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Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In ,

The people guiding Biden at least have an interest in keeping the united states functional

... for their corporate sponsors, who's interests slightly align with yours.

Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In ,

Shitty engineers that can do grunt work, don't complain, don't get distracted and are great at doing 90% of the documentation.

But yes. Still shitty engineers.

Great management consultants though.

Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In ,

Australian "I got mine" mentality at its finest. Too much lead poisoning (my leading hypothesis. You don't elect someone like Pauline Hanson unless there is something seriously wrong) to realise it's a race to the bottom. When enough people do something at the expense of others, what a surprise when others also do it at the expense of you, and it all turns to shit.

It's this absurd country of "Christian" values, except not the part of caring for others, "fuck that socialism hippie shit, except for China, which is cool now because they meddle in our elections... Or, they meddle in favour of my team! We need to do something about the socio-economic situation! What, unions? No fuck that Marxist shit you commie!"

Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In ,

At the time (1995-ish) I was developing a series of Windows applications that let people compose music on their PCs, [...] the actual quality of the music when played through a shitty built-in FM sound chip was depressingly awful

And the a Atari ST and Amiga 500 was released in the late 1980s.

Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In ,

8 channels (if they cheated a bit)

Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In ,

Why would Lemmy be immune?

Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In ,

Even kilts have fashion cycles

Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In ,

The stage after that is lycra

Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In ,

Netflix service started as hosting only.

Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In ,

Does Netflix? Or do they pay production companies for content?

Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In ,

There are also issues paying creators instead of rights holders

Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In ,

Servers, electricity, bandwidth, blackjack and hookers.

Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In ,

Ah. Analogue hosting. But they definitely didn't start producing content.

Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In ,

Benicio del toro

Javier Bardem

Diego Luna

Efren Ramirez

Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In ,

Vote for pedro

Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In ,

You shouldn't confuse Russian politics and Russian people.

There have been some amazingly intelegent Russians.

Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In ,

Affleck as batman, Bale as Bruce.

Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In ,

Amazon's writers throwing spanners

Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In ,

Ooooh. Data. Nice.

Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In ,

You won't know.

Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In ,

Bill Gates was a massive dick but people still use Windows.

Steve Jobs was a massive dick but people still use Apple.

Thomas Edison was a massive dick but people still use light bulbs.

People should disassociate creators and their products.

Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In ,

Use old.reddit.com

Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In ,

Forget bikes. How do you guys use the rowing machine comfortably?

Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In ,

Is the data available? I've never input my personal details.

Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In ,

CEOs are generally the the sales(wo)men.

Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In ,

But are you sure that answer wasn't a hallucination?

Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In ,

Ah, you used bing copilot to search. OK.

Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In ,

What value do "industry professionals" add in 2024?

Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In ,

Thanks for a great reply. I totally see the need for recording engineers (live and mechanical) and related jobs.

Can you compare the industry now to 10 years ago. What jobs have disappeared? The music press seems much less relevant. Does the A&R executive still exist? Etc.

ChatGPT Answers Programming Questions Incorrectly 52% of the Time: Study ( gizmodo.com )

The research from Purdue University, first spotted by news outlet Futurism, was presented earlier this month at the Computer-Human Interaction Conference in Hawaii and looked at 517 programming questions on Stack Overflow that were then fed to ChatGPT....

Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In ,

In what year do you estimating AI will have 90% accuracy?

Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In ,

Or OpenAI are targeting a known litigious actress so that any competitors thinking of creating a business of celebrity-sound-alike are sufficiently dissuaded.

Regulatory Capture

Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In ,

This is a calculated move to destroy competition. Scarlet is just a lightning rod.

Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In ,

And OpenAI successfully, publicly closes down any competition in synthetic AI voices.

Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In ,

It saved me a click

Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In ,

I use anonymous currency daily without issue. It's called cash.

Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In ,

No, given that privacy can be turned off.

Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In ,

On the other hand, scams rarely last 16 years.

Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In ,

All fairy tales. Stories are awash with bags of coins and no-one ever worries who owned the cash previously.

Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In , (edited )

True. Although you can put cash on a debit card and spend that online. Pseudo anonymous because there is some degree of traceability.

Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In ,

Madoff was hidden. Bitcoin is out in the open.

I think "bubble" could be a better description. Bitcoins bubble pops regularly every 4 years.

Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In ,

the only thing people ever accepted it as payment for, in any meaningful capacity, were illegal goods and services

That used to be true. Hardly any BTC is being spent on drugs nowadays. It's not anonymous enough. However, people are buying high value items like real estate and luxury goods with BTC.

Bitcoin is mostly being spent on electricity and new hardware.

Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In ,

crypto is too ecologically expensive and wasteful

Only some (proof of work) crypto is ecologically expensive and wasteful.

Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In ,

Sorry. Which fairy tales have officers who investigate fake cash and money laundering?

Neither of which have anything to do with the anonymity of cash.

Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In ,

"The multi-chain era has had a sweeping impact on the distribution of illicit crypto volume as a whole, where Bitcoin’s share plummeted from 97% in 2016 to 19% in 2022. In 2016, two thirds of crypto hack volume was on Bitcoin; in 2022, it accounted for just under 3%, with Ethereum (68%) and Binance Smart Chain (19%) dominating the field. And while Bitcoin was the exclusive currency for terrorist financing in 2016, by 2022 it was all but replaced by assets on the TRON blockchain, with 92%."

TRM illicit crypto ecosystem report 2023

What band or music group would you not have minded if they didn't have a certain band member? ( kbin.social )

My pick is Five Finger Death Punch and the obvious answer is Ivan Moody. The guy radiates that alpha-male wannabe energy and it definitely rings through all of the songs he has written and performed with this band. The guy is just a prick and a self-victimizing asshole....

Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In ,

Wikipedia didn't cover Russia in detail so I did some reading.

"The invasion of Ukraine by the Russian Federation was illegal. I condemn it in the strongest possible terms"

"Also, the Russian invasion of Ukraine was not unprovoked, so I also condemn the provocateurs in the strongest possible terms"

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-64580688

He calls Putin a gangster.

I think his opinions are naive. He identifies Western Propaganda but ignores the possibility that Putin is lying.

He seems to be consistently anti war though so I'm not going to burn my Pink Floyd collection ... yet

Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In ,

Why? He's just a journalist.

Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In ,

1 kid = 60 vegetarian conversions.

Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In ,

I have only been trained on climate data up until 1850.

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