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He uses quite a bit of tooling, including lasers. It's not like he would be able to get this far in the middle of nowhere :) In a way it is somewhat similar t
by smokel 1y ago
He uses quite a bit of tooling, including lasers. It's not like he would be able to get this far in the middle of nowhere :)
In a way it is somewhat similar to people writing demos for old computers using emulators. Still great fun, but using these tools it doesn't take a village to make one floppy disk. With modern hardware you are apparently able to pull this off on your own. That would have been almost impossible in the 1980s, when these floppy disks were popular.
I probably worded it badly, but I really enjoy these efforts, and I would never be able to do this myself, even if I had a shed with all those tools!
- cluckindan 1y agoAre you even a musician if you don’t have a goat farm? How can someone call themselves a programmer when they don’t even mine for silicon!
- debesyla 1y agoI couldn't find an answer on google - how is a goat farm precursor for music? It's an activity that needs herding and shepherds started playing songs for fun? Or..? :o
- et-al 1y agoStringed instruments use goat or sheep intestines. And drums are from their skin (leather).
- orthoxerox 1y agoIt's an old story about using a drum machine and feeling like it's not real music, replacing the synthesized samples with real drum samples, then getting rid of the machine playing the drums yourself, then making your own drums, then finally farming your own goats for leather to make drumheads out of.
- the_other_mac 1y agoFor anyone that hasn't seen it yet, there's the YouTube channel "Primitive Technology", where a guy does this literally - in a jungle, with no tools apart from what he makes himself. He gets as far as smelting a tiny amount of iron.
- rbanffy 1y ago> when they don’t even mine for silicon! Knowing how to design a CPU is quite helpful.
- dotancohen 1y ago> How can someone call themselves a programmer when they don’t even mine for silicon! To be fair, after three or four Tinder dates I realized that it was mostly silicon to be found there. It's not a stretch to say that a programmer going out on Tinder dates is mining for silicone!
- bitwize 1y agoSo now we've got clankers catfishing human singles?
- zootboy 1y agoSilicon and silicone are two very different things...
- cluckindan 1y agoIt’s not sili-cone valley, you have to say sili-kawn.
- duskwuff 1y agoSilicone Valley is in Southern California. (The San Fernando Valley was central to the porn industry in the late 20th century.)