ProfessorScience

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[–] ProfessorScience@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

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Take that, Big Food Processor! I don't play by your rules.

[–] ProfessorScience@lemmy.world 10 points 5 days ago

If you were to make a list of prominent evil people these days, you certainly wouldn't be starved for choice, but Ken Paxton seems to be vying for a spot near the top.

[–] ProfessorScience@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Interesting! I can't imagine Amazon would want to argue #2, though, since it seems like that would completely undercut their ability to use AI agents in this way.

I hadn't really thought about the implications of the ability of an AI agent to contract, though. That seems like really murky (and intriguing) territory; whether they can or cant, either way would have a lot of interesting implications.

[–] ProfessorScience@lemmy.world 24 points 6 days ago

It's not like every lawyer in the world is quaking in their boots at the mere thought of going up against Amazon.

[–] ProfessorScience@lemmy.world 89 points 6 days ago (22 children)

Could he not put terms of use on his website prohibiting the use by AI agents, and sue Amazon if they don't comply?

[–] ProfessorScience@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I took a trip to Norway a year or so ago. I was flying first to Denver, where a friend who lived in Denver would meet me in the airport, and then we'd fly to Munich, and from there to Oslo. That was the plan, anyway.

Well, when I got to my gate at my local airport, I found that my flight was delayed by a couple of hours. Obviously too much to have any chance of catching my connecting flight.

I called the airline, and decided to take the flight to Denver that day, and rebook the remaining flights for both me and my friend for the next day, going through Frankfurt instead of Munich. I stayed overnight in Denver, and we set out the next day.

Aaand of course then the flight out of Denver was delayed, and we missed the flight from Frankfurt to Oslo. We were rebooked onto a flight from Frankfurt to Munch, in order to catch a later flight from Munich to Oslo. Fortunately that one was on time. But then the flight to Oslo was delayed; you know, one for the road, I guess. At that point we were just glad that that delay wouldn't make us miss another flight.

[–] ProfessorScience@lemmy.world 31 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

No option for "a little AI, maybe, where it makes sense, but don't go crazy with it" option, I see.

[–] ProfessorScience@lemmy.world 8 points 4 weeks ago

Every janitor and secretary? Every investor? anyone who worked at any of the banks he used?

Yeah, that's obviously what I mean.

The Clintons have been under the microscope for decades.

"Oh, those poor rich and powerful people! Surely we can look the other way about just a little bit of palling around with a pedophile!"

This is just a distraction

Yes, that was one of the hands. Well spotted.

[–] ProfessorScience@lemmy.world 19 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

On the one hand, Cormer is a shill and is clearly trying to divert attention away from Trump and toward the Clintons. On the other hand, anyone associated with Epistein should have to face the music.

[–] ProfessorScience@lemmy.world 5 points 4 weeks ago

This seems pretty reasonable to me, but I'm skeptical of anything with Tom Cotton's name on it. But it seems like incentivizing data centers to build their own power generation (using mechanisms that may be more suited for data center use rather than residential use) could take the edge off of their impact on residential electricity costs. Is there a downside to this, or is this a "broken clock is right twice a day" thing? Maybe it lets them bypass environmental regulations as well?

 

I'd be interested in hearing recommendations for other music that is similar to the instrumental bit of this song starting at about 2:43

[–] ProfessorScience@lemmy.world 280 points 1 month ago (20 children)

... it’s just going to be, I mean, they’ll find a reason to impeach me.

Bitch, you are the encyclopedia britannica of reasons for a president to be impeached.

[–] ProfessorScience@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

This seems to me like the same kind of question as the one about werewolves in space. If you're going to make up some lore, make up whatever you want!

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Sound cutoff issues (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by ProfessorScience@lemmy.world to c/pop_os@lemmy.world
 

Hello! I'm pretty new to pop_os and linux, but am trying to switch over from windows. I've been having some sound issues where it seems like sounds get cut off. It seems to most noticeable with something like doing duolingo from my browser (lots of short sound clips of words and such; if I click on words quickly, then spotify playing in the background will stop playing briefly). I've tried disabling sleep, as described by https://support.system76.com/articles/audio/, without luck. I've also noticed that I see errors listed in pw-top which sometimes correspond to sounds getting cut off. That is, sometimes I notice a cutoff without seeing an increase in the number of errors, but when I notice an increase in the number of errors it usually corresponds to something getting cut off.

Is there a way to see what the errors from pw-top are? Or suggestions for other things I should look into? I've looked at dmesg and systemctl status --user pipewire.service (and pipewire-pulse) but the only error I see is a nvidia-drm thing which seems to be innocuous. I've also uploaded my alsa-info results, if that's useful.

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