I'd like to believe that the diversity, equity, and inclusion of Scheme, Pascal, and C stdlib naming conventions here is intentional.

I take it you've never worked on realtime software. :)

For most Americans with kids, if they don't figure out childcare they will miss deadlines. By missing deadlines they risk systemic failures: failure to make enough income to eat, keep their job, pay for healthcare, etc.

It's easy to get Tao-ish about meeting deadlines when your buffer is above 100k.

You started by playing a simple I - vii - I as the first sub-phrase. Then the AI started its response with a dominant 7th-chord. In the vast majority of cases I can think of from the Classical era, the AI's sub-phrase would end with a half-cadence. So, including what you played, the first two sub-phrases would look like this:

I - vii - I

V(7) - I - V

But instead, the AI took the unusual step of having a full cadence for that 2nd sub-phrase. This in music is what someone might call a "double beat" in screenwriting.

Moreover, there are no half cadences in the phrase after that. It's all full cadences in the tonic key, plus two plagal cadences over a tonic pedal there in the 2nd phrase. Each sub-phrase just extends the tonic. There are idiomatic ways to just stay in the tonic for awhile, like "Horn fifths." But this excerpt isn't idiomatic and sounds like the composer accidentally forgot to develop the harmony.

I'm going to claim that this excerpt would sound like the musical equivalent of a run-on sentence to any composer who lived from the time of J.S. Bach to Robert Schumann. And from Mahler on they'd assume you're thumbing your nose at convention.

Put another way: the kind of student who'd use this to finish a harmony exercise would end up getting the same grade they would have gotten doing it on their own.

Edit: clarifications

It, too, has a road to nowhere. However, that road has a public access overlook, complete with a view of the lake below and an enormous Francis turbine sitting smack dab in middle of the parking lot. Is that a scale model of the one inside the mountain? An old broken one? I don't know.

Apparently they use solar power to help run the turbine in reverse during off-hours to shoot the water back up to the bad creek reservoir.

Similarly, letting pilots skip the security check is no big deal. Just check the id_hash of their _pilot_struct against the ids in the day's flight manifest for the current frame being evaluated in the fully verified Rust-based simulation of reality.

If people are really that worried about "exploits" they're free to set a save point before arriving to the airport that morning.

Edit: important clarification wrt the fully verified Rust-based simulation of reality.

I mean, compare the number of people who've flown over Barbara Streisand's property to take a picture of her house to the number of people who had a copy of said picture in their browser cache.

You can read more about this peculiar scaling factor of the internet in Bill Gates 1995 book The Road Ahead.

I think this is a kind of time-sequence fallacy which I've seen before on HN. It's not that "we don't," but that, perhaps, "we wouldn't."

E.g., I study the pieces still standing in famous checkmate positions and decide to start the game using only those pieces. Bad strategy.

Even toy examples! I'm trying to think back through my recollection of the W3C archives, and I can't remember a single time when a proposed feature had a demo that utilized XML namespaces. Unnamespaced pseudocode, yes. JS polyfills, yes. XML namespaces? Please link me some examples for my fan fiction research.

The problem isn't an ability to understand long term signals. The problem is that if a franchisee tried to generate that signal corporate would filter them right out of their franchise.

What's so funny about this is that XML is absolutely brimming with rich namespace solutions for all the problems you don't have. For example, if your users ever want to blithely roll their own "href" namespace, don't worry! The xmlns http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink is there for them to safely disambiguate all the custom:hrefs from the xlink:href things!

Meanwhile, in 2026 you've got two designers who each use their own "bgcolor" and XML is like, "Nope!"

Digression-- I just checked MDN and apparently xlink is deprecated! This makes me want to write alternate history from the mid-2000s about the href wars: XML namespacing parties where front-end designers would mash up dozens of href namespaces in the same document.

What do you mean by "named the same" here?

End of trip for non-amortized blues: OMG my sudden lack of trail-purpose is casting a 100 foot high shadow over my entire existence. Help!

End of trip for amortized blues: Ah this feels familiar, and a bit heavy. Gonna head home and read a book.

Edit: I'd bet the physical exhaustion from hiking would even aid in accessing said feelings. Synergy, baby!

> Residential proxies are everywhere, so why did proxy DDoS attacks mostly come from the U.S.? The answer is money. If you are committing fraud or circumventing content restrictions, a Russian IP address gets geo-blocked instantly. A fresh U.S. residential IP address (especially one behind carrier-grade NAT and harder to block individually) is “gold.” Customers pay up to $95 to lease a single U.S. residential IP address for 2 weeks (versus $0.30 for an Eastern European IP). Compare that to your own ARPU per subscriber and sit with it for a second. When an individual IP is worth more than the customer relationship behind it, you don’t have a technical problem. You have a market problem.[1]

1: https://www.nokia.com/blog/one-year-later-the-residential-pr...

If I'm wrong give me another case that isn't a crypto scam and I'll read up on it.

> A fresh U.S. residential IP address (especially one behind carrier-grade NAT and harder to block individually) is “gold.” Customers pay up to $95 to lease a single U.S. residential IP address for 2 weeks (versus $0.30 for an Eastern European IP).

That's bananas. The place I found a link to that story was jwz's blog, a site that is actively getting hammered by one of the many Rube-Goldberg machines behind these scrapers.

I take your point wrt, say, recommendation engines. But this is a bizarre and fascinating period we're living through right now. I don't plan to stop reading blogs and news any time soon.

1: https://www.nokia.com/blog/one-year-later-the-residential-pr...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBTQ_people_in_prison

This reads like C strings having not only a null terminator but carrying around a lifetime value specified in microseconds, and memory safety errors leading to weeks of explosive diarrhea.

How important is iceberg to your diet that you needed to create this YOLO lettuce header (heh)?