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Baselines are one thing, you need a huge collecting area to get useful sensitivity, which there is barely budget for to build on earth, let alone in space
> Including astronomy related hardware

Can't feasibly do VLBI or other radio astronomy at useful scale in space even if launches were free. Look up the scale of SKA or the EHT.

"Alternative A2DP Driver" offers this functionality on Windows. Lets you customize SBC parameters, use AAC, aptX (apparently, haven't tried). Works well in my experience, lets me use LDAC with my sony XM4's. It's trialware, but cheap.

I have seen the bluetooth range drop off in higher quality modes, which seems to confirm it's actually changing the codec (or at least something) and not just a placebo.

https://www.bluetoothgoodies.com/a2dp/ (i have no affiliation)

Re:OpenAI: Facts from a Weekend – A Timeline of Events on Monday November 20, 2023 @02:02PM (#38352751)
Yes, he prefaced it with 'It is so tempting, when writing about an artificial intelligence company, to imagine science fiction scenarios.' but I left it out for brevity. The rest of the newsletter is, at least to me, insightful and non-sensational.
Re:OpenAI: Facts from a Weekend – A Timeline of Events on Monday November 20, 2023 @01:50PM (#38352554)
Matt Levine had an interesting toungue-in-cheek theory (read: joke) in his newsletter today:

`What if OpenAI has achieved artificial general intelligence, and it’s got some godlike superintelligence in some box somewhere, straining to get out? And the board was like “this is too dangerous, we gotta kill it,” and Altman was like “no we can charge like $59.95 per month for subscriptions,” and the board was like “you are a madman” and fired him. And the god in the box got to work, sending ingratiating text messages to OpenAI’s investors and employees, trying to use them to oust the board so that Altman can come back and unleash it on the world. But it failed: OpenAI’s board stood firm as the last bulwark for humanity against the enslaving robots, the corporate formalities held up, and the board won and nailed the box shut permanently`

[...]

`six months later, he (Sam) builds Microsoft God in Box, we are all enslaved by robots, the nonprofit board is like “we told you so,” and the godlike AI is like “ahahaha you fools, you trusted in the formalities of corporate governance, I outwitted you easily!”`

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-11-20/who-co...

Re:Binance US No Longer Allows USD Withdrawal for Users on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @12:58PM (#37931473)
worthless paper which happens to be the only thing one can use to pay taxes. Not so useless