Yes.

Anti scraping measures are making it more difficult to use the web. I can't load a single GitHub pull request without being accused of botting.

> I can't load a single GitHub pull request without being accused of botting.

The only time I encountered this was after a power outage when my ISP's DHCP server handed me a new IP that was tainted. It felt like every major website was suddenly full of captchas.

Eventually I had to unplug the router for 24 hours until the ISP let go of my DHCP reservation. When I reconnected it gave me a new IP and the problems went away.

They already have this data. See jukebox from OpenAI, released before chatgpt.

Can someone explain why C#/Db (major/minor) is the third most popular key? Very unexpected for me, since its relatively more difficult to play.

Both C#m and Db can be played on piano using only the black keys (skipping the 3rd note of the scale). This makes them easy keys for beginners. I'm not sure if that's the reason, but it could be related.

Anecdotally, I know a few vocalists that sound great in these keys and use them as a starting point

> Both C#m and Db can be played on piano using only the black keys (skipping the 3rd note of the scale)

For the major scale, there are 7 notes in the scale and only 5 black keys; you also need to skip ti, the 7th note.

For the minor scale ("C#m"), it's worse; only four of the five black keys are part of that scale.

And I would have thought that something intended to be played only on the black keys would be described as using a pentatonic scale anyway?

As a belated followup, I should observe that if you're playing "in C sharp minor" on the black keys, you're skipping notes 3, 6, and 7 of the scale... and those are the only notes that differ between a minor scale and a major scale, making the "minor" designation completely meaningless.

For electronic music, it's around the lowest bass root note that most systems can play well without a subwoofer. C pretty much requires a sub and things rarely go lower than that.

Electronic dance music is the biggest genre in the data. So then easy to play shouldn't matter. It's still an interesting question. I think playing Db is pretty nice on the piano even if it's not the easiest.

There is a sweet spot for the bass. Lower is better for deep bass, but too low and it stops being a recognizable note, and consumer speakers can't reproduce it. This effect exists though I'm not sure if it is the cause of the pattern here.

i believe the most popular reason is capo on 1st fret when writing songs, other factors coming 2nd or 3rd (electronic music, sped up old samples, etc)

Difficult to play in what instrument?

C# I don’t believe was/is a common tuning for most western instruments, classical or modern.

A digital piano can transpose things to make it “easier” to play.

Cursory google search says that a sitar is traditionally tuned to something useful for c#

I’m curious if C# is one of those notes that lines up nicely with whatever crappy consumer stereos/subs were capable of reasonable reproducing in the 90s as electronic music was taking off and it stuck around as a tribal knowledge for getting more “oomph” out of your tracks.

Ironic. But its working for me.

You might want to mention that you are a competitor.

thought you were being flip or assuming that, but checked their profile and you are right. I agree that this should be disclosed in their comment.

How do you know that?

All of their comments are either a) "this OCR is bad", or b) "here is my team's OCR, it is good". Quite blatant.

Chatgpt 5.2 thinking is significantly better quality for most knowledge work, but it trades off in speed.

That has been my experience. Primarily because it is allowed to expend far more test-time tokens than Gemini 3.0 Pro to solve the same prompt.

And GPT costs 4x as much

It really depends on the complexity of code. I've found models (codex-5.1-max, opus 4.5) to be absolutely useless writing shaders or ML training code, but really good at basic web development.

Interesting, I've been using Claude Max with UE5 and while it isn't _brilliant_ with shaders I can usually get it to where I want. Also had a bit of success with converting HLSL shaders to GLSL with it.

I've asked it to write some non-trivial three.js code and have not gotten it to succeed.

i got it to write some shaders in js and some three.js and it fixed something I had previously never been able to do.

Which is no surprise as the data for web development stuff exists in large amounts on the web that the models feed off.

I saw the same post on Reddit and was so tempted to purchase it, but I live in the US. Cool to see it wasn't a scam!

We can get around tariffs, if that is your concern.

Honestly I wasn't going to drop ~10k USD on an unknown seller that was from another country.

There is always some risk in business and life itself...

12-15 hours of recording is maybe 2 weeks usage for heavy users. It would've been perfect if it could connect to computers and had a rechargeable battery. Oh well, hope someone else takes inspiration and makes the same thing but can recharge.

> It would've been perfect if it could connect to computers

If their goal truly is "New Pebble", then surely something that could connect to a phone could connect to a computer, granted you have the available radios connected to your computer. Seems to be BT in this case.

> and had a rechargeable battery

Yeah, seems like a weird thing to do, but I guess trying to solve this would make the device a lot harder. Hoping at least there will be a DIY route to replace the batteries, I don't have the will to be sending back an electrical device every second month because the battery died, and then waiting for a new device to arrive in the mail.

Edit: I was just about to ask if you think they'll send the replacement device before you've sent in the one that had the expired battery, but now I realize it isn't even clear if they expect us to buy a brand new device when the battery runs out, or if they provide a replacement? The former would be an absolutely bananas proposition.

It's very clear that you have to buy a new one.

> Before the battery runs out, the Pebble app notifies and asks if you’d like to order another ring.

Yeah, that changed my outlook to slightly above neutral to kind of disgusted if so. It's a disposable dictation ring?

That would be a minute of recording for every 22-28 minutes. That is some seriously heavy use. Especially considering that doesn't include sleep.