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Couldn't that be a way to address the issue of current LLMs hallucinating?

The WebAudio API has an anlayser node that can create spectrogramms in real-time. The ones I've created in the past were nowhere near as detailed as this one though.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Audio_A...

AFAIK you are allowed to use cookies/localstorage as much as you want as long as they're not used for tracking.

Github for example uses cookies but doesn't ask for your consent:

"At GitHub, we want to protect developer privacy, and we find cookie banners quite irritating, so we decided to look for a solution. After a brief search, we found one: just don’t use any non-essential cookies. Pretty simple, really. " [1]

[1] https://github.blog/2020-12-17-no-cookie-for-you/

Ed: Just checked myself though. Page seems to be saving google and facebook cookies which would definitely require consent.

I also thought about FAANGs at that point but in a different way:

I understood the technical intelligentsia to be the actual engineers - the people working at FAANGs. FAANG itself are the capitalist class.

Thought this paragraph by Wells was also relevant in that regard:

"I remember the situation with regard to the technical intelligentsia several decades ago. At that time the technical intelligentsia was numerically small, but there was much to do and every engineer, technician and intellectual found his opportunity. That is why the technical intelligentsia was the least revolutionary class. Now, however, there is a superabundance of technical intellectuals, and their mentality has changed very sharply. The skilled man, who would formerly never listen to revolutionary talk, is now greatly interested in it. "

The past 20 years were a period of economic growth. By Well's logic you wouldn't expect the technical intelligentsia to have many revolutionary thoughts during that period anyway.

Had to check this and it turns out that what you're saying is not quite correct:

The canteen stopped serving meat altogether which meant that the famous "VW-Currywurst" wouldn't be available anymore. That's what Schröder complained about, not the availability of vegan alternatives. He actually praised those in the same sentence.

A couple of years ago the European court of justice actually decided that streaming itself is already illegal. That is, if it's reasonable to assume that you knew it was an illegal stream. I haven't heard about a case of it ever being prosecuted though.

I usually don't do this but... AIBs?

Google is only giving me Allied Irish Banks. Somehow I feel that's not what you're talking about.

I just went back and actually found the corresponding issue on my repository. Turns out it was firefox having issues with the setTargetAtTime function. I replaced it with linearRampToValueAtTime to get rid of the clicking sounds. I think for that to work I had to shift each note a little forward and then do a very quick ramp in the beginning. It does alter the sound a little though.

Also: Thank you! The idea is definitely derived from Synthesia but that isn't free anymore and I wanted to make it work in a browser :)

About the clicks in firefox:

I've dealt with this problem in a MIDI webapp I've developed a couple of years ago (midiano.com). If I remember correctly, firefox had some issue when samples were scheduled to immediately start with a gain value above 0. I believe the solution was to schedule them slightly earlier with a gain value of 0 and using "gainNode.setValueAtTime" to make the sound appear at the desired time.

Not entirely sure if that was the exact solution but I do remember firefox causing some problems in that regard. I just recall it being a hacky solution and that I couldn't find a documented explanation of why it happened.

In that case websites will absolutely show you a banner and/or intentionally make their services more difficult to use.

Any website showing a cookie banner already prioritizes their ad revenue over your convenience of not seeing a banner. So why would they implement any extra work to spare you that banner, if you're one of those customers that won't drive ad revenue?

Care to elaborate? I just re-read the article and honestly still don't know what complexity OP was referring to.

Do you mean the fact that cookies and LocalStorage (or other APIs able to persist data) are often considered the same thing when using the term "cookies"?

In what way is it more complex than it has to be?

I don't work in front-end but whenever I've used localstorage for personal projects it's as simple as getting/setting a javascript object with keys & values.

I'm sure that some communes might struggle paying for something that's been paid for by someone else in the past but the argument really lacks if it's used to justify keeping tobacco ads around.

Like you said, other advertisers would probably happily replace them and even if that's not the case I think a country as wealthy as Germany should be able to find some way to finance bus stops ;-)

Those areas are the only areas I can think of that have LED signs in Germany though. Of course not entirely sure but I don't think there's a single one of those large LED screens (like the ones on time square) in Hamburg. Maybe Berlin/Frankfurt have some?

Unless I'm completely blanking on these signs being used elsewhere, excluding the bus-stop signs sounds like this will not have any noticeable effect apart from providing a nice sounding headline.

Often the entire bus stops are financed by those advertising there. At least that has always been the argument against finally disallowing tobacco/smoking ads in Germany because then smaller communities would (allegedly) not be able to finance these things.

Not that I condone secret services collecting data in the way they do, but you're confusing state agencies collecting data with private companies collecting data.

And while I do think that state agencies nowadays have crossed most lines of what may be be deemed acceptable it should still be clear that in some cases it's necessary for a government to have the authority to do things a normal citizen doesn't (eg you're not allowed to sentence people to jail, vigilantism etc).

Also one of the articles is actually about a German court striking down one of the surveillance tactics so this just sounds like whataboutism to defend one nation and bash another. Despite all its faults, concerning spying and data-collection, the EU is likely the smallest offender out of the big players in this world.

Not OP but I remember watching a movie "Who killed the electric car?" in highschool. It's about the EV1, an electric car by GM in the 90s. It had a range of 70-100 miles. If I remember correctly the movie kind of insinuates that the oil lobby ultimately prevented the model from releasing/selling well. So just based on that, the knowledge that electric cars are a viable substitute for a lot (in Europe I'd say most) of use cases has been quite readily available.

But that's the problem in OP's reasoning. Simply knowing that electric cars will dominate in the future is pretty worthless as investment advice. Especially when we are talking about tesla, which's stock price is entirely decoupled from any fundamental values. Today, I actually think that becoming one of many car makers is the best-case scenario tesla can hope for. It was always the question whether they can get enough of a head start in self-driving and battery tech BEFORE traditional car makers start making EVs. Those have decades of a head-start in every other aspect of car making. And to me it seems that most of them fully committed to EVs in the last 1-2 years. So will Tesla's advantage in battery tech buy them enough time to make cars that are as safe and reliable as traditional cars?

Also: I really don't know much about cars, so I might be wrong about pretty much everything I just said :) But it shows nicely that you can find logically sound arguments about future developments which are worth absolutely nothing on the stock market. Just look at the stock market since the beginning of Covid.