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This article and these comments make a caricature of audiophiles, akin to mocking aeronautics because of a flat earther steam-powered rocket pilot.

Audio equipment is produced by engineers and they create elegant solutions to physical constraints. There is a huge difference in quality when hearing a pair of Allison One speakers, or AKG K1000 headphones over an airpod.

Some engineers believe in speaker wire improvements, most don't. Some even openly acknowledge they don't believe but use premium wires to satisfy customers' demands. Most audio forums outright ban the discussion of speaker wire because it's so contentious.

Dismissing the industry that supports audio engineering is dismissing the disciplines of circuit, materials, and sound engineering.

Sure, there are extremes and charlatans out there like the guys who sell magic rocks, but wtf, some of you pay for skins to play in a mmog.

Respectfully, your positive view of an LLM writing marketing copy is akin to a marketer thinking an LLM codes really well.

Wow, is this awesome! I put in: Hugh Masekela, John Prine, and Ripe. It gave GREAT recommendations!

Oliver Mtukudzi, Melting Palms

I've never heard of either. Enjoy both. Sent the link to my son. Brilliant! Thank you.

I had no idea! I was a typesetter, we would have to manually create them using keyboard shortcuts on both systems.

Em dashes —once the sign of a sophisticated writer— were prominent in The New York Times.

Using older lenses can help bring some of that back. Nikon DLSRs use the F-mount, which is backwards-compatible for nearly all their old lenses. They introduce some analog beauty and quirks, like over-saturation and vignetting, getting you _some_ of the way there. Film grain is still missing and that adds a lot of character.

I would love to get deeper into large format photography. The few 4x5 negatives I've taken are breathtaking in their detail.

It was still a fascinating aside, and it's not like HN stays on topic in a thread. I learned something today.

I have tried most of those and tend to go back to dify.ai. Open source, connects to remote endpoints, test up to 4 models at a time.

I can create workflows that use multiple models to achieve different goals.

Clear Linux was fast and FUN to work with, and the team were highly responsive a few years ago. The mood on their community board changed and they got more terse in their focus and responses. You could kind of feel a change coming.

Fortunately, some distros adopted their kernel optimizations; Pop_os, I think you can find it branched in Arch, not sure if others.

If any of the team are on this thread; thank you.

There were beautiful posters in that slop series too.

GenAI and creativity — this doesn't have to be a dichotomy.

Thank you both, this is exactly the illustrator!