Hacker News: brusselssprouts

New comment by brusselssprouts in "Claude Fable 5"

brusselssprouts — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 18:30:14 +0000

I had it review a single, large commit with /code-review. It burned through over $50 in API calls, ran my account balance out, and output nothing.

The fable part appears to be that it's affordable by mere mortals. Anthropic support told me "too bad" when I requested a refund.

New comment by brusselssprouts in "Four years of sight reading practice"

brusselssprouts — Thu, 22 May 2025 12:19:58 +0000

If you're ever looking to learn sight-reading of lead sheets that use chord symbols, take a look at: https://mikebwilliams.com/chords/

You can do the same thing where you configure it to just one key, start with the basic triads, etc.

New comment by brusselssprouts in "Show HN: A simple web game to help learn chords and basic progressions"

brusselssprouts — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 19:33:29 +0000

mikebwilliams.com/chords/

New comment by brusselssprouts in "Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?"

brusselssprouts — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 13:11:19 +0000

https://www.mikebwilliams.com/chords/

Tool for teaching myself piano / real book chord symbols, scale degrees, chord progressions, etc.

Works best with a MIDI keyboard attached. Be warned... I've only tested it on my own computer, since it is truly for my own use.

New comment by brusselssprouts in "Ask HN: AI that produces sheet music for practice?"

brusselssprouts — Sun, 06 Aug 2023 14:05:54 +0000

I think you might have more luck asking it to write a script to do what you'd like. I gave ChatGPT 4 the following input:

"Please give me a python script that writes the chromatic 7th intervals from C to B in eighth notes in a convenient output format like lilypond or musicxml."

The script it gave me worked perfectly, outputting lilypond to stdout and a musicxml file that imported into musescore with no issues.

New comment by brusselssprouts in "Effective June 7, 2026, Autodesk will no longer sell nor support EAGLE"

brusselssprouts — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 22:47:34 +0000

There is now basic autoroute capability that works on a selection of traces. There is still no whole-board autoroute, and although in theory you could just select all items in the board and hit autoroute, it is not functionally designed to work this way.

New comment by brusselssprouts in "Effective June 7, 2026, Autodesk will no longer sell nor support EAGLE"

brusselssprouts — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 13:35:59 +0000

Kicad 7 has orthogonal wire drag in the schematic now.

New comment by brusselssprouts in "Banks, QE, and Money-Printing"

brusselssprouts — Tue, 03 Nov 2020 15:40:40 +0000

I think these graphs mistakenly compare inflation adjusted wages to unadjusted house price. It also fails to account for increases in house size.

Inflation adjusted cost per square foot is $126 in 1978 and $146 in 2020, about a 16% increase. Inflation adjusted wages over the same years went from 24.5K in '78 to 36K in '19, for about a 46% increase.

According to these stats, housing is actually more affordable for the same home size.

Wage numbers from your fed link, and housing numbers from here: https://www.supermoney.com/inflation-adjusted-home-prices/

New comment by brusselssprouts in "The amazing $1 microcontroller (2017)"

brusselssprouts — Thu, 10 Sep 2020 12:24:41 +0000

I do, their SDK is OK... but Nordic is the clear leader on tooling and SDK quality. The DA14531 has OTP memory for the final firmware and you can program and run out of RAM for testing. The firmware is typically mirrored to RAM anyway so this is pretty much indentical to how it works after programmed.

New comment by brusselssprouts in "Is there any data that says secondhand car seats aren’t safe?"

brusselssprouts — Mon, 18 Nov 2019 11:11:16 +0000

Evenflo has a car seat that is designed to last 10 years. This seems pretty reasonable, after this point I assume you'd want access to the latest technology and safety standards, and plastics do age some over time.

https://www.evenflo.com/gold/