I agree that those are huge issues. I guess in my opinion, philosophy courses like what I described tend to improve literacy and math skills by requiring you read and write deliberately, think about the nuances of words, and build logical, self-consistent arguments/statements.

Yeah, jwz is no joke.

Actual inter-religious comparative theology is probably even better for developing skeptical critical thinkers than not teaching people about religion at all. I would love to see schools adopt that sort of coursework.

Anyone who feels the need to brag is lacking, IME

Yes

Yeah, Final Fantasy 1 and 8, I think

Bigger clients negotiate bulk discounts, basically. But the other factor at play here is supply and demand. The higher the demand, the higher the price for the supply. Household demand has remained more or less the same, but because data center demand has shot up, prices have too.

All good, I just wanted you to know how it’s spelled. Not angry or upset

“relief” is how that word is spelled. Like belief.

This video is AI

AAC is more widely supported than Opus and sits closer to Opus than MP3 in terms of compression efficiency, but still trails Opus in that category.

Still, better than MP3 for sure.

I just download dual audio and English subs and turn off subs and switch to Japanese audio when I wanna practice my Japanese, personally.

Generally this is true, but it depends on the encoder used. Back during the huge boom of MP3 popularity in the late 90s and early 00s, it likely did make a difference, so if you’re looking at MP3s that were encoded back then I would go for 320kbps every time just to be safe, but modern encoders generally do much better like you said.

These days if I were encoding an MP3 I’d use LAME at -V0 setting, letting it lower the bitrate where it can without sacrificing quality. That said, per this test from 2014 that I found as a source on Wikipedia, a 96kbps VBR Opus file is at least as good if not better than an MP3 with -V 5 as the setting on LAME with approximately a 135kbps bitrate.

This, @Thorned_Rose@sh.itjust.works.

I’m an audio engineer and can confirm that if you want the best quality audio for the file size, you want Opus. Opus at 128kbps is considered transparent, so it’s roughly as good as 320kbps MP3s, but y’know, less than half the size.

OpenRGB: “Am I a joke to you?”

It’s cool, I’m playing the long game

Glad to hear you think of me, if indirectly

Recently it’s been AutoRogue

Doctors used to and still do make house calls. You just have to be wealthy

After they wear off