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At some point you gotta accept that this is dystopia.

Receipt and delivery time is all that is necessary, 10 minutes tops, in and out. It absolutely can and should go that way and did in your case.

But sometimes the pomp and circumstance take over and you would think it is 1924 and these are the first machines sold in Japan or something. That's because on slow days that floor full of people have diddly squat to do. Count them, it is x4-5 more than elsewhere.

Next time you're in BIC stay a while and observe. Especially older couples, they love the attention. That's the other subtle aspect at play I think. Loneliness resents efficiency.

The Western solution seems to be to give people basic income and have them stay home. I offer no opinion on what is "better" and maybe I'm wrong but I really think that's what is going on.

Don't stay home, stay in uniform, we'll find you something <- not an entirely terrible way to be.

You could also cut that chip out and put it on a cute keychain. :)

Obviously they can get rid of fax machines and Do Tech Better.

Here, go to a 7 floor electronics store and you'll see Walmart style greeters in larger numbers. Wall to wall. If you buy a washing machine you'll spend hours and meet a whole lot of uniformed employees to show you deference. Like the whole staff of that floor. You get to meet a village where everybody "loves" each other.

As if the store employees themselves cooperatively and humbly assembled the washing machine as a team effort. And no one person stands out.

An artisanal washing machine that crafts people diligently slaved away at making bespoke just for you. And sacred reams of paperwork they will equally fill out with the outmost of care and send by well trained hawk if need be. The more effort and "care" spent the better.

Or you can just order it online on the website for that very store. Same price. So what the hell?

I think it is because they don't view BS jobs as a bad thing but rather as necessary for an inclusive and harmonious society.

Theirs Not to Reason Why, Theirs But to Do and Die.

Voice acting is quite literally done a sentence or at most a paragraph at a time. Often the recording order is completely different from the script.

An actor may very well record his final scene on the first day of a project, after the whole character arc has transpired. But you know, acting. They get fed a line with stage direction and do a bunch of takes and somehow it works.

Heck you might be a full blown Italian who can't say a word in English but with the right kind of jacket it comes out a banger: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VsmF9m_Nt8

You mention Eleven labs being ahead, check out Suno. There is no LLM-scale anything involved there. The voice in this context is a musical instrument and there are lots of viable ways to tackle this problem domain.

  Multipart upload allows you to upload a single object as a set of parts. Each part is a contiguous portion of the object's data. You can upload these object parts independently and in any order. If transmission of any part fails, you can retransmit that part without affecting other parts. After all parts of your object are uploaded, Amazon S3 assembles these parts and creates the object. In general, when your object size reaches 100 MB, you should consider using multipart uploads instead of uploading the object in a single operation.

Here we are taking modern code and teleporting it back in time. Or perhaps rather taking hardware back to the future. Clearly it should be called DeLoreanithmics.

Alternatively while it may be difficult to trick you directly, phishing the passphrase from a more naive loved one or bored coworker and then parroting it back to you is also a possibility. 'etc.

Phone scams are no joke and this is getting past the point where regular people can be expected to easily filter them out.

  I was vaguely aware of Andreessen as the guy who invented the first web browser, a socially useful accomplishment by any measure and a story I had long kept in the back of my mind as an outstanding proof text that useful invention often flourishes best when government subsidizes it, socialism-style—given that Andreessen had created it while a student at a public institution, the University of Illinois. Then I boned up on what he was up to now, courtesy of a gargantuan 13,000-word profile from two years earlier in The New Yorker.

He very throughly compares countless models with a Polar H10 strap. Some come close enough.

If, for example, one of them was visiting a market in NYC around 1924 it is unlikely that bananas were on offer. Much has changed in what we eat and how it is produced and an infinity other confounding factors.

Science does not put forth an "optimal diet" to begin with. It is unlikely there exists such a thing but rather diets carry various tradeoffs for differing populations.

This learned to be a Shazam for human voices instead of songs. And just like you can figure out by ear a snippet of music was made on a Yamaha DX7, seems 15 seconds is enough to narrow it down to a reasonably small set of vocoders that can recreate the sample given.

I'll never understand these things.

He started posting videos again recently with some regularity after a lull. Audience is in the low hundreds of thousands. I assume fewer than 100k actually finish videos and fewer still do anything with it.

Hobby electronics seems surprisingly small in this era.

  “Initially, our fish finder was sold for 600,000 yen per unit, which was as expensive as a house in those days. Despite its high price, the company’s technology attracted fishermen from all over the country. In fact, I heard that a number of customers in the fishing industry visited FURUNO (which was formerly based in Nagasaki City) with backpacks full of cash to buy our fish finder,”

  The Furuno Fish Finder is said to be the world's first practical fishfinder; it was introduced by the Furuno brothers for use in commercial fishing vessels in *1948* in Japan.

  In the episode.. I mentioned a detail I encountered in my research that stuck with me. I think it may be the earliest reference to the “simulation hypothesis”: the idea that the observable universe could be a computer simulation. Wikipedia will tell you that this theory dates to 2003.