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TrueTom··on Show HN: Cadence – A guitar theory app
Immediately begging for an account is reason enough for immediate deletion.
TrueTom··on A visual history of Visual C++ (2017)
The Windows 2000 era was really peak computing.
TrueTom··on AI doesn't lighten the burden of mastery
I have to disagree. The same people who won't think existed in previous generations as well. The only difference was, they blindly regurgitated what Bob Martin et. al were saying.
TrueTom··on Terence Tao on the suspension of UCLA grants
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/29/ucla-lawsuit...
TrueTom··on The bewildering phenomenon of declining quality
Particle boards with wood grain stickers are the actual good stuff now. Ikea is literally selling cardboard with woodgrain stickers (that's not a joke).
TrueTom··on America’s incarceration rate is in decline
This is not going to happen when you can just import people from other countries.
TrueTom··on When I tell the Windows Terminal team something is simple, I am "misguided"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDO24U3hMkU

(it's bit long-winded but the general message is sound)

TrueTom··on When I tell the Windows Terminal team something is simple, I am "misguided"
It's funny that Hacker News went out of it's way to bury this.
TrueTom··on When I tell the Windows Terminal team something is simple, I am "misguided"
It was dumb and passive-aggressive comment (by me) so every kind of response is fair game, I guess... :)
TrueTom··on When I tell the Windows Terminal team something is simple, I am "misguided"
I'm being facetious here. As far as apologies go that's a pretty weak attempt.
TrueTom··on When I tell the Windows Terminal team something is simple, I am "misguided"
It seems you have posted the wrong link because there isn't really an apology?
TrueTom··on When I tell the Windows Terminal team something is simple, I am "misguided"
After the Windows Terminal Teams' half-hearted attempt at an apology a few months ago I actually believed they might improve their behavior. I guess that may have been too optimistic.
TrueTom··on What chords do you need?
"In this video, I describe a common problem with the way guitarists cover popular songs by using open chords far too regularly. The trouble with open chords is that they often ignore important melodic and harmonic features. Hence, zombie chords. So dull they sound dead. It's spooooooooky!"

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

TrueTom··on New GitHub themes for VS Code
https://vscodethemes.com/
TrueTom··on Copyright infringement by German contact tracing app
Clarification: This isn't the official German contact tracing app.
TrueTom··on EU countries team up for semiconductor push
Also quite a lot of scientific lasers are from Toptica.
TrueTom··on Merkel bans meetings of more than two people to slow coronavirus
Except they don't?
TrueTom··on Avoiding the Quantum Winter
https://quantumcomputingreport.com/players/privatestartup/
TrueTom··on Quantum gold rush: private funding pouring into quantum startups
At this point in time there is no indication that quantum computers will ever solve a useful problem. Even if there is one it's not likely to be profitable.
TrueTom··on Boeing acquires flight-planning app maker ForeFlight
It's weird to read about Stevo1kinevo on HN... :)
TrueTom··on “The default name prefix is changed to be ‘sqlite’ spelled backwards” (2006)
This thread is pretty much every Microsoft forum thread ever.
TrueTom··on The year in post-quantum crypto [video]
High-fidelity adiabatic quantum computation using the intrinsic Hamiltonian of a spin system: Application to the experimental factorization of 291311

https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.08061

TrueTom··on A $1.2B law to boost US quantum tech
Metrology is actually the only field that might produce any results; everything else is just marketing.
TrueTom··on Ditching the MacBook Pro for a MacBook Air
My next MacBook Pro will be a ThinkPad.
TrueTom··on USB Product ID Allocations for Free Software / Open Hardware
http://www.ftdichip.com/Support/Knowledgebase/index.html?can...
TrueTom··on MacOS finally gains external GPU support
I'm pretty sure they only tolerate developers given the poor state of the MacBook keyboard design.
TrueTom··on The Loneliness of the Long Distance Rocker
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13648043-platform
TrueTom··on Console Security – Nintendo Switch [video]
All talks are also on Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/user/mediacccde/videos

TrueTom··on Free electron laser – A fourth-generation synchrotron light source [video]
It would've been even better without the unnecessary political commentary.