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illegalmemoryon It's normal to play the same song over and over again (2016)

"On the opposite end of the spectrum is Elliott Carter. He intentionally tried to avoid repetition in his works."

Yes, exactly ! That is why Elliott`s work sound like instruments talking to one another, like 4 instruments talking to each other with emotions & expressions each instrument having a specific character.

On the other hand generally we perceive some degree to repeatability as music.

illegalmemoryon Pentagon UFO study led by researcher who believes in the supernatural

"Belief" can be anything that doesn't mean that results will be wrong.

Ramanujam believed if he can figure out Infinity he can "meet / understand / reach" Goddess Mahalakshmi.

illegalmemoryon I’m switching from VS Code to VS Codium

I think developers do pay a Lot for hardware tools ( Mac / screen / custom keyboard / IOTs they will never play with and so on ). They just don't pay much for software tools. Marketing / Sales people will not pay that much for hardware but pay a lot for software tools.

illegalmemoryon Lanai, the mystery CPU architecture in LLVM

This seems related

https://github.com/chriseth/notes/blob/186d7ea0742336ed38e39...

"TrueBit - Off-Chain Computations for Smart Contracts"

illegalmemoryon Linux from Scratch

For me it taught, that how open independent systems, talking same language, can come together and build something truly open. If you don't like one library, you can write/find another and just plug that in. Such beauty.

illegalmemoryon Ten Years of ThinkPadding

I am also looking for a similar robust laptop with Lan Port, headphone jack, good battery life and decently competitive CPU. I have been using multiple Macbooks from past 10-12 years and have seen the machine degrade over time both in term of software and hardware (with the exception of latest M1 series)

illegalmemoryon Show HN: Maroofy – Search for songs that sound similar

Interesting ! I tried similar results for 'Benzin Rammstein' and got 'Kill me by My Final Second'. I can see how it is relevant result since both have somewhat similar small guitar segment.

But I ended up not liking the song that much, since what I like about Benzin is the eerie sounds behind guitar and tempo maybe.

But interesting project indeed !

illegalmemoryon NoJS – Creating a calculator with only HTML and CSS

99999 * 9999 also yields wrong result

illegalmemoryon Re: Moxie on Web3

"It’s a common fallacy of tech people to think that all problems are of a technical nature"

Exactly! Computers will be sold somewhere, parts will be bought from some countries / vendors, using money issued by governments, connect to others using internet ( which again has 100s of regulations from state / central governments ). There are way too many factors to become truly decentralized.

illegalmemoryon Indian online merchants cannot store credit card information from 2022

I have created UPI ID directly with bank and there is no need of any third party app. It can be used to transfer money directly without sharing bank and card details.

illegalmemoryon WhatsApp scaled to 1B users with only 50 engineers

5 heros on vacation for 7 days, and coming back and finishing the work in next 5 days is more comfortable position than 50 clueless engineers claiming work will be over in 4 days.

illegalmemoryon Using RSS to replace social media

I agree, but that is beautiful right? The choice is in user’s hand if they want to interact with content or not. If they don’t want to read the content from that publisher in future they can simply do that, rather than getting three drip mails in 2 week intervals on why I haven’t read emails sent to me by them.

illegalmemoryon A cross-platform GUI for YouTube-dl

It is completely possible to sell closed source applications even using QT. ( It is all about how you link your QT libraries )

I think the main reason is abundance of frontend devs and quick to start using Electron.

illegalmemoryon The most underused browser feature: reader mode

One of the little feature of reader mode I love is, if you time it correctly (before loading all javascript of the page) you can skip a lot of prompts ( subscribe to read / monthly limit reached and so on )

illegalmemoryon Show HN: AI-Generated Illustrations of Plants

Thanks for sharing, this is cool! But in most of such projects I have seen is lack of continuity in generated content. From a bird eye view things look natural but as soon as you observe the content, a little closer, things start to fall apart.

illegalmemoryon Show HN: Let AI predict how old you are

https://attractivenesstest.com ( Test your attractiveness )

On the main website, I tried with a picture of Halle Berry and got a score of 6/10.

illegalmemoryon Ask HN: How do you chill your mind after work?

>No matter how much I try to still my mind, it always circles back to the problems that have been left unsolved.

The main idea behind meditation is "becoming the observer", it has helped me when I detach from myself and just try to observe, feeling things is ok.

The best analogy is you standing on beach, waves will come and go, idea is not to eliminate your environment and be blank, the idea is to be OK with your surrounding.

illegalmemoryon Ask HN: Is there a “privacy focused” way of software licensing?

Thank you ezekg, I appreciate your privacy policy ( We believe in the GDPR and increased privacy for everyone. )

I will try to look more into it if something can be cooked up without the requirement of a server or service. Otherwise might go ahead with something like this.

illegalmemoryon Ask HN: Is there a “privacy focused” way of software licensing?

Thank you very much, your solution and one by ezekg sounds a lot similar: anonymous fingerprint + service or some lambda function to do some work.

The good part is it is simple and efficient. I can open source the device fingerprint part/server code (or link to a third party like keygen`s policy) and have my privacy policy in place.

The not go good part is I still need a service running ( the core point was the if there is no server there would be no remote logs, so clients have 100% peace of mind )

I might go ahead with the solution in case something interesting doesn't come up. (I was also looking at NFT based approach, where each license is NFT and can be verified on a blockchain)

illegalmemoryon Ask HN: Is there a “privacy focused” way of software licensing?

I do mean native genuine compiled code

illegalmemoryon Ask HN: Is there a “privacy focused” way of software licensing?

This will actually be downloaded by normal non-technical end users, I am not sure if contracts are enough in this case.

illegalmemoryon Ask HN: Is there a “privacy focused” way of software licensing?

>What if they buy a new computer?

To be honest I am myself struggling with this question and I dont have a clear idea yet, but I definitely would like to support it.

>What OSes do you support?

Linux, windows and mac native applications.

illegalmemoryon Yamaha MOTOROiD

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Lx0ZJGgsFs

Here is a video demonstration,

illegalmemoryon Mighty Makes Google Chrome Faster

Apple has shifted the whole dynamics and I can see more products like this coming very soon. Earlier network was costly, RAM was cheap .. Now network is becoming cheap and all macs are the same except RAM. Product will come filling this new dynamics.

illegalmemoryon Mars has right ingredients for present-day microbial life: study

We don't have "full" understanding of human body and working of mind. I suspect in future humans who take birth and grow in different scenarios like earth natural / earth urban / mars urban and so on to have different life spans and body capacities.