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- Comment on Dell brings back XPS laptops — ditches the capacitive touch bar, adds 1Hz display option, and upgrades 14 and 16-inch models 2 days ago:
They never stopped selling xps, what drug is Tom using?
- Comment on Evidence 4 days ago:
Melbourne scores 5/10 in a single day, no effort involved lol
- Comment on China and the United States Are Racing Towards Different Ends in AI 5 days ago:
Basically it says one is pursuing a race towards AGI in the shortest possible time horizon in detriment of everything else (including profitability), and the other is doing scientific/financial/economic responsible, sustainable, long term growth.
It’s the same old battle of unconditional quarter growth towards infinity vs positioning itself as taking all opportunities to be a leader in a particular field.
This time state capitalism wins big over unrestrained capitalism.
No tankies or ultra rights comments please, I won’t take the bait. I’m neither citizen of both countries and I want both to stop their imperialism so every other country gets a fair go.
- Comment on Nearly all of Spotify has been scraped and is available via torrents 1 week ago:
I subscribed on their web to skip Google tax.
- Comment on Nearly all of Spotify has been scraped and is available via torrents 1 week ago:
Different compressions under same bit rate can be dramatically different. My favourite was aac 20 years ago. I don’t think MP3 evolved significantly in this time frame, I was never a fan.
- Comment on wasting filament for the lulz 1 week ago:
Well yes but I look at your ruler and I couldn’t find any clue if that’s centimetres or something retarded like inches. And there’s other rulers that are even more retarded.
- Comment on Nvidia insists it isn’t Enron, but its AI deals are testing investor faith 1 week ago:
NVIDIA is producing and delivering GPUs. However this does NOT translate into income, and that’s what’s making it shady. These companies are paying in shares that will be worth nothing when it pops.
- Comment on What an unprocessed photo looks like 1 week ago:
This info may still be present in the files, download them and inspect with any software that displays that kinda info. I’m not proficient in that, I am just a nerd that has done it a decade ago when I was into photography.
- Comment on What an unprocessed photo looks like 1 week ago:
My understanding is that really raw phone data also have a lot of lens distortion, and proprietary code written by the camera brand has specific algorithms to undo that effect. And this is the part that phone tinkerers complain is not open source (well, it does lots of other things to the camera too).
- Comment on What an unprocessed photo looks like 1 week ago:
Is that the case for big ground and space telescopes too? I can imagine this could cause wobbling.
Btw is that also how infrared and x-ray telescopes work as well?
- Comment on wasting filament for the lulz 1 week ago:
Hey
Why no banana? Banana is the best scale always.
What rocket is this nozzle from? I don’t recognise it given the big side nozzles that seem to not be able to independently pivot.
- Comment on Nearly all of Spotify has been scraped and is available via torrents 1 week ago:
Direct stream may be phase 2
- Comment on Nearly all of Spotify has been scraped and is available via torrents 1 week ago:
Frankenstein all the way, you just have to continuously build from whatever part is cheap at the moment.
- Comment on Nearly all of Spotify has been scraped and is available via torrents 1 week ago:
I moved to qobus. It’s not owned by untied states capital.
- Comment on Nearly all of Spotify has been scraped and is available via torrents 1 week ago:
In between
It’s not in MP3, it’s Ogg vorbis and I don’t have equipment and time to have an informed opinion about how good Ogg vorbis is at any given bit rate.
They claim usual people can’t tell between what they do and better bit rates. I know I’m picky so I know I’ll notice something.
Remembering t this is Anna’s archive. The goal is preservation of human culture, not pirating.
- Comment on Spotify vs. Anna's Archive 1 week ago:
It’s not MP3, it’s Ogg vorbis
They’re encoding the top songs with higher resolution, the next bunch ( it’s still millions of songs) with about half that bitrate and not planning to save the next tranche which is like a looooot of songs but each has less than 1000 plays over the history of Spotify.
This is what I vaguely remember after reading the whole original post AND after a night drinking.
No nitpicking.
- Comment on People around the world are trying to learn English because it's the Lingua Franca, but imagine if the Lingua Franca of the world was a Tonal Language and the writing system was Logographic. 2 weeks ago:
Positive. Over.
- Comment on China Has Reportedly Built Its First EUV Machine Prototype, Marking a Semiconductor Breakthrough the U.S. Has Feared All Along 2 weeks ago:
I’m going to paraphrase you.
Taiwan/ASMC is advanced because usa wants Taiwan to be advanced in detriment of usa being advanced, and no other country in the world is helping Taiwan, specially Netherlands.
