Ha. Voice synthesizers and TTS systems (and NLP in general - dead electronics imitating this very intimately human thing, speech and language) always fascinated me, so far that this was a significant reason for me to study CS and computational linguistics.
This is literally some of the impossible sci-fi tech I dreamt of as an undergrad. Crazy.
I'm still a bit in disbelief how fast things currently move on this front.
That's shockingly good. It reminds me of a mix between Kaibutsu by YOASOBI and The Fox's Wedding by MASA. (Warning: both links are very anime. Nothing too bad)
It reminded me of Bad Apple - I'm not really familiar with all of this weird, nerdy Japanese culture, but I agree it feels very enjoyable to listen to what Suno created here.
Basically a return to the status quo of 10 years ago, isn't it?
I am inclined to believe that this (as well as Dell's Concept Luna) is a direct result of Framework's existence and may not have happened without them in this form.
I know that my next laptop would have been a switch from ThinkPads to Framework, and it probably still will be, but I know that there are plenty or organisations that can't move to Framework so having Lenovo fix this is great for many reasons.
I can't agree. It's not about national pride, IMO, but about the organic development of the language. Some of these terms date back to the pre-war period, think of the Zuse-1 era.
Many IT words that used to be German were replaced by English words if they were shorter ("Direktzugriffsspeicher" => RAM) or easier to pronounce ("Hauptplatine" => Mainboard), and e.g. OS is a common abbreviation in German for "Betriebssystem" because it is shorter - but "operating system" is not, so why switch? There is no upside, so the language didn't evolve that way.
Use Windows or Linux in German, directories are called "Ordner" - why would you teach "folder" instead if the course is in German?
I don't know - the word also exists in German as "lauwarm", but "laukalt" (lukecool), which does not share those problems, also does not exist (and AFAIK it's not a loan word from English, but a "normal" compound word from "lau" and "warm" / both derive from Common Germanic[1]).
If you pay European (German) energy prices, this very well may be the case, in my experience.
For some Hetzner servers (especially from their "Server Auctions"), for domestic customers the cost of electricity alone, disregarding the hardware cost, would sometimes be higher than the rent Hetzner wants.
Was still a thing in the late 2000s, at least in my (european) internet bubble at the time.
This was also one of the only ways for a broke middle schooler without a credit card to get a cool "real" domain.
Combine it with dyndns, self-host some ancient-but-free bulletin-board software (Woltlab Burning Board may ring a bell for the European / German audience) after learning about this "Apache2" and "mod_php" thing and your small slice of internet with 10 users max is done. Good times. :D
For a practical demonstration: That's the reason decimal IPs work, too - i.e. http://3520653007/ is the same as http://209.216.230.207/ (and both will go to HN) - it's all just nice formating for our human brains.
Nothing would stop us from formatting IPv6 the IPv4 way except the monstrous length of the resulting address.
Wow learned something new today. What's interesting is that the decimal representation looks more like a phone number which people would be used to. Interesting that IP addresses as they are written today was the format that won, as a kid before learning how computers worked I always found it weird how 255 was the highest number in each group.
Its often challenging enough for people to do CIDR subnet calculations in their head when its broken out into octets. I'd have just given up on networking entirely if the standard was to use decimal notation.
