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New comment by entropicdrifter in "Vinyl succumbs to Loudness War: more than just collateral damage (2025)"

entropicdrifter — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 18:13:40 +0000

Most people listen to music in their car. More compressed audio means less fiddling with the volume knob as you drive, regardless of normalization done by Spotify et al.

Anyhow that's my theory

New comment by entropicdrifter in "Spain blocks prediction markets Polymarket, Kalshi over lack of gambling licence"

entropicdrifter — Tue, 26 May 2026 16:42:19 +0000

Yeah, they unironically just attacked a strawman and sat of their laurels

New comment by entropicdrifter in "Waymo pauses Atlanta service as its robotaxis keep driving into floods"

entropicdrifter — Thu, 21 May 2026 17:42:48 +0000

Carbon monoxide... in an EV?

New comment by entropicdrifter in "Flipper One Tech Specs"

entropicdrifter — Wed, 20 May 2026 22:25:47 +0000

Re:choice of display, I'm betting it's for power saving. If you need a better display you can use the HDMI port or DisplayPort USB-C port and just hook it right up to a monitor/TV

New comment by entropicdrifter in "Gemini Omni"

entropicdrifter — Wed, 20 May 2026 17:26:20 +0000

It can be a useful tool and an economic bubble at the same time. The dot com bubble was due at least in part to the overbuilding of fiber infrastructure in the US.

New comment by entropicdrifter in "US bill proposes new national EV tax, while some push to slash gas tax to zero"

entropicdrifter — Mon, 18 May 2026 22:34:31 +0000

Sounds like it's a fairer system that would be harder to corrupt. You're right, it'll never be implemented because we're totally infested by regulatory capture.

New comment by entropicdrifter in "What “Amazon Supply Chain Services” tells us about what Amazon is"

entropicdrifter — Mon, 18 May 2026 16:57:33 +0000

A gargantuan "everything company" like Amazon is the very definition of a monopoly. In any functional society this beast would have long since been broken up before becoming dominant in multiple industries. At this point, they're pretty much emblematic of the rot at the core of western society.

New comment by entropicdrifter in "A Master's Degree Isn't the Job Guarantee It Used to Be"

entropicdrifter — Mon, 18 May 2026 16:28:27 +0000

For real. My dad got his MBA and proceeded to lose his job within 4 months and never got another one in the tech field again thereafter. Everyone said they couldn't afford him. He went on to do SAT test prep, blackjack dealing, and nowadays teaches bridge on cruise ships as his retirement job.

New comment by entropicdrifter in "Why senior developers fail to communicate their expertise"

entropicdrifter — Tue, 12 May 2026 21:16:37 +0000

https://thecodelesscode.com/case/234

New comment by entropicdrifter in "Why senior developers fail to communicate their expertise"

entropicdrifter — Tue, 12 May 2026 21:12:38 +0000

Agreed. "complexity is" as a full sentence followed by "not what you believe it is" has a fundamentally different meaning.

Very cool

New comment by entropicdrifter in "Googlebook"

entropicdrifter — Tue, 12 May 2026 18:40:01 +0000

Looks like the link got fixed.

I'm really enjoying reddit just completely roasting the entire concept in the comments.

New comment by entropicdrifter in "Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract"

entropicdrifter — Tue, 12 May 2026 15:42:33 +0000

My P1S has a camera built into it. If the print begins to fail, I can stop the printer and turn off the heat immediately before anything spirals. Very easy and convenient to remote control from my phone.

New comment by entropicdrifter in "Nullsoft, 1997-2004 (2004)"

entropicdrifter — Mon, 11 May 2026 17:03:09 +0000

Not to mention it's about as easy to use without a license as WinRAR, so you can trial it indefinitely and then pay the mere $60 for it when you're ready to release some music commercially

New comment by entropicdrifter in "RAM prices are forcing companies to choose higher prices, worse specs, or both"

entropicdrifter — Wed, 06 May 2026 18:52:09 +0000

>But if you read their actual financial reports they have never indicated in any way that their hardware is a loss leader.

Right, I'm just saying they could afford it if it came down to that. They also have enormous margins on their higher-end systems, so they've got plenty of room to lose some profitability before it comes down to that.

New comment by entropicdrifter in "SubQ: Sub-Quadratic LLM"

entropicdrifter — Wed, 06 May 2026 15:35:27 +0000

This seems like it could become a fairly big deal

New comment by entropicdrifter in "RAM prices are forcing companies to choose higher prices, worse specs, or both"

entropicdrifter — Wed, 06 May 2026 15:18:40 +0000

Because Apple has the capital to take a loss on hardware indefinitely due to the App Store being their primary source of revenue?

New comment by entropicdrifter in "Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent"

entropicdrifter — Tue, 05 May 2026 19:28:30 +0000

Per user

New comment by entropicdrifter in "Accelerating Gemma 4: faster inference with multi-token prediction drafters"

entropicdrifter — Tue, 05 May 2026 18:21:49 +0000

Ollama merged a PR for MTP about 2 hours ago, as well:

https://github.com/ollama/ollama/pull/15980

Edit: Seems they also have a pre-release version out with the functionality added: https://github.com/ollama/ollama/releases/tag/v0.23.1-rc0

New comment by entropicdrifter in "Does Employment Slow Cognitive Decline? Evidence from Labor Market Shocks"

entropicdrifter — Mon, 04 May 2026 21:36:19 +0000

It's kind of a six-of-one half-a-dozen-of-the-other situation IMO. Modern society does tend to have extreme social bubbles, but those are also a product of market forces, which in turn were influenced by previous states of society, etc etc back to the beginning of time.

New comment by entropicdrifter in "Does Employment Slow Cognitive Decline? Evidence from Labor Market Shocks"

entropicdrifter — Mon, 04 May 2026 21:34:12 +0000

On the other hand, ancient societies had more in-person community and common free third-spaces for people to congregate, socialize, and otherwise involve themselves with their communities