Do they have to agree on the answer?

If not, then you can add their experiences. They’ll share some but it’s a net plus.

If they do have to agree, then they can only answer when they have shared experiences, in which case it’d be a net negative.

It’s basically two arrays of binary numbers, either they know something or they don’t, and then you can do boolean algebra to get the kind of answer you want.

In reality you will encounter both situations, and by using dialogue, you can sort out the differences and achieve a higher rate of correct answers.

This way, two idiots can indeed answer more correctly than one expert. However it’s required that the idiots are aware of their own shortcomings.

Rabbit Hole:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Malawi

It’s lice. You get 300 million lice.

Now, can you build the potato clocked, huh?

Lemmy is too small for it to make sense. I can easily read through all threads all the way through the controversial posts and still run out of content daily.

It made sense on Reddit, where accounts could be worth money and/or used for advertising, or some people thought karma points was worth it, or that posts there had influence, which they did for a while. The Unidan affair was only about votes, and showed how a single user manipulated the majority of readers into something that was WRONG ON THE INTERNET, which should be a crime.

Finally there’s also people who view everything as a competition and just want the high score in that imaginary game. Endorphins or something. I’ll admit that I have a longer streak than necessary in some apps too, but I’m no cheater. I wouldn’t get my high off that anyway.

I rarely downvote, but then again, every upvote is like downvoting everyone else, and I surely don’t want to upvote everything.

Maybe this is the 1st. iteration of design, still being copied because nobody bothers making a new design.

People also still say “hello” when they answer the telephone. That’s even older.

They used muzzle loaded cannons at his time, so it makes sense. It’s not only for direction, but for faster rate of fire.

Well done.

No, you’re not. The internet is unsurprisingly full of people being annoyed with just that.

The most valid explanation is that quotation marks used to mean something else. Before we had bold and italics and underscores, typographers would sometimes use quotation marks for emphasis. This kind of ancient mark-up language can be seen in advertising up until the 1950s or so. It is considered to be wrong now.

Try it, but don’t get disappointed if it doesn’t match your childhood memories at first try.

The ones my parents had in the garden wouldn’t be found in a store. They’re honestly just plain bad, but they’re the ones I remember most fondly.

Apples are much more useful in cooking, except for desserts, where pears are better.

How come?

Using the gift of knitwear. It’s so hip.

I believe it’s called data poisoning, which theoretically could be used to hack something in some theoretical situation.

It’s not the case here. He simply left a turd on the sidewalk and then the AI picked it up.

I don’t think they even care about profits anymore.

Billionaires live in the balance sheet, not the P/L statements.

Energy production being local is a benefit.

Just like the fediverse being unaffected by some servers going down. Deliberately or accidentally, doesn’t matter, the rest will keep up.

Smaller production is also easier to scale up. You can erect a solar farm in a month or shorter, while a nuclear power plant takes a decade to build.

No, the guitar to amp “instrument line” has even lower current than the line in.

The only hazard with music instruments is if someone turns on phantom power 48V to a microphone that doesn’t use it. Then the grill can give a nasty shock and typically right on the lips.

It appears to be a line signal, so it should be fine. But then again, we can’t see what’s on the other end. Could be a nuclear power plant for all we know.

Sometimes they’re right though.

Of course not if it’s a verifiable fact, but as I’ve grown older, I have seen plenty of historical “facts” getting proven to be wrong. All it takes is for a young mind to challenge the existing views.

Having an open mind is more important than being right. Most inventions happen by accident while pursuing something else, something wrong.

something about audio that attracts an atmosphere of wilful ignorance

I think it’s the lack of a shared vocabulary.

Everyone likes some music better than other music, and so everyone think they can tell the difference between good and bad music. However, nobody can explain the difference in plain words.

This easily leads to the conclusion that it is fully subjective, and this is where the ignorance comes from. If nobody can explain what good music is, then my own voodoo explanation is as good as any.

However, we can talk about music theory, audio production and sound analysis in scientific terms to the point where we can even reproduce certain sounds based on the description. But we can’t really understand the description without actually experiencing the sound.

It’s similar to somebody saying “I don’t like this cake” or someone saying “my taste receptors react to the umami in this cake”, but I still wouldn’t have a clue about how the cake tastes.

Sound is also different from other sciences in that there is very little proof of one thing being more correct than others. And that goal changes constantly. Whenever somebody does crack the code to what people enjoy, it’ll get boring really quick.

I had a music teacher long ago who said that there is no bad music, only wrong audiences. His point was that the music that makes it through to the recording and publishing will already have passed the filter where someone made a decision if there is an audience for it. If you hear bad music, then you’re just not the right audience.

Anyway, cables. Who cares. The end result is the most important part. However, I’d prefer to hook up the instruments on stage with thick cables instead of bananas. Same thing applies at home. Any wire will do, but cheap wires do break.