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failrate commented on Show HN: I made a memory game to teach you to play piano by ear   lend-me-your-ears.specr.n... · Posted by u/vunderba
niyazpk · 2 months ago
Nice! Would love to use it.

I don't have a midi piano. Wondering if it is easy for you to support my inputs using microphone. I think there will be several noobs like me with the same problem.

failrate · 2 months ago
https://imitone.com/ is what I use.
failrate commented on 'No One Lives Forever' turns 25 and you still can't buy it legitimately   techdirt.com/2025/11/13/n... · Posted by u/speckx
nemomarx · 4 months ago
I assume the community goal would be to find out who owns the rights and get them to either use them or give them up formally and bless the community project?

Used copies won't be around forever, it would be better to have a proper community version.

failrate · 4 months ago
The background is that Night Dive tried to do this back when they formed, but it turned out to be intractable for a number of reasons including no one knew who actually owned it.
failrate commented on Can text be made to sound more than just its words? (2022)   arxiv.org/abs/2202.10631... · Posted by u/tobr
failrate · 4 months ago
Comic books already use changes in font, weight, size, of text and the shape of the word balloon to indicate tone and expression.
failrate commented on Armed police handcuff teen after AI mistakes chip bag for gun in Baltimore   bbc.com/news/articles/cgj... · Posted by u/HotGarbage
failrate · 5 months ago
Don't make tap the sign: "A COMPUTER CAN NEVER BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE

THEREFORE A COMPUTER MUST NEVER MAKE A MANAGEMENT DECISION"

failrate commented on Three ways formally verified code can go wrong in practice   buttondown.com/hillelwayn... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
failrate · 5 months ago
The article did not also point out issues like the compiler or interpreter having a runtime error, the hardware the software is running on having a defect, etc. Do we consider these out of scope of the discussion?
failrate commented on Show HN: Autism Simulator   autism-simulator.vercel.a... · Posted by u/joshcsimmons
serf · 5 months ago
you also don't fall asleep at your desk as a response to a birthday party in the office early in the morning after a good nights' sleep, but if you play a one-sided game in this that's what happens.

it's not a reality simulator, incredibly few video games are.

the whole thing seems like a conflicted struggle between "I want to make a game" and "I need to get my points across", often to the detriment of the game-part.

It's an interesting concept though.

failrate · 5 months ago
My lived experience is that high stress situations frequently make me feel like just going to sleep.
failrate commented on I Never Cared Much for Swords. Then I Had to Fight with One   thewalrus.ca/i-never-care... · Posted by u/pseudolus
failrate · 8 months ago
I recommend @robinswords on YouTube for historical fencing.
failrate commented on Scrappy – Make little apps for you and your friends   pontus.granstrom.me/scrap... · Posted by u/8organicbits
throwawayoldie · 9 months ago
I've been thinking about using Godot in this way recently, would you care to say more about what your experience has been like?
failrate · 9 months ago
The main caveat is that you have to enable developer mode on the Android device to load the apps, but that is typical if you are running your own apps.

Godot uses a Python-like language instead of Lua, which is good for me. Lots of people groove with Lua, but it gives me the ick.

I did not get very far trying to make 3D or physics-based games with Godot 3. I did not like the 3D interface, and the physics engine was too brittle for e.g. a pinball simulation. Too much tunneling and other inconsistent behavior.

But for 2D applications that are a mixture of text and images, i find it fits the bill quite well.

(For 3D apps and physics, I currently use Unreal Engine 4. Some tunneling, but I know tricks to mitigate that, and I much prefer its 3D interface.)

failrate commented on 3D-printed device splits white noise into an acoustic rainbow without power   phys.org/news/2025-06-3d-... · Posted by u/rbanffy
amelius · 9 months ago
Cool, but I'd rather see a nicer shape, like a human cochlea, which also splits sounds into frequencies.

Perhaps if they added some more constraints (e.g. on smoothness) they would end up with a shape like that.

failrate · 9 months ago
IIRC it is an array of cilia of different sizes that filters sound into different frequencies in the human ear.
failrate commented on Scrappy – Make little apps for you and your friends   pontus.granstrom.me/scrap... · Posted by u/8organicbits
failrate · 9 months ago
Godot 3 and 4 are very good for bashing out apps for both desktop and Android phone.

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