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Gazoo101

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I'm a guy. Long time reader, soon perhaps to be first time submitter.
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Gazoo101··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)
PlanMixPlay - https://www.planmixplay.com/

A live-performance software with a focus on creating 'musically connected visuals'. Currently, the biggest connectivity is probably tightly tied lyric visualizations. Some recent examples:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRHLzuUBz5o - She Wants Revenge - I don't want to fall in love

or if you prefer Mashups:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_Xq8Dh4NEw - The Lovemakers – Shake That 50 Cent (50 Cent vs. The Lovemakers)

Gazoo101··on Bankruptcy judge rejects sale of Infowars to The Onion
With someone like Alex Jones, the statement 'I heard him apologize for it' is pretty much meaningless as he demonstrably changes his stance constantly to fit the most useful minute-to-minute narrative for himself.

You basically need to look at the long-term complete picture of how he characterizes his role (I'd suggest https://knowledgefight.com/ as a great source for this) in relation to Sandy Hook.

I cannot recall a specific instance of him apologizing, but I'm convinced he has at one point or another done so. But the number of times he's minimized, ignored, mischaracterized or outright lied about his involvement and impact on the Sandy Hook victims far, far, (FAR) outweighs the actual times he's ever admitted fault and/or apologized.

Gazoo101··on Hard-to-swallow truths they won't tell you about software engineer job
Without knowing the exact expectations of the people the author spoke to, I'd imagine lots of the misconceptions are on-point.

One personal exception for me was how university (not college) prepared me for my future in software engineering. The courses I took quite often involved group projects of 2-3 people completing work cooperatively. Undoubtedly this was - by far - one of the best and closest to real-work experiences I had during my earlier education.

Compromise, discussion, division of labor, and a healthy bit of experience with individuals who'd prefer to be part of the project credits but ideally do as little of the work as possible.

Gazoo101··on What 5 years of interviewing software engineers taught me
There's a case to be made to shorten the task time I agree, but as noted in the article, when considering the amount of prep-time needed to pass a Codility test, these platforms already expect this amount of investment for applicants - not that that's ideal either.

I think, ideally, companies should compensate candidates, but I don't see that as a likely outcome either.

Gazoo101··on Switching to WordPress felt like a visit to the Ferengi homeworld
Part 2 is available now: https://www.lasselaursen.com/post/the-virtue-of-selective-ig...
Gazoo101··on C Is Not a Low-level Language (2018)
> My point (and I think the points of others responding to you) is that parallel programming is not always hard.

Sure, and even more people commenting appear to be of the mind that it is generally hard.

> That's also what the author is saying.

It's not what author is explicitly saying in the statement I'm addressing if you re-read my original comment. There, the author isn't saying that it's not always hard, they're implying that it 'in general' isn't hard.

From your arguments, it would seem you think anything that actually runs in parallel (regardless of whether it programmed as such) can be considered 'parallel programming' and from that perspective, sure, it is super easy. But with that kind of reasoning, you can argue that anyone who only knows how to drive cars with automatic gears is actually a gear-shifting expert and shifting gears is really easy, because it happens automatically for them.

Gazoo101··on Switching to WordPress felt like a visit to the Ferengi homeworld
Ah, very interesting!
Gazoo101··on Switching to WordPress felt like a visit to the Ferengi homeworld
The fees are coming from turn-key solutions that offer to solve the issues I note in the article, e.g. paid themes or paid plug-ins.

I've made sure to more explicitly motivate the intent of switching to Wordpress being to reduce custom code and on-going maintenance, in the article.

Gazoo101··on Switching to WordPress felt like a visit to the Ferengi homeworld
Appreciate the link. I agree that CSS has come a long way. Not sure I agree this carousel covers 99% of the use cases, if that's what you meant?

Regardless, my motivation was to implement as little as possible, as the whole motivation to switch to Wordpress was to not minimize what I'd have to build. I will make a note to detail that better in the future. Appreciate the candor.

Gazoo101··on Switching to WordPress felt like a visit to the Ferengi homeworld
The point is to comment on vanilla Wordpress itself. I fail to see how the managed service I'm using is relevant?

Where exactly in the article am I complaining about being charged for having someone manage my backend?

Gazoo101··on Switching to WordPress felt like a visit to the Ferengi homeworld
I'm talking about using native Wordpress functionality on a managed service. Yes, Wordpress is customizable of course, but the goal was to consider the functionality provided in its basic form without payment, and which features required payment.

Granted, changing the CSS is straight-forward, but not necessarily for everyone switching to Wordpress.

Gazoo101··on Switching to WordPress felt like a visit to the Ferengi homeworld
I'll grant you the sticky, the font, and heck, I'll even toss in the latest 3 blog posts too, but how in the heck is a gallery lightbox anywhere near 4 lines of CSS and two lines of PHP?

And unless I'm missing something, doesn't injecting PHP either require a plug-in or actively building on to a wordpress component?

Gazoo101··on Switching to WordPress felt like a visit to the Ferengi homeworld
I'll make a note of that for part 3 - thanks for the suggestion!
Gazoo101··on Switching to WordPress felt like a visit to the Ferengi homeworld
I wonder if 'hostile' is the right word, but I certainly agree that very functional things felt oddly missing. It is definitely super subjective as to what's 'very functional' and part of a basic package, but I'd definitely prefer an entry level cost and then have a more expanded base version of Wordpress.
Gazoo101··on Switching to WordPress felt like a visit to the Ferengi homeworld
Good advice. For me, I found that I would on occasion just have large blocks of time away from my site, meaning any sufficiently complex contextual understanding to maintain it withered away. Hence my move to Wordpress which I plan to detail next.
Gazoo101··on Switching to WordPress felt like a visit to the Ferengi homeworld
I find Wordpress on the whole incredibly useful and the functionality it does offer is great, not complex.

