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6 votes
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Withered
6 votes -
Climate change will force a new American migration - Life is becoming increasingly untenable in the hardest-hit areas, which could cause millions of people to relocate
20 votes -
TV Tuesdays Free Talk
Have you watched any TV shows recently you want to discuss? Any shows you want to recommend or are hyped about? Feel free to discuss anything here. Please just try to provide fair warning of...
Have you watched any TV shows recently you want to discuss? Any shows you want to recommend or are hyped about? Feel free to discuss anything here.
Please just try to provide fair warning of spoilers if you can.
5 votes -
Moment.js is now considered to be a legacy project in maintenance mode - Reasons you might want to keep using it, and recommendations for what to use instead
14 votes -
Severe wildfire conditions will continue across California, but pattern shift will improve air quality
6 votes -
How to stream NFL football games in 2020
8 votes -
Breaking up is hard to do: Chrome Web Browser separates from Chrome OS
11 votes -
Amnesia: Rebirth | Release date reveal trailer (October 20)
9 votes -
JK Rowling’s latest book is about a murderous cis man who dresses as a woman to kill his victims
39 votes -
Designers and technologists look to the natural world to envision more resilient futures
4 votes -
What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them?
What have you been playing lately? Discussion about video games and board games are both welcome. Please don't just make a list of titles, give some thoughts about the game(s) as well.
17 votes -
What did you do this weekend?
As part of a weekly series, these topics are a place for users to casually discuss the things they did — or didn't do — during their weekend. Did you make any plans? Take a trip? Do nothing at...
As part of a weekly series, these topics are a place for users to casually discuss the things they did — or didn't do — during their weekend. Did you make any plans? Take a trip? Do nothing at all? Tell us about it!
11 votes -
How to be helpful online
15 votes -
Action Button reviews DOOM
6 votes -
Deltarune status update, September 2020
11 votes -
A big chunk of ice has broken away from the Arctic's largest remaining ice shelf, Nioghalvfjerdsfjorden, in north-east Greenland – ejected section covers about 110 square km
13 votes -
Whistleblower complaint alleges mass hysterectomies at ICE detention center
48 votes -
It’s been a record year for guitar sales
7 votes -
How to think about the deficit by James Tobin
6 votes -
Label sorting options in comment history
Hi, I'm not sure if this has already been proposed, but I think it could help solidify the labeling system somewhat if there were options in your profile to sort your comments by labels. Right now...
Hi, I'm not sure if this has already been proposed, but I think it could help solidify the labeling system somewhat if there were options in your profile to sort your comments by labels. Right now you can sort by newest or most upvoted, which is fine (although adding an option for oldest wouldn't hurt), but there's no particular way to see which comments of yours have received "exemplary" status etc. without scrolling through the entire list.
Since labels are not really directly correlated with upvotes, lacking such sorting options means that they are still considered a secondary/unimportant feedback process on Tildes. I personally think that one of the best ways that Tildes can distinguish itself from other content aggregators like Reddit is this slightly more complex feedback system, so it should probably be emphasized a little more on profiles as well.
3 votes -
An introduction to Data Oriented Design with Rust
5 votes -
6,600-word internal memo from a fired Facebook data scientist details how the social network knew leaders of countries around the world were using the site to manipulate voters — and failed to act
21 votes -
The future of Risk of Rain 2 - Hopoo Games dev thoughts #18
10 votes -
Oregon residents are illegally stopping drivers at gunpoint during wildfire evacuations, sheriff says
16 votes -
The evolution and challenges of using deep neural networks to train the Forza franchise's "Drivatar" driving AI
7 votes -
Why don't we just ban the buying, selling, and merging of companies?
With the ever-growing stream of acquisitions and mergers, it got me thinking: Why do we permit companies to do this? What would the harm be in banning this practice? If a company is becomes...
With the ever-growing stream of acquisitions and mergers, it got me thinking: Why do we permit companies to do this?
What would the harm be in banning this practice? If a company is becomes insolvent, release all of it's IP to the public domain, dissolve all patents/trademarks, and sell off physical assets to pay debtors (first of which should be former employees IMO, but that's a separate discussion).
Edit: I think my original intention of the post to kick off some interesting discussion has worked. Thank you to all current and future posters!
16 votes -
Winners of the 2021 Japan Packaging Design Awards
11 votes -
ARM: UK-based chip designer sold to Nvidia
27 votes -
Rangefinder lens on a DSLR camera = macro ?
7 votes -
At Iceland's Blue Lagoon you can swim in power plant wastewater – here's a story about geothermal energy, cheap heat, and how to keep some ducks warm
9 votes -
TikTok reaches deal to partner with Oracle, rejects Microsoft's plan
22 votes -
The refined sociopathy of The Economist
25 votes -
Limerick thread
A lim'rick is like a haiku But five lines, not three; you add two They're often licentious Or funny; contentious But they can be nice if you choose
19 votes -
App Store review guidelines on streaming games
12 votes -
They know how to prevent megafires. Why won’t anybody listen?
