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Re:Jimi Hendrix was a systems engineer on Thursday February 26, 2026 @11:35AM (#47168341)
> created modes of expression that definitely solve this problem.

I certainly don’t agree with this as a musician who has tried most of these attempts by electronic music manufacturers.

Re:Ireland Is Making Basic Income for Artists Program Permanent on Thursday October 16, 2025 @02:33AM (#45602090)
The idea is that there’s practices that are good for society that fall outside of market value, and these practices should be protected or they die. Some things cannot survive in the market.
Re: on Friday October 03, 2025 @03:06AM (#45459929)
Read the article
Re: on Friday October 03, 2025 @03:05AM (#45459925)
Insane brutality has happened on both sides. However the statistical numbers are different, before oct 7 and after, one side has been much more successful in its brutalization of the other.
Re: on Friday October 03, 2025 @03:03AM (#45459912)
You should look into the accounts of doctors who are not allowed to take in baby food. Israeli mobs destroying aid trucks. Israeli soldiers gloating about killing children.

While Hamas has done atrocities, this does not allow atrocities to be committed in response. Especially by an occupying power that controls every variable in the environment.

Israel’s civilian casualty rate is higher than germany, japan, or the Soviet Union during ww2.
Re:When a Bug Saved the Company on Tuesday August 26, 2025 @05:54AM (#45024389)
My experience as a musician and huge linux nerd is: sure, it was all free, and very powerful, on linux, but I never actually made music because of the setup times, learning, hacking, and refining the systems.

Since getting a mac and paying for tools like this, the immediacy of being productive has caused me to actually make music.

it's the same with OBS - wow, what a piece of software. I spent a week going through and configuring it. They really thought of everything. Audio Hijack solved my problem in 30 seconds and made sense for my use case while doing it.

Re:Why is choral music harder to appreciate? on Monday August 25, 2025 @02:08AM (#45010732)
On the drums: Not entirely, I find folk tradition choral music (without drums) wonderful, but also struggle with classical and church choral.
Among other things, but even with a “latest change wins” method you still have to make sure all transactions arrive, data doesn’t stay out of synch forever, and other challenges.

ElectricSql, instantdb, rxdb, jazz.tools, are some of the things I’ve been looking into to make these tasks easier.

There’s a whole world of syncing databases when they’re offline and then reconnect. Local first. If your websocket connection is offline you have to store the incremental changes to your data and send them later on reconnect. This gets complex fast.

A lot of these tools (and what the author wrote) offer toolkits to do this well, not having to implement and track all these changes in state manually.

In this case the author is running SQLite in the browser, and that syncs to SQLite on the server.

Re:Dokploy is the sweet spot between PaaS and EC2 on Sunday August 17, 2025 @03:48AM (#44929731)
I love the Dokploy promise but I’ve come across some glaring bugs and inconsistencies that have made living with it difficult. I’ve had to consult its source code because if it’s lack of documentation in a few instances.

Support, even for paying customers, is lacking, too.

Definitely cheering its development on, though, because the promise is wonderful.

Re:Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting on Friday February 28, 2025 @04:28PM (#43211426)
Not make it political… you’re joking right?
Re:Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting on Friday February 28, 2025 @04:11PM (#43210986)
During war seems like the right time to institute martial law. Their legal system allows for the pausing of elections during a war.
Re:Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting on Friday February 28, 2025 @04:09PM (#43210951)
Possibly there isn’t a critique of his behavior because there isn’t a critique to be made: from a website like hacker news where every reasonable position is usually represented, it should tell you something that this is unanimous.
Re:Tracing Military Command Chains Through Time and Location on Saturday February 01, 2025 @03:35AM (#42896850)
Hello! Author here: what I was trying to say with this line is “we didn’t charge them for building tools they didn’t need or changing the way they work” — but I very much appreciate the feedback!
Re:Once You're Laid Off, You'll Never Be the Same Again on Monday January 27, 2025 @06:47AM (#42840039)
What’s the legal insurance called in German?
Re:<dialog>: The Dialog Element on Saturday December 07, 2024 @11:09AM (#42350644)
I accept that they will look different but function consistently and in line with the client device - when that can be made as a design decision.
Re:<dialog>: The Dialog Element on Saturday December 07, 2024 @07:55AM (#42349475)
I use all of them pretty consistently! I try not to have them do magic, but using native date pickers and dropdowns and selects saves so much time and headache - and they work consistently.
Re:Things I wish I knew the day I started Berklee (2008) on Saturday November 30, 2024 @08:44AM (#42281580)
I agree it’s more about networking. Practice is important but plateaus are only passed if you get advice in the right way or exposed to the right thing. Being loose is important too.

In my musical world, when someone comes along who studied at Berkelee you almost know they will be bad and not get the vibe: playing over people, rigid timing, no feeling.

Frankly the article is terrible advice for everyone.

Re:Fly.io outage (restoration in progress) on Tuesday November 26, 2024 @06:14AM (#42244680)
This is precisely it. The ease of deploy, https domain configuration, scaling.

Additionally, having machines that turn off when not in use is easy to configure, which I never managed on AWS.

Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @04:57AM (#42058960)
Or the information you were getting was not comprehensive.
Re:An Overview of Datalog (2010) on Saturday August 24, 2024 @03:58AM (#41336451)
No, it’s a secret third thing
Re:Show HN: InstantDB – A Modern Firebase on Friday August 23, 2024 @02:21AM (#41326550)
Definitely waiting for the datalog query to be exposed before I’d use this.

If it was I would never use another database again.

I think the amount of people coming from datascript/datomic who have to work in js and would prefer to use datalog instead of learning a new query language is big.

Re:Show HN: A free tool to visualise scales on a guitar on Thursday August 15, 2024 @03:53AM (#41253916)
Wow, I built almost the same thing to learn clojure, but without the sheen and professionalism of yours!

Mine can also handle banjos

https://niko.io/projects/scales/out/index.html

Re:Sam Altman tweet after being fired on Friday November 17, 2023 @07:24PM (#38312905)
personally i just find this easier to read. capitalization breaks flow and parsing for me.
Re:Young people are flocking to astrology on Monday July 24, 2023 @07:29AM (#36846146)
reality is really three things: the observable world, the lenses we see it through, and our internal reactions to those things. other people's reactions always seem confusing to us. abstractions help us explain the chaos, as you said.

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