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coreyp_1 commented on Papers continue to face retractions for failure to license pricy tool   retractionwatch.com/2025/... · Posted by u/croemer
coreyp_1 · 3 days ago
I'm genuinely surprised that copyright is being used to control the use of a "scale" in science, and that the legal threat was used to take down a paper criticizing it as "no more accurate than flipping a coin".

Wouldn't science be under the umbrella of fair use, and publishing papers be under the umbrella of educational use?

It's undoubtedly a money-grab, and it reminds me of the people who extorted restaurants, etc., for singing "Happy Birthday", until the courts ruled that the song was in the Public Domain already (and had been for a very, very long time).

coreyp_1 commented on FCC bars providers for non-compliance with robocall protections   docs.fcc.gov/public/attac... · Posted by u/impish9208
coreyp_1 · 13 days ago
Maybe I'm just old, but I remember the tv advertisements for the dubious 900 numbers (remember Miss Cleo?) that you could call, but you had to pay for the time.

Is there any law that says that I can't just get one of those for use as my personal number and then give that # out as my contact info?

coreyp_1 commented on Show HN: I was curious about spherical helix, ended up making this visualization   visualrambling.space/movi... · Posted by u/damarberlari
coreyp_1 · 18 days ago
The content is good, but the weird dither effect is giving me a horrible headache! I'm glad you created it (it's always good to see someone bring an idea to fruition!), and I hope that you continue to create cool things. But please, please, please turn off whatever effect you're using.
coreyp_1 commented on Constitution of the United States Website has removed sections   reddit.com/r/law/comments... · Posted by u/llm_nerd
coreyp_1 · a month ago
You know, everyone is jumping to conclusions here about the evils of whomever their political rival is.

However, this is a website, based on code. And based on my most recent experiences with AI, I think it's more plausible that someone:

A.) Copied a file into an AI prompt (or use an AI agent).

B.) Asked the AI to do something to the file (like adjust the layout of the page, alter CSS, optimize something, or whatever.

C.) Eyeballed the response and thought it looked good.

D.) Copied the file back (or just saved it, depending on the IDE).

E.) Caused the Internet to melt down.

I've had AI chats and agents that randomly change things unrelated to what I asked it to do.

It seems that people are so quick to jump to a conclusion that supports their bias. To be clear, I did not (and never have) voted for Trump, but I'm not going to entertain conspiracy theories about orange man bad when it was probably some dev thinking, "this AI thing is cool... look at what it can do!"

coreyp_1 commented on Photos taken inside musical instruments   dpreview.com/photography/... · Posted by u/worik
coreyp_1 · 3 months ago
I purchased two of his images a few years ago, and I'm very happy with the results. Looks like he has a few more images now, and I might buy another one. :)
coreyp_1 commented on On Not Carrying a Camera – Cultivating memories instead of snapshots   hedgehogreview.com/issues... · Posted by u/pseudolus
coreyp_1 · 4 months ago
Wow. This sounds to me like someone saying,"Don't make flashcards to learn a language, just remember the words!"

Flashcards help. They aren't a substitute for learning the language, but flashcards definitely help.

Pictures help me remember many, many things!

There were quite a few odd things said in this article, and they all seem, for the most part, like a Ted talk: a lot of flash, but very little substance, especially when reality has to be taken into account.

coreyp_1 commented on Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)    · Posted by u/david927
coreyp_1 · 5 months ago
I'm trying to make my own GUI library in cross-platform C, based on Vulcan. Because evidently I'm a glutton for punishment.

I'm only a couple of weeks in. But it's giving me a break from my programming language that I was working on. (It's a template language, also written in C, also cross-platform, that has a jit compiler with a bytecode fallback.)

coreyp_1 commented on Hexagon Spiral Coordinates   redblobgames.com/blog/202... · Posted by u/ibobev
coreyp_1 · 6 months ago
A new post on hexagons (the best-agons!)!!! Now that's a nice surprise!

I appreciate the effort that Red Blob Games puts into their website.

coreyp_1 commented on Old Games Magazines   theguardian.com/games/202... · Posted by u/ritchie_13
dfxm12 · 7 months ago
There are a lot of episodes on YT as well, if you haven't already looked there.

https://www.youtube.com/@ComputerChroniclesYT

coreyp_1 · 7 months ago
I know about it, but I haven't looked yet. In the large episode group, there are 658 episodes. The YouTube listing doesn't make it easy to search for a particular episode, though, and YouTube's compression is horrible.

I face the same dilemma on Bob Ross' The Joy Of Painting. I would love to download them, and they are on YouTube, but the compression makes them look really bad. Well, that, and I'm not sure how to download a huge number of vids from YouTube like that. :/

coreyp_1 commented on Old Games Magazines   theguardian.com/games/202... · Posted by u/ritchie_13
boomboomsubban · 7 months ago
>If downloading from the Internet Archive, there is a CLI tool called "ia".

As that's not the easiest search target, https://archive.org/developers/internetarchive/cli.html

coreyp_1 · 7 months ago
Thanks! I was in between meetings so didn't have time to elaborate.

I love the `ia` tool, but it drives me crazy that it can't resume a failed download. Some files are fast (~30 meg/sec). Others are painfully slow (~100 kb/sec). The same collection can contain fast and slow downloads.

I had a file that kept failing when using ia, after about 6 hours of downloading at the slow speed. I switched to Chrome, which still downloaded at the slow speed, but Chrome would attempt to automatically resume the download, and if that failed, you can press a button to ask Chrome to try to resume it again. I have had to fall back to that clunky solution several times.

My only other concern is that ia does not download files in parallel.

Aside from my minor complaints, I'm thankful that it exists, and I have told other about it since discovering it myself in the last few months.

u/coreyp_1

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BMus in Piano Performance, Midwestern State University

MS in Computer Science, Midwestern State University

PhD in Computer Science, University of Notre Dame

My YouTube channel where I post videos about CS: https://www.youtube.com/user/coreyp1

The playlist where I create a programming language from scratch (watch video #100 to get an overview of the project): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZqirAnnqaCZ8lT8w7p2PUB7tqrId7d89

My blog that I haven't updaded in forever: https://cscrunch.com

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