The thing is, vinyl (and tape) typically can't reproduce waveforms like that accurately, so it's difficult to compare. You can take a hyper-compressed master, cut it to vinyl or record it to tape, then play it back in to a computer, and it'll look different and less "brickwalled".
yes, they mostly use a digital delay, although some mastering houses still have a reel-to-reel equipped with an extra 'preview' head that gives the required lookahead for the lathe without any A/D conversion in the audio path.
Actually yes, I have all windows overlapping and none expanded to fill the screen, unless I'm really doing something very specific that needs as much space as possible. But the rounded edges are still slightly annoying.
Do you not find that depressing and sad? Do you never work with enthusiastic and talented junior developers at the start of their careers? Do you not enjoy interacting with them?
FidoNet was great fun. Despite finding it difficult to remember any useful numbers in my life (credit card, NI etc) I can still remember my FidoNet addresses from when I was a youngster.
I'm not sure how I'd feel about an archive though, I'm sure I wrote a lot of childish nonsense on it! like a lot of things, perhaps best left as a happy memory...
I am bound to say that turning to another large language model to seek some insight into the original output is unlikely to convince those of us for whom it is all completely meaningless and devoid of anything other than purely academic interest.
I struggle to see anything good or interesting about any of this. "Here's a conversation I had with a large language model and here's the completely uninteresting artwork that resulted."
Reading through the comments, perhaps I'm missing something. It continues to fascinate me that 80% of people are just bowled over by this stuff as if it's something genuinely profound, and 20% are just left completely cold.
Agree totally. Reminiscent of the Paul Erdös reaction to the proof of the Four Colour Problem.
It's been quite good reading these comments because a lot of them have put into words my own largely negative feelings about the AI ubiquitous hype, which I have found it hard to articulate. Your second paragraph, and someone else's comment about how they are attracted to computer science because they like fiddly detail and so are uninterested in a machine hiding all that, and a third comment about how so-called "busy work" is actually a good way of padding out difficult stuff and so a job of work becomes much less palatable when it is excised entirely.
The other thing I find deeply depressing is the degree to which people are thrilled (genuinely) by dreadful looking AI art and unbearable to read AI prose. Makes me think I've been kidding myself for years that people by and large have a degree of taste. Then again maybe it just means it's not to my taste..
Yes I remember your comment to that effect on the last thread that touched on this topic! From memory I think I was ten years after you and either I had different expectations or the course had changed radically because I had a much more positive experience.
https://web.archive.org/web/20100123102758/http:/www.barney-...
Also, Richard Russell's page here:
https://www.bbceng.info/Designs/designs_reminiscences/richar...
who did the technical work.