12 votes -
The Cubs' Alec Mills has no-hit the Milwaukee Brewers
I'm not watching baseball as much this season but it's still pretty awesome that someone on my team got this. It's the second no-hitter of the season I believe. Some fun facts related to this:...
I'm not watching baseball as much this season but it's still pretty awesome that someone on my team got this. It's the second no-hitter of the season I believe.
Some fun facts related to this:
- Both Chicago teams have a no-hitter in the same season for the first time in MLB history
- Both no-hitters at Miller Park have been thrown by Cubs pitchers, although the first was a neutral-site game against the Astros in 2008
edit: Can I get the title changed to "The Cubs' Alec Mills no-hits the Milwaukee Brewers"? I think it fits better now that the day it happened has passed.
7 votes -
In a lawsuit against the Internet Archive, the largest corporations in publishing want to change what it means to own a book
26 votes -
Ami, the tiny cube on wheels that French fourteen-year-olds can drive
21 votes -
Greenpeace occupies Swedish oil refinery over expansion plans – blockade culminated in six arrests after activists scaled harbour cranes at Brofjorden
5 votes -
East Side Story, Vol. 1 (2001)
3 votes -
Apathy is not the answer: The anime fan community needs to defend its most vulnerable members
9 votes -
What did you do this week?
As part of a weekly series, these topics are a place for users to casually discuss the things they did — or didn't do — during their week. Did you accomplish any goals? Suffer a failure? Do...
As part of a weekly series, these topics are a place for users to casually discuss the things they did — or didn't do — during their week. Did you accomplish any goals? Suffer a failure? Do nothing at all? Tell us about it!
8 votes -
Music theory and white supremacy
15 votes -
Weekly coronavirus-related chat, questions, and minor updates - week of September 7
This thread is posted weekly, and is intended as a place for more-casual discussion of the coronavirus and questions/updates that may not warrant their own dedicated topics. Tell us about what the...
This thread is posted weekly, and is intended as a place for more-casual discussion of the coronavirus and questions/updates that may not warrant their own dedicated topics. Tell us about what the situation is like where you live!
8 votes -
Is high-fidelity audio a genuine product or unnecessary overkill?
Note: if this topic is better served in ~music than ~tech feel free to move it! If I wanted to buy Linkin Park's A Thousand Suns, I have the following options: From Amazon 256 kbps VBR MP3...
Note: if this topic is better served in ~music than ~tech feel free to move it!
If I wanted to buy Linkin Park's A Thousand Suns, I have the following options:
From Amazon
- 256 kbps VBR MP3 ($11.49)
From 7digital
- 320 kbps MP3 + 256 kbps MP3 ($12.99) (I'm assuming it's 320 CBR/256 VBR)
- 16-bit/44.1kHz FLAC ($16.49)
From HDTracks
- 24-bit/48kHz FLAC ($19.98)
From Qobuz, which appears to be a different mastering of the album:
- "CD Quality" FLAC ($14.49)
- 24-bit/48kHz FLAC ($16.49)
- 24-bit/48kHz FLAC ($10.99 with subscription to their $250/year service)
Does paying more for the higher fidelity actually matter? I suspect that this is just a form of price discrimination preying on my want to have an "objectively" better product, because I'm assuming there's a ceiling for audio quality that I can actually notice and the lowest encoding available here probably hits that. I also don't have any special listening hardware.
I understand the value of FLAC as a lossless archival encoding (I used to rip all my CDs to FLAC for this purpose, and I've been downloading my Bandcamp purchases in FLAC all the same), but for albums I can't get through that service it appears that the format has a high premium put on it. Bandcamp lets me pay the same price no matter the format, but every other store seems to stratify out their offerings based on encoding alone. A Thousand Suns costs nearly double on HDTracks what it does on Amazon's MP3 store, for example, despite the fact that I'm getting the exact same music, just compressed in a different way.
As such, is paying more for FLAC unnecessary? Is high-fidelity FLAC in particular (the 24-bit/48kHz options) snake oil?
Furthermore, Qobuz seems to offer a different mastering of the album, which seems like it actually could be significant, but it's hard to know. Is this (and the various other "remasters" out there) a valid thing, or is it just a way to try to get me to pay more unnecessarily?
(Note: I'm using this specific album simply because it was a good example I could find with lots of different stratified options -- I'm not interested in the particulars of this album specifically but more in the general idea of audio compression across all music).
21 votes -
What have you been watching / reading this week? (Anime/Manga)
What have you been watching and reading this week? You don't need to give us a whole essay if you don't want to, but please write something! Feel free to talk about something you saw that was...
What have you been watching and reading this week? You don't need to give us a whole essay if you don't want to, but please write something! Feel free to talk about something you saw that was cool, something that was bad, ask for recommendations, or anything else you can think of.
If you want to, feel free to find the thing you're talking about and link to its pages on Anilist, MAL, or any other database you use!
10 votes -
Inertial Drift | Launch trailer
7 votes -
From protesting police to becoming a cop himself
9 votes -
"We have capitalism for the poor and socialism for the rich" - Mark Blyth
13 votes