ramenbytes

> Imagine an AI reminding you that you've been on HN too long and offering to save off the comment your working on for later and then moving they browser window to a different tab.

> Having idle thoughts in the car of things you need to do and being able to just say them out loud and know important topics won't be forgotten about.

> I understand for people who aren't neurodiverse that the idea of just forgetting to do something that is incredibly critical to ones health and well-being isn't something that happens (often) but for plenty of other people a device that just helps people remember important things can be dramatically life changing.

Those don't sound like things that you need AI for.

With the recent work done enabling the use of Common Lisp in the browser on WASM, I've been thinking about spinning up a really simple static site that's just a CL REPL for people to play with.

The exact stuff I now use Kagi for. Finding obscure relevant PDFs that Google didn't is literally one of the things that made me switch.

Related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave_field_synthesis

And I used them in a graduate physics course last fall.

Deep Space 9 had an episode dealing with something similar. Superintelligent beings determine that a situation is hopeless and act accordingly. The normal beings take issue with the actions of the Superintelligents. The normal beings turn out to be right.

I had to use Google in a library while printing datasheets and clicked the first relevant looking result out of habit, only to be taken to the wrong part page. Closer inspection of the search results showed the small faint print of "Sponsored". I had forgotten about that since moving to Kagi.

An inelegant weapon, for a less civilized age. And yet, it works.

The wife says the chain and lock were for weight training.

Probably too recent, but any chance it was this? https://www.voicemag.uk/blog/14186/red-dwarf-diversity-in-sp...

Urban Ore in Berkeley. It's a salvage shop with an electronics area. Scored some vintage Tek scopes there.

I don't have it on hand at the moment, but I think I saw something about how the victims of those lawsuits didn't actually end up paying. Might have been related to bankruptcy, and certain things being non-enforceable. Basically the RIAA cottoned on to it not being worth their time and money to ruin their public image for little to no return.

Edit: Still can't find it, but did find this EFF article covering a bunch of people who apparently settled for some amount. Haven't followed up on the people who took things to court yet. https://www.eff.org/wp/riaa-v-people-five-years-later

Edit 1: I think it might have just been a high-profile case or two that escaped paying, it seems there were oodles of people who did pay based on the EFF article.

I love engineering paper too! My weapon of choice is this pad: https://www.rspaperproducts.com/products/95182/ I have not tried the Tops yet, I think because I saw somewhere it was thinner? I like the slightly thicker paper the buff pads come with, and it plays nice with my fountain pens.

Could use the electronics convention and save a character: 2k6

AdBlocker, yes. UBlock Origin, no. Maybe it's since reached feature parity, last time I checked it hadn't from what I could tell.

> When I press F12, does an inspector open? Where does it open? When I select some words, how do I send them to a new tab in YouTube, Amazon, Google or Stack Overflow? How do I open all the links which are within a selected rectangle in new background tabs? Or use uBlock Origin's element picker?

What did you think of the demos? The sorts of things you mentioned seem like things doable in NYXT based on the demos, possibly even the exact sort of stuff they are trying to make possible. It looks like it's basically Common Lisp with a web browser attached, which suggests it should be fairly moldable too. I have not seriously used it myself though, so I can't say for sure what the limits are.

The one thing holding me back from this is not being able to run UBlock origin on it yet. I keep telling myself that eventually I'll have the spare time to change that myself....

- Digikey

- Mouser

- SparkFun

- Adafruit

- Antique Electronic Supply

- Sphere Research Corporation

-Ebay, occasionally, if the seller is trusted and known by your corner of the electronics community.

There are several mailing lists where you can get equipment and parts as well over on groups.io.

- test-equipment-buy-sell-exchange

- tekscopes

- hp-agilent-keysight-equipment

and other sources that I'm not remembering off the top of my head. Check out the EEVBlog forums, they probably have a list somewhere, or can tell you where they shop. Same with the various mailing lists. If they don't have it, they might be able to point you towards who does.

> It's possible to become very good at doing things the wrong way, then belatedly realise that progress has been unintentionally stunted.

And sometimes when that happens, I've seen people say "I'll just stick with this way, since I think my skills would dip too much for too long while re-learning this technique the 'right' way."

Like a sibling comment mentioned, I was considering that newspapers got non-trivial amounts of funding from ads. Classifieds in particular, if I remember correctly. If that's still not satisfactory, then just consider the case of free papers & magazines.

More like cutting out the funnies from a newspaper and trashing the ads.

> Sometimes musicians use dispersing devices mounted on the speakers, like "beam blockers".

