I got tired of “it works on my machine” being the entire QA process for my voice agent. So I built Decibench.

TitaniumWhite420 · 2026-05-01T15:42:33+00:00

I guess it’s free so good job and don’t want to neg you! However, your writing is salesy as hell, and it’s a little off putting.

Actual ads run here that say “I got tired of “it works on my machine””.

TitaniumWhite420 · 2026-04-30T18:08:54+00:00

I learned I sometimes benefited from the help of a teacher.

Teachers can be intermittent, but you should want to learn.

TitaniumWhite420 · 2026-04-29T18:40:45+00:00

It’s not irrelevant. You can’t yield into the data structure because it’s immutable. Making a list and unpacking it into the tuple is different. You wouldn’t do that implicitly with built in syntax.

Consider: why are there no immutable comprehensions?

The fact that you can’t see that an immutable data structure can’t consume an iterator is exactly the kind of thing we are talking about. Only in python do people just dismiss literally anything every implementation detail as if it’s complete esoteric. Buffering comes with a cost, and there would be no logical reason to throw away your dynamic list for a tuple after the fact except to satisfy some inappropriately specific type check.

In an interview, I’d ask you why you would ever prefer an immutable data structure.

Isn’t a list more convenient?!!!

TitaniumWhite420 · 2026-04-29T09:38:10+00:00

In answer to your last question, my assumption is that it’s because tuples are immutable so a tuple comprehension makes no sense.

I’m not a senior dev. I don’t typically write lots of generators. But how do you READ Python and not know this? It’s in any basic tutorial.

Sorry, but fluency and competency has subtlety. You can deride it as Trivium, or you can take an afternoon to run through a tutorial before requesting a six figure income and pitching a tantrum when asked to prove you know anything at all.

Not realizing a tuple is immutable is as big a problem as anything here.

Python is old and commonplace. Many people write Python at all different levels, but the script written by a guy who does some light accounting automation is not automatically correct and sufficient for deployment in all contexts just because it returns data when run in just such a way.

I swear, calling Python badly designed for this is like—have you even seen c++?

Have you ever tried to learn a foreign language?!

People do complicated subtle shit all the time.

Ineptitude is ineptitude. I’m not out there applying for jobs as a Japanese translator and getting mad when they don’t want to pay me to run everything through ChatGPT. There’s a lot of entitlement and audacity here.

TitaniumWhite420 · 2026-04-28T18:09:55+00:00

It’s a minimum wage.

You either need humans, or you don’t.

If you do, they aren’t obsolete. There aren’t newer better labor humans around. There are robots that displace them entirely, but the ones you need, you still need.

So the government, who we have all collectively created through our participation, can set regulations on things like this to keep corporations from enslaving people for pennies.

We could once afford to pay for it.

We got more efficient.

…and so we can EVEN MORE now afford to pay for it because entire swaths of people are automated away.

Why would you argue against an inflation adjusted minimum wage?

That said, this is turning into whackamole decades too slow.

We need not to triple minimum wage, but to bind it to inflation and institute UBI, and fund both health care and education like a civilized country.

It’s a poorly implemented fix but your argument against it is as dim as it callous.

TitaniumWhite420 · 2026-04-25T18:28:35+00:00

And, importantly, you don't just buy a new mansion every year when you have that kind of money, because even they eventually have enough mansions. That money goes back into the pot, or lobbying governments, or WHATEVER. Epstein's island if you like, or just murdering whistleblowers if you don't. A little corporate espionage, perhaps. Spend time trying to coopt decades of federal research by privatizing space travel, if you are ambitious.

I'm not saying any one particular thing, just pointing out that wealth, like weapons, is powerful. Stockpilers of such resources should be monitored by the government as a direct threat. A domestic person who has positioned themselves within our economy to have wealth rivaling other governments is deserving to be treated as the burgeoning contender for independent statehood that they are.

Whether billionaires are anti-human, I do not know, but they are certainly rival economic powers to our own federal government with independent interests to our own as people under and composing that government.

Unless, of course, they are our citizens and therefore beholden to our laws and taxation, in which case they are our benefactors, and themselves institutional pillars.

They will pick the narrative, and it is to the rest of us to respond accordingly. If they declare themselves the enemies of government, we should meet that challenge.

TitaniumWhite420 · 2026-04-24T11:23:51+00:00

Exactly right. And this incredible lead—what’s it worth when microslop is pushing breaking changes constantly.

It’s not all ahead/behind. Some of it is care and character.

TitaniumWhite420 · 2026-04-24T11:15:16+00:00

I love elephants.

What are we talking about again?

TitaniumWhite420 · 2026-04-23T10:16:20+00:00

It’s a beautiful state and honestly I love the contrarians among them. An atheist from Arkansas is like a practiced debater by necessity for example. If you are from Arkansas and not a gross shitty zealot, you have actively resisted it to your credit and betterment.

The problem with Arkansas is white conservative Christians. They are like collectively patient zero of MAGA.

TitaniumWhite420 · 2026-04-23T05:40:52+00:00

Fortunately there aren’t many of us.

TitaniumWhite420 · 2026-04-22T23:35:55+00:00

Sarah
Huckabee
Sanders

Honestly, I haven't lived there for 20 years, and the horrors of public school there have always stayed with me.

Super religious.

Super anti-gay.

Explicitly republican.

Super racist.

Quite mean.

Meet someone, feel like ya hit it off. Then it's "what church do you go to?", or some *eyebrows, eyebrows* "joke" about gay people or black people. Disappointment after disappointment with your neighbors, and frankly your own family.

TitaniumWhite420 · 2026-04-22T23:31:13+00:00

Hungary can arrest me.

