Nobody is saying that your 1000 euro speakers sound the same like the earbuds that came with your mp3 player in 2005. You know, the ones with the injection mold ports still there, that would dig into your ears.

This is to expose the people that buy gold wires for USB, a digital protocol.

You are free to spend your money how you like, but extreme diminishing returns are a very much overlooked thing in the "audiophile" circles.

There are definitely better headphones and worse ones, that is elementary. But there are also very real limits to human senses which the industry seems to have ignored for a very, very long time in order to profit off of a niche self-indulgent audience who can afford it.

Of course, nothing will change.

Audiophiles ARE the same thing as flat earthers

Except that they're not mocking audiophiles, or calling them flat earthers. They're presenting the results of an experiment in a detached and fairly clinical manner. It's not the most rigorously-controlled experiment because they were having a bit of fun, but it's an experimental result nonetheless, and that's all it is, they're not judging people over it or calling them names.

The point about haughty attitude is an important, but rarely mentioned. No one has convinced me to reexamine and change my views by calling me stupid, mocking me, and pointing a finger. If anything, it makes me avoid both that person and their whole group.

"the industry that supports audio engineering" though — are you sure this support is welcome? It is not unlike asking to treat counterfeit drug producers with dignity and respect because they support medical professionals.

I really do not see how any actual engineer producing audio equipment would not be there if not for a company selling one-directional ethernet cables for 1000/m that improve sound, with a plastic bag filled with gravel that also improves sound... I mean...

Respectfully, your positive view of an LLM writing marketing copy is akin to a marketer thinking an LLM codes really well.

I would push back on that because I have some experience writing marketing copy. It's just not my primary competency.

If the proverbial marketer that you were referring to had some experience with coding, I dont see why they wouldnt be able to review the output and see any obvious flaws.

My whole point is that LLMs are of limited use when you are already an expert or when you know nothing about the subject. However, they really seem to help elevate beginner/intermediate level tangential skillsets.

Obviously everything is still evolving and your results may vary.

Wow, is this awesome! I put in: Hugh Masekela, John Prine, and Ripe. It gave GREAT recommendations!

Oliver Mtukudzi, Melting Palms

I've never heard of either. Enjoy both. Sent the link to my son. Brilliant! Thank you.

Em dashes —once the sign of a sophisticated writer— were prominent in The New York Times.

s/sophisticated writer/Mac user. It was a pain to type them on Windows so most people just used the regular dash - accessible on any keyboard.

I had no idea! I was a typesetter, we would have to manually create them using keyboard shortcuts on both systems.

Microsoft word would add them for you long before AI

Entering two dashes on the iOS keyboard inserts an emdash, I would use them frequently when I had an iPhone.

Using older lenses can help bring some of that back. Nikon DLSRs use the F-mount, which is backwards-compatible for nearly all their old lenses. They introduce some analog beauty and quirks, like over-saturation and vignetting, getting you _some_ of the way there. Film grain is still missing and that adds a lot of character.

I would love to get deeper into large format photography. The few 4x5 negatives I've taken are breathtaking in their detail.

It was still a fascinating aside, and it's not like HN stays on topic in a thread. I learned something today.

I do wonder what's the state of history education today when one only learns a basic history event today, and through a layman's forum post which is surely going to have all the complete perspective as opposed to setting out an explicit agenda.

I have tried most of those and tend to go back to dify.ai. Open source, connects to remote endpoints, test up to 4 models at a time.

I can create workflows that use multiple models to achieve different goals.

Clear Linux was fast and FUN to work with, and the team were highly responsive a few years ago. The mood on their community board changed and they got more terse in their focus and responses. You could kind of feel a change coming.

Fortunately, some distros adopted their kernel optimizations; Pop_os, I think you can find it branched in Arch, not sure if others.

If any of the team are on this thread; thank you.

There were beautiful posters in that slop series too.

GenAI and creativity — this doesn't have to be a dichotomy.

Thank you both, this is exactly the illustrator!