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mestelanon OpenTPU – An open-source AI accelerator, developed by AI

What is FIRE here?

mestelanon Part-human part-mouse brain developed in science breakthrough

What sprang to mind was "The island of Dr Moreau".

mestelanon Buttplug MCP

back pressure

mestelanon AI is exhausting the power grid

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/25/microsoft-is-hiring-a-nuclea...

mestelanon Jazz Comping (2021)

> The best book on the matter I've read of how to learn by ear is "The Gift of Music" by Victor Wooten.

Do you confirm the name? I cannot find any reference to it. We do have 'The Music Lesson' and 'The Spirit of Music'.

mestelanon Ubuntu stops shipping Flatpak by default

silverblue ;-)

mestelanon The unknown language and letters of Hildegard von Bingen (2015)

Thanks. I also like this contemporary rendition by Heather Lee & Kim Cunio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cMtCHvwjAU

mestelanon Show HN: I “wrote” a kid's book with ChatGPT and Midjourney

It would be interesting to see whether a label emerges, to denote content created pre-chatGPT; ex: certified pre-2023 AI-free content.

Also, it would be possible to train bots on an archive of such material.(accordingly, out of date; so less useful in numerous ways).

mestelanon EXWM (Emacs X Window Manager)

I was thinking the same, but as the pictures on the EXWM site suggest: could you not run a dedicated instance for the window manager? And do all your other Emacs tasks in embedded instances, so that the former is not so likely to crash?

mestelanon AudioMass – free, open source, web-based Audio and Waveform editor

Great! No strong thoughts on a specific key. Maybe Shift-F, or Shift-F10? Or Esc-F, since another comment suggested Esc as a general prefix key?

mestelanon AudioMass – free, open source, web-based Audio and Waveform editor

The keyboard shortcuts are signalled in the menu; they are Shift-C and Shift-V

mestelanon AudioMass – free, open source, web-based Audio and Waveform editor

This is great, thanks. Is there a way to access the menu via a key shortcut?

mestelanon History of Logo

Their Twitter thread (to be found on the front page) recently announces a block-based interface, similar to Scratch, Snap... Example here: https://t.co/aZKscZAHCS

I am honestly wondering which of these alternatives I should start from, to introduce my 8 and 11 yo to programming. Maybe start obvious (so... Scratch, which is used at their school), then introduce the others as needed?

mestelanon Ask HN: How Can I Learn Music Theory?

Edited link: https://ianring.com/musictheory/scales/

mestelanon New Raspberry Pi 4 Firmware Lowers Temperature by 3-5°C

Useful link (in French): https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichCode.do;jsessionid=3897...

mestelanon New Raspberry Pi 4 Firmware Lowers Temperature by 3-5°C

A jacket will not prevent the cold air from hurting a respiratory system. After 1 hour with such cold AC, I will get a sore throat, and come back home with a heavy headache.

mestelanon New Raspberry Pi 4 Firmware Lowers Temperature by 3-5°C

Where is this, please?

mestelanon Luna Studio – Visual and textual functional programming language

Thank you; just had a "a ha" moment too! Very insightful.