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dyzone··on StackOverflow now gets fewer than 1000 questions a month
I'm gonna flag this post as duplicate.
dyzone··on Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone
A bulletproof vest is just another layer.
dyzone··on Show HN: An experimental pattern-first DAW that supports MCP
Which model did you use for this?
dyzone··on Cloudflare acquires Deno
Why is cloudflare even buying deno in that case? Is it an acquihire?
dyzone··on 'Jonathan' is the oldest land animal on Earth
Was your grandfather a jain? They have a end of life ritual called sallekhana where old people fast to death.
dyzone··on What's Earth's dominant species by mass?
Sam O'Nella made a video about this:

https://youtu.be/ZDYRorgSt-8?si=E9uPIAbYWLzRpsF8

dyzone··on JetBrains reported a net financial loss first time in its tracked history
It's vim vs emacs of this generation. Vscode is vim and intellij is emacs I guess. It does everything.
dyzone··on JetBrains reported a net financial loss first time in its tracked history
IDEs are designed for humans. LLMs aren't human. They can analyze and process craptons if text in seconds.
dyzone··on JetBrains reported a net financial loss first time in its tracked history
> The issue is that their product is bloated and slow

I disgree. Use their ide on a 16gb laptop and never had any performance issues. AI is the problem. Openai and anthropic are eating their lunch.

dyzone··on Competitive Programmer's Handbook (2018) [pdf]
You need to explain why.
dyzone··on Reasons I didn't become an EMT, ranked
Low pay is better than no pay. We still have a few decades before robots can do CPR.
dyzone··on Gemini 4 Argon
> the vast and ominous data centers that already serve a significant fraction of the internet

Those datacenters are mostly cpu. LLMs run on gpus.

dyzone··on Owners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridges
Well the camera only needs to work while the door is open. Stuff isn't going to magically appear/disappear while the door is closed.
dyzone··on Show HN: How long do I need to work at my salary before I can coast, or retire?
Don't forget the unbounded liability that is the human condition!
dyzone··on The mystery animal on an ancient god's head
It's a pikachu!
dyzone··on A Necessary History of the Oddest Letter: W
W is "double u"
dyzone··on I can't stop thinking about Papua New Guinea
After the 2004 tsunami, indian government sent helicopters to see if they had survived and they started firing arrows at the helicopter. It's possible that they think the foreigners caused the tsunami.
dyzone··on I can't stop thinking about Papua New Guinea
Share some stories with us!
dyzone··on HP ZGX Fury Is Now Orderable: GB300 Superchip, 748GB Unified Memory
But can it run crysis?
dyzone··on P(doom)
I live under a rock. Why is musk hated so much in here?
dyzone··on IKEA made a mod for Skyrim [video]
Is IKEA the only furniture store in the world? I do not see any IKEA branding in the trailer.
dyzone··on No Man's Sky Cosmos
> although mediocre ending if we're being honest

I'm not saying ending was perfect, but I can't think of a better way of ending it.

dyzone··on No Man's Sky Cosmos
Far cry 3 and its consequences have been a disaster for the gaming industry.
dyzone··on Bill Gates tries to install MovieMaker (2003)
Gupta means "hidden" or "secret", kek.
dyzone··on Music Theory for Programmers
> The music you were raised with sounds good to you

Speaking for myself, the music I was raised with doesn't sound that good to me.

dyzone··on Music Theory for Programmers
The gigs page points to "file:///Users/malwebb/Documents/Mal%20Webb%20Site/gigs.html" haha.
dyzone··on Music Theory for Programmers
What is your opinion of open music theory v2? People on reddit think very highly of it. https://viva.pressbooks.pub/openmusictheory/
dyzone··on Music Theory for Programmers
> Some people seem to just be physically unable to distinguish relative pitch though.

I used to think I was pitch blind until one day it just clicked. It just takes practice in my opinion.

dyzone··on Music Theory for Programmers
Oh right, I misread. GP is talking about reading, not listening.
dyzone··on Music Theory for Programmers
Your kid might have absolute pitch. Only a few percent of people have it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3Cb1qwCUvI

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