Live data from Hacker News

Viewing profile — _i____ii_______

_i____ii_______

HN member
Joined
Tue, Dec 18, 2018, 11:39 AM UTC
HN karma
25
Public activity
24 items

About _i____ii_______

No profile information was provided.

Recent public activity

  1. comment
    Comment #19769148

    I've never recorded for Librivox. I just record music and have gear so I know what the work entails. I couldn't provide a voice actor's inherent vocal quality, which seems to be so…

  2. comment
    Comment #19769087

    What is so special about Audible recordings that is unnattainable by Librivox? You mean sound quality? You mean some holy grail vocal mics? Or vocal talent? I don't get it.

  3. comment
    Comment #19767737

    People do Librivox recordings free of charge as volunteers. Those recordings are just as good as Audible recordings. I myself, with rudimentary gear and a free DAW, can create an A…

  4. comment
    Comment #19767574

    Why are the costs to produce audiobooks higher? Librivox has public domain books for free, submitted by volunteers.

  5. comment
    Comment #19767482

    Audible's greatest assault is on my wallet. So many audiobooks on that platform are exorbitantly expensive.

  6. comment
    Comment #19730152

    Who... buys onions on the internet?

  7. comment
    Comment #19723269

    San Francisco is an elephants' graveyard for ovaries and hot takes.

  8. comment
    Comment #19546338

    At this point in my observation of the diet wars I have concluded that no diet is based in science and everyone is wrong. Like religion.

  9. comment
    Comment #19487936

    American Truck Simulator: https://youtu.be/AzOiYfL7l7Q Just me, my rig, and the open road.

  10. comment
    Comment #19481923

    I need depositories like this for many things.

  11. comment
    Comment #19353208

    Well there's also many examples of people who pulled their own plug when the going got too laborious and they saw the writing on the wall. He could end up being one of those people…

  12. comment
    Comment #19279034

    I set off an alarm recently that triggered much the same auditory effect. Also similar is if I listen to binaural beats for 10 minutes and remove the headphones. I have no idea wha…

  13. comment
    Comment #19244066

    This is a slim summation of the contents of a fat book.

  14. comment
    Comment #19209491

    https://youtu.be/0iKAyfaPqKM

  15. comment
    Comment #19185812

    What about stains and raw denim? Does raw denim just get tattooed over time with various impossible stains?

  16. comment
    Comment #19171090

    Makes me think of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasili_Arkhipov Imagine an AI in such a scenario. Count me as one of those people who thinks we are headed into a kind of hell.

  17. comment
    Comment #19076062

    Sounds like neurotic Judeo-Christian work ethic propaganda.

  18. comment
    Comment #19071210

    What social issues have been postulated?

  19. comment
    Comment #19071204

    I think we are in a different place than the Luddites were.

  20. comment
    Comment #19061025

    I thought every CEO's ultimate vision was to increase shareholder value. Does the vision of company really come from one person's declarations? Just look at what the company is doi…

  21. comment
    Comment #18901886

    If you work BOH in restaurants you develop a distaste for servers. Not only do they make far more money but they do it in half the time. Time is money and money time. I've worked i…

  22. story
  23. comment
    Comment #18805588

    Setting foot on Hyrule Field in OoT after crawling out of the cave of 90's 2D games was momentous for me as well. "I can just run around wherever?" Yes there was still a fence and …

  24. story