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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm not sure what a "music jukebox" is, and how it's different from a music player, but I would recommend to try mpd. It should work with your collection, although I don't have personal experience with collections of this size. Some clients might also not have been designed to work with such collections, so probably you'd have to try several.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

"Monitor J-Wave Tokyo, 81.3."

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Quantum encryption isn't something quantum computers can even do. It's not just transforming bits into other bits, it's about building entirely new security properties based on physical properties of matter.

So, even if it is interesting for end users, they would need dedicated hardware anyway.

[–] [email protected] 114 points 2 months ago (17 children)

We used to drive bicycles when we were children. Then we started driving cars. Bicycles have two wheels, cars have four. Eight wheels seems to be the logical next step, why don't we drive eight-wheel vehicles?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I would try magick identify from imagemagick. If that doesn't work, I would try strings just to see if it has any metadata at all. Cameras usually store their model name somewhere.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 2 months ago

They can always buy Premium for 299.95 per month.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

The "15 to 17" part is worded somewhat confusingly, but it's not wrong.

The number of bits contained in a double is equivalent to ~15.95 decimal digits. If you want to store exactly a decimal number with a fixed number of significant digits, floor(15.95) = 15 digits is the most you can hope for. However, if you want to store exactly a double by writing it out as a decimal number, you need 17 digits.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (5 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (4 children)

This goes the other way too: don't wave someone unless you're completely sure it's safe. I wish more driving schools actually taught things like this.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

I'm not necessarily disagreeing with you, but that estimate could have been wrong by a factor of 10 easily. The idea of an "average video" being 50MB, for example, is questionable: at typical bitrates of 1080p videos this would amount to about a minute-long video. I don't think that's an average video at all. It also doesn't account for many things, for example the cost of replicating new videos to the CDN.

I also don't find the idea of YouTube not being profitable ridiculous or hilarious. YouTube definitely wasn't profitable before monetisation, and Google used to run it for prestige and data collection purposes at a financial loss. They clearly have been trying to make it more profitable, but whether or not they have crossed the break-even point in the past or are still hoping to cross it in the future is not as clear to me as it is to you.

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