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It's funny how google pretends the music on YouTube isn't straight up piracy and everyone just goes along with it
  • When you upload a song, you indicate whether it has copyright and who owns it, Then, whenever its played they pay the copyright owner based on an audience size basis, similar to Spotify.

    If you don't, the copyright owner informs Google, and they close that link.

    Even if you have music playing in the background of an instructional video, the copyright holders will go after you.

  • Most Americans want to electrify their homes — if they can keep their gas stoves
  • Heat storage effect -as soon as you put anything in cold in the pan the whole element goes cold and it takes ages to reheat. Unlike a gas flame.

    And "induction" heating is 90% conduction - only a tiny part of the pan is inducted and then the heat has to conduct to the rest of the pan. So in some ways its worse than a conventional electric hob because the heating is so uneven, and you still get the heat storage effect.

  • The race to 5G is over — now it’s time to pay the bill | Networks spent years telling us that 5G would change everything. But the flashiest use cases are nowhere to be found — and the race to deplo...
  • 5G mms is the high speed service. But its affected by wind, buildings and cars. And the phones that have it are expensive because the circuitry uses heaps of power and the battery is the most expensive part of the phone.

    So mms is mainly being promoted for stationary devices, and in buildings that have repeater emitters.

    The 5G low band phones are cheaper to make than 4G because the circuitry is more efficient so you can use smaller batteries.

    5G has a more efficient algorithm for ordering incoming/outgoing signals, so like-for-like there is higher speed and less freezing. But in new areas the telcos just build fewer towers so the speed is no better than 4G.

  • What is the point of individually wrapping cheese slices in plastic, only to cover a bunch of them in more plastic?
  • In Australia, the only cheese you could buy in the supermarket in the 1970s was Kraft in the little blue packets sold in the dry goods section.

    To buy "real" cheese you had to go to a dairy, or go to the city centre and buy cheese cut off the block and wrapped in greaseproof paper from a contintental delicatessan.

    Polyethylene film was not available.

    So when it came out and you could buy real cheese in film from the supermarket, Kraft responded by bringing out "more convenient " Kraft Singles, which you didn't have to laboriously (?) cut from the block.

  • Carmakers Push Forward With Plans To Make Basic Features Subscription Services, Despite Widespread Backlash
  • Distributors only sell new cars, and the subscription is included in the credit plan. New car and fleet buyers are fine with the extra security and backup these services provide.

    The distributors don't care a damn what second hand buyers think.

  • Who's winning the war in Ukraine?
  • Given that it is essentially a proxy war between the US and Russia, its quite possible the war could end without either side actually "winning".

    Obviously the US will continue to support the war for as long as possible, and if that means turning ukraine to ash and destroying the economies of western europe, well that is a price they are willing to pay.

    There are still shortages in Russia and if the gas and electricty shortages continue through winter that could be devastating in Russia. It wouldn't take that much to tip the country into chaos, what the response of the Russian govt to Ukraine would be - possibly using their really large missiles that can wipe out a whole village - is completely unknown.

    We don''t really understand the mentality of the Ukraine govt. The fact that many western weapons seem to go missing before they reach the front and the coincidence of the Azerbaijan getting a pile of muntions just after deliveries to Ukraine may indicate that the aims of the Ukraine govt may not totally align with those of western europe.

  • What are some popular applications that use C?
  • Just about every language is written in C. Even GW-BASIC was written in C (most BASIC interpreters were written in assembly code at the time).

    When all the code was being rewritten for Y2K, C was used because it was really the only language that was portable at the time, you could write the program on a PC, and then compile and configure it on a mainframe, or vice versa.

    A more pertinent question would be what isn't wriiten in C.

    Critical software, like interfaces, machine operation or database systems, are generally not written in C. That's because C code can be dense and obscure. If the original programmer retire or goes missing, and the system crashes, no one else may have a clue what they've actually coded. So a more explicable, higher level language is used and C is quarantined to use in system software where its power and access is useful.

  • Could X go bankrupt under Elon Musk?
  • It won't fail because of money. Musk has enough money to fund it out of his petty cash forever.

    If it fails, it will fail in the same way the newsnet failed - it becomes full of angry old men screaming about Israel and guns.

  • The Cybertruck Is a Disappointment Even to Cybertruck Superfans / Looking at the specs alone, the car is delivering 30 percent less range than expected for 30 percent more money
  • Maybe, but the cyber truck has especially bad rear visibility. Worse.than any of its competitors

    Worse than a van ? No.

    Not to mention it’s 3000 kilos.

    A model X weighs 2.3 t. Because of the batteries.

    An F150 Lightning weighs 3 tonnes and its bed is made from aluminium.

    The US license test is a joke in most states, and then people are allowed to drive 3 metric ton vehicles from a 10 minute drive.

    In the US you can drive a rigid truck of almost any size on a bog standard car licence. A 6 t truck with a capacity of 40 t if you want. GM sells an Isuzu cab forward truck (normally with a mildly tuned diesel four) with a frigging massive petrol V8.

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