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Used to write all meeting notes by hand to help me focus on the meeting and actually retain information. Fell out of the habit but must get back into it! Definitely helps especiall…

Very good. Full details of the development of Test Cards J and W here, which I read years ago and thoroughly enjoyed: https://web.archive.org/web/20100123102758/http:/www.barney-..…

The thing is, vinyl (and tape) typically can't reproduce waveforms like that accurately, so it's difficult to compare. You can take a hyper-compressed master, cut it to vinyl or re…

yes, they mostly use a digital delay, although some mastering houses still have a reel-to-reel equipped with an extra 'preview' head that gives the required lookahead for the lathe…

Hah this is getting worse and worse

A depressing thought that all that work is just so you can "command AIs better"

before Affinity was a "loss leader" for Canva, it was a profitable suite of applications in its own right

Actually yes, I have all windows overlapping and none expanded to fill the screen, unless I'm really doing something very specific that needs as much space as possible. But the rou…

Apart from the bit where he was hospitalised for "full manic psychosis", you mean?

If you think this is anything like working with a bright junior developer then i simply can't understand why.

Do you not find that depressing and sad? Do you never work with enthusiastic and talented junior developers at the start of their careers? Do you not enjoy interacting with them?

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I enjoyed that too when I was a youngster but there are good reasons why it is impractical for day to day work.

FidoNet was great fun. Despite finding it difficult to remember any useful numbers in my life (credit card, NI etc) I can still remember my FidoNet addresses from when I was a youn…

it's fascinating / astonishing

How on earth does this count as "clean room" in any way, when many open-source Z80 emulators will without doubt have been part of its training data?

I am bound to say that turning to another large language model to seek some insight into the original output is unlikely to convince those of us for whom it is all completely meani…

I struggle to see anything good or interesting about any of this. "Here's a conversation I had with a large language model and here's the completely uninteresting artwork that resu…

Saw it in the British Library a few years ago. Hopefully the new owner is as generous with loaning it out to public museums as the current one.

Agree totally. Reminiscent of the Paul Erdös reaction to the proof of the Four Colour Problem. It's been quite good reading these comments because a lot of them have put into words…

Yes I remember your comment to that effect on the last thread that touched on this topic! From memory I think I was ten years after you and either I had different expectations or t…

the Oxford joint schools degree was called "Mathematics and Computation" for many, many years

Extremely enjoyable place to visit. Unique and intriguing atmosphere within.

yes it's hard to understand why people feel the need to do this and I worry it's just going to become ubiquitous and ruin everything

There are quite a few of these on the Victoria line, one next to my friend's house and it is really really noisy!