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New comment by sheiyei in "Caveman: Why use many token when few token do trick"

sheiyei — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 13:32:27 +0000

If you take meaningless tokens (that do not contribute to subject focus), I don't see what you would lose. But as this takes out a lot of contextual info as well, I would think it might be detrimental.

New comment by sheiyei in "Talk like caveman"

sheiyei — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 13:30:45 +0000

I assume in practice, filler words do nothing of value. When words add or mean nothing (their weights are basically 0 in relation to the subject), I don't see why they'd affect what the model outputs (except cause more filler words)?

New comment by sheiyei in "Introduction to Computer Music (2009) [pdf]"

sheiyei — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 08:31:40 +0000

Interference is most of the answer. With frequencies f and 2f you get the smoothest interference patterns, even if the tones have a lot of harmonics. This applies reducingly to increasingly fractional ratios.

New comment by sheiyei in "Sopwith"

sheiyei — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 19:57:41 +0000

We had an awesome split screen dogfighting game on a Win98 PC where everyone had a Spitfire-like plane and tried to take the others down. You could land at your base and heal etc. Super fun. I think it was called Iron Birds? Don't think I've found it since.

New comment by sheiyei in "Show HN: A game where you build a GPU"

sheiyei — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 19:52:13 +0000

Layout appears unusable on my phone on Firefox Android (both portrait and landscape). Necessary elements seem to get hidden behind others. Not sure if I'm even supposed to be able to play it without kB&m though lol :)

New comment by sheiyei in "Delve removed from Y Combinator"

sheiyei — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 11:02:49 +0000

Oh my, that is so funny and terrifying, but also exactly what my first expectation is for a consultancy firm

New comment by sheiyei in "Samsung Magician disk utility takes 18 steps and two reboots to uninstall"

sheiyei — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 17:43:30 +0000

Please enlighten me on the alternatives (I hope it's not just iTerm2)

New comment by sheiyei in "GitHub Monaspace Case Study"

sheiyei — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 16:42:31 +0000

I feel like that font is a real bad apple. The other ones are decent and I like the "texture healing" (but not its name)

New comment by sheiyei in "GitHub Monaspace Case Study"

sheiyei — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 16:38:31 +0000

Input's method seems to be fundamentally very different to this. Monaspace keeps the grid intact and only changes the characters visually (situationally overlaps wide letters to neighbouring narrow characters' spaces). Input just pretends to be monospace in its aesthetics, I don't really understand what's supposed to be special with that.

New comment by sheiyei in "Artemis II is not safe to fly"

sheiyei — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 07:28:18 +0000

The point with the last bit was that they should be put in an unsafe craft.

New comment by sheiyei in "Philly courts will ban all smart eyeglasses starting next week"

sheiyei — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 07:05:47 +0000

When I need to get new glasses my first requirement is that the store doesn't sell Meta Creep Glasses

New comment by sheiyei in "Tell HN: GitHub's Dependabot REST API is silently returning incomplete results"

sheiyei — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 09:57:56 +0000

You can trust Microsoft of all companies to make a product with "depend" on the name become unreliable

New comment by sheiyei in "Passengers who refuse to use headphones can now be kicked off United flights"

sheiyei — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 19:17:16 +0000

Getting pedantic here, "no light / crosswalk" means no crosswalk, painted or not.

New comment by sheiyei in "Mouser: An open source alternative to Logi-Plus mouse software"

sheiyei — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 13:31:28 +0000

The site is a good example of looking good but being very annoying to use.

New comment by sheiyei in "Mouser: An open source alternative to Logi-Plus mouse software"

sheiyei — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 13:27:43 +0000

It should at least have a system-jamming 15 second startup sequence at bootup to be taken seriously. That's why Logitech does it

New comment by sheiyei in "Mouser: An open source alternative to Logi-Plus mouse software"

sheiyei — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 13:26:02 +0000

I ran my G402 on the onboard memory (bound the special buttons to F13-F15) until I was faced with enough games that didn't understand those keys. Later I had to switch to per-game profiles which sucked

New comment by sheiyei in "Italian prosecutors seek trial for Amazon, 4 execs in alleged $1.4B tax evasion"

sheiyei — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 20:18:55 +0000

Billionaires are great for the economy!*

*if you're a billionaire

New comment by sheiyei in "Italian prosecutors seek trial for Amazon, 4 execs in alleged $1.4B tax evasion"

sheiyei — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 20:13:58 +0000

Nothing stops that man from saying anything, he himself the least.

New comment by sheiyei in "Italian prosecutors seek trial for Amazon, 4 execs in alleged $1.4B tax evasion"

sheiyei — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 20:11:48 +0000

You 100% should be able to go to prison from tax evasion. Not to fill prisons just to line prison owners' pockets like in the US, but definitely have the possibility for egregious offences.

New comment by sheiyei in "Big data on the cheapest MacBook"

sheiyei — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 20:04:24 +0000

Interesting vacation activities.