Ioper
16d ago
I suppose background music for YouTube channels that are very small or even solo operations could be a good use case. These people want to pay nothing (and licenses for use in videos is not cheap), might not want to use the same audio library as everyone else and the music itself isn't the focus.
You don't notice the very clear artifacts in the sound?
I don't really understand why these exist and would have assumed that would have been easy to fix but seeing as they haven't been perhaps it's much harder than I imagine.
Beyond that the music itself is bland and the audiomixing poor, but perhaps these are prompting issues with these particular tracks.
If the technical issues can be ironed out this seems fine for stuff like background music in shops and receptions. Given that a Spotify subscription costs as much why would anyone switch though?
What is the use case here? I'm not being facetious, I think this is cool as hell but what is the use case? Composing and recording music is already dirt cheap. Extremely quick prototyping? Perhaps as a way to create temp music?
Ioper
18d ago
Perhaps kind is too strong a word but unlike Hillary she didn't seem actively malevolent, which is within striking distance of as good as you're going to get with a politician.
Ioper
22d ago
I think you have that backwards. International students are subsidising native students. For cost to come down other things need to happen. University services, wages and administrative bloat needs to be reduced.
One might still believe you have little to gain from them and that they might be bad in some other way (culturally or a security threat).
The characters are interesting enough, although I found most of them to be two dimensional rather than three dimensional, although this may change in the later books.
It does not, Sanderson is not good at writing characters and this is an issue that becomes worse as the series goes on due its length and what he tries to explore with the characters. The characters are flat and the more you're exposed to them the more obvious it becomes.
Friends have told me his writing improves over time, which bodes well for my future reading experience,
This was true until about the Way of Kings but I would say that he peaked there and even started to decline a few books after, possibly due to his insane schedule.
Ioper
25d ago
For literary vocabulary i could see that this might be an issue but isn't most technical vocabulary imported words from English and German?
Ioper
26d ago
Korean and Japanese in particular have a frustrating amount of homophones due to the dropping of tones that could use the disambiguation
I thought Japanese solved the issue of homophones with pitch accent. Many of the more famous examples are clearly distinguishable, to the extent that I feel like "homophones" is a misnomer. Regardless, I don't think need tones for disambiguation and nor am I aware of that they ever had tones, unlike the more mixed situation in Korea.
Ioper
27d ago
Plenty people are and its trivially easy find information about this online.
For instance, in 2016 there were 306 persons in France alone that were convicted of apologia for terrorism and 232 of those were sentenced to jail.
Ioper
27d ago
He has claimed previously that grammar isn't really a thing in Chinese.
Do not trust this man.
Ioper
27d ago
That is more of an artifact of how logographs work than evidence of that the languages are the same or even meaningfully related.
The characters are pronounced differently in the different languages and and used very differently grammatically.
You could write English nouns with Chinese characters, that doesn't make English Chinese.
Is your coworker perhaps a Han supremacist?
I'd argue that Korean and Chinese are more separate languages than Italian and French.
Chinese is a tonal language and Korean is not, and they have different writing systems.
Italian and French have nothing that divides them to this extent, either in spoken or written language.
As for Chinese and Cantonese I have no idea, I'm not terribly familiar with them even if I've studied some Mandarin. My general rule though is that languages are separate if they aren't mutually intelligible.
I genuinely don't understand why your coworker put spoken Korean and spoken Chinese in the same bubble, they're mutually unintelligible and come from different language families, even if they used the same writing system for a long period. This on its own makes the rest of your coworkers claims suspect to me.
Take the Nordic languages: Swedish and Norwegian are clearly the same language as they are easily mutually intelligble both in written and spoken form. With Danish it's a bit murkier but seeing as the written form is clearly mutually intelligble with both Norwegian and Swedish, as well as large amounts of the local dialects, even if it can be a bit difficult, I would still put it as being the same language but at the outer edge.
Icelandic on the other hand is its own language seeing as both written but especially spoken Icelandic is not really mutually intelligble with the other Nordic languages.
Broadening things to the Germanic languages it's easy to see that German is separate from the Nordic languages. It uses mostly different words and even has different grammatical structure, it's clearly a separate language even if there are overlaps and a common history.
Ioper
27d ago
Yes they can. There are just valid and non valid causes for firing. Going to jail for glorifying terrorism is one such valid reason.
Things could of course change but he has said that he planned for 6-7 volumes (and has repeated that recently) and he just finished the 6th.
Ioper
28d ago
In addition to what you said I find monotonous physical activities relaxing, like hand-mowing the lawn or chopping wood. The activity itself makes me mentally unwind and the physical excertion makes be relax physically afterwards.
Also Sauna.
Ioper
29d ago
It also isn't completed. Although it is closing in on the end and I don't really think it matters much.
The first novel is pretty much self contained and arguably even works better as a standalone, so it doesn't have to be a big commitment to read it.
Nice animation though.
I bounced off it because i thought it was poorly directed, even though parts of it were well animated.
Would you recommend powering through or just reading the novel?
Ioper
29d ago
It's a million small things. Everyday values, behaviours, interests, language used, food eaten, what is high/low status etc. It's in every aspect of their lives, just like my culture is in every aspect of my life.
It is hard to sum up because it's all pervasive and at the same time not that big of a difference. The middle class and the upper middle class are not worlds apart after all.
A lot of it comes down to being less confrontational and more dignified. Also, they spend more time and effort on social signaling and maintaining a social network, outside of closer friends.
Ioper
30d ago
Culturally middle class, economically upper middle class.
My wife is solidly, multigenerationally, UMC and I can feel the difference.
My take is that its the fragmented regulatory, consumer and financial markets that are the biggest problems here. It's not that there is a ton of regulation its that there are 20+ versions of the onerous regulations.
It's too difficult to scale a business in europe because despite efforts and the goal of the EU it is in no way a single market. When you want to scale your business rather than just export consumer products this becomes a massive issue, which is why every notable new company in europe usually starts in their own country (and perhaps very similar neighbours) and then rather than expanding into Europe they launch in America and eventually list themselves there, and only then start expanding into the rest of Europe.
Ioper
30d ago
And the equivalent to the pixel 9a in 2013 was the nexus 5 that cost 350$.
I can not get a phone that works similarly well today for 350$, regardless of what the system specs say, the software requirements for the same programs with the same functions are higher for no goddamn reason.
I mean "killing" them by eating the talent. They didn't disappear, the quality is just shockingly low.
Ioper
30d ago
Also, is the American Music industry that disproportionately successful? Especially compared to Britain. For something like movies America clearly is dominant but for music it doesn't feel as clear to me.
Perhaps things have become lopsided since I greatly cut down on listening to new music some time in the early 10s.
Maybe, but people seem to reuse the same tracks from every video so the actual time to find a track might not matter much if at all. I guess the question becomes, what do you care more about? The $10 for a month of suno + whatever time it takes to generate a song you're satisfied with, or spending ~1 hour in the free audio library?
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