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New comment by seanyeh in "Introducing Ad Blocker for Firefox on iOS"

seanyeh — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 16:51:31 +0000

Many people are not aware that for smaller creators, Google forces ads on their videos (without consent) and takes all the revenue

New comment by seanyeh in "The chess bot on Delta Air Lines will destroy you (2024) [video]"

seanyeh — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 16:04:50 +0000

I think it depends on the pool to which you're comparing. Being top 2% of all programmers is not so impressive if you include everyone who's ever taken an Intro class. Top 2% of people who do it for a living is much more significant.

I'm in a similar boat as the other posters (2050-2100 lichess, 1400 USCF). The median active rating for USCF is around 1200 and likely much higher if you don't include scholastic players, so if we compare against the OTB pool, "2000 lichess" is probably closer to top 50% than 2%

New comment by seanyeh in "macOS dotfiles should not go in –/Library/Application Support"

seanyeh — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 12:21:05 +0000

git supports XDG - its config lives in `$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config`. Though a lot of people still use the older location of ~/.gitconfig

New comment by seanyeh in "Coltrane: A music theory library with a command-line interface"

seanyeh — Sat, 11 Mar 2023 22:46:24 +0000

I sort of see where you are coming from, but "music theory" is the standard accepted term for this general field of study, which includes the fundamentals (notes and chords and more). source: used to teach music theory at the university level

New comment by seanyeh in "Using John Varney's rhythm wheel to differentiate 3/4 and 6/8 time signatures"

seanyeh — Sat, 25 Aug 2018 04:20:58 +0000

6/8 does imply 2 strong beats (at least in western classical music tradition).

New comment by seanyeh in "You Don't Need"

seanyeh — Fri, 11 Nov 2016 02:25:31 +0000

How you can tell someone is perfectly normal: they will tell you they are normal.

On the topic, some GUIs are idiotic. A command takes a second to type, but a complicated GUI may take multiple buttons, menus, etc. that take almost forever to navigate.

New comment by seanyeh in "A call to PHP's mt_rand generates only odd numbers"

seanyeh — Fri, 24 Jul 2015 14:42:28 +0000

Technically, you can create a bijection between all natural numbers and all even numbers. For all natural numbers k, there is an even number 2k (and for every even number 2k, there is a natural number k). So, the number of even numbers and natural numbers is the same. That's what happens when you try to reason with infinity ;)

New comment by seanyeh in "Vibreoffice – vi(m) keybindings for Libreoffice and OpenOffice"

seanyeh — Fri, 10 Apr 2015 21:59:52 +0000

Wow, I'm surprised someone found my little project :) I'm still planning on adding more features and fixing the bugs if I can find some free time.