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is there a way to get good numbers on what the various AI services' prices would need to be for them to break even? the numbers always end up incomprehensibly large with these companies, so i figure looking at the average cost for *one customer* might illuminate exactly how fucked everything is

not exactly what you're looking for, but map.signalbox.io shows a live map of every train in the UK, coloured green (on time), yellow (slightly delayed) or red (very delayed), which gives you a sense of how badly the whole network's doing

why is this how i learned Adams dropped out

amazing, the private sector re-invented petrodollar recycling

i presume that what's missing from this diagram is a gigantic arrow coming out of every single company there leading to a box that says POWER BILL

how are all six of these people dressed for different events

the rot in the left isn't with people calling out transphobia, it's in the people who spin out two weeks of content explaining why we shouldn't be calling out transphobia

shut up

i am British and i have no damn clue what Cracker Barrel actually is, and even I saw the new logo and thought "why would you do that? this is objectively worse"

Hi @susiedent.com, is there a word for the kind of anti-uncanny-valley effect where a real thing is so close to a stereotype that it feels fake/artificial?

which episode is the original image from?

RIP Tom Lehrer: a wonderfully talented lyricist, songwriter and pianist.

In 2022 he released all his songs into the public domain. You want to record them, remix them, even sell them? Go ahead. They're on tomlehrersongs.com - audio, lyrics, PDFs of the sheet music. Free, in every sense of the word.

i ended up solving several of those sound puzzles by recording an audio sample of the game and then looking at the spectrogram in Audacity, which was... kinda fun in its own right i guess? but if you're designing a puzzle such that that's the best approach to solve it, something has gone badly wrong

pretty sure the 9/11 hijackers didn't go through immigration control

I am watching @dylanbeatt.ie's excellent talk on creating the Rockstar programming language (www.youtube.com/watch?v=69qf...) as a distraction from studying for a CS exam.

The exam is on the design and implementation of programming languages.

I have not thought this plan through

Also are these things even called soundfonts? I can't quite tell - is one of these files a "Muse Sound", singular?

This is certainly not the *worst* user experience I've ever had, but there's still a lot of jank™ in here that could probably be cleaned up

6) Notice that reloading the page fails, rewind to step 4 and go through the whole account verification process again;

7) Finally, I can go back to the Muse Hub app and actually download the bloody things.

5) Click to verify my email and get an error that my computer cannot establish a secure connection (the thing it's failing to establish a connection *to* appears to be 127.0.0.1 so god knows how that's even possible);

4) Click to create an account, and get dragged *back* to my browser, where I have to fill in my email and get a verification code;

3) Download and install Muse Hub, then attempt to install the Muse Woodwinds soundfont from this app, before being told that I need to make an account for some reason (this is a free product and I do not need to enter payment info for it so it's unclear to me why this is necessary);

2) Attempt to download Muse Woodwinds, and discover that I need to have the Muse Hub app installed (I had an older version of it already, so I would expect to see a message like "you need the latest version!" here, not a bare "you need Muse Hub installed!" followed by it autodownloading an .exe);

Hi @tantacrul.bsky.social, I know you care a lot about smooth UX so I'd like to briefly describe the process of trying to download a Muse Sounds soundfont:

1) Click "Get more sounds" in the MuseScore Studio mixer, which takes me to a webpage full of download links;

i think that makes two of us

Well There's Your Problem

it's a podcast about engineering disasters, with slides

i once had VSCode tell me that C was segfaulting on a blank line

last i checked regulation without enforcement was functionally equivalent to a wishing well

Post your favourite Doctor Who. Wrong answers only

YouTube video by jan Misali how many Super Mario games are there NOW?

i would direct you and Brian to this video youtu.be/-Ddmjcy3lEs?... in which the presenter argues that a piece of software that shows you knitting patterns to make a custom Mario-themed sweater is a "video game"

is that makeup or weird lighting i cannot tell

i'm in the UK and currently shipping costs slightly more than the game itself