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Wolfenstein98k commented on Why can't you tune your guitar? (2019)   ethanhein.com/wp/2019/why... · Posted by u/digitallogic
amelius · 6 days ago
> If thirds and fifths are so out of tune in 12-TET, why do we use it? The advantage is that all the thirds and fifths in all the keys are out of tune by the same amount. None of them sound perfect, but none of them sound terrible, either.

Can't we have a system that is optimized for the notes that are actually played in a song rather than the hypothetical set? And what if the optimization is done per small group of notes rather than over an entire song?

Wolfenstein98k · 6 days ago
Not really, because notes do double duty.

You might play a G# note in the context of an E chord (where it's the third), and then you might play it in the context of a C# (where it's the fifth).

These are discernably different pitches, but the same "note", in the same key, in the same song!

Wolfenstein98k commented on EV-1 for Lease (1996)   loe.org/shows/shows.html?... · Posted by u/1970-01-01
gnfargbl · a month ago
The EPA range of the NiMH EV-1 was 105 miles. That was, and is, sufficient for a good proportion of real-world use cases.

If the EV-1 had been allowed to succeed, who says we wouldn't have had lithium batteries sooner?

Wolfenstein98k · a month ago
Who didn't allow it to succeed?
Wolfenstein98k commented on Michelangelo's first painting, created when he was 12 or 13   openculture.com/2026/01/d... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
w10-1 · 2 months ago
> When someone's that good, we shouldn't waste four years of his life in school he doesn't need, but instead let him be productive

Or perhaps we need more challenging schools. I'd hate to harvest before cultivation has a chance to grow without the constraints of organizational biases

Wolfenstein98k · 2 months ago
Hard to make a school designed for a very small group of students. Who's paying?
Wolfenstein98k commented on Show HN: Make audio loops online   makeloops.online/... · Posted by u/bilalba
Wolfenstein98k · 2 months ago
Great stuff. Thanks for sharing.

Great way to help nudge people along in musical interest.

Wolfenstein98k commented on Seven diabetes patients die due to undisclosed bug in Abbott's glucose monitors   sfconservancy.org/blog/20... · Posted by u/pabs3
cynicalsecurity · 3 months ago
There is no such thing as "diabetes", people should start distinguishing between type 1 diabetes and type 2 diabetes - they are different diseases. Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease with no cure, not caused by food, lifestyle or weight, and is an absolute living hell; while type 2 diabetes is caused by excessive weight and can sometimes be put into remission or even fully cured through weight loss.

Learn about type 1 diabetes to understand why this distinction matters.

Type 1 diabetes is not caused by food or weight. It results from an autoimmune reaction that completely destroys insulin-producing beta cells. No one understands what causes type 1 diabetes, but generally it's believed to be caused by viruses and infections. Sometimes you can read about "genetic factor", but overall majority of people with type 1 diabetes have no family history of this disease.

The incidence of type 1 diabetes has been increasing in many countries, and researchers do not yet understand why. It most often appears in children and young adults and currently has no cure.

Once again: type 1 diabetes appears to be random and has no cure. It's not caused by food or weight in the slightest. And your life (of life of your child and yours too) suddenly becomes an absolute living hell. Think about it for a second.

For some unknown reason public awareness of type 1 diabetes is hugely limited compared with other incurable diseases. For example, in the UK more people live with type 1 diabetes than with HIV, yet until someone is directly affected, they usually know nothing about this disease. It hits them like a train.

Wolfenstein98k · 3 months ago
I completely agree.

While the other person replying is not technically wrong about why these things are grouped, it is kind of offensive to sufferers of Type 1.

In one case, a 3yo starts randomly getting sick one day, worse by the day, and will be dead if they don't get a diagnosis soon. From that day forth, their parents need to manage EVERY single bite of food they have, stab them with needles multiple times a day no matter what, and inject them with a insulin - where, if you miscalculate, will cause a seizure within an ~hour and death within a few hours. From a single typo.

Nothing will cure them, their life will be much shorter, filled with work and pain and expense with absolutely no relief, and nothing could've avoided it.

Now compare to Type 2, where you basically cannot get it if you maintain a reasonable diet and a reasonable weight.

Once you start showing symptoms, if you listen to your doctor and reform your diet (particularly with the 5% shock weight loss approach), you will almost definitely avoid it.

You will avoid it for the rest of your life just by eating well, which has the added benefit of extending your lifespan and healthspan and saving you money.

These things have nothing in common, for the sufferer or their family.

Wolfenstein98k commented on Seven diabetes patients die due to undisclosed bug in Abbott's glucose monitors   sfconservancy.org/blog/20... · Posted by u/pabs3
stranded22 · 3 months ago
What the f is ‘early stage’ and ‘advance staged’ diabetic?

My wife is a T1D - you’re either diabetic or not.

Freestyles are not reliable to be used purely for managing immediate levels of glucose - it is more about trends and give an idea of whether it is going up or down.

This appears to be an education issue, for the users and also for the writer.

Wolfenstein98k · 3 months ago
Type 2, most likely. It changes for people as it progresses.

But even Type 1 people will have a different experience in the early days versus years later - you don't lose all beta cell function in one moment.

Wolfenstein98k commented on Seven diabetes patients die due to undisclosed bug in Abbott's glucose monitors   sfconservancy.org/blog/20... · Posted by u/pabs3
rsync · 3 months ago
I think we agree with one another.

I'm simply trying to reiterate - as often as possible: you do not need to tie your personal identity to products and services like this.

Merry Christmas!

Wolfenstein98k · 3 months ago
But once it matters, you will wish you did!
Wolfenstein98k commented on Roblox is a problem but it's a symptom of something worse   platformer.news/roblox-ce... · Posted by u/FiddlerClamp
jasonfarnon · 4 months ago
What countries do you have in mind?
Wolfenstein98k · 4 months ago
All the listed countries have low fertility rates, increasing screentime rates, etc.

I suspect if you cornered a parent of a 2yo in any of those countries, they would not say it is meaningfully more social and child-friendly TODAY that the USA is, or Australia (for which I can speak) is.

Wolfenstein98k commented on Roblox is a problem but it's a symptom of something worse   platformer.news/roblox-ce... · Posted by u/FiddlerClamp
gffrd · 4 months ago
> and devoid of children

YES! This is a big piece of it. Fewer kids + more of them wanting to be inside / parents wanting them to be inside = less kids to play with = even less likelihood of them wanting to play outside.

This is like social media in reverse: nobody wants to be inside, but some people are only inside, so everybody is inside.

Wolfenstein98k · 4 months ago
Last bit is not quite right: a lot of people want to be inside. That contributes strongly to the feedback loop you rightly identify.

(WHY they want to stay inside is another matter, but I suspect a large part is the stereotypical answer: unending seas of digital content highly optimised to hack the consumer's brain.)

Wolfenstein98k commented on Google Antigravity exfiltrates data via indirect prompt injection attack   promptarmor.com/resources... · Posted by u/jjmaxwell4
Habgdnv · 4 months ago
Ok, I am getting mad now. I don't understand something here. Should we open like 31337 different CVEs about every possible LLM on the market and tell them that we are super-ultra-security-researchers and we're shocked when we found out that <model name> will execute commands that it is given access to, based on the input text that is feed into the model? Why people keep doing these things? Ok, they have free time to do it and like to waste other's people time. Why is this article even on HN? How is this article in the front page? "Shocking news - LLMs will read code comments and act on them as if they were instructions".
Wolfenstein98k · 4 months ago
Isn't the problem here that third parties can use it as an attack vector?

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