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Re:Phoenix.new – The Remote AI Runtime for Phoenix on Friday June 20, 2025 @04:16PM (#44331649)
Any chance of open sourcing the model instructions for this? Do you feed it all the Phoenix/LiveView/Elixir docs, or have you written more specialised instructions?

I find Claude to have quite a bit of problems trying to navigate changesets + forms + streams in my codebase, just wondered if you had any tips of making it understand better :)

Re:The Exit Interview: JP Phillips on Sunday February 16, 2025 @01:40PM (#43070400)
would be interesting to know what he dislikes so much about elixir!
Are you confusing mixing and mastering, maybe? I just said that I don't MIX to different targets. I create the best mix I can, checking phase to mono every step of the way, then I deliver my mix to a mastering engineer who will create a master for digital as well as a master for vinyl. The vinyl master will sometimes be more agressively summed to mono in the bass if we're dealing with too much information in that registry. My point is you don't have to mix to different formats if your mix is good. Good mastering engineers and lacquer cutters will sort the rest for you! Maybe we just misunderstood eachother?
I'm a good engineer. I've done tons of mixes for records released both digitally and on vinyl or even tape. I never create different mixes for the formats - but I work with great mastering engineers and cutters who will create different masters for each format.
I really enjoy the lift - it has helped my wrist. Only complaint I have is that you for some reason can't turn on smooth scroll on mac, only windows?
Re:Museum Fatigue on Tuesday July 16, 2024 @11:46AM (#40977616)
This has changed a lot for me as I’ve grown older. I used to have this really bad but it has faded slowly.
Classic!

For anyone wondering: https://youtu.be/FlFt_W4664M

Re:Wonnx real-time webcam image classication using WebGPU on Monday March 04, 2024 @02:22AM (#39587863)
It classified me as "chimpanzee, bowtie" which gave me a good laugh, thanks.
Re:Ask HN: What work/office purchase transformed your life? on Thursday November 16, 2023 @02:28AM (#38286669)
We have the Mirra 2s at the office and I'll second this. Great chairs!
Re:TP-7 on Thursday May 11, 2023 @05:15PM (#35908487)
The refreshed OP-1 Field isn't that old. I tried it and thought it was a lot of fun, but still too expensive for me for what it does.
Re:50% of vinyl buyers don't own a record player on Saturday April 29, 2023 @12:05PM (#35754194)
It might also sound much worse for a number of reasons that would prevent the proper cutting of the laquer master. I have my studio next door to a vinyl mastering studio and it is truly a fascinating craft. The cutter might have to narrow the stereo image to prevent the needle from jumping out of the groove. Often this is done by mono'ing the low end. The tool he uses will gradually mono the low end on a slope from i.e 150hz and down. This can lead to less low end especially if there are phasing issues that will cancel out signal when collapsing to mono. They will also high pass from 20-30hz and low pass (can't remember how low he went), and sometimes even de-ess the entire mix!

Also if the sides of the vinyl are too long, the sound quality will suffer badly.

And if they screw up the cut, it's a lot of $$$ for each laquer master and the diamond needle for cutting doesn't last many records either.

Re:What are the most common tinnitus frequencies? (2015) on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @02:54AM (#35535904)
Thanks for this. I remember having this as a child, where the sound of walking down the stairs at home would be painful and almost threatening. It hasn't returned since then, thankfully.
DoD 1.3 is by far my most played game. Just a perfect fps in my opinion. Anzio and Avalanche were my favorite maps
Re:Things CSS Could Still Use Heading into 2023 on Saturday December 24, 2022 @03:12PM (#34120646)
Actually being able to zoom in font size when vw or vh is used. So it’s to help maintaining what the user wants while being able to scale font sizes with viewport size.
Re:Things CSS Could Still Use Heading into 2023 on Saturday December 24, 2022 @09:48AM (#34117239)
I just want either a zoom constant so we can know how much the browser is zoomed in or out, or a scaling type size unit that will take zoom into account. In the former case we could set font size as vw multiplied with the zoom factor.
Re:Last.fm Turns 20 on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @02:18PM (#33723400)
I discovered so much music through last.fm back in the day. There were so many obscure and weird bands to find in their «Related artists» and whole genres I feel I’d never have heard of if not for last.fm
There's an artist called Øystein Wyller Odden that works with mains hum. I find it pretty fascinating:

Kraftbalanse is a musical translation of the hum from the mains; i. e. the frequency of the alternating current. The piece is based on the fact that this frequency is not stable, it fluctuates subtly around 50 Hz as a direct result of supply and demand in the power market.

