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cevn

1,254 karma · joined August 12, 2013

Working professional for 10+ years

Current favorite language is Rust.

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cevn··on Ask HN: Best way to host a website for 500 years?
What is a website?

It represents a CONTINUOUS will to keep something online.

Within the course of a year there could be 5 changes that destroy your website.

Then, the only way to keep a website alive, is to keep YOURSELF alive for 500 years, or to pass on your web development instincts and will to maintain this website on to your future generations.

After 100 years unless you provided some serious forms of feedback into this system they will grow bored of it or your progeny will be too nerdy to continue the line.

cevn··on Exploiting Aliasing for Manga Restoration
Well - for one thing there is the pedal is not itself binary but in degrees - and there are three pedals, one of which if you depress, will silence only some of the strings. I don't think MIDI itself is capable I guess, some other format might be. There are a lot of factors, and pianos sound different from each other, I think that would be lost.
cevn··on Exploiting Aliasing for Manga Restoration
When you translate to MIDI, you are going to lose a lot of the subtle pitch and tonality of the piano. One string vibrating produces overtones and a chord will vibrate in a very deep way on a grand piano that I feel you cannot replicate in a MIDI, and therefore that detail would be subsequently lost.

For instance, how long you are touching the string - while you're touching the string, there is a sound - but after you let off, you get the "reverb" - and there is different reverb for how you hit the key, if you bounce, or if you stay for a split second longer for staccato, I don't feel like these subtleties translate to MIDI.

It is certainly easier than violin, that I will grant.

edit: IMO the best way to do what you are describing is get a really good pianist to sit down and do the work. I don't think that (current?) machine learning can really "understand" the nuance of phrasing esp that would be coming from older recordings.

cevn··on Blizzard has lost almost 29% of its overall active playerbase in three years
The good ones (SC2, OW) are running on life support now with barely any updates. Blizzard died when they merged with Acti and now it's a slow descent to 0 players. D3 was also pretty good well after release (no RMAH) but that was released in 2012..
cevn··on KDE Connect: Enabling communication between all your devices
I have noticed Manjaro has worked with KDE upgrades every time actually, it seems to be the most stable. Maybe you are on to something.
cevn··on KDE Connect: Enabling communication between all your devices
KDE upgrades are the worst. I tried upgrading on Ubuntu 21.04, it failed. Fedora, it failed.
cevn··on Firefox 88.0
That's what this is? Wow, the new tabs are ... really big. Lots of wasted space it feels... and the inactive ones have no border between them..?
cevn··on 'Hovering ship' photographed off Cornish coast by walker
OK so, that's how the air ripples work for heat... because of the density of the air.

It makes me wonder, if you had a 10 inch globe of vacuum suspended in air, how different looking thru it would appear vs the air. It seems like you might be able to detect it via sight alone.

cevn··on Vertical farms grow veggies on site at restaurants and grocery stores
Very true. I have an aerogarden setup and best way to use it is to swap the plants into real ground and do a fresh clean after they've grown for a few months, otherwise gnats / fungus will take over.

It also seems to require much more water than watering the plants in ground, I assume because they are getting maximum rate from roots and almost infinitely growing them .

cevn··on We can do better than Signal
I believe the 8 hours ago activity is from someone opening a PR, not some weird trick to update git repositories without being seen.
cevn··on United States Obtains Final Judgement and Permanent Injunction Against Snowden
Well I loved it.
cevn··on I overslept because iOS 14 disabled my alarm
On the thread about the update yesterday hundreds were coming out of the woodworks to say how totally fine this update was haha.
cevn··on Arwes – Futuristic Sci-Fi / Cyberpunk Graphical User Interface Framework
The sounds are very Starcraftian
cevn··on Volunteers spot almost 100 cold brown dwarfs near our sun
Could we live on a brown dwarf?
cevn··on 1Password for Linux development preview
I am another linux user that uses local file syncing, so I guess I will have to use the old 1password 4 for windows build forever ha.
cevn··on Pinebook Pro longer term usage report
I thought this must be the case. Every time I enable oh my zsh git new terminal opens slow by orders of magnitude.
cevn··on Pinebook Pro longer term usage report
Wifi was a serious problem on my PBP, but Firefox and KDE have been impressively smooth. I could use it as a main development computer after I eschewed NetworkManager for dhcpd + wpasupplicant
cevn··on Sphere Eversion
Thanks, this confused me greatly watching the graphics, I'm no mathematician... OK if we can just push the sphere through itself then yeah I guess you can invert it...
cevn··on Oppose the Earn IT Act
I believe you. I've never understood how she garners so much support in progressive Cali of all places.
cevn··on Oppose the Earn IT Act
Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) - vote for Jamie Harrison on Nov 3 in SC

Richard Blumenthal (D-Connecticut) - term ends in 2022*

Josh Hawley (R-Missouri) - 2024

Dianne Feinstein (D-California) - 2024 as well... good luck with this one

cevn··on SpaceX NASA returning human spaceflight to United States today (canceled)
oops.. fat fingered the target again..
cevn··on ESO Instrument Finds Closest Black Hole to Earth
They say that the system can be seen with the unaided eye. If I were to point my telescope directly at the black hole, what would I see? Nothing? Or a lensing effect of the stars behind it?
cevn··on Install Ubuntu 20.04 LTS on MacBookPro14,1
Yes... and it's amazing :)
cevn··on Jitsi Meet Electron 2.0
You shouldn't be using slack with 8gb of ram, use ripcord instead.
cevn··on COVID-19 Tests Don’t Cost Over $3,000
Yes, exactly. The logic is completely flawed. It doesn't matter what the test costs if it wasn't applied. If I thought I had Covid 19 and I went to the hospital I could be facing 3k because the nurses start running random tests..
cevn··on Show HN: Build your own Vim emulation for VS Code
Have you tried the neovim integration setting? I find that almost everything works as I would expect it to nowadays.
cevn··on Essential shutting down after failing to launch ‘GEM’ smartphone
In landscape mode, you could control multiple at once with a good UI. I want one.
cevn··on Defenestration
Huh, you just enlightened me, I knew a guy named Fenstermacher and now I think I understand his name..
cevn··on Will Bright Star Betelgeuse Supernova?
I would feel so, so fortunate to witness a supernova in my lifetime were it to occur..
cevn··on Toyota Camry cheaper to fuel than a Tesla Model 3?
I forgot to mention this, when my wife takes my car to work then she charges for free there.
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