TIL that these two, John Connor's foster mom Janelle and Private First Class Vasquez, are played by the same person, actor Jenette Goldstein. She is wearing complexion-darkening makeup and dark contact lenses in Aliens.
According to a 2016 interview with her, she was cast because she had the physique the producers were looking for, and also "was a trained actress".
Ein Ausdruck der mangelnden #IT#Bildung unserer Tage. 🤦♂️
Hätten aufgrund des Aufschreis im Vorfeld nicht alle Entscheider Ressourcen gewährt, dass hunderttausende Fachkräfte Software Y2k-reif gemacht haben, dann wäre weltweit vermutlich wirklich die Katastrophe passiert.
So haben wir unseren Job gemacht & es wird von journalistischen Nichtrecherchierern verharmlost.
@publicvoit Der Tweet Greta nicht "We all die in 2023", sondern "..if we do nothing till 2023..", und das haben wir ja, "...we all die in the future."🤷
When using a lossy audio or video codec, is it guaranteed that different implementations will convert the compressed media to exactly the same uncompressed data?
Like, if I convert a.wav to b.opus and then back to c.wav, of course a.wav and c.wav will be different. But if I use different implementations to convert b.opus to c.wav, will it always result in exactly the same sample values in c.wav?
I'm not talking about header or metadata differences, just the audio. Depends on the codec, maybe?
I was looking into Codec 2 for low bitrate telephony, and it turns out some researchers made their own decoder for it called Parametric WaveNet, which is a deep learning model that generates speech directly from the Codec 2 data stream.
listen to the Codec 2 samples, then the Parametric WaveNet samples. they're both the exact same encoder at 2400bps. the difference in quality and inteligibility is outstanding.
seriously considering buying land (in the mountains but not far from towns), plopping a temporary trailer down on it, and then trying my hand at building a house and serious/dedicated lab space
Hey makers, hackers, and electronics folks of the fediverse, what’s your go-to small cheap dev board that ISN’T an ATmega (too small) or ESP32 (too cursed)? I’m asking because I’m writing a gadget-device framework in Rust, and would like to port it to the most popular dev boards.