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New comment by shermanyo in "Googlebook"

shermanyo — Wed, 13 May 2026 00:45:34 +0000

"This outfit is bold and shows off your strong personality, a perfect choice for today!"

It's May and you chose a bright green and red sweater with a picture of Santa Clause.

"You're absolutely right! Maybe this would be a better choice for December."

New comment by shermanyo in "EFF launches Age Verification Hub"

shermanyo — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 04:39:42 +0000

Excellent, clear example.

New comment by shermanyo in "Scripts I wrote that I use all the time"

shermanyo — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 00:25:53 +0000

I use a dotfile with aliases and functions, mostly to document / remember commands I find useful. It's been a handy way to build a living document of the utils I use regularly, and is easy to migrate to each new workstation.

New comment by shermanyo in "The Decline of Battery Life (2021)"

shermanyo — Thu, 29 May 2025 00:47:33 +0000

Gaming is a special case imo, and more affected by the additional power drawn for the GPU. For CPU bound apps, there's still a night and day difference between new apple silicon vs the previous generation of x64 processors. I've used a laptop to DJ shows for several years, always requiring AC power for anything longer than an hour. With my m1 macbook, I've DJ'd 6+ hours with no power adapter, also powering hardware over USB. It's literally a 4x improvement over my previous i5 setup.

New comment by shermanyo in "USB 2.0 is 25 years old today – the interface standard that changed the world"

shermanyo — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 02:45:30 +0000

I remember saying "as soon as I can get 1GB for under $100, I'll switch from optical media..", and then the day that finally happened. That seemed like a bargain at the time.

New comment by shermanyo in "Jeep owners fed up with in-car pop-up ads"

shermanyo — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 02:45:31 +0000

No, they're going to pay a couple hundred dollars to replace the head unit with an aftermarket one that doesn't spam ads.

New comment by shermanyo in "Twenty Years of FM Synthesis Inside Ableton Live"

shermanyo — Sun, 22 Sep 2024 23:45:46 +0000

It's my goto VA synth too. I'll reach for it first, before Analog or other VSTs.

New comment by shermanyo in "Twenty Years of FM Synthesis Inside Ableton Live"

shermanyo — Sun, 22 Sep 2024 23:44:24 +0000

I use the session view for vocal recording. Recording multiple takes to new clips in session view, then copied into the arranger, it lets me comp several takes without messing up the final arrangement, and is great for project organisation.

New comment by shermanyo in "How I Program in 2024"

shermanyo — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 03:06:43 +0000

I think in this case, the author means coding version logic into the app itself. eg. versioned API endpoints for backwards compatibility

New comment by shermanyo in "Deconstructing the Role-Playing Video Game"

shermanyo — Wed, 17 Jul 2024 02:25:13 +0000

I've always thought of RPGs as narrative focused games with character progression based on improving stats and equipment. I think both A Link to the Past and Chrono Trigger would fit that description. ALttP may not have the same depth of character traits, but there's still a progression unlocking extra health hearts and stronger swords iirc.

For the other games you mentioned, I would say they have RPG elements (ie. increasing player stats in Mario Tennis), but the narrative isn't really the focus of game in the same way as with a traditional RPG.

New comment by shermanyo in "The Stratocaster Turns 70"

shermanyo — Tue, 16 Jul 2024 04:56:33 +0000

I know it's subjective style-wise, but I feel exactly the same.

New comment by shermanyo in "AI's $600B Question"

shermanyo — Thu, 04 Jul 2024 01:11:13 +0000

> I've just had GPT-4o write me a full-featured 2048 clone in ~6 hours of casual chat, in between of work, making dinner, and playing with kids; it cost me some $4 in OpenAI bills, and I didn't write a single line of code.

This kind of example always confuses me. I don't see the value vs reading an article like this: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-make-2048-game-in-r...

If I said I built a 2048 clone by following this tutorial, noone would be impressed. I just don't see how reading a similar tutorial via a chat interface is some groundbreaking advancement.

New comment by shermanyo in "The case for not sanitising fairy tales"

shermanyo — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 05:11:10 +0000

Speaking of Stephen King, The Mist is another great example. The film adaptation completely changed the ending, and people almost unanimously agree for the better.

New comment by shermanyo in "Why was the 1959 album "Kind of Blue" by Miles Davis such a big deal?"

shermanyo — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 13:08:50 +0000

Giant Steps is a great suggestion, I second this.

New comment by shermanyo in "Researchers cracked an 11-year-old password to a $3M crypto wallet"

shermanyo — Thu, 30 May 2024 01:48:06 +0000

Nearly every crypto wallet I've created, I've initiated a transfer the same day. With the public ledger I can look up the first transaction for one of my wallet addresses and know with near certainty when that wallet was created. I wouldn't be surprised if this was the case for most people.

New comment by shermanyo in "Crypto mining company loses bid to force B.C. Hydro to provide power"

shermanyo — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 00:55:18 +0000

I was referring to peak vs off-peak demand, rather than generation.

New comment by shermanyo in "Crypto mining company loses bid to force B.C. Hydro to provide power"

shermanyo — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 23:59:35 +0000

Thanks for the additional context in this example. You're right that there are additional drawbacks if a finite reservoir is required.

New comment by shermanyo in "Crypto mining company loses bid to force B.C. Hydro to provide power"

shermanyo — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 23:57:52 +0000

I think its a valid point that this approach would be more useful when run by the energy provider themselves, and would make it much easier to justify turning the miners off / migrating them to newer projects as a way to manage demand. I think this capability would allow them to plan for a higher level of overproduction in the early stages, or scaling up ahead of the rise in demand.

New comment by shermanyo in "Crypto mining company loses bid to force B.C. Hydro to provide power"

shermanyo — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 04:08:40 +0000

Why not offer an agreement for off-peak use, and put profits into expanding capacity? This always seemed like a great use case for bootstrapping new power generation projects. It provides an immediate customer for excess base power generation that can be scaled back / migrated once demand picks up.

New comment by shermanyo in "Google has another secret browser"

shermanyo — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 03:02:41 +0000

My first thought too!