Keep in mind that the 7000 X3D processors lagged the non-X3D processors by ~6months so if that follows for the 8000 series you might still be quite a ways out from those.
I've had this issue with my Samsung Note 20 Ultra, but not from motorcycles. I run a couple thousand miles a year and about 6 months ago I noticed my camera would come up out of focus. If I tap the phone fairly hard it will usually come back in focus eventually, but its super annoying. I've started carrying my phone in a pocket on my outer thigh where it should get less impact, rather than a loose zippered pocket of my shorts, but the damage is done to this one. Hopefully my next phone does better.
S22 ultra here, when I shake my phone there is something rattling, I always assumed it was some part of lenses, since they have some advanced stuff like periscopes and maybe for some good reason some part is not tightly held as the rest. Otherwise there shouldn't be a thing moving in the phone.
As long as it keeps working no concern, and it works fine, focus is quick. But yeah I won't be mounting it on motorcycle (or mountain bike) anytime soon
Most phone cameras rattle while the camera is off. If you turn the main camera on, then it normally stops the rattle temporarily, since the rattling lens assembly is now held in place electromagnetically.
Any phone with OIS or AF will rattle if you shake it hard enough. It's just the springs of the lens assembly hitting the endstops of travel. Shouldn't damage anything unless you really hit it quite hard (or, repeatedly, as a motorcycle would). I've also noticed you can sometimes get rattling from buttons on a phone too. Could also be that.
The important point here is long distance on soft ground.
Don't run on a road or asphalt path or other hard surfaces. Your knees are NOT built for that, at least not without degradation you will regret in a few decades.
I've thought about this quite a bit. I'm a big fan of the record label Bear Family, a German label that specializes in releasing boxsets from R&B/Rock&Roll/Country artists from the 20's-70's. Want to hear every song The Carter Family ever recorded in their original incarnation? They have a 12 CD boxset for you! They generally do this be acquiring the original master tapes from the labels, which often include a lot of previously unreleased songs or alternate takes, and remastering them.
Hip-Hop probably has a higher percentage of this material than almost any other genre, especially once you get to the mixtape/blog era. Unfortunately, most of this material was only released in unofficial forms, often on low-quality MP3s and often with some random dude shouting over the intro. A lot of these tracks were also recorded over unlicensed beats/samples, so even if clean recordings were available official release would be impossible.
> Unfortunately, most of this material was only released in unofficial forms, often on low-quality MP3s and often with some random dude shouting over the intro.
If that's the art form as it was experienced, do archivists need to make a "better" version?
This is like asking if a recording of the 1996 Olympics should have to include all of the commercials.
For historical purposes, sure, have that as an option, but lil wayne's mixtapes are not better off for the random DJs or website advertisements yelled over them. That's not the music he made.
I get your point, but I absolutely do prefer to hear older recordings where they have been able to in some way improve the quality over what was initially released. An extreme case would be some of the old 78rpm records that recent innovations have been able to clean up substantially. While the hip-hop records I'm talking about are not nearly that bad, the releases were often made in 128kbps with whatever encoder was available. Some may even have been transcoded.
> A lot of these tracks were also recorded over unlicensed beats/samples
That's the killer, right there. For example, the Beastie Boys album Paul's Boutique probably could not be released today as it samples an incredible number of other artists.[0]
A lot of hip hop still has unlicensed samples in it but the slices just keep getting smaller and less recognizable. And believe it or not a lot of the samples in Paul’s Boutique were licensed. I do agree with you though that (maybe until recently as I think the price of sampling is softening somewhat with sites like tracklib) Paul’s Boutique would be expensive to release today.
Then there are stories like the Mark Ronson song ooh wee that he owns -25% of[0] because the boney m string riff took 100% of the publishing and Dennis Coffey drums took another 25%. So he theoretically lost money each play. Public enemy’s it takes a nation of millions to hold us back is another album that would lose money to make today.
Somewhere I have a dead iPod shuffle with the grey album on it. Listened to that non stop in undergrad. Have not been able to find another bootleg of it :(
The original shows is available on mixcloud for anyone who wants to hear any of the interesting commentary that went with the playlist. It looks like the It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back Breakdown is up too, but I can't see the De La Soul one.
Audio compression literally throws out data. It's audio the human ear isn't likely/able to hear but it's still gone. Different codecs and even different implementations of codecs throw out different audio data.
