Syonyk

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by Syonyk 4y ago
Ah, OK. That makes sense as far as the chatbot count. That's quite unclear to me from the site, and the chatbot isn't any more helpful. > What is the difference between pricing plans in terms of chatbots? What does that mea
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by Syonyk 4y ago
That pricing is... yowch. > Please try it out... No, thank you. Not for $100/mo without any sort of trial! It would be marginally interesting to play with it on my ~8 year blog ( https://www.sevarg.net ), but I have ~30
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by Syonyk 4y ago
If it were solely due to CD sales dropping, you'd have a point. But vinyl is selling radically more, year over year, every year since 2006. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinyl_revival#/media/File:US_v...
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I 100% agree. I just have no idea how to go about doing that, short of demonstrating that people are willing to pay good money for good mixes on vinyl, and perhaps a few people getting the idea that a good mix on CD might sell too. But t
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by Syonyk 4y ago
> If a domestic factory starts cranking out tubes, even with a similarly high price, the impression of rarity and unavailability won’t be there, and I suspect that people then won’t buy them. I expect that would improve tube sales, r
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by Syonyk 4y ago
> An isolated plucked string or cymbal crash is not something you come across too often. It really depends on what you're listening to. If you're, say, a fan of high speed bluegrass, it's an awful lot of isolated plucke
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by Syonyk 4y ago
What if they're right? https://dr.loudness-war.info/?artist=Taylor+Swift&album=Red - one fairly recent album I found in which the vinyl version seems to have quite a bit more dynamic range than the digital or CD ve
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> Further is the belief that lossless codecs cannot be replaced compressed lossless or sufficient parameters of some lossy formats. I'm a bit fuzzy as to what you're arguing here, but I think most people would agree that, a
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It is, and it's the data that a lot of audio compression algorithms manage to lose or mangle. A plucked string in FLAC vs something like 128 or 160kbit MP3 sounds radically different. The same is true of the initial hit of a cymbal -
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by Syonyk 4y ago
It's not the base frequencies that matter, it's the harmonic sequence above the base note that makes for the difference between instruments. Play with it yourself - record various notes, on various instruments, do the FFT to break
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> You can’t, so you just trust. And let go of the complexity, you don’t need to consciously manage it and you are still ok. Or I can read a variety of sources from across the political spectrum to look for common elements, and I can tr
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by Syonyk 4y ago
Freedom? You've got a weird definition of "freedom" if you think surrendering your autonomy to whoever happens to be running the services you rely on is "freedom." The problem is that long term, you won't ha
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> ... loneliness is more common than ever. But it's also very profitable if you're the advertising delivery system, or somewhere sucking money off that pipeline, because you can convince lonely people to spend money to buy
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by Syonyk 4y ago
Yes. 100%. Do it, don't look back. Disable it on a per-website basis if needed, but... largely, I simply accept that I don't need to do those things I can't do with it on. I've been running Lockdown on my iOS devices s
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by Syonyk 4y ago
I'll add those to the list, thanks!
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They're not. We keep a DVD-based Netflix account around for a lot of this stuff, and I've purchased quite a bit of physical media on eBay or at local thrift stores over the years. It's rare to pay more than $5 or $6 for a go
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by Syonyk 4y ago
Of course they did. And they'll keep doing it, because they can. And because knowledge like that is power, and they like power. At this point, you can safely assume that anything muttered by a "tin foil hat nutter" sort in
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by Syonyk 4y ago
I don't believe it performed any better in disk sales, though I can't say what it did for streaming one way or another. You can drop it from the data set and it doesn't change the argument, though. Disney's been droppin
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I don't believe any of those have been Disney, though...
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My wife and I started Turning Red and Turned it Off halfway through. I haven't even tried the others. Favorites in our place with the kids are Cars and Planes (though more Cars lately). We're on an old musicals kick lately, and
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by Syonyk 4y ago
Nope. For comparison, a recent movie that performed well at the box office was Top Gun Maverick. $1500M box office on a $170M budget - that involved flying and filming an awful lot of hours in "rather expensive to run jets."
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by Syonyk 4y ago
The world you're looking for is "Fires." "Disney Fires 7000 People." Not "Lays off," "Let go," "Set free to chase their dreams," or whatever other euphemism you care to find. "Fir
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by Syonyk 4y ago
> ...but disney+ is a money machine and the can easily double the price. The very same Disney Plus that lost 2.4M subscribers in Q1[0]? That doesn't seem like "You could easily double the price" sort of performance. The
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by Syonyk 4y ago
Their last few movies have been... well "abysmal" would make some abysses unhappy to be compared to the movie performance. Strange World [0] was a box office bomb - reported box office revenues of $74M on a budget of $135–180M. It
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by Syonyk 4y ago
Meant to be, sure. Ends up being this weird blend of "disturbing kid crack" videos that you really shouldn't leave a child unattended with. The whole "Peppa Pig Drinks Bleach" stuff was only the shallow end of the
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by Syonyk 4y ago
> Neil Gaiman's System Shock Ehm... which book? Are you thinking of Neil Stephenson's "Termination Shock"? That one involves feral pigs, and I'm not seeing "System Shock" as a book by Gaiman.
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I asked one of my English teachers, after a particularly (IMO) tortured analysis of something about people like Hemmingway who say things like, "I sit down with a typewriter, bottle of whiskey, and tell stories." Her response was,
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> ...loss for love of learning... I'm still quite irritated, decades later, that the end result of my high school Honors English program was to take entire groups of people who clearly loved reading, and teach them to hate books.
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> ...how to socialize. Ah, yes. The "Socialization" argument brought up every time people mention homeschooling, as though there aren't homeschool coops and plenty of other ways to interact with people of a wide variety
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I could say the same thing about "Let's put EduTech in front of students, as pushed by for-profit companies, with one tablet per child sort of programs." Except, unfortunately, it's not very experimental at this point.

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