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New comment by sonic45132 in "What Is Gridifcation"

sonic45132 — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 13:46:18 +0000

Their follow up piece on dance music explains their idea a bit better and how it relates to drum machines and sequencers.

https://musicalform.substack.com/p/why-dance-music-is-not-gr...

New comment by sonic45132 in "FDA Admitted in Print That Nothing It Knows of Will Wash Cyclospora Off Lettuce"

sonic45132 — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 19:09:28 +0000

In Florida there have been some articles talking about how some local farmers markets produce may actually be the rejected produce from the southern grocery chain Publix, rather than local growers selling directly.

https://projects.tampabay.com/projects/2016/food/farm-to-fab...

New comment by sonic45132 in "Qwen3.8 Max now ranked as the best overall model by agentic index"

sonic45132 — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 13:55:21 +0000

I think they are referring to the AMD drivers on windows, under the overclocking section you can enable fast memory timings. Not sure if this sort of thing is exposed on linux.

New comment by sonic45132 in "High-Bandwidth Flash offers efficient storage for model weights"

sonic45132 — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 12:43:18 +0000

They did. Hard disk drive prices are up, even the used and officially re-certified drive prices are way up. Hard drive makers are reporting they have sold out of their yearly production, just like the memory manufacturers.

New comment by sonic45132 in "What we call "age verification" is actually mass surveillance"

sonic45132 — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 16:09:07 +0000

I feel the idea of public key encryption could be done without a phone but the device locking makes it harder to transfer the token off device. Like the parent comment said, I think 90% is all we can aim for. Nothing is going to be perfect.

New comment by sonic45132 in "How turkey hacked the hair-transplant industry"

sonic45132 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 18:33:35 +0000

They take your existing hair follicles from areas that aren't thinning and move them to the thinning or bald area.

New comment by sonic45132 in "The case for single-stair multifamily"

sonic45132 — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 18:08:01 +0000

It does mention buildings can be a single stair with an elevator. 2 stairwells vs 1 stairwell doesn't need affect ADA compliance.

New comment by sonic45132 in "Raspberry Pi 5: available now"

sonic45132 — Mon, 23 Oct 2023 14:20:33 +0000

Dell calls them micro. Like 5090 micro. HP and Lenovo also have them, calling them mini and tiny respectively.

They are about a litre in volume. However they give up the pcie slots for the size.

New comment by sonic45132 in "Automakers try to scuttle Massachusetts ‘right to repair’ law"

sonic45132 — Thu, 27 Jul 2023 14:22:18 +0000

Without all that being connected how else would they use the built-in lte to send back all of the data about you from the car? Car companies cant be missing out on selling customer data too.