I'm talking about this specific context, rather than in general. I find that for usb-c earphones and small dongles/dacs, they disconnect more when I'm walking around with phone in pocket. They also tend to wear down with use much faster than normal aux cables. Usually, they last a few months for me before I start having issues.
And when usb-c phones disconnect just a little, usually the phone will pause the music completely and disconnect, whereas the aux headphones will just keep playing. So if the connection isn't perfect, the usb-c cable becomes unlistenable because I can't walk 20 steps without it pausing.
edit: I've tried many cables and dongles, so if you don't have this problem, it might be just that I move around more? Biggest problem for me is commutes and walking around.
That problem might be considered a software problem, not a hardware or physical problem. The instant pausing of the music is the real problem. Software developers probably don't move around as much as you do, and I'd bet if they did, this problem would be fixed quickly with a simple timeout setting or something.
I gave up on USBC headphones because if your port becomes full of lint (say by being in your pocket all day), it doesn’t take much to disturb a USBC connection and cause it to go through the whole handshake all over again for a few seconds.
Compared to 3.5mm where the frustrations I remember were usually limited to sometimes getting a bit of a crackle or one of the audio channels dropping out and worst case scenario you just unplugged it and put it back in and it usually worked. With USBC you have to wait to see.
LaserDiscs are not quite a digital medium. The video is an FM analog signal (composite). Digital PCM audio was introduced about half a decade into the format's life.
> How were they able to achieve such perfect recreation from monkey
Because the macaque study didn't decode faces from fMRI. They first used fMRI to locate the face patches, then used tungsten microelectrodes for single-unit electrophysiology to record spikes from individual face-selective neurons in ML/MF and AM. [0]
Single-unit recordings capture individual spike patterns at a resolution fMRI, which averages across hundreds of thousands of neurons per voxel, simply cannot provide.
Digital video editing was slow to gain adoption, but digital video mastering (i.e. video transfers) was pretty much standard for home video by the early 90s. Telecine setups (even analog) had smart controls, nothing I'd call 'barbaric'. [0]
What was barbaric was the full post workflow for a film-to-tape-to-film edit session as described. Sure, the transfer session wasn't bad, but the full process was
Granted it's often easy to tell on your own, but when I'm uncertain I use GPTZero's Chrome extension for this. Eventually I'll stop doing that and assume most of what I read outside of select trusted forums is genAI.
And in all manner of regulated industries. People simply cannot resist throwing anything and everything at the magic text machine. A company can control its IT assets, but if the content is displayable on a screen, rest assured users will just take photos and upload to their personal LLM accounts to get the generative answers they endlessly desire.
I’m actually shocked that security teams aren’t up in arms over this exfiltration of company secrets. I know some companies that are running their own models and agents but the vast majority are copilot/claude/codex’ing away sending all that sweet sweet IP to 3rd parties
You can get agreements with all of the providers around data sharing etc and host the models themselves through AWS or another cloud provider. That's what clueful companies are doing, as expecting people not to use this stuff is doomed to fail.
Before all the third-wave shops came along? D'Amico, Sahadi's, Porto Rico, Zabar's, Gillies, and that's about it. You'd have to have been a coffee buff to seek those places out as a consumer, as they mostly served as suppliers to hospitality.
Zabar’s seems incredible, I saw a mini documentary a while ago and want to visit the next time I am in NYC. How many grocery stores are actually cupping their coffee shipments every week?
DHH’s argument was about rapid demographic change and loss of a majority culture, grounded (rightly or wrongly) in concerns about social cohesion. An argument you can disagree with, but not reduce to racial preference without distortion.
Fair point, as can be seen from this quote here (emphasis mine):
> London is no longer the city I was infatuated with in the late ’90s and early 2000s. _Chiefly because it’s no longer full of native Brits_. In 2000, more than sixty percent of the city were native Brits. By 2024, that had dropped to about a third. A statistic as evident as day when you walk the streets of London now.
Here it clear that the thing you refer to as majority culture, DHH refers to as "native Brit". So what majority culture is he talking about that dropped from about 60 to about 30% in that time? Helpfully, DHH links to a wikipedia page on the ethnic makeup of London to clarify his point. The group that dropped from 60 to 30 is that of native white Brits. So the majority culture he's explicitly referring to is that of native white Brits. Don't piss on my leg and tell me it's raining.
You’re doing it again. You’re taking a descriptive proxy he used and treating it as dispositive evidence of motive, instead of engaging the underlying claim about what happens when a historically dominant, locally rooted culture ceases to be a majority.
So someone says they think a place got worse because it has fewer whites than it used to, and I'm somehow in the wrong for interpreting that as them finding a place worse because it has fewer whites. Check. Very clear. Thank you for the explanation.
Would you share more? I've never had an issue with a USB-C cable. Helps to buy well constructed ones with legit specs.
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