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Re:Tritone Substitutions on Saturday July 27, 2024 @10:52PM (#41090918)
Yeah, I've seen things spelled this way before in barbershop arrangements. Usually because it's less accidentals. I think it makes sense from a "what notes should I play" perspective, but seeing these chords spelled in a weird way gives you insight into how some composers actually think, and all that REALLY matters is what the music sounds like.
Re:CSS Written in Pure Go on Sunday June 02, 2024 @12:13AM (#40551276)
As a front end dev, this is great. Now I can get back to my true job responsibility, which is writing HTML files in pure Haskell.
Re:AI Is Smoke and Mirrors on Monday April 22, 2024 @12:37PM (#40116002)
"Please write the first couple sections for an article based exclusively on the content below. Be direct and concise, but dive into details. Use a personal tone with “you” language. Write in the style of blogger Brian Dean. Use short paragraphs for easy readability. Change the wording so we don’t plagiarize the source material. Make the headlines somewhat catchy and intriguing while still concisely communicating what each section is about.

- AI, also known as artificial intelligence, is overhyped - AI will never be able to replicate what a human can do - AI will never replace humans - AI is a trend that will die out - AI is not really artificial intelligence, just a trick"

Re:Instinctive Sleeping and Resting Postures on Monday March 18, 2024 @09:20AM (#39744069)
They sure seem to complain a lot about insects on their penises
Re:Identifying Software on Wednesday March 13, 2024 @09:25AM (#39691021)
Yep, it's software
This is a good list, but it would be great if it were expanded upon with examples in eli5 format
I made a paint app with jQuery, and thought it would be a good idea to refactor to React so I could run it on a Next js server and add some multi user support, with later plans of refactoring that to a React native app.

Completely painted into a corner, I gave up after about six hours of trying to get my event listeners to work with React.

It's a shame, because there's so much server side stuff I could be doing right out of the box with Next, but now I basically need to choose a completely different architecture from the one I want because I thought it would be easier to use jQuery.

In all fairness, direct DOM manipulation works a lot better than React for the original app, but now I have to keep DOM state in sync with my server, which is a whole other challenge that React solves quite nicely.

Re:Lightswitch on Saturday August 05, 2023 @11:21PM (#37018687)
Need a dark screen turn off the light. Need a light turn it on.
Re:Boulder Dash on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @12:50PM (#35058530)
I always loved the world map theme from the NES version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVUO1Zc1T_c
Does it include all boroughs, or just Manhattan?
Re:The pool of talented C++ developers is running dry on Friday February 03, 2023 @01:27PM (#34645629)
Historically Netflix only had one level of engineer (this changed last year) with a starting salary of $400k, so I'm guessing it was substantially more than half a million.
Re:Show HN: Build a decentralized web chat in 15 minutes on Wednesday March 20, 2019 @12:02PM (#19443515)
Really enjoyed this!
Re:Show HN: Discord Bot Library Written in Emojicode on Tuesday March 05, 2019 @01:37AM (#19308547)
Amazing, never thought I'd see something actually written in Emojicode.