Comment by smokel

Comment by smokel 12 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!

cluckindan 12 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 9 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 10 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 9 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 10 hours ago
  
  Stringed instruments use goat or sheep intestines. And drums are from their skin (leather).
  
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rbanffy 8 hours ago

> when they don’t even mine for silicon!
Knowing how to design a CPU is quite helpful.

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dotancohen 8 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 7 hours ago
  
  Silicon and silicone are two very different things...
  
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  cluckindan 7 hours ago
  
  It’s not sili-cone valley, you have to say sili-kawn.
  
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  duskwuff 6 hours ago
  
  Silicone Valley is in Southern California.
  (The San Fernando Valley was central to the porn industry in the late 20th century.)
  
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- bitwize 7 hours ago
  
  So now we've got clankers catfishing human singles?
  
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