ICE shot a woman 5 times while she was alone in her car. Body cam confirmed she did not resist, federal investigation failed to produce charges.

But yeah, it's just not happening, you couldn't possibly just be unaware

Edit: you literally said "i will not watch the videos" - you are admittedly willfully ignorant on the subject, your posts are therefore irrelevant

An agent of the state just murdered an innocent man in broad daylight and the president and his staff are lying about what happened, but you're choosing to remain ignorant because someone on HN wasn't sufficiently polite?

Is that right?

And everyone else is annoyed by the fact that for some reason you still act like DHS isn't just continuously lying, repeating their statements as if they reflect what we all saw happen on video.

DHS has yet to release a factually accurate statement about any ICE-involved violence, you really think this time they're telling the truth?

You know you can watch the videos yourself

My 2016 Corolla has zero advertised connectivity features. It could secretly be sending data somehow, but far as I've been able to tell there's no modem.

You are unfortunately completely correct

Well, the raw price of parts to build a simple delay circuit might be ~$3, but the hardware to build it into an actual pedal is another ~$10--nobody sells one for less then ~$20.

The real question is: do they have a real-time DSP implementing the AI FX? If not, it's worthless: if you want lag, just use any of the ten million VSTs with your computer; if it is real time, then it's basically a natural language interface on top of an FPGA/DSP -- in which case it could be useful, if it's got reliable presets and pro-grade durability.

I still think most people would take an IR-2, though

I put my laptop in my pedalboard, but after i stomped on it a couple times it stopped working.

I jest, but there is a place in the world for pedals with a small amount of latency. As i pointed out in another comment, a codable dsp pedal isn’t a new idea https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46727231

I will say though, for a beginner, the breadth-first approach isn't bad--they don't know a good phaser from a bad phaser, but they know a phaser from a not-phaser; let them learn what a phaser is from a cheap DSP pedal, and if they like the sound, they can buy a real one.

This is more or less how i learned guitar effects, using cheap digital multi units from ~2005-2010; adding a natural language interface to that doesn't have to be bad, though I'd obviously prefer it explain what it's doing and not just presenting an un-investigable final output. Regardless, there is and always will be a market for beginner guitarists, and at the right price point, i could see this being good for them.

I agree a good multi-effect is useful to learn what the different effects actually do, but there are good entry-level multi-effect pedals that are cheaper than that. And this pedal can only have one effect at a time.

Also, it seems there's no preview in their AI playground, so you have to burn tokens and upload the effect to test it, and it may take lots of iterations to get what you want.

So I think this could mainly interest developers who are able to use it as a platform to develop their own effects without going through the AI thing, and beginners who want to be able to use different community effects to test things.

Hmm. I don't hate the idea by any stretch, but it low-key feels like an IR-2 gets you almost all the way there with a lot less money and effort. Not to mention i trust Boss to survive decades of touring.

Like i said i don't hate the idea. I think it's just a difficult market for this kind of idea.

I play guitar, I've built many pedals, i worked in music retail for the better part of a decade.

I think "one thing does all" pedals are hugely attractive to beginners, with good reason, and I even used to recommend such things to beginners specifically. When i was young, a digital "i can try on every effect ever made!" was an amazing value proposition--assuming the product was cheap enough for my parents to buy it for me. That was usually a Zoom 606 or DigiTech GP50 -- not anything anyone would want to gig with, but an amazing birthday present for a junior guitarist.

Anyway, the reason i never pursued building guitar gear as a job, even though i built plenty of gear i used personally, was mostly because of what i mentioned:

1. Reliability above all else. Charging professional prices for guitar gear means that shit better survive being stomped on 30x/week and a couple a three beers being spilled on in its lifetime.

2. TPB, no question. Use high quality switches, switching caps as needed. Silent, un-loaded transition between on and off is huge -- though, if you're offering delay effects, tails might be desired, the user should have an override, which would require buffered bypass instead. Just be sure to communicate which you use so people know (publishing raw input/output impedance is good; designing to work with vintage impedance-sensitive fuzz, even better)

3. I think most high end guitar players are hyper-picky, and a "Jack of all trades" unit doesn't appeal--the market for that kind of device is decidedly mid-market, and must be priced appropriately to succeed.

It's cool, though. I remember using some GNU audio real-time FX app and plugging my guitar straight into my SoundBlaster and having a great time, despite the unusable lag it all induced.

I think you could capture serious players by offering presets, IR import/copying a given input sound, of course durability, and multi-functionality: is this can replace one effect at a time? Cool I guess, but i have a pedalboard. Can this replace ALL my pedals, including routing and stacking? Vastly more appealing. If it's all software, stacking effects is probably already in the codebas3, and routing would be trivial.