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Modeling Mersenne's Clavichord

anonydsfsfs — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 03:45:30 +0000

Article URL: https://masonm.org/posts/meresennes-clavichord/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48615491

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New comment by anonydsfsfs in "The first game engine for robotics"

anonydsfsfs — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 21:13:08 +0000

This (and a global pandemic) are central to the plot of The Talos Principle, a 2014 puzzle game. Can't say much more without spoilers, but we'd better hope its other predictions for the future don't come true.

New comment by anonydsfsfs in "Understanding "Financialization" and How to Defeat It"

anonydsfsfs — Mon, 27 May 2024 04:04:41 +0000

...is that the entire article? This reads like the thesis statement for a much longer article or book.

New comment by anonydsfsfs in "Fi now opts you into the use of your CPNI by Alphabet affiliates"

anonydsfsfs — Tue, 29 Aug 2023 01:00:07 +0000

It's not one-click, or at least it wasn't for me. I clicked the link in the sentence "If you prefer to opt out of letting Fi use and share your CPNI with Alphabet and Google services, you can do so by replying here", and it took me to the Google Fi homepage. I had to then click on Settings, "Privacy & Security", and finally on "Allow CPNI Sharing". Four clicks total.

New comment by anonydsfsfs in "Statement on AI Risk"

anonydsfsfs — Tue, 30 May 2023 13:04:45 +0000

The signatories on this are not crackpots. Hinton is incredibly influential, and he quit his job at Google so he could "freely speak out about the risks of A.I."

New comment by anonydsfsfs in "GitHub Copilot, with “public code” blocked, emits my copyrighted code"

anonydsfsfs — Sun, 16 Oct 2022 21:15:29 +0000

Not to mention Microsoft could countersue using their enormous patent war chest, which they have a history of doing[0]

[0] https://techcrunch.com/2012/03/22/microsoft-and-tivo-drop-th...

New comment by anonydsfsfs in "W2UI is a JavaScript UI library for building rich web applications"

anonydsfsfs — Sun, 04 Sep 2022 18:03:20 +0000

Loading cached JS can still be very slow. https://www.webperf.tips/tip/cached-js-misconceptions/ has a good explanation of the bottlenecks involved.

> Subsequent reloads from browser cache it's up barely long enough to notice.

Are you measuring the time on your personal machine, or a machine that represents what your typical visitor is using? If you're using a recent Macbook, that's going to have very different performance characteristics than, say, an old Android phone. Something that's instantaneous on a Macbook could take ages on an old Android.

New comment by anonydsfsfs in "W2UI is a JavaScript UI library for building rich web applications"

anonydsfsfs — Sun, 04 Sep 2022 17:52:37 +0000

> would give you say a DataGrid component with sort able columns and some advanced optimizations like windowing

react-data-grid is 13.8KB gzipped[1]. React itself is ~45KB gzipped, so that's ~60KB total, nearly half the size of W2UI.

edit: And if you want a full-fledged component library, you could also throw in react-bootstrap, which is <40KB gzipped.

[1] https://bundlephobia.com/package/react-data-grid@7.0.0-beta....

New comment by anonydsfsfs in "Will Bun JavaScript Take Node's Crown"

anonydsfsfs — Sun, 14 Aug 2022 22:49:03 +0000

Node already has a solution for this: core modules are prefixed with "node:" to distinguish them from third-party modules. https://fusebit.io/blog/node-18-prefix-only-modules/?utm_sou...

New comment by anonydsfsfs in "Vim 9.0"

anonydsfsfs — Fri, 01 Jul 2022 03:20:54 +0000

I just checked the repo[0], and it says Bram has authored 95% of all commits to Vim. To say "the community owns Vim" when they've done ~5% of the work reminds me of group projects in school where one person does all the work and everyone else claims credit.

[0] https://github.com/vim/vim

New comment by anonydsfsfs in "Show HN: I ranked news websites by speed"

anonydsfsfs — Wed, 29 Jun 2022 04:50:59 +0000

I've been in the same situation, and it's one of the few times I've appreciated the bureaucracy and red tape that come with being at a Fortune 500 company. Whenever the sales team comes to me asking for another tracking pixel, I just say "We'll be happy to add this once you've submitted the necessary paperwork and it undergoes the the company-mandated security, privacy, and legal reviews". 90% of the time, I never hear back from them again.

New comment by anonydsfsfs in "It costs $110k to fully gear up in Diablo Immortal"

anonydsfsfs — Sun, 05 Jun 2022 21:39:24 +0000

Elden Ring earned $720m in the first 2 weeks, which averages ~$51m a day.

