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philip-b··on XCancel service is suspended until further notice
Is there a way to make Firefox autoredirect to that?
philip-b··on YuE2 · Frontier Music with Symbolic Planning
That example "Comedy" sounds like the most soulless synthetic example of "music" ever. Like the music analogue of a PR-speak article of a big corpo generated by an LLM. It's still technically impressive but it's 0/10, absolutely empty of soul.
philip-b··on Simplifying and Refactoring Introductory Calculus (2018)
I’ve always been curious about differentials and how to build a rigorous theory of what the fuck dx, dy, dy/dx, etc. are. For example, if you study Tao’s Analysis and Analysis 2, you will not see anything at all about differentials, and I think that maybe you won’t see the dy/dx notation at all. So, can anyone recommend a textbook about differentials?
philip-b··on Show HN: I mapped every US golf course
Are you saying your country's government, for some reason, spends its money on private golf courses?
philip-b··on Quivers: A year of linear algebra by drawing arrows
Where are the theorems and the proofs? Can the usual theorems of the "year of linear algebra" be proved using these arrows?
philip-b··on Talking to strangers at the gym
>however, according to Reddit, there’s a number of people who want to be left alone and can be irritated if you interrupted their workout to talk.

My suggestion would be not to read social advice on public websites on the internet, especially on Reddit, because per public internet, everything is not okay/forbidden, everyone should mind their own business, choose the safest and the most inoffensive action in every possible social situation. Public places such as reddit are full of terminally online socially awkward people who are very unrepresentative of people in real life. Also, there are incentives to recommend the safest course possible because then you won't get downvoted by haters. I don't even say to take advice there with a grain of salt. I say it's probably better not to read such stuff because your brain might subconciously internalize that people think like this even though actully, in real physical world, it works differently.

philip-b··on "Parse, don't validate" through the years with C++
The compile time is 50 times faster, not the runtime.
philip-b··on Battle for Wesnoth: open-source, turn-based strategy game
I heard about this game many many times due to software developers showcasing it as an example of a good libre videogame. However, I don't know a single person who played it and I have never seen anyone recommending it for its gameplay.
philip-b··on Valve reveals it’s the architect behind a push to bring Windows games to Arm
>The real reason Valve are being the "good guys" at the moment

Ok, but this “at the moment” has lasted at least since 2011. Basically my whole adult life Valve gas been a pretty great company delivering value and not being annoying.

philip-b··on Firefox profiles: Private, focused spaces for all the ways you browse
So, can I make it that when I click a URL in another program, Firefox would ask me which profile to use?
philip-b··on How the cochlea computes (2024)
No, it's vice versa. If two wind instruments play unison slightly out of tune from each other, it will be very noticeable. If the bass is slightly out of tune or mistakenly plays a different note a semitone up or down, it's easy to not notice it.
philip-b··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)
Is there such a thing for Spanish?
philip-b··on Show HN: Let’s Bend – Open-Source Harmonica Bending Trainer
I disagree with (1) and (3). I think for a novice bending low notes is more difficult. For me the easiest note to bend was hole 6 on a C harmonica. Also, I don't think wood vs plastic matters for how easy bending is.
philip-b··on Show HN: Let’s Bend – Open-Source Harmonica Bending Trainer
When I was learning bending, I like the app "Bending Trainer" available for both Android and iOS, with a blue on black icon
philip-b··on My stupid noise journey
>the model that everyone says are the best

Is that airpods, or Bose something, or Sony something?

philip-b··on Calm tech certification "rewards" less distracting tech
My list of calm (+), somewhat calm (o), and non-calm (-) pieces of technology that I have owned:

+ kindle from 2010 - laptop - phone - Ipad (but it's still much calmer than my computer or my phone) + Harmonica (musical instrument) o Amplifier (I use it with my harmonica through a mic) - Linnstrument (musical instrument that requires computer or ipad connection) + Pencil and paper + Paper books o Handwritten notes on Ipad - Notes in obsidian o Nintendo Switch + Paper dictionary (for language learning) - Dictionary + Claude AI on my phone

philip-b··on Nintendo announces the Switch 2 [video]
I've owned a switch for 5 years and never had any problems with joycons
philip-b··on How to measure frequency response of a speaker at home
This is useful, thanks. I should've done it on my own. And checking the consistency of passes would be a good idea too. If you don't mind, I'll update my blog post to include your overlaid image.
philip-b··on How to measure frequency response of a speaker at home
Do different DACs frequently sound different? I would expect that it's audiophile's fairy tales.
philip-b··on How to measure frequency response of a speaker at home
Do you know if the same is true of iPads and if there is a program like Spectroid for iOS?
philip-b··on The Little Typer (2018)
I read it 2 years ago while I was sick with COVID. It was a lot of fun, it was pretty easy, but also very interesting. It was not a big time commitment. I learned a lot about dependent types. I recommend it.
philip-b··on Large Enough
Does any one of the top models have access to the internet and googling things? I want an LLM to look things up and do casual research for me when I’m lazy.
philip-b··on Ask HN: Is there a way to get notified when my cat has seizures?
Are you ChatGPT?
philip-b··on Etsy: Company escaping 'race to the bottom', getting back to its artisan roots
>Etsy does not allow items bearing sexual language or slogans that contain references to familial relationships. This includes slogans such as “Daddy’s slut” or “Choke me Mommy”.

Hahaha! But also, oh my god, why? Why do you do this, Etsy?

philip-b··on Selling 'Ghost in the Shell'
Where do I get this HDTV rip?
philip-b··on Dear Paul Graham, there is no cookie banner law
If only my browser showed, for each link that leads to a website with an annoying cookie banner, a small icon indicating that that's the kind of website the link leaves to. Can someone make a browser extension like that?
philip-b··on The Power Iteration Algorithm in Practice
>Sure, let's break down the Python implementation of the Power Iteration algorithm into smaller steps:

I think this was generated by ChatGPT.

philip-b··on BB(3, 3) is Hard
`1RB2RA1LC_2LC1RB2RB_---2LA1LA` - how do I read this?
philip-b··on Jupyter Notebook 7
I am confused. Isn't Jupyter Lab the same as Jupyter Notebook but also with a file chooser and some extra functions? I don't care a lot which one I'm choosing. I always open Jupyter Lab because it has some very small neat additions. Why would I want to want to use Jupyter Notebook without the Lab interface around it?
philip-b··on Enhancements to the Kagi Search Experience
I have 3 questions.

- How is your search in languages other than English and local to countries other than the US and Europe? In particular, I am interested in Russian and Turkish. I remember that previously (a year or two ago) it was not very good. Also, does your GPT based search work for other languages?

- How is phind.com related to kagi? I remember that at some point, I was searching for something on phind and got an error saying that Kagi is out of capacity or something like that.

- What underlying search providers do you currently use?

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