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Re:Bach Cello Suites on Thursday September 25, 2025 @04:59PM (#45378994)
When tuning down those two strings, would the player need to "relearn" the positions of fingers on the strings when playing? Or would they play at the same positions and ignore the conflict in expected and actual sound?
Re:Fossify – A suite of open-source, ad-free apps on Tuesday June 17, 2025 @06:01AM (#44297395)
I was tired of constant popups in stock apps for features I don't want.

Fossify apps get the job down surprisingly well, no more no less.

I use their apps for messaging, gallery, file manager, paint, contacts

In your situation where LLMs can cover most material better than the university, what benefits does the university still provide you, if any?
His AutoFixture C# NuGet takes away so much pain from unit test maintenance. It does have a learning curve.

https://github.com/AutoFixture/AutoFixture

Re:eInk Mode: Making Web Pages Easier to Read on Wednesday April 16, 2025 @05:05PM (#43710379)
Do you happen to know how the Braille website's style is called? The high contrast, button shadows with big offsets. I've seen it in several places now and would like to use it myself
Re:Show HN: Markwhen: Markdown for Timelines on Monday December 02, 2024 @10:35AM (#42297181)
Mermaid Gannt[0] diagram type might be similar to what you have in mind.

[0] https://mermaid.js.org/syntax/gantt.html

Re:Futexes in TLA+ on Wednesday October 09, 2024 @02:47PM (#41791274)
Succinct and rigorous. This article has a clear problem statement, explicitly calls out assumptions and expected properties, shows how to express them in TLA+/PlusCal, and even adds a sanity check by refining the mutex model. I wish I had seen this article when writing my BA thesis.
Re:Software Friction on Tuesday June 18, 2024 @11:48AM (#40719210)
Can you elaborate on how you made the connection between the article and BEAM languages? I suppose you experienced a lot less friction when working with Erlang or similar, care to share your experience?
Re:Book Review: "Tidy First?" By Kent Beck on Monday April 01, 2024 @05:34PM (#39899655)
> He gives some examples of ways that programmers, even after being taught in intro classes not to use magic numbers, still litter their code with constants like 404. But I wish he’d tell Python programmers to stop designing APIs where you write string constants like “r--” and “bs” to denote that your scatterplot should use red dashes and blue squares.

Intriguing. I assume the author would prefer a stronger-typed alternative like explicit parameters and enums. Yet I wonder if having a small DSL-like syntax is actually the better for a scripting language. Most of these plots will be hacked together in a local notebook anyway.

What would be a better alternative to this terse DSL in such case?

Re:KeyDB: A Multithreaded Fork of Redis on Saturday March 23, 2024 @07:38PM (#39803829)
Can you explain what lead you to believe it's dead?

Looking at the Issues in their Github, a couple of days ago they mentioned to be working on some features in a branch.

https://github.com/Snapchat/KeyDB/issues/798#issuecomment-20...