jaystraw

hey! i'll try to be succinct: i'm a recovering programmer trying to get waveform-playlist to work. i haven't used node since probably 2012, and i've never used react. learning curve. so i signed up for claude, to get waveform working for my band's recording computer up here in alaska.

claude...was useless. for me. i felt stupider, honestly. so googling, and finding this, seeing you wrote this with claude...talk about irony heh.

anyway. my github is jaystraw, but it's attached to an email i lost the domain for forever ago (but just got back because of this rabbit hole! no email yet though, used to self-host ugh) so i couldn't get a hold of you there. and since your hn account doesn't have contact info -- here i am. prostrating myself. my email's thisiswherejunkgoes@gmail.com if you have any time to reach out. thank you.

could be artificial precision coming from degs min sec to decimal??

to anyone confused why others find this fun or worthwhile, i will quote brak's dad: "you just don't get it, das all"

my birthday's tomorrow, and a friend said she'd make me any desert i wanted. i knew exactly what i wanted: my grandma's creme de menthe cake. i hadn't seen the recipe in a couple of years -- her handwritten notes made my heart smile and ache. ellybaa might not be here anymore, but she lives on <3

i'm glad they got excited about number theory, but how would improved factoring algorithms destroy capitalism??

like finishing a comment with, "we walked away with all our fingers -- perfect to flip the safety officer the bird"

hopes and seams

that's what i was going to say. and while you can use barn doors and lenses to hone the throw (the size of the beam on stage) -- it's not collimated like a laser is. even with parabolic reflectors like par cans. we're talking magnifying glass and the energy at the focal point (minus what the air absorbs for a given wavelength etc)

time preference slash discounting. so not sure what you mean by "have no market price" bezos is worth XX billion, but not if he tries to sell it all at once

cops still stealing skateboards? i explained packet switching to my friend today, he got it which was cool -- but on the ebb of the topic i said that without it, the world today would be way, way different. i dunno, i dunno what you expected. i'm 1986, and am continually beside myself. about what's possible, not neccesarily what's implemented.

in the music world, variacs are used to bring old tube amplifiers up to power slowly for that reason. not after being repaired or refurbished generally, but certainly when the amp's condition is unknown. the author of tfa said his new power supplies do that automatically, which is pretty neat.

so are ICEs

i'm a musician and audio engineer who encounters iPads for work regularly. my fine motor control is good enough to get paid to mix or play -- not good enough to reliably bring all open apps up (used to be a long press on the one button) so i can swipe one off screen to "close" it. feel for ya.

get my band The Jephries a gig so we can come down from Anchorage and eat some of your Turkish dishes! hehehe

i can't speak for app stores, but my band, based out of Anchorage, Alaska, makes good money from streams. we are completely independent. we don't use cdbaby, but distrokid who charges a flat fee to upload, and publishes to all available platforms. that flat fee also covers publishing to new platforms as they become available to distrokid.

i underdstand your worries but at least in my main line of work, i've seen a lot of innovation over the 20 years i've been doing this. fret not. i guess that's a guitar pun.

if renting use is viable, then why isn't construction or maintenance?

i mean this honestly: an investor may not get crazy returns every year, but they get stable returns every year. why is owning and maintaining infrastructure unattractive?

humor is independent of language

edit: there are jokes that rely on a specific language or culture. but i think (correct me if i'm wrong) sarcasm and hyperbole span language

compression. encryption. handshakes. datetime. rng or prng. i'm right there with ya but nontrivial tasks require nontrivial knowledge. i don't have an answer for obfuscated backdoors like here, or bad code that happens, but i do know if i tried to audit that shit, i'd walk away telling everyone i understood nothing

as an alaskan, those aren't mutually exclusive

A few years ago, my band was putting our manager on our LLC account. The credit union, then Alaska USA but now Global , sent us all docusign links to add her.

She had moved out of state, but either way I think they would've done it that way. Even skimming the EULA there was no way I was gonna esign through their service.

This confused the bank, and it was honestly a bit of a pain in the ass with some emailing back and forth. But they got me the forms and I signed analog, and it went through eventually.

Just sent them my I Told Ya So heh

you're right. i think that's the difference between cynicism and consideration. one immobilizes, one prepares.

we need more of this brand of silly in the world, thank you

the checkout fallacy:

waiting in line compresses your perception of time. when your items are being rung up, and it's time to pay, your perception of time dilates.

i pay cash mostly. if i don't organize my change at the register, i have to do it later, which i'm less likely to do since others behind me are waiting, causing my next transaction to take longer.

i don't want to hold up the line, but i'm largely unaware of the time it took those ahead of me to accomplish the same task i'm sweating through and doing poorly.

what i'm attempting to propose via analogy, is that systems are only as effective as the amount of time you put in. if social pressure causes me to toss everything back into my pocket haphazardly, it takes me more time in the future to use those things.

i used a straight text file with my own format while i had my own business. it worked. i'm not a dev anymore, i'm a musician and booker. if i don't amend my calendar or text file or handwritten notebook in the moment? i'm toast.

the fallacy is thinking one system is better when any system that's not updated fails

my name is timothy basket -- you're saying people have stolen my weave?!

end sarcasm. but seriously -- claiming you made something you didn't isn't ok. but it happens, regardless of laws or regulations or norms.

i don't have any solutions; the internet helps because you can publish something and point to it. i'm a musician and sometimes i only realize well after the fact how influenced i was by something after the fact for a song i've written.

and of course, my precious baskets.

considering there's only one of them, i'd imagine getting replacement parts is just as hard as getting common parts out bush here heh. minus the reality tv stuff of course

in say the late 90's, i remember getting an email with a link to a webpage that explained, "your CRT can be used as a camera, and if you stay in position in front of your screen we'll take a picture of you and display it"

i'm maybe 12, and thinking of all sorts of things as i sat proudly waiting for an image of me to come back.

after 15 odd seconds, i was shown a picture of a laughing primate. who was neither me or human.

staring at this circle, i thought i was gonna get pranked again

iirc, a rogue wave is 2x the local max. 2x or greater, yes, but 10x...i'm unaware of recorded examples.

As someone with two and a half -- yes, and a half -- felonies for computer trespass from when I was in highschool, at 17, freshly 17, in 2003...I feel for you. Longer story, obviously. But no one knew how to deal with the situation, so "Something has to be done!"

In the words of Governor William J La Petomane, one of Mel Brooks' characters from Blazing Saddles, "We have to keep our phony baloney jobs gentlemen!"

i don't disagree, but were it that advantageous, there would be islands in the pacific where this happened

i see what you did there. and smiled :-)