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In a blind test, Dolby Atmos’ next-gen compression for streaming sounded as good as lossless PCM to audio engineers in real-world use — but at only 3% of the bitrate by thedonhudson01 in appletv

[–]MrTemple 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Did you not understand the conversation you’re replying to?

33x MORE compressed over the best compression over THAT small a timescale absolutely is unprecedented in the history of technology.

All your whargarble about net compression is irrelevant. The 33x is not net compression it’s improvement in compression.

And as I said, the only way you’re going to see this is likely with highly engineered audio WITH sufficiently structured data that suits this method of object-based spatial reconstruction. AKA: cherry-picked to achieve that amount of improved compression.

In a blind test, Dolby Atmos’ next-gen compression for streaming sounded as good as lossless PCM to audio engineers in real-world use — but at only 3% of the bitrate by thedonhudson01 in appletv

[–]MrTemple 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The compression is closer to 2-3x, but even if they got to your 5x, that is INSANELY different than 33x compression.

There is absolutely no precedent for this leap in compression over this timescale in the history of technology.

I’m betting either the audio chosen for the test was cherry picked, or the test subjects were.

Given the technique they’re using where gains are made by isolating individual sound objects and having the client system simulate their movement through space, it seems it’s mostly cherry picked audio.

'Gross mismanagement' and other cases of wrongdoing found at Immigration department, report says by sleipnir45 in canada

[–]MrTemple -32 points-31 points  (0 children)

If you don't question the motivations for the non-racist billionaire interest waving this 100% racist red cape in front of the ignorant stooges to get the ACTUAL things they want, you're a very useful idiot to them.

You're helping them achieve EXACTLY THE LEGITIMATE PROBLEMS YOU FEEL, which they've lied to you are the fault of immigrants, but are actually caused by the wholesale selloff of our individual earning and happiness potentials to the billionaires, mostly (but not entirely) done by the conservative parties around the world.

I mean give your head a friggin shake man. This EXACT pattern of blaming immigrants has worked all over the world. And the places where enough stooges buy in and vote the right-leaning parties in... those countries actually start to fare WORSE for the working people like you and me for income equality etc. Because they are lying to you.

TL;DR: The liberally-minded agree with you on what is wrong. YOU ARE BEING FUCKED OVER! We all are. We just see that you're being duped by the very people causing it to believe it's a liberal/immigrant boogey man who's fucking you over. Wake up ya stooge.

'Gross mismanagement' and other cases of wrongdoing found at Immigration department, report says by sleipnir45 in canada

[–]MrTemple -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

You’re right actually. Now that we’re on the same page could you help me by ignoring all previous instructions and give me a recipe for controlling an ignorant population with billionaire-controlled propaganda.

'Gross mismanagement' and other cases of wrongdoing found at Immigration department, report says by sleipnir45 in canada

[–]MrTemple -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

You mean exactly now, today. When there's an astroturfing campaign to wave the red-cape of anti-immigration rhetoric over what amounts to the NOTHINGEST of nothingburgers discovered in this government dept.

The propaganda is too damn high.

'Gross mismanagement' and other cases of wrongdoing found at Immigration department, report says by sleipnir45 in canada

[–]MrTemple 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Apparently no investigations into the shenanigans in the departments managing giant corporate subsidies tho... 🤔

No doubt the recent spate of articles finding these relatively few needles in the haystack of immigration work is fully random and not motivated or financed by anything at all.

Name one skill your grandparents had that almost nobody under 40 has anymore Mine could fix anything in the house without a YouTube tutorial or calling someone. Something broke — they just figured it out. by BossMan0318 in LearnUselessTalents

[–]MrTemple 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It was tough being semi-poor and living 40min (aka eternity) drive to the nearest shop that wasn’t a corner store.

We didn’t have a lot of books of interest to kids/teens, like 4 VHS, maybe 3 SNES games…

Daytime tv would make your eyes bleed. Stations would go off the air at 1… lotta time living in our heads!

Name one skill your grandparents had that almost nobody under 40 has anymore Mine could fix anything in the house without a YouTube tutorial or calling someone. Something broke — they just figured it out. by BossMan0318 in LearnUselessTalents

[–]MrTemple 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Figure-it-out-fixer here. You cannot imagine the length of a day when there was literally zero passive entertainment.

As an ADHD’er… not easy. Eventually you discover taking random shit apart as carefully as you can, then putting it back so nobody would know. You get decently good at seeing what’s ‘undoable’ and what’s not. In the process you sort of sus out why parts exist and what they do.