- Comment on China Has Reportedly Built Its First EUV Machine Prototype, Marking a Semiconductor Breakthrough the U.S. Has Feared All Along 2 weeks ago:
Depends on who is talking, could be untied states if it’s Russia talking, could be China if Australia talking, could be Russia if it’s one of the countries invaded recently in the last 10 years.
Just try replacing “empire” with “bully that takes things against the will of its owners” and suddenly you have several options. Sometimes it’s land like Russia, sometimes it’s sea like China and sometimes it’s Venezuelan oil ships like untied states
- Comment on ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Wraps Production – Watch Anson Mount’s Final Set Tour 2 weeks ago:
Did you just re define tradition in the way everyone else does? 😶
- Comment on China Has Reportedly Built Its First EUV Machine Prototype, Marking a Semiconductor Breakthrough the U.S. Has Feared All Along 3 weeks ago:
when discussing when China could catch up to the US in the semiconductor race.
BS. Untied states are not competitive at all for a long time. They should say China is catching up with Taiwan.
- Comment on People around the world are trying to learn English because it's the Lingua Franca, but imagine if the Lingua Franca of the world was a Tonal Language and the writing system was Logographic. 3 weeks ago:
Every language has words that are almost the same sounds but not quite.
English speakers barely pronounce can and can’t differently. If you’re in a noisy place, or are not familiar with the accent of the speaker or got a flu and your ears are blocked or whatever else, you’ll have an extra bad time telling them apart. That’s normal. Just extra annoying that this particular example involves a particular meaning and the opposite of it, so context is not your friend.
HEY MATE, CAN YOU PLEASE COME TO THE PARTY?
I CA’!±:-
OH COOL
I SAID I CA;(++;:-
OH SO YOU CAN’T? YEAH?
YEAH! THAT’S WHAT I SAID.
WELL YOUR LOSS
I SAID I WILL COME, DUDE
OH SHOOT. OK. SEE YOU THERE.
- Comment on People around the world are trying to learn English because it's the Lingua Franca, but imagine if the Lingua Franca of the world was a Tonal Language and the writing system was Logographic. 3 weeks ago:
I’d be inclined to square the blame on economic and cultural imposition.
Which means that in maybe 50 years it will be like you say because of China’s increasing weight on world affairs.
- Comment on The Fuck Jar 4 weeks ago:
My thoughts exactly.
My other thoughts were, every time I see corporate BS in my company am I better off ignoring or swearing.
Now I have inspiration for what to do.
- Comment on The Algorithm That Detected a $610 Billion Fraud: How Machine Intelligence Exposed the AI Industry’s Circular Financing Scheme 5 weeks ago:
NVIDIA sells GPUs to Oracle. Oracle sells GPU time to openai.
When time comes to pay the bills, openai doesn’t have the money to pay Oracle who then doesn’t have money to pay NVIDIA. So, Oracle gives stock to NVIDIA, and openai also gives stock to NVIDIA.
NVIDIA doesn’t care if both go broke because now a gpu is worth a lot more, and in the books they’re selling a lot more GPUs each for a lot more money. So NVIDIA stock goes through the roof even if they ran out of cash and got into ridiculous debt.
Shareholders have a ridiculous profit, NVIDIA directors get a massive bonus and NVIDIA CEO gets famous.
- Comment on The Algorithm That Detected a $610 Billion Fraud: How Machine Intelligence Exposed the AI Industry’s Circular Financing Scheme 5 weeks ago:
I don’t know what you call trust, but count me out mate.
Just because there’s no option it’s not meant to say I can’t see the grift.
- Comment on The Algorithm That Detected a $610 Billion Fraud: How Machine Intelligence Exposed the AI Industry’s Circular Financing Scheme 5 weeks ago:
That’s just another round of AI taking credit for something that was done before.
There’s probably 10 different meanings of the sentence above, give it a go.
- Comment on Shout out to my engineering homies. 5 weeks ago:
Mate I hope you get hold of your depression and find a way to sort or ignore your problems in a healthy, guilt free way.
Look I’m from South America and I get what you’re saying. Many parallels although to a lesser degree. Probably because South America has had tough life but not as tough as South East Asia.
- Comment on Shout out to my engineering homies. 5 weeks ago:
Although I can imagine what hell would look like: commuting for 1h to sit in an office that has more people than desks to have a zoom meeting over VPN with flaky wifi and AC that is set to overheat whoever sits under the vent and under heat everyone further.
Oh did I tell you that meeting could have been an email?
- Comment on How does "DNS" work on the dark web? 5 weeks ago:
What prevents me from doing all of that with a pre existing domain that belongs to a competitor?
If you get a state sponsored actor could it overtake things by brute force?
I am imagining this distributed nature of tor is similar to crypto currencies, where if you convince a big enough part of the network that an event did happen, for all practical purposes it’s as if it did happen.