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Yes. He is shown to be wrong about one facet of morality in the 24th century, so we should perhaps treat his other claims in the same lane as less reliable.

Is the implication that we cannot learn things from fiction?

The male number does go to zero the year that Clinton became first lady.

Don't forget Madison[1] (Splash[2]). My guess is that the majority of names prior to 1984 are clerical errors where the surname was entered as the given name.

1: https://namedaisy.com/us/name/Madison

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splash_(film)

Even Hayek was a proponent of robust antitrust measures for this reason. And he's hardly a figure of the political left.

Though in the same movie Picard claimed with a straight face that humans do not seek revenge in the 24th century either, so perhaps we should take his claims about wealth acquisition as similarly aspirational?

That's crazy; gwenview (The KDE image viewer) has supported webp for quite some time.

x265 supports lossless as well (though I believe it's not part of the H.265 standard). It's what I use for video capture.

Also (if you round correctly) there is no generation loss in the format conversion. You can round-trip between them as many times as you want and you only get the loss of the initial RGB->YCbCr.

jpg: webp, avif, jxl. The first two are adopted because of non-negligible gains, the latter because of features missing in jpg.

mp3: Both AAC and opus have non-negligible gains and both are fairly widely used.

zip[1]: lz4, zstd, and lzma2 dominate at least gzip's implementation of deflate: For any given setting of gzip, there is a setting for at least one of those three that is both faster and smaller.

1: Not a codec; the zip format specifies a dozen methods for encoding. I'm assuming you mean Deflate, which is the most common compression method associated with zip.

I was told about 10 years ago that Lewy body dementia can only be diagnosed post-mortem (my grandfather was diagnosed post-mortem).

Nice to see on the Narraganset; I'm interested in how it does once you pass Beavertail and have to deal with swells.

Most crypto is "majority rules" where the majority is either "majority of the currency" (proof of stake) or "majority of the mining power" (proof of work).

In this case, iFinex has the explicit ability to freeze funds in Tether.

Per the manpage you linked, openbsd's behavior does not match the drand48() interface, since the drand48() interface requires determinism.

Most native English speakers cannot understand most non-native speakers.

Being in the US, I feel mildly annoyed when the French complain about their public transit.

If by "much stronger" you mean "less than 10% stronger"

A theoretical "vacuum filled" balloon would only be 16% more lift per unit volume than a helium balloon.

In my experiments, tries easily win out only when comparisons are expensive. Tries struggle against optimized btrees e.g. when you have word-sized integers as the keys.

They do win in simplicity of implementation vs performace. A bog-standard critbit tree with no tricks is almost trivial to implement. Performace wise it stays in the running against anything not heavily optimized.

My wife is also allergic to fish.

She can have bonito and fish sauce, and (most strangely) canned tuna. Any fresh fish makes her violently ill. She had to learn the hard way that many restaurants make their tuna salad with fresh tuna.

The data TFA uses excludes many B and DTV movies since it limits to the top 10k films. A more catholic approach indeed puts Roberts at the top: https://oracleofbacon.org/center_list.php

Does it handle vibrato? A lot of the simple "correct pitch" apps ding you for using vibrato.

In theory, helical recording does not affect total capacity. A track will take up a certain area of tape regardless of whether the tracks are linear or helical. Helical tracking is used in VCRs because it lets you increase the speed of the head relative to the speed of the tape by a factor related to the width of the tape, thus allowing for a single track with very high bandwidth relative to the speed that the tape moves at.

FWIW, modern LTO uses linear, not helical tracking (but with 1000s of tracks).

Given that they are partitioning into cache-line sized blocks, I assume they are partitioning as a time-space tradeoff?

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Rereading that section more carefully, they are concerned about concurrent write performance to the bloom filter; since two CPUs can not write to the same cache-line in parallel, it's definitely done for performance reasons.

I wish I had seen this two years ago; it could have saved me some money trying other setups.

Note also that the linked article stops at QAM. This is a previously solved problem for phoneline communication; in the 1980s modems went from 9.6kbps to 33.6kbps[1] after adopting trellis coding. It's not impossible that a similar technique would work for audio cassettes.

1: https://www.itu.int/rec/T-REC-V.34-199802-I/en

Don't forget that tape has 4 tracks (used as 2x stereo in traditional audio tape). Other experiments have used 1 track as a pilot town to correct for flutter, but that still leaves 3x as much bandwidth as you were assuming.

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Found one of the ones I was thinking of. They were able to get about 24kbps on a single track, with a pilot tone on the other track to correct for flutter. This would imply 72kbps if using all 4 tracks simultaneously. At that rate, you probably get better quality audio with Opus than you would storing on a tape without some form of NR, though you only get half as much playback time.

https://redfrontdoor.org/blog/?p=795

I'm no linguist, but it seems to me that syntax could be divorced from vocabulary.

TFA has a link to the amazon page for the bearing used. It's a bearing plus freewheel clutch. Most commonly (and in this specific case) it means sprag clutch[1], but it may be e.g. a ratchet/pawl[2] (like most bikes have) or a roller freewheel[3].

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprag_clutch

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratchet_(device)

3: Couldn't find a wikipedia page for this, so https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AU4OguQmyMM

If someone causes you to incur a fine and refuses to willingly reimburse you, then courts are the formal solution we have (there are other informal solutions most of which are illegal due to anti-loan-shark laws).

Small-claims court exists.