The company I works for runs HP workstations on Ubuntu. Works great. The only issues I've had are with the discrete nVidia graphics, which uses proprietary drivers that work great - when they work. Even the smallest kernel update seems to make them crap out in a big way. It's kind of unfortunate that you can't run a high-end workstation on Linux without these issues, but fortunately, I can live with an older kernel.

Exactly. Background performers who barely got credit for being in the movie in the first place will be first to go. Then, then smaller roles who don't have many scenes or are far enough away from the "camera" that you can't really tell - imagine the low-level mooks being shot by the hero protagonist across a battlefield or busy chaotic scene, for instance.

This is what will end up killing acting as a viable career. If only the big names with existing huge fanbases can still get paid, there's no ladder to climb to get to be a big name actor, unless you already made your fanbase outside of cinema.

While I can certainly understand the resistance, now is probably about the last time in history that a considerable number of people will be able to earn money just by showing up and looking pretty in front of a camera. They should take the chance before it's too late.

For any actor who isn't a capital-B Big Name, who will pull in audiences by virtue of their existing fanbase alone, they will shortly be replaced by generated actors who never complain, never go on strike, always do their jobs perfectly on the first try, and come in packs of hundreds at the cost of a few VFX guys to twiddle the buttons.

The tech already exists, the toy version that can run on a smartphone is used by vtubers and the sort for their streams. In the professional big studio version it will replace actors and acting as an occupation.

Interesting claim, one I didn't hear before. Do you have a link to a study or a page with downloadable audio samples that backs it up? Thanks.

Even Vorbis (what Spotify uses internally) and MP3 are perceptually lossless if you crank the bitrate high enough. VBR with a 320 kbps target is more than enough, and I don't believe anybody has been able to tell that apart from lossless in a controlled blind test - using professional grade equipment. With a tiny speaker built down to a price like what's in airpods or any other midrange headphones many people would struggle to detect even very lossy compression (say, 128 kbps MP3 like what was common in the early 00s for sharing tracks).

Yeppers, this guy is a shitbag. Most organic food hawkers are shitbags.

Sweden has not had our hospital capacity overloaded. Even at the peak back in spring, there was significant excess capacity, to the point where some field hospitals which were set up in order to handle a further surge of cases were torn down again, never having to have been used.

Well, I already do. Much the same reason as why I got Spotify Premium back in the day. When I start getting a lot of my media through a certain site, and that site has ads, then I strongly feel that I would rather pay money to get rid of the ads, than pay by watching ads and wasting time that could be better spent on something else.

I don't use Youtube Music or any of the other extras (why would I need another music service when there's Spotify) but just skipping the ads is worth it for me.

Because the rednecks would use them as target practice.

Hey, hold my beer!

No needs to âoefigure outâ how to do that. Anyone who builds DIY drones could do it without a second thought.

Petzold wrote a neat book called 'code' that spends a lot of time on telegraphs and how the relays they used became the transistors in modern computers.

You are correct -- they don't give two shits about any party. They are just marketing towards the folks who will fall for this sort of thing.

So you honestly think that if I made you two bowls of whipped cream, one with your buzzword compliant HWC and the other with whatever crap I could get down at the poor people grocery store that you could actually tell the difference?

Ari Fleischer.

No idea if I spelled that right. I am a pretty average joe.

Cities are a terrible place to try to grow food. Spend the money doing it where the results are worth the effort. This is almost as bad as solar panels street surfaces.