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Comment Re:geolocation redundancy (Score 2) 99

Not really -- especially for something where you need (or benefit from) a lot of expertise in one place, it's an effective use of resources to concentrate in one geographical location. We see this with everything from chocolate to finance to aerospace. You can try to spread things out artificially, but whichever location starts doing better will create a positive feedback loop, drawing in more talent and eventually playing an outsized role.

Comment Re:no records??? (Score 1) 114

OK, I can accept security footage being overwritten after 30 days.

Not me. I accept that maybe unremarkable records might be overwritten, but the instant there's a major event (like a mid-flight plug blowout), you as a matter of policy pull all related records to a special "do not delete til years after forensics over" bucket. That this didn't happen has swayed me that there is a coverup actively happening.

Comment I favor the pilot suicide theory (Score 5, Interesting) 90

Having sifted through numerous theories, the pilot suicide theory stands out to me as the most probable, by a good margin. Troubles at work and at home, and the route:

...the plane's route was "probably very accurate flying rather than just a coincidence", and noted that the aircraft's turn toward the north-west over the Malacca Strait allowed a clear view of the captain's home island of Penang: "Someone was taking a long, emotional look at Penang... there were actually three turns, not one. Someone was looking at Penang."

Submission + - Opus 1.5 is Out: The Opus Codec Gets a Serious Machine Learning Upgrade

jmv writes: After more than two years of work, Opus 1.5 is out. It brings many new features that can improve quality and the general audio experience through machine learning, while maintaining fully-compatibility with previous releases. See this release page demonstrating all the new features including:
  • Significant improvement to packet loss robustness using Deep Redundancy (DRED)
  • Improved packet loss concealment through Deep PLC
  • Low-bitrate speech quality enhancement down to 6 kb/s wideband
  • Improved x86 (AVX2) and Arm (Neon) optimizations
  • Support for 4th and 5th order ambisonics

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