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New comment by schlauerfox in "Peter Cullen, Voice of Optimus Prime in 'Transformers,' Dies at 85"

schlauerfox — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 16:12:28 +0000

Here he is telling a powerful story about finding the voice by being inspired by his brother's calm authoritative voice, a Vietnam veteran. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zryfjSaxXLo

New comment by schlauerfox in "Halcyon Video – a 3D video store for your media server"

schlauerfox — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 19:17:24 +0000

New word of the day: Skeuomorphism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeuomorph

New comment by schlauerfox in "Halcyon Video – a 3D video store for your media server"

schlauerfox — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 15:38:23 +0000

You need to hire someone to just record judgy videos of each of the famous titles, to get the full effect. Make it look like a 16bit era videocoded like nighttrap or myst.

New comment by schlauerfox in "How Hollywood stopped making movies in Hollywood"

schlauerfox — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 16:24:47 +0000

Movie Money Understanding Hollywood's (creative) Accounting Practices 9781879505865 This is THE book on the subject. There's a lot more to it than that. Sometimes productions get creatively charged by the studios costs that may not be directly related to shift losses. Sometimes contracts redefine common terms so your points structure is completely misleading.

New comment by schlauerfox in "Frieve Vinyl Explained – Microscopic stylus/groove physics simulation"

schlauerfox — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 18:05:21 +0000

Any chance to add the hypereliptical audiophile styli shapes?

New comment by schlauerfox in "Union Busters Coming After Me"

schlauerfox — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 19:20:24 +0000

They mostly switched to ruining your life but it's got a long history. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_worker_deaths_in_Unite... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-union_violence_in_the_Uni...

New comment by schlauerfox in "BitTorrent's disastrous, legendary, and controversial story"

schlauerfox — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 15:43:04 +0000

Cohen's current project: chia.net, recent tech talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CW5-C3UbEWQ

New comment by schlauerfox in "'Backrooms' Stuns with $81M Debut"

schlauerfox — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 23:05:37 +0000

I'm convinced it's from the old JCPenny/Sears/mall back hallways that were minimally decorated that housed the photo studio and layaway filtered through the eyes of a 5 year old.

New comment by schlauerfox in "London's Free Roof Terraces"

schlauerfox — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 22:39:57 +0000

There's a Los Angeles one also, https://planning.lacity.gov/preservation-design/privately-ow... but the linked arcgis map doesn't work for me? https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/225e307c3ad34e588fa7536...

New comment by schlauerfox in "Nobody cracks open a programming book anymore"

schlauerfox — Tue, 26 May 2026 16:20:45 +0000

I very much miss OPAMP techincal books in Los Angeles, and later the Fry's technical books section. Barnes and Noble and my local library still carry some. There's just nothing that gives you that random access to the unknown unknowns like a bookshelf. Using an AI to give you suggestions can come close, but as they're now switching to ad placement pushing product instead of really pulling from a mega training pool it will become useless.

New comment by schlauerfox in "Show HN: Agentic interface for mainframes and COBOL"

schlauerfox — Thu, 14 May 2026 19:22:11 +0000

That's great! Thank you

New comment by schlauerfox in "Classic 7 is a Windows 10 LTSC mod to look 1:1 to Windows 7"

schlauerfox — Thu, 14 May 2026 19:20:42 +0000

Yeah, Vista Ultimate had animated desktops, it was stable for what I did, used ReadyBoost SD card for increased performance and the HP Pavilion convertable pen/touch screen was awesome. Not everyone had the same experience.

New comment by schlauerfox in "Show HN: Agentic interface for mainframes and COBOL"

schlauerfox — Tue, 12 May 2026 17:31:02 +0000

Is this available to install on Hercules emulator for hobbyists? For people unfamiliar with Mainframes, check out the moshix youtube channel.

New comment by schlauerfox in "CNN founder Ted Turner, a pioneer of cable TV news, dies at 87"

schlauerfox — Wed, 06 May 2026 17:03:27 +0000

Someone needs to update the simpsons wiki : ( https://simpsonswiki.com/wiki/Ted_Turner

New comment by schlauerfox in "Ted Turner has died"

schlauerfox — Wed, 06 May 2026 16:56:21 +0000

Can't find the source but the quote I heard attributed to Orson Welles to Turner wanting to colorize the purposefully black-and-white Citizen Kane was "Tell Ted Turner to keep his goddamn crayolas off my movies"

New comment by schlauerfox in "What killed the Florida orange?"

schlauerfox — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 23:50:00 +0000

Or the death of the American Chestnut the generation before, once so common its causually in a Christmas song, now all but gone.

New comment by schlauerfox in "We gave an AI a 3 year retail lease and asked it to make a profit"

schlauerfox — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 16:01:36 +0000

@AlexBlechman tweeted:

    Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale.

    Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus.

8 Nov 2021

New comment by schlauerfox in "Bitcoin and quantum computing"

schlauerfox — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 22:45:58 +0000

This was already pretty well hashed out (heh) during the 'core'/'cash' issue when there was an attempt to fork in an expanded the block size. Both chains still exist. Bitcoin operation is entirely up to the miners to determine the heaviest chain, and that's like two entities (the number of entities required is called the Nakamoto coefficient). It's not magic, but there is a huge cult built up around it by scammers, rubes, opportunists and speculators.

New comment by schlauerfox in "Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer"

schlauerfox — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 20:24:25 +0000

"For fiscal 2025, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella earned total pay of $96.5 million, up 22% from a year earlier." -CNBC.com

and

"I also see I have 2 instances of Outlook, and neither of those are working." -Artemis II astronaut

New comment by schlauerfox in "The Los Angeles Aqueduct Is Wild"

schlauerfox — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 17:39:18 +0000

We're literally right now building a huge high speed rail project that is planned to link san diego to san francisco through LA, bakersfield and fresno. Progress is made on it daily. https://www.youtube.com/CAHighSpeedRail