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Re:We’re Not So Special: A new book challenges human exceptionalism
on Wednesday August 20, 2025 @10:06AM (#44962115)
What makes their pain matter less?
Re:AI tools are spotting errors in research papers: inside a growing m...
on Sunday March 09, 2025 @12:59PM (#43311032)
Has AI been used to find errors in Knuth’s books? Or Chomsky’s?
Re:The Need to Grind Concrete Examples Before Jumping Up a Level of Ab...
on Tuesday December 17, 2024 @03:49PM (#42445169)
Individual scales are concrete examples of diatonic scales, pentatonic scales etc.
Re:The Need to Grind Concrete Examples Before Jumping Up a Level of Ab...
on Sunday December 08, 2024 @03:57PM (#42360373)
Similar to grinding scales on a music instrument.
Re:Glojure: Clojure interpreter hosted on Go, with extensible interop ...
on Tuesday December 03, 2024 @11:00PM (#42314382)
Perhaps I can finally get into go!
Re:Why I Hate the Index Finger (1980)
on Wednesday November 20, 2024 @07:05PM (#42199539)
I’ve always preferred holding a guitar plectrum with my middle finger and thumb instead of the usual index and thumb. I always felt guilty about it since I’ve noticed professionals seem to always use the index finger.
Re:A Chopin Waltz Unearthed After Nearly 200 Years
on Sunday October 27, 2024 @10:32PM (#41967309)
Now for a solo classical guitar transcription…
Re:Detecting when LLMs are uncertain
on Friday October 25, 2024 @06:50PM (#41950651)
On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
— Charles Babbage
Re:Mastering Emacs
on Thursday August 24, 2023 @12:43AM (#37245090)
Emacs fancy modes?
Re:The Graphing Calculator Story
on Thursday October 20, 2022 @06:35AM (#33272765)
Thanks for sharing.
Re:The Tools I Use to Write Books (2018)
on Thursday May 19, 2022 @12:28AM (#31430777)
No mention of org-mode?
Re:New links found between musical training and cognitive ability
on Thursday April 28, 2022 @01:37PM (#31195551)
“How well are you trained, in music?”
Re:Mental speed is high until age sixty
on Monday April 18, 2022 @02:46PM (#31074819)
Why the delayed interest in guitar?
Re:Impacts of lack of sleep
on Thursday February 03, 2022 @08:28AM (#30192098)
A vegan diet has made a huge difference in clearing my nose pathways.
Re:Rust 1.52.0
on Thursday May 06, 2021 @11:55PM (#27071953)
Kudos to Tshepang Lekhonkhobe! It’s wonderful to see an African name in the contributors list. Can anyone spot others?
Re:Developer tools can be magic but instead collect dust
on Monday March 29, 2021 @01:10AM (#26617900)
Hosting, I guess.
Re:Developer tools can be magic but instead collect dust
on Monday March 29, 2021 @01:07AM (#26617886)
What is repl.it’s monetization strategy?
Re:What Philip Glass and J. S. Bach have in common (2018)
on Thursday March 25, 2021 @06:18AM (#26578367)
Interesting what you did there with Different Trains.
Re:Google outage – resolved
on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @02:55AM (#25428038)
Except when there is cache warming when you turn it on?
Re:30 years later, QBasic is still the best
on Sunday November 29, 2020 @01:58AM (#25243449)
Could Why’s (Poignant) Guide to Ruby work as an introduction to programming for kids?
Re:I Think Bluetooth Is Finally OK
on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @10:43AM (#24907895)
I'm not.
Re:Spotify, Ever the Fans of Openness
on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @08:59AM (#24765145)
Perhaps the "massive amount" out there is the reason you need the likes of Spotify to consume it in a meaningful way.
Re:Spotify, Ever the Fans of Openness
on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @03:26AM (#24763141)
> You don't need a "massive amount" of music and you never will.
This cracked me up!
Re:Show HN: I made a site where you practice typing by retyping entire...
on Wednesday October 07, 2020 @09:23AM (#24707901)
Neat. I hope screenplays are in the pipeline! I think it's even more exhilarating to type words you've heard agreeably rendered.
Re:Show HN: I made a site where you practice typing by retyping entire...
on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @12:26PM (#24699523)
Awesome! I came here to say the same thing. Great work BTW!!
Re:Ask HN: How is Trump testing positive for Coronavirus not on the fr...
on Friday October 02, 2020 @07:52AM (#24661660)
I felt the same way when Chadwick Boseman died.
Re:Actor Chadwick Boseman, star of “Black Panther,” dies at 43
on Monday August 31, 2020 @03:11AM (#24329146)
I was hoping this news would make Hacker News front page.
Re:Alcohol as a social technology to check the trustworthiness of othe...
on Saturday August 08, 2020 @01:27AM (#24089289)
Exactly my confusion!
Re:Alcohol as a social technology to check the trustworthiness of othe...
on Saturday August 08, 2020 @12:50AM (#24089082)
> A nice exhaustive list.
This made me laugh!
Re:Alcohol as a social technology to check the trustworthiness of othe...
on Saturday August 08, 2020 @12:31AM (#24088978)
> I guess the pro-tip is to always have non-alcoholic beverages at a gathering.
Alas you may find that those offered contain sugar and/or gluten ...