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Are you serious? Pangram is notorios for false positives!

You know those HN posts where someone who barely knows how to program decides to tell you why language X is terribly designed? This is that. Anyone with a decent understanding of m…

Wow, what an idiotic retitling. I guess they figure it's better clickbait. Makes the actually thoughtful and interesting article sound like it will be stupid.

Do the masters. None of us know what the hell is going to happen with coding as a job right now, but a graduate degree carries weight well outside its narrow area. If coding goes t…

Many aspiring writers (perhaps most?) love the idea of having written, not so much the work of actually writing.

I think we are going to see a lot of programmers quitting the biz in the next couple of years. Everyone talks about the increased pressure, stress, and monotony of grinding with LL…

Some of this is sensible. The copyright authority (can't recall right this moment what it is called in the US) has said only works by human beings are copyrightable. A good argumen…

After 30 years I've made thousands! Of course, the collection of instruments and their respective value goes up on the same line, sooo.... ;-) The most annoying part is having to d…

I teach some music private lessons and play jazz gigs. An easy side hustle that should require not more than 10 years of work for a couple of hours a day to qualify if you apply yo…

Of course it's ruining skills. Anyone who has a really well honed mental skill knows that we get rusty really damned fast (e.g. musician at a professional musician level, which hap…

This is a weird title, because what is a perfect shuffle? The word shuffle does not necessary imply a rifle shuffle, and does perfect mean "it mixes the cards well" or is it meanin…

nope, it's an old man yelling get off my lawn. And as a fellow old person with an open source lawn, I 100% sympathize. My lawn == I'm not wasting any of my dwindling old man time o…

This is fantastic. There is a shortage of places that can press vinyl, making it very difficult to start an indy label. Vinyl (believe it or not) is going up in sales, many young p…

Clippy, that cute little crack dealer from the 90's!

What strikes me about the post is that it goes to great lengths to talk about proper statistical methods, but then is written in the most clearly biased language ("what stupid AI h…

You specifically brought up "scheduling tasks". There is a JS task scheduler, but it comes with a caveat - the scheduled timing is accurate but the time of executing is not accurat…

Doing interrupt level scripting in it works just fine - lots of people have done it in C, C++, Scheme, and other extensions. I take it on stages and have produced music with it ext…

There's a big caveat there though that is widely misunderstood. Max has separate scheduler and UI threads. JS only runs in the UI thread, and thus cannot be used for reliable timin…

For people into this sort of thing, another option is using my foss Max extension, Scheme for Max, to script Live through the live API using Scheme. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v…

Yeah, that was what got me into Live in the first place! Writing custom control surfaces in python from the reverse engineered stuff. Nice to see they have put out options they wil…

I wonder how many of the responses here bifurcate by age. The post resonates with me, but I am now in my early fifties. When I was in my 20's and 30's, I would have happily chased …

Lots of "but I don't have those friends" replies here.... ..which is only going to get worse the more you rely on a statisical model for things instead of talking to people.

Spotify would love to have you listen to AI music... it means they can make it internally and pay no royalties on it all all. Interesting, techno/trance producer BT was talking abo…

Nice to see that, after all these years, "car commercial techno" is still a thing. Man, I miss the 90's. Best decade for electronic music ever.

Strange that the post makes no mention of the Little Schemer series, because teaching you to "think Scheme" is exactly what those books do. Some people are put off by the weird sty…