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Because brittle really is a second name for Flexi disc. They have shallower groove which means limited dynamic range, higher hiss/surface noise/distortion, plus because they are so light they often don't sit flat on a turntable so welcome speed variations aka "wow and flutter" and frequent skipping. You could listen 500-1000 times to normal vinyl before any audible degradation and the same may happen to Flexi disc after 5 or 10 times.

My view is that when some "for bots only" type of writing becomes a habit, communication with humans will atrophy. Tokens be damned, but this kind of context switch comes at much too high a cost.

Yeah, everything's interconnected as Tangerine Dream got to work on GTA V soundtrack. There is this note about that track on Wikipedia:

The track "5:23" is included in the 2008 video game Grand Theft Auto IV and appears on the soundtrack album The Music of Grand Theft Auto IV. In the digital release it is listed as "Maiden Voyage". This track is very similar to, but does not credit, the song "Love on a Real Train" by Tangerine Dream from the Risky Business soundtrack. They had remixed the song for a then upcoming Tangerine Dream remix album but had their effort rejected so released it as 5'23 instead.

This is like asking a painter why the hell he used ready made paints and did not create his own for each color he needed. Not everybody has a hobby of spending time and money fixing tracing mistakes of PCB revision 11, playing with working contraption is fine as it is.

Andy Serkis was great, but not as good at shape-shifting. For LOTR renderfarm WETA bought a bunch of SGI 1200 dual core Pentium III 700MHz servers with 1GB RAM, 9 GB SCSI disks all running RedHat Linux. I've read at some point they had 192 SGI 1100 and 1200 servers working.

And if one is using iGPU, one might think I'll have a great bandwidth, but reality is that DDR memory for CPU is optimized for low latency not bandwidth and they'll probably have a 64 bit channel (or 2x32 bits) from a single DDR module or 128 bit in dual channel configuration, while something like RTX 4090 will have onboard graphics-DDR GDDR memory on 384 bit channel very much optimized for bandwidth and not latency pushing according to specs a terabyte per second. Apple really needed their memory architecture - having a high memory bandwidth for onboard GPU to have reasonable performance.

Back in USSR times in the 80s my high school had a room for a dental work. Of course it had a soviet electric motor drill, not any fancy or not so fancy compressed air turbo anything (because it's cheap like some great RBMK reactors which of course cannot fail) and a young visiting dentist to test their skills on kids. I do not have any great memories related to this. But now I'm also thankful that at least there were no resources to have an X-ray machine for some practice.

It may be impossible for a little speaker to produce any sound at some low frequency, so manufacturers use "virtual pitch" psychoacoustic phenomenon by introducing harmonics above that frequency. There is no low bass, but there will be added harmonics that will be perceived by the listeners as low bass: https://sound.stackexchange.com/questions/37755/how-do-psych... Here's also a project and some info from Asahi devs on Macbook audio: https://github.com/AsahiLinux/asahi-audio

Those codecs got better with time. Also notebook and little portable speakers, while they are unable to physically reproduce low frequencies are getting better at emulating those. Somebody cares.

And here's (dunno if true as they write in the description - probably the very first stereo) studio turntable from 1958 playing a record from 1988 through Youtube's compression. I did have a lousy vinyl deck with so so speakers when growing up and this impresses me a lot: https://youtu.be/PRty-_eBEpg?si=GsrctxRbkvT3xRAV

I guess that "properly mounted" may be a problem for a lot of people. According to operating manual measurements should be taken at heart level with 30±5 cm distance between top of the seat and top of the table. Outside of that ±5 cm difference you may get inaccurate results.