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only in imperial does it look suspicious.

Humans should be the baseline precisely because they aren't very good. Imagine a whole fleet of hundreds of self driving car that are worst than the average human driver (who are already really bad) all making the exact same worst than human mistakes.

All of that text you quoted is pure advertising nonsense. It's like reading buzzword after buzzword.

My suggestion is to read the walkthrough and enjoy it! there are some massive things going on through that whole section of the game, and you really get the idea that you're one really small speck in a whole universe.

if you haven't read (one of the many) walkthroughs yet, go ahead and find some interesting things just being a fly on the proverbial wall.

Star Control 2 is a game where the game is incidental, and the real hero is the story writing.

well the poster there wanted to buy a license, but was coerced by the oracle rep into using it without a license. (so they weren't going to use it unlicensed to begin with)

This is pretty much entrapment.

simple answer is you can't, because these mechanisms are used by other people to find information about you. The only way to opt out is to not use any services which participates in this ecosystem.

basically, use only cash (no debit or credit cards ever), no housing purchase, live in a tent on public land, do not register for a driver's license, and don't have a passport. No internet account, so no bitcoin (which needs a steady internet connection) - crypto currencies are not the answer because they depend on you being online, and it's super easy to get caught in the mesh with the KYC (know your customer) laws.

You might be able to get by with paper bitcoin but no one really wants to take your offline coins.

don't get any traffic tickets or cross paths with police, always avoid anyone who looks like they are in some kind of authority capacity.

Macs are some of the easiest things to administer because of the rock solid MDM, nuke and block, lost item mitigation (as soon as declared lost, can wipe remotely, and even sometimes track via geolocation for filing police reports and for insurance claims). The pervasiveness and userfriendliness of filevault makes it so much easier than trying to enforce luks on linux.

If you do encounter an OS level issue that can't be solved by first or 2nd tier local support, wiping from internet recovery is the next step, followed by sending it back to Apple (if you are within applecare) for direct replacement.

The Apple Business team is incredible, and is much better than regular genius bar service at the apple store.

They are pricy on the whole, but it's worth it if you have a need for macs in your environment.

characters that alter their appearance to be one or more display units depending on the characters that are next to it (before and after). that would be a very crude example, but these types of characters appear all the time in human language

The desire would be to work with sound artists and acoustic designers and product designers and engineers to make certain types of audio spaces.

A lot of the cutting edge of acoustic research is from people wanting to make materials and spaces do certain things with sound.

For example, this article describes a system that lets sound through one way This was described in https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-one-way-street-... ("an acoustic circulator") - the need will come from things like this.

And for musicians, artists, and instrument makers to make use of materials, devices, and spaces like this. That would be my answer to your question of where the need/why will come from.

Imagine needing to write a DAW module to deal with "one way sound" that results from using an acoustic circulator in a musical production or a song.

Yah these are all well understood, however, you don't get to nuclear reactors without inventing some new math supporting subatomic physics.

Saying that audio has "different set of constraints from other types of workloads" and giving up on fundamental algorithm research is just defeatist, throwing in the towel, and frankly really insulting to human advancement.

Come on, we need some new algorithms and just saying "whelp it can't be done" is kind of ... not the hacker spirit.

It could be that we need quantum algorithms for parallel processing what previously was thought to be serial. Just from reading your well reasoned paragraph, I can see we desperately need fundamental algorithm research in sound processing.

An imaginary scenario might to to invent an algorithm to convert/transform sound/pressure wave information into another domain, one that is not dependent on serial time, and then do the operations, and then re-convert it back to the time domain that we usually associate with sound processing. Where, within this alternative domain, parallel processing is possible.

We do stuff like this all the time in other disciplines. Even stuff like the FFT was an attempt to transform and make certain "unsolvable" problem solvable in another form.

That's the kind of math research that I'm referring to.

DAW innovation will only come with inventing new algorithms.

