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chaosmachineon Boards of Casio

The original author of the patches (oliveoil22) is on the KeyOsc forum, if you're interested: https://forum.keyosc.com/topic/2293-casio-cz-101-the-90s-key...

Disclaimer: I'm an admin there.

chaosmachineon Show HN: I Built a $1 Escalating Internet Billboard – Called Space

Inspired by the million dollar homepage?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Million_Dollar_Homepage

chaosmachineon I wasted weeks hand optimizing assembly because I benchmarked on random data

This reminds me of Benford's law[1]

"Benford's law, also known as the Newcomb–Benford law, the law of anomalous numbers, or the first-digit law, is an observation that in many real-life sets of numerical data, the leading digit is likely to be small."

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benford%27s_law

chaosmachineon BrainGPT turns thoughts into text

Aside from all the horrific implications, this enables something very cool: two-way telepathic communication.

Think your message, think "send", hear responses via earbud. With voice cloning, you even get the message in the sender's voice. Totally silent and invisible to outside observers.

chaosmachineon AWS us-east-1 down

If you're having problems accessing the console, the workaround is just to use a different region, eg:

https://ca-central-1.console.aws.amazon.com/console/home

This assumes you don't actually need anything from us-east-1, though :)

chaosmachineon Joe Rogan Interviews Steve Jobs

Another podcast has already been doing deepfake celebrity interviews with ai-written scripts (but with a humorous tone) for a few months:

https://m.soundcloud.com/jn2022

They're all hosted by a fake Lex Fridman. The Elon Musk ones sound pretty convincing.

chaosmachineon Microsoft Validation OS

https://xemu.app/

chaosmachineon Exposure to 835MHz RF-EMF induces hyperactivity and demyelination in mice (2017)

Is it? The Pixel 6 has a SAR of 1.4 W/Kg.

chaosmachineon Antiplatelet and anticoagulant therapy resolves long covid in 24 patients

> I've never had COVID but I did get the mRNA vaccines + booster.

> my heart goes into light arrhythmia all too frequently. It used to be maybe once or twice a year I'd notice 1-3 seconds of "off-beat" heart pattern. All of of a sudden it's a few times a week. I'm also getting older (entering mid 30's now)

This is my situation exactly, starting a few weeks after getting my second booster (Moderna). I've read enough anecdotes and news reports to believe there are many people dealing with this:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/myocarditis-ottawa-mrn...

https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/she-thought-she-wa...

It gradually improved (enough to stop waking me up), but I still get a lot more "off-beats" than I used to. Got my third booster recently (Pfizer), so far no major regressions.

chaosmachineon AWS Console Unavailable

It's working if you use a regional endpoint: https://us-west-2.console.aws.amazon.com/console/home

chaosmachineon Ask HN: Does anyone use keyboard/mouse extra buttons for coding?

On my laptops (Windows and Mac) I remap right-ctrl/right-alt to home/end. Couldn't live without it, I use them hundreds of times a day to jump around code and the command line. Also very handy when combined with shift to select everything before/after your cursor.

chaosmachineon Our lawsuit against ChessBase

I really like Listudy for drills, it imports from Lichess studies (which you can create from PGNs):

https://listudy.org/

Also Opening Tree for bulk analysis:

https://www.openingtree.com/

They're both free and open source.

chaosmachineon Math Problems for children from 5 to 15 (2004) [pdf]

Since none of the replies so far have it correct, here's a spoiler:

https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1594740/v-i-arnold-...

chaosmachineon The Aphex Face (2010)

Nice to see this here 20 years later, I'm the "chaosmachine" mentioned in the article :)

chaosmachineon Show HN: Minimal 3D creative coding tool – control 8×8×8 dots with JavaScript

My best:

  tan(i*t/999)*(~~(t*24%7)==i%7)

https://doersino.github.io/tixyz/?code=tan%28i*t%2F999%29*%2...

Play with the frame rate ("24") for some interesting effects.

Edit: One more:

https://doersino.github.io/tixyz/?code=sin%28i*t%2F999%29*%2...

chaosmachineon Show HN: Video Game in a Font

Perhaps the most interesting consequence of this game design is that you can edit the past, changing a single decision while leaving your other choices in place.

For example, it's possible to go back to the beginning of the input box and edit your character selection while keeping the rest of your gameplay in place.

Seems like this could have a lot of potential as a puzzle game mechanic.

chaosmachineon M1 Mac owners are experiencing high SSD writes over short periods of time

16GB/1TB model, two months old:

  SMART/Health Information (NVMe Log 0x02)
  Critical Warning:                   0x00
  Temperature:                        24 Celsius
  Available Spare:                    100%
  Available Spare Threshold:          99%
  Percentage Used:                    0%
  Data Units Read:                    3,019,145 [1.54 TB]
  Data Units Written:                 3,392,635 [1.73 TB]
  Host Read Commands:                 55,076,557
  Host Write Commands:                29,421,973
  Controller Busy Time:               0
  Power Cycles:                       100
  Power On Hours:                     28
  Unsafe Shutdowns:                   16
  Media and Data Integrity Errors:    0
  Error Information Log Entries:      0

Doesn't seem too bad.

chaosmachineon Show HN: A beetle generator made by machine-learning zoological illustrations

"The laundry are converted into a mini central heating for every guest."

chaosmachineon An industrious mouse tidies up a retired electrician’s tool shed each night

Sounds like Zardulu

https://www.vox.com/culture/2017/4/24/14912316/zardulu-viral...

chaosmachineon Firefox moving to 4 week releases

According to my calculations, this means Firefox 100 will be released on 2022-03-08.

chaosmachineon You Can Now Download the New Open Source Windows Terminal

Alternatively, here's an open source terminal for windows that I really enjoy:

https://github.com/Eugeny/terminus/

chaosmachineon Google Fusion Tables Shutting Down

Google Fusion Tables and the Fusion Tables API will be turned down December 3, 2019

Anyone else put off by the ridiculous use of "turned down" here? "Turned off", maybe.

chaosmachineon Magnus Carlsen Beats Fabiano Caruana to Win World Chess Championship

Jerry is a phenomenal chess instructor. His latest video on tactical awareness[1] explains more in 2 hours than you might learn in a thousand games at the board.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzGKPxJ5NYI

chaosmachineon Hey Googlers, what is the significance of 7bbb41211116?

It's the right length for a mac address:

7b:bb:41:21:11:16

chaosmachineon Through-Wall Human Pose Estimation Using Radio Signals

"Attacks only get better".

chaosmachineon Show HN: A list of short, available .app domains

Most of the shorter ones are "premium", unfortunately, that's just the way Google has priced them. I was able to get minus.app for about $60, though, roughly the same as a "non-premium" .io domain.

Which domain were you trying? About 30 have already been registered since I posted this, but it takes about 10 minutes for them to disappear from the list.

chaosmachineon Show HN: A list of short, available .app domains

Side note: as I was building this, I discovered that Google (the owner of the .app registry) seems to have banned registration of a bunch of interesting domains. This includes most swear words, street drugs, etc. Also on the list: gene.app, bacteria.app, pigeon.app, lens.app, and glove.app. Google Glove anyone? :)

chaosmachineon Boustrophedon

It's surprisingly difficult to stop my eyes from snapping back to the left side after each line.

chaosmachineon Ask HN: Which games are you playing in free time?

Chess

chaosmachineon The Case for HAL's Sanity

Permutation City is actually by Greg Egan.