Any sort of upscaling is going to involve a lot of guesses about what was thrown out. For every codec and implementation there will be a lot of possibilities of what the original data might have looked like. At the end of the process you likely aren't going to get a result that necessarily sounds better than the low quality encoding. There will likely be a lot of artifacts introduced by the upscaling.
It's not impossible but something you'd need a specially trained AI to do I would think.
I work with a system which extrapolates data in the frequency domain to reduce noise in medical images and then doubles the images resolution in the x and y direction (so 4x the pixels). It’s absolutely amazing.
It’ll be interesting to see if audio ever gets a similar treatment and in what areas it can be applied.
If the information has been lost through using a lossy codec like MP3, there’s no getting it back.
But there are “AI upscaling” techniques that use models to fill in the missing pieces. It isn’t really restoring the original, more like painting over a crack in a style that is typically used by similar artists in similar contexts. Such models could produce a result conceptually similar to what a cover band might produce.
Looks like the project averaged about one new Mersenne Prime per year for 1996-2009, and then only 4 hits for 2010-2018 with none since 2018.
Obviously the tflops::hit difficulty ratio is ramping up as the numbers get larger, but I can't help wondering if the cryptocurrency craze dampened their work rate.
They're reporting 78,012 tflops of work done today, but my five minutes of investigation wasn't enough to find a historical chart of tflops/day and five minutes is about the limit of my curiosity on this matter for now.
When the project started, CPU frequency scaling wasn't a thing, so CPUs would run at full speed (and full power draw) 100% of the time. If you weren't making maximal use of the CPU, any remaining capacity would go to waste. Distributed computing projects could make use of that remaining capacity.
Today, CPUs are built with power efficiency in mind, and will attempt to scale down rapidly when not fully in use. Thus there is no longer such a thing as "spare CPU time". Any time spent on distributed computing projects is paid for in electricity costs. Some choose to continue anyway, but many have been disincentivized.
I don't think that's true. Variable frequency certainly helps efficiency, but like the other commenter said, HLT did exist. The CPU would use less power when told by the OS to do nothing for a short while.
For a while I had a Home Assistant automation that would spin up Prime95 on a machine in my homelab when the closet it was in (in an unheated garage) got too cold. The closet also has the water meter, so it has to be kept above freezing. There's also a resistive heater, but I figured I'd rather get a bit of productive use out of those watts.
Then I realized that the computers heated the closet plenty without artificially pegging CPUs, so I didn't bother reimplementing it when I did a migration.
It may have been replaced by a cryptocurrency indeed, for there was PrimeCoin, one of the very few that actually did something that was both productive and unprofitable (critically important for the economics of mining) with its mining cycles, and that is look for prime numbers. Although I don't remember if these were Mersenne Primes. It was one of the very earliest altcoins and by its nature was CPU bound which made it unpopular with large scale mining farms, but extremely popular with CPU cycle thieves working in clueless corporate and educational IT departments.
8k is double the vertical and horizontal resolution of 4k. You can argue that 4k was deceptive, since it switched from measuring the vertical resolution (2160p) to the horizontal, but 8k is just sticking with the established standards.
4k was the marketers cashing in a puffery token they'd been carrying for quite a long time by accurately measuring the short side of displays.
They moved to measuring the long side AND exaggerating by rounding up in the same generation, stealing the name of a slightly-better existing standard in the process.
You're right that 8k makes sense so long as you accept 4k, though.
Well, 4K is called that because when 1080p became common at home, cinemas switched to DCI 4K and suddenly TV manufacturers had to compete with that, so they branded the closest they could get to DCI 4K as their own "UHD 4K".
Maybe I'm just a pessimist, but if Reddit doesn't backtrack what's the endgame here? I've seen multiple subs indicate they intend to fully shutdown if the API changes continue, but for the popular ones what's to stop Reddit from just appointing new mods and starting the sub back up?
I feel like some of the "smaller" communities can't really have their mods replaced without some work. Programming subreddits need mods with the right programming background to make executive decisions like banning the next NFT-like scheme, for example, which a generic person going through posts and deciding if it's against the TOS couldn't do.
Exactly. You can't lead a community if you're not a proper member of that community, especially on Reddit, which still retains some of its reputation as a place where knowledgeable people are to be found.
What tools will those new moderators use? The mods of any decent size subreddit have to use third party tools because the first party ones are apparently garbage.
I think a better question is what's Reddit's endgame? Mods of huge subreddits will just capitulate and use Reddit's crappy tools to do their unpaid work? Somehow those subreddits won't be flooded with spam and trolls? People will stick around to look at ads when every other post on /r/awwww is gore because the mods won't be able to keep up? Everyone will just download the complete shit that is the official Reddit app?