There needs to be significant number theory and computer science algorithmic work related to sound and how we represent sound with data.

GPU's currently cannot work with sound data in the processing chain, and multicore is basically just used to scale horizontally (ie to have more plugins or instruments)

New algorithms are needed to scale out audio processing, as well as make use of new hardware types (for example, using the gpu)

I'm not encoding mp3's, but a lot of music is sold as mp3's :)

A huge portion of all compressed media files are poorly compressed files. Often these poorly compressed files come directly from music distributor with the wrong compression settings, or with really really bad noise. Remember, many music distributors are working with old systems (unable to upgrade either due to driver/software or licensing issues), outdated software, and plain old junky audio interfaces, etc.

Lossless (when used properly and able to algorithmically guarantee what comes out == what goes into the compression toolchain) avoids the whole issue altogether, and that's what's valuable about it.

Focusing on whether compression captures every nuance of uncompressed sound is the wrong battle. The real battle is against careless distributors and bad artifacts introduced by poor compression settings and often incorrectly coded compression utilities used throughout the music industry.

(ie we on hn might all be using Lame or the Fraunhofer mp3 encoders, but a lot of music producers/distributors will be using custom / closed source encoders, or even audio workstations with the encoder implemented in hardware, and those might or might not be encoding mp3 correctly.)

Totally not true. Lossless is for listening!

it is an oral exam as part of a phd. this was years ago (1996?), so interesting as a retrospective.

There's a ton of precedence of American companies applying American laws universally across the world (regardless of whether it's applicable by jurisdiction) in IP cases, in trade issues, etc. many times it's easiest to just have 1 set of rules across the planet, so companies end up with following the lowest common denominator of legal actions and policies. (even if these policies are illegal in other jurisdictions. Many cases, American companies just go ahead with the illegal policies and then pay the fine in each country where it is found to be acting illegally. The fines are not even sufficient to be rounding errors of their operating budget in many cases so they just break laws at will just so that it's easier to match the policies around the world).

No it’s not a joke but what will really happen.

No one buys dell servers at list price.

Threadripper and Epyc has been smashing the pcie lane limit for a while now. That's why Epyc is kicking intel's ass in server applications.

My personal workstation at the side of my desk has 6 pcie nvme ssd's and I can add 4 more without breaking the lane bank.

global is about geography.

then make them relevant. ... don't say kangaroo jumps 500 metres, say an alien from mars jumps x martian units and ask the student to derive a conversion factor between the martian and earthling units.

or some problems with time dilation.

BUT don't call it "kangaroo jumps 50000 km and we need it cause reality says so"

Unity IPO'ed in 2020, which isn't super recent, but is probably the reason behind these changes. IPO'ed means they gotta report some quarterly improvements, every quarter forever under the totally unsustainable growth model.

What's wrong with banning someone you've asked repeated to change their behaviour while interacting in a space that you host? Nothing!

that is completely ok - after 10 years I can say that "I am 90% parmigiano" and prove it by scanning the thousands of chips that will be inside me.

In Canada at least, when you buy a car / ev battery depending on the chemistry you get a coupon that you redeem for a significant amount of money when you take your old replaced battery back to the place you bought the new battery. The vendor will take back any brand/regardless of where you got the old battery from.

There are people who "throw away" the coupon by not returning the old battery, but hey that's on them.

probably because of non-pay related practices? things like differences in healthcare laws, unionization, legal rights as a citizen (of a particular country) vs being a visitor who can be evicted/deported at will.

Cool I'll try to build one.

I bet the early C and C++ iso committee meetings were just as bad if not worse. Worse cause it would be corporate entities having tamper tantrums about which pet language feature should get implemented.

no, that's why you tunnel through seven proxies, each being used with different sets of credentials/encryption keys, all disposable. The last tunnel is not the main data channel, but the channel you use to coordinate command and control, and then you use a botnet to distribute pieces of your real communications.