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One version of the history of humanity is repeatedly, gracelessly, raging against the discovery that humans are not the centre of the universe.

Surely reading is also a form of consumerism, and real freedom is writing/creating?

And the SGI CAVE 35 years ago

Pretty sure the author means "must not" or "should not", because they absolutely can.

- Adult Women voting - Adult Black people voting - Marriage equality in legal rights

Conservatives fight long and dirty to prevent equality in all cases, I have no idea what you are thinking of when you made your statement.

It rained fish in my front yard in South Carolina back in the 80's, it's definitely a real phenomenon.

Pretty sure Darktable only supports openCL and not Metal for MacOS.

OpenCL is unsupported for M1/2/3/4/5, which makes RAW file processing, batch workflows, basically everything, unusably slow.

Unless something has changed in the past few months, Darktable is dead on MacOS with no fix in sight.

We just did this song and dance with the tariff war between US and China last year. It was revealed that 3% of China's exports are purchased by the US, and that they are fully economically prepared to take that to zero when push comes to shove.

Anyone who has ever mixed music seriously knows the effect of psychoacoustics - your brain is such a proficient signal to noise optimiser, that differences in audio quality are perceptible only for the first few minutes of hearing a given sound source.

This is why mix engineers have multiple sets of speakers, so they can periodically reset their perception. Additionally, it is well documented that the top scoring speakers on Audio Science Review (where people who think linear reproduction of audio is the only job of a speaker) do not align well with the top tool choices for audio professionals, and this is not because they are governed by supersition.

There is not currently a metric for many of the things that become essential as soon as you start listening critically and having to make binding decisions from your perception - will it fatigue me, is the speaker lying to me, dimensionality, etc. Saying these are problems with your listening environment is punting on the problem of the actual duty a speaker is required to fulfil.

I don't see why an audiophile, who is a critical listener, should be any different. They're obviously doing it without a generated artefact from their listening, so there's no data based feedback loop for the quality of their experience, but it's a hobby, so everyone's preferences have value.

More deeply than programming being a search problem, programming is a means to an end.

If the end is a combination of education and product discovery, then yeah maybe, although those are also dimensions of personal productivity that can be amplified by leveraging AI tools.

If the end goals of programming is leveraging computer automation, then nobody actually cares how the automation infrastructure gets established, and the less distractions with low value implementation complexity, the better.

Sounds like VIP/head of state visit and terrible communication skills.