Yeah, okay. If we could pull the reins on this collective AI idiocy a little, that’d be greeeat.

Very interesting, although I’m going to withhold judgment pending some serious peer review.

Edit: One person doesn’t like peer review to be part of the scientific process.

Well, I do have a missing molar serving as an example of why you don’t take up a national-level light weight boxing champion on the offer of an unsupervised bare-knuckle spar in a backyard ‘just for fun’.

No, I don’t want to talk about the follies of my youth, but thanks for asking.

It’s an interesting write up. Unfortunately, many of the execution contexts that’d really benefit from the bespoke per-regex code probably wouldn’t appreciate the additional executable size, e.g. embedded applications.

But it certainly has its place elsewhere.

I should hope not, no. Unfortunately, corporations seems to care increasingly little about legalities as of late.

“Why, you’ll hardly notice they’re there… Or that they’re ads, for that matter.”

That’d be my parents who are dead and consequently not present, but thanks for bringing that up whilst completely stumping me with your eloquent, constructive and incisive counterargument that in no way proves my point.

Even my ancient, cheap AKG K-55’s still sound great.

Yes, that does sound like the most difficult part of the endeavor. I wish you the best of luck and hope for your success.

While I don’t have any personal experience with their current lineup, I’ve never known anyone to have complaints about their quality. My own 30 year old Dali’s still sound as great as they did when I first got them.

Yeah: A decent pair of AKG headphones :)

More seriously, Dali makes some really nice sounding speakers for their small size and relatively low price.

Ah, from back when people still had critical thinking faculties in good working order.

I don’t see the benefit of the extra level of indirection. Why not just hire a housekeeper to do the same work better without the unnecessary $20k telepresence platform? Sure, it might benefit the creators in harvesting subsidized motion and interaction data that they can later use to cut humans out of the loop, but what’s the benefit to the customers paying for it?

Yes it is, and no they aren’t. Get rid of them.

Man, I’m always up for some Burnside. Blues is remarkable for its ability to draw together diverse people. There was this small blues bar in Copenhagen called Mojo. Tiny place - could seat maybe twenty, max capacity perhaps twice that. Always packed. Live gigs every evening of the week, something like five dollars admission at the door - God only know how they managed to pull that off. Some of the best live music I’ve experienced and in good company ranging all the way from teenagers to people in their eighties, all having a good time together.

Edit: And while we’re on the topic of modernized Burnside: Someday Baby (feat. Lyrics Born)

Yes. Blues exists for pretty much that reason.

That’s rich coming from the leader in the field of manufacturing demand out of whole cloth.

Where were you when the bubble burst, Bill?

If you do, I’d love it if you DM’ed me a link to it. I’d enjoy watching that.

Given BASIC is what you enjoy, here’s something else that might tickle your fancy: A while ago, there was this movement to revive not just the programming experience of the early microcomputers, but also create a similarly limited but easy to understand execution environment (though suitably modernized to make things less complicated). It was called ‘fantasy consoles’. The idea is essentially to make some simple emulated hardware that never existed in real life and let people see what they could make with it. Quite a lot, as it turns out.

I suspect you’d get a lot of enjoyment out of playing with something like PICO-8.

There’s a fair amount of demoscene productions for it as well.

I have fond memories of transcribing reams of machine code encoded as BASIC data statements with a small prefixed loader out of the computer mags of the day. My mother would dictate and I would laboriously type, byte by byte. She… had the patience of a saint. I doubt she ever understood what we were doing or why.

I was probably not an entirely typical child.