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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.
...And TSLA is down about $80 billion in that time period.
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.
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.
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.
It took me way too long to remember that Prime95 is useful for something other than stress testing.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
Presumably, GP is referring to a HARM[0] or similar anti-radiation missile[1]. I believe the targeting automatically, but presumably the pilot still had to pull the trigger.
Yep, that's typically what I do. Often takes a bit of filtering to find the signal in the noise, but that of course depends on how common the name is.
One useful thing about the incredible number of podcasts that I've only recently discovered is that you can often find in depth interviews with relatively obscure people or about niche subjects which contain a ton of information that's hard to come by other places.
For instance, a couple weeks ago I was listening to an 20+ year old album I've always loved that doesn't get much attention. I searched in Spotify and sure enough I found a podcast that was doing a multi-hour series just on that album and broke down its history, production, etc.
Another example is that yesterday I was out training for a race I'm running in a couple months and managed to find multiple interviews with the race director, past winners, etc. to put me in a great mindset for a tough day training.
My first organized marathon I kept running after the finish line, through the crowd of stopped runners, until my watch hit 26.3mi just so I could be certain It'd show up as a PR in Strava/Garmin.
Seriously. Every running/fitness related subreddit I'm in is full of comments about people cancelling their Strava subscriptions.
I had a Zenfone 2, which ran Marshmallow on the Intel chipset. Decent phone and I don't remember having many complaints other than it didn't support my carrier's wifi calling which ended up being a dealbreaker when I got moved to an office that doubled as a faraday cage.
I don't believe MS ever had onsite fitness centers. Employees got subsidized memberships to offsite gyms, but the only things onsite were/are playfields and showers for bike commuters, etc.
Food might have been okay by 90s standards, but was pretty mediocre overall until ~2010 when they started redoing all the cafes to have a higher quality food. Still, it was slightly subsidized but not free and many, many employees went offsite or brought food from home.
Cash buyers are not complete idiots. If the mortgage-based buyers they were competing with a year ago have 35% less buying power than why would they spend money they don't need to? The market where I live (Seattle suburbs) has completely reversed in the last year.
A year ago I was surprised if a house lasted more than a weekend, now I'm literally shocked when I see a house sell. I can think of two houses in my area I've seen with sold signs in the last couple months and there's dozens that have been sitting on the market for that time.
I've never done it by timer, but a quick search indicates about 90 minutes should be good. I'm always pressed for time and just let it soak while I set up camp, so its usually a little crunchy still when I'm done.
Not really "passive" cooking as you're just not actively pumping heat into already boiling water and just cooking pasta in steadily cooling water.
You can actually soften pasta and many other similar foods by just leaving them in room temperature water for a much longer period. Some backpackers do this to reduce weight and it's been the only way I've ever prepared food while backpacking. Admittedly, cold noodles, oatmeal, rice, etc. is a lot more appetizing if you're many miles from the nearest civilization and have worked up a huge hunger from hiking.
Birder here, who's somewhat plugged in to this. Essentially nobody of any repute that I've come across believes there's any merit to these claims (sadly).
There are Albini rough mixes out there. Not sure where to suggest looking for them (phone posting), but I no imagine they're not too hard to find.
I love Johnny Cash, but it always annoys me when songs made famous by other performers and later covered by him become referred to as Johnny Cash songs. "I've Been Everywhere" is actually a very unique example of this since the original version is actually Australian[0] and was re-written with U.S. cities and became a hit for Canadian-born country singer Hank Snow [1].
The other song that routinely gets attributed to Cash is "Long Black Veil" which was actually originally performed by Lefty Frizzell [2]. I would argue the Frizzell version is the superior version in every way. Lefty had an incredible career and is sadly not very well known these days.
[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OZWi-mTkNU
You would hope that the Russians, more than anyone, would realize how much resistance a city under siege can put up given that their most lauded military accomplishment is being on the opposite end of that equation in Stalingrad.
Utter speculation on my part, but I see this as both a weakness and a strength for Putin. On one hand, as long as the government and whoever controls what goes out on state media are on his side it helps Putin. If, however, that control breaks down and the people in those positions lose confidence in Putin than the leverage reverses and they can easily use their media in the opposite direction.
I worked at Microsoft as a vendor for more than a decade working with physical infrastructure and services Microsoft employees used. I can say that there was a complete sea-change regarding accessibility shortly after Satya took over as CEO. Prior to that accessibility drove me absolutely nuts. Not because I didn't think it was necessary or important, but because all of the accessibility initiatives seemed like little more than lip service. You made some arbitrary changes with no thought whatsoever to actual usability, updated your Power Point presentation to say "Accessibility" a few times, and you were done. After he took over everything changed and people actually spent time figuring out how to make human interfaces that could actually work for all employees with usability in mind. It was no longer simply a box to tick, but was actually more of an opportunity to innovate.
Very sad to hear about Zain's death, but I can say that with his life he absolutely made a meaningful, positive change for a lot of people.
Perhaps, but this really seems like we're having to try real hard here. To repurpose a tired phrase, don’t ascribe to planning what can be plainly explained by incompetence.
It's very difficult to imagine anyone in the Russian command planning what we're seeing here. The veterans I'm seeing comments from are baffled. Russian troops are not practicing land-war 101 here and are just walking around in the open in tightly bunched groups with their hands in their pockets.
When the Texas bird showed up, birders were pretty incredulous. The bird was only seen (and photographed) by a single individual. Once the photos were validated to have actually been taken in the reported location (people have tried to pass off photos from far away locations before), the general feeling was that is was most likely an escaped bird from a zoo or private collection. However, once a Steller's Sea Eagle turned up a few months later in eastern Canada the general feeling changed and the Texas Rare Birds Committee ended up voting that the bird was of natural origin and not an escapee.
Interestingly enough, this is not the first time a rare raptor has been seen in Texas and later turned up in the northeast. A couple years ago the first Great Black Hawk ever photographed north of the Mexican border found in south Texas. A few months later a Great Black Hawk was found in Maine. The feather patterns of the Maine bird were compared to the photographs of the Texas bird and it was concluded that they were the same individual. Unfortunately the bird eventually died, apparently unable to cope with Maine's winter weather, but not before it was seen by thousands of people from far and wide.
It's interesting that for almost two years now I've seen the same "common knowledge" repeated over and over. "Kids are germ factories" and variations on that theme. But watching the pandemic and how its effected children has actually made me reconsider that notion. With the caveat that Omicron data may change this, we have tons of data that clearly shows that small children spread COVID19 significantly less than teenagers and adults. It's hard to know if this is something specific to COVID or if other respiratory viruses are also spread less efficiently (but still spread) by kids than your co-workers, spouse, etc.
To speak specifically to your point, the data I've seen indicates that vaccinations are much more effective in preventing infection (and therefore spread) in younger people. That likely compounds with an adults vaccination, so a vaccinated kid is likely significantly less likely to bring an infection home and infect an adult.