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I explore a lot of new music to listen to, probably in the region of 5000 new tracks a year. I find exploring labels helps with this as often I find music in the same label I also alike. Music app recommendations and also manually reviewing music festival line ups round the world where artists you like are playing, inventory who else is playing at those event and sample listen to some of there music.
Re:Art of Roads in Games on Monday February 09, 2026 @02:16AM (#46942463)
Can relate the fascination with roads I use to like drawing them loads as a kid. I find Satisfactory the most satisfying for building transport systems (and building generally) your work incorporated into a mod for that would be really cool.
I agree music is very useful for switching things up a gear, from down tempo through to very high bpm such as: https://open.spotify.com/album/3f8egS9LhMlx6S3YqJdl3z?si=Fo1...
Re:I'm Tired of Fixing Customers' AI Generated Code on Thursday August 22, 2024 @04:54AM (#41318134)
As a basic offering have good documentation and a community support forum and the option to report bugs.

Make the type of support you are providing paid, this could be in tiers.

Outsource support as needed.

I think KILT DIDs look to hold the tech answer to this type of problem. https://www.bitdigest.io/posts/taking-control-secure-identit...
When I had depression I used Salvia Divinorum and re-lived fragments of my childhood, I found that seemed to reset my brain back to last known good state bridging forgotten childhood memory in the short term to feeling like it was only a week ago. Certainly cured my depression though. It felt programmable with music, suspect it maybe more controllable with research. Interesting stuff strangely I found anti-addictive. Though equally could be majorily dangerous for some as it litterally sucks you out of reality and all perception of time for a bit.
Devasting when such events occur. This can also occur from doing meditation for some, I'm not sure if anyone has measured whether there is any set means to determine individual level of risk and whether any particular mental conditioning/ study would mitigate that risk. Certainly awareness is important.
Re:Caesars abruptly cancels contract with DEF CON on Monday February 05, 2024 @04:42AM (#39259191)
Take it international new venue each year, maybe London?
I had a new car for a month (mine got damaged whilst parked). Simply adjusting the aircon fan required screen navigation followed by a fidly touch screen control.

The crash avoidance systen was a distracting alert that took my attention away from the road for none risks but instead increased there likelyhood to become a risk.

Glad to get my own car back with physical switches and dials without all this crap, having to operate a tablet behind the wheel is a dumb idea and no different to operating a smart phone behind the wheel.

I think there is a strong technological interest in crypto, Bitcoin kicked off a triple-entry bookkeeping system so there is a new tech interest and ability to make money in a new financial space, many good communities have arisen out of that.

There is many tech communities buzzing with blockchain related tech and some serious innovation, a lot of interesting new projects from lower cost faster international transactions through to distributed GPU rendering, identity systems, and the possibilities with NFT's have barely got started.

It's also a new asset class for investors with ETF's from BlackRock etc round the corner its evident it's a now a rapidly maturing space, what's happened with Binance is evident that regulation is starting to catch up, but its regulation being so slow and indecisive that has made it easy pickings for illegal activity to occur.

Re:Milk Tea Addiction on Monday October 02, 2023 @09:41AM (#37737965)
Tea is addictive though in a weird kind of way and it does make you feel a bit crap if you drink to much of it, but then so does coffee even more so.
Re:Milk Tea Addiction on Monday October 02, 2023 @09:38AM (#37737922)
In the last year?! In England its not unusual to drink 6-11 cups in a day lol
Re:The Tao of Programming on Wednesday September 27, 2023 @04:01PM (#37680456)
The title reminds me to give The Tao of Physics another read.
I keep thinking about doing this, do you have any good sources of info you have followed or do you write about it anywhere?
Re:I Have Blocked OpenAI on Saturday August 19, 2023 @04:22PM (#37192765)
Does OpenAI also scan wayback machine? If it does and you are on that you may also wish to remove yourself.
Re:Stripe is no longer a suitable payment processor on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @02:23AM (#36967634)
Interesting was thinking to use stripe with some startup ideas, perhaps not then. Will certainly need to give this one more research.
Re:MiniZinc on Saturday July 22, 2023 @12:59PM (#36827810)
Someone else at the time had posted a let me GPT that response to someone's question which for me provided a very unclear response, I was re-prompting to get a more simplified explanation and it gave something that seemed helpful to me, so also to the question raised, no one else at the time had otherwise answered. I don't generally use GPT responses in comments hence why I noted in this case it was a GPT response and not my own.
Re:MiniZinc on Friday July 21, 2023 @03:48PM (#36818707)
My GPT answer was: Imagine you have a big box of colorful building blocks, and you want to create something specific, like a house or a car. But you have some rules or constraints that you need to follow in order to complete your creation. Constraint modeling is like playing with those building blocks, but with rules. It helps you figure out how to build something while following certain restrictions. These restrictions could be things like the size or shape of the blocks you can use, how they can fit together, or even how many blocks you have to use. So, constraint modeling is like a game where you have to solve puzzles using your building blocks, but you have to follow certain rules to complete the puzzle. It helps you think logically and creatively to build something amazing!
This would be a game changer for global energy and transport if it got in front of the right people https://patentscope.wipo.int/search/en/detail.jsf?docId=WO20...
Re:For the First Time, the Fed Is Losing Money on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @05:41AM (#35338025)
Whilst it devalues debt, I'm not sure I follow it being populist? Since it results in higher food, energy, rent prices etc and wages do not typically keep pace.
That's a novel way to get free publicity lol
Be aware of DAWS risk if taking Mucuna Pruriens.
If you choose to go live on an island isn't that kind of the point?
Re:LED Lights and Screens Are Killing You on Thursday February 23, 2023 @02:43AM (#34907954)
Thinking how good would sunglasses be in solving this problem vs changing the light source?
Impressive, Excel would benefit having this built in
Re:Ask HN: How to Invest $700k USD? on Sunday January 08, 2023 @07:14PM (#34304954)
Pay off all debt, have a good safety net, sustainable charity, value investing, crypto is also at low point. Life style design - this is a useful starting resource in that respect: https://tim.blog/4-hour-workweek-tools/
Re:Ubuntu Snap update spoiled my World Cup Final on Sunday December 18, 2022 @05:51PM (#34044915)
Automated update processes that run at the expense of securing access to information when it's needed or that do so with the risk of data loss are a complete failure in my view.
Re:Ask HN: Working in a VR Headset on Saturday November 05, 2022 @06:56PM (#33486825)
I've got a Quest 2 but used it for about a week barely used it since due to eye strain off it had the worst head ache ever after 1/2 a day on it, found it had some cool ideas certainly not ready for productivity but certainly on the way to it. Quest Pro sounds like it could be a game changer but whats it like on eye strain/ head aches? The continuous IPD adjustment sounds like a real improvement but I don't want to gamble on one at 1500.
Re:Unreal Tournament 99 running on WASM on Wednesday October 26, 2022 @05:58PM (#33350142)
Agree, nothing modern satisfies alike to the feel and pace of UT & Quake of that era
Re:Our attention span is being robbed on Thursday September 08, 2022 @03:09AM (#32762268)
Factorio or Satisfactory are my solution to this, great for re-training long duration singular focus. Good to disable social media and none essential notifications by default only enable when actually needed for something.

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