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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 constraints. There is a huge difference in quality when hearing a pair of Allison One speakers, or AKG K1000 headphones over an airpod.

Some engineers believe in speaker wire improvements, most don't. Some even openly acknowledge they don't believe but use premium wires to satisfy customers' demands. Most audio forums outright ban the discussion of speaker wire because it's so contentious.

Dismissing the industry that supports audio engineering is dismissing the disciplines of circuit, materials, and sound engineering.

Sure, there are extremes and charlatans out there like the guys who sell magic rocks, but wtf, some of you pay for skins to play in a mmog.

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

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.

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

Em dashes —once the sign of a sophisticated writer— were prominent in The New York Times.

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 _some_ of the way there. Film grain is still missing and that adds a lot of character.

I would love to get deeper into large format photography. The few 4x5 negatives I've taken are breathtaking in their detail.

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

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.

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.

Fortunately, some distros adopted their kernel optimizations; Pop_os, I think you can find it branched in Arch, not sure if others.

If any of the team are on this thread; thank you.

There were beautiful posters in that slop series too.

GenAI and creativity — this doesn't have to be a dichotomy.

He even has a website: BekerBots http://www.bekerbots.com/thebots.htm

Thank you both, this is exactly the illustrator!

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 took a chance on a future trend and an excited, troubled young boy. I know that this sounds silly, but I have tears in my eyes now. Thank you.

And, thank you for providing so many interesting paths to explore as well. You are the best, and I sincerely appreciate your help.

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!

TAB books does seem to be the publisher of the book of the month series, thank you for that!

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...

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!

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 shaped for a purpose. Cartoony, but cool.

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

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 think. Was about 1/3 of what the listed price is here.

[1] https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?ds=20&kn=how%...

[2] https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?ds=20&kn=read...

[3] https://www.abebooks.com/book-search/title/audels-carpenters...

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..

Thank you!

Are you referring to something other than a female chicken?

Quebec City too.

I sure wish we still did.

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.

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.

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 cracked that in a while.

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