Beam blockers seem to be the most common thing employed, though to my knowledge a much more effective measure is a "Mitchell donut". Basically, a soft foam disc with a soup can diameter hole cut in the center. The disc is sized to completely obstruct the speaker when mounted in front of it on the grill(cloth). With properly chosen foam of the right thickness, frequencies above about 1khz will be attenuated except when traveling through the center hole, meaning they'll behave more like they're coming from a point source and the constructive interference that causes the beam will be much reduced. Equalization may need adjusting since some highs are lost, and because if the player adjusted initially for on-axis sound they are now hearing the off-axis sound.

From a stroll through the audio cyclopedia, I think "mitchell donuts" are more properly called "acoustic lenses". A key difference between them and most beam blockers I see is that the blockers assume high frequencies come from the center of the speaker (cause that's where the beam is, and when close micing that's usually where you get the most treble), whereas donuts/lenses assume the entire speaker emits the highs, and that it is their constructive interference that causes both the beam and the trebliness of close micing a speaker on axis. I have not fully verified all the physics yet, but so far my understanding is that this later explanation is correct, at least in the context of guitar frequency ranges.

The consequence of that is that beam blockers usually/likely add a comb filtering effect from what I've read, and will still develop some beaminess in the far field despite removing it in the near field. The donuts/lenses should be effective in both the near and far fields. Anecdotally, my experience confirms the donut behavior. A previously painful-on-axis 4x12 was almost completely evened out by the addition of donuts.

If anyone has good pointers for honest to goodness physics books on speaker drivers and speaker cabinets, it would be much appreciated.

I've been surprised to find that this isn't a common viewpoint. In fact, I have a long-term bet with a friend that I'll learn something faster using deliberate practice 'n stuff then he did trying to learn everything at once.

> Thank god we still have vim and Emacs.

Emacs has had AI since before it was cool again.

M-x doctor

This article was brought up in this[0] ongoing discussion, and it looks interesting enough to warrant it's own submission.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41282574

That is a much better way of putting it, thank you.

(edit) One thing neither of us directly mentioned in our comments, but which I feel is important is this bit from your article intro:

> Insufficient automaticity, particularly in basic skills, inflates the cognitive load of tasks, making it exceedingly difficult for students to learn

A real-world example for myself was when I was learning a small lick on guitar with an uncomfortable-to-me rhythm. I initially just played it slowly so I could get everything right, trying to speed it up every now and again to check progress. I progressed, but slowly. What ended up demolishing the challenge is the separation of the rhythm element(s) from everything else involved in the lick, and practicing those individually. By themselves they were easy to knock out (matter of minutes), and after those few minutes when I revisited the entire integrated lick I could suddenly knock it out of the park.

I don't know if I'm using the word the same way, but I understand the benefit of mastery to be that you automate and abstract away things and can get to a point where you're just firing off mental routines instead of having to consciously focus on the specific task. This means that in a multi-faceted task I can focus primarily on the elements I haven't mastered, since the things I have mastered come easily and automatically. As a consequence, anything that relies in part on the mastered skill gets easier.

> Windows is a sinking ship.

I got a kick out of Windows' responses to me installing Chrome on some machines at work.

First, search (good) Bing for Chrome. Get a sponsored result from MS saying something like "Oh, really, no reason to install that, Edge is x, y, z marketing bs, you should just use it instead."

Second, go to Chrome download page. Windows then pops up a notification bubble or something in the top right again extolling Edge, finishing with "and it's Microsoft Trusted!"

Thanks for the laughs MS.

> Part one of the 3rd edition is audio frequency amplifiers and would be better described as concise than a summary, it gives you most everything but skewed towards practical application.

Ah, I see, good to know.

> Howard Tremaine's books are quite good and it looks like Aiken left off his Passive Audio Network Design, which was probably sensible but it can not be beat if you want to really understand the stuff in the guitar and better understand the stuff between the tubes which are often passive audio networks. But it might be a bit too in depth for most, I really enjoy passive design and probably have a blind spot here.

I haven't heard of his stuff yet, I'll have to look into them, thanks! No worries about it being too in-depth, I'm usually more concerned with things not going in-depth enough! I get practicality and conciseness being a concern and all, but I like knowing the why's behind the what's.

Note for those who are as confused as I initially was: Passive Audio Network Design is by Howard Tremaine, not Aiken.

Edit: Just scooped up the only copy of Passive Audio Network Design I could find. Should be here by Monday!

Like the Burger King of programming languages.