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New comment by mylons in "Michelangelo's first painting, created when he was 12 or 13"

mylons — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 15:23:29 +0000

my father made reading The Agony and The Ecstasy a requirement to go to Italy when I was a sophomore in high school. It's a thick tome, but a great read if you're a curious kid.

as the others said Michelangelo hated doing that painting. He's a very tragic, albeit heroic to me, man. I'd recommend that book if you're at all fascinated by him.

New comment by mylons in "2002: Last.fm and Audioscrobbler Herald the Social Web"

mylons — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 00:09:38 +0000

last.fm was so promising when it came out but i have to say i didn’t discover anything using their platform.

chatGPT is incredible, just giving it a single song and some context, it can recommend at a rate of something like 85-90%.

the only place i’ve gotten the BEST music recommendations were the oink and last.fm forums. humans, still, are the best recommendation infrastructure.

New comment by mylons in "Show HN: I made a down detector for down detector"

mylons — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 20:09:56 +0000

i love you guys.

New comment by mylons in "Show HN: I made a down detector for down detector"

mylons — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 20:09:29 +0000

haha — this is the exact comment i was hoping to see! indeed, i was joking. The Watchmen graphic novel is very important to me as it opened my eyes to the concept of “who watches the watchmen” which I was ultimately eluding to here, albeit extremely facetiously.

New comment by mylons in "Show HN: I made a down detector for down detector"

mylons — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 12:02:54 +0000

This is GOLD Jerry, Gold.

but who detects the down detector detecting the down detector detecting the down detector

New comment by mylons in "Iran faces unprecedented drought as water crisis hits Tehran"

mylons — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 16:23:28 +0000

iran did this to themselves. any other view is simply insane.

New comment by mylons in "Tron: Ares Set to Lose $132M+"

mylons — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 17:14:38 +0000

they’ll easily make this up at the parks at the new tron ares ride

New comment by mylons in "Doing Rails Wrong"

mylons — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 18:44:48 +0000

are you dabbling at all in the “no build js” stuff that Rails 8 supports? i did it for that corporate project and their deploy time went from 30 minutes to 5 minutes. it’s also such a headache reliever but removing most of the confusing aspects of the JS ecosystem for me.

New comment by mylons in "Doing Rails Wrong"

mylons — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 17:36:30 +0000

i came back to rails after a very long hiatus to help a company bring a 10+ year old rails project to Rails 8.x.x from Rails 5. It took a bit to get back in the saddle, but every new project I’ve started since that’s a SaaS/CRUD app of some kind it’s in Rails.

I’m finally at the age where productivity is infinitely more important than anything else.

New comment by mylons in "Removing newlines in FASTA file increases ZSTD compression ratio by 10x"

mylons — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 16:37:42 +0000

fwiw Heng Li was "the author." He was a postdoc under Durbin's professorship. I was around when bwa was developed and was working in a collaboration with Heng Li (I was working on SOLiD R&D). Any development emails were between Heng and our team, we never spoke with Durbin.

first author on a paper like this indicates the most significant contributions https://academic.oup.com/bioinformatics/article/25/14/1754/2...

New comment by mylons in "Removing newlines in FASTA file increases ZSTD compression ratio by 10x"

mylons — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 16:53:13 +0000

this is also the insight that the bwa developer had, to use the burrows-wheeler transform which is part of bzip2 due to it's compression properties being particularly good for genomic sequences.

New comment by mylons in "C++26 Reflections adventures and compile-time UML"

mylons — Sun, 03 Aug 2025 16:01:17 +0000

money is a proxy for value. the post i was responding to seemed to be pointing out how little value there is in something else.

New comment by mylons in "C++26 Reflections adventures and compile-time UML"

mylons — Sun, 03 Aug 2025 05:08:50 +0000

sure, but instagram was created by a handful of people with python and got a billion dollar exit in 2012.

New comment by mylons in "Crush: Glamourous AI coding agent for your favourite terminal"

mylons — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 17:36:45 +0000

also text UIs have always attempted a sense of flashiness? your BIOS, DOS UI's back in the day, etc. the OP sounds oddly jaded by it for no particular reason?

New comment by mylons in "U.S. bombs Iranian nuclear sites"

mylons — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 17:21:21 +0000

ya it's pretty FUCKED UP that HAMAS does that, and Iran funds it, isn't it? or do you think Israel just wants to slaughter people weaker than them because they can? if that was their aim why did they wait until 10/8 to start doing it? they could have done it any time in the last 30 years.

New comment by mylons in "U.S. bombs Iranian nuclear sites"

mylons — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 19:53:14 +0000

to say that is what is happening is completely disingenuous. seemingly something happened by the democratically elected government of Gaza on 10/7

New comment by mylons in "U.S. bombs Iranian nuclear sites"

mylons — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 19:24:25 +0000

is the destruction of gaza awful? yes. is it a genoicde? no. flippantly tossing words around devalues them and debases the conversation. https://worldpopulationreview.com/cities/palestine/gaza

the 20 years leading up to trump, calling every republican a nazi, has completely destroyed the meaning of the word. trump is actually doing a lot of fascist leaning stuff this time around, and you could possibly use that word appropriately but it is currently meaningless.

New comment by mylons in "Now might be the best time to learn software development"

mylons — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 16:54:15 +0000

google gives you access to real SEO blog spam. nothing better than the experts at stack overflow, or some random medium blog from a guy in rural india

New comment by mylons in "RFK Jr threatens ban on federal scientists publishing in top journals"

mylons — Wed, 28 May 2025 19:48:17 +0000

that is true, but he _has_ been slashing and cutting government programs. i think you're right and it's just his personal agenda coinciding with this, but the overall hypocrisy is just wild to me. not sure how anyone who voted for Trump can rationalize stuff like this.

New comment by mylons in "RFK Jr threatens ban on federal scientists publishing in top journals"

mylons — Wed, 28 May 2025 16:06:57 +0000

big government is bad. therefore we should have government run journals. i imagine there's zero history to look at ([C]CCP) for evidence to why this is bad.