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jacobgraf

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About jacobgraf

Web designer/developer from Appleton, WI.

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    Comment #48866024

    This comment is probably the closest one to my own thoughts and beliefs as well. Thanks for writing it so eloquently.

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    Comment #48863671

    Exactly. Even if just for Chuck and I, this was something both of us needed. It brought a lot of positivity to each of our lives for a lot of different reasons.

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    Comment #48863631

    We appreciate you listening anyway! I enjoy the music, but it's definitely not for everybody!

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    Comment #48863612

    Appreciate it!

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    Comment #48863590

    Yes, that's exactly what we did here. We fed the originals to AI, but we did give it wiggle room to make a cover version and not follow the original exactly. I think I will play ar…

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    Comment #48863526

    Thanks for listening anyway. Personally, I like the stuff and love jamming out to it in my car, but hey, I may have a bit of nostalgia-bias.

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    Comment #48863516

    Yeah, I built the website, but with a day job and 4 kids and about 64 other things going on, I did heavily lean into AI for the copy. :-)

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    Comment #48863505

    Completely agree. We tried feeding his voice in and using that as a voice model and it actually sounded even further away from his actual voice so we nixed it. We uploaded our orig…

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    Comment #48863460

    I get it. Recorded music is a lot of fun to play and listen to. This still was a fun project for us to work on together after 25-years and with both of us living on opposite ends o…

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    Comment #48863428

    Totally agree. I guess that's what comes with the AI/robot stuff. Hopefully we'll be able to create an in-person album again, but with a little higher production quality than our d…

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    Comment #48863421

    I'd love that. We hope to. We live on opposite sides of the country now. The AI stuff was a great, nostalgic kick-off for us. We don't plan on using AI like this as our only way of…

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    Comment #48862942

    Link in bio

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    Comment #48853544

    That's great. AI is a tricky beast. It can be used for good or evil. I had a lot of convictions while working on this project and my soul is resting easy with how we navigated thin…

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    Show HN: Reviving my 2001 college band with AI

    25 years ago, I joined a band called Fading Maize at Ripon College in Wisconsin. We did what we could with what we had. We recorded 3 albums over the next 3 years and played at as …

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    Comment #21093099

    Here is a code for 50% off of your first year of Pro. Expires on 10/31/19. Enjoy! F5zLMQTX

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    Comment #21090503

    Thanks for the feedback. Zapmarks is definitely more focused on the keyboard than the mouse. If you have a keyword in your head, we want you to be able to type it and go. Tiles wou…

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    Comment #21090487

    That's another difference. With Zapmarks, there is no "most of the time". If you type a keyword you have set up, and hit enter, you will get exactly to where you wanted to be 100% …

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    Comment #21090461

    Yep, but Zapmarks is browser-agnostic which is a main feature.

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    Comment #21090450

    Thanks for the feedback! We'll definitely look to improve on that. It's a hard concept to convey in text. Most people don't get it until they are shown, that's why we did the video…

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    Comment #21090443

    Yes, most of the time this might work, but it also might not. With Zapmarks you know exactly what you're getting because if the keyword doesn't match, it doesn't work. One example …

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    Comment #21090429

    Kind of, but we're more focused on keywords and accessing sites very quickly where Pinboard is more an archive of links. Thanks for checking us out!

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    Comment #21090420

    You can't sync a host file to an iPhone. That's just one example, but at the core, that's the difference. You could access Zapmarks on your Kindle browser or your refrigerators sma…

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    Comment #21090413

    I use lots of bash aliases as well! Yep, query strings are on our list! Thanks for checking things out!