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   by codpiece 7mo ago

   This article and these comments make a caricature of audiophiles, akin to mocking aeronautics because of a flat earther steam-powered rocket pilot. Audio equipment is produced by engineers and they create elegant solutions to physical const
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   by codpiece 8mo ago

   Respectfully, your positive view of an LLM writing marketing copy is akin to a marketer thinking an LLM codes really well.
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   by codpiece 1y ago

   Wow, is this awesome! I put in: Hugh Masekela, John Prine, and Ripe. It gave GREAT recommendations! Oliver Mtukudzi, Melting Palms I've never heard of either. Enjoy both. Sent the link to my son. Brilliant! Thank you.
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   by codpiece 1y ago

   I had no idea! I was a typesetter, we would have to manually create them using keyboard shortcuts on both systems.
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   by codpiece 1y ago

   Em dashes —once the sign of a sophisticated writer— were prominent in The New York Times.
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   by codpiece 1y ago

   Using older lenses can help bring some of that back. Nikon DLSRs use the F-mount, which is backwards-compatible for nearly all their old lenses. They introduce some analog beauty and quirks, like over-saturation and vignetting, getting you
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   by codpiece 1y ago

   It was still a fascinating aside, and it's not like HN stays on topic in a thread. I learned something today.
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   by codpiece 1y ago

   I have tried most of those and tend to go back to dify.ai. Open source, connects to remote endpoints, test up to 4 models at a time. I can create workflows that use multiple models to achieve different goals.
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   by codpiece 1y ago

   Clear Linux was fast and FUN to work with, and the team were highly responsive a few years ago. The mood on their community board changed and they got more terse in their focus and responses. You could kind of feel a change coming. Fortunat
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    by codpiece 1y ago

    There were beautiful posters in that slop series too. GenAI and creativity — this doesn't have to be a dichotomy.
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    by codpiece 1y ago

    He even has a website: BekerBots http://www.bekerbots.com/thebots.htm
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    by codpiece 1y ago

    Thank you both, this is exactly the illustrator!
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    by codpiece 1y ago

    HERE IT IS! HERE IT IS! https://www.atariarchives.org/basicgames/showpage.php?page=1... THANK YOU so much for your help! I remember typing this stuff out on my TRS-80, the one that Dad totally could not afford but he t
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    by codpiece 1y ago

    Oh, these are so great! It really does look like the illustrator! Especially this one: https://www.atariarchives.org/basicgames/showpage.php?page=9... Thank you!
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    by codpiece 1y ago

    TAB books does seem to be the publisher of the book of the month series, thank you for that!
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    by codpiece 1y ago

    Thanks! A bit different, but definitely worth exploring more. Here's a pretty close approximation of the illustrations: https://www.etsy.com/listing/4319242515/testors-robot-plasti...
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    by codpiece 1y ago

    I loved Byte magazine! Oh, that was the best. It was likely Popular Electronics where I found the Book of the Month club, but Hobby Electronics is a good path I'll investigate, thank you!
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    by codpiece 1y ago

    Sadly, no, but these look like pretty interesting reads! Its around that time period though. I think the book had an illustration of a robot/machine. They were very much non-humanoid, more like piles of mechanical and electronics shape
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    Ask HN: 80s electronics book club; anyone remember this illustrator?

    35 points by codpiece 1y ago|23 comments
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    by codpiece 1y ago

    No, don't do that. We all live in the same time. Please take it back before the Gods notice.
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    by codpiece 1y ago

    I know of a couple: - How to fix damned near everything [1] - Reader's Digest Fix it yourself [2] - Audel's Carpenters and Builders guide [3] That Audel's, my wife got me for Christmas a few years back at Lee Valley Tools, I
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    by codpiece 1y ago

    You write well. I loved my days in restaurants, and you capture it way better than I ever could. I wish I could go back, but its impossible..
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    by codpiece 1y ago

    Thank you!
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    by codpiece 1y ago

    Are you referring to something other than a female chicken?
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    by codpiece 2y ago

    Quebec City too.
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    by codpiece 2y ago

    I sure wish we still did.
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    by codpiece 2y ago

    I am nearly 60, and am excited to take your course! I congratulate you in finding a compelling way to teach Humanities that is relevant to today's society. Bravo.
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    by codpiece 2y ago

    I am getting started writing a blog, and this article is some of the most helpful I've read. Makes me feel OK to be quirky and unpolished when the rest of the world is making reaction faces and pointing at text to feed an algo.
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    by codpiece 2y ago

    Thanks! I used to have an old dictionary that traced the evolution of the letters, it was quite cool. There is a book 'Textual Scholarship' by Greetham that goes deep on the more modern letterforms like Uncial. I haven't crac
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    by codpiece 2y ago

    Hey, this looks good! I will try it out, and best of luck to you on your launch!