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cmbell715

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cmbell715··on Interpreting a Sierpinski Triangle Fractal as musical notes sounds good
Great technical review. I appreciate the insight and thoroughness from someone who obviously knows their craft extremely well. The nuance in which you broke down how "[i]t sounds less than bad" left me incredulous, and then you completely rendered any type of retort useless by affirming that it was "... not good". There's just no countering that.

Spot on. I will never trust a musical review on fractal musical composition by anyone other than fairly experienced guitarists and/or pianists ever again.

cmbell715··on Ask HN: How are salaries for senior devs in Berlin at the moment?
Fair enough but at $150k, Hawaii is actually at 8.25% (jumps up to 9% for 150,001-175k) while California is at 9.3% from $56k-286k. Oregon’s top bracket is 9.9%, but kicks in at $125k, and 9% from $8,401-124,999.

So effective net income from a $150k job, barring deductions, in California is $98k (Oregon is virtually identical give or take $100) vs Hawaii at $100k.

cmbell715··on Ask HN: How are salaries for senior devs in Berlin at the moment?
Well yeah, California has by far the highest state income tax. And I’m guessing some of the bigger cities have city tax as well.

But in a state like TN or FL that don’t have that burden, it’s far less. Just for my main FTE in TN for 2020, I paid 12.5k on 150k (I also have 3 kids, so there is some tax credit there).

cmbell715··on Which colour scheme is better?
I know VS Code has a way to do it depending on window color scheme. Not sure if it is supported in Linux, but it is in Windows and MacOS. If your overall OS theme auto-changes based on time of day (or if you manually switch between light and dark mode whenever), VS Code will adjust as well.

In the settings turn on `window.autoDetectColorScheme: true` then select a theme for each: `workbench.preferredLightColorTheme` & `workbench.preferredDarkColorTheme`

cmbell715··on Show HN: Is It Worth the Cost?
Maybe not managing permissions directly. But I could easily see a number like that, or higher, being plausible if you consider clean up from junior devs accidentally pushing to development/main branches thinking they were on their feature branch. Which is an issue directly solved by permissions.
cmbell715··on When you type realty.com into Safari it takes you to realtor.com
Feel like this may be the case. It was redirecting me on every attempt initially.

The second suggestion when typing `realty.com` was `Google search: realty.com`. Clicking on that took me directly to `realty.com`, which is also misleading because I was expecting to be taken to a list of Google results where I’d attempt to click on a link to `realty.com`.

Typing in `realty.com` works every time as expected after that.

cmbell715··on Elevator.js – A “back to top” button that behaves like a real elevator
I didn’t realize I had my volume all the way up. Scared the crap out of me.
cmbell715··on NCAA cancels March Madness and other championships
Except the NCAA tournament has been around since 1939 and never been canceled. Neither has the NIT, which started in 1938 and was considered the preeminent tournament until the 50’s.

So really, what’s decided regarding eligibility will set the precedent going forward. Hopefully it won’t ever have to be referenced though.