Hacker News: jaystraw

New comment by jaystraw in "Show HN: Waveform Playlist v5 – Multi-track Web Audio editor (React and Tone.js)"

jaystraw — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 08:00:57 +0000

hey! i'll try to be succinct: i'm a recovering programmer trying to get waveform-playlist to work. i haven't used node since probably 2012, and i've never used react. learning curve. so i signed up for claude, to get waveform working for my band's recording computer up here in alaska.

claude...was useless. for me. i felt stupider, honestly. so googling, and finding this, seeing you wrote this with claude...talk about irony heh.

anyway. my github is jaystraw, but it's attached to an email i lost the domain for forever ago (but just got back because of this rabbit hole! no email yet though, used to self-host ugh) so i couldn't get a hold of you there. and since your hn account doesn't have contact info -- here i am. prostrating myself. my email's thisiswherejunkgoes@gmail.com if you have any time to reach out. thank you.

New comment by jaystraw in "USGS uses machine learning to show large lithium potential in Arkansas"

jaystraw — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 11:22:44 +0000

could be artificial precision coming from degs min sec to decimal??

New comment by jaystraw in "Linux from Scratch"

jaystraw — Sat, 05 Oct 2024 12:20:35 +0000

to anyone confused why others find this fun or worthwhile, i will quote brak's dad: "you just don't get it, das all"

New comment by jaystraw in "Vanishing Culture: Preserving Cookbooks"

jaystraw — Sat, 05 Oct 2024 02:16:52 +0000

my birthday's tomorrow, and a friend said she'd make me any desert i wanted. i knew exactly what i wanted: my grandma's creme de menthe cake. i hadn't seen the recipe in a couple of years -- her handwritten notes made my heart smile and ache. ellybaa might not be here anymore, but she lives on <3

New comment by jaystraw in "Breakthrough a step toward revealing hidden structure of prime numbers"

jaystraw — Sat, 03 Aug 2024 12:17:03 +0000

i'm glad they got excited about number theory, but how would improved factoring algorithms destroy capitalism??

New comment by jaystraw in "How I got my laser eye injury"

jaystraw — Fri, 02 Aug 2024 12:58:26 +0000

like finishing a comment with, "we walked away with all our fingers -- perfect to flip the safety officer the bird"

New comment by jaystraw in "How I got my laser eye injury"

jaystraw — Fri, 02 Aug 2024 12:53:46 +0000

hopes and seams

New comment by jaystraw in "How I got my laser eye injury"

jaystraw — Fri, 02 Aug 2024 12:31:42 +0000

that's what i was going to say. and while you can use barn doors and lenses to hone the throw (the size of the beam on stage) -- it's not collimated like a laser is. even with parabolic reflectors like par cans. we're talking magnifying glass and the energy at the focal point (minus what the air absorbs for a given wavelength etc)

New comment by jaystraw in "Every company should be owned by its employees"

jaystraw — Fri, 26 Jul 2024 11:33:26 +0000

time preference slash discounting. so not sure what you mean by "have no market price" bezos is worth XX billion, but not if he tries to sell it all at once

New comment by jaystraw in "NASA Graphics Standards Manual (1975)"

jaystraw — Fri, 26 Jul 2024 10:22:39 +0000

cops still stealing skateboards? i explained packet switching to my friend today, he got it which was cool -- but on the ebb of the topic i said that without it, the world today would be way, way different. i dunno, i dunno what you expected. i'm 1986, and am continually beside myself. about what's possible, not neccesarily what's implemented.

New comment by jaystraw in "A modern 8 bit design, built using 1950s thermionic valves"

jaystraw — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 08:34:31 +0000

in the music world, variacs are used to bring old tube amplifiers up to power slowly for that reason. not after being repaired or refurbished generally, but certainly when the amp's condition is unknown. the author of tfa said his new power supplies do that automatically, which is pretty neat.

New comment by jaystraw in "The First Nuclear Microreactor Company Listed in the USA"

jaystraw — Wed, 15 May 2024 22:06:34 +0000

so are ICEs

New comment by jaystraw in "Not an iPad Pro Review: Why iPadOS Still Doesn't Get the Basics Right"

jaystraw — Tue, 14 May 2024 03:57:40 +0000

i'm a musician and audio engineer who encounters iPads for work regularly. my fine motor control is good enough to get paid to mix or play -- not good enough to reliably bring all open apps up (used to be a long press on the one button) so i can swipe one off screen to "close" it. feel for ya.

New comment by jaystraw in "World Food Atlas: Discover local dishes and ingredients"

jaystraw — Wed, 08 May 2024 22:25:19 +0000

get my band The Jephries a gig so we can come down from Anchorage and eat some of your Turkish dishes! hehehe

New comment by jaystraw in "Apple must open iPadOS to sideloading within 6 months, EU says"

jaystraw — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 13:28:48 +0000

i can't speak for app stores, but my band, based out of Anchorage, Alaska, makes good money from streams. we are completely independent. we don't use cdbaby, but distrokid who charges a flat fee to upload, and publishes to all available platforms. that flat fee also covers publishing to new platforms as they become available to distrokid.

i underdstand your worries but at least in my main line of work, i've seen a lot of innovation over the 20 years i've been doing this. fret not. i guess that's a guitar pun.

New comment by jaystraw in "Court upholds New York law that says ISPs must offer $15 broadband"

jaystraw — Sat, 27 Apr 2024 10:38:21 +0000

if renting use is viable, then why isn't construction or maintenance?

i mean this honestly: an investor may not get crazy returns every year, but they get stable returns every year. why is owning and maintaining infrastructure unattractive?

New comment by jaystraw in "Green's Dictionary of Slang"

jaystraw — Sat, 13 Apr 2024 12:37:53 +0000

humor is independent of language

edit: there are jokes that rely on a specific language or culture. but i think (correct me if i'm wrong) sarcasm and hyperbole span language

New comment by jaystraw in "Timeline of the xz open source attack"

jaystraw — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 12:49:59 +0000

compression. encryption. handshakes. datetime. rng or prng. i'm right there with ya but nontrivial tasks require nontrivial knowledge. i don't have an answer for obfuscated backdoors like here, or bad code that happens, but i do know if i tried to audit that shit, i'd walk away telling everyone i understood nothing

New comment by jaystraw in "Timeline of the xz open source attack"

jaystraw — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 12:01:22 +0000

as an alaskan, those aren't mutually exclusive

New comment by jaystraw in "Docusign just admitted that they use customer data to train AI"

jaystraw — Fri, 01 Mar 2024 07:29:05 +0000

A few years ago, my band was putting our manager on our LLC account. The credit union, then Alaska USA but now Global , sent us all docusign links to add her.

She had moved out of state, but either way I think they would've done it that way. Even skimming the EULA there was no way I was gonna esign through their service.

This confused the bank, and it was honestly a bit of a pain in the ass with some emailing back and forth. But they got me the forms and I signed analog, and it went through eventually.

Just sent them my I Told Ya So heh