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I just had a disturbing thought. What if the LLM providers start blocklisting certain codebases?

“I’m sorry Dave, I can’t do that. This codebase has been identified as proprietary.”

Consider what you might choose to do for the public good with the 30% of your income that is taken from you in the name of the public good.

Philanthropy is a predictable outcome of an individual having met the basic needs of Maslow’s hierarchy. Consider how many more philanthropists would be created by returning this 30% back to individual discernment.

Somebody ought to train an LLM exclusively on this text, just for funsies.

Woah woah, slow down there. Pythagoras applied his aesthetic desire for pure ratios to an idealized model for musical intervals. Funny enough, this ended up being the reason that the west discovered that such an approach does not scale (figuratively and literally). We literally call this delta between the ideal tuning and the limits of a fixed-pitch tuning a “Pythagorean comma”. This comma became the basis for a lot of tuning systems (meantone, etc) developed by the west. It’s only in the last hundred years that, in my opinion, forces of industrialization and mass production erased all such effort and replaced it with the boring compromise that is 12 tone equal temperament.

Other, far older, musical cultures took things in a different direction and ended up building systems on pure ratios that just become more complex in their relationships (Indian shruti, Turkish makam, etc).

This does not mean that Pythagorean ratios are irrelevant. They remain a great tool for analysis of universal human experience of music. The authors of this paper are literally doing just that.

Birds generate pure ratios in their songs. Smacking a metal anvil (as Pythagoras discovered) naturally generates pure ratios. They’re everywhere. If anything we need MORE of this understanding in Western music, which is missing out on some really tasty (low integer) intervals like 7/4, 8/5, 10/9, 7/5, many of which have naturally emerged in the West via genres like Blues.

I see your Metric Time and I raise you a Dozenal Society of America.

12 is divisible into whole halves, thirds, and quarters.

https://dozenal.org

The Nix Language, while goofy at times, is built for config-as-code and is hiding a decent little functional language in what looks like just attribute assignments.

Likewise, CUE Lang is built for config (esp merging docs with shared refs) and is highly under-appreciated. You can express powerful computations if you puzzle over the logical inferencing for a bit.

https://nixos.org/manual/nix/unstable/language/index.html

https://cuelang.org/docs/concepts/logic/

A couple of months ago I switched from Neovim with a carefully crafted config file to Helix with zero config. I haven't looked back.

As far a performance, well, Helix + Alacritty is the fastest thing I know of. Snappy AF. You're still at the mercy of whatever language server might be grinding away, but at least it doesn't block the UI in any way. Every other component (tree-sitter, ropey) is performance optimized by Rust nerds who love that sort of thing.

Kraus Hamdani Aerospace | Senior Software Engineer | Full-Time | Portland, OR / West Coast USA / REMOTE | U.S. Citizens Only

Build software for sky-computers in perpetual flight!

We are primarily a Rust and TypeScript shop, but as a growing software team in an early-stage company we need experienced, generalist, and polyglot engineers who love to take on new technologies.

- Architect fast backend services for a massive geospatial data lake

- Design robust distributed systems for an unreliable network

- Optimize onboard compute and embedded systems for power and efficiency

- Apply Machine Learning and Machine Vision models for real-time object detection

- Build beautiful and interactive web GUIs for aircraft fleets

- Use and abuse WebGL for 3D graphics visualizations

We are well funded and can offer competitive salaries and great benefits. Culture fit: experienced engineers with lives and families and a "get it done" attitude.

Message Graham on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/graham-gibbons/ or email graham[dot]gibbons[at]krausaerospace[dot]com

Fixed. Sorry. In my mind I still think of Hacker News as an old Reddit fork and I assumed it had direct messaging.

Kraus Hamdani Aerospace | Senior Software Engineer | Full-Time | Portland, OR / West Coast USA / REMOTE

Build software for sky-computers in perpetual flight!

We are primarily a Rust and TypeScript shop, but as a growing software team in an early-stage company we need experienced, generalist, and polyglot engineers who love to take on new technologies.

- Architect fast backend services for a massive geospatial data lake

- Design robust distributed systems for an unreliable network

- Optimize onboard compute and embedded systems for power and efficiency

- Apply Machine Learning and Machine Vision models for real-time object detection

- Build beautiful and interactive web GUIs for aircraft fleets

- Use and abuse WebGL for 3D graphics visualizations

We are well funded and can offer competitive salaries and great benefits. Culture fit: experienced engineers with lives and families and a "get it done" attitude.

EDIT: message me (a real human guy) on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/bugeats or email chadwick[dot]dahlquist[at]krausaerospace[dot]com

EDIT: U.S. Citizens only

This gives me hope. I've been thinking lately that one of the ways that we get through this intense disequilibrium is through a youth counterculture that treats social media as something deeply uncool that only their out of touch parents use. Youth rebellion is humanity's cultural immune system.

I'm also used to functional programming. The only thing I can not stand about Dart is that types are coupled to classes. If you want to use stateless functions and typed data shapes, you're out of luck. Compare this to TypeScript that truly allows both paradigms and has a very expressive type system.

The incident was caused by a database query that was "2-22-22" when it was supposed to be "2-22-22".

The `create-react-app` project has existed for years, and gives you a standardized stack the bundles and boots with a single command.

Rails 7 has abandoned JS bundling in favor of using somebody else's CDN. Have fun with that.

> Now, HSL isn't necessarily the best color mode to use in every situation; it tends to produce gradients that can be overly bright and vivid, because it doesn't take into account human perception.

Shout-out to to HSLUV which does exactly that.

https://www.hsluv.org/

The audacity of calling the the new destination state politics a “shitshow”, while abandoning the direct political legacy that is now in flames.

My compromise has been to use [flutter-rs](https://github.com/flutter-rs/flutter-rs). Flutter is a powerful and performant GUI/Drawing framework, even if you need to hold your nose when slinging Dart.

ITT: everyone pretending they've never burned hours troubleshooting only to find a stupid `=` instead of a `==`.

So you want me to pay for the privilege of watching a mind numbing stream of psychologically manipulative advertisements interspersed with the toxic, propaganda laden death throes of the legacy media? No thanks.

YouTube Premium may already be censored by a paranoid AI taking personal kickbacks from Jimmy Kimmel Show, but at least I can still find good content with a little effort.

The Joe Rogan episodes with Bari Weiss (the author of this piece) have some of the worst like to disliked ratio in the catalog. She is no friend of the podcast.

> I think more than anything its important to consider your store in the same manner you would a database

Yes and to keep it normalized. IMO, Redux is incomplete without some sort of selector layer, which acts as the metaphorical database views.

https://github.com/reduxjs/reselect

Turns out Conrad Irwin was right, but didn't take it far enough. Merge together "Events" and "Operations" into one thing, call "Models" just "state" and you've got Reactive Programming, which appears to have proven itself as the best known way to manage UI state complexity.

> But when do you get a free thought that's entirely your own?

When you're recording your own podcast.

I hope that some day the 90s demo scene and its music gets a documentary film made about it before all the pioneers pass away. It's such a special cultural moment. The early steps into the distributed artistic movements we take for granted today.

I'd love to use this as a clock pane in my window manager. If you added the local time and removed some of the large text, it would be a great background.

Yeah that article presents a poor understanding of cymatics.

However, you can think of the resonant body of the vessel that contains the water as one half of the interval. It's the relationship being the note and its environment that produces the unique pattern. If the vessel were to change, the image would too. It has nothing to do with the intrinsic value of the note alone.