I opened up a mystery chip; it turned out to be a "switched capacitor filter" from 1984. Filters are important circuits, for example, adjusting the bass or treble in an audio signal. This chip, the MF10, was popular because it combined two filters into an easy-to-use chip. Let's take a closer look…

conventional wisdom for the entire time i've been programming has always been "less code is better". the idea that we must write more code faster is ridiculous. the problem has never been rate of output

It is no longer possible to experience any sense of accomplishment. Accomplishment is something a computer does for you.

It's been days and I still can't stop being so bummed about the new Fontaines D.C. video having "AI" visuals in it. Come on man

say what you will about the myriad valid concerns with current LLMs but I personally will never get over the fact that Aaron Swartz was prosecuted to his literal death for downloading JSTOR and then a decade later, they downloaded & ingested the entire world and our IP laws just went ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

a guy digitized some old 80s Italian ambient tapes and one of the guys who made the music saw it and swung into the comments to say thanks for doing this, we loved making music back then maybe we’ll do it again & man that’s a good feeling youtu.be/2XwkPbBtiAQ?...

TERRA DELLA SERA - 1980's ITALIAN AMBIENT SYNTH TAPES collection - 6,5 hours long

YouTube video by Jeroen van de Sande

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Finished Hunters of DUNE. I'm not a real picky reader so I think it was fine. Def read a little like a fan fic and I miss the style of Frank's writing a bit. Traded a lot of weird horniness for violence. I kinda don't believe whatever "outline" that was found for this story was very substantive

Oh this is exciting I never even considered this could be a thing

Octavi Navarro@octavinavarro.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Because the world needs some good news sometimes... Thimbleweed Park is back in 2028! With the original team! 🥳🥸🤡 www.grumpygamer.com/twp2_announce/ Wishlist now! store.steampowered.com/app/4932120/...

Well that's a wrap on all of Frank's DUNE books... I guess I'll try and wrap up Hunters & Sandworms and then I'm freeeee

I only just watched Event Horizon for the first time last year, loved it. RIP Sam Neill

Event Horizon Prout

Alt: Sam Neill crawling around in what looks like circuit board lined ventilation shaft from the move Event Horizon

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It seems like there's a type of guy that gets offended when the title of a song is not in the lyrics of the song

Censoring because I'm fearful of the gifs that might come my way if it was a quote. I'm dying lol

Well, he's just an excitable boy

You telling me a bi bimmed this bap

Some good work being done here by @nichemusicmemes.bsky.social on Insta (h/t: @maggieserota.bsky.social):

Quote with a ship that makes you happy? Gotta be The Flutter

WandelStock@wandelstock.bsky.social · 4mo ago

QTP with a ship that makes you happy... The original Discovery

I do not trust people who casually deploy "trailer trash" as an insult. Our interests are not aligned.

One Nintendo fan professed to enjoying all of the publisher’s music, apart from the Donkey Kong Country soundtrack and DK Rap. paletteswap.site/dif...

If Tesla can be sued over the naming of "Full Self Driving" we should be able to sue every company calling their product "Artificial Intelligence"

Pick a Bond from the photos you already have on your phone

Ken Plume@kenplume.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Pick a Bond from the photos you already have on your roll

I think I'm more shocked that anyone was using copilot than the cost or the subsidization

Ed Zitron@edzitron.com · 5mo ago

GitHub Copilot moves to token based billing on June 1, and its users have now got a calculator that shows how much they've been actually burning every month - some $39-a-month users have spent $1500 to $5800 in tokens a month. Microsoft's subsidies are insane. www.wheresyoured.at/premium-what...

I am really looking forward to reading this, I bet you would be too! Just a couple days left to fundraise let's get this printed!

Losty@aaronlosty.bsky.social · 5mo ago

We'r way 2 close 2 give up kck.st/4voxGu4 look at this team! art @soengery.bsky.social @michaelwalsh.bsky.social @plaest2k.bsky.social @planetsmudge.bsky.social @vor-bokor.bsky.social @connormakescomics.bsky.social Guest Writer @scumbelievable.bsky.social Letters @beccasee.bsky.social

The other memories

a woman with a scarf around her head has a tattoo on her face that says ' i 'm sorry '

Alt: Rebecca Ferguson as lady Jessica who is a bene gesserit from the DUNE series

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The Onion@theonion.com · 6mo ago

Apple Backs Up Tim Cook’s Memories To Port Over Into Next CEO

I just started this today, finished volume one. What an awesome and well executed vision for this setting and these characters. I was not prepared for just how subversive yeah amplifying it is to the mythology. Very cool.

Aftermath@aftermath.site · 10mo ago

I apologize, Absolute Batman, I wasn't familiar with your game aftermath.site/absolute-batma...

there is only one hope for humanity- the synthesizer

new TMBG hell ya

They Might Be Giants@tmbg.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Our new album is out today! A sincere request to help spread the word!

The stats on this are wild, everyone is coming out to (correctly) announce that this is peak treat. Has there ever been such a great alignment on values and has it ever been this deserving

Discontinued FoOoOods! 👻🎃@discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · 6mo ago

The classic, traditional ice cream sandwich. What's your take--Elite treat? Nasty trash? Somewhere in the middle?

The belief that any of these guys are going to create some kind of 'AGI' is so insane.

Ketan Joshi@ketanjoshi.co · 6mo ago

Putting aside Sam Altman just continuing to emit huge lies constantly, this is an amazing example of what I mean when I talk about how GenAI is replacing *extremely low energy* digital tasks with *WAY WAY HIGHER ENERGY* replacements that *do not even work* Why TF is anyone using ChatGPT as a timer!