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raffael_de··on Sonic Pi
"Sonic Pi v5"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49208296

[22 days ago]

raffael_de··on Fuck you, show me the prompt
"please, show me the prompt" ftfy
raffael_de··on Tim Cook Sold Out Steve Jobs (2025)
hot take: tim cook could sell out apple only because google sold out android. it's like everybody is selling each other and their grandmas out these days.
raffael_de··on “I just chose words carefully”
the distinctive cadence is not a direct consequence from eliminating widows but from the mental process used to achieve this efficiently. language goes from natural fluidity to stacking Lego bricks.
raffael_de··on Defrag98: Windows 98 Disk Defragmenter Simulator Online
what a delight it was to behold this visualized process of reinstalling order. the music of the hard disk's seeks went from anarchy to harmony. watching the defragmentation felt like taking a cold shower after sweating all day long ...
raffael_de··on Iceland votes on whether to restart talks on joining EU
those are just conveniences relevant to relatively wealthy citizens. i regularly travel to places outside of EU and none of these missing "benefits" have ever posed more than minor challenges.
raffael_de··on Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices
what I like about xcancel is that it allows me to read but protects me from giving in to the temptation of wasting time by engaging in fruitless discussions. same problem with reddit. funny thing is that my current account just got permanently banned due to ban evasion ... that's fantastic as I can still join and read subs but I cannot post or comment.
raffael_de··on How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs
isn't that what cyberpunk is in terms of a political something (as opposed to just an aesthetic)? f EU and its bureaucrats, f the corps and its shills ... about time we're going rogue now .. HACK THE PLANET!
raffael_de··on How Thailand Resisted Colonization
From what you write it appears to me that you have never been to Thailand.
raffael_de··on Initial focus for our partnership with Motorola is a regular non-folding device
Why would they emphasize the non-folding? As far I am concerned foldable smartphones can get bent ...
raffael_de··on Casio F-B100W-1A
as I use it the increment is regarding the minutes. for 30 minutes I tap 30 times. given that it's all open source you could certainly change increments to 30 seconds.
raffael_de··on Casio F-B100W-1A
only outsider info based on GitHub stats and Discord.
raffael_de··on Casio F-B100W-1A
yes, of course, one should also get the custom screen. offers a little more in terms of displaying.
raffael_de··on Casio F-B100W-1A
not just OG ... also OSS as opposed to Ollee
raffael_de··on Casio F-B100W-1A
I really like my F91W case with a Sensor Watch Pro board and accelerometer sensor.

My favorite features:

- Piezo alarm is much louder.

- Countdown time can be incremented by tapping the watch.

- LED color can be changed by adjusting RGB values.

- It features sunrise/-set and moon phase info/calendar.

- I changed the week day names to German abbreviations.

- There are lots of intriguing watch faces that you can compile into your firmware.

Sadly, the project is in some disarray as the originator apparently lost interest and the community isn't moving uniformly. Would love to see such a project for Casio with 4 buttons as this would allow for a lot more interesting use cases ... the pinnacle would be a board for their calculator watches. That would be rad.

The Sensor Watch forum on Discord is pretty active.

https://www.crowdsupply.com/oddly-specific-objects/sensor-wa...

raffael_de··on Meta's blockbuster trial draws parallels to big tobacco
the engagement argument could be applied to every commercial service or product. anything that is sold is getting optimized for appeal/attraction/engagement/adictiveness.
raffael_de··on And then the men with guns tell you to do it anyway
care to provide examples?
raffael_de··on Ask HN: Does anyone else feel like nothing matters anymore?
you go from software releases to "Our entire purpose and joy in life has been taken from us." ... maybe your spiritual challenges are not caused by AI after all.
raffael_de··on Incident with Github.com
+1 (as a millenial) ... especially given that setting up a git server for non-OSS company code isn't too much of a challenge really. also, no need to self-denigrate this reasonable opinion in preemptive obedience.
raffael_de··on Mark Zuckerberg attacks 'closed' AI rivals as Meta returns to open models
the "albeit" gives away that the person you're responding to intended to write "unintentionally".
raffael_de··on The Hacker's Renaissance (2025)
I agree. Maybe that example was chosen because what chose it was an LLM fed with data up until about 2025 and nowadays that is sadly what "hacking" has become - cartoonish, pointless toy projects ... like the infamous make Doom run on a washing machine.
raffael_de··on Is it all just vapourware?
you're moving the goal post as language models and agents aren't marketed as something like circular saw but a team of carpenters that you just tell what you want and they do it for you.
raffael_de··on US Military's cyber command unit grapples with cluster of deaths by suicide
most medical professions have higher rate. it's usually attributed to being constantly subjected to pain and suffering plus physicians can source pharmaceuticals to exit softly. never heard that it professionals are particularly prone to suicide.
raffael_de··on US Military's cyber command unit grapples with cluster of deaths by suicide
i'm pretty sure that segment has lower than average suicide rate. well paid, well educated.
raffael_de··on As a Windows user, it's a surreal way to install a program
As someone who grew up with Windows the canonical equivalent action would have been to select "install" from the dmg file's context menu (which is opened by a right click). The MacOS way to do it feels too gimmicky and different-for-being-different's sake ...
raffael_de··on I'm switching my phone from Android to Linux
also the retrograde auto corrections drive me nuts ... like i type a word (correct) then next word and it adjusts the previous word. attempted several times to deactivate that "feature" - didn't figure out how.
raffael_de··on More German than many Germans
> In January 2024, after it came out that far right politicians had talked about deporting people who already hold a German passport

That is - as determined by a German court - something between fake news and severely distorted representation of what happened.

raffael_de··on Top amputation surgeon had own legs removed due to fetish. Were patients safe?
"senior developer deliberately self-sabotaged side-hustle by unnecessarily using kubernetes and kafka instead of docker and rabbitmq - where his employers safe?"
raffael_de··on UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions
next time fifa will introduce the pee break 10 minutes after the hydration break
raffael_de··on Europe's fires are just the start
being good at fighting fires is part of the problem as that allows people to keep natural limited area fires from happen regularly and then eventually you get one huge fire.
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