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9point6

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  • It's barely a science.

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  • Economics is a funny one as ultimately it's a focused & technical strand of anthropology (which I believe is considered a science by many) that people often incorrectly lump in with maths.

    Kinda tough for an academic to run meaningful experiments on an actual economy though beyond models and simulation. And as anyone who has watched a Gary Stevenson video or two will know, your average academic economist is pretty bad at models and simulations.

    Though I guess even bad experiments are still experiments

    Edit: typo

  • ‘Eternally spellbinding’: the TV shows that baffle you – but you can’t get enough of

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  • Monkey Dust getting a shout out 2 decades later was an unexpected surprise.

    I still regularly think about that and Nathan Barley as standouts that haven't got the love they probably deserve as contorted absurdist reflections of what life felt like back then

    BBC Three and E4 were on a run of absolute gold in the early to mid 00s. I think they were still on the "we get more freedom on digital" vibe that a lot of the new channels had back then.

  • Can't unsee the eye

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  • Oh, oh no, I didn't think beholders were real

  • A gourmet meal

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  • Surely that's a jacemat

  • Meta’s Reality Labs cuts sparked fears of a ‘VR winter’

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  • By a significant margin when compared to any other of the big-tech companies, buying hardware from Facebook seems like an unfathomably stupid idea.

    And this is not me saying hardware from any of the rest of them is a good idea.

  • Why doesn't it feel as classy?

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  • You're definitely correct on the 32-bit dynamic range side of things, as that's more dynamic range than a human can perceive.

    However I feel like I read a little while ago, that a standard record industry 15 IPS reel-to-reel master tape (on some high quality tape formulation, I imagine) sits somewhere between 96khz and 192khz equivalent sample rate. Though there is every chance it was from Reddit or something. Do you happen to know if that stacks up?

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    It's Stalinist to want walkable cities with fewer cars, apparently 🤦

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  • Oh no, imagine life being convenient

  • Obamas say Trump administration seems 'eager to escalate' situation in Minneapolis

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  • But this is already the distraction from trump being a massive pedo?

  • ELI5: Why won't android just straight up run like Linux distros that almost run on any computers?

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  • The hardware is generally not open source, and it's technically illegal in a lot of jurisdictions to redistribute the binary blobs that make it work without permission from the manufacturer (basically never has happened). Because there is minimal focus on forward and backward compatibility, different chips from the same product line are very often incompatible with each other, let alone from different manufacturers.

    So phone ROM maintainers have the job of stripping out those binary bits from a recovery image for a given phone or something and then getting them working with an open source build of android. All the while taking a (albeit kinda low) legal risk. Take a look at most of the long running open source Android projects and you'll see they have had to structure their projects to mitigate legal exposure.

    In Linux most of the hardware support is just straight up open source, the bits that aren't (typically GPU or specialist hardware drivers) are manufactured by people that want you to use their hardware on Linux, so they release prepackaged drivers for you to use.

    Phone manufacturers are motivated to try and ensure everyone uses their stock ROM because ultimately they have to support the device if a user breaks something, and that's easier for them when they eliminate as many variables as they can. Even if they can charge the user out of warranty, it's still tying up support resources from their perspective.

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    Tobacco Corporations Are Using the EU to Weaken Health Policies Worldwide

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  • Mad these guys are still at it

    Throw in the towel already

  • TIL that "aspirin" was actually originally a trademarked brand name owned by Bayer.

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  • Apparently acetylsalicylic acid is the chemical name, I think I'll stick with Aspirin

  • Teach me

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  • You can eat as shitty as you like, you just need to make sure you burn the calories.

    You can spend an hour on a bike/running and burn getting close to a thousand calories. Lifting is more like half that, but has the benefit of increasing your metabolism over time

  • Weird Al's advice to a fan

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  • Data track/session is the term

    If it was done in the way where the data track didn't show up for an audio player, it was probably an Enhanced CD/CD plus. If anyone is backing up old CDs it's worth checking for this kind of stuff and saving it too. Given most people only ever rip the audio, loads of that stuff is going to end up as lost media before long

  • Why doesn't it feel as classy?

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  • Well this is going to be an interesting rabbit hole...

    In I go!

  • Post-COP 30 Modeling Shows World Is Far Off Track for Climate Goals | A new MIT Global Change Outlook finds current climate policies & economic indicators put the world on track for dangerous warming

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  • Well duh, we needed to do net zero to only just avoid the worst scenarios, it still wouldn't have fixed it.

    Yet now we seem to be moving away from that, predominantly because America wanted to elect a corrupt pedophile to run things, and the majority of the rest of the world's leaders seem to be happily kowtowing to his anti-environmental agenda.

  • ‘Repatriate the gold’: German economists advise withdrawal from US vaults

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  • Well I'm sure the dollop of fermented meat in charge won't try something as someone takes back his favourite coloured metal

  • Eggs versus Cereal

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  • It's partly your pallet will have matured, and partly they don't stuff an additional two thousand calories of sugar into each box anymore

  • Windows 11 24H2 giving constant BSOD after latest security update, had to disable RAM's speed profile.

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  • 24H2 is two versions behind now, right?

    I'm guessing you may be holding back the updates for a specific reason, but if not, have you tried just updating to 25H1/25H2 to see if that fixes it?

  • Booting from a vinyl record

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  • There's a joke here somewhere about how you should master your boot record