photon_garden

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by photon_garden 7mo ago
King Sunny Ade is another great Nigerian artist! Ja Funmi is one of my favorites: https://youtu.be/LIO9MjfOo48?si=bZFOTgQF0SZZgT_X Africa has a ton of fantastic musicians. For instance, Dur Dur Band from Somalia: https:&#x
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by photon_garden 9mo ago
Are you using an LLM to write all your replies?
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by photon_garden 9mo ago
I had the same experience. It did okay at isolating vocals but everything else it failed or half-succeeded at.
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by photon_garden 9mo ago
> That's not privacy. That's performance art. Smells like it was written by an LLM so I stopped reading.
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by photon_garden 11mo ago
> The Maya Civilization, from Central America, was one of the most advanced ancient civilizations The Maya are still around! I spent a few months in the Guatemalan highlands last year and all the kids in the village spoke Kaqchikel, one
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by photon_garden 11mo ago
Norway does a great job of this with the government-owned alcohol monopoly. The stores are always just a little bit out of the way, with slightly inconvenient hours. You can still get a beer if you want, but it takes a little bit of doing.
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by photon_garden 11mo ago
If you liked this article, I recommend Robin Wall Kimmerer's Braiding Sweetgrass. She's a professional plant scientist and researcher, and her books are both informative and a delightful read.
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by photon_garden 1y ago
My assumption is that most people on HN are making programmer money. $4 - 5 USD per month is affordable even on a junior engineer’s salary in many parts of the world. The price per GB isn’t as good as the services you mentioned, but their s
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by photon_garden 1y ago
Haven’t used Roam, but what I like about Obsidian: - All your data is just plain files on your file system. Automation and interop are great, including with tools like Claude Code. - It’s local-first, so performance is good. - It’s extensib
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by photon_garden 1y ago
David Chapman has a great writeup on this: https://meaningness.com/sad-light-lumens His other writing is great too, but much more philosophical which may or may not be your cup of tea.
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by photon_garden 1y ago
Also worth considering: just don't do the thing and live with the consequences. You have to apply this with care, but it's worth having in the toolbox.
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by photon_garden 1y ago
> There is no indication that we will, no matter the administration, as a society/civilization/species will do a single thing to avert the worst case climate scenarios. This is untrue. For instance, earlier this year Poland gen
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by photon_garden 1y ago
Curious to hear from folks who have more background knowledge on this, but as a minimally-informed outsider this seems like it’s hitting all of the important points.
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by photon_garden 1y ago
How much effort is it to just try it and roll back if it doesn’t work?
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by photon_garden 1y ago
More folks should define their own lightweight markup languages! It’s fun and makes your writing and notes feel more like your own. I created a convention for defining sub-notes (with frontmatter) in a Markdown note and have found it really
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by photon_garden 1y ago
Yes, exactly!! I use art-making to direct my attention in the same way: > on the one hand, the kid shouting at the park is the latest fruiting body of an immortal superorganism that's older than dry land. > on the other, they&#x2
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by photon_garden 1y ago
Curious how they've assessed quality, either qualitatively or quantitatively. How often do the generated documents miss important parts of the codebase or hallucinate requirements? How often do engineers have to redo work because the L
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by photon_garden 1y ago
Their code is more complex in some ways (for example, it’s verbose). But in languages with exceptions, if you want to know how a function can fail, you have two options: - Hope the documentation is correct (it isn’t) - Read the body of the
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by photon_garden 1y ago
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Alda – plain text music notation(github.com)
1 points by photon_garden 1y ago|1 comments
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by photon_garden 1y ago
With tools like Obsidian and Claude Code, plain text is having a bit of a renaissance. Here's a music notation that has all the same benefits!
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by photon_garden 1y ago
Really enjoyed my experiments with Gleam! Such a lovely, simple language, and it’s clearly been made with great care and attention to detail. My language of choice is Rust, but I’d go with Gleam in a heartbeat if I: - Were working on a team
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by photon_garden 1y ago
I was a big Notion fan for years and am now solidly in the Obsidian camp. Speed and local-first was originally the main differentiator, but over time Steph Ango's "file over app" philosophy has become my favorite feature. Yes
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by photon_garden 1y ago
My rule for social media is “don’t feed the sirens.” Like Caroline, there are many things I’d rather do than donate my time to help Mark Zuckerberg sell ads. This is why, for example, I don’t post my art on social media.
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by photon_garden 1y ago
In a similar vein, I’ve found helpful: There’s a difference between pain and suffering. This is true for emotions: feelings people often find uncomfortable (sadness, loneliness, fear) don’t have to make you miserable. You can just feel thos
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by photon_garden 1y ago
It’s hard to evaluate setups like this without knowing how the resulting code is being used. Standalone vibe coded apps for personal use? Pretty easy to believe. Writing high quality code in a complex production system? Much harder to belie
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by photon_garden 1y ago
Appreciate you engaging on this, and I have sent an email to the author. I personally found that venting about it did achieve something — disagreeing with folks in the comments prompted me to look up concrete numbers on how many men are lik
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by photon_garden 1y ago
The psychological wellbeing of ~2 million men in the US feels interesting to me, but sounds like we disagree there.
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by photon_garden 1y ago
It may feel harmless to you, but research consistently shows a large proportion of men feel insecure about their penis size [1]. Let’s assume those studies are off by an order of magnitude and it’s only 1% of men who feel insecure about the
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by photon_garden 1y ago
Alternatively, yes.

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