Why build neural networks when you can get the wild-type ones to do the same work in exchange for 'mod points'? Markedly more cost effective.

You might want to check your truth tables. The only belief my post 'implies' is the theory that people who are going to jump on the "Something must be done!" bandwagon prefer soft targets over hard ones when they have a choice.

'Kids these days with their scary internet helicopters' are a much softer target than guns, and I would expect them to act accordingly.

Even if it did exist, how could a probe punch through the sphere of fixed stars at the edge of the universe in order to travel to an alleged tiny rock far beyond?

If your plan involves getting away with it; Don't Touch The Cell Network. You might as well use the fed's wifi, except that that would be less expensive.

Seems reasonable. I don't doubt that if the National Rotorcraft Association were a political force to be reckoned with they'd go after the handgun instead.

In fairness, I am told that the 'Pono' thing he hawks has a genuinely nicely designed DAC and amp; though it is hampered by a number of atrocious UI/UX flaws in other areas; but I find it much harder to be sympathetic to his theories on atypically high bit and sample rates. Sure; back when 64MB was a big SD card, we did terrible, terrible, things with immature mp3 encoders and even dollar store earbuds couldn't hide the metallic underwater warbling atrocities; but with modern codecs you hit the ceiling of audio hardware that costs less than an economy car at comparatively low bitrates; and the limits of undamaged human hearing well before you get to the stuff he sells.

It's hardly the nerviest audiophile snake oil, so I find it hard to get worked up about it; but the obsession with sonic purity from a guy who would probably make an audiologist emit a low whistle and frown intently is always a bit weird. Like learning that one of the Golden Eared Illuminate operates a jackhammer all day and then comes home to decide which silver-conductor IEC cable expands his soundstage more.

The store associated with his player thing specifically pushes 24 bit 192kHz FLAC tracks, not just FLAC-as-in-lossless-reproduction-of-the-CD. It's entirely possible that he is hoping to push more sales there by cutting streaming availability; also possible that he dislikes even Tidal's filthy, proletarian, glass-shards-in-one's-ears 16 bit 44kHz FLAC streams.

The former would be more pragmatic; but believers in superhuman auditory perception are not always defined by their pragmatism.

I'm somewhat amazed that a 69 year old man, with a long history of exposure to hazardously loud sound(to the point of tinnitus), has managed to remain true to the belief that limited bitrates are killing music; between his own aural limitations and the well known fact that most DACs, amplifiers, and speakers and headphones are...value oriented...at best.

It's his catalog, he can do whatever amuses him; but I have to wonder if he could actually tell which is which in a suitably blinded test.

The OBD-II port in the vehicle almost certainly exposes the CAN bus that allows those components to be upgraded, although probably in some painfully undocumented and/or deliberately restricted way. The really nasty OBD-II dongles likely aren't smart enough for it and Toyota probably doesn't post firmware updates on their website in any case; but if they trusted the user to handle the situation they could probably cook up a dedicated update module that the user can just plug and go for peanuts. It would really just require a microcontroller and enough flash to store the updates, and it's not a terribly demanding bus, just not well standardized outside of the strict OBD-II stuff.

I'm certain that I don't even want to know. Not how big, not how numerous, not what they are patterned to resemble, just no.

I definitely wouldn't want to admit that I wanted my ads there, and I'd probably even pull them if anybody made noise about it; but surely the people in /rFatPeopleHate have consumption preferences that can be modified. Do you suspect them of skewing young/poor/apathetic/something else enough that they simply aren't worth targeting; or would they be worth it if you could insulate yourself from any risk of blowback; but not worth enough to take that risk?

I wonder if they'll bother enough to get a reasonably customized(to the degree that any phone isn't just a black slab with a touchscreen on the front and camera on the back); or if they'll end up doing the always-humiliating 'release badge-job product in same market as ODM's own-brand model of precisely the same design' dance?

So, the hollow shell of a once viable company wants to smear its necrotic brand on pacific rim ODM crap in the hope that it is still worth something?

Such a familiar story. Sad; but ultimately profoundly pathetic, like a washed-up and balding boy band doing a reunion tour for coke money.

It's especially curious because she came in to management from the VC world after Reddit's sale. Not all of them refrain from letting emotion cloud their judgement; but those are exactly the variety of management figures who are brought in when somebody has to do some ruthless but pragmatic organizational restructuring. Apparently they were so worked up about the fact that the VC was female that they forgot to check for acid blood and a willingness to cut perceived deadwood.

I wonder if that is why the post simply contained an assertion and omitted the argument?