Usually in the center. Any position that puts you in the middle of the “screen” so you won’t have to keep your head up or down. If I can’t sit in the center, I prefer further back over in the front, but that’s just my preference.

IIRC, IMAX is a standard in terms of audio for cinemas. A cinema might be really good without being IMAX certified, but the imax certification does convey quality. As for difference, that can vary a lot. But I’d argue that a modern cinema with a proper audio setup won’t be that different than an IMAX cinema.

That’s also a noun

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Barebones, usually. In general I prefer software that does only one thing and one thing well. Input or output to/from said software can be handled by other pieces software.

I’m a big fan of modular designs where you can swap out any layer with something else, provided that the data interchange is c9mpatible.

Lacking the above, I usually go for softwares with support for plugins/extensions.

Well over 50%, according to a 2024 US “poll”

Not really that cheesy, but Johnson Space Center south of Houston. I spent an entire day there, and visiting the restored Mission Control from the lunar landings was amazing.

Kind of. But I’m also a pragmatic person resulting in a lot of contradictions. Just as an example, I despise authoritarian regimes, but my work email ends with .cn

I consider myself an anarchopragmatist at heart; I would love to have neither Gods, kings, or mayors, but the process of implementing an alternative would most likely be worse than what we have today, at least in my corner of the world.

Yup, I 100% agree. Tapes are often viewed as obsolete, but there is no more cost-effective way of storing data in the petabytes in a safe way than tape.

Hell, at work I have a few live storage clusters measured in petabytes, and being responsible for them can be pretty stressful at times. Data loss isn’t just bad, it is fucking terrifying when its data costs hundreds of thousands of dollars per day to collect.

I have yet to experience data loss, but I breathe a sigh of relief for every batch of data that has been confirmed written to tape. Because once it is, I know that it is safe and no longer my responsibility.

It’s written to two sets of tape at a time, both of which are read back to confirm data integrity, and once it is, that’s when I know that my live copy is officially not supposed to be a backup.

One set of tapes is stored on board in case something stupid happens with the other set during transport to a literal mountain for storage. There it is re-read and checksummed, confirming that the other set of tapes can be rewritten with the next dataset. (Yes, every tape cartridge is written to twice).

Yup. Punishment vs rehabilitation is often the focus cited, but it’s more accurate to evaluate it on a scale of public necessity vs profit generator. There’s a reason why US has the biggest proportion of incarceration: It’s a system that is working as intended, and the rehabilitation vs punishment aspect is an afterthought.

I remember it very well. But once the encryption key for the region lock got onto the internet, fixing your drive was simple.

I mostly work from home, so I often have a wedge of my favorite blue one. Often with a little bit of apricot marmalade. Not sure how well it is known outside of Norway, tho.

I wouldn’t know, as I’ve never tried cheese puffs (I’ve eaten more blue cheese than most, tho), but I’m surprised it contains any actual cheese, tbh.

Yeah, I think so. When you have low signal to noise, especially if the dataset is huge, AI tools seem pretty great.

I think modern production injects it just before it has completed curing, which is why you get those lines inside.

It’s only Bleu if it comes from the Bleu region of France. Otherwise it’s just sparkly snobbery.

We can still see the outline of your sex toys, so as long as you’re sticking to that gauge and length (impressive, though!) you might want to double or even triple bag.

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Not a tech company, but a petroleum exploration company, which involves a lot of tech. The petroleum industry in general is extremely conservative in terms of tech, in that older and proven technologies tend to stick around. For example, I often write data to magnetic tape.

However, the industry doesn’t shy away from newer technologies where it does make sense. There is some AI at play, but it is limited in scope, and only deployed where it makes sense. Most of it is done on the processing side, so I don’t know much about it, but I get the impression it’s used in a similar manner to those headlines you see from time about AI predicting rectal cancer 99% correctly. Interpreting seismic survey data involves some geophysical wizardry that I’ve never quite understood - I just make sure the production servers offshore work.

Did they still have x86_64 CPUs in 2015 apples?

That tracks with my cassette player estimation: 2002. Presumably they didn’t trash it while new, but it doesn’t exactly scream quality, so it wouldn’t surprise me if it died shortly after the warranty expired.

So if I were to guess: shortly after that bud light can was introduced, so 2005ish.

Questionable parenting with questionable taste in “beer”

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