So many engineers define their own narrow ergonomic values and then turn to the interwebs attempting to hammer their myopic belief into others as evangelical truth -- this reads as if the author believes there is a singular left-to-right process that a developer ought to adhere to. The author is oblivious to the non-linear compositional practices of other coders. It would be much more constructive to spend time creating specific tooling to aid your own process and then ask others if the values are also relevant to them. Not every developer embraces LSP, for example, as some are thwarted by its opinionated implementation. Not everyone is willing to give up local structure for auto-complete convenience.
Readit Newswaffletower commented on Left to Right Programming graic.net/p/left-to-right... · Posted by u/graic
waffletower commented on I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file al3rez.com/todo-txt-journ... · Posted by u/al3rez
Reading through the comments under this thread, there are many users who swear by a plain text file, but who then build quite a lot of snowflake software to regain functionality offered by more structured TODO applications. That includes:
- having your computer alert you to things that come up
- being able to tag notes
- being able to add events to a calendar
- being able to set priority of tasks
- expecting prioritized/currently relevant tasks to be at the top of the agenda
- being able to add recurring tasks
- full-text search (grepping)
- formatting features (markdown)
Some of the laborious (or, in my opinion, plain unholy) solutions include:
- feeding TODOs to an LLM to filter for the currently relevant ones and send Telegram notifications
- hand-copying currently relevant tasks to the top of the TODO list
- running a script on a VPS to sync notifications
- set up cron job with git commit
- writing post-it notes by hand
I would encourage everyone to try out emacs with org-mode. It takes some time to get used to the editor and its keybindings (though provisions exist for vim users), but _every_ item on the list above is handled out of the box, or is offered through a free and maintained plugin.
The author of the OP claims to have tried _every_ todo app, and has afterwards moved (regressed?) to writing notes in a plain text file, but there is a path extending from this point that the author has not walked yet. I strongly suggest that, especially for people with a computing or technical background, it is an undisputed upgrade. https://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html being the bible, of course.
I have used emacs for more than 30 years, use it as a primary code editor now, and I have never found use of org-mode, despite a few attempts, to become a lasting habit. Of the list of integrations provided here, I only see alert and calendar support being of interest (but because of this, I may give org-mode one more try).
When a company like Eleven Music joins the ranks with yet another closed weight model release, they lose an opportunity for community innovation and experimentation to enrich their business. The open source ecosystem for AI music models is quite meager and grim. The stagnancy of AI music output by these companies could potentially change with a stronger commitment to open source models which could unleash a renaissance of musical creativity.
waffletower commented on Typed languages are better suited for vibecoding solmaz.io/typed-languages... · Posted by u/hosolmaz
I have not found this to be the case at all. Type mismatches have been very common in Java, C++ and Objective-C inference output. I think there is complexity in what contributes to LLM suitability to programming tasks, and the nature and history of APIs relevant to the ask are a big part of that. Seems that the OP really loves their types, like many here, and this article is just more evangelism.
Whenever I search my refrigerator or freezer for more than 20 seconds or so, an infernal beep begins. I have found myself singing Pink Guy's STFU either aloud or to myself when this happens. Needless to say, I appreciated this article.
"Computer Music" is a very broad term (no surprises here) so, like many here, I can point out topics that are not covered. In particular, computer music (aka algorithmic) composition [1], or very recent AI techniques like the Google seq2seq example at [2], or the (unpublished, but probably a form of generative adversarial networks) techniques used by SunoAI and Udio.
"Computer Music" is also a fairly conventional academic musical genre exploring elements of electro-acoustic, acousmatic, musique concrete, synthesis, algorithmic and serial composition techniques.
No mention of Daphne Oram [1] in the history of electronic music. :(
If it makes you feel better, when I taught the history of electronic music I introduced students to Daphne Oram.
waffletower commented on A Vaccine for Anthropomorphism of AI commoncog.com/vaccine-ant... · Posted by u/tnorthcutt
Would also be helpful if we, and the author does not here, avoided use of inappropriately anthropomorphic concepts to describe LLM output, such as "hallucination". We already have a more appropriate word available, "confabulation".
waffletower commented on Can a Country Be Too Rich? Norway Is Finding Out bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/obscurette
> in the US, and our ability to absorb immigration and integrate into a whole.
Wow.
Wow indeed. Der Spiegel reported on the decapitation of Lady Liberty back in April of 2017. While you could have pretended she still lived during the Biden administration, it is clear that she is quite dead in 2025.
waffletower commented on Scanned piano rolls database pianorollmusic.org/rollda... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
It is a shame that you can't access the scanned piano rolls of Conlon Nancarrow's player piano music in an archive like this. The scans do exist apparently, but are merely documented on the web (https://www.paul-sacher-stiftung.ch/en/research/1-2-Conlon-N...) without explicit download access. An incredibly comprehensive Youtube video exists however: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfmVJmQKdj4