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by apercu 4mo ago
I'm guessing you're not a musician or studio worker, or I wasn't clear. If I am using an analog device (in my case tube amplifier) I want to listen to something that was mastered on analog equipment. If it's square wave
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by apercu 4mo ago
And you can buy replacement ear pads - breathing new life in to $150 Sony Studio Monitor phones I bought 30 years ago...
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by apercu 4mo ago
I've been avoidant of most modern vinyl, I don't want to get a vinyl pressing of something that was digitally remastered. What's the point?
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by apercu 4mo ago
I just found the transition extremely abrupt and a bit jarring.
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by apercu 4mo ago
It might be a salient point but I didn't read it as it was yelling at me.
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by apercu 4mo ago
Agreed, unless you specifically know how a regulator will interpret a broad requirement on a edge case it’s a lot of effort to even figure out what the plan is, much less implement it.
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by apercu 4mo ago
I found the second part of Seven Eves to be a surreal experience. I think I might have stopped reading Stephenson after that.
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by apercu 4mo ago
Sounds like theft to me.
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by apercu 4mo ago
You didn’t read the article. This tax is for 2 years then as assessments are fixed it changes calculation.
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by apercu 4mo ago
"Yes this is why the higher level org functions are in love with AI. " Interesting, I thought it was because so few of them have any idea how their organizations actually function, because so much of their work is performative. (I
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by apercu 4mo ago
Strong sentiment against the US (government) in the US as well. I live in a purple state (also a Canadian citizen but that's beside the point).
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by apercu 4mo ago
"Please prove your content was created by a flawed biological organism."
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by apercu 5mo ago
Them capital class is all in on those things and owns all the media. But the majority of us are not.
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by apercu 5mo ago
Article kind of lost me at "It can no longer argue that costs aren’t falling; they are."
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by apercu 6mo ago
Has anyone else used LLMs to fact check other LLMS? I hate to say it, but Gemini lies less frequently than paid models from OPenAI and Anthropic (Open AI is worst in my use cases). My guess is that Google has better training data (and uses
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by apercu 6mo ago
They do a lot of mental heavy lifting to support a corrupt and incompetent administration- sunk cost fallacy I imagine.
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by apercu 7mo ago
I bought my first house in the 90s on a 65k base salary in an ok neighborhood in a great city. Anecdotally anyway.
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by apercu 7mo ago
> Until I see median real income start to actually go down I'm not sure I understand this, it doesn't feel like what I have "lived" for the least 30 years. Median real income might not be down statistically, but the p
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by apercu 7mo ago
> Sure, it might cure cancer, but… that’s just uncertain. Sure, we’ll go to space, but… we sure have many problems at home. Sure, it might cure cancer, but only for the wealthiest. Sure, we'll go to space, but only after the planet
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by apercu 7mo ago
> I don't think it was a soft layoff, I'm sure that might have been part of it, but I think the majority of it was about telling the working class that the owning class is back in power and they want you to know it. Or both.
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by apercu 7mo ago
I think that's the question - did RTO increase productivity? I haven't seen any audited economic evidence that actually happened. Same as AI - I've seen a lot of PR and hype, but no audited company financials indicators. Hist
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by apercu 7mo ago
How is this any different from loafers who don't do anything? If you can do two jobs at the same time, you weren't really doing anything at first job to begin with.
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by apercu 7mo ago
As previous commenter said “me too” in the (lack of) leadership vein, not the sexual harassment tag.
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by apercu 7mo ago
The previous one, while not great, was reasonably competent.
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by apercu 7mo ago
That's not a global issue though - I have people who I have worked with for years, we're highly productive and we've never met in person. Especially these days where it's soooo easy to chat, video call, share screens, et
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by apercu 7mo ago
I get that, and a lot of people like to be social with other people. But just because 10% (made up number) like it, there's no reason to force it on the rest of the workforce (not that you are). I encourage people who are remote but w
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by apercu 7mo ago
It's PR to cover management failure due to "me too", which reached ridiculous levels in the last 5 years.
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by apercu 7mo ago
Most companies are not _just_ tech companies and don't have business analysts, consulting analysts, solutions consultants, software engineers and DBA's on staff. Many, many, many companies are very happy with the consulting firms
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by apercu 7mo ago
My experience with outsourcing over 20+ years (Russia, Romania, India, South America) is that you just move money around when you do it. It takes more planning, more specification, more coordination, more QA. The quality is almost always wo
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by apercu 7mo ago
I think a lot of companies have ineffective ways to measure productivity, poor management (e.g., people who were IC's then promoted to management but have no management training or experience), incentives aren't necessarily aligne

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