Hacker News: rgreasons

New comment by rgreasons in "Deezer says 44% of songs uploaded to its platform daily are AI-generated"

rgreasons — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 02:46:30 +0000

Mind sharing where you went for your lathe cuts (assuming you are happy with how they turned out/sound)?

New comment by rgreasons in "Every book recommended on the Odd Lots Discord"

rgreasons — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 01:41:23 +0000

Good thing there are filters!

New comment by rgreasons in "Visiting Us"

rgreasons — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 03:27:47 +0000

They employ a lot of software developers and it’s a very unique campus. I considered it well worth the click.

New comment by rgreasons in "Show HN: I got laid off from Meta and created a minor hit on Steam"

rgreasons — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 13:42:50 +0000

This comment introduced me to pachinkremental. Thank you / goddamn you.

New comment by rgreasons in "Most-Watched Software Engineering Talks of 2024"

rgreasons — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 18:41:27 +0000

I consider you a pretty big name in our little corner of the world, so that number seemed pretty low to me! Expected 5 figures at least!!

New comment by rgreasons in "Most-Watched Software Engineering Talks of 2024"

rgreasons — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 16:35:32 +0000

Really surprised at the lack of “big” names on the list. My gut reaction was “really, no PyCon?” But when I went to the PyCon channel, even the keynotes from last year barely cracked a thousand views.

New comment by rgreasons in "100 Most-Watched Software Engineering Talks of 2024"

rgreasons — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 16:34:46 +0000

It appears to contain a bunch of other conferences. NDC, ElixirConf, etc.

New comment by rgreasons in "Xerox to acquire Lexmark"

rgreasons — Mon, 23 Dec 2024 13:38:21 +0000

Lexington is the home of the University of Kentucky. Lexmark shuttering their plant wouldn’t be _good_ for the economy, but Lexington is first and foremost a “college town.”

New comment by rgreasons in "Why is Apple so bad at marketing its TV shows?"

rgreasons — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 18:04:27 +0000

They have much less content, but if you value quality over quantity, I don't think that's an issue.

When I look at the Apple TV+ catalog, I can see myself giving an honest shake to _most_ of their content. I simply can't say the same for other services. I understand why they are flooding the zone if they have the resources, but there's a finite amount of content one human can watch.

If Apple releases 50 shows and 80% are up my alley, I get the same amount of enjoyable content as Netflix releasing 400 shows but only 10% are worth my time.

Ableton Move

rgreasons — Tue, 08 Oct 2024 08:42:27 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ableton.com/en/move/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41775072

Points: 6

# Comments: 2

New comment by rgreasons in "AI for nethack: "weirdest bug in my CS career""

rgreasons — Fri, 24 May 2024 16:30:32 +0000

My favorite CS story in a long time. Up there with the 500-mile email.

Ableton Live 12 Announced

rgreasons — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 20:18:00 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ableton.com/en/live/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38269074

Points: 4

# Comments: 2

New comment by rgreasons in "Synth Emulation in MAME"

rgreasons — Thu, 26 Oct 2023 15:22:20 +0000

There are musicians that would love to use hardware-based emulation for recording and would happily settle for current software-based solutions for live performance. Many professional musicians already do this. Musicians such as Floating Points have studios filled to the brim with large, rare, expensive synthesizers[1] with which they don't travel. Existing VSTs and reproductions get you 90% of the way there, but MAME emulation may be able to bring higher-quality emulation to a wider set of musicians.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75iX1rnW9WQ

New comment by rgreasons in "SQL reserved words – An empirical list"

rgreasons — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 18:50:25 +0000

Having to quote escape a “timestamp” field at least once a week, I was _extremely_ surprised to see it excluded from this list.

New comment by rgreasons in "Lessons learned from running Apache Airflow at scale"

rgreasons — Tue, 24 May 2022 07:15:06 +0000

+1 for the orchestration horror stories podcast.

New comment by rgreasons in "AirPods don't “just work”"

rgreasons — Wed, 26 Jan 2022 16:32:28 +0000

If one of your concerns is that you end up washing your headphones, you’re right - I don’t think you’re ready for wireless earbuds.

New comment by rgreasons in "Tell HN: Stop Accepting Shitty Interviews"

rgreasons — Fri, 14 Jan 2022 05:13:23 +0000

I think OP implied a better solution when mentioning interviews that mimic the job: present interviewees with a small take-home case study based on a real on-the-job problem. I have done a few of these and they have been much more enlightening experiences than any paired programming boilerplate live coding exercise. Even in situations in which my proposed solution weren’t up to snuff to land the job, the conversation with the team about my solution felt like an actual representation of what it would be like to be a member of the team.

New comment by rgreasons in "Ask HN: What are the best-designed things you've ever used?"

rgreasons — Sat, 27 Nov 2021 13:59:34 +0000

Stayed at a hotel with a faucet with some of the features you described - button-push and straightforward temperature control - and it was one of the best shower experiences I’ve ever had. Would be putting one of these in my own master bathroom if it wasn’t so expensive.

https://www.hansgrohe-usa.com/articledetail-showerselect-the...

New comment by rgreasons in "AirPods revenue does not exceed Spotify, Twitter, Snapchat, and Shopify revenue"

rgreasons — Wed, 08 Jan 2020 15:57:37 +0000

my understanding was they are non-replaceable batteries, period. Apple doesn't replace the batteries on AirPods, just recycles the AirPod and provides a new one.

New comment by rgreasons in "MIDI 2.0 Prototyping announced"

rgreasons — Sat, 19 Jan 2019 17:55:25 +0000

Mind sharing which book/article you're referencing? Sounds interesting.