jaystraw's comments

On: Show HN: Waveform Playlist v5 – Multi-track Web Audio editor (React and Tone.js)

[jaystraw]

hey! i'll try to be succinct: i'm a recovering programmer trying to get waveform-playlist to work. i haven't used node since probably 2012, and i've never used react. learning curve. so i signed up for claude, to get waveform working for my band's recording computer up here in alaska.

claude...was useless. for me. i felt stupider, honestly. so googling, and finding this, seeing you wrote this with claude...talk about irony heh.

anyway. my github is jaystraw, but it's attached to an email i lost the domain for forever ago (but just got back because of this rabbit hole! no email yet though, used to self-host ugh) so i couldn't get a hold of you there. and since your hn account doesn't have contact info -- here i am. prostrating myself. my email's thisiswherejunkgoes@gmail.com if you have any time to reach out. thank you.

On: USGS uses machine learning to show large lithium potential in Arkansas

[jaystraw]

could be artificial precision coming from degs min sec to decimal??

On: Linux from Scratch

[jaystraw]

to anyone confused why others find this fun or worthwhile, i will quote brak's dad: "you just don't get it, das all"

On: Vanishing Culture: Preserving Cookbooks

[jaystraw]

my birthday's tomorrow, and a friend said she'd make me any desert i wanted. i knew exactly what i wanted: my grandma's creme de menthe cake. i hadn't seen the recipe in a couple of years -- her handwritten notes made my heart smile and ache. ellybaa might not be here anymore, but she lives on <3

On: Breakthrough a step toward revealing hidden structure of prime numbers

[jaystraw]

i'm glad they got excited about number theory, but how would improved factoring algorithms destroy capitalism??

On: How I got my laser eye injury

[jaystraw]

like finishing a comment with, "we walked away with all our fingers -- perfect to flip the safety officer the bird"

On: How I got my laser eye injury

[jaystraw]

hopes and seams

On: How I got my laser eye injury

[jaystraw]

that's what i was going to say. and while you can use barn doors and lenses to hone the throw (the size of the beam on stage) -- it's not collimated like a laser is. even with parabolic reflectors like par cans. we're talking magnifying glass and the energy at the focal point (minus what the air absorbs for a given wavelength etc)

On: Every company should be owned by its employees

[jaystraw]

time preference slash discounting. so not sure what you mean by "have no market price" bezos is worth XX billion, but not if he tries to sell it all at once

[Gormo → jaystraw]

If the shares can't be sold, there's no market for them, hence no market price.

On: NASA Graphics Standards Manual (1975)

[jaystraw]

cops still stealing skateboards? i explained packet switching to my friend today, he got it which was cool -- but on the ebb of the topic i said that without it, the world today would be way, way different. i dunno, i dunno what you expected. i'm 1986, and am continually beside myself. about what's possible, not neccesarily what's implemented.

[_kb → jaystraw]

Every astonishing feat of humanity is built on a tower of accreted now mundane technology (with that word meant in the wider sense, not computers).