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Re:Music for Programming on Thursday July 07, 2022 @04:33AM (#32011333)
I can't program with too much/little musical stimulation or without a driving beat, I also find repetition annoying and love symphonic and electronic elements.

So, if anyone is interested here's a random sample:

  Roof - Big Spoon Instrumental Version
  Theophany - Woods of Mystery
  Power-Haus - P.I.M.P. Shyloom Remix
  Nicholas Hooper - Umbridge Spoils a Beautiful Morning
  Arkana - Umi and the Serpent
  VOLO - Mystic
  Apashe - More (Prelude)

Ask HN: Why does browser media always fail part-way?

I have the habit of watching various web videos in small chunks spread across the day.When I come back to a video I get always get an error about media, network and failing and I have to reload the page to make it work.I find it rather weird that the browser can't simply say "give me chunk K of this public video".Youtube appears to work around this issue by auto reloading the page, so there...

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Re:Papers We Love on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @01:41PM (#30076015)
And yet, today I'm one of the 10000: https://xkcd.com/1053/
Re:Poll: How much time on average do you exercise in a week? on Sunday January 02, 2022 @01:46PM (#29772086)
walking 30 mins/day or going up the stairs is surprisingly effective to avoid plenty of bad side effects of sitting.
Re:Ask HN: What is your spiritual practice? on Monday December 27, 2021 @01:58PM (#29705551)
Entering my mind palace, which has no connections to reality, everything(including me) is perfectly still yet able to morph into anything.
Re:How to draw S-curved arrows between boxes on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @03:58PM (#29655096)
Yes, that is what I've noticed too. On medium/big projects macro-level(holistic) arrow functionality is far more important than having beautifully curved arrows from node A to node B. Solving that problem strangely resembles routing on a circuit board with buses, labels, colors, layers etc.
Re:How to draw S-curved arrows between boxes on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @02:47PM (#29654120)
It's cute and definitely a great way to "draw S-curved arrow between boxes", but, under the assumption of being built to be used within a real project with dozens or hundreds of overlapping connections, this, like many other node systems, fails to be usable unless you push the complexity somewhere else.
Re:Show HN: I wrote a book on web application deployment on Monday December 13, 2021 @12:15PM (#29541682)
Not interested in this book, but maybe you find my opinion of any value:

Your website comes off as hustle to get money without content:

* The first section where you describe your product, you avoid all that the product is, making me think you don't actually have content which you want to show off(the book image is digital with no mention of it being an ebook, the description is about me and tehnologies, no preview, no list of concrete things I learn)

* In the next section you continue marketing a dream instead of the actual content, then you sell reviews, a story and others' opinion. Again, I conclude that you don't want me to form my own opinion of potentially bad content.

* "What I'll get" is meta content, things I should see after being sold the content. At that point I clicked off the website thinking it's a scam.

Before commenting this I went one more time to make sure I didn't miss anything and discovered that you actually do have chapters content and preview, just past the point where I clicked off.

Re:Doubling the PinePhone storage speed with a soldering iron on Wednesday November 17, 2021 @07:38PM (#29260791)
Hard disagree. No one should do anything if they don't understand the consequences. It's no one's job to baby proof the world. If someone hasn't learnt that lesson yet they might be paying looks up PinePhone price $399 to learn it.
Re:Gentle introduction to GPUs inner workings on Saturday October 02, 2021 @03:18PM (#28731195)
I don't sign in often, thank you for this amazing reveal.
Re:Manyverse – A social network off the grid on Tuesday September 21, 2021 @03:14PM (#28608706)
butt hehehe minion laugh
Re:Manyverse – A social network off the grid on Tuesday September 21, 2021 @03:08PM (#28608628)
I think Manyverse is just an UI for whatever Scuttlebug is.
Re:Ask HN: How to improve my abstract thinking? on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @03:20PM (#23693758)
pick up a functional programming language and learn its [concept] library, it's a great way to experiment with mathematical concepts while also having something concrete to play with. I suggest Haskell.

P.S. challenge yourself to solve problems with as few lines as possible, that way you're forced to find better (combinations of) abstractions