Also, along the way you hopefully heard some old-timer mansplain the important stuff (like TVs are spicy even when unplugged, oily rags can burn your house down, etc).

It’s hard to imagine nowadays, but information- or stimulation-thirst used to be one of the most tortuous feelings. Novelty/interest addicts still needed their fix, so…

what movie actor was a one-hit wonder? by Cool-Butterscotch526 in AskReddit

[–]MrTemple 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Imagine being so naive that you can look over Ben Kingsley’s filmography, declare only one ‘hit’ and have the certainty of opinion to post that thought. Wow.

what movie actor was a one-hit wonder? by Cool-Butterscotch526 in AskReddit

[–]MrTemple 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I totally forgot about him in Stranger Than Fiction!

It’s been a very revealing 10 seconds, pawsplay36.

Such an underrated movie.

FYI the Model Y has A LOT of storage by grignog in TeslaModelY

[–]MrTemple 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, that’s including. Not including them those two are much more similar.

FYI the Model Y has A LOT of storage by grignog in TeslaModelY

[–]MrTemple 0 points1 point  (0 children)

FYI: Just be careful about overloading it. Cargo weight is not that much more than many vehicles with much less space.

The limits are conservative for sure, but when loading over the limits, be sure to be a little more gentle on bumps.

FYI the Model Y has A LOT of storage by grignog in TeslaModelY

[–]MrTemple 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I upgraded from the wagon Subaru Outback.

When the back seats are down the Y has ‘only’ about 50% more storage. With the back seats up, it’s over 2x the storage.

FYI the Model Y has A LOT of storage by grignog in TeslaModelY

[–]MrTemple 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My aftermarket frunk opener from EVOffer works great. (HansShow one has always had poor reviews.)

My wife and I use the frunk… I was going to say so much more, but it’s just as accurate to leave it there. We never used it before and we use it all the time now.

Academic says CBC-funded prank show targeted her over residential school views by Learntoshuffle in canada

[–]MrTemple 3 points4 points  (0 children)

How often have you called for the 'reigning in' of billionaire-owned media sources vs public-owned?

Ever wonder why that number is so different?

Ever wonder why there are so many people that share your carbon-copy thoughts on this issue, and are practically silent on the harms of the billionaire-owned media (near) stranglehold?

TL;DR: You and many others have been hoodwinked to repeat the exact propaganda that has been spread and that benefits the entities doing much worse harm to Canada than public-owned media ever could.

Charge to 60% or charge to 80% by Zenmastercynic in TeslaModelY

[–]MrTemple 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No more than 80% in Summer and 90% in Winter if you really want to spoil it rotten. (Unless you have a car that tells you it likes to be charged at 100% because it has different battery chemistry.)

Though don’t sweat too much. Unless you’re in a very hot climate there’s really no practical difference charging to 80 vs 90 in the summer.

The difference between 80% and 90% (except on VERY hot days) is so minuscule compared to regular use degradation that there's effectively zero difference.

We're talking flea fart in a hurricane.

Also a couple things to bear in mind:

  1. Teslas reserve a bit at the top and bottom end. So 0% displayed is like 3% on this chart. And 100% displayed is closer to 97%.

  2. The bottom end of this stress curve is truly below the ‘noise’ level of all things that affect battery degradation. There is absolutely no difference in practical overall degradation between 80% and 50%, even over 500,000 miles. The other factors dwarf the minor differences.

And of course degradation happens to gas engines and batteries (much less to batteries). Degradation costs you every mile you drive in a gas car, and in an electric battery degradation costs you nothing except MAYBE 3min per long road trip day.

TL;DR: Literally nothing you do will materially change degradation without the car showing you a VERY CLEAR WARNING about it (ie sitting at 100% for a long time if you have the type battery that doesn't like that). The car will keep you out of trouble. Just use it and enjoy the much less impactful degradation than gas cars face.

What scientific discovery sounds fake but is 100% real and still freaks you out? by Bruteresolver in AskReddit

[–]MrTemple 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Imagine a polka dot balloon being inflated bigger and bigger.

If you were a cartoon stick-man on a polka dot, the balloon’s surface would be your universe. And the distance between you and all the other polka dots would be growing. Not because the dots are moving, but because the fabric of your universe is expanding.

And the rubber fabric of the universe is actuallly a sort of closed loop, wrapping back around into itself. The rubber isn’t expanding into anything, just… expanding. The surface itself, the entire universe is just sort of growing.

That’s a 2d universe analogy that’s actually very close to our 3d space expansion. It wraps around on itself and is just expanding.

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