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General Magic

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 Pondered how a lot of retail investors on the sidelines since 2008, on the cusp of 1M, jumped in the stonk market during the dip in 2020, at the same time, then instantly crossed 1M.  Then based on stonk market returns, they all hit 2M 6 years later & now are getting the hell out at the same time.   Investment behavior is like a row of metronomes that all synchronize over time.  Large events of selling & buying eventually tend to line up.   ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- General Magic  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34dAyDUglrI  From the department of stuff you didn't know.   No open source/stack overflow/claude. Just bookshelves.   No sampled audio or captured video. Just text & drawings.  Everyone had cubes, either 1 or 2 to a cube.   All MIT, Stanford, Berkeley graduates.     How stuff was done in...
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Mac 68k emulation

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    Got the very last one at .63 per ounce. Now .88 per ounce. Allah 4ever.        Funny how the blue ones  contain  the  knowledge based  stuff which became automated since 2023 while the red ones  contain  the manual labor which is in demand.  Where have you gone, dot com boom?  Our nation turns its lonely eyes to you.    ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Restoring ancient audio software    Again set to the task of reconstituting the lion kingdom's mac 68k environment of 30 years ago.    When this journey began, the only emulator was super expensive ARDI.  After years of unsucessful basilisk installations, new to the chat was Mini vmac.  https://www.gryphel.com/c/minivmac/    The problem seems to be the large number of bits they require assembling from scratch & the strict enforcement o...
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  Particularly proud of having sub sample zoom again, after 30 years.  It was last seen in 1996, possibly on sound sculptor & definitely soundedit 16 for 68k mac.    https://www.macintoshrepository.org/2514-soundedit-16  Soundedit 16 jumped from 1x to a single sub sample zoom.  Cinelerra was based on that.  The early waveform editors didn't pile on tons of functionality through context menus & handles, which makes sub sample zoom quite difficult now.  There is still no manual drawing of the samples because it would be pointless.  Ctrl+arrow dragging of single sample edit works.  Single sample edit handles work.   Context menus & arrow dragging without CTRL don't work because the edit handle hit point overlaps all of the single sample edit.  Single sample zoom could be increased further or the hit point could be shrunk.  Bigger zoom would make it harder to see the context.  A smalle...
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Silver bullet

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 Surprised to find IMDB had the audio as mono.  Tried downloading a bunch of alternates to try to get stereo.  1 thing they're not doing with AI restoration is converting mono to stereo or converting 2D to 3D.  You could probably do the audio with generative separation of the voice, music & sound effects.  The music could be fixed with separation of the different instruments & delays.  Helas, generative separation always sounded like shit. There's just no money to be made in restoring a movie anymore.  Lions remembered Silver Bullet as a confusing, boring movie that they saw many times in the 80's, either because the parents did, because of the catchy title, or in vein attempts to figure it out.  That memory presented it as another cozy escape. 20 minutes in, nostalgia was complete & it was up to 2x.  The contrived conflicts & canned dialog were as bad as remembered.  Lions remembered absolutely nothing until the great hu...
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