yes, they mostly use a digital delay, although some mastering houses still have a reel-to-reel equipped with an extra 'preview' head that gives the required lookahead for the lathe without any A/D conversion in the audio path.

A depressing thought that all that work is just so you can "command AIs better"

It could happen than the AI, in a near future, is not something external but just a part of your brain, so you retain the glory.

Hah this is getting worse and worse

Why stop there? Why not let AI take over all functions, Whispering Earring (https://gwern.net/doc/fiction/science-fiction/2012-10-03-yva... for anyone who hasn't read it) style?

All that work to kick a ball into a net.

Nobody looks at this species and goes hm, rational and reasonable :)

before Affinity was a "loss leader" for Canva, it was a profitable suite of applications in its own right

Actually yes, I have all windows overlapping and none expanded to fill the screen, unless I'm really doing something very specific that needs as much space as possible. But the rounded edges are still slightly annoying.

Apart from the bit where he was hospitalised for "full manic psychosis", you mean?

If you think this is anything like working with a bright junior developer then i simply can't understand why.

That's not what I think, and it's not what I said.

It's the exact interpretation you are inviting in your first comment. Don't paint the two as similar and then claim you're not doing that.

I suggest learning not to interpret comments in bad faith.

Do you not find that depressing and sad? Do you never work with enthusiastic and talented junior developers at the start of their careers? Do you not enjoy interacting with them?

Well...

I think it would be more depressing taking in exited junior developers, spending years of their life not believing that they are growing into any real career.

> ... the start of their careers

It is exactly this assumption I am challenging.

What comes next, I don't know - and I am not trying to kid myself or any others that I am well suited as a mentor for person starting out their career in the current environment.

I enjoyed that too when I was a youngster but there are good reasons why it is impractical for day to day work.

FidoNet was great fun. Despite finding it difficult to remember any useful numbers in my life (credit card, NI etc) I can still remember my FidoNet addresses from when I was a youngster.

I'm not sure how I'd feel about an archive though, I'm sure I wrote a lot of childish nonsense on it! like a lot of things, perhaps best left as a happy memory...

it's fascinating / astonishing