duckCityComplex

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[–] duckCityComplex@lemmy.world 27 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The funny thing is AI is not really mentioned in the rest of the article. I don't think any of the new technology being introduced has anything to do with AI.

I guess "AI" is just a synonym for "new stuff" now.

[–] duckCityComplex@lemmy.world 19 points 6 months ago

The "to dispense" instructions are interesting. Put a tube 3/4 of the way into the water, pinch it, and then "pull downward 12 to 18 inches"... good way to create a vacuum and start the siphon action without putting your mouth on the tube.

[–] duckCityComplex@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I think you're mixing two different things here. Discussions about unions, working conditions, workplace policies, fairness, etc. have a direct bearing on the workplace and the people in it. Yes, these things are political but they also directly impact the workplace and the people in the organization. I think these topics are all fine.

That's different from Pam in HR reminding you that she Stands With Israel when you work in a company that has no connection at all to Israel, weapons manufacturing, etc. Or maybe they want to harass you for your own views or trade in conspiracy theories. Their co-workers are a captive audience for these rants because they have to deal with these people to do their jobs.

To me it's not about loving capitalism, it's about not wanting yet one more sphere of life to be a stage for performative displays of tribal affiliation.

[–] duckCityComplex@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah this game was great... I must have played it after other Sonic games had come out. I never knew this was his first appearance. Such a cool piece of history!

Did the car have windshield wipers that you had to turn on when you got mud on the windshield or am I mixing this up with a different game?

[–] duckCityComplex@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago

We have oil tycoons run our climate summits, so sure, why not.

Maybe we can get SBF and Bernie Madoff to put something together on fiscal responsibility.

[–] duckCityComplex@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Ears turn out to be a good way to recognize individuals. Ear biometrics is an evolving area.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7594944/

[–] duckCityComplex@lemmy.world 23 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Right! They used to have a commercial airliner that broke the sound barrier.

I was confused about how the article kept saying "hypersonic" without defining it. Looks like hypersonic means 5x the speed of sound.

https://www.dictionary.com/compare-words/hypersonic-vs-supersonic

[–] duckCityComplex@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Beautiful film with incredible direction by Godfrey Reggio and a Philip Glass score.

Apart from this film and the 2 sequels, I don't think I've seen anything else that attempts this kind of direct visual poetry without plot or really an explicit message.

I see it as an environmentalist film but I guess you could as easily see it as a tribute to humanity's accomplishments.

I'm sure there must be other films like this... Can anyone suggest any!

Edited to say Reggio is the director, not the cinematographer.

[–] duckCityComplex@lemmy.world 38 points 11 months ago (10 children)

This thing is huge, it does 0-60 in under 3 seconds, has sharp angles, and its styling does not seem to target the sensible end of the market... It's like an industrial strength pedestrian destroyer.

[–] duckCityComplex@lemmy.world 83 points 1 year ago (12 children)

Could all YouTubers everywhere please emulate this guy's style... no obnoxious edits, no "destroying" someone else's point of view.... he just calmly and methodically explains what he's done and what the issues are.

[–] duckCityComplex@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I don't think I followed a specific guide. I'm using the HifiBerry Amp2 amplifier with the Pis. The house I moved into had Bose in-wall speakers in a couple of rooms and I added some in-ceiling speakers and a couple of outdoor speakers. Most of the speaker wires are routed down to the basement, so I can have all the Pis connected right to the switch via Ethernet.

Running speaker cable is by far the hardest thing about this. You could also connect the Pis via Wi-fi; I haven't tried that but it is supposed to work pretty well.

On the software end, it's pretty simple. PiCorePlayer is just an image you burn to an SD card and boot up on the Pis. I run LMS in a docker container. As long as the PiCorePlayer instances and LMS are all on the same subnet, they will auto-discover each other. If they're not, it's just a matter of configuring the LMS server URL on the PiCorePlayers.

LMS configuration is also pretty simple... you point it at your music folder and it will scan and index your MP3s and other audio files. It has plugins for Spotify, Tidal, Youtube, and some other apps. You can control it via browser, or there are Android and iOS mobile apps.

Once you buy the Pis, amps, power supplies, and cases, you are looking at probably $140 or so per zone... so it's not entirely cheap, but I think it's cheaper than Sonos or other pre-built systems. It sounds great and the different Pis sync very well. I don't hear any sync issues walking from zone to zone.

[–] duckCityComplex@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I have 6 4b's running PiCorePlayer for home audio. I control them with LMS and can sync them or play different things in different rooms.

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