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Teknomadix··on California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops
No, that's Colorado.
Teknomadix··on Elektron Machinedrum in the Browser
Links??!!
Teknomadix··on Hitachi launches CO2 heat pump water heaters with solar-friendly tariff controls
I've been recharging the AC system on my vintage daily driver — a late 1960s Mercedes-Benz sedan — with common off the shelf campstove propane for 30 years. Keeps me cool regardless of outside Los Angeles heat. Requires a bit of care while doing a recharge, but it's nothing too crazy. My grandfather ran a dairy farm in Connecticut, he showed me this trick in the 80s. We used propane to keep all the cooling equipment in the milk houses running smooth back then. I'm curious about isobutane now.
Teknomadix··on Playing mario 64 using a fly's brain
https://xcancel.com/barrelshifter/status/2097004115826200898...
Teknomadix··on FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses
This is essentially how my Estonian ID card works. The ID card is inserted into a USB smartcard reader and grants access to identity verification an thus access to services.
Teknomadix··on Ask HN: Hugging Face is out. Who is hosting open models?
Data.
Teknomadix··on The coolest anti-surveillance tools at Defcon [video]
https://toorcamp.org/
Teknomadix··on Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down
Indeed. Donald Trump is only the visible tip of an iceberg. Below the waterline it's a massive and all encompassing corruption, comprised of an organized multi-national cabal that touches every part of the globe and which has its roots in the world starting well before WWI. The goal of which appears has always been to enrich the people on the inside while sewing chaos. To these figures, war and peril have always been more profitable than making peace.

https://annas-archive.gl/md5/2275fbf2d96f518e54c2b72edf163f8...

Teknomadix··on Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative
GIT over Reticulum has been my major focus recently. Check it out! https://reticulum.miraheze.org/wiki/Rngit
Teknomadix··on Fasttracker II clone in C using SDL 2
Um, no. Let's set the record straight. Creative bought Ensoniq in '98 for just shy of $78 million, so by early 2000 the "Ensoniq crap" shipping in OEM boxes was Creative's own product. The AudioPCI ES1370/ES1371 got rebadged as the Sound Blaster PCI64 and PCI128. Creative had already absorbed E-mu Systems in '93, and the EMU8000 on the AWE32/AWE64 was E-mu silicon. Both of these American sampler houses ended up under the Creative Labs roof, so framing Ensoniq as the cheap alternative to Creative in 2000 is totally backwards. Ensoniq was just the volume tier of Creative's own lineup. You're off on the timeline. AWE32 is '94, AWE64 is '96, both were ISA. By early 2000 those were legacy cards on a dying bus architecture, and the enthusiast ask was a SB Live! with the EMU10K1, or an Aureal Vortex 2 if you cared about A3D and had deep pockets. Specifying an AWE64 in 2000 would have gotten you an obsolete card. Also the term is Windows Sound System, the Microsoft AD1848/CS4231 codec standard, and AudioPCI is not a WSS part. It has its own PCI driver stack with legacy SB emulation bolted on, and it genuinely sucked, ran its wavetable in host CPU and system RAM off the ECW patch sets rather than dedicated hardware, and its DOS Sound Blaster emulation was mediocre compared to a cheap ISA card.

Ensoniq was an amazing engineering powerhouse before the demise. In late 1994 I got an Ensoniq Soundscape, at the time it was the most high-end wavetable card built around their OTTO chip (EPS-16+/ASR10), which I believe was a descendant of the Apple IIGS DOC, and it competed at the time with the Roland SCC-1 and the GUS.

Teknomadix··on Fasttracker II clone in C using SDL 2
Renoise Redux is already shipping a feature complete tracker you can easily run in Ableton or Bitwig.
Teknomadix··on Ask HN: What Linux distro do you daily drive?
NixOS everywhere. 12 machines and counting.
Teknomadix··on What I learned selling 2,500 MIDI recorders: Hardware is not so hard
Yet people do this all the time. Ask me how I know.
Teknomadix··on What I learned selling 2,500 MIDI recorders: Hardware is not so hard
Yes, please do!
Teknomadix··on An iroh powered smart fan
Why.
Teknomadix··on Farmer, marketer at odds over sales of white nectarines
White nectarines are gross IMO. Not even for free.
Teknomadix··on I found a malware hiding in my TailwindCSS config file
"I want to be honest about something..." This definitely reads like SLOP. It has got all those unmistakable formulations, patterning of certain phrases and lead in sentences. The signatures of slop.
Teknomadix··on (Planet Money, NPR) "We almost had a smartphone in the 90s. Why did it fail?"
Up close and personal with the Sony Magic Link in 2018 https://youtu.be/E1YTob2Ryl0
Teknomadix··on I found 10k GitHub repositories distributing Trojan malware
>The zip archive contains 4 files: Application.cmd or Launcher.cmd loader.exe or luajit.exe or another_name.exe random_name.cso or random_name.txt lua51.dll If you submit a link to the archive to VirusTotal, it will find 0 viruses. If you submit the zip file itself, it will detect a Trojan inside it.

MS Windows

Teknomadix··on Improvement in advanced Alzheimer’s disease following high-dose psilocybin
Highly editorialized title. "Transient multidomain functional improvement in advanced Alzheimer’s disease following high-dose psilocybin-containing mushroom administration: a case report" This is exactly that. A case report. This is not a successful treatment. Far short of that.
Teknomadix··on Pac-Man, but you're the ghost
Cool idea. Horrible controls. Reminds me of how frustrating playing pacman on my 2600 was as a kid.
Teknomadix··on What task are humans still better at than AI?
CAD / CAM & Machining. Co-bots help tremendously at the present, and once a job is 'running' it's very automateable, but getting a job to that point of automation takes tremendous human skill and efforts. Machining touches every physical thing around you. There exists huge potential for more machine learning and automation with coming generations of robotics and edge computation, yet we are a long ways from generalized robots and embodied "AI" that are be able to conceive a new part or whole machine from its parts and make it out of mill stock. LLMs alone will never accomplish that frontier.
Teknomadix··on Tell HN: I'm making 1K USD per hour with AI
So you do two websites over the course of a week. You must do cold calling and outreach to maintain that momentum. You are not making $1k/hr. You have a ~$50/hr side hustle before you've paid your ±35-45% taxes.
Teknomadix··on /architect: Reduce Fable tokens by 80%, Fable orchestrates/reviews, Codex builds
US Govt reduces Fable Tokens by 100%.
Teknomadix··on '8647' etched into grass on the National Mall
Space lasers.
Teknomadix··on American capitalism has taken an apocalyptic turn
Isn't there a better alternative to this archive site?
Teknomadix··on I Put a Datacenter GPU in My Gaming PC for £200
These are interesting, and offer beefy through put. No point in adapting to a PCI lane thought, stuck behind the slot-bus bottleneck.
Teknomadix··on I put a datacenter GPU in my gaming PC
Tesla V100 SXM2 16GB is NOT DGX class as the author writes. It's HGX class. The V100 comes in two classes, SXM2 and SXM4, the latter coming with a Max of 80gb on board memory. Typically these are installed 8×A100 80GB SXM4 on an HGX riser, and what that gives you is NVSwitch fabric and 640GB of pooled HBM2e (on package stacked memory /w ~2 TB/s of memory bandwidth). 2u standard rack footprint too.
Teknomadix··on Clay PCB Tutorial
Stoned punks for sure.
Teknomadix··on Airline worker arrested after sharing photos of bomb damage in WhatsApp group
So in other words; Mercedes-Benz was the peak, and he was estimating a decline trajectory slower than the rise.
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