The composition consists of a self-resonating piano that is tuned to resonate on 50 hz and overtones of 50 hz (100 Hz, 150 Hz, 200 Hz etc.) The piano is fitted with vibration-elements – transducers – plugged directly into the electrical grid, causing the resonance and timbre of the piano to change with the fluctuations on the power market.

The piano is accompanied by a string octet. The musicians are equipped with voltmeters that measure the frequency of the current in real time, as well as a score of instructions on how to respond to changes in this frequency.

https://vimeo.com/370554138

Re:Protonmail Recommended Browsers on Thursday August 25, 2022 @07:30AM (#32592266)
They also still have trouble with websockets. Sometimes it just fails to reconnect, and will not work before restarting the browser or opening a private window. This is what drove me away from it, as well as recommending our clients to use another browser. There's an issue here from april 21 https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/15410 which initially seemed geared towards Phoenix Liveview, but others have trouble with other frameworks and applications as well it seems.
Re:Ask HN: So, what's up with Phoenix (web framework)? on Saturday August 20, 2022 @11:15AM (#32532624)
In your generated `my_app_web/endpoint.ex` there is a plug that will serve static contents from your `priv/static` directory:

https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix/blob/master/inst...

This points to a function in `my_app_web.ex` which specifies which paths it will serve:

https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix/blob/master/inst...

So you can either copy your js and image folders to `priv/static/assets` and they will be available as `localhost:port/assets/js/somefile.js` etc. OR you can add `js` to the list of paths to serve in app_name_web.ex and copy your js files to `priv/static/js` and access them at `localhost:port/js/somefile.js`.

Re:Linode EU-West (London) is out again on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @05:52PM (#32324735)
They seem to be struggling. There was a substantial outage yesterday too
Exactly! Whataboutism or even the fallacy of relative privation seems to be just everywhere these days. I don't understand the appeal of it. Someone is trying to do something good, is it really neccessary to shoot it down just because there are OTHER bad things that need attention? Such a strange way of moving the spotlight to themselves, in pretending to shine a light on bigger problems.
Re:Ask HN: How Is Your Neck? on Sunday February 20, 2022 @03:06AM (#30404107)
"Foundation training" from Eric Goodman has helped a lot. Plus getting a standing desk — I tend to slump in my chair after a while no matter what. I get pretty bad tailbone pain still when sitting slumped, so it's been better to stand for me.
Re:macOS Setup after 15 Years of Linux on Friday December 31, 2021 @12:55PM (#29750549)
Out of frustration for this, I wrote Craig Federighi an email some years back. I asked if it was possible to just disable the spaces animation without disabling ALL animations, since the rolling animation makes me nauseous. Previously I had used yabai, but it needed to disable SIP in order to switch without an animation, which was a no-go for me.

He responded with several follow up questions, but nothing came of it unfortunately… Hopefully it’s on someone’s task list somewhere

Re:Why Russians do not smile (2002) on Saturday May 29, 2021 @02:26PM (#27327196)
I can't speak for the parent poster, but I've never worked anywhere in Norway where there are that short Fridays. Sure, you could leave at 15, but then you'd have started at 7.
Re:How to navigate directories faster with Bash (2015) on Thursday April 22, 2021 @08:13AM (#26901831)
Yes, that's a good one! My way of remembering is "bang for my buck" -> !$
Re:Humidifier: Healthy or Harmful? on Thursday February 25, 2021 @04:55PM (#26268839)
I went through all this when I got one of these “misting” humidifiers a couple of years ago. Switched to distilled water, which improved the readings.

Last year I wanted to “upgrade” and got the Dyson combined humidifier and purifier. It’s the last Dyson product I’ll buy. It lasted 3 (noisy) months before suddenly showing a warning triangle on the display and refusing to switch on. I called support and they said it would have to be returned. Fine, when will it be picked up? In 2-3 weeks time. Ok, that sucks, since this is the driest period here, but fine..

This was December 28th, and YESTERDAY it was finally picked up, almost two months later - and only after I had been sending more and more frequent follow-up emails. Now it’s on its way to Germany for inspection, with no expected date of return.

Worst customer service I’ve ever had and my next humidifier (or vacuum) sure as hell won’t be a Dyson!

Re:Erlang/OTP 24 Release Candidate 1 on Thursday February 25, 2021 @08:18AM (#26262398)
My dependencies compilation for a huge project:

OTP23 — 467.36s

OTP24rc1 — 296.16s

So nice!

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