Agreed, a large part of the platform will just go to shit, as no good moderation tools are available to the mods (regardless if you replace them or not).
Reddit's value lies in what its users provide and post about. This also goes for that data that Reddit (publicly) wants to protect from AI companies.
With their change, not only do they screw over its users and communities, but also mess up any valuable future conversation data.
That surreal to me too, mostly because there there are no offered alternative such as forum or even clone. (i mean open reddark and just list)
I think from reddit perspective that could be considered as jackpot: 48 hours downtime it just 0.6% ( 100-((363/365)*100)) over year, if it is keep going - update TOS (something like - huge subreddits cannot be converted to private and etc.) and just replace mods...
As for endgame I think slowly users will start leaving, but it could take years.
If the mods get replaced, that's just another thing for everyone to complain about. Reddit relies on the community to do "community things" but if they stop doing those things then what do they have?
That is exactly what many (including the people working at Reddit [1]) just don't seem to understand.
Reddit is, first and foremost, content driven. The content itself comes entirely from the communities. To be more precise: from a very small group of people inside those communities.
Most reddit users just read, include users that only occasionaly comment in threads and you get a bucket that represents like what, 4/5 of the whole userbase?
This means that you do not have to make many people angry to render the site useless for the overwhelming majority of people that go to the site. Reddit rests upon the labor of a small number of people: Users that post and/or create useful content and moderators.
Now a site like youtube is very similar but has one [2] very significant difference: The people producing the content have a monetary incentive, making it very unlikely that a majority of them will stop or move away. Reddit, as a company, however brings almost nothing to the table, it's just that it used to be frictionless and now everyone happens to be there. And they are working hard to kill the "frictionless" part.
[1]: The recent AMA with spez was a nice demonstration of how out of touch they are with reddit users
[2]: Actually it's two, hosting video content on a large scale is actually hard
This is why Spez is such a tool imo. He tries to be a Zuckerberg or something. Get his IPO moment.
Not one moment does he reflect if this is the course to take. I understand why, the railroad of any tech site is to sell out, make those billions. Get some money.
Reddit’s DNA seems different enough, like you say, it is far more about community building. A model like wikipedia, to see it as an utility, would be far more in line with what it is.
Spez if I had to guess probably is just flipping tired of it all and wants to cash in asap.
Hey, reddit mod of a top subreddit here. I can give some insight into what mods are thinking.
This current 'movement' is extremely organic and decentralized. A couple power mods started rallying the troops, and the movement went viral among mods over the course of about 2 weeks. There is very little direct coordination between subreddit mods, and it is mostly people deciding on the fly to make big decisions.
TLDR, nobody is really thinking much about the concerns that you are pointing out.
Its certainly something that people have thought about, very minimally, but the current counterargument to the idea of reddit just replacing mods is twofold.
argument 1: "They can't replace all of us!"
IE, subs are all run by an army of volunteer mods and mods think that they have a lot of bargaining power here.
argument 2: "I don't care. Let all of reddit burn to the ground!"
Quite frankly, a lot of people on reddit have gotten very worked up about this situation, and do not care about the consequences. If they get replaced, or reddit drops the hammer, they are fine with the consequences and will just leave.
But, the most important thing to note is absence of the following argument.
Argument 3 that doesn't exist: "We have a coordinated plan, back plan, and backup backup plans as for what to do about this, in communication with all the other mods"
That would be the smart way to do this, but unfortunately for the mods involved in it, this isn't what is happening. For better or for worse this is a viral outrage movement with nobody in charge.
I was surprised and pleased that our users were wholeheartedly supportive of the shutdown. Still not sure if we're back in two days or will leave it closed longer.
(small sub, 18.5k, but needs active moderation not to go to shit - our topic is in the news a lot lately. thankfully the reddit tools are up to the task at our scale, but bigger would be bad)
the disconcerting thing is that Twitter and Discord are simultaneously going to shit, because enshittification is what happens when suddenly borrowing carries an interest rate and VCs get squeezed.
I think this is because many people, including me, was already very tired of Reddit's shitty changes. If Reddit had had a good track record and this was their first misguided change I doubt most users would have supported this.
From the outside, this seems very much like a classic labor dispute. Management (reddit) and labor (mods) are at odds over what they see as the future of the corporation. As such, some form of mediation needs to occur between both sides for work to continue.
