smokel 16 hours 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!

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  • cluckindan 16 hours ago

    Are 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!

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    • the_other_mac 13 hours ago

      For 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.

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    • debesyla 14 hours ago

      I 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

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      • orthoxerox 13 hours ago

        It'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.

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      • et-al 14 hours ago

        Stringed instruments use goat or sheep intestines. And drums are from their skin (leather).

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    • rbanffy 12 hours ago

      > when they don’t even mine for silicon!

      Knowing how to design a CPU is quite helpful.

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    • dotancohen 12 hours 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!
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      • zootboy 11 hours ago

        Silicon and silicone are two very different things...

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      • bitwize 11 hours ago

        So now we've got clankers catfishing human singles?

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isoprophlex 16 hours ago

> not making your own plastic monomers from syngas

why even bother

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__d 16 hours ago

Start with naturally occurring things only.

Mine and refine iron ore to make hub. Mine and refine zinc(?) to plate it.

Drill for and refine oil to make PET for disk and casing. Injection mold casing. Make film for actual disc.

Etc, etc.

I’d be ok using tools that weren’t made from scratch as well, but that’d be bonus ooints.

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