thirteenfingers
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musician and sysadmin/programmer
Not to be confused with the Reddit user of the same name, no relation as far as I know
Not to be confused with the Reddit user of the same name, no relation as far as I know
MusicBrainz is great. I stumbled upon it about a year ago while trying to figure out how various open-source desktop music apps populate track info... and was delighted to find that some random Internet stranger had…
I also started getting that yesterday, but curiously I was still able to watch videos after closing the popup (without turning off my ad blocker).
And I literally just dropped my album this afternoon. I don't know whether I should be worried now.
I personally agree about the whole point of Lego being free form building - and I still have some Lego magazines from the days when that was explicitly encouraged by Lego - but you need kits and instructions to get to…
What I don't understand (speaking of Vimeo) is why doesn't YouTube offer a plan where individual content creators can choose to pay a monthly fee to keep ads off of their own videos for all viewers. Speaking for myself…
Me! First Christmas at my new (fully remote) job on an SRE team and I'm on call through most of this coming week. Not complaining though, I actually asked for this stretch, due to awkward timing with other commitments…
Obligatory Matthias Wandel video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHOx39xJack
I'm taking the Solutions Architect exam. Arguably I should have waited until I had a few more months hands-on experience, but I kind of felt like jumping off the deep end.
Procrastinating on studying for my AWS certification next week. I was unemployed for several months of this year and knowledge of AWS or any of the major cloud providers was the most glaring hole on my resume. Happily,…
@rachelbythebay's HN spoof is still my personal favorite: https://rachelbythebay.com/fun/hrand/
IIRC the system Bach was pushing wasn't actually equal temperament, but "well temperament" which was some sort of compromise between equal temperament and having pure fifths everywhere. The result was that all twelve…
Over the years I've gone from Ubuntu to Debian to Slackware and back to Debian. I took a chance on Slackware for a few years precisely so that I could force myself to understand *nix from the bottom up. Unfortunately I…
Indeed. Just last week there was a whole thread here on HN about the problems with toxicity detectors: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30066720 I'm not sure if this is the system youtube is using, but it would…
I'm actually in a very similar situation - in fact I'm trying to go on unpaid leave as a preemptive measure. I would happily undertake other mitigation measures, including working remote, biweekly testing, masking etc.,…
Between stuffing non-monetized videos with ads, the dislike button thing, and capricious censorship, I'm seriously looking into self-hosting[0] my video and streamed content. Disregarding the difficulty of maintaining a…
One question that I, as a non-Finn who has had more than a passing interest in Finnish history, have never seen a compelling answer to is how reconciliation was ultimately achieved after the civil war. The accounts I've…
"The air hoses between the locomotive and the cars were not connected, as is normal during this kind of switching operation. The air brakes on the cars were therefore inoperative." This part confuses me. I was under the…
Who said it had to be writing code? If finding joy in work is unrealistic, then take up a musical instrument, build a model railroad, write short stories, or something totally unrelated. (I've been a full-time code…
@jacquesm's efforts in this direction may interest you: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14226889
This. Fellow pianist-with-smallish-hands here. The string players' paradigm of having differently-sized instruments as one grows up works well because they carry their instruments with them. Pianists are cursed with…
Examples? Happy to be proven wrong on this.
Speaking for myself, I would be willing to pay YouTube to opt out of ads. I post mostly classical music videos, which are totally ruined if video advertisements are inserted in the middle. (Granted, YouTube doesn't seem…
If you're referring to in-video ads, then no. At present, if you choose not to monetize a video, no ads get shown unless a third part makes a copyright claim on your video. I'm not quite sure about the situation with…
Oh man. I posted here about this before, but almost exactly four years ago a friend and I put on a concert of our own favorite Tom Lehrer songs to great enthusiasm. By what must be total coincidence, just a few days ago…
This bit in particular resonated with me, as someone who's had problems with nervousness giving piano recitals: I have a psychological approach to nerves as well. We have to consider the so-called importance of our…