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Literally everything. Just pick a topic and you'll see SWEs on Hacker News prognosticating about it as if they knew everything while knowing nothing but the surface.

It is pretty funny to see the shoe on the other foot, since it's usually software engineers with unearned arrogance about other fields.

Legal restrictions are literally government enforced censorship.

It's about whether or not their censorship affects you . Their models are censored for the Chinese audience. Meanwhile Anthropic OpenAI etc models are censored for the American aud…

The time it takes to get data to/from the GPU is problematic given the sample rate you need to deliver. Anukari used the GPU but eventually abandoned it for the CPU. They have some…

Why should anyone care what comments your agent has on code?

"bloat" just means "any feature I am not personally using therefore I deem as useless and pointless".

That extra 4.1 khz sample rate is for headroom for a low pass filter (and not necessarily a brick wall one). Leftovers or any such artifacts are below the noise floor, which is als…

Right. Which are quite below 1/2 of 44.1k!

Indeed. And what is the max frequency that a human can hear?

We had a really nice crystal decoration that I happened to put on top of one of my TV speakers and, wouldn't you know it, it had this resonant frequency somewhere around specific h…

Yeah, that's the "rest of the synth" part that's more vulnerable to aliasing. There's some ways to do band-limited distortion but...they aren't nearly as widespread, easy, or unive…

Oh great. And here I thought that fantasy literature where forest elves could hear the screams of the plants they stepped on when they walked was just that -- fantasy.

It's tough to tell without specific names, but I imagine a lot of particularly old* VSTs were written to use naive sawtooths rather than perfect band-limited ones, which would have…

Are you, per chance, a dog posting on the internet? Since 44.1khz sample rate is already past the range of the human ear, regardless of training.

You can generate perfect band-limited sawtooth waves at 44.1khz, there are multiple techniques for doing this and most production digital synthesizers use them. Oversampling gives …

Pretty good analogy. Thing is though, the person who receives the 16-bit, 44.1khz music file can always upsample it to 192khz and not lose anything in the process (heck, lots of au…

Sorry, but I don't believe in the categorical imperative. This is this and that is that.

> Let’s take all these games as great artworks - why don’t their creators have the right to destroy them? Because they sold them . They put it out in the world. If they just made i…

Most art is garbage, doesn't mean it's okay to make it inaccessible by fiat.

Virtual functions cost a lot less here than I expected.

It's significantly worse! All NFTs did was separate fools from their money, and crypto in general increased GPU costs. All the Metaverse did was cause Facebook to throw away a bunc…

Sometimes things just fail.

Public libraries are public institutions and are controlled by towns and counties, in a few different common ways. To affect change in the town or county's library, you can partici…