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mylons commented on 2002: Last.fm and Audioscrobbler Herald the Social Web cybercultural.com/p/lastf... · Posted by u/cdrnsf

mylons · 6 days ago

last.fm was so promising when it came out but i have to say i didn’t discover anything using their platform.

chatGPT is incredible, just giving it a single song and some context, it can recommend at a rate of something like 85-90%.

the only place i’ve gotten the BEST music recommendations were the oink and last.fm forums. humans, still, are the best recommendation infrastructure.

mylons commented on Show HN: I made a down detector for down detector downdetectorsdowndetector... · Posted by u/gusowen

falcor84 · a month ago

"To serve the Emperor. To protect His domains. To judge and stand guard over His subjects. To carry the Emperor's law to all worlds under His blessed protection. To pursue and punish those who trespassed against His word."

mylons · a month ago

i love you guys.

mylons commented on Show HN: I made a down detector for down detector downdetectorsdowndetector... · Posted by u/gusowen

falcor84 · a month ago

I know you were joking, but responding in seriousness - while in general it's worthwhile asking "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?", in this particular case, I don't see any issue with Down Detector detecting the Down Detector Down Detector. Assuming they are in different availability zones, using different code, with a different deployment cadence, this approach works quite well in practice.

mylons · a month ago

haha — this is the exact comment i was hoping to see! indeed, i was joking. The Watchmen graphic novel is very important to me as it opened my eyes to the concept of “who watches the watchmen” which I was ultimately eluding to here, albeit extremely facetiously.

mylons commented on Show HN: I made a down detector for down detector downdetectorsdowndetector... · Posted by u/gusowen

mylons · a month ago

This is GOLD Jerry, Gold.

but who detects the down detector detecting the down detector detecting the down detector

mylons commented on Iran faces unprecedented drought as water crisis hits Tehran bbc.com/news/articles/cy4... · Posted by u/FridayoLeary

skinnymuch · a month ago

Maybe if the west stopped being global terrorists, anti-imperialists wouldn’t have to work against them so much.

mylons · a month ago

iran did this to themselves. any other view is simply insane.

mylons commented on Tron: Ares Set to Lose $132M+ deadline.com/2025/10/tron... · Posted by u/syx

mylons · 2 months ago

they’ll easily make this up at the parks at the new tron ares ride

mylons commented on Doing Rails Wrong bananacurvingmachine.com/... · Posted by u/treesenthusiast

skinnymuch · 2 months ago

A few weeks ago because there were 2 HN comment sections shitting on NextJS endlessly, I decided to go back to Rails.

I have ported a chunk of my likely last full stack JS project over to Rails with AI vibe coding everything as a reference for me to redo it again with AI but not vibe coding.

Absolutely amazing work. About 40% of that NextJS app was vibe coded and the process of undoing the excessive and verbose code was depressing me.

The Ruby and Rails code is simple and understandable and a fraction of the lines of code.

Last sentence exactly. I am using IntertiaJS for some of the frontend and I finally don’t dislike JS any more. React is amazing when it’s only a view library.

mylons · 2 months ago

are you dabbling at all in the “no build js” stuff that Rails 8 supports? i did it for that corporate project and their deploy time went from 30 minutes to 5 minutes. it’s also such a headache reliever but removing most of the confusing aspects of the JS ecosystem for me.

mylons commented on Doing Rails Wrong bananacurvingmachine.com/... · Posted by u/treesenthusiast

Alifatisk · 2 months ago

I think some people are so fixated with keeping up with the latest tech and prepare their project to scale infinitely that they have forgotten how good barebone setup is, especially with Rails. I get it, it's boring, unentertaining and might be understimulating to some. But it just works, Rails is truly batteries-included. Stop with the overengineering

mylons · 2 months ago

i came back to rails after a very long hiatus to help a company bring a 10+ year old rails project to Rails 8.x.x from Rails 5. It took a bit to get back in the saddle, but every new project I’ve started since that’s a SaaS/CRUD app of some kind it’s in Rails.

I’m finally at the age where productivity is infinitely more important than anything else.

mylons commented on Removing newlines in FASTA file increases ZSTD compression ratio by 10x log.bede.im/2025/09/12/zs... · Posted by u/bede

dekhn · 3 months ago

I once had the distinct pleasure of hosting the author of BWA (R. Durbin) at Google, and pointing out "That's Mike Burrows, over there, next to Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat". That led to an interesting discussion between Durbin and Dean on DNA sequence compression. It's not the first time I've been in a room with a bunch of geniuses and simply kept my mouth shut so nobody would know I'm an idiot.

mylons · 3 months ago

fwiw Heng Li was "the author." He was a postdoc under Durbin's professorship. I was around when bwa was developed and was working in a collaboration with Heng Li (I was working on SOLiD R&D). Any development emails were between Heng and our team, we never spoke with Durbin.

first author on a paper like this indicates the most significant contributions https://academic.oup.com/bioinformatics/article/25/14/1754/2...