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[–] dgerard@awful.systems 4 points 3 months ago

so sound is actually almost more important than the visuals, and actually more important a lot of the time. There's a reason sound is a whole job in AV ...

The USB mics are fine these days, yeah

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

i mean. Sometimes you just spend the fuckin' money and it solves so many problems. YMMV.

I'd do the video at 360p if I thought I could get away with it.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

oops yes, it's on the other left - fixed!

yeah, better sound is the next thing. Røde make a mic specifically to plug into phones! Comes with a big fluffball outdoor-grade wind protector too.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 4 points 3 months ago

It was a Jimmy Wales personal project, not an official WIkimedia project, and no, it didn't go anywhere

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 16 points 3 months ago

I believe in the necessity of wallet inspection, because the experts - the inspectors of wallets - tell me that wallet quality control is the future and is vital to society

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 7 points 3 months ago

a pile of people have said of Scoot using 10,000 words when 14 would do

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 3 months ago

LLMs are a development from machine learning of the sort that works, and translation was always squishy. Just a straight LLM can do surprisingly well at translation, though if I run "surprisingly well" through a translator it comes out as "impressive demo, not so great product." Tools like Google Translate are a complex array of stuff, not just one approach.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 4 points 3 months ago

lol i can replicate this glitch for glitch

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

just me and the loved one ranting about tumblr being written by whacking the keyboard with dildos until some exemplary PHP falls out

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 4 points 3 months ago

that second last para is why Sam's AI metafiction is so fucking terrible

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 3 months ago

we don't shove rationalists into lockers any more since we all read Worm

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 4 points 3 months ago

this is notes, not a thesis, i have the links to hand

 

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Note: I don't care if the issues listed can be fixed - it's still like selling a nonworking car then getting the users to go to the shady cyberpunk district to get the fixes. It's like selling a dangerous power adapter and then go, hey, you can get an expert to go in there and do some soldering to the bridge rectifier and bulk cap trace widths, fix up the spark gaps so it complies with the most basic of safety regulations, and it will work as well as the competitor's, so aren't they practically the same? "Duurp, well at least you CAAAN get inside and solder-" Hey, what if a power supply just worked and was well featured? After like 40 years of development. Ever thought about that?

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