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fogbeakon Reflections on OpenAI

Absolutely hilarious to assert that "everyone at OpenAI is trying to do the right thing" and then compare it to Los Alamos, the creators of the nuclear bomb.

fogbeakon The Egg (By Andy Weir)

Reading this on 4chan in high school is what got me into science fiction. Brings back memories! Very happy that Andy Weir got his due with The Martian.

fogbeakon Steve Albini has died

If you're interested, Steve (Albini) goes into detail about his father and his contributions to wildfire science during an interview on the Marc Maron podcast. It's fascinating listening.

fogbeakon Show HN: Audio plugin for circuit-bent MP3 compression sounds

Hey, I'm a long-time music producer and I'm dying to get into this exact kind of work - writing plugins and eventually synthesizers from scratch.

I'm curious what your path was to get to the point where you can write an audio plug-in from scratch - I noticed you're using the JUCE framework, and that's about as far as I got and I never really escaped tutorial hell.