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I mean it would be better if it was just Les Burney, but i guess that's a little too on the hose.

Right, no one saw bigfoot because the Haitians ate him. There's almost nothing the Haitians won't eat. /s

Can i take one of these to Hogwarts?

Well everyone nose about inflation, but what about a clown's right to shoes?

Gold, frankincense, and myrrhuana

First thing that comes to mind is Lamborghini which would not exist today if it were not acquired. It was on the verge of bankruptcy and ended up getting passed around a few times before being acquired by Volkswagen/Audi. I think the general consensus is that access to Audi's technology brought some sophistication in the form of AWD, traction and stability control, and a bump in quality and reliability. I know they only make obscenely expensive cars that few people ever get to enjoy, but they were able to maintain a headquarters and factory in Italy with a few thousand employees which would have definitely shut down without the acquisition.

Edit: On the topic of cars, another example would be Red Bull Racing which originated as a small F1 team started in the 90s. It was bought by Ford and rebranded to Jaguar F1. Ford didn't have much success with it, so they sold the whole team to Red Bull for $1. Red Bull went on to dominate from 2010 to 2013 and again from 2021 to present day.

With a neural network, you wouldn't be able to mathematically prove that the signal is perfectly recovered 100% of the time for all possible inputs. That is the case with PNG and FLAC. If you're just listening to music and need a good compression ratio, then sure, it won't be a big deal if a couple of bits are wrong. But that's also why we have lossy compression. If the goal is to make signal degradation imperceptible to a human, then you could get a much better compression ratio using neural networks. If it's truly critical that the signal isn't corrupted, it would probably be better to just use the original method.

I know, and it drives me nuts when iPhone users complain that it's my fault for owning an android phone. Like um no it's quite literally your fault if you stick with Apple and defend their decision to make your life worse. Apple's business model is basically Stockholm syndrome.

I just like planes 😭

The original thread was started by Neil deGrasse Tyson saying that Maverick would be "splattered" during ejection at mach 10. Scott Kelly responds saying he went on a space walk from the ISS at mach 25. The gardener is technically right that mach numbers don't really apply in a near vacuum. It's also kind of off topic because we know the Darkstar is in the atmosphere and not in space, and therefore there is no "re-entry". But Scott is right that the real issue would be heat and not getting splattered.

I also want to point out that we don't actually see Maverick eject, and it's likely that he would have been ejected in a capsule (like in several real aircraft like the B-58) rather than just thrown out of the plane in his pressure suit as Scott suggests.

Agreed, I've been on lemmy for like a month and already had to make several accounts on different instances because I'm just trying to see everything and instances keep defederating. I understand lemmy is young and growing fast and there will be growing pains, but threads isn't even on activitypub yet and they're already being blocked by half the instances.

The admins of lemmy.world are generally opposed to defederating and have apparently announced via mastodon (i haven't seen the official post but several comments have said) that they will wait and see what threads federation looks like before deciding whether or not to defederate.