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  1. any fucking analysis tool can show this without needing to hear a thing.
    The waveforms themselves are DRASTICALLY DIFFERENT thus THE SOUNDS ARE DRASTICALLY DIFFERENT.

    There is no comparison.

    Analysis tools are flat to tens of megahertz.
    Your ears aren't!

    You clearly lack the most basic understanding of audio signal processing.

  2. Digital, on any media but especially magnetic, requires periodic re-writing to new media.

    So store it in the cloud where it will be copied and rewritten every few minutes.

  3. Re:Yes, there is an alternative on Can We Live Without Concrete? (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    To which he replied:

    Wooooosh!

  4. Re:Got Virtue Signalling? on Tech Conferences Moving North as Trump Policies Turn Off Attendees (financialpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Same experience when I went to see the eclipse at Idaho Falls.

    Actually, a lot of major conferences (such as Ted and SIGGRAPH) have moved to Vancouver over
    the last few years, but I think it is mostly for economic reasons.

    Plus you are much less likely to get shot there.

  5. Re:Yeah, but it's not enough profit on Could Algorithms Be Better at Picking the Next Big Blockbuster Than Studio Execs? (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    You can probably look for the underlying causes of that

    Like having "Zack the Hack" for a director?

  6. founder David Stiff recently said that roughly 75 percent of Vault's
    predictions "come 'pretty close'" to films' actual opening grosses.

    In other words, it doesn't fucking work.

  7. that it must obviously be a physical process is just ignorant quasi-religious physicalism, not science.

    Science is physicalism, you superstitious twit, since all science is based on physical evidence.

  8. Re:wrong conclusion on Digital and Analog Audio's Curious Coexistence (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    My understanding is the nature of vinyl also necessitates remixing.

    And that is the key.
    Not only are these new vinyl records remixed - they are often remixed
    with the direct involvement of the original engineers and the artists themselves.

    You can be damn sure they are going to use their decades of
    experience to do a better job than they did the first time.

  9. Re:Physics on Digital and Analog Audio's Curious Coexistence (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Think of it as black coffee vs coffee with cream and sugar;
    the same laws of physics that allow you to prefer one allow me to prefer the other.
    To you, one is better; to me, the other is.

    But you can easily tell the difference between black coffee and creamed coffee in a double-blind test.
    This is not the case with 96kHz sampling vs 44kHz sampling.
    No one has ever demonstrated that ability in a double-blind test.

  10. Re:wrong conclusion on Digital and Analog Audio's Curious Coexistence (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    because we don't listen to sine waves, generally.

    Yes we do.
    Because there isn't anything else!
    All waveforms are combinations of sine waves.

    Congratulations. You just established yourself as a total ignoramus of wave physics.

  11. Actually, the Ars Technica "journalist" is dumb as fuck and full of shit.

    The actual paper is about replacing expensive meta-materials with less expensive
    common materials in wave transmission research.

    That's all. The paper says fuck all about doing computing with household routers.

  12. Re:wrong conclusion on Digital and Analog Audio's Curious Coexistence (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Exactly!

  13. Re:wrong conclusion on Digital and Analog Audio's Curious Coexistence (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    And this is why amateur recordings sound so terrible.

    No, it is because most amateur "recording engineers" don't know what the fuck they are doing.

  14. Re:...or a force for good on Google Cofounder Sergey Brin Warns of AI's Dark Side (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    No mass murder has ever been committed by a corporation.

    I guess you have never heard of a city in India called "Bhopal".

  15. Re:Same mistakes over and over and over again on Can We Fight Climate Change With Carbon-Absorbing Rocks? (indiatimes.com) · · Score: 1

    why not plant more trees not to reverse things but because it would be a good thing, the right thing.

    Unfortunately, the great mass of the "developing world" is doing exactly the opposite, namely clear-cutting jungles to plant crops that absorb little carbon.

  16. Re:Not zero emission in China yet. on Electric Buses Are Hurting the Oil Industry (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Uh, do you want to try that again in English?

  17. Re:It's happening already. on AI Will Wipe Out Half the Banking Jobs In a Decade, Experts Say · · Score: 1

    I've met bankers with a salary less than a dump truck driver.

    Actually, unionized dump truck drivers do pretty well for salary and have excellent benefits.

  18. Re:But how many jobs will this AI create? on AI Will Wipe Out Half the Banking Jobs In a Decade, Experts Say · · Score: 1

    I really miss being able to use my iPhone to transfer money, for example, to pay back a friend when they pay for a meal

    What bastards, forcing you to use BofA even though they suck.

    If only you had more choice, like you would in a "free market".
    Of course, that's just a fantasy.

  19. Re:Soon AI Blockchain Clouds will rule the world. on AI Will Wipe Out Half the Banking Jobs In a Decade, Experts Say · · Score: 1

    'AI' techniques achieve various things, such as clustering or classification

    Which is exactly what ANN's and "Deep Learning" do, and nothing more.
    If the developers like to pretend that there is something
    biological about their programs, fine. Whatever floats your boat.

  20. Re:Before modern Israel... on North Korean Leader Says He Will Suspend Arms Tests, Shut Nuclear Test Site (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    NOBODY....wanted that tiny piece of land, of the giant entirety of that area.

    A typical Likud lie.
    All the thousands of Arab farmers that lived in that area prior to 1945
    very much wanted to keep their land, and still deserve proper compensation.

  21. Re:You missed to mention another important use cas on Palantir Knows Everything About You (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    The next totalitarian government will use it to dispose of dissidents before they can group into any sizeable opposition.

    They already do - see PRNK, China, Russia, Iran ....

  22. Re: Jumping the gun just a bit? on Europe Divided Over Robot 'Personhood' (politico.eu) · · Score: 1

    How about the parties settled out of court for an undisclosed amount less than $600,000?

    Why should MacDonalds be on the hook for $0.600?

    If you injure yourself by handling a Henkel knife in a reckless manner, should you be able to sue Henkel?
    "Of course it was Henkel's fault, since we can prove that their knives are sharper than their competitors."

  23. The point is that you have a lot to make up in volume if you are making $10 per unit

    For each Echo unit, Amazon makes $10 cash plus $1000 for selling your personal information to marketers.

  24. Re: Is it even a smart speaker? on Apple's Stumbling HomePod Isn't the Hot Seller It Wanted (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Why do posters keep trademarking their posts?

  25. HAL-9000 watching David Bowman and Frank Poole plotting to take him out.

    Didn't end well for them.
    Won't end well for us.