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And just like that, the discussion is gone...
  • That's not necessarily true. If 100 people take a test and 99 of them score 100 but one person gets a 0, the average score is 99. But 99 people scored 100, so 99 people are above average, and only 1 is below average.

  • What was life like before Wikipedia?
  • I'll be honest man: it sucked.

    Imagine a time where you had a question, and you just... didn't get to know the answer. Like, literally every time you just had to hope someone in your general area had some level of confidence in their answer to satisfy your curiosity until you could confirm it later. Or you'd just go around repeating it to people with out confirming. Whatever.

    If something was important enough, you'd go track down an answer. Remember to look it up when you got home using your parent's encyclopedias. Or make a trip to the library.

    In a way, we kind of lost something: conversation and discussion. Before I feel like people really picked apart an issue where you'd all come up with a consensus over a few hours of discussion about a topic at a party or something. Then someone would come back with the answer another day, and bring in some more stuff they learned while looking it up, and it would start a whole new conversation.

  • Reactor goes brrr
  • Uranium is still there, it's just sub-critical mass so the reaction isn't happening. Uranium 235 (which would have powered the reaction) has a half life of ~700 million years. So there's still probably a good bit of it there - the reaction is thought to have stopped about 1.7 billion years ago.

  • Rich Vs. Poor
  • I'm American but moved to the UK about 14 years ago. The elite over here are just different. They genuinely think that people are just livestock, and they're the all knowing farmers that keep the farm running. Without the farmers the whole operation would fall apart. It's a "you need us. If left to your own devices you'd destroy yourselves" kind of thing. Honestly, it's not that far from "the children yern for the mines" kind of thing.

    In the US, my impression still is that anyone could become that wealthy elite, and the elite know it. They think they're at the top because they're the best. But they're scared someone better is already out there. What worries them is knowing what someone would do to bring them down - because they know they'd do the same.

    It really is a different vibe between the two sides of the Atlantic. One side thinks they were chosen by God. The other side knows they're just the most vicious monkey in the free for all.

  • I mean...violence is bad.
  • For the most part, the French revolution really only took down the royal family. A large portion of land owners and business people made it out perfectly fine with both their assets and heads.

  • What's the best quality Linux Bluetooth audio experience for both me and the people I'm talking to?

    My mini ITX motherboard doesn't have as many USB ports as I'd like. I've also decided 2024 is the year I try to kill off all my USB micro devices and replace them with USB-C (sorry PS4 controller). So I'm going to go Bluetooth as much as it makes sense (because of the limited USB ports), and use devices that charge over USB-C

    For communication during gaming over discord I've been using a Logitech g933 for about 8 years with the USB receiver, so that's on the chopping block.

    I'm quite happy with the sound quality for music I currently get out of my Bluetooth headphones. A2DP gives a really great experience. Using those same headphones as a communication device with Discord for both recording and playing audio is really awful though as it kicks back to HFP/HSP. So I was wondering if it's possible to do a dedicated Bluetooth microphone? And more importantly: does connecting a micrpphone-only device over Bluetooth still need to be in the HFP/HSP profile to work?

    To be clear: my goal is to be wires-free for my audio solution, while having both a high quality audio output to hear my beloved gaming companions AND to have a high quality (or at least clear quality) audio input so my beloved gaming companions can hear me. The microphone built into Bluetooth headphones is generally shit and sounds like being on a cell phone call from 1999, even when using it on an android or Windows machine that gave custom Bluetooth stacks that don't fall back to HSP. That's why I'm interested in using a dedicated high quality (probably condenser?) microphone, I'm just unsure if that high quality makes it back to the computer when connected through Bluetooth.

    From the last couple hours of searching and reading I can only seem to find information regarding Bluetooth recording+playback combined headsets and the A2DP/HSP stuff. I can't seem to find anything about regarding dedicated microphones quality over Bluetooth.

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