A little background: I have no formal computer science training (I am a horticulturist), and my experience comes mostly from playing with SBCs and microcontroller dev boards. The rise of llm-assisted workflows has enabled me to dabble deeper, but I am still very much an amateur, so I benefit from human eyes on this stuff as well.
Digital modules from Mutable Instruments (and related clones + offshoots) use audio-based data transfer for firmware updates.
Interesting way to give the consumer the ability to change the firmware without having to access the back of the module (there's a way to use a serial JTAG adapter as well).
As I understand it, transferring data as audio goes back quite ways, right?
I had a Commodore 64 that could use phillips tape. I'm drawing. blank, but IIRC there were musical instruments (maybe the roland juno 60?) in the 80s that were storing their data as audio, too.
Heck, my computer used to get on the land line telephone and ask its friends for software.
One of the weirdest things I did last week was realizing that my flipper zero could be used as a redbox... now I just need to find a payphone with a trunk...
Yep, that's correct about the Juno 60. There are people still sharing WAV files of the original factory patches which is cool to be able to re-load now and again.
On a similar if sillier note note, Korg made a Hatsune Miku guitar effect[1] that was programmable through audio sent from an iPhone app through the guitar pickup.
Annoyingly, the free app isn't available on the US App Store, so open source software would be useful (insofar as the ability to play back a predefined sequence of Vocaloid phonemes using an electric guitar is useful).
What exactly is the joke? These individuals have a lot of interests in play that might not coincide with those of the US public, but it seems to me that they are all very experienced and knowledgeable.
> The following individuals have been appointed:
> Marc Andreessen,
Sergey Brin,
Safra Catz,
Michael Dell,
Jacob DeWitte,
Fred Ehrsam,
Larry Ellison,
David Friedberg,
Jensen Huang,
John Martinis,
Bob Mumgaard,
Lisa Su,
Mark Zuckerberg
I don't recognize all of the names, but of those I do, every single one is a tech magnate. Most of them had at best one technological idea 30 years ago, and has been running the business every since.
Googling the others turns up exclusively "investors". None of them appear to know anything about science.
There's room for technologists on the science advisory council, but surely at least somebody in the room should know something about chemistry, biology, etc.
I was taught to give them a quick rinse but let the dishwasher make them sparkly clean. This avoids clogging the dishwasher's pipes with excessive food waste. Certainly any piece of food you could pick up between your fingers must be scraped in the bin before going in the dishwasher (or before hand washing).
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