New comment by anonydsfsfs in "It costs $110k to fully gear up in Diablo Immortal"

anonydsfsfs — Sun, 05 Jun 2022 21:23:31 +0000

Elden Ring isn't going to be a standalone game. The publisher (Bandai Namco) says it's the start of a franchise, which fans are almost certain to lap up for a long time to come. Had Elden Ring included microtransactions or other questionable features, it's likely fans would be far less enthusiastic about future installments, which means revenue from the franchise would dry up faster.

New comment by anonydsfsfs in "It costs $110k to fully gear up in Diablo Immortal"

anonydsfsfs — Sun, 05 Jun 2022 20:44:33 +0000

Everything I've reads says the opposite. Elden Ring has sold at least 13.4 million units so far[1], which is >$800 million in revenue. The only revenue figure I could find for Diablo Immortal is $800k [2]. They're not even in the same ballpark.

[1] https://www.polygon.com/23070948/elden-ring-sales-chart-npd-...

[2] https://gameworldobserver.com/2022/06/03/diablo-immortal-gen...

New comment by anonydsfsfs in "Math on GitHub: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly"

anonydsfsfs — Sat, 21 May 2022 18:46:38 +0000

The problem with adding so much complexity to the parser is that it's now impossible to predict how any given Markdown is going to render on Github. If Github's parser was open-source, you could at least look at the source to figure out this stuff is handled, but it isn't, so the only alternative is tedious experimentation.

One of the main draws of Markdown was that it was so simple you were rarely left guessing how any given input would be handled (though the lack of standardization hampered that).

New comment by anonydsfsfs in "Wp-SQLite: WordPress running on an SQLite database"

anonydsfsfs — Mon, 16 May 2022 19:31:11 +0000

Wordpress was first released in 2003. There wasn't a database abstraction layer for PHP at the time (PDO was first released in 2005), so it was tightly coupled to MySQL.

New comment by anonydsfsfs in "Why do you waste so much time on the internet?"

anonydsfsfs — Sat, 07 May 2022 00:50:16 +0000

People have been saying the same thing for over a century. Take the following passage from Fernando Pessoa's Book of Disquiet, written in the 1920s:

> I belong to a generation that inherited disbelief in the Christian faith and created in itself a disbelief in all other faiths. Our fathers still had the believing impulse, which they transferred from Christianity to other forms of illusion. Some were champions of social equality, others were wholly enamoured of beauty, still others had faith in science and its achievements, and there were some who became even more Christian, resorting to various Easts and Wests in search of new religious forms to entertain their otherwise hollow consciousness of merely living.

> We lost all of this. We were born with none of these consolations. Each civilization follows the particular path of a religion that represents it; turning to other religions, it loses the one it had, and ultimately loses them all.

> We lost the one, and all the others with it.

> And so we were left, each man to himself, in the desolation of feeling ourselves live. A ship may seem to be an object whose purpose is to sail, but no, its purpose is to reach a port. We found ourselves sailing without any idea of what port we were supposed to reach. Thus we reproduced a painful version of the argonauts’ adventurous precept:* living doesn’t matter, only sailing does.

> Without illusions, we live by dreaming, which is the illusion of those who can’t have illusions. Living off our inner selves has diminished us, for the complete man is the one who doesn’t know himself. Without faith, we have no hope, and without hope we have no real life. Having no idea of the future, we likewise have no idea of today, because today, for the man of action, is nothing but a prologue to the future. The energy to fight was stillborn in us, for we were born without the fighting spirit.

New comment by anonydsfsfs in "Ask HN: Why can't I host my own email?"

anonydsfsfs — Thu, 28 Apr 2022 00:21:53 +0000

You got a 550? Lucky! When I worked at a non-profit that hosted our own email server, we had many instances where Microsoft would /dev/null our newsletter e-mails. Their servers would give a 250 indicating acceptance, but the e-mail was nowhere to be found (and yes, we checked the spam folder).

New comment by anonydsfsfs in "Compensation Data and Trends in the USA"

anonydsfsfs — Fri, 04 Feb 2022 02:00:04 +0000

Correct. The first example on the Wikipedia page is a gender bias study that appears to show a bias against women in college admissions, but there was actually a bias in favor of women: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson%27s_paradox#UC_Berkele...

New comment by anonydsfsfs in "Debian's Which Hunt"

anonydsfsfs — Thu, 28 Oct 2021 20:36:39 +0000

Dash is Debian's default non-interactive shell, and it isn't POSIX compliant. The only way to get POSIX compliance on Debian is to switch to a different shell (e.g. bash).