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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…

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 …

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.

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"

Oh! I know this one! You're thinking of Jeffrey Lewis & The Voltage's LPs from 2019: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3urXygZXb74 '

> 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…

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…

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:…

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 challengin…

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 pl…

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 ov…

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 te…

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...

> 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. …

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…

> 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?

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 les…

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.

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 incl…

The em dash isn't just the present state of AI slop— it's the future!

> 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 h…

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 behin…

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.

Yes and I understand that. I was specifically replying to a comment about this phrase being a myth for athletes.