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Unfortunately this is what happens when your infrastructure is nearly indistinguishable from a sandcastle
Re:Man Spends Entire Career Mastering Crappy Codebase on Thursday August 03, 2023 @10:03AM (#36986094)
Often times great ambition requires moral concessions that are untenable even in the face of the end result.

Politics is a helpful lens. Either you compromise and muddy the purity of the result, or you take the high risk path of being uncompromising and greatly reduce the odds of achieving any result at all.

When facing this, many individuals optimize for lower-risk self-fulfillment over great ambition.

John Medeski is a legendary jazz keyboardist who experimentally uses the tape speed to get extraordinary texture out of his OG mellotron.

He recently put out a great record called 'Mellotron Variations' with a few other artists that gives you a deep dive into its tonal qualities.

The modern digital mellotrons are so satisfying to play, especially with the instrument layering and mixing. Truly feels like like scoring an orchestra at your fingertips.

will it ship with a terminal or ide apps?
back in business baby
Re:90% of My Skills Are Now Worth $0 on Thursday April 20, 2023 @12:21AM (#35636364)
this is the way
does Bill Hader spending countless hours watching celebrity scenes to work on his impressions count as training on copyrighted material
primarily air command, leveraging the sensor suite to operate non air-to-air tasks. it's an advanced systems ship that can use information and agility to complete most missions that don't involve pushing peak gs, velocity and circle radius.
Re:Show HN: A ChatGPT TUI with custom bots on Sunday April 09, 2023 @12:36AM (#35500095)
using GPT to define agents like this is such an exciting opportunity.

I'm looking forward to the stacked layers of agent + environment definitions that will really explode the ways we can interact with AI.

I'm working on a project to use GPT agents/scenarios for smart contract arbitration. i.e judging contests, civil disputes, etc.

Re:Launch HN: Type (YC W23) – AI-powered document editor on Thursday April 06, 2023 @10:28AM (#35468717)
Great piece of real estate!

Love the product demo/UI

Re:Launch HN: Type (YC W23) – AI-powered document editor on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @01:55PM (#35443517)
How much did you pay for the domain?
Re:ChatGPT Gets Its “Wolfram Superpowers” on Thursday March 23, 2023 @02:25PM (#35279150)
Sweet. Combining the statiscal inference of GPT with the direct calculations of WA is moving towards an arguable AGI. It seems like now it needs some way to define layers of contextual awareness and reasoning beyond next word prediction to really break into the AGI realm.
Re:A Eulogy for Dark Sky, a Data Visualization Masterpiece on Wednesday March 22, 2023 @03:31PM (#35266021)
Good eye! I added this to their bugs forum.

I believe they are still a team of one, and have focused on app progress and efficiency at the expense of bugs & loose ends that would typically be handled in a larger organization with dedicated teams for that sort of thing. I bet they would

Personally I find it charming. That is until I run into a security issue.

I can't speak for Flowx though.

Re:A Eulogy for Dark Sky, a Data Visualization Masterpiece on Wednesday March 22, 2023 @01:39PM (#35264462)
Shout out to FlowX on Android. ( https://flowx.io/ )

The best weather app I've ever used.

Much thanks to the founder Duane & his partner for the ongoing development

Re:Flux Keyboard on Thursday March 09, 2023 @02:19PM (#35085382)
I love the pitstop video for the keyframe swap.
Re:A Third UFO/Balloon Shot Down by US over Lake Huron on Sunday February 12, 2023 @10:10PM (#34769721)
I just came to edit my post

looks like this is standard for superbowl flyovers

Re:A Third UFO/Balloon Shot Down by US over Lake Huron on Sunday February 12, 2023 @09:57PM (#34769650)
looks like an aerial refueler has been circling phoenix for a few hours now [0]

anyone have any info on if this could be a similar ufo?

[0] ADVCE20 from Phoenix https://fr24.com/ADVCE20/2f2d34d7

edit: superbowl

Re:A Third UFO/Balloon Shot Down by US over Lake Huron on Sunday February 12, 2023 @09:09PM (#34769380)
this is what I'm seeing as well.

pilot selection of aim9 over guns due to difficulty/risk of engagement is concerning. would really like recoverable intel, or at least some more detailed assessment prior to engagement.

I'm assuming this information is just not being released, but it begs for obvious scrutiny.

we want a picture

Re:Ask HN: I hate gym. How to stay in shape? on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @02:26PM (#34697942)
climbing gym

social, mentally stimulating, choose your difficulty, fun, skill progress, translates to outdoor adventure, interesting community

Re:Ask HN: I hate gym. How to stay in shape? on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @02:24PM (#34697895)
climbing gym.

social, engaging, mentally stimulating, choose your difficulty

How could they not
Re:Ask HN: How did you stop drinking? on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @01:20PM (#33166021)
1. Commit to a year off, for your health. The idea of drinking at the end of the year will sound about as appealing as drinking nail polish.

2. Start a new social circle that doesn't involve alcohol

3. Accept that drinking sucks and don't let people make you feel like you're missing out on something. Misery loves company.

Management is an often toxic mix between Strategy/SME/HR/Teacher/Therapist/Consultant/Punisher

Separate the functions out explicitly, as needed.

Often they're just corporate prison guards in organizations with bloated structures and antagonistic views of staff from an executive perspective.

Flatten your structures so the highest-level strategy is connected to your lowest paid staff. If you can't do this, then you have a toxic company that resembles prison labor and the whole thing deserves to fail.

Fire all the managers
Re:Leonardo Syndrome on Thursday October 06, 2022 @03:15PM (#33112701)
These kind of people just do what they want. They have no internal obligation to complete a project, even if they at some point agreed to it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-QW-0yi86c

Good thing the students aren't in charge of hiring/firing the professors.

And if they are — enjoy your degree, I guess.

Re:PO-80 Record Factory on Thursday September 29, 2022 @10:35AM (#33021269)
Sweet :)

teenage engineering has some of my favorite technical documentation

Re:The road to realistic full-body deepfakes on Thursday September 22, 2022 @11:15AM (#32940031)
Yeah a little more skepticism will be nice, but I still personally see myself getting fleeced every now and then.
This would be cool for like 24,000 assembled.
Re:Factorio is coming to Nintendo Switch on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @01:34PM (#32827554)
RIP thank you for your service

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