Again, as an outsider, I see a few problems here:
1) You're not being paid at all, so you're not really 'labor' per se.
2) You're not unionized, so you don't have a spokesperson and can't coordinate your desires.
3) Reddit can't pay you to begin with, as they have basically no money for each mod, and isn't willing to negotiate before the IPO
4) Reddit seems perfectly fine and able to just get new mods and turn the subreddits back on, spam be damned.
5) Reddit also seems like they will just let the wildfire of outrage pass (really spitballing here) and most users will likely not even remember this by the 4th of July.
I think someone with actual union experience could really help you all. If you managed to get something of a 'standard' going, with payment in stocks or some other token monetary amount, then I'd say that would be a huge boon to the internet in general and a great roadmap for other companies. A real big opportunity is hiding in this and I wish you all the best in grabbing it.
Some communities may move wholesale to one of the Reddit clones. For instance, a clone of r/traa is rapidly taking off on one of them. For communities with strong cohesion like traa, people will move as a group, and obviously any attempt by Reddit to install new mods would meet with disaster.
> appointing new mods and starting the sub back up
That's what I'd do. Most subreddit mods are easily replaceable. And in many subreddits, the people who are mods aren't necessarily the best suited for the job. They often got there through luck, bootlicking, etc. It isn't a meritocracy.
For any one sub, sure. But there is no way reddit can replace the majority of mods.
Most companies have to pay for moderators, reddit has gotten them for free for a long time. If they piss off all those free mods, it’s gonna cost them an unimaginable amount of money.
While it's true that some subreddit mods might not be the most qualified for the job, and may be in it for the ego boost or as a perception of entitlement, it's also important to remember that being a mod is not exactly a glamorous position - for many it has been a thankless janitorial role that involved dealing with spam and abuse on a continuous basis, with a very limited toolset available from Reddit to do this. The third party apps were the ones to introduce features that made the mod tasks much easier to handle efficiently. The official Reddit app got these capabilities much later.
If Reddit wants to force open protesting subreddits and find a way to recruit new mods to more than 7000 subreddits, then I assume this is within their right, it's their site after all.
Most of the major subs are modded by people who get paid by advertisers and other promoters to astroturf support for whatever. It's not hard to replace them.
I think you misinterpreted my comment. What I was attempting to convey is that the mods on Reddit are easily replaceable, not because good mods are easy to replace, but because Reddit mods are generally not good mods. I wouldn't make the same comment about HN mods for example, or of the few subs that do have good mods (but from my experience, they are a minority).
> I get the ceremony of vinyl, but it's not going to improve over perfect digital reproduction.
As a millennial, I'm always slightly amused (and maybe a little horrified) to see my peers spend endless time and more than a little money hunting down vinyl releases of the music of our generation. I also listen to a lot of music from earlier generations and have noted that older collectors were and are thrilled to see that music get well-transferred and mastered releases on a digitally perfect and durable medium and generally consider those to be the definitive release.
There's also the benefit of vinyl in that a single sale will typically send quite a bit of money actually to the band - vs streaming sending fractions of a penny, if that, per play. One of the best ways to actually support a band you like is to buy the LP, even if you don't have a turntable.
> Ugh, this frustrates me. You are just saying that the _mix_ put on vinyl is better than the mix put on CD. That same mix put on CD would be even better due to higher fidelity of the format. Vinyl is a strictly worse format... unfortunately it's also an easier source of better mixes.
I just have no idea how to go about doing that, short of demonstrating that people are willing to pay good money for good mixes on vinyl, and perhaps a few people getting the idea that a good mix on CD might sell too. But this, historically, has been the "SACD" and related versions of an album, which seem to mostly not exist anymore.
I'm literally just learning about this being untrue at this very moment. I was actually looking at adding foods that were high in iron to my diet recently and was very confused at what the nutrition data I found for spinach indicated.
Same. I asked my wife and she too thought spinach is high in iron. I was surprised to read that this mistake was discovered 30 years ago. That news sure isn’t getting passed around. We are both highly educated voracious readers and we had no clue.
I flew from Seattle through Iceland on my way to Norway a couple months ago. Flying still feels a bit magical to me, so I always try to sit by the window and will actually think through the route when picking my seat in case I can end up seeing something amazing from the sky. I specifically considered the Northern Lights, something I'd only barely seen once despite theoretically living in an area where they appear from time to time, and chose a seat on the left side of the plane so I'd be facing north. Sure enough, I was treated to several hours of amazing Northern Lights between Greenland and Iceland.
