nluken

5 ms·

1.
by nluken 4mo ago
Unfortunately, you're usually working against physics and not software, because, as you allude to, playing music together requires near perfect latency (some sources say 10ms as an absolute maximum) that's physically impossible to
2.
by nluken 7mo ago
I hear this often and it's such a strange view of art, like the only thing that matters is scale and speed. It's a perspective so colored by mechanization that it fails to account for other philosophies in art. Think of what, say
3.
by nluken 7mo ago
Northeastern held out for a long time, only switching away from Racket, despite the protest of students and professors alike, in the last year or two.
4.
by nluken 8mo ago
The post title here is extremely misleading. Per HN standards, the post should use the original title, "How to turn 'sfo-jfk' into a beautiful photo"
5.
by nluken 8mo ago
Oh! I know this one! You're thinking of Jeffrey Lewis & The Voltage's LPs from 2019: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3urXygZXb74 '
6.
by nluken 8mo ago
> Concorde burned 52% of its fuel just taxiing and taking off and later in the article: > Remember, Concorde burned 52% of its fuel just taxiing down the runway. Setting aside that these are completely different claims, the author doe
7.
by nluken 9mo ago
Might be harder to track but what about CFR or some other metric to measure how many bugs are getting through review before versus after the introduction of your product? You might respond that ultimately, developers need to stay in charge
8.
by nluken 9mo ago
Despite worries about creeping prices, coffee in Italy averages around €1.20 for an espresso or €1.50 for a cappuccino [1]. Way different than in a major American city. [1]: https://www.ft.com/content/ccd7ef60-cef2-4b03
9.
by nluken 10mo ago
Nice little article. Another personal suggestion in this vein: The Queue by Vladimir Sorokin (trans. Sally Laird), which consists entirely of unattributed dialogue. It's challenging at first but once you get a feel for the rhythm and
10.
by nluken 10mo ago
Different strokes for different folks. I'm a fashion lover but a fan of cheap cars, and I could equally say something similar about people who drive new luxury cars when there's plenty of reliable functionality to be had under $10
11.
by nluken 10mo ago
Keep using that structure. The bots use it so much, and in ways that human authors wouldn't, that it becomes self-parodying. As long as you're not using the same device over and over again in the same piece you'll be fine.
12.
by nluken 11mo ago
The giveaway is almost always an over-dependence on "Not 'x' but 'y'" structure. Even when the author changes the wording so that the phrase doesn't read exactly like that, they tend to leave the structure
13.
by nluken 11mo ago
Looks a little like a first gen Daihatsu Copen, and I mean that as a complement: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daihatsu_Copen#First_generatio...
14.
by nluken 11mo ago
> So far, the biggest way Americans have leveraged AI in politics is in self-expression. Most people, in my experience, use LLMs to help them write stuff or just to ask questions. While it might be neat to see the little ways in which so
15.
by nluken 1y ago
People here are rightly pointing out that there's still room for improvement with this (and almost any) kind of surgery, and the article talks about the accessibility challenges of making procedures like these more widely available, bu
16.
by nluken 1y ago
> now you are taxed out of success Separate from your inflation argument, aren't income tax levels lower than they used to be, even during the Reagan administration?
17.
by nluken 1y ago
You're not going to get new clothing for TEMU prices without the de minimis exception. In theory, the higher price of these goods will decrease the amount they're purchased and lessen impact of pollution. As others in this thread
18.
by nluken 1y ago
It came across more mixed to me. It seemed like he spent the whole article making the case for negligence and then took it back at the end.
19.
by nluken 1y ago
I know what the author is getting at but he frames the article like he agrees with the State charging the parents with involuntary manslaughter, which, barring some detail not included in the linked NYT piece, seems ridiculous to me. The de
20.
by nluken 1y ago
The em dash isn't just the present state of AI slop— it's the future!
21.
by nluken 1y ago
> If I could just throttle it up to 35mph, I wouldn't even need bike lanes around town. 45mph, and I could easily get to the next town over. The "higher class" of which you speak has existed for a long time, albeit usually
22.
by nluken 1y ago
Physics and practical concerns are way, way different. You want to go as fast as possible down the descents in a bike race. You don't want to lose any kinetic energy and fall behind your opponents, so the only time you'd be using
23.
by nluken 1y ago
These guys are not using their brakes nearly enough to make up for the amount of power they would use on the climbs, even on the descents.
24.
by nluken 1y ago
Yes and I understand that. I was specifically replying to a comment about this phrase being a myth for athletes.
25.
by nluken 1y ago
I would say that in practice 99% of people can't outrun a bad diet, but not because of any sort of physiological reason. You simply need to train so much that most people won't ever approach the level of running/cycling/
26.
by nluken 1y ago
The author doesn't touch upon it here, but you can compress experiences along two axes: time, or what I'll call depth. This second type of compression drives the proliferation of overly long TV shows, documentaries, and podcasts.
27.
by nluken 1y ago
While I'm sure the author enjoyed their experience, she doesn't really explain why we should prefer "speedrunning" to the traditional timeline. It gets you into the workforce earlier? She never even makes clear that sh
28.
by nluken 1y ago
A whole lot of words to say basically nothing. Are we really equating a 30 day move in stock price with a company wide turnaround?
29.
by nluken 1y ago
Just running 30 miles a week is not enough to cause damage in most people. Tiger was also doing hours of professional-level golf training every day at the same time.
30.
by nluken 1y ago
You can effectively accomplish something like this already simply through good writing and programming, accounting for these gaps as part of an NPC's characterization. It's a cool way to play with player expectations, and one of t

More ›