Hacker News: el_memorioso

New comment by el_memorioso in "Run macOS Software on Linux"

el_memorioso — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 18:02:59 +0000

I use Ardour on Linux when I have to and what is terrible is that to get acceptable latency and jitter I have to use the sound system at the ALSA level. This kills sound for any other app I happen to be running. Pipewire introduces too much latency for recording good live performances and getting jackd to run properly with Ardour is something I haven't had success with yet, though to be fair I want to record music and not futz around with some baroque sound system. Half the time after quitting Ardour I have to restart pipewire/wireplumber et al to get sound working properly again.

In contrast, on MacOS I plug in my USB sound interface, it appears in my DAW and I'm on my way. And yes, I am getting a Mac now.

New comment by el_memorioso in "I Signed Up for Claude Pro, Why I'm Canceling (and What I'm Using Instead)"

el_memorioso — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 16:21:12 +0000

The point is that Claude Pro has an onerous and artificial limitation that impacts one's ability to get work done. No one cares that some random guy is not using it. People probably do care that they can only work in five-hour blocks.

New comment by el_memorioso in "AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion"

el_memorioso — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 17:01:56 +0000

Airlines are all subject to a lot of the same factors, but there are unequivocally better and worse performers in terms of on-time arrivals, by a lot. Take a look at the Air Travel Consumer report for details.

New comment by el_memorioso in "Why do people hate the tech industry? (2023)"

el_memorioso — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 21:48:30 +0000

Wow. This seems like a prelude to licensing the car for each driver (on a monthly basis) rather than buying it outright.

New comment by el_memorioso in "How the terrorist group Boko Haram uses frontier AI"

el_memorioso — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 21:20:44 +0000

Do you have some evidence to suggest mundane GPT insights would not be smarter than the average human's idea? There's a reason so many are completely abdicating any responsibility to think to an LLM, and I'd bet any amount of money it's not because they think the LLM is dumber than them.

New comment by el_memorioso in "NYC Mayoral Inauguration bans Raspberry Pi and Flipper Zero alongside explosives"

el_memorioso — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 23:52:05 +0000

It is trivial to get an older, unlocked cell phone that you can root. You then have a device equally or more powerful than a Raspberry Pi with built-in radios.

New comment by el_memorioso in "NYC Mayoral Inauguration bans Raspberry Pi and Flipper Zero alongside explosives"

el_memorioso — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 23:50:42 +0000

Any mobile computer can be easily and readily turned into a signal jammer/spammer with an off-the-shelf SDR. There is nothing particularly special about the Raspberry Pi. I didn't see laptops on the list.

New comment by el_memorioso in "Being poor vs. being broke"

el_memorioso — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 02:57:19 +0000

It's good you put "poor" in scare quotes. The truly poor are not complaining online all the time because they don't have the time and/or money to be bitching online. You seemed to have missed one of the primary points of the article.

New comment by el_memorioso in "From VS Code to Helix"

el_memorioso — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 17:45:59 +0000

As a long time user of both Emacs (since 18.52) and Neovim and now Helix, I find your last assertion to be false. While it is true that there are many options (though not as many as either Emacs or Neovim), in Helix you cannot write code or install someone else's code to modify your editor. In the past I've spent a good amount of time trying out, integrating, and debugging various packages for Neovim and Emacs. In Helix I might try a new option setting, but the time involved is minuscule compared to what you might spend customizing other editors.

New comment by el_memorioso in "Meta’s live demo fails; “AI” recording plays before the actor takes the steps"

el_memorioso — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 23:37:24 +0000

Except that he hadn't already combined the base ingredients.

New comment by el_memorioso in "US High school students' scores fall in reading and math"

el_memorioso — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 17:27:10 +0000

In what state are public high schools allowed to "how to pray"? It sounds like her new high school isn't that good. I have a daughter at a good public high school in California in a quite liberal area. There was none of what you mentioned. One day of reviewing the syllabi and rules and quizzes in most subjects starting less than a week later.

New comment by el_memorioso in "I want to be left alone (2024)"

el_memorioso — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 02:09:50 +0000

Yes, we can. A couple of years ago I drove through Maine and Vermont, and it was absolutely beautiful. Not only because of the natural beauty of those places, but because of the lack of billboards anywhere. It was nice to just enjoy the scenery without being constantly bombarded by ads. The city of São Paulo also banned ads a while back and it made the city a nicer environment to live in and revealed the beauty of some of the architecture that was previously hidden by masses of billboards.

New comment by el_memorioso in "KiCad and Wayland Support"

el_memorioso — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 22:35:19 +0000

I am a Kicad user, not just a random speculator. The problems are not solved by XWayland. For example, Kicad uses different windows to represent different views of the circuit and circuit board and warps the cursor according to the view you are looking at. XWayland doesn't solve this, because it only allows warping within a single window. I know there is new warping code coming out, but I don't know if it will ever get into the LTS OS we use at my work.

New comment by el_memorioso in "My AI skeptic friends are all nuts"

el_memorioso — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 21:33:15 +0000

I agree with this. People who are writing Python, Javascript, or Typescript tell me that they get great results. I've had good results using LLMs to flesh out complex SQL queries, but when I write Elixir code, what I get out of the LLM often doesn't even compile even when given function and type specs in the prompt. As the writer says, maybe I should be using an agent, but I'd rather understand the limits of the lower-level tools before adding other layers that I may not have access to.

New comment by el_memorioso in "What does the end of mathematics look like?"

el_memorioso — Mon, 19 May 2025 22:34:41 +0000

The standard explanation of integrals as summing the areas of rectangles of decreasing width seems extremely intuitive to me without requiring the baggage of having to know some computer language. Generating functions in code are basically a rote repetition of the mathematical definitions, requiring that you also understand variables and functions and other things unrelated to the core idea.

New comment by el_memorioso in "Interviewing a software engineer who prepared with AI"

el_memorioso — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 18:50:33 +0000

I would go as far as to say being this hyper-focused on clothes rather than if the person is sociable and competent is a red flag itself. It is rather superficial. Vague platitudes about "culture" might get thrown out, but are we engineering and building things or are we putting on a fashion show?

New comment by el_memorioso in "What if we made advertising illegal?"

el_memorioso — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 19:29:59 +0000

São Paulo implemented "Cidade Limpa" which banned posted ads. It was said to renew the city.

New comment by el_memorioso in "All Lisp indentation schemes are ugly"

el_memorioso — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 01:57:39 +0000

For matching parentheses, Emacs users can use a package called rainbow-delimiters that colors matching delimiters. Different levels of enclosure use different colors. I've found this to be too much visual noise -- I am usually just interested on the delimiters for the current s-expressions. In this vein, having multiple different colored backgrounds would be garish and distracting for me.

New comment by el_memorioso in "Using coding skills to make passive income"

el_memorioso — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 17:06:07 +0000

Except for too many levels of indirection.

New comment by el_memorioso in "Ask HN: What's the "best" book you've ever read?"

el_memorioso — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 17:12:39 +0000

What happens later in the relationship when you reveal you lied about your favorite book as some weird social vetting process? It seems the insincerity would turn a lot of people off.