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by mvanga 3mo ago
Author here. I wrote this many years ago (2017?) while exploring techniques to create art that I could put up on my walls :-) If you enjoyed this article there are more similar ones linked on the main page: https://sighack.com&#x
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by mvanga 1y ago
Does anyone know if there is something similar for 2D platformers?
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by mvanga 5y ago
Can I ask how you find the fastest links between countries and the servers for them? (Background: during my vacation last month I was playing an MMO from the APAC region but with servers in Germany, and it was crazy high latency. It made th
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by mvanga 5y ago
It really depends on the complexity of the topic and the accent of the speaker. Most videos I watch at 2.8x. Otherwise it's 2x.
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by mvanga 5y ago
These are a nice set of tools. I used this long ago for extracting onset times from audio files: https://sighack.com/post/extract-onset-beat-times-from-audio...
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Deriving Guitar Theory in ~400 Lines of Python(mvanga.com)
3 points by mvanga 5y ago|1 comments
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by mvanga 5y ago
I really enjoyed the courses at: https://learnwatchmaking.com/
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by mvanga 5y ago
I wonder if there exists a Sci-Hub equivalent for ISO standard PDFs somewhere.
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by mvanga 5y ago
I know the feeling. I'm also motivated by small wins. However, at some point you have to face the realization that you need to power through some drudge work to get to those wins. I don't know if there's an easy workaround. W
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Ask HN: Video conferencing solution for 1x1 guitar lessons?
2 points by mvanga 5y ago|3 comments
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by mvanga 5y ago
Amazing how Stripe consistently executes fantastic solutions for all the very real and difficult pain points of building commercial products on the web. Fantastic work!
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Applied Guitar Theory in ~400 Lines of Python(mvanga.com)
1 points by mvanga 5y ago|0 comments
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Applied Guitar Theory in ~400 Lines of Python(mvanga.com)
3 points by mvanga 5y ago|0 comments
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by mvanga 5y ago
I've worked on several solo projects in the past. I've personally found the below stack to be quite productive: Frontend: NextJS + Tailwind Backend: Flask Ops: Heroku + addons
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by mvanga 5y ago
Interesting. Do you have some reference or link where I can learn more?
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by mvanga 5y ago
Very nice! I like your way much better than the one in my writeup :-) I'll refactor things over the weekend to use this approach if that's OK with you.
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by mvanga 5y ago
Agreed. The patterns are the most interesting bits. Actually, just the fact that there exist patterns is pretty amazing. It's unfortunately hard to see them through the notation and that made it very unintuitive for me for the longest
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by mvanga 5y ago
Oddly, for me it was the opposite! I used to be confused on why modes required modifying certain notes from a major scale until I tried deriving them in the way shown in the article. Of course, once you understand that, the way you go abo
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Basic Music Theory in ~200 Lines of Python(mvanga.com)
451 points by mvanga 5y ago|188 comments
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by mvanga 5y ago
> Do I have to read x86/arm spec + pcie spec + acpi spec + usb spec? Pretty much, yeah. There's a reason not everyone is sitting around writing hardware drivers. The alternative is reading through Linux kernel code. However it
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by mvanga 5y ago
Honestly, this article presents a fairly ridiculous comparison. You could bump deploy times on Heroku to 20 minutes and I would still use it without a second thought. At best, I'll complain a little louder. Here's step 1 from the
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by mvanga 6y ago
The graph approach (e.g. Wikipedia) is pretty much useless without a search engine (e.g. Google) directing you to the first useful node in the graph. When is the last time you just jumped onto the Wikipedia homepage and found your way to th
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by mvanga 6y ago
Can anyone more knowledgeable comment on the details and significance of the comment regarding the frequency of formation being a normal distribution? > Straight away, they noticed a statistical pattern in the frequency at which the crys
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by mvanga 6y ago
https://bellard.org/ Clean, well-documented projects showcasing demos that end up having huge impact. Some of these projects single-handedly spawned entire tech ecosystems. (see FFMPEG, QEMU, JSLinux)
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by mvanga 6y ago
Confirm or reject the Younger Dryas impact hypothesis. While I'm at it, stop by Göbekli Tepe just to check out what they were using the site for. Check out the construction of the pyramids at Giza. There's still so many mysteries
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by mvanga 6y ago
The cynic in me sees this, which is just the latest move in a series of overreaching actions being taken by the big social media giants, as an effort to get Section 230 repealed. The more blatant they are in their partisan actions, the more
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by mvanga 6y ago
The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP) is pretty fantastic. They have a lot of articles summarizing debates as well, which I find very useful. Example: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/platonism-mathematics&#x2
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by mvanga 6y ago
Just my 2c below. I went down a similar path over the last few years. Here is what didn't work well for me: - Reading books on the history of philosophy summarizing a wide range of ideas from famous philosophers. Examples would be Be
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by mvanga 6y ago
Honestly, having gone down this path a year back, just use Heroku for your backend. Maybe Netlify if you want to separate your frontend and backend. The amount of complexity and interdependencies these "here's my stack" posts
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by mvanga 6y ago
Not entirely related to the article, but rather why I think we're seeing all these problems in journalism of late. The rise of the internet gatekeepers (Google, Facebook, Twitter) has forever destroyed the old business model for journa

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