Actually, as demonstrated daily by my kitties, scent is the 3FA after sight and sound. Doesn’t matter that they see it’s me and hear my voice. Sniff test it the final boss.

If this is real, he’s lost all street cred.

If they just made up a bunch of accusations with paltry evidence to prove it, the scandal would make headlines. “iPhone maker found to be full of shit in court!” is clickworthy gold. I don’t think your stance is very strong. Every entity tries to spin things in their favor, but you make it sound like they’d bring an empty case and they very much would not. No one starts a lawsuit they don’t think they can win unless they’re someone with no credibility and endless money like Elon Musk (see lawsuit against Apple and OpenAI) or oil companies going after environmental lawyers.

Lemme help you spice things up: Wait until you’re passing by a guy who’s super clean cut and wearing business attire. As you go by, yell: “Get a haircut, hippy!” It’s funny every time.

Perl programmers will be like gods in this new world.

I hate to tell you this, but the mullets were very real. It was a dark time and we’re all glad it’s in the past.

I’m impressed by their operational efficiency. Here they are, making it happen 365 days per year. Someone deserves a raise.

Recently had a meeting where the organizer was summing up that we were done when someone brought in an off-topic thing that got people joking around about nothing. At the first lull, I said, “Ok, so I guess if that’s it, everyone have a good weekend.” That worked and everyone started signing off. I hate that I have to jump in to make things end, but at least it worked.

I ripped 298 Blu-Rays and a smaller number of DVDs with MakeMKV. Twice because I lost the whole collection due to my own bs the first time (make sure you have excellent backups, folks). I would not go through the process a third time, but that has nothing to do with the software.

No joke. I hate waiting for people who are inefficient and slow getting off a plane. If everyone just waited a few seconds to stand up, me and my one piece of carry-on could walk straight to the door without delay. I hate this aspect of flying more than almost any other. A late landing making me miss a connecting flight is still the worst, however.

Perhaps. I like dry, absurdist humor. This doesn’t read like that to me at all.

https://lemmy.sdf.org/c/[email protected]

No, really. Click through.

People who drive trucks who don’t work in a profession that incentivizes them can all go to hell.

This person is unwell. Not because of the desire to chase someone (I have thoughts on that, but…) the high five and shit. Getting sweaty but they won’t pay if they can’t catch you but you also can’t go easy on them if they’re a slow fuck who can’t catch you otherwise or you won’t get paid. If I knew someone who posted this, I would disassociate from them.

I was on ICQ as well, but most people weren’t. I was generalizing to the contemporary audience.

We were the first (of non-computer types) to adopt the web. We rode the AOL Instant Messenger train. What are you talking about.

Also, old records (from early in the CD era) had nowhere near the fidelity of modern records. I played a modern record for my father once and he was astounded how far they’ve come.

Digital fidelity (sample rate) grows more granular in higher frequencies because that’s easier for us to distinguish. (See the Fletcher-Munson Curve from Bell Labs: on a bell curve, we hear best at the frequency of a baby crying.) Think of stair steps that get closer and more numerous over time. That’s a representation of the resolution of the sound across frequencies from low to high. I may be explaining it poorly because I moved away from audio engineering toward a different career a long time ago.

Analog has all the information that’s missing in between the larger, wider steps. It’s not a placebo (didn’t say you called it that). It’s how digital audio works.

My instance isn’t allowing me to upload images for some reason. It had extended downtime the other day, so maybe that’s related. Anyway, here’s a link to a page with a chart that illustrates what I’m attempting to describe.

The industry went to shit after non-nerdy people found out there could be a lot of money in tech. Used to be full of other people like me and I really liked it. Now it’s full of people who are equally as enthused about it as they would be to become lawyers or doctors.

The industry went to shit after non-nerdy people found out there could be a lot of money in tech. Used to be full of other people like me and I really liked it. Now it’s full of people who are equally as enthused about it as they would be to become lawyers or doctors.