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Firmware Freedom

10 pointsby 1h agoplaytaurus.com
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23m agoHN ↗

Next time you're talking to a capture-the-whole-board believer, if you want to blow their mind, first do some basic combinatorics to explain how many captures you'd need for the variation on a basic board; then ask them how many positions there are on a wah.

21m agoHN ↗

Just play the guitar, dude. I haven’t bought an effects pedal since 1995. The ones I got second hand back then for £25 still sound great.

5m agoHN ↗

Interesting, but both the writing and the code are probably authored with LLMs.