Never really understood buying pre-recorded cassettes. It was better to buy the vinyl and make your own tapes.
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perilunar commented on Ask HN: Is it just me or techno-optimism died in the past few years? · Posted by u/shubhamjain
If you think of 'tech' as computers and the internet, then yeah, it's hard to be optimistic. It's no longer the shiny new thing and has become boring. But it's an overly limited view of tech.
I think one of the reasons people are drawn to Elon Musk (despite his political views) is that he's an optimist, with big goals and vision. Self-driving cars, reusable rockets and cheap space travel, cities on Mars, etc. Even if only some of it becomes real it will be amazing. So no, not a pessimist.
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perilunar commented on Cassette tapes are making a comeback? theconversation.com/casse... · Posted by u/devonnull
I started getting cassette players working again when I had kids - I had lots of old cassettes with stories still, and after looking into a lot of stuff determined that it is one of the best physical storage formats for that kind of content for kids we currently have. Its major advantage is that it automatically saves state, and the state saving is player-independent. Add to that that players typically have large clunky buttons ideal for kids hands, and you have something even all the dedicated digital kids media players can't compete with.
I noticed that when my kids were little they could use cassette players well before they could read. They would choose music based on the pictures on the cassettes and the covers. We had a (clickwheel) iPod for our own music, but they couldn't work it because they couldn't read the text-only interface.
perilunar commented on Show HN: 3M km interferometer concept using Saturn moons zenodo.org/records/176659... · Posted by u/kurtswendson
That's just stupid. Why send them all that way just to put them on a rock, in orbit around a planet, when you could leave them in a free solar orbit?
Not only that, but put them on opposite sides of the sun FFS, so you don't have to wait half an orbit (15 years, in Saturn's case) to get the other half of a measurement.
perilunar commented on Nearly all UK drivers say headlights are too bright bbc.com/news/articles/c1j... · Posted by u/YeGoblynQueenne
There is an arms race to be the brightest, biggest vehicle on the road. Each driver wants to be the safest and many want a shiny high status vehicle. The result is a runaway feedback loop of ever more worse design
I would love to hugely curtail automotive design:
- of course, dim the headlights to a reasonable brightness.
- The Escalades have to go. Big trucks are for business, not taking the kids to school.
- No screens in the console.
- Absolutely no AI self-driving mode until it can be designed by the government. Allowing AI's to pilot cars based on the crappy engineering of a whiny trillionaire is nuts, yet we've allowed it. Let the government set the standards for "smart roads" to force cars to share sensor data.
- Crush every cyber truck into a cube, while you are at it.
"designed by the government" got us the SLS.
The "whiny trillionaire" gave us Falcon 9 and Starship/Superheavy.
Not the flex you think it is.
perilunar commented on AI Is the Bubble to Burst Them All wired.com/story/ai-bubble... · Posted by u/AlphaWeaver
Uber might be the wildest cultural shift of the last 25 years.
Nobody blinks twice nowadays at getting into a car with a total stranger.
I don't get it. Nobody blinked twice about getting into a car with a total stranger before Uber either — taxis have been around for well over a hundred years. It's not exactly a huge cultural change, just more efficient and convenient.
Named after https://x.com/Aella_Girl perhaps?
Just saw this tweet, so i guess not:
https://x.com/samhogan/status/1988448512137457767
"Due to an unforeseen naming conflict, we are renaming Project AELLA to Project OSSAS (Open Source Summaries At Scale)"
Named after https://x.com/Aella_Girl perhaps?
https://www.cloudflare.com/cloudforce-one/research/svgs-the-...
Odd thing to say. Everything on a computer is "essentially code", executable or not.