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you're not as intelligent as your hacker news comments make you out to be.
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distantsounds··on Launch HN: CommodityAI (YC W24) – Shipment management for commodity traders
Curious what your AI is telling you now that a major US port is out of commission.
distantsounds··on Linux Touchpad Like MacBook Update: 2023 Progress on Smooth Scrolling
2024 is the Year of the Linux Desktop! This _surely_ is a sign we're going to get it, right?

Right?

distantsounds··on Making my own bed sensor
Yeah, super weird thing to be wrapping automation and detection around, I'm really unsure of the use case other than this.
distantsounds··on A bank runs serverless with PHP and AWS Lambda
your container running the web server and php-fpm should only need to be deployed once. the point of PHP is that to update your code you just... replace the file. this sounds like a poorly designed CI pipeline that is of no fault of PHP.
distantsounds··on Enhancer for YouTube for Firefox is gone
no it's not? I just installed it.
distantsounds··on Psytrance Guide
> control-f "infected mushroom" no results

does this person even know what psytrance is?

http://music.ishkur.com/?query=PsychedelicTrance Here is a better breakdown of the genre, by an overly opinionated producer who has been cataloging electronic music styles for decades

distantsounds··on Extracting Hacker News book recommendations with the ChatGPT API
the "author" fed a bunch of text into a prompt generator and spit out a list with referral links

web 3.0 looking good

distantsounds··on Weird A.I. Yankovic: a cursed deep dive into the world of voice cloning
The sampled voices sound neither like Michael Jackson nor Weird Al. A good effort, but a professional impersonator could likely do better on either front.
distantsounds··on Facebook/Meta blocks accounts for posting link to EFF privacy tips
would be helpful to post the actual link from the EFF.
distantsounds··on Show HN: Learn piano without sheet music
This doesn't teach you how to play piano, this teaches you how to read vertically scrolling notes. It doesn't actually teach you where the notes are on the piano, when key changes are made, or when to play a note strong or soft.

This is gamifying an actual skill without teaching the actual skill. Good for a few parlor tricks but actually learning piano, requires, well, actually learning how to read the sheet music.

distantsounds··on Show HN: HyperDX – open-source dev-friendly Datadog alternative
You're charging for your product, this is MIT licensed. As the meme goes, "we are not the same."
distantsounds··on OpenRA – Classic strategy games rebuilt for the modern era
I never knew this existed, thanks so much for posting i!
distantsounds··on People Are Streaming Pirated Movies on TikTok, One Short Clip at a Time
If you're watching movies on your phone through tiktok, chances are you wouldn't appreciate the source material enough to pay for it anyway.
distantsounds··on B612 Font Family
It's really unfortunate that this glaring issue stops wide adoption. The slash through the zero should have been the default, very silly for the official release to omit that.
distantsounds··on Unity’s new pricing: A wake-up call on the importance of open source
>Unreal has licenses which allow you to use one version of their engine FOREVER and they cannot revoke that license. So the author didn't fully research this. It is true that for NEWER version Epic can change this.

Maybe _you_ didn't research how Unity had this same exact clause and decided to just... remove it. The author is implying Unreal could do the same at any point in time.

distantsounds··on Apple finally put USB-C in new iPhone, but limited to 23-year-old USB 2.0 speeds
how is this a "fair tradeoff?" USB2 is over 2 decades old, why are you accepting this still?
distantsounds··on The Development of the M1 Garand and Its Implications
YouTuber RetoAhoy did a fantastic video on its history and modern references in video games: https://youtu.be/6HEAA0C6a4Q?si=ugQa1N3uYTW2Ncok
distantsounds··on Why Is .US Being Used to Phish So Many of Us?
because a domain extension based off of a country is more reputable (and likely more available) than its .com equivalent?

I love Kreb's work but this article title is complete garbage. It has nothing to do with the domain extension and more about godaddy turning a blind eye to their customers' nefarious doings. This can happen with _any_ domain.

distantsounds··on Killed by Google
You mean the ones that have existed for literal decades and still work to this day? Cry me a river because a single beep ruins your mood for 5 minutes, it's probably better than your house burning down.
distantsounds··on The Colonel’s Bequest – Case Cracked (2020)
Such a hidden gem in Sierra's library. good whodunit mysteries are few and far between in the realm of video games.
distantsounds··on ChatGPT Enterprise
an IDE aids you in programming, it doesn't do the programming for you. do you really need this distinction explained to you?
distantsounds··on WinRAR zero-day exploited since April to hack trading accounts
WinRAR can _create_ RAR files. In fact it's one of the only pieces of software that can. The decompression algo is free, so it's implemented in 7zip. compressing files in the format is what they want you to pay for.
distantsounds··on Add dir=“auto” to your inputs and textareas
or don't, because using fancy quotes in your HTML will have it not render properly.

mods, pls fix the title.

distantsounds··on Whisper.api: Open-source, self-hosted speech-to-text with fast transcription
how is this open source, or self-hosted, when it requires an API key and a login from a third party?
distantsounds··on Windy.com: global weather website with live filters
so niche it was bought out and shut down!
distantsounds··on Auditory illusions with examples from Daft Punk
This article is horribly written and executed for many reasons, but the primary one being that the vast majority of the music credited as Daft Punk is just sampled music from other artists. You can eloquently see this broken down here: https://youtu.be/lBSWw7RdZLk

At least get the original works correct.

distantsounds··on Inactive Google Account Policy
singing up for email isn't difficult. neither is paying for a place to store your photos. Google is just that much easier so anything require beyond that is now all of a sudden too difficult for the average user. that's on you and your own inherent laziness to take the easy way out.
distantsounds··on Orb is a free and open source web desktop
yeah, I'm very glad that we have a dozen and a half Javascript libraries that aren't jQuery instead!
distantsounds··on An Introduction to APIs
(2014)
distantsounds··on Llama and ChatGPT Are Not Open-Source
Yes, we know. Now can we please stop treating them as developer-friendly tools and more as a hostile theft of intellectual property?
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