It is ridiculously easy to create an album with Suno and push it Spotify. I'm surprised its only 66% TBH

Anna's archive has a great analysis of the Spotify data.

They identify a huge surge in tracks that few listen to after gen AI started.

The analysis is worth reading. The distribution is (Pareto)^3 ~99% of the tracks played are 1% of the catalogue.

1. Generate slop music nobody will ever listen to 2. ???? 3. Profit

It's actually:

1. Generate slop music no _human_ will ever listen to

2. Use a botnet to "play" this music en masse

3. Profit

This is a whole arms race, with companies (such as Beatdapp) specializing in detecting fraudulent plays.

Source: I work for a niche music retailer that struggles with the same issues on a smaller scale.

When we switched from x264 to hardware based encoders it saved something like 90% on our customers' power and cooling bills.

So while this essay might be "technically correct" in some very narrow sense the author is speaking with far more authority than they have the experience to justify, which is what makes it obnoxious in the first place.

The author is directing this at complete noobs who are subbing their first anime and you are complaining that it is not applicable to running a datacenter?

the author never talked about power savings or cooling bills, they talked about quality so they are still correct.

This is already mentioned in the article. Software vs. hardware is a tradeoff. x264 produces higher quality (perceptual or compression efficiency) video, at the expense of latency.

Someone linked flesh simulator the other day and now my you tube is filled with some seriously weird stuff.

Just Ask them to describe Shannon Entropy. If they start talking about information they are out, if they start talking about their crazy cousin they are in.

You need to get someone out there. Just tell them over and over again its an outside wiring problem and demand they dispatch a tech. the tech will have different phone numbers with people that sort of know what they are doing. At least this worked before chat gpt ate the world.

Sounds to me like they already had at least three on-site visits by technicians.

POP has been a problematic protocol since 2000 or so.

Perhaps for main email-management use, but it perfectly fits the model of yanking a single stream of email from server A to load into server B - without resorting to forwarding, which is problematic because the middlemen don’t want the spam that gets forwarded to reflect poorly upon their IP reputation.

The thing is its much harder to higher a good junior dev. With a senior dev i can ask about the [hardest/most interesting/thing you would like to talk about] bug and talk through how they solved it to understand how their brain works.

With a Jr you basically need to spend an hour pair programming to sus out the great ones and no one has yet put in the time to filter out the bottom X0%.

we watched a cooking competition show last year where one of the contestants was tasked with breaking down a 100lb fish in order to prepare 4 entree sized portions of which the judges likely only took a bite or two... food waste in this kind of show is a given but this was totally galling.

I believe that historically we have solved this problem by creating gigantic armies and then killing off millions of people that couldn't really adapt to the new order with a world war.

I'm sure I'll eat some donuts here, but Ulysses is neither an interesting nor a well written story.

I agree wrt it as a “story” and yet i still find it very enjoyable to read!

Oh come on. A snot green nose rag. You can almost taste it, can't you?

If text can make you gag with revulsion, it is, by definition, good communication.