All I'm saying here is that Vocaloid is essentially an electronic instrument, like a keyboard, or a theremin, or a vocoder, or a synthesizer. Vocaloid is not very similar to AI generation, so there is no particular reason to assume that Spotify would them together.
I'm not trying to comment on what I find good or bad, nor to get into the fundamental debate on what music or art is.
I think the Vocaloids are more similar to weird instruments that are still played by humans, than to generative AI song synthesis.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/de/e/eb/Vocaloid1_-_Screenshot.jpg
One thing Eric Berger does not go into is bandwidth. There is a hell of a lot more bandwidth available in a single pair of optical fibers on the ground compared to SpaceX' fastest ground to air links.
They claim 1Tb/s for V3 starlink satelites. If that's true, a fiber pair provides at least 20 times that with utterly normal off the shelf DWDM components. And that's a single pair of fibers. Optical cables are often lain with 144 fibers, or 288 fibers.
using a pozidrive bit on a Phillips head
So many people don't even know Pozidriv exists, even in technical jobs. It keeps surprising me.
Can't be that viral if the tiktok is already two months old. I think they are just too bad at journalism to check their sources.
Queensland, Australia.
here in Australia we have cameras that detect phone usage while driving. The fine itself is issued after a person verifies the photo.
The case in the headline was actually in Queensland, but gadgetreview.com seems to be a terrible site that doesn't give a shit what it's even reporting on.
Since the article appears to be mostly a weird collection of badly referenced random cases, let me give you the primary source on the case in the headline:
https://www.tiktok.com/@kristakampz/video/7640403411845877012
Edit and also to save you having to go to tiktok, here's a frame extracted from the video:
Note, this was in Alexandra Headland in Queensland in Australia. So no idea why the article cites Georgia law....
Also this is relevant: https://www.qld.gov.au/transport/safety/road-safety/mobile-phones
Illegal mobile phone use while driving includes:
- holding it in your hand
- resting on any part of your body (eg. your lap or shoulder)
If you hold your phone or have it on your body, you will be fined even if you’re not operating the phone, or it’s turned off.
Are you listening to yourself? Because a 4 cm² solar cell fits in a 170 g calculator, that means that 200-300 m² of solar cells will be fine for the 35 ton turbine blades at around π/2/s of angular momentum with the outer radius of 100m? Those concepts are barely related.
You have no idea if the fiber glass blades have the tensile force to spare to deal with 3 tons of extra weight from the panels alone, or what it will do to the bearings in the generator if you load them 10% or 15% more, or how much flat panels will fuck up your blade aerodynamics, or how expensive it will be to get custom curved panels to preserver the aerodynamics.
Just hand waving everything that stands against your idea away as solvable is magical thinking, not visionary brilliance.
Wind turbine blades have a lot of surface area that could be covered in solar panels, which solves the issue of solar panels energy output decreasing with heat because then they’d always have built in cooling.
That is a stupid idea. Blade weight is one of the biggest engineering issues for wind turbines.
Bandwidth per launch?
The important question is how much bandwidth to the base station does the satellite have, unless the dedicated coverage area per satellite shrinks, that would also help with congestion.
When I read teen I assumed 18 or 19, because when do headlines ever shy away from using the most specific and horrifying term.
But no, it was a 13 year old. So a "minor", rather than just a "teen"!