@mmmelk Haven't been on Twitter much this year, I have a stack of sources in my old-school RSS reader, and follow a few rabbit holes. Three good sources are @MargRev@SixthTone@genmon
@jebgavin@lauriewired Who knows, I feel like hardware vs software emulation is getting into 'place crystals on your £15k power cable to improve resonances' world these days, but maybe there are specific things, like feedback loops or inductors, that are still difficult to model
@jebgavin@lauriewired It's a very interesting area psychologically - is passing your digital file through a piece of kit thousands of miles away more satisfying that passing it through a locally-running digital emulation of that piece of kit?
21. A study of 500 diners found “attractive servers earn approximately $1,261 more per year in tips than unattractive servers.” Mostly because of “female customers tipping attractive females more than unattractive females.”
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Steve Jobs announced a feature called Smart Shuffle, which made iPod randomisation less random, in order to appear more random, in Sep 2005. Twenty years later, Spotify are still trying to find a shuffle algorithm that users like – @TomWhitwell https://t.co/JGHI5tNdUB
Hello friends. At long last that annual moment has come. My friend @TomWhitwell has posted his list of 52 things he learned in 2025. I look forward to this more than Christmas. This year's list is an all timer that includes this titbit:
@briankeating Hmm, this is what I got: "A bewildering grab-bag of hopeful statistics, unsettling technologies, absurd loopholes, cultural quirks, and shifting behaviours." https://t.co/iQsNZGWk39