<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: dropofwill</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=dropofwill</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 08:32:35 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=dropofwill" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dropofwill in "Is my blue your blue?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>In linguistics this sort of thinking comes from 'basic color term' theory, which lays out heuristics for deciding if a word for a color in a given language is 'basic'. 2 things going against these blue-green terms are:<p>* They refer to specific objects (a duck and a stone), eventually these referents can be transcended though, like with the case of orange.
* Their frequency is roughly similar to each other (along with cyan, aqua, etc.), so there's no one term for this range (e.g. there's no doubt in a corpus of English that red is the basic color term for its spectrum).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 23:44:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47928747</link><dc:creator>dropofwill</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47928747</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47928747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dropofwill in "Mac mini will be made at a new facility in Houston"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Probably referring to the CHIPs Act? Technically Biden.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHIPS_and_Science_Act" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHIPS_and_Science_Act</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2026 22:49:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47144509</link><dc:creator>dropofwill</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47144509</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47144509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dropofwill in "I miss thinking hard"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is exactly the process happening in the music space with Suno. Go to their subreddit, they all talk about how they only listen to ‘their’ songs, for the exact reasons you list.<p>Its bleak out there.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2026 13:21:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46885520</link><dc:creator>dropofwill</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46885520</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46885520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dropofwill in "Pontevedra, Spain declares its entire urban area a "reduced traffic zone""]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Pontevedra is at least 100 times smaller then NYC, it's more comparable to the suburbs that you're moving your family to.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2025 15:04:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45198844</link><dc:creator>dropofwill</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45198844</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45198844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dropofwill in "Chomsky on what ChatGPT is good for (2023)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Generally what people are talking about are his universal grammar or generative syntax theories/approaches, which are foundational to how you approach many topics. Because you build your academic career based on specialization they are hotly contested (for the material reasons of jobs, funding, tenure, etc.).<p>This leads to people who agree hiring each other and departments ‘circling the wagon’ on these issues. You’ll see this referred to as east vs west coast, but it’s not actually that clearly geographically delineated.<p>So anyways, these are open questions that people do seriously discuss and study, but the politics of academia make it difficult and unfortunately this often trickles down to students.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2025 03:45:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44093796</link><dc:creator>dropofwill</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44093796</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44093796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dropofwill in "uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Spotify makes over 80% of revenue off of paid subscribers, even though over 60% of users are on the free, ad-supported subscription.<p>Now that's not some optional donation scheme, there are real tangible benefits to being a paid subscriber, so idk how that could fit into something like Firefox.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2025 21:43:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43326424</link><dc:creator>dropofwill</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43326424</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43326424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dropofwill in "Java in the Small"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Also scala-cli <a href="https://scala-cli.virtuslab.org/docs/getting_started" rel="nofollow">https://scala-cli.virtuslab.org/docs/getting_started</a><p>I still like to use Ammonite as a REPL, but scala-cli has replaced it for me in those cases where i get fed up writing bash.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Dec 2024 02:33:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42457812</link><dc:creator>dropofwill</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42457812</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42457812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dropofwill in "What's New in Ruby on Rails 8"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Spotify is mostly Java, with some Scala and Node.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 07 Oct 2024 16:16:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41767539</link><dc:creator>dropofwill</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41767539</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41767539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dropofwill in "Good Retry, Bad Retry: An Incident Story"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The concepts here apply to any client-server networking setup. Monoliths could still have web clients, native apps, IOT sensors, third party APIs, databases, etc.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 06 Oct 2024 16:13:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41758115</link><dc:creator>dropofwill</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41758115</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41758115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dropofwill in "The lie of music discovery algorithms"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They definitely do both, in the public recommendations API you can see vestiges of the old EchoNest acoustic properties along with some new ones they’ve come up with. It’s fun to play around with.<p><a href="https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/get-recommendations" rel="nofollow">https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/referenc...</a><p>The guy behind Every Noise at Once (engineer at EchoNest/Spotify until the recent layoffs), has some interesting thoughts about this topic:<p><a href="https://www.furia.com/page.cgi?type=log&id=478" rel="nofollow">https://www.furia.com/page.cgi?type=log&id=478</a><p>He’s quite biased towards not using ML or acoustic characteristics for recommendations. But even if you disagree it is interesting to hear about how things were working under the curtain (for daylist in this case).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jul 2024 00:36:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41115474</link><dc:creator>dropofwill</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41115474</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41115474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dropofwill in "Kagi finally let me lay Google Search to rest"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They’ve been pretty open about the pricing strategy on the blog. Earlier this year they said they were losing money on most accounts at $10/month. They’ve since changed the pricing tiers a few times, but it sounds like they’re in a better place now.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 12 Oct 2023 01:54:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37852618</link><dc:creator>dropofwill</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37852618</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37852618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dropofwill in "LinkedIn adopts protocol buffers and reduces latency up to 60%"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>60% was just one request on average, could have been a huge payload that tended to be between data centers or something.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 20 Jul 2023 11:16:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36798982</link><dc:creator>dropofwill</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36798982</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36798982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dropofwill in "Children of alumni no longer have admissions edge at Carnegie Mellon, Pitt"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>SAT score floor + lottery?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 19 Jul 2023 17:52:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36790444</link><dc:creator>dropofwill</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36790444</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36790444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dropofwill in "Stop Calling Each New Disaster “The New Normal”"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>He said sea levels could be 20 feet higher in the near future. Which could only be right if we’re talking hundreds of years…</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 16 Jun 2023 12:48:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36355693</link><dc:creator>dropofwill</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36355693</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36355693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dropofwill in "Living in Airbnbs full time isn’t easy (2021)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yep, I’ve had multiple reviews removed for being ‘off-topic’. No recourse there, I tried debating airbnb support for a while on it, but eventually gave up.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 12 Jun 2023 14:32:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36294143</link><dc:creator>dropofwill</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36294143</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36294143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dropofwill in "Self-Host All the Things?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It only shows up if the email has a List-Unsubscribe header set.<p>In Gmail it will appear as a banner underneath the row of buttons</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Mar 2023 01:58:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35036621</link><dc:creator>dropofwill</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35036621</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35036621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dropofwill in "1min high-intensity exercise 3x a week improves fitness as much as 3x aerobics (2016)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Jay Vine recently said in an interview that last year his max hours per week was 30 and that wasn’t training, it was a big week in a grand tour. His coach at least seems to be on a mid 20s hours a week approach.<p>Jay implied this was a change throughout the peloton, but you can still see old school strategies doing well (Bernal for example does huge volume in base from strava).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2023 14:35:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34518692</link><dc:creator>dropofwill</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34518692</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34518692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dropofwill in "26 programming languages in 25 days, Part 2: Reflections on language design"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Maybe of undergrads at a French university :)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2023 17:12:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34234298</link><dc:creator>dropofwill</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34234298</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34234298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dropofwill in "26 programming languages in 25 days, Part 2: Reflections on language design"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I've used vim's conceal feature to do something like this before to read some ridiculous code that had 16 space indentations. You can use this for all sorts of fun things like making lambda: render as λ. That doesn't use any code analysis, it's just dumb rendering, not sure why you would need anything else?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2023 17:10:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34234274</link><dc:creator>dropofwill</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34234274</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34234274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dropofwill in "26 programming languages in 25 days, Part 2: Reflections on language design"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Not sure what list you’re referring to, but I would expect to find Python and Scala in it, maybe OCaml or Haskell depending on the criteria.<p>Personally I think it causes more problems in interpreted languages, a lot of those disappear with a compiler with thoughtful error messages like Scala.</p>
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