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TheUndead96 commented on Spotify will end service in Uruguay due to bill requiring fair pay for artists   mixmag.net/read/spotify-e... · Posted by u/pseudolus
terinjokes · 2 years ago
I debated even including the disclaimer. It's been ages since it was shut down, and it's been 13 years since I was even there. However, I didn't want to violate some HN netiquette by not being transparent.
TheUndead96 · 2 years ago
I'm glad you included it, I have fond memories using Grooveshark :)
TheUndead96 commented on Spotify will end service in Uruguay due to bill requiring fair pay for artists   mixmag.net/read/spotify-e... · Posted by u/pseudolus
terinjokes · 2 years ago
I've been using Qobuz (along with my own Navidrome instance) for the past year. The depth of music in some genres seems pretty good, and seems to have all the mainstream artists, but once you get past them in indie/pop/rock genres the gaps in the catalog really start to show. I've reached out to some artists, and no one seems quite clear why their releases don't appear in Qobuz when they appear in all of the competition. Unfortunately, none of the competition makes lossless streaming available (and I'm not counting Tidal's MQA, even if it was available on Linux).

When I joined they had some social features, and searching for user created playlists seems possible. The last couple of times I've tried I've only gotten Qobuz's official playlists in search results. I've had to make do with syncing playlists from Spotify with Soundiiz.

When combined with how inaccurate the metadata is (including the lack of ability to report the inaccurate metadata) and the lack of any new features in the past year (including lack of copying pre-saves from every other platform), it really seems like investment in Qobuz has stalled.

It's too bad, because it seemed pretty promising. I really miss Rdio. :'(

For listening to Navidrome on the go I use the "substreamer" app on Android. The "Podcast Republic" app also works well for listening to college radio streams to find new artists.

Disclaimer: I was previously at Grooveshark.

TheUndead96 · 2 years ago
Grooveshark, now that's a name I have not heard in a long time
TheUndead96 commented on RustGPT: ChatGPT UI Built with Rust, Htmx, SQLite   github.com/bitswired/rust... · Posted by u/thunderbong
willsmith72 · 2 years ago
everytime i check out some htmx source, it feels like it would be a complete nightmare to maintain at scale.

e.g.

hx-delete="/chat/{{ chat.id }}" hx-target="#chat-{{ chat.id }}" hx-swap="outerHTML"

TheUndead96 · 2 years ago
I think that snippet is perfectly reasonable if you are an individual or a small team in charge of the whole stack. This line of code is unlikely ever to change. Contrast this with React+Redux, where the code must constantly change to accommodate schema changes from the backend. The React project thus changes more often, but this is a false sense of maintainability. Further, imagine the 200+ dependencies a starter React app requires and how all of these must be kept up to date.
TheUndead96 commented on Show HN: MonoDevelop   monodevelop.com/... · Posted by u/ratanpremji
nurettin · 2 years ago
It's like "hey look at this thing! It can only do 1/10th of what Lazarus can!"
TheUndead96 · 2 years ago
I hate how cynical and jaded everyone on Hacker News is.
TheUndead96 commented on Windows 11 calls a zip file a 'postcode file' in UK English   twitter.com/JymFox/status... · Posted by u/TonyTrapp
TheUndead96 · 2 years ago
Not going to lie, this is quite cute
TheUndead96 commented on Reddit will exempt accessibility-focused apps from unpopular API pricing changes   theverge.com/2023/6/7/237... · Posted by u/thunderbong
edandersen · 2 years ago
Why doesn't Reddit just disable the ability to "go dark"?
TheUndead96 · 2 years ago
It would look even worse on their part, and there will probably still be a lot of people boycotting Reddit by their own volition regardless of how the site operates.
TheUndead96 commented on Why are humans never satisfied? [video]   youtube.com/watch?v=WvGUT... · Posted by u/davidsvida
TheUndead96 · 2 years ago
Satisfaction is inversely correlated with the propagation of genes.
TheUndead96 commented on Temporal quality degradation in AI models   nannyml.com/blog/91-of-ml... · Posted by u/santiviquez
AndrewThrowaway · 2 years ago
This is a fundamental truth everybody needs to understand.

Not my idea, heard it somewhere. That the crucial difference between a human being and AI is that if you show a 3 year old kid one picture of a cat, a kid can recognize all other cats. Was it a lion or a tiger.

You can feed ML 5000 pictures of cats and it can recognize a cat in a picture with something like 95% confidence.

TheUndead96 · 2 years ago
This is an important distinction but it simplifies the situation in my opinion. A 3 year old may only see one cat, but it has probably seen many other things in its life already. Humans likely also have prewired neurology to recognise eyes and other common features. So the analogy is seem more to me like one-shot or few-shot learning with an already partially trained model.
TheUndead96 commented on Launch HN: Play.ht (YC W23) – Generate and clone voices from 20 seconds of audio    · Posted by u/hammadh
JohnFen · 2 years ago
This is a good reminder that we all need to have a "safe word" that we can use to verify to the important people in our life that the voice they may be hearing on the phone or elsewhere is really us.

Get a panicky call from "me" in the middle of the night? If I don't include my safe word, that call isn't from me.

TheUndead96 · 2 years ago
It is frightening that we have gotten to this point already.
TheUndead96 commented on A brief history of APFS (2022)   eclecticlight.co/2022/04/... · Posted by u/tim_sw
goranmoomin · 2 years ago
As a long-time Korean user of macOS, I hate the fact that APFS is normalization-insensitive yet normalization-preserving.

As a result, this means that… if you create a Korean-named file yourself in Finder: then the file name is normalized in Unicode NFD (decomposed) form, but if you create a Korean-named file in a zsh shell, the file name is normalized in Unicode NFC (composed) form.

You don’t realize the difference until you try an `ls | xxd`, but the bytes are different, even though they look the same.

It’s an invisible mess that people don’t realize until they do. And a lot of programs gets subtly crazy when fopen(A/B) succeeds but listdir(A) doesn’t list B.

TheUndead96 · 2 years ago
I had no idea this was a thing, this must be infuriating.

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