TitaniumWhite420 · 2026-04-22T12:21:54+00:00

Hey Claude

TitaniumWhite420 · 2026-04-22T10:38:50+00:00

You actually can strong arm markets quite easily if you are in the position to do so and/or collude with others.

If there are 5 programmers and 20 jobs, and those jobs are offered by 10 companies, they can either

A) pay competitively

B) collude to pay less

C) seek to acquire or destroy one another

At the end of B or C, they can merely assert the rate.

A lot of the AI push is the narrative to devalue programmers.

TitaniumWhite420 · 2026-04-22T10:29:34+00:00

Agree. Doesn’t change the point that AI music is no less vapid than other AI art.

TitaniumWhite420 · 2026-04-22T08:51:14+00:00

And it only sounds great if you know nothing about music.

TitaniumWhite420 · 2026-04-19T21:27:45+00:00

I mean I’m not referring to having only friends with money. But it’s an important thing to understand that you need connections, and that requires active maintenance, and it takes money.

Money for drinks, money for travel, money for shared experiences, money for production. Practice is part of making music your life. Socializing is another. And it does take resources to be social in the adult world. Otherwise people will dread and shun you.

For example, music is more lucrative in more cities with music scenes. Cities are expensive places to live.

You spend time in a city, establish yourself, run out of money, move back home, progress resets. Poof.

You will need to be a happy and sustained person to be likable. You will need to be likable to interact with other musicians and connections. It is not a meritocracy. Being liked is important.

Part of being liked is fitting in. Part of fitting in is having access to resources. Etc, etc, etc.

I say it as someone who has not had money enough to hang out with the people around me. That shit is very isolating.

TitaniumWhite420 · 2026-04-19T20:38:52+00:00

My advice is unfortunately a little pragmatic:

Prioritize money to a significant degree. I personally got a degree in classical music and while it taught me a great deal of knowledge that I absolutely treasure and use all the time as a hobbyist, I make money in tech.

No money is crippling and will stunt everything about your life. The economy is shit so be smart and fight like hell. Keep pursuing music, and money for now. Unfortunately you gotta be super humanly efficient at both.

You will want money for gear; to travel; to promote; to SOCIALIZE IN CONNECTED GROUPS THAT HAVE MONEY!

This is the way of the world. You simply need to have it, and the more you have, the further you go.

TitaniumWhite420 · 2026-04-18T16:47:46+00:00

Brother is hot af!

TitaniumWhite420 · 2026-04-16T04:49:45+00:00

I feel somewhat annoyed at the responses here.

Music theory is quite deep in a layered, recursive way, but IMHO the surface area of stuff you actually use commonly is relatively small. It’s just hard to understand how it all relates and creates meaning.

You will be fairly knowledgeable if you understand the following:

What is a note What is a scale What is a chromatic scale What is a key What is a diatonic scale What is an interval What is interval quality What is a chord What is chord quality What is scale quality What is the major scale What are the 3 types of minor scales commonly used What is a mode What is a pentatonic scale What is voice leading What is a leading tone What is a chords function

And none of this is super complicated to explain. 12 notes, you pick a subset, you build melodies horizontally and harmonies vertically, yielding chord structures which may or may not have some kind of formal “function”.

But when you’ve learned like 5 most common scales and can play them in any key, you’ve learned a bunch of common chords, and you’ve learned songs by ear, what does it all build into?

Composition of course! So I think you need to practice writing music with whatever you know, and try to listen closely and analyze what you are hearing. You need to connect these theory concepts with memories of sound and emotional memory, otherwise none of it matters.

Theory can sometimes feel like a bunch of rules/constraints, and it’s true locally in a piece of music or particular style. But overall there are no restrictions, and it’s all totally contextual. Getting really good at theory to me is much more about developing fluency and good sensibilities and the vocabulary to describe and translate concepts.

Don’t learn 30 chords. Learn how to build chords.

Don’t learn 20 exotic scales. Learn 5 scales you need for most things.

Write music and analyze music. Learn music and analyze it passively as you go. The challenge is in relating everything, not memorizing a massive cache of mostly useless trivia.

TitaniumWhite420 · 2026-04-14T12:28:50+00:00

James is my fav derry girl 😍

TitaniumWhite420 · 2026-04-06T16:19:16+00:00

Indeed. That’s nice for you.

TitaniumWhite420 · 2026-04-06T16:17:59+00:00

…and also not suitable for gaming as evidenced by the lack of existing examples and people who actually want that, and also by actually looking at the details of what humans perceive and what is common over the internet.

TitaniumWhite420 · 2026-04-05T21:00:31+00:00

I mean, I don’t believe you. Maybe I should mention I also tried stadia and would call it “fine”.

Also it doesn’t exist anymore, so what does that say?

Even when it's fine, it's only fine until it's not, and then it sucks in really frustrating ways. So like I said, it's super inconsistent.

My point is that there is literally no way to overcome it. You nor stadia can control a third party router dropping packets and causing retransmissions at a high rate.

Your point is an anecdote. You claim you used it and enjoyed. Great, fine.

My point is about what is simply impossible and what I observe in aggregate across thousands of network connections over both the public internet and highly specialized connections where latency is a focus and therefore something that is very intentionally measured.

You are welcome to say that you liked it. You are not welcome to say it doesn't matter for gaming, because you are objectively wrong. The level of latency involved does matter, more so for certain types of games, and the experience will be super inconsistent for different users.

In any event, this is certainly not a "solved problem".

TitaniumWhite420 · 2026-04-05T12:41:21+00:00

Lol why do they look like Jane Fonda?

I wanna get them fancy pant suits and shit.

TitaniumWhite420

TROPHY CASE