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New comment by Jataman606 in "How ChatGPT serves ads"

Jataman606 — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 09:23:59 +0000

I think guitars market is kind of exception because it is pretty normal for guitar players to search for "guitar like fender but cheaper". There are tons of reddit/forum discussions about this and those small brands are actually very well known in community, because majority of guitar players play on cheap instruments. Youtuber Phillip Mcknight often talked about that cheap guitars move in ridiculous volumes compared to more expensive ones like Gibson or Fender.

New comment by Jataman606 in "Show HN: I built a web framework in C"

Jataman606 — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 07:44:11 +0000

> The issue with pointers is that CS gets taught in a VERY bad way. The way it should be taught is starting with basic assembly on a microprocessor. This trains your brain to think of memory locations and data in memory.

Can't agree with this enough. The moment i finally understood what pointers are was when I landed embedded job and during debugging session I looked at memory browser that showed my variable at exact address in memory. After that all about pointer arithmetic and even function pointers became clear as day. Something at least 3 teachers weren't able to explain clear enough.

New comment by Jataman606 in "Ultrasonic Chef's Knife"

Jataman606 — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 08:13:09 +0000

Usual advice is that you need to straighten your blade every week or two and then you can sharpen it every 6 months or even a year (depends on usage of course). To straighten the blade you use honing rod which many people mistake for sharpener.

New comment by Jataman606 in "Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah"

Jataman606 — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 08:45:19 +0000

>I’ve read about genocides, the millions of people dead in China, Russia, Germany, Poland, Africa and Gaza too, I’ve also seen rioting and violence firsthand in Los Angeles and Portland and I wonder how I can ensure that my girlfriend and I will be safe now and into the future. I have no solution except for responsible gun ownership.

No gun will save you during genocide if you are a target. Best case scenario you kill few attackers and die anyway.

New comment by Jataman606 in "Sequoia backs Zed"

Jataman606 — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 08:19:29 +0000

Zed only kinda works on Windows. As of today when you click to download windows version you can only sign up on beta program that I assume allows only select people to use that version.

New comment by Jataman606 in "A deliberate practice app for guitar players who want to level up"

Jataman606 — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 09:22:29 +0000

Very good online resource (and free!) is JustinGuitar guitar course[1]. It begins from absolute nothing, no prior knowledge required. And it works for both acoustic and electric guitars. Also Justin is great, understanding and aproachable teacher (even though course is online). Only downside is you will need a lot of self discipline to go through it, but it definetly worked for me.

[1] https://www.justinguitar.com/

New comment by Jataman606 in "The Moral Economy of the Shire"

Jataman606 — Tue, 04 Jun 2024 12:06:00 +0000

It is funny to see how person who clearly takes all their knowledge from books tells other person their actual experience couldn't happen, because that is what some book says. I'm not person who you replied to, but just from reading their comment I immediately knew they are talking from experience, because i partly saw, partly know from stories of my parents and grandparents, exactly the same kind of lifestyle. Should i now say that your source is "entirely false"?

New comment by Jataman606 in "End-of-Life Dreams"

Jataman606 — Fri, 14 Apr 2023 06:54:56 +0000

Would you like to make bonds with people that will soon die over and over again? I think many people misunderstand the kind of stress and mental strain that many doctors are subjected to regularly. Ironically, people who call for doctors to be more empathetic, often lack empathy themselves.

Also medicine is very broad field, it's probably hard to stay up to date in every new study. Especially that academic research is filled with less than ideal studies, so not only you need to read and understand them properly, you also need to make sure that source is trustworthy.

New comment by Jataman606 in "His software sang the words of God, then it went silent"

Jataman606 — Tue, 04 Apr 2023 08:34:31 +0000

> Open source means that anyone sufficiently able and sufficiently motivated can keep up with these changes

Provided there is anybody with very rare combination of being developer proficient in whatever language was used to write this software and who knows how Torah is read/sang

New comment by Jataman606 in "Improved audio rendering with an optimised version of memcpy (2013)"

Jataman606 — Mon, 13 Mar 2023 18:12:11 +0000

> As long as the master is digital there's no way a vinyl record could possibly sound better than a lossless digital recording like FLACC or CDDA

Isn't the point to actually reduce quality by using imperfect media so recording has more oldschool vibe? Kinda like all the lo-fi mixes being so popular today. At least thats what I always thought, I didn't really research that at all.

