What is the Birth Date of an AI? Or a corporation?

You record at higher sample rate because of math when mixing two waveform representations i.e.:

"What is the result of 1.4 * 1.3 ?" compared to "What is the result of 1 * 1 ?"

Well in this situation, 1 * 1 equals 1 or 2, the uncertainty of which can become an audible artifact when iteratively repeated (as might happen in some recording pipeline) but on a scale of 1-to-22'000+ it matters not at all if it was 1 or 2, just that it was some kind of value in that range. No percentage of human ears can discern between 48kHz and higher sample rates, and a statistically minor percentage of human ears can reliably discern between 44.1kHz and 48kHz. Sadly there is this large catalog of audio CD media which was mastered in this almost-but-not-quite ideal 44.1kHz sample rate so we're here decades later arguing about it yet.

As for bit-depth resolution 24-bit is ridiculous but 16-bit is getting pushed to the limit by the loudness war and so the idea that a carefully mastered recording will happily sit in 16-bit sample size is not justifiable. What you'd want is 20-bit however everything about that is an enormous pain in the neck to implement, so the extra odd 46kb per second is acceptable to get things that divide evenly by 16. You cannot hear this difference if the audio mastering is done properly, but by god you will hear everything wrong with it because morons have taken over. With 24-bit (or 32-bit) depth there are ample ways for an audio mastering process to fail but with 16-bit depth it's pretty much guaranteed that it will sound like garbage unless the audio mastering is done by a genius with total creative control.

Stop depending on "race to the bottom" cost-optimized MMU-less microcontrollers and power-hungry Linux-first class SoC's for your long-term productivity.

The mostly-open RTL of Baochip-1x allows that your designs can be placed for manufacture by you and not depend on an SoC provider, should your product(s) become wildly successful and reach sales profits to justify such. See: https://www.baochip.com/

TL;DR Baochip-1x is a microcontroller with a full MMU. It may possibly be Linux capable but the primary use is with an OS written from bootloader-on-up in Rust language. It's amazing, and it won't do everything you want because that's up to you to do those things but this is the part we've been missing the last 20-odd years.

Slngndthnksfrllthfsh ...and after the research? We can finally understand!

Better yet provide a free lifetime subscription to bring back the affected families' dead child as an AI chat bot personality.

Make this a trend and advertise the capability to bump shareholder profits as a measure of good will, and then slowly shift the market to accept that AI chat bot personality creates value and saves the consumer money over having a living child.

-ENOTACT

Can we do something collectively to keep said website of historical and cultural significance going a bit longer? or will it be relegated to Internet Archive...

Aside, deep appreciation for Tom's contributions and as a decent fellow human. My thoughts from a young age tended that my older relatives were quite a bit strange humming along and singing with "Poisoning Pigeons in the Park" on vinyl record. Perhaps our values are more aligned (maligned? ha ha) as I age as well...

...
Come to Zom-Zom's, a place to eat
Like it was built in one day
You can watch the humans trying to run
Oh look, there's a rape machine
I'd go outside if it'd look the other way
You wouldn't believe the things they do ...

(Down in the Park / Gary Numan)

Why was Brother afraid of six critical Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures?

Because six-ate-nine. ...anyone?

Yes, Stanley

The "new administration" #47 has made it clear they will make protest illegal, so there you go.

I guess if you are tuned into the outrage then you haven't actually used your critical thinking skills in some time. It's all written plainly in the documents that are being introduced by our recently-installed dictatorship. People pretending any different have had their brains swapped for potatoes, or are in the streets protesting as a somewhat academic exercise (good for those people, to remember in future what freedom was like).

The word you meant to use was "prescient" not "ironic"

Never mind you about Salesforce, just taking on all the flavor-of-the-month open source ERP/CRM service providers is going to be a mess. If you're already looking for Salesforce then you are not listening for anything else, anyhow. Typical open source ERP/CRM service providers are not sustainable models of business... it is more akin to multi-level marketing schemes.

ADempiere
SugarCRM
Odoo

Check out this lovely throwback how it was (and largely still is almost 20 years later): https://opensource.org/blog/wi... "THESE LICENSES ARE NOT OPEN SOURCE LICENSES."

Time to market for this first-of-its-kind Laptop mainboard (and architecture) swap was wicked quick. The result is a product you could hand someone with IKEA Furniture type of instructions and they can install it themselves. No heat gun or adhesives faffe necessary; it's all there plain to see and it does not need to be better than anything else on the market to make the point that this invites more competition and innovation.

RISC-V happens to be a convenient vehicle for this innovation since people who would spend their time and take risks to bring something ridiculous like this as a first-to-market are aligned with that new technology and the market advantages of embracing it.

Highly honorable mention to Bunnie Huang who brought an open hardware laptop to market but was sandbagged in that effort by vendors that would not sell their products or give access to systems level documentation. At that, the best you can get is some crusty old ARM chips with outdated (ARM generation of) architecture.

This is about developing the ground that 5-years-from-now the consumer electronics landscape will-have-had-been standing on as its foundation. Meanwhile this is as visible as it gets - you can't see the flood of use of RISC-V in consumer electronics that already has occurred and likely surrounds your daily existence. It's enormous already.

A company that is selling unauthorized Nintendo Intellectual Property... hmm...

How long before Cease & Desist from Nintendo? Place your bets in the reply!

Worth a mention is the legendary Fred Dibnah probably the last steeplejack of his kind, and perhaps the best documented fellow doing such works as repair and teardown of coal-fired power plant chimneys. On the topic of coal power in its final days you may find it interesting and educational to seek out videos produced with Fred.

Obligatory Wikipedia reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...