vunderba

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by vunderba 1mo ago
On behalf of all pianists, welcome to the fold. The best advice I can give is to get a proper piano teacher for the first few lessons. If you’re in a college town, there might even be performance majors who’d be happy to teach on the cheap.
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by vunderba 1mo ago
Consider starting smaller, perhaps? I got my BLS and later EMT just to dip my toes into medicine and it was a great overall experience without having to commit to the serious investment of an MD.
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by vunderba 1mo ago
Same I grew up using Ctrl+Shift+Insert, and only really migrated over to Ctrl+C/Ctrl+V when I started using mouse-driven environments more heavily, because I could drive copy paste with my left hand and keep the mouse in my right.
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by vunderba 1mo ago
Agreed. I wrote an article on my blog where I took some of my old compositions (from many years ago) and put them through the cover feature on Suno. Provided you crank up audio influence, it sticks almost note for note to the original melod
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by vunderba 1mo ago
To be fair, I think more people are concerned with the signal to noise ratio. Thousands of one-click songs based on vague text descriptions being cranked out of Suno on a daily basis. I don't know anybody releasing songs with BIAB, and
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by vunderba 1mo ago
Yeah, I’ve actually used that keyboard before. It has a bit of a hollow feel. I really love 8BitDo’s game controllers, but I've always found their keyboards to be a bit lacking. My other big issue is honestly that super "in-your-f
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by vunderba 1mo ago
> game/gambling mechanics to exercise That's the entire premise of DDR and PIU. Throw Max 300 on and that's pretty much the definition of HIIT (High Intensity Interval Training). I picked up a Madcatz Xbox Pump Exceed pa
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by vunderba 1mo ago
When the "new" C64 was first announced I was really hoping they would add a physical switch on the back of it that would let you switch between using it as a computer and using it as a keyboard to drive your normal machine. Some m
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by vunderba 1mo ago
I've seen several attempts even on HN of the LLM meets Teddy Ruxpin (or more accurately AG Talking Bear) but most of them offloaded the AI to some off-site servers. I’d like to think that most parents would be weary of handing their ch
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by vunderba 1mo ago
Most governments have strict rules around “photoshopping” or doctoring images, particularly for passports and other identification documents. I'm pretty sure Gemini embeds invisible SynthID watermarks into Nano-Banana images. So just b
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by vunderba 1mo ago
If you don’t mind CLI, rembg is a good option for background removal. It lets you swap between different models depending on the type of image so you can use something like `birefnet` for photorealistic images and `toonout` for illustration
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by vunderba 1mo ago
Seems neat, but I think asking your average HN’er to run a compiled binary from an effectively unknown source is going to be a hard sell. I might try it out later if I can find some time to spin up a Linux VM. I also find it rather amusing
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by vunderba 1mo ago
> A bunch of these should be enforce with linting Agreed. One of the first rules I toss into Biome is `noNestedTernary` - LLMs seem to adore completely unreadable nested expressions.
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by vunderba 1mo ago
Nice! I actually built something similar back in early 2023 [1], which used a collection of SDXL models to generate a new random painting every hour upscaled to 4K and then broadcasted to my frame using the Samsung WS API wrapper [2]. [1] -
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by vunderba 1mo ago
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jun/... Legality was never ICE's strong suit.
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by vunderba 2mo ago
Kills me when people don't internally adjust a stated annual salary against a workweek that is almost assuredly brutally higher than a standard 9-5. Between the "grinder mindset," the on-site traveling, etc. you're proba
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by vunderba 2mo ago
To add to this: classical extemporization, post-Romantic period, also sort of fell out of favor as the composer began to pre-empt the performer and the "written note is sacrosanct" effectively became the de jure standard. There&
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by vunderba 2mo ago
> I got completely hooked watching those viral reels of people trying to cut fruits and vegetables into perfectly equal halves Which itself was probably inspired by "Schlag den Henssler" [1] a German game show where they had
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by vunderba 2mo ago
An early attempt at this was Microsoft Songsmith [1] all the way back in 2009, which would take a melody (usually recorded by mic) and try to scaffold an accompaniment around it though obviously not realtime in any sense of the word. The cl
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by vunderba 2mo ago
The original definition, as put forth by Karpathy [1], was that you explicitly did not look at the code ever (diffs, errors, etc.). All development, review, etc. is driven entirely through the LLM agent. But at this point, the term has been
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by vunderba 2mo ago
KQ4 suffers many of the same issues. 1. Reach location A. 2. You need to "get equipped with Item X" here, though it's for a future puzzle you haven't even encountered yet, so you don't even realize you need said
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by vunderba 2mo ago
> In KQ6, the patched game prevents you from returning to the Labyrinth entrance unless you hold everything you need for inside. Stepping on the mountain will just not work Nice~ > throwing the leg of lamb at the cat to chase it aw
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by vunderba 2mo ago
Nice job! I actually wrote a blog article about my love/hate relationship with KQ4 in particular - with a particular shoutout to my incredible irritation with the whole golden bridle scene [1]. Without spoiling anything, are you accoun
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by vunderba 2mo ago
If you mean "Lovable" but for video games, I see them heavily promoted on Reddit pretty frequently (Rosebud and Astrocade seem to be popular).
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by vunderba 2mo ago
Kind of sounds like the low‑background steel [1] problem all over again. I have a rather badly written tool [2] I made about 5–6 years ago. If you connect it to your Google Custom Search Engine (along with the appropriate CSE keys), you can
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by vunderba 2mo ago
Yeah for the rendering a smooth set of RGB shifting colors using SIN you could do it in a few lines of QBASIC. The only thing is that since the SDL example uses a 640x480 resolution, which corresponds to SCREEN 12, and in QBASIC it only giv
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by vunderba 2mo ago
So I wanted to build more than just a simple online QuickBasic simulator - I've seen a few of them but they all kind of fall apart at the last mile. You really can't create a QuickBasic interpreter with any expectation of accuracy
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by vunderba 2mo ago
Used to do this too, but the beginning of the calendar year was always like a sucker punch to the wallet. Nowadays I just put all my projects, apps, and games on subdomains under a single main domain.
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by vunderba 2mo ago
I completely agree with you. It definitely felt like function over form. It was utilitarian, but WinForms was probably the closest thing since Visual Basic (and Delphi) in terms of rapid prototyping of a GUI.
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by vunderba 2mo ago
Neat~ it kind of reminds me of Bret Victor who did a lot of research and design into experimental programming environments where changing code instantly updates the visual output. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-OyoVcbwWE

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