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New comment by floorsthelimit in "Show HN: XY Music Notation"

floorsthelimit — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:46:37 +0000

Came here to say this but top comments got to the point. It’s funny how non musician programmers think they can just reinvent things without realizing centuries have gone into this. Might as well reinvent Arabic numerals and calculus notation.

New comment by floorsthelimit in "New Apple TV 4K"

floorsthelimit — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:43:23 +0000

Nope. I turned them off. I had to turn down to 1080p.

New comment by floorsthelimit in "New Apple TV 4K"

floorsthelimit — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:42:46 +0000

That does not fix it. Trust me. I’ve been through this dance on several tvs. You have to drop to 1080p.

New comment by floorsthelimit in "Apple's new 'Switch to Safari' campaign details why you should ditch Chrome"

floorsthelimit — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 21:39:55 +0000

Oh wow. I didn’t know that. Is that true for brave too?

New comment by floorsthelimit in "Apple's new 'Switch to Safari' campaign details why you should ditch Chrome"

floorsthelimit — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 20:11:22 +0000

I only use Apple hardware. I’ve never used safari only Firefox or brave. I don’t understand why you are saying it is a monopoly.

New comment by floorsthelimit in "New Apple TV 4K"

floorsthelimit — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 19:39:22 +0000

Does anyone else force their Apple TV into 1080p mode because they don’t like soap opera mode? I hope this unit lets me do that. I have no need to upgrade but eventually my current Apple TV will die and I’d hate to lose the ability to downgrade.

New comment by floorsthelimit in "Show HN: How random are you?"

floorsthelimit — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 18:32:23 +0000

House called 0 of 50. Huh?

New comment by floorsthelimit in "Intel D270 GPU AI Accelerator–Up to 480 GB LPDDR5X"

floorsthelimit — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 15:38:53 +0000

Sorry I was referring to the internal bidirectional ring between all of the cores. Cache != external ddr!

New comment by floorsthelimit in "Intel D270 GPU AI Accelerator–Up to 480 GB LPDDR5X"

floorsthelimit — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 13:54:24 +0000

Xeon Phi when introd in 2013ish had that much bandwidth.

New comment by floorsthelimit in "Hackers activate automatic defrosting in supermarket fridges across Europe"

floorsthelimit — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 13:52:39 +0000

I work in embedded security. CRA and RED are game changers. We can argue this is years late but at least EU is giving security requirements teeth. Very expensive teeth.

New comment by floorsthelimit in "Fingerprints are the new cookies"

floorsthelimit — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 20:05:52 +0000

Your partner isn’t wrong. It’s a crappy product and crappy ecosystem when you have to be hyper precise.

New comment by floorsthelimit in "Passkeys are a trap"

floorsthelimit — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 15:32:04 +0000

I think OP was referring to “initial attestation”. Without that you cannot attest again.

New comment by floorsthelimit in "Secret of Orange Cats Revealed After 60-Year Search"

floorsthelimit — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 15:25:21 +0000

I prefer animals that shit in a box to animals that eat their own shit and barf it up and eat it again.

Plus it’s probably the toxoplasmosis that brainwashes us to love those furry little things.

New comment by floorsthelimit in "Secret of Orange Cats Revealed After 60-Year Search"

floorsthelimit — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 15:24:15 +0000

That’s a healthy way to use Reddit. Everything else is mostly rage bait.

New comment by floorsthelimit in "How to Build Wealth as a Career Person"

floorsthelimit — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 02:21:42 +0000

You missed the part where I said I was satisfied. It’s just a strange observation.

New comment by floorsthelimit in "Fingerprints are the new cookies"

floorsthelimit — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 02:20:13 +0000

But you are deanonymized. That’s the entire argument. I’m not sure you understand.

New comment by floorsthelimit in "Fingerprints are the new cookies"

floorsthelimit — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 00:18:33 +0000

If every website you ever visits knows it is you, exactly what links you clicked on, and what content you viewed, forever, are you truly ok with that?

New comment by floorsthelimit in "How to Build Wealth as a Career Person"

floorsthelimit — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 22:17:19 +0000

A tale of two friends from engineering school in 1988:

One earned C’s, but liked to set up token ring and Ethernet networks and code network games. Nice guy, kind of a shlub but not a genius.

Another got straight A’s while mostly drunk, long hair, liked sports but still a metalhead. Breezed through any new concept as if he was born with the knowledge of complex math and advanced physics.

First guy became a VP at Google. Has multiple houses and fancy cars. Doesn’t need to work anymore but loves it.

Second guy became fellow and major CPu/gpu company. Money falling out his ass.

Me: worked hard, got B’s mostly, followed the path but never got promoted too far. Got a few mil in the 401k, but never got a big break.

I’m totally satisfied with where I’m at but these friends just hit the effing centimillionaire jackpot through stocks and weird luck.

Wish there was some consistency in my peer group. We (about 12 friends) all did well with EE degrees in the 80s. Some just did 10-100x better than others for no obvious reason.