It is unfortunate given China's abysmal stance on human rights, freedom of information, and pollution.
Fortunately, China is not strongarming or invading the rest of the world.
Readit Newssfjailbird commented on Roomba maker goes bankrupt, Chinese owner emerges news.bloomberglaw.com/ban... · Posted by u/nreece
I have the Z Fold 4 (EU) and it performs well to this day. It even got the Android 16 upgrade.
Z Fold 3 here, going happily on 4-5 years.
Samsung has nice hardware quality, but no sense of UX, and that goes for their software and hardware.
sfjailbird commented on Typing an AI prompt is not 'active' music creation theverge.com/report/82514... · Posted by u/JeanKage
I've tried using Suno studio for aiding my writing/production. I mainly play guitar and bass, and a pretty mediocre keyboard player. Drums I can play some, but programming drums is infinitely easier for me when I write music home. I also have a home studio in the basement where I can record all instruments (drums included).
My first motivation to try out Suno, was that since I'm programming drums and laying OK keys, maybe Suno will do better? And, yes, sure did. I still record everything else, and I'm the "driver" when it comes to the creative direction.
But, still, you only get so much freedom. Best approach has been to record some idea of a track, feed it to Suno, and hope that it'll come up with something close (but better) than what you can. I feel zero musical accomplishment from generating the tracks, but the end result sounds better than the tedious job of programming instruments yourself. So, not much different than pulling tracks from a sample pack.
From a one-man band perspective, it works well. But of course there are many concerns, both ethically and otherwise.
With that said, I've listened to a lot of purely Suno made music generations, and it all sounds extremely polished and extremely average. Average in the sense that it sounds like the average of the music it has been trained on. My first prediction was that modern country would be the first victim of this, fact being that for the past 10 years modern country has sounded like mindless AI slop, but made by humans.
Polished and average is a good description. There are also no highs or lows across a track - it is very samey all the way through, where an actual creative person will build some kind of arc into a song.
sfjailbird commented on Tesla Is Recalling Cybertrucks Again popularmechanics.com/cars... · Posted by u/2OEH8eoCRo0
BYD is overhyped in the US for some reason. In the countries where they are available, they are considered decent budget vehicles. There's a reason why the Model Y is still the best seller in China.
X-Pengs are where it's at. They are taking over fast in Europe with better cars for less money.
sfjailbird commented on Asus Announces October Availability of ProArt Display 8K PA32KCX press.asus.com/news/press... · Posted by u/Roachma
I prefer 3 monitors because it eases window management while being cheaper. For gaming I only need one 240Hz+ monitor and for Lan parties I only take that one.
Although for sim racing I've been thinking about getting a single ultra wide and high refresh rate monitor, but I'd probably go for a dedicated setup with a seat, monitor and speakers. It gets pricey, but cheaper than crashing IRL.
Yeah, window management is certainly better with separate monitors, hopefully this will get better with time.
On the flip side I would love to get rid of physically managing three individual pieces of hardware that wasn't made to work together as one setup.
sfjailbird commented on Asus Announces October Availability of ProArt Display 8K PA32KCX press.asus.com/news/press... · Posted by u/Roachma
My primary monitor is the Samsung 57" 8Kx2K 240Hz ultrawide. That's the same amount of bandwidth, running over DisplayPort 2. It mostly works!
I have three 4K 27" which yield a bit more screen real estate. Otherwise I'd love to go to a single ultrawide.
There was a time when web pages were like regular documents, that could easily be scrolled through.
sfjailbird commented on Event Sourcing, CQRS and Micro Services: Real FinTech Example lukasniessen.medium.com/t... · Posted by u/fmfamaral
Traumatic flashbacks to 2017. Glad we moved on from this nonsense. Still dealing with the wreckage, though.
Event sourcing is a terrible idea that may be useful for some incredibly niche scenario.
sfjailbird commented on I almost got hacked by a 'job interview' blog.daviddodda.com/how-i... · Posted by u/DavidDodda
A server running in a Docker container does not usually have access to anything on the host, right. Perhaps some disk access on a mounted volume or something.
Having a standard test input/output format would let test definitions be shared between libraries.
https://www.google.com/search?q=cucumber+testing+framework