Not when moving at any significant speed - most of the sound of a vehicle going faster than 10mph ish is tires.

Have you ever lived next to a road in a city? I can tell you that the most noise comes from revving engines.

There is a also a massive difference between noise a normally driven ICE vehicle makes compared to an electric one at city speeds. The electric ones are very silent and barely audible if they don't make that humming sound. Even at 20-30mph.

The interesting thing is, as more cars become electric, the noise floor lowers and you will likely be able to pick out oncoming cars just as easily.

I can't hear a single engine, but I can hear the hum of tires a long way away. Sure, I can sometimes hear a loud exhaust but those come and go in seconds. Tire noise is a 24x7 sound until winter (snow attenuates sound really well).

Source: typing this in a city with lots of roads and traffic.

As far as I can tell Apple has not released an update for my Airport Express since 2018 :/

Maybe because it's the same year they announced they were dropping support for it?

Time to get a newer piece of gear. This is the problem with software - it doesn't age like a fine wine; it has to be maintained - and that usually means someone is going to have to be paid to do the not so fun work of maintaining and fixing old stuff that is no longer "OoOh tEh sHiNeY!"

I don't think it's so much the paying of programmers for maintenance, as the desire for forced-obsolescence, so they can sell new stuff.

It's on everyone. But our political and economic systems don't encourage the producers to care about the ethics of their products unless the consumers care.

The emphasis on a lot of these sentences is all wrong; I wouldn't want to listen to an audiobook by this engine. It's still super impressive/terrifying though.

If Exxon and all the other fossil fuel companies had not spent large sums of money to suppress climate research, perhaps we would have started moving away from fossil fuels and become concerned about climate change sooner, or be more concerned about the impending climate catastrophe.

I imagine that that difference is going mostly to recoup R&D costs at e.g. Impossible right now, who is making the patties.

Could also be due to scaling costs and farming subsidies on meat vs the plants used in Impossible Burgers.

for now I expect you're correct. But in the long run it should ideally have really nice margins. Once Beyond and Impossible get a version that is as close as it needs to be, they can start focusing on supply chain and stuff like that.

Agree w/ you & GP, and I suspect that the parent of my reply is actually correct. I just didn't think the linked article supported the claim.

Pineapples are fun! I for one appreciate the encouragement to purchase fruit more often

Most of the examples in the video they had the subject record the audio separately from the generated video. In one or two of them they cite some audio-generating thing.

The flavor text provided by the organizers made it sound like they intended there to be an easier solution - that way you only need to visit a location in one of North America, Europe, or Asia to solve the first three keys.

The later keys are expected to be harder, so if someone is able to get 400 of them total, it would be very surprising if they were stuck on one of these first three.