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ElectricBoogie··on Making housing more affordable means your home's value will have to come down
Investment banks will just buy up any affordable housing.
ElectricBoogie··on Making housing more affordable means your home's value will have to come down
Well, I'm against affordable housing then. Let Blackrock, who bought over 40% of the single family homes on the market, take it on the chin. Perhaps we can do a fire sale of corporate-owned homes.

This has made me determined to fight affordable housing even more so. I'd also like to ask, why is British journalism so shit tier? It's a fucking joke.

ElectricBoogie··on Yerba mate, from Paraguay to Syria
I tried it, it's quite bitter and grassy. Not sure if it was the brand or how I made it, or if that's how it's supposed to be.
ElectricBoogie··on Addition with flamethrowers – why game devs don't unit test
Unit testing is something large organizations do to hire more devs than they need, and make them spend more time on any given project.
ElectricBoogie··on TSMC Has a Kill Switch in the event of a Chinese invasion
CIA doesn't trust this, will use military to blow up TSMC in the event the Chinese invade. But the Chinese will just keep slowly taking over the US government, making this policy of questionable use. LOL.
ElectricBoogie··on Yerba mate, from Paraguay to Syria
Tisane.
ElectricBoogie··on Bored students can now enjoy Sonic 2 on TI-84 Plus CE calculators
It's too bad this wasn't written for the TI-92, which being a 68k is actually capable of blast processing.
ElectricBoogie··on Fixing My Yamaha Electone Me-50: An FM Synthesizer Home Organ from 1986
I recently saw one of these at a thrift shop. It very well could be the same unit. I'm more into "real" synths, I was mainly impressed by the number of buttons and the dual manuals.
ElectricBoogie··on Last major Arabic-style mosque in China loses its domes
The domes are a pre-Islamic Arabian feature common on temples in the area.
ElectricBoogie··on The Keychron K11 Max
Well this is blocked by Cloudflare for me, but it looks like I lucked out because it's just an ad.
ElectricBoogie··on Startup is about to install bladeless rooftop wind turbines on box buildings
I'm glad they're sticking these only on box buildings, other shapes might not work so well.
ElectricBoogie··on A floppy disk MIDI boombox: The Yamaha MDP-10
Game composers usually composed their music on a MIDI workstation keyboard, sometimes only preparing a final mix on a Sound Canvas (or GUS etc). So it may be that using a higher end synthesizer is closer to the way the developer intended the music to be.

I don't think this is a huge problem though, waveforms on sound ROMs are normalized so their peak loudness is as loud as she goes, no matter what the synthesizer. Even Sound Canvas models have different sound ROMs over time, and Gravis (and later, Creative et al) shipped enhanced GM sound fonts as well. I just like instruments to sound more authentic. I understand though if people want that Roland Sound Canvas sound too, or MT32 even. MT32 still can't be properly emulated. I own the real deal and it sounds much better than MUNT. Hats off to the MUNT team but like most (all?) software emulations of hardware synthesizers, something is missing.

ElectricBoogie··on A floppy disk MIDI boombox: The Yamaha MDP-10
It's a common misconception that GM has to sound bad. Consumer GM units used the smallest sound ROMs they could get away with, lower quality DACs, etc. But you could fire up GM on your Kurzweil K2000, your Quadrasynth, your Roland, or Yamaha professional level synthesizers and workstations and the same GM programs would sound amazing.

For less than a higher end Sound Canvas, you can get a real professional synth with a much bigger and better sound ROM, better DACs, better effects, etc.

ElectricBoogie··on Ask HN: How do you explain LLMs to those *still* unfamiliar?
"A stupid computer is trained to appear intelligent by predicting the next word."
ElectricBoogie··on Kernel.org servers infected with backdoors for two years from 2009
AHEM... opsec fail.