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pb060··on Show HN: Teach your kids perfect pitch
I’m just being jealous, but isn’t absolute pitch relative to the current tuning standard? What happens with orchestras tuned at 442 Hz? Reading comments from people with absolute pitch, it can be more an annoyance than a blessing.
pb060··on Bitmap fonts make computers feel like computers again
I like to flirt with new fonts every now and then but for me all roads lead to Monaco.
pb060··on Making geo joins faster with H3 indexes
Why do you consider Postgres + PostGIS out of fashion? What are people using for spatial data these days?
pb060··on If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes?
I don’t have a formula, but in Italy for example it would be 24% of their profit.
pb060··on Learn Turbo Pascal – a video series originally released on VHS
I hear you, I can write BASIC in any language.
pb060··on Fall Foliage Map 2025
Not that I was expecting a global dataset, but title should be “USA Fall Foliage Map 2025“.
pb060··on This map is not upside down
To me it just looks like a world map rotated by 180 degrees. Not strange or disorienting.
pb060··on Meta Ray-Ban Display
And progressive lenses. There’s still a long way to go.
pb060··on New colors without shooting lasers into your eyes
Incidentally, it’s also a demonstration that you shouldn’t use high contrast in typography. When you start the test you can clearly see the lines of text retained on your retina.
pb060··on New colors without shooting lasers into your eyes
I don’t understand why you need the animation. If you point at the green background after staring the red one for a while, you can see a whole circle of the saturated color.
pb060··on German court rules Meta tracking technology violates European privacy laws
Some people are so dumb they don't know how dumb they are. Thank you for making me realize I'm one of those.
pb060··on AI is not our future
I had the same interpretation and in fact there's some truth in it. I recently did procreate and realized how primitive AI is compared to human beings and how long it might take for it to catch up.
pb060··on Apache ECharts
> Glad to see Echarts getting the recognition it deserves.

Why is it so rarely mentioned in chart libraries comparisons? Its not even listed on the Wikipedia page for JavaScript chart libraries. I discovered it by chance through Apache Superset.

pb060··on Why is the world losing color?
What I find infuriating is to see colors stripped from children’s toys and clothes, especially by Northern Europe brands. Those dull beige taupe tones might attract parents but I’m sure that they bring little joy and stimulation to children.
pb060··on Mark Zuckerberg Announces the "Beginning of the End" for Programmers
> leaving only a small number of highly specialized positions available.

Stupid question: how do you become a high level programmer if entry and mid level roles disappear?

pb060··on Most people don't care about quality
Not sure I get your point, are you saying that I should enjoy them because many people do?
pb060··on Most people don't care about quality
Serious question: how do you understand ABBA? Because I consider music listening a journey and songs that I dislike now might be my favorite ones in the future. But I really don’t know how it could lead me to like ABBA.
pb060··on Quincy Jones has died
There’s also a short "Making of" documentary available on YouTube. So moving and inspiring.
pb060··on SOFA - Start Often Finish rArely
Use to do SOFA without knowing about it. Then marriage came, then children and boom, collapse of the wave function.
pb060··on The Third Atomic Bomb
80 years are not so far in time for me as I recently realized that when I was born I was closer to the end of the war than my current age. That made me feel somehow more connected to that past event than to the present.
pb060··on Nxylon: New super-black material made from wood
I believe it's something called "structural absorption", similar to what happens on birds of paradise feathers [1]

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-017-02088-w

pb060··on An experiment in UI density created with Svelte
I think it started with Apple when switching from OS 9 to OS X, I couldn’t explain it at the time and still feel disappointed with so much waste of expensive screen estate.
pb060··on It's getting harder to die
I faced a similar problem as my wife had a chorionangioma, a placenta tumor. Or it was my son, it’s even hard to tell who had it as placenta is external to both. In the hospital where we were, they were doing their best to keep the baby alive despite all the issues with the rupture of the amniotic sac and body damages that he already had, which I understand. What I didn’t understand, and still don’t, is how they were getting ready to try and keep him alive once he would be born, most probably at the 6th month and with probable brain and other physical damages. I respect doctors who can’t choose between their patients life and death, and most of all parents who love their to be born kids so much that they are ready to face a life or hardship. I just think that medicine should not just focus on keeping patients alive, but also consider the quality of their life before taking a decision together with the relatives.
pb060··on The case for not sanitising fairy tales
I’m not a child psychologist but I observed how my daughter became almost instinctively scared of the wolf. I think that less sanitized fairy tales can be a bridge between children’s imagination and the real world. Modern versions of fairy tales where the wolf becomes good give me more cringes than the ones where he is shot by the hunter.
pb060··on Stellarium Web Online Star Map
Looking at the constellation of satellites, is anyone else concerned about Starlink being allowed by a single nation’s agency to fill the sky, which belongs to no one or to everyone, with their satellites?
pb060··on Woodworking as an escape from the absurdity of software
Agree, the thing I hate most is people saying that it's "not user friendly", not realizing that it might be a subjective thing, and it's a very generic way of putting it, and how hard it is to satisfy hundreds of idiotic conflicting requirements. And most of all that it's them not wanting to put any effort in learning a new tool and asking developers to smoothen every possible use case, which is impossible.
pb060··on Ask HN: Has Anyone Trained a personal LLM using their personal notes?
Yes I guess that “all writings” (sorry I meant all of his writings - not an English native) means everything he wrote and also his speeches, taking into account the times when he changed his mind. Knowing how meticulous he is I would be surprised if this wasn’t the case. Worth considering that he was recently diagnosed a mild form of autism himself.
pb060··on Ask HN: Has Anyone Trained a personal LLM using their personal notes?
Gianluca Nicoletti, an Italian journalist, writer and radio speaker, is training a LLM with all writings as a support for his autistic child for when he won’t be here anymore. The software will speak with his voice.

https://www.lospessore.com/13/07/2023/una-chatbot-per-contin...

pb060··on LLMs use a surprisingly simple mechanism to retrieve some stored knowledge
Aren’t functions and equations two different things?
pb060··on Vegetable stock: my secret lover (2011)
Not the op but I don't think it blends better than others. What I really don't like is the little split in the removable blade where food sticks into and you can only remove using a dental floss or a folded piece of paper. Knowing that I would have got one with a fixed blade.
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