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[MrRoboto75]

People like to talk about how low wages are fine because they are decided by "the free market," but when the free market lowers labor supply they turn around and decide "oh no the free market made a mistake, better get to interfering in the economy now to help out the poor employers"? Libertarianism is all just hypocrisy and snake oil. There's no actual principles or earnest philosophy for these people. It's just cover for their engulfing greed and narcissism.

*liberalism

ah yes those liberals always deregulating things 🤔

[scriver]

Yes. That's literally the foundational idea behind liberalism.

[hector13]

Yes. That's literally the foundational idea behind liberalism.

Let’s not be obtuse and ignore that on the other side of the Atlantic “liberalism” has a different set of meanings and connotations :p

[scriver]

Okay, you've got me there. My apologies for that, Roboto

I will insist that even American liberals are indeed the exact same thing, though, just slightly less radical.

[ArchimedesWojak]

I've heard libertarianism summed up as "Conservatives that like weed"

You don't understand how right you are

[McTraveller]

You don't understand how right you are

Pun intended?

[methylatedspirit]

...so if you dither audio that's been (dynamic range-) compressed with the mu-law algorithm, then expand it, it ends up with more noise, not less. Dither was invented to lower the perceived level of noise floor caused by lowering bit depth, so the fact that it's actually making the noise worse is mind-blowing to me. I guess most dither algos assume a linear response curve, so feeding them a non-linear one causes Problems™, presumably.

I'll demonstrate with a sine wave, just because it's the easiest way to show it visually. Here's a sine wave, along with 3 versions subjected to different dithering methods, "no dither", "triangular dither", and "Shibata noise-shaping dither". They were then compressed with mu-law, reduced to 8-bit, then expanded.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I'll then use a notch filter to remove the 440 Hz tone, leaving me with only noise.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I'd show dB readings for the noise, but I feel like I've already wasted too much of y'all's bandwidth. I'll summarize:
Original: below -90 dB(FS).
No dither: -33 dB.
Triangular dither: floating between -27 dB and -24 dB.
Shibata dither: -6 dB.

It all falls to shit the moment you start using dither, for some reason. The overall effect that this noise produces is that sharp, piano-like tones tend to sound slightly crunchy, as if it's clipping. But it isn't, it's just noise. I went a bit mad trying to tell if it was my settings, but no, it's just the noise inherent in the system. I should copy Dolby B noise reduction next, considering the patents on that have long-expired. Using a system intended for telephony was a bit of a mistake.

[Iduno]

I've heard libertarianism summed up as "Conservatives that like weed"

Also, anarchists that want the police to keep their slaves in line.

[heydude6]

I've heard libertarianism summed up as "Conservatives that like weed"

Also, anarchists that want the police to keep their slaves in line.

This is the more profound statement.

[EuchreJack]

I've heard libertarianism summed up as "Conservatives that like weed"

Also, anarchists that want the police to keep their slaves in line.

This is the more profound statement.

No, those are Democrats.
Ever been to New York City?

[martinuzz]

If someone says libertarianism, I think Noam Chomsky. But I guess that's social libertarianism.

Anyhow, libertarianism =/= liberalism

classical liberalism essentially was destroyed by the rise of capitalism

[scriver]

No, capitalism only pulled the fleece from the wolf. It was always the ideology of the wealthy, upper class burghers.

[MrRoboto75]

mmm...

Burgers.

[Rolan7]

hmmm... burgher/king

[martinuzz]

King slice burger?