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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 e…

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 …

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 a…

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…

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…

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…

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, tha…

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-humano…

In the early 80's in the US, a popular DIY electronics magazine had a book of the month club that I loved. Most were small and leather bound hardback with topics like: make your ow…

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 Chris…

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..