"And that's before you consider that TikTok and Slashdot are not remotely similar in their impact on people. "
Quantify this. What is this "impact" on people, and how are you measuring it?
You can do that, right? Because if you can't you're just another moron talking about how video games and rock lyrics and D&D are corrupting the minds of our youth.
You are posting to a social media site which many of us started participating it when it started, when we were "children." Your bootlicking is pathetic.
Woah... Dumb question, but would a wing spar be repairable or replaceable?
Coward said, because when the wing falls off at 30,000 feet, rest assured - it's okay, because Airbus has good documentation. All fixed.
No, of course a broken spar is A Very Bad Thing when it happens in midair.
Is this changing-the-timing-chains-in-an-Audi difficult, or is this replacing-your-spinal-cord-without-killing-you impossible?
Are these planes repairable? I think it's a reasonable question.
(Of course, with the Audi, if has anything more than a loose gas cap it's not economically feasible to repair, but that's what you get with European engineering.)
"What is the point of having a job, when you can not live from the wage?"
Sometimes it's to buy textbooks, or make extra money on the side, or to earn money during the summer so you can spend it during the rest of the year.
It's myopic to assume that all jobs are supposed to be full-time careers.
I just want to be clear about this: you believe the American middle class is smaller/worse-off than it was in the early 1900s?
Another person who needs to read Bastiat.
Do you think it would help the middle class to bring back the requirement for people to walk in front of cars waving a lantern?
"If I say "all white people should die"
That is 100% protected speech, full stop, and is absolutely your right to express in a free and open society.
"I've always been pro free speech, but"
You can always just stop posting after the 'but' because it means that you are not in fact pro-free speech.
It's just that the entire YouTube is appallingly bad.
A lot of the audio production in individual videos is really bad. This isn't anything to do with YouTube per se, not their compression algorithms or other features. A lot of YouTubers have absolutely no concept of microphone placement, of using audio compression, of reducing background noise. All of which are things which will drastically affect audio quality and the ability of a speech-to-text model to create subtitles.
It would be nice if YouTube would normalize all the uploaded videos to one set standard. Note I'm not suggesting that they compress the videos as that might change the intended presentation of professional audio productions. I just mean peak-finding normalization which could be implemented losslessly and without breaking existing video links.
Having said that, when I look at my own channel - and I am not claiming to have great audio; I have a host which would destroy a lavalier microphone in mere seconds. YouTube's subtitling is really good. It automatically switches between English and French and Hebrew, and even with a fair bit of background noise (welding, grinding, cooking, crowd noise, music) it generally gets the text correct. So I don't know what the original complaint is, except that it's not perfect. Well, guess what, neither is human hearing. How about that famous Jimi Hendrix line, "Excuse me while I kiss this guy."
If only we had technology that would allow us to breed crops that could eradicate micronutrient deficiency and prevent its resultant illnesses and deaths.
Oh, wait, we do, but neo-Luddies who want everyone to live in a state of impoverishment and suffering don't want us to use it.
Right as other manufacturers realize physical buttons are good actually and are changing back:
https://www.businessinsider.co...
https://www.autoblog.com/news/...
Wonderful, export it to third world countries and destroy local jobs and companies because they can't compete with free shit from Europe.
"The documentation is the primary channel through which developers discover Tailwind's commercial products"
Turns out there is a place for advertising your product and bringing it to peoples' attention rather than just expecting them to find you.
I'm reminded of all the BMW cars I've previously owned where it was often said "If there's no oil under it, there's no oil in it"...
Ahh, yes... German cars. If every decent car company does something with 6 parts, the Germans will find a way to make it require 27 parts. All of which are horribly expensive and require specialized tools to install. Or they'll put the timing system at the back of the engine so that a routine service item becomes an engine-out procedure. Garbage cars driven by people who don't know any better.
The space station leak reminds me of an old trick for a leaky cooling system in a car: put pepper into the radiator.
The little flecks of ground pepper get washed around the cooling system and eventually block tiny cracks in the radiator or other places. Putting a raw egg into a *cold* radiator will do the same thing; when the engine gets warm it cooks and blocks the leak. Both of these tricks have saved me on the road, they do work. But they are temporary and you need to thoroughly flush the cooling system after the repair.
I wonder if the Space Station has had the same sort of thing happen - airborne dust blocking a leak?
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