solomonb

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by solomonb 7mo ago
I've been using LLMs (Opus) heavily for writing Haskell, both at work and on personal projects and its shockingly effective. I wouldn't use it for the galaxy brain libraries or explorations I like to do for my blog but for product
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by solomonb 7mo ago
Wow 2 in one day with Dan Simmons :( Rest in peace.
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by solomonb 7mo ago
I think its the same as stealing a bike or a car parked on the street. I don't know the subtleties but I don't think you can presume something is abandoned merely for being left on the street?
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by solomonb 7mo ago
My whole point is about comparing electric/electronic instruments. I NEVER said that the guitar is the best acoustic instrument. I explained how there is a difference between the way a guitar works with a coil pickup versus other instr
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by solomonb 7mo ago
Man I miss stack overflow. It feels so much better to ask humans a question then the machine, but it feels impossible to put the lid back on the box.
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by solomonb 7mo ago
> What makes a guitar more expressive than a cello or trumpet with a pickup/mic running through effect The difference lies in the pickup! On those other instruments you will be using a contact mic (piezo-transducer) wheras the solid
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by solomonb 8mo ago
Haha that is a great highly expressive counter example! However, as far as versatility of sound I still think the guitar+tube amp wins as you have access to all of western music theory and techniques as its still a traditional string instru
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by solomonb 8mo ago
> So... use a reamp box to make it hiZ again? That is going to be something like a transformer to step down your line level signal and some series resistance to match the load to help drive the amp. An actual coil pickup has reactive imp
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by solomonb 8mo ago
A modular synth is more versatile in terms of enumerated signal transformations. Its the ability to be expressive with those signal transformations that makes the guitar+tube amp what it is.
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by solomonb 8mo ago
I'm talking about electronic instruments how they are deficient in expressiveness compared to your cello example. > Secondly I think it's important to note the tube amp and the guitar are seperable, and I don't think that
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by solomonb 8mo ago
I think you misunderstand my comment entirely. I'm not comparing electric to acoustic instruments at all.
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by solomonb 8mo ago
I strongly believe that if you set aside genre preferences the solid body electric guitar coupled to a tube amplifier is objectively the greatest electronic instrument ever created. All other electronic instruments, with the one exception b
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by solomonb 8mo ago
TBH, i've largely stopped correcting any spelling or grammar mistakes in my communcations as a way to assert I am a human.
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Show HN: claude-env – Manage multiple accounts for Claude-code(github.com)
2 points by solomonb 8mo ago|1 comments
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by solomonb 8mo ago
100% vibe coded buyer beware. I was annoyed that I couldn't easily toggle between personal and work accounts and maintain all my same comands, hooks, etc without fully logging out and back in. This tool lets you manage multiple account
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by solomonb 8mo ago
Great suggestion. Likewise exploring who played shows with who is another great way relation for music discovery. Often you can find radically different bands that were part of the same social scene but which you can relate to. There are so
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by solomonb 8mo ago
One step closer to an Electric Monk
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by solomonb 8mo ago
I agree this works really well and do it, this is essentially what I meant when i said 'clicking around music brainz and wikipedia.' That said I wouldn't be satisfied with this as the only way i could discover new music. Ther
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by solomonb 8mo ago
> Residents -> Pixies is certainly an odd recommendation. Having said that, where _can_ you go from The Residents? Daniel Johnston? I would be truly impressed if a recommendation engine took me from The Residents to Balinese Gamelan.
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by solomonb 8mo ago
Music recommendation is such a hard problem. There are all these seemingly obvious relationships you can map between bands to create a big graph that looks good but that almost never captures what goes on when a human with deep music knowle
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by solomonb 8mo ago
If you're accepting additions here is a fun one some friends and I did as experiment at the Topos Institute: https://github.com/ToposInstitute/polytt And here is a set of single file lambda calculus implementation
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by solomonb 8mo ago
Thank you for the `nix app`! Being able to launch it with: nix run github:cpcloud/micasa Is super convenient. Actually we could go further and serve `micasa` via ssh: users.users.micasa = { isNormalUser = tru
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Co-Alegebraic Chat Bots in Haskell [Not AI](github.com)
3 points by solomonb 8mo ago|1 comments
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by solomonb 8mo ago
A few friends and I have worked on this project off and on for a while now. The original idea was to create a bot for matrix but we ended up building a more general library for encoding bot behaviors as Mealy Machines that can be tensored t
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by solomonb 8mo ago
Sorry i mispoke here. We can recharge the full required energy budget for the day in 3 hours of sun.
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by solomonb 8mo ago
With 15kwh of batteries and 2500w of panels you can run for 3 days on batteries and recharge in 3 hours of full sun.
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by solomonb 8mo ago
Its /significantly/ more challenging to setup a medium wave station as you will need a giant antenna. I absolutely love AM radio and would prefer to run an AM station but there is no realistic path, legally or technically, to doin
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by solomonb 8mo ago
Thank you! I'm going to take a note about doing this.
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by solomonb 8mo ago
You are technically correct but taking that approach misses out on the purpose of community radio: community. As a terrestrial radio station our goal is to serve and be a member of our the local San Fernando Valley community. Creating a phy
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by solomonb 8mo ago
Great question, sadly we haven't gotten to the point of operating our transmitter yet so we don't know if co-channel interference is going to be a significant issue or not. I can say tho that neither KAIA or KCAQ come through clea

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