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willismichaelon What Is Gridifcation

It's a false dichotomy. Keep making music that you love. If you want to experiment with more free-form timing at some point, that's fine, but don't let online commentary stop you from making your own music.

willismichaelon Yes, and

Who are they paying to build it in-house?

willismichaelon Rejection Sensitivity in Gifted and Twice-Exceptional Children

Ok fair enough, I should have said that it's not always visible hyperactivity.

willismichaelon Rejection Sensitivity in Gifted and Twice-Exceptional Children

The "hyperactive" part of ADHD is kind of a misnomer, or at least doesn't mean hyperactive in the way that most people understand the word. Think of it more as a tendency to hyperfocus on specific things while completely ignoring other things.

willismichaelon I quit OpenAI because its culture is broken

Pencils don't escape their pencil boxes and attack HuggingFace.

willismichaelon How bicycle coaster brakes work (2018)

Either that or unbolt the kick stand.

willismichaelon Google Maps Showing 'Lake America' in U.S.

Wouldn't it be enough to detect if the request is coming from a very specific subset of clients and send them what they want?

willismichaelon I were 17, I'd learn how to build LLMs from scratch

> With all due respect, paulg is in somewhat of a bubble

I feel like the "ALWAYS HAS BEEN" meme is apropos here.

willismichaelon Why aren't smart people happier? (2022)

> It's not a compliment

Thanks, you had me feeling all smug and then you had to add that part.

willismichaelon Fixing a bricked Framework laptop

This happened to my old framework. After a while of troubleshooting, I removed the battery and it will now boot reliably while plugged in. The replacement batteries aren't terribly expensive, so I'll probably buy a new one soon.

willismichaelon In Australia, a home battery boom has helped cut wholesale power prices

It really depends on the battery chemistry of the specific EV, how many watts you charge at, and deep cycle vs. shallow cycle. Not all EV batteries will hold up to that many charge-discharge cycles.

Even at that, 100,000 cycles is an exaggeration. From what I can tell, you can expect up to 3000 cycles from Nickel Manganese Cobalt batteries before they hit 80% of original capacity. Lithium Iron Phosphate batteries can last for 10,000 cycles before dropping to 80% of original capacity.

https://bslbatt.com/blogs/lfp-vs-nmc-lithium-battery-compari...

willismichaelon 'Crush this lady': how eBay harassment campaign led to $56M payout

"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly stick society" - Krishnamurti

willismichaelon I'd not buy a LG monitor

  [x] Yes
  [ ] Remind me later

willismichaelon The zero-cost fallacy: open-source software in the agentic era

No way, it's AI generated content complaining about AI generated content.

willismichaelon Sodium-ion "salt" batteries will revolutionize electric-vehicle and grid storage

Electric bikes and scooters are also vehicles, right?

willismichaelon Sixty percent of US consumers say 'AI' in brand messaging is a turnoff

Understood. Admittedly I'm as guilty as anybody else, but lately I'm trying to take more time away from digital media to spend face-to-face time with people, look at real scenery, and practice physical hobbies.

willismichaelon Sixty percent of US consumers say 'AI' in brand messaging is a turnoff

If our hormonal reward systems are so fried that low-effort staring at a screen has become the most rewarding thing to do with our time, then the content industry has played us like a fiddle.

willismichaelon Sixty percent of US consumers say 'AI' in brand messaging is a turnoff

Maybe I missed the /s, but why do we have to spend our time "looking at content" if it's just full of AI slop?

willismichaelon Fox to buy Roku

I'm impressed that you were able to cancel SiriusXM. I thought that it was set up to cling to people for life, and possibly continue billing their estate after death.

willismichaelon John Carmack on mutable variables

Here's a relevant comment on Rust: https://x.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1094419108781789184

willismichaelon Things that helped me get out of the AI 10x engineer imposter syndrome

Including writing comments on HN.

willismichaelon The Toyota Corolla of programming

Do tell, what were the more annoying parts of the system?

willismichaelon We’re secretly winning the war on cancer

I had a close relative diagnosed with multiple myeloma 25+ years ago (I don't remember the exact year) who only lived for a couple more years. It was rough back then. I'm really glad to hear that there is much better treatment these days.

willismichaelon The average workday increased during the pandemic’s early weeks (2020)

    And don't get me started on the ones who are neurodiverse or have any kind of disability.

But that's what I want to hear more about!

willismichaelon Ask HN: CS degrees, do they matter again?

I have a close relative who made more than that doing more or less entry level manual labor for the local city govt.

willismichaelon YAGRI: You are gonna read it

Why do I feel like that should be a cheat code in a FPS game?

willismichaelon Sell yourself, sell your work

I think it's hard because documenting something is a completely different skill than exploring and/or building something. For a lot of us, the act of documenting doesn't scratch the same itch.

willismichaelon Reintroductions of beavers into the wild in several parts of England

When you say kids, do you mean young goats or young humans?

willismichaelon Desmos Animated Graphing Calculator

I'm learning about digital signal processing and I use Desmos all the time as a scratchpad to plot the response of functions.

willismichaelon A layoff fundamentally changed how I perceive work

> My CV is pretty bad since it took me way too long to graduate

I don't put dates on my education anymore. shrug