My issue is with the omission of what I perceive to be some basic and universally useful features. What's basic is - of course - subjective, and you're welcome to disagree.

As noted in my article, I share your preference with a basic paid tier just to get in the door.

Gazoo101··on Switching to WordPress felt like a visit to the Ferengi homeworld
A fair point - I had the intention of publishing them all together and got distracted. I thought I'd share the post here, as I now actually do have all the parts lined up and will have them ready within the next 2 weeks.

Happy to ping you with them if you're still keen.

Gazoo101··on Switching to WordPress felt like a visit to the Ferengi homeworld
Do you manage the Wordpress blog installation yourself?

As part 2 will detail, the whole purpose of switching to Wordpress was to reduce the work load of building/maintaining the site. I fully agree, Wordpress is swimming in tutorials, docs, and sometimes guides disguised as advertisements for a paid theme.

Re. changing fonts - My actual first thought was 'Surely I just need to find the settings in WP that let's me change the theme's font', and my experience was that Wordpress did not 'natively' support this.

Gazoo101··on Switching to WordPress felt like a visit to the Ferengi homeworld
Indeed. #9 Opportunity plus instinct equals profit.
Gazoo101··on C Is Not a Low-level Language (2018)
The author's article generally focuses on C (and possibly descendant languages), but the phrase I am critical of, does not. Furthermore, I explicitly consider a very broad selection of programming languages (many not C-derived) in my opinion. The author's phrasing, I'd argue, paints the entire concept of parallel programming as not hard.

There's some irony to the fact that you re-interpret my opinion as being very specific to C and (indirectly) posit that - in that specific case - parallel programming is hard, and then yourself go on to select a very specific case where parallel programming is not hard, because some matrix operations are independent.

I agree that there are languages that are explicitly built to make parallel programming easy. But in general, and not just related to c or c descendant languages, parallel programming is hard.

Gazoo101··on C Is Not a Low-level Language (2018)
I agree that if we define the individual instructions to always be wholly independent, then sure, it is more straightforward.

While I'd probably argue that it is still more difficult to conceptualize, the statement we're discussing is presented as broad and general. I'd call it far less misleading if it said something like:

There is a common myth in software development that parallel programming *has* to be hard.

Gazoo101··on C Is Not a Low-level Language (2018)
I think this statement at the end of the article - 'There is a common myth in software development that parallel programming is hard.' - is misleading. Granted the author denotes explicit situations where it is not hard, but if it's applicable in general, then it is hard. Not a common myth.

Is parallel programming hard? Without any further details or specifics, yes it is. It is far harder to conceptualize code instructions executing simultaneously, than one-at-a-time in a sequential order.

Gazoo101··on Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?
https://www.lasselaursen.com

Better late than never :E

Gazoo101··on Louis Rossmann calls community to leave Reddit
I agree in general with most of his position.

One statement that fell outside of my agreement was him balking at how people leaving Reddit could cause it to crash. Fewer people should mean less load :O

That position reminds of me of the Simpsons episode where Homer runs for mayor. At a debate, Homer's opponent shows up late because someone cut his car's break lines, and Homer goes - "Well then you should have been here early!"

Any sufficiently large irregular site activity will cause issues. The people who are 'leaving' aren't being inactive. They're either disabling accounts, or disabling sub-reddits, all of which causes activity on the servers. It's absolutely to be expected that outages occur.

Gazoo101··on Code and Programming Projects
Having recently re-vamped my own online-projects portfolio (obligatory plug - https://www.lasselaursen.com/#projects-on-blog ), I think some images in the bubbles would not go amiss.

An approximate time axis at the bottom would also be helpful as a lot is left to be assumed by the reader.

Gazoo101··on Ask HN: Those making $0/month or less on side projects – Show and tell
PlanMixPlay: http://www.planmixplay.com/

About 7 years in building a touch-oriented performance interface intended to focus on both audio and video output.

Gazoo101··on Mixxx, a free and open source DJ software
For anyone interested in combining DJ'ing and VJ'ing, I'm actively working on http://www.planmixplay.com .
Gazoo101··on Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?
A better fusion of audio and visuals for live shows: http://www.planmixplay.com

Examples of usage:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-40ITVSRBE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50JxBTVGmi0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_J1hhTWgCXM

Gazoo101··on Cinder – a C++ library for programming with aesthetic intent
I'll be sure to look into Subsync - Much appreciate the link! I'm currently looking at NUSAutoLyrixAlign [1], and am integrating support for it in a pre-processing tool [2]. Ideally I'd like to support multiple sync'ing tools!

[1] https://github.com/chitralekha18/AutoLyrixAlign [2] https://github.com/Gazoo101/lyric-manager

Gazoo101··on Cinder – a C++ library for programming with aesthetic intent
I'm also using Cinder to build PlanMixPlay, an audio / video performance tool. Recent Teaser here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50JxBTVGmi0

Working on aligning lyrics from audio with on-screen words next. Some big strides have been made in auto-lyric alignment in the past years.

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