Hacker News: taco_emoji

New comment by taco_emoji in "The Fall and Rise of Screwworm"

taco_emoji — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 16:44:38 +0000

Well that's nightmare fuel D:

New comment by taco_emoji in "The Return of Aspect Oriented Programming"

taco_emoji — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 19:11:46 +0000

yeah let's let the randomized sentence vomiter generate code at consistent join points

New comment by taco_emoji in "Ear Training Practice"

taco_emoji — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:19:23 +0000

Incorrect. The major scale intervals are whole-whole-half-whole-whole-whole-half, so no, you do not "simply add 2 to each note".

New comment by taco_emoji in "Ear Training Practice"

taco_emoji — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 19:35:03 +0000

That doesn't highlight anything except the tautology that music theory isn't taught in general education

New comment by taco_emoji in "Ear Training Practice Exercises"

taco_emoji — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 19:33:24 +0000

There is no "objective" foundation to music.

Mapping twelve letters onto a piano keyboard would then look something like this:

     B D  G I K
    A C EF H J LA

Which means an A major scale in this notation would be ACEFHJLA, which is actually less intuitive than understanding the circle of fifths etc. and arriving at ABC#DEF#G#A (to use this universe's notation)

New comment by taco_emoji in "The Case for Free Online Books (2014)"

taco_emoji — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 17:59:05 +0000

Hey, this guy taught me Operating Systems! He was a great lecturer despite his own preference for book learning :-)

New comment by taco_emoji in "U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Bay Model"

taco_emoji — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 17:49:07 +0000

There's a similar model for the entire Great Lakes watershed at Discovery World in Milwaukee. You can even press a button to make it rain!

New comment by taco_emoji in "The Public Should Own Half of the Big A.I. Companies"

taco_emoji — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 17:52:07 +0000

Can we wait till after the bubble pops and see what pieces are left on the floor?

New comment by taco_emoji in "AI outperforms law professors in Stanford Law study"

taco_emoji — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 14:33:11 +0000

I will never trust an AI as much as a person

New comment by taco_emoji in "Meta workers can opt out of being tracked at work up to 30 min"

taco_emoji — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 14:29:13 +0000

They need to unionize.

New comment by taco_emoji in "Adafruit receives demand letter from Fenwick legal counsel on behalf of Flux.ai"

taco_emoji — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 17:24:54 +0000

First I'm hearing of flux.ai and now my opinion of them is entirely negative because they hate free speech!

New comment by taco_emoji in "The newest Instagram “exploit” is the goofiest I've seen"

taco_emoji — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 19:30:19 +0000

This reeks of vibe coding. "Make it so the AI agent can help with password resets" and then zero human vetting of the change.

New comment by taco_emoji in "Please Use AI"

taco_emoji — Fri, 29 May 2026 14:51:13 +0000

> If I do not have a friend who's into fly fishing, or if I need an answer quickly, am I...just out of luck?

I know, right? The author clearly wants you to starve to death for the lack of a friend to teach you to fish

New comment by taco_emoji in "Nendo's Wonderful Toru, an Electric Kettle for Alessi"

taco_emoji — Thu, 28 May 2026 15:15:42 +0000

Saved you a click: they made the handle higher up. This is on Hacker News for some reason

New comment by taco_emoji in "Nendo's Wonderful Toru, an Electric Kettle for Alessi"

taco_emoji — Thu, 28 May 2026 15:14:06 +0000

And what is Alessi?

New comment by taco_emoji in "I’ve joined Anthropic"

taco_emoji — Tue, 19 May 2026 18:17:48 +0000

And now, a message from an actual deck chair on the Titanic

New comment by taco_emoji in "Googlebook"

taco_emoji — Wed, 13 May 2026 13:17:58 +0000

Come on, I use widgets all the time! There's the weather one, and the Google search one at the bottom that I can't remove!

New comment by taco_emoji in "Googlebook"

taco_emoji — Tue, 12 May 2026 19:01:23 +0000

It can make widgets though! Imagine being able to track a flight, which is so difficult currently!

New comment by taco_emoji in "Googlebook"

taco_emoji — Tue, 12 May 2026 19:00:17 +0000

CongressBook it is!

New comment by taco_emoji in "Googlebook"

taco_emoji — Tue, 12 May 2026 18:51:47 +0000

No thanks!