I remember that line best, as well!

But I also remember the opening scene, where the project manager(?) is out on a boat in a raging storm. Everybody else is freaking out, but he is calm because (it is implied) this is so much less stressful than his job.

Don Quixote would be proud of how hard turnip is tilting at windmills...

I get the man dislikes them because he thinks they're ugly and mess up his golf course views or something.. but my gods we are living in the most stupid timeline

I would not normally really make "political" posts on /. but this isn't politics it's a cult of stupidity.

I believe Ubiquiti Unifi gear is made in Vietnam.

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.

And this is why solar may never really take off in Quebec, where the vast majority (> 99%) of electricity is generated by hydropower and I pay about USD $0.05/kwh, or about 15% what someone in California, and 33% of the average cost in Germany.

Hydro Quebec was expropriated by the Quebec government in 1944, and even with the low cost of electricity it pays about USD $3 billion into government coffers every year. But hey everybody, let's privatize the essential utility to make it more efficient! (said no one ever)

How soon before they accidentally an airliner full of civilians?

Seriously, this is the STUPIDEST timeline

They're far more church/religion like than you might think

They're also an anti LGBTQIA+ hate group

Wait, I thought these guys never met a regulation they didn't want to cut/remove..

Clean air regulation? naaah let them breathe toxins

Clean water regulation? Naaah its their fault if they drink poop

AntiTrust rule? naah not if its one of the companies that donated a million to the turnips innaugeration or came and kissed his rings

It goes on and on (oh and yeah I realize I did the rule of threes here and so um

Anti Nebulon of Praxis 3 rule? naaah that was just something Captain Kirk said to make it sound science fictiony after mentioning 3 things we do know about on Earth

Anyway, yeah I don't think AI writing anything is a good idea, but the weirdness of hearing about folks in this administration talking about wanting to make more

You're exactly right this is "flooding the zone" for sure..

I used to love reading dystopian cyberpunk speculative fiction when I was younger but now that I live in a dystopian cyberpunk future, I kind of really am soured on the whole genre. Someone please make it stop.

I must have had my head under a rock or something cuz this is the first I've heard of Rogozinski but based on what little I've read .. and seeing your comment Yeah, I think you're 100% right - the question is will Nebula, Patreon, and others who have increasingly become ways for notable creators to host and monetize outside of yootoob's functional monopoly - with this ruling, how long before YooToob makes a move like that exactly as you say .. because ... enshittification.

Truth is that enshittification as a business model is pretty much the future we are going to inherit... and of course then the worry is what happens if / when Nebula and Patreon and the alternatives turn as well.

Constant game of content creators needing to find new less enshittified homes - it's .. depressing.

This is unquestionably true.

It seems to me that these big tech CEOs are so divorced from reality, and so focused tickig the boxes that "the market" wants to see; which - with AI being extremely good at telling you what you want to hear without worrying overly about .. objective fact or reality... strikes me as "Yeah AI can do that job easy"

If you visit /r/facebook you will see dozens of people a day posting how their accounts are getting strikes and even banned in what appear to increasingly be

AI moderation utterly failing to be able to parse context.

Now, sure maybe some got strikes for real stuff they're not showing/saying but there's a clear pattern.

Anecdote is not evidence, but I've certainly had FB give me warnings over really innocuous stuff that in context was clearly not what I was being accused of

(to give an example, a friend posted an article about drug addiction and recovery and one of the quotes was along the lines of "... resisting the urge to shove my face in a cocaine plant" and I replied with that exact section of the quote and a "LOL, WUT?"

as in "that is a really weird phrasing"

the AI gave me a few days ding for "selling or promoting drug use"

I only got a restriction for a time but the reports of being perma banned are legion. (and yes folks have tried the appeal to no avail). The only ones with any luck are the ones who go and pay for meta verified then contact a real customer service who can sometimes reverse it

The wrongful strikes and bans sometimes even accuse the person of CSAM with about as much lack of context as the "cocaine plant" quote above...

So, I'm surprised this article is talking about it as if banning is this huge thing - as if the problem is how hard it is to permaban folks

Seriously its like they have this idea of what they do but are letting their AI moderators go off the rails without actually looking to see.

At this point I actually wonder if the AI is going off the rails but also somehow reporting /logging things in a way that is just making nice dashboards for the C-level folks to say "working as intended"

I feel like a total tin foil hat wearer even suggesting it, but with AI stuff often telling people what they want to hear regardless of .um .. facts... I wonder if it's reporting glowingly about the work its doing while the actual tools with rights to ban folks are going off on a stint that would make the "Church Lady" seem downright hedonistic by comparison

Rollo kind of started this off in the early 900s - it became what we call feudalism

Everything old is new again.

Adam Something over on YouTube just did a GREAT explainer on the new Digital Feudalism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Oh you ran into EDP too, huh?