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No list of text-based music systems is complete without the granddaddy of them all: [LilyPond](http://lilypond.org/)

Alda seems greatly inspired by the syntax of LilyPond, and in fact, I actually think the musical rendering is done via LilyPond. I'm surprised the docs don't seem to mention this heritage at all.

The "SF Pro" font family is directly downloadable from Apple and free for personal use. https://developer.apple.com/fonts/

Forgot to mention one important detail: How big is the JavaScript source to the BlurHash decoding algorithm?

I'm guessing that it's approximately the size of a single image, possibly quite a bit more.

"Utterly private" is a very odd term here.

At the very least, Apple knows which sites you're signing into, and has the unique e-mail addresses used at those sites, and has likely issued the authentication tokens for those sites. I'm not sure what's "utterly private" about this setup.

How does account recovery work?

I wonder if this is actually: "Larry and Sergey resign over cancellation of TGIF"?

So this is just Box 2.0 Signature Edition, right?

The real question should be: How much improvement over time in the efficiency of this process could be expected? 1.1x? 2x? 10x? 100x?

Every new technology goes through a refinement cycle where costs & resources are reduced, and I would assume the same is possible here.

Fuck this gatekeeping

You'd be better served hosting this content on a traditional blogging / content platform rather than imgur, IMHO.

"Picked up without credit" on a platform that provides no attribution whatsoever isn't really a hill to die on.

How about a list of all the things that really work great?

I've been using Linux on the desktop for nearly 20 years and I'll have to say it's fantastic, despite the occasional headache, which seems to be at a far less frequency than other major desktop operating systems.

It's even more fun (better?) to encode 1-bin images directly into source code using the Unicode block character set! You can get 4 pixels per character, and do "lossless" representation of simple binary images:

(UGH! HN doesn't seem to support unicode in comments!)

https://pastebin.com/raw/Bg5L9ZJV

Why am I reading this?

Fails my "WTF is it" test right out of the box.

The first paragraph of any software README should answer:

What is it? What does it do? Why would I use it?

ORCA is a ... that ... and can help you ...

I agree it gets closer, but as is with much of speech synthesis, it still to me ends up sounding like "a male talking in a high-pitched voice" and not "a female".

In addition, this would imply that only males can talk in a low register, which is patently false. Low register female voices are fairly common.

I meant "text to speech engine" then I guess.

Pondering what makes this sound "male".

Would it be possible to use Reinforcement Learning + Speech Recognition to turn this thing into a real voice synthesizer?

When you say "rest of the hardware" are you referring specifically to Google's Pixel phones? From a hardware perspective, they seem pretty great.

Or, are you referring to the phone industry in general, and how they're unable to make cameras that match the quality of the ones in the Google Pixel line?

Lots of marketing-speak and broad claims, not very much evidence to support them.

Anyone know anything more about this project and what the underlying architecture is?

Unless the ramdisk (AKA tmpfs in modern Linux) is compressed.

Many low footprint Linux installations now include swapping to zram, which is compressed. The net effect is positive since you usually have an abundance of spare CPU cycles.

So?

Is this writing style the new millennial version of leetspeak or something?

I find it extremely immature sounding, very grating, not funny at all.

There are no secrets.

We had one of these as well -- a fairly standard routine of TV after dinner before going to bed quickly taught the dog that the ultrasonic sound made by the "Off" command to the TV meant "everybody go upstairs and go to bed".

You could actually just press that "off" button at any time, and the dog would look around and do that funny "Dog shrug" thing they do, and go upstairs and lie down, even if it was the middle of the day. We had, essentially, a remote controlled dog.

I learned a lot about programming and debugging from Rocky's Boots (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky%27s_Boots) , so at least you have that.

I don't think there has been enough time to say if any "great programmers" (ugh, that's a horrible horrible term) have learned from graphical tools. MIT's Scratch came out (just) 15 years ago, and was quite primitive. Many career developers really start programming at around age 10, so even if they started on scratch, they would be just 25 now. Only beginning their journey to becoming "great". There just hasn't been enough time to say if this is an effective introductory tool or not.

In the U.S. the term you're looking for is 'Conservation Easement' which is how private landowners can get a tax break for preserving forested lands.

I'm guessing that there will be more pressure to have similar programs in developing nations.

Neither does the article body. How did this even pass HN muster?

The English Grammar in this article is substantially worse than the poor English Grammar used in the article title.

Couldn't get past the first paragraph.

A system and method for letting "The Marketing Guy" choose and design the font instead of a trained graphic designer.

This isn't going to end well.

Have you ever seen a font and thought "oh, that's ugly" but it's really hard to put into words exactly why? Font design is all about aesthetics and custom hand-tweaking every single curve of every single letter and making them look exactly right.