The thing is a lot of audiobooks aren't being produced at all right now, or aren't being produced to an acceptable quality standard (not because the narrator is bad, but because they and they editor weren't paid enough to get it right.
In this case, I think cheaper production would result in better audiobooks.
Internet based content streaming has created new business models that didn't fit the way artists are paid, which resulted in artists taking a massive pay cut while still being paid the full amount they were due under union rules.
It's also bad for viewers - ever wonder why your favourite TV series didn't get renewed for a new contract? A big part of it is if they did another season they'd have to pay the artists a lot more than they did for previous seasons. Because artist royalties scale up as the show gets more "successful" and creating another season is one of the yardsticks.
The AI stuff added complexity to the negotiations but it wasn't really what all this was about.
Guess I’m one of the lucky ones in that I can walk kids to school and daycare (less than 1km) then cycle to work easily (less than 10km).
Yeah our local daycare centre isn't well run and unfortunately, so we had to go to the next suburb over. My partner and I don't work close to each other so... we live about half way between our two jobs. Can't really get any closer unless one of us switches careers. When I do have time to ride the bicycle to work (try to do it once a week) it's 70 minutes. Normally I take the motorbike.
But I'm not really sure what form that would take? The bus from my house to the childcare centre obviously drops us off there when the bus is scheduled to do so, which means I will always face the longest possible wait for the next bus to come by. It only takes two minutes to drop the kid off... but the bus driver isn't going to wait.
And it's pretty normal for public transport to not go to where you're going unless you're going to or from the CBD. That means changing busses.
I could live in the CBD... then transit infrastructure would be great - but the realestate there is way out of my reach, price wise.
Yeah I have no idea where that came from. For the record, I own two bicycles, use them frequently and my car use is limited to when there's at least two people or I need to transport something large/bulky, and I use public transport whenever it makes sense. Which, sadly, isn't very often.
Motorbike is my main form of transport... but taking a young child on a motorbike is illegal in Australia.
That's nice and all, but if you submit your array reversing code to me for peer review, I'm going to ask our boss for a private meeting, where I will ask him to fire you. And if you were just hired a week ago... you'd still be on probation and very easy to fire, we'll just call up one of the other job applicants for your position and see if they're interested.
Don't waste my time by asking me to review unnecessarily complex code. Also we have enough bugs already and you seem to be going out of your way to introduce even more.
For the record - the right way to reverse an array in PHP is like this: array_reverse($array). And if that's too slow... just don't reverse it at all. Use -- instead of ++ in your for loop.
(PS: Ugh. Lemmy sucks for posting code... didn't like some of the symbols and ate my whole comment. Had to write it twice. Sorry the first one was better)
The best thing is these provide continuous power except when the tide is "turning"... however that 20 minute or so period will be at a different time of day for each installation. Two of these, just 40 miles apart, might have their tidal turn offset by 3 hours with the right coastline... and you'd pick locations based on that.
"We could reduce the speed limits for cars to be closer to the average speeds of walking (6 kilometres per hour"
Geezus christ. I'm guessing the author has no idea what it's like to be a parent.
Here's a hint: kids need to go places. Public transport cannot get you to those places. Also, parents need to work (both of them) or else the kids don't eat. As a parent I'm flat out busy from sunrise to midnight, and they want me to take the 1 hour I spend commuting each day and expand it to five hours. That doesn't work:
get the three year old ready for school (this can be ten minutes or an hour, so you better start getting ready an hour before you need to leave)
walk to the bus stop (five minutes for me, but with a two year old... twenty minutes, not necessarily walking but you need to allow for that much time which means you'll spend a lot of it waiting at the bus stop)
bus to daycare, 20 minutes as it winds through the suburbs
drop the kid off at daycare, then wait for the next bus (30 minutes later)
bus out of the suburbs onto the main bus line (another 20 minutes meandering through suburbs)
finally, on the main bus line to the CBD (20 minutes)
then 15 minutes waiting for a bus out of the CBD towards where I work
then 15 minutes on that bus
Unfortunately... you can't get a 3 year old to eat breakfast at 5am and the childcare centre won't let you drop them off at 6am either. So that schedule means starting at work at around 10:30am. Ouch.
And in order to get home in time for the kid two have dinner without throwing a tantrum... I'd probably need to leave work at 2pm.
Sorry but it's just not possible to work 3 hours a day and pay a mortgage/put food on the table/etc.
Apple isn't accused of wrongdoing, Ireland has been accused of unfair tax laws. Unfair for other countries in the EU not unfair for Apple or Ireland. Apple/Ireland are very happy with the tax laws.
It's also worth noting that apple has already handed over the €14.3b - it's just being held onto pending the conclusion of the investigation.
Personally I think it's nuts - they're arguing the money should go to Ireland, which is who they're accusing of breaking the law. So Ireland will potentially get both the proceeds of the crime and be awarded damages for the crime. WTF. Money should be handed out to other countries in the EU.
Yeah that's Android only. If you drop your iPhone in a toilet, or if you need to factory reset it for any reason, everything in signal is gone. Even if you backup your device with the system backup feature, Signal sets a flag on all the files it writs to disk so they are excluded from all backups.
It's been the number one feature request on their iPhone community support channel for six years, and the official response is "We will probably never add that feature. We understand that's frustrating. Stop wasting our time by asking for it". Meanwhile every day someone, somewhere, loses all of their message history.
It's a 400km drive from the north end to the south end of the country.
They could have easily done this test within the Netherlands. I bet they did far more testing than that on local highways before taking it to the desert.
Judge: But if you’re getting the same deal deal as spotify it’s fair…
The judge sounds like an idiot. Just because someone agreed to a deal doesn't mean it's a fair deal. Millions of developers have agreed to Google's terms... and millions more have not agreed to them (I'm a developer, none of my apps are on the Play store for example, in part because I don't like the terms).
there’s certain tasks that require a fixed amount of memory
Sure... and for editing a 12 megapixel photo that number is 384MB (raw or jpeg is irrelevant by the way - it's the megapixels that matter).
As you add layers, you need more memory... but to run into issues at 8GB you'd need a lot of layers. And nobody is saying 8GB is enough for everyone, Apple does sell laptops with 128GB of RAM. They wouldn't do that if nobody needed it.
And photoshop, which has it's origins in the late 1980's, is actually pretty lean. Back in those days it was common to only have one megabyte of RAM and Adobe has kept a lot of the memory management gymnastics they needed to fit within that limit. If you run out of memory it will make smart decisions about what to keep in RAM vs move to swap.
Windows compresses RAM too. It's really a combination of fast flash memory (Apple doesn't use SSDs, they put flash memory on the same package as the CPU) and being smart about moving things to flash memory if they don't benefit from being in RAM.
DDR5 runs at 52GB/s. Apple uses RAM that runs at up to 800GB/s (if you have enough, gets faster the more you have since it runs in parallel... but it's never as slow as DDR5).
The thing is a lot of audiobooks aren't being produced at all right now, or aren't being produced to an acceptable quality standard (not because the narrator is bad, but because they and they editor weren't paid enough to get it right.
In this case, I think cheaper production would result in better audiobooks.