He’s been doing a lot of work with Australian singer Paulian recently

His original track Loosey Goosey

All you need is four bits of binary. In decimal the first four columns are 1s, 10s, 100s and 1000s. In binary it’s 1s, 2s, 4s and 8s and can hold any number from 0 to 15.

Let’s get started!

(8 4 2 1)

0000 = 0

0001 = 1

0010 = 2

0011 = 3

0100 = 4

0101 = 5

0110 = 6

0111 = 7

1000 = 8

1001 = 9

1010 = 10 (A)

1011 = 11 (B)

1100 = 12 (C)

1101 = 13 (D)

1110 = 14 (E)

1111 = 15 (F)

Niiice. But hex is different, it’s 16-based rather 10. It’s ones column goes from 0-15 and we don’t have enough numerals for that, we only have 0-9. You can only have one numeral in a column so they decided to use letters, A-F.

A = 10

B = 11

…

F = 15

So here’s a typical link-local IPv6 address:

fe80:1111:2222:0000:0000:0000:7777:8888

Let’s get started!

F = 1111

E = 1110

8 = 1000

0 = 0000

And so on …

Put that up on the whiteboard and wait for adoration.

Binary is useful because it only has two states: 0 or 1. This can be mimicked in hardware - a wire that has the electricity on is a 1, off is a 0. So four wires coming into a chip would represent four bits of binary, each one either on or off, 0-15. Math with metal. Every billionth of a second or so, a new number comes in. That’s how you move data around, modern systems use 16 32 or 64 wires coming into to chip. Groups of wires going from one place to another are called busses.

Busses on the back of a motherboard

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I’m in the hood right now and I’ve gotten tight with some of the brothers on the block. This is Bloods territory. They’re much quieter now than they were back in the day and semi-independent but the connections are still real.

When I arrived here a year ago, it took 5-6 months for people around here to give me more than a sentence or two. It was like that. I got yelled at for talking to one of the guys selling weed and saying hi. Very tense atmosphere.

Then I started talking to people, or rather they started talking to me. We started trading 90s hip-hop and I must say some of my stuff did well.

We talked about civil rights, history, the business and the experiences associated with it and on and on. I started participating in the hood economy, people without much giving stuff to other people without much. I talk to the crackheads and help them out with something tiny when I can. One of the ex-players on the block has worked at Yale for years and has interesting observations, largely supportive. They’re an impressive organization deeply intertwined with the city. The students are safer than they may know; actions against them bring real heat and everyone knows it. Yes there was slave money and yes there are animal experiments, he knows guys who collect the dead animals. Medical research.

I went from Nobody to Unc to Brother to Good Brother.

Then this happened. I was walking to the corner store and a couple of guys joined me. That had never happened before. I went inside and they were hanging outside on the sidewalk talking to the loosies and nippers crowd. I came out and started walking back and one of them stopped me. “We go back together.” And we did.

By the time I got home I realized that something had happened. It took me some time, I was just walking to the store man and I don’t know block politics like that. I looked at one of the guys and was like “Was that …?” and he just nodded seriously. “You’re good now.” And so far I have been.

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I created a YouTube playlist with those songs, the rest of the album is great too.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLiQT19iUDYDOjFIv1xsfLuy14W9j0Ikg_&si=HEKCf7bonQBdOxZ3

“Beren and Lúthien is a central love story from J.R.R. Tolkien's mythology, published as a standalone book edited by his son, Christopher Tolkien, in 2017, which compiles various versions of the tale from his manuscripts. It recounts the epic romance between Beren, a mortal man, and Lúthien, an immortal Elf-maiden, and their quest to steal a Silmaril from the dark lord Morgoth, a story that became a cornerstone of The Silmarillion. The book presents the story in its evolving forms, from its original prose to later poetic versions, illustrating its development over time. 

Key aspects of the story and book:

• The central romance:

  A mortal man (Beren) and an immortal Elf (Lúthien) fall in love, but her father, an Elven king, demands Beren complete an impossible task to win her hand. 

• The impossible quest:

  Beren must steal a Silmaril jewel from the crown of the great evil being, Morgoth. 

• A foundational myth:

  The tale is considered a "kernel" of Tolkien's larger legendarium, essential to the mythology of the First Age of Middle-earth. 

• The book's structure:

  Edited by Christopher Tolkien, the book presents the story in its various stages, showing how it changed as it was woven into the larger history of Middle-earth. 

• Real-life inspiration:

  The story is deeply personal, inspired by Tolkien's own love for his wife, Edith, who is buried with him under the names Beren and Lúthien.”

Now the notifications are getting annoying lol and I’ve paused them on the posts in question so I can get things done. I’m getting notifications for multiple new subscribers at a time, I didn’t know about those! (Greenland)

Here are the stats on my main post. It’s a Like rate of about 3%.

It feels satisfying seeing all of this after such a long empty stretch. Here are the two big posts that did it.

Cheers!

I enjoy it and the landlord likes it, I’ve already saved him real work this year. This was a small one.

But it opens up new possibilities and I like to see people experimenting with guitar design - the shapes laid down in the 60s and 70s are still the main ones used. Guitarists tend to be conservative on instrument design, I’d like to see more experimentation here in the 21st century.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Guitar/s/aWN7IhsyDQ