If you’re going to post ads, maybe mark it as NSFW or post it as a link inside a spoiler tag or something. I don’t want to see this fucking garbage just start autoplaying on my feed, ever, and I’m sure I’m not the only one.

My takeaway was that this was the important bit

The project arrives as Chinese EV brands expand across European markets with assurances about local data processing. Observed network behavior appears to contradict those assurances.

they had early episodes depicting the people tearing down the rainforest as heroes.

South Park is satire, and they very often use irony. I feel very rude for pointing that out, but you’ve missed the point entirely if you genuinely do think their intention was to… Depict deforestation as heroic…

GLONASS

Of all the acronyms they could have decided on, this was the correct choice.

Seriously, it’s like nobody even tries to embiggen their vocabulary anymore

Good god, I thought the longer version was lost forever, thank you

I just had a conversation about common confrontation-averse social norms/behaviours which are considered generally polite or courteous, and how damaging they can be to relationships between people. This is a good example of that.

It might be considered polite or courteous to say nothing, but in doing so you’d be enabling your friend to unwittingly annoy you repeatedly by sharing a non-mutual interest, which only erodes the net positivity of your friendship little by little. I’d bet that your friend is sharing these garbage amalgamations of sound morphed into something resembling a musical arrangement (like a freshly birthed greasy unit of bologna, haphazardly moulded into a lumpy homogeneous sculpture vaguely resembling a six-fingered mutation of Michelangelo’s David) simply because it’s something that brings them enjoyment, and they just want to share that enjoyment with you.

If you break the pattern of toxic courtesy by just being honest and letting them know that you aren’t interested in hearing any of it, you’d be saving yourself from allowing your friend to (again, unwittingly) annoy you several more times, potentially lowering your overall perception of the friendship to a point that creates distance between you.

TL;DR be honest and tell your friend that you don’t like AI-generated audiobominations. But of course keep in mind that there’s a fine line between being honest and just being an asshole.

I feel like it’s not fair to use data measured strictly in price per terabyte, I think a better representation to make your point would need to take into account how much total RAM was used by an average person’s devices each year, and track that price over time, no? Because the issue is that people are becoming unable to afford to upgrade their devices due to price hikes, and I wouldn’t exactly say that’s dismissable by the fact that the price of RAM now is less per Terabyte than it was going back over half a century ago.

Simply put, both protect against certain types of interference in different ways, and each is effective in ways that the other is not.

Mesh shielding is going to help prevent electrical interference from being introduced via the wire itself from an external source. Like other cables carrying signal and running very near/parallel, or electromagnetic fields generated from other devices, certain electrical components, household appliances, etc.

The ferrite beads protect against radio-frequency interference (RFI) via induction, acting like low-pass filters which attenuate specific bandwidths of very high frequency signals. Essentially, they intercept and absorb high-frequency electrical noise, and convert that energy into a small amount of heat instead of letting it pass through further down the signal path. This kind of interference can be from an external source, or generated internally from the various electronics/components in the signal path (which mesh shielding would do nothing to protect against). They also help dissipate any RFI that the mesh shielding itself may be carrying, so you often see both ferrite beads and mesh/foil shielding, like on laptop chargers or USB cables for example.

Yeah, but the comment you replied to was making a point that the conductor doesn’t really matter if there isn’t any noise present. What makes a good cable has much more to do with proper shielding, because electromagnetic interference is what will muck up your signal, not a lack of gold plated connectors

He’s talking about the electromagnetic shielding in a cable, not the contact-points. Usually a copper mesh sheath housed underneath the outer-most rubbery layer and runs around and along the entire length of the signal-carrying wires inside the cable. Works like a Faraday cage, helps prevent electromagnetic interference from large power sources, other unshielded cables running parallel, or anything else that can generate an electromagnetic field near the cable.

Very important to protect signal integrity, widely used even outside the audiophile world (although there are of course plenty of audiophile gimmicks related to shielding).

Basically, if you have a bunch of live unshielded cables bundled and zip-tied together along with your speaker wire, you’ll definitely hear it. Run the signal through an oscilloscope, and you’ll even see it

V-Sauce had an incredible video on this, outlining exactly how unfathomably colossal the number 52! actually is. If I remember correctly:

Stand at the equator and set a timer for 52! seconds, press start, then stand still and wait for 1 billion years. Then, take one single step forward, and wait another billion years.

Continue walking at this pace until you’ve made your way around the Earth and back to your original starting position, then remove one drop of water from the Pacific ocean, and set it aside.

Repeat this process until you’ve completely emptied the Pacific Ocean drop by drop, then set a single sheet of paper on the ground beside you. Refill the Pacific Ocean again (instantly), and do it all over again.

Continue this process, setting each sheet of paper on top of the last, until the stack of papers reaches the sun. Then tear it all down and do the whole thing over again, 999 more times.

At this point, the timer would be about a third of the way to 0 seconds.

The video continues with an alternative mind-boggling process to kill the rest of the time while you’re waiting for the timer to reach 0, which involves dealing yourself 5 cards from a well-shuffled deck once every billion years, and buying a lottery ticket for each royal flush you deal yourself. If that lottery ticket hits the jackpot, you’d (EDIT: throw a grain of sand into the grand canyon, repeating until it’s full - forgot this step) then remove 1 ounce of rock from Mount everest, and repeat all of this until Mount Everest is completely leveled.

After doing this 256 more times, then the other two-thirds of the timer will have elapsed, and it would finally reach 0.

That’s how long 52! seconds would be.

FIVE THOUSAND?!

Jesus nun-fucking Christ, what an absolute scam. I bought a 1070 for $220 in the first few months after release. Guess I’ll just have to hope it can run for another 10 years…

Came here to say Peep Show, what an absolute treasure

This is not true. I personally acquired citizenship of Lithuania for example, solely because my grandmother was born there and left during Soviet occupation (as many did). I speak no Lithuanian, have no other connection to the country, and have never even been there.

Want to save this thread for later, may as well name a couple as well

The Faceless - Planetary Duality. Technical death metal album that found an outstanding balance between technically-impressive musicianship, interesting compositional intricacacies, and raw primal brutality. Nothing scratches that itch like this album does for me. And if you’re into drums, Alex Rudinger’s drumming in Xenochrist is wholly and entirely inhuman. The dude is an octopus trapped in a man’s body. I’d recommend watching his Xenochrist drum playthrough video if you’re particularly interested

Infected Mushroom - Converting Vegetarians. These two guys are absolute wizards of music production, and this album showcases their insane ability to bring out such colorful personalities from their meticulously crafted synth leads, through gradual and dramatic evolution… Which they usually do in a familiar psy-trance setting. But the “chill side” half of this album accomplishes this wonderfully in a unique, much more relaxed, low-tempo style that I’m genuinely struggling to find words to describe

I love news outlets that go back and edit any statements they made which were determined to be false after publishing. Even better when they put them in a red box like that

Lv. 3 Pidgey used Gust

It’s super effective!

Fiat Panda has fainted!