New comment by Jataman606 in "RJIT, a new JIT for Ruby"

Jataman606 — Thu, 09 Mar 2023 08:20:56 +0000

You can get similiar process as Heroku (just push to github repo and everything automagically deploys) on Azure using App Services. The problem is there is no free tier anymore, although i didn't really look up exact prices. There are plenty of very basic tutorials in official Microsoft documentation, if you search for stuff like "how to deploy .Net core app on azure" you surely find some tutorials that go through whole process from scaffolding basic project to running it in the cloud.

New comment by Jataman606 in "ChatGPT broke the EU plan to regulate AI"

Jataman606 — Mon, 06 Mar 2023 14:39:17 +0000

What regulations block Japan, Korea, Canada and other non-european countries from having this big ecosystem of internet companies?

New comment by Jataman606 in "The Camera-Shy Hoodie"

Jataman606 — Tue, 28 Feb 2023 08:01:58 +0000

At least in China face recognition software is good enough that they can recognize people even when wearing covid mask. I mean even iphone face id works with masks, scarfs, sunglasses and in the dark (i didn't test all at same time so maybe there is hope...). So if you want to be anonymous then you can't, sorry, thats the world we live in currently.

New comment by Jataman606 in "Show HN: I “wrote” a kid's book with ChatGPT and Midjourney"

Jataman606 — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 13:43:27 +0000

What is wrong with gatekeeping? It's not like everyone needs to be able to make art. Also, i don't know much about Photoshop, but most digitatl filters usually act the same as analog mixers. They do not automate anything.

New comment by Jataman606 in "Show HN: I “wrote” a kid's book with ChatGPT and Midjourney"

Jataman606 — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 13:36:40 +0000

Food is essential to our survival. No matter how much effort you put into making food, you have to make something to eat or you buy food that is cooked by someone else. So making it more accessible for people who don't have time, money or necessary skills has completely no downsides.

Art is just something we do and consume for fun. We don't need to make art more efficient, because there is already too much art to consume in a lifetime. Also there is no requirement to consume as much art as possible. And automating art making means that there will be even more average art that anyone interested will have to sift through to find something nice.

Overall all of this effort could be put into automating something that will make everyday life easier, like if you want to make art more accessible then for example automate translations so we can read books or watch movies that we previously couldn't.

New comment by Jataman606 in "Is tipping getting out of control? Many consumers say yes"

Jataman606 — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 07:13:37 +0000

How much money you lose by counting money and depositing it into a bank?

New comment by Jataman606 in "Boston Dynamics’ bipedal robot Atlas can now grab and toss"

Jataman606 — Thu, 19 Jan 2023 12:44:34 +0000

You could create interface where human operator uses tablet like you would play video games. Creators would have to program some predefinied possible moves like "pick up object", "hit nail" etc. Then you are shown AR recreation of what robot sees with objects that you can interact with highlighted on screen. Then you just click, maybe select appropriate action from context menu and voila, the metal guy does heavy lifting for you. At least in my opinion it would be superior way to have precise control. Verbal communication is hard, even humans fail at it often.

New comment by Jataman606 in "How Apple names things"

Jataman606 — Thu, 22 Dec 2022 13:55:13 +0000

> Is it so hard to just let someone enjoy something?

Is it so hard to just let someone complain about something? Everyone can have their own opinion, i don't know why some people want every single one to be positive.

New comment by Jataman606 in "A collection of Soviet control rooms (2017)"

Jataman606 — Wed, 21 Dec 2022 06:50:54 +0000

Your "source" is calling Zelensky "the Imperial Puppet" and "comedian"[0], which makes me think it's probably even more biased towards Russia than western media are towards Ukraine.

[0] https://twitter.com/imetatronink/status/1605389284369784832

New comment by Jataman606 in "Spotifyd"

Jataman606 — Tue, 20 Dec 2022 08:19:10 +0000

That’s one of my least favorite features, sometimes I’m too distracted driving or doing something else to manage Spotify and i want my albums to restart from beginning, but then it goes to some radio i don't want. And no, clicking "repeat playlist" button doesn't work because they flip it off randomly.