Comment by rakejake

5 months ago

** Roast ***

* You've spent more time talking about your Carnatic raga detector than actually building it – at this rate, LLMs will be composing ragas before your detector can identify them.

* You bought a 7950X processor but can't figure out what to do with it – the computing equivalent of buying a Ferrari to drive to the grocery store once a week.

* You're so concerned about work-life balance that you took a sabbatical to think about your career, only to spend it commenting on HN about other people's careers.

*** End ***

I'll be in my room crying, in case anyone's looking for me.

My roast:

Roast You've spent so much time discussing Apple vs Microsoft that Tim Cook and Satya Nadella probably have a joint restraining order against you.

Your comments about HTTPS everywhere suggest you're the kind of person who wears a tinfoil hat... but only after thoroughly researching the optimal thickness for blocking government signals.

You seem to have strong opinions about Flash - we get it, you're old enough to remember when websites had intro animations and your laptop could double as a space heater.

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Totally forgot about the flash debates of the early 2010s!

That sabbatical one is savage.

  • Funnily enough, I'm putting the 7950X to some use in the Carnatic Raga detector project since a lot of audio operations are heavy on CPU. But that last one nearly killed me. I'll have to go to Gemini or GPT for some therapy after that one.