming type of environment. I learned a lot from the viewers
What website am I browsing?? Google it my friend... Also Craigslist.
Re:Ask HN: How do I escape webdev? on Tuesday March 03, 2020 @03:29AM (#22472827)
Honestly it sounds more like OP is stuck int the bad code trap because they work alone. Couple that with web dev and of course the world would seem bleak. Frontend code can be beautiful and maintainable but not having senior people to help you even know what that means sounds frustrating to me. my vote is to join a company as an intern/junior and grow.
vice article on same thing submitted 2 days ago and discussed:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22413526

Edit: And apparently discussed even more 2 weeks prior:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22301091

how about crops? or something like bonsai vs cacti?
Re:An update on our GDC 2020 plans on Thursday February 27, 2020 @12:37PM (#22435568)
Seems like bad news for GDC - I wonder if they will provide discounts on their tickets? I would like to go but sadly my work won't cover the cost for me.
Re:Japan's PM to ask all schools to temporarily close on Thursday February 27, 2020 @12:34PM (#22435532)
Wow this is awesome, I would love for this to be a global thing. Are you aware of any ports for other countries?
Re:What Are Visual OKRs on Tuesday February 25, 2020 @11:42AM (#22414628)
I honestly don't know why we need a new name for dashboards.
This resonates with feelings I have any time I want to work on a music based software project. It feels like a minefield even contemplating ideas in this field; like anything successful that analyzes music will get you sued.

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