Minor nit, cassettes were and are mostly worse audio quality than records and they coexisted for decades with their respective compromises. Cassettes replaced 8-track in the portable space and eventually enabled the Walkman.

CDs killed both.

CD didn't really killed cassette. They coexisted peacefully for 2 decades. CD was nice, transportable but cassette was still more convenient to carry around because a walkman was much smaller[1], wouldn't skip when running/jumping[2], a cassette was less fragile and it was simply so much easier to leave a cassette in a deck and record anything you would ear on the radio on the go. Virtually nobody could/would live burn a dj mix from the radio.

Napster + portable mp3 player and smartphoned did kilómetros ll the cassette.

[1] especially the late 90's early 00's ones that were barely bigger than a standard cassette case.

[2] there was buffering for discmans but it wasn't 100% effective if skipping happened for longer than the buffer

What cargo do the cultists think is coming?

A wonderful sonic experience from ritualistic handling of a vinyl disc in a paper envelope?

Little do they know, the true sonic experience comes from wetting the disc with a special felt pad and watching the stroboscopic markings on the edge of a turntable platter...

You don't have to pass it through a DAC. There's no equivalent of HDCP for protecting digital audio end to end. Crudely, you could capture S/PDIF but really, skip that and just output to a virtual audio device for recording. No DAC in the path either way.

But yes, it is inconvenient and slow.

The general term for plants that set seed once is monocarp. Most famously agave and bamboo, among plants with cycles longer than two years.

For plants like bamboos, they're interesting because the periods can be quite long, over a hundred years in some cases, so it's simply rare to see them in flower, and due to how they're propagated and how they keep time, you sometimes see a mass worldwide flowering and die off followed by a shortage of that plant.

It's a much rarer reproductive strategy than annual, biennial, or perennial.

USB C is at least one reason that will apply constant pressure.

Adds complexity, cost, and clutter. Meanwhile, the living situations of many (most?) people forbid it; no big-kicking subwoofers in apartments and condos, and you're probably keeping the volume at polite levels.

And for all that, it's likely still not up to par with a theater, unless you geeked out on a dedicated theater room.

This observation seems innately vulnerable to sampling error and confirmation bias. "Good" generative AI almost by definition is difficult to notice.

Then I've never seen any of that :) Graphics or text.

Or you don't know you did

I've noticed this, too, and have likened it to haircuts: If you gave yourself a haircut, you don't say so, because it inevitably opens the door to a level of scrutiny and criticism that it wouldn't otherwise.

People are just going to lie about using AI and honestly that's fine. An even older idiom is that you don't want to see how the sausage gets made. Not if you enjoy sausage.

I don't think it's fine. Don't lie about your work.

Lie was probably the wrong word. Secrecy about how work is done is and has always been normal. Not saying anything at all if you're not obligated to is totally fair and, yes, fine. AI doesn't change that.

We frown on people who pass off something they didn’t do or make as the fruit of their labor.

AI isn’t good enough yet to make things autonomously, so someone who harnesses AI to make something can, at least in my eyes, claim they made it (AI isn’t just a tool).

If and when AI becomes autonomous, the human ceases to be the creator in my view since they are no longer in the creation loop. Then you cannot pretend you made the thing.

> Not saying anything at all if you're not obligated to is totally fair and, yes, fine

Which is why we need regulations that create obligations to disclose AI usage

No need for FCP, as iMovie can still capture DV streams from Firewire. I'd expect they both use the same implementation.

However, Apple has removed Firewire support entirely from macOS Tahoe so none of these solutions will work on Mac going forward.

I think it was needed for retaining the original aspect ratio, and capturing in ProRes, but maybe there's a workaround there that I didn't find.

It also reminds me a bit of what text looks like after multiple rounds of photocopying. Like the handouts we'd get in grade school.

And the smell of weird, purple mimeograph[1] ink.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimeograph

For some reason, that smell is one of my favorite memories from my early school years. I really liked it.

That combined with the magic of "Wow! Copies?!"

[2]

[2]: I just wanted to add the most unnecessary footnote formatting possible as a kindness, so yours would no longer hold the crown as worst

That's clever, but:

I've been called out previously here for having unknowingly introduced some undefined terms to readers, and which they found to be perplexing.

And I took that to heart, because I don't want my words to be perplexing. I instead want them to be clear and easily understood.

In my corner of the world, I haven't held a mimeographed document in my hands for ~35 years. I found it reasonable to assume that a non-zero amount of people here might find the term to be unfamiliar.

So I provided definition of the term on the basis that it may be unknown to some readers, and that more information is better than inadequate information.

In this instance I would have preferred to use hyperlinked text for visual brevity, but that's not a thing on HN. The normal and accepted style on HN consists instead of using footnotes.

And at this point, generating footnotes is nearly entirely muscle memory for me. So a footnote (with a URL) was included.

Thank you for your attention on this matter, fsckboy. I'm pleased to discover that you've found my footnote to be so unusually compelling.

>I've been called out previously here for having unknowingly introduced some undefined terms to readers, and which they found to be perplexing.

i wasn't criticizing putting in a link; just put it in, it doesn't need layers of boiler plate [in this instance]

like, if i use the word sesquipedalian https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sesquipedalian

[in this instance] the square brackets add nothing but noise

I am appreciative of your criticism and have taken it under advisement.

However, I have noted that you do not pay me. It therefore does not behoove me to try to emulate your particular writing style.

Kindest regards.