Amazon is my hookup for the stuff in the US. This commercial is hilarious. Once, in my younger years, I too neglected a jar and man... that lid was stuck fast. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79-sFaeLVJg

This discussion of smuggling Marmite into Canada is, I think, proof that Bill Nighy could be the greatest living Englishman:

"I also like vegemite... I don't shout about it"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqAB6yHAodQ

I don't buy from Amazon anymore, and sadly I haven't found a good source for Marmite yet. Amazon must be losing money on the international shipping, ordering from places that actually charge shipping comes out to like $30/500g jar, too much for me :(

Also, I want to note my favorite part of current blockchain apologists. Instead of presenting counter-arguments, they list projects working on that problem or working on an alternate solution to that problem. You say X is a problem, and it would be if XChain didn't exist, duh. XChain is removing the entire need for X. Are there lists of blockchain projects that the apologists memorize, or is being "into crypto" all about being familiar with a never ending list of projects? How many of these projects last a year? Ugh.

They don't last enough to even understand the problem they claim to solve.

I'm all for interesting things. Lord knows I've found delightful, wondrous things on this site. This is posted to stoke a culture war debate.

i haven't played this yet, but i think the game is about surfing an older styled version of the net. seems vaguely relative: https://aetherinteractive.itch.io/subserial-network

The point is context. The technology wasn't created in a void. I wouldn't accuse the sentence of being well written, and the point could have been made more clearly. Simply saying that the developers used psychoacoustics were tested against the developer's own hearing preferences and tested against their music preferences. A wide range of different listeners were not consulted and a wide range of musical styles were not tested during the development phase. All technology has a context. Pointing out context isn't an attack.

> A wide range of different listeners were not consulted and a wide range of musical styles were not tested during the development phase

Luckily, codec developers aren't totally stupid. File formats tend to be defined through their reading operation, not the writing operation. Fraunhofer MP3, LAME and many others went way beyond the initial mp3 reference codec in terms of deciding what parts of the signal are important or not.

Synthetic tests like the "put noise in it, check if it's still evenly distributed in a frequency plot" one the article shows are misleading. I could tweak lame into recreating regular noise sufficiently, while still creating valid MP3 files. The same input probably looks quite different when put through 8hz-mp3 or some early bladeenc (which are similar to the ISO reference codec, and _very_ unlike contemporary LAME's psychoacoustic model).

Optimizing your record studio output to any given codec version is futile for that reason, too: Do you optimize for 1998's MP3 encoding? or 2015's? or Vorbis, AAC (and which of its 2 dozen profiles?), Opus, ...?

I agree with your point but how is "western-european men" an appropriate context? What does that imply? Isn't reducing the taste of the developers to their gender sexist?

but also, if every single student majored in computer science, the market value of that degree would plummet. it's not like everyone will be rich if everyone does the same thing. also, a society without variety would be a sad thing.