AngryParsley

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by AngryParsley 14y ago
I am correcting you: Playing 16-bit audio with a 24-bit output device doesn't distort anything. No matter the bit depth of the audio file you're playing, CoreAudio converts it to 32-bit floating-point PCM. Then it converts down to something
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by AngryParsley 14y ago
If you're on a mac, you can obviate a lot of bit depth issues by opening /Applications/Utilities/Audio MIDI Setup.app. From there you can see all your audio input and output devices, and set their frequency and bit-rates. Most default to 44
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by AngryParsley 14y ago
To fix the ambiguous grammar, we need to add a url parser to markdown? This is a perfect example of how changes that seem simple to humans can have enormous impacts on software complexity. As you said, introducing that complexity wouldn't h
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by AngryParsley 14y ago
I feel your pain. Parens in links made me never forget %28 and %29. But I think your solution causes more problems than it solves. The biggest issue is that it's not backwards-compatible with current markdown. For example, in a citation fol
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by AngryParsley 14y ago
I agree. In addition to the concerns you brought up, I see other issues with Pike's proposal. If computers are infrastructure, I'm forced to deal with whatever computers others have. This is a problem, because most people don't use computer
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by AngryParsley 14y ago
First, it's important to note that we don't have very much information yet. Given what I've read so far, I assume stupidity on the part of Amazon. Before everyone starts hating on Amazon specifically, remember that this same thing would hap
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by AngryParsley 14y ago
>Edit: Or did you mean to say that dumping it in the skin might be better ('a good thing') compared to spreading throughout the body? Your interpretation is correct. I'm with you: all else equal, I'd prefer to be exposed to no extra ion
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by AngryParsley 14y ago
No, I am not trolling. Please try to read comments more charitably instead of assuming malice. Yes, I was comparing skin dose to the annual limit for the whole body. Depending on what you count as skin, skin is 2-5% of an adult's mass. So i
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by AngryParsley 14y ago
There's all kinds of FUD surrounding these devices, and it seems like many with health concerns are engaging in motivated cognition. For example: if the dose is concentrated in the skin, couldn't that be a good thing? Our skin is constantly
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by AngryParsley 14y ago
In the Android example, I can see why they limit low-priority processes to a fraction of total resources: to avoid silently draining the battery. Android runs on phones, and using 100% CPU on a phone is a great way to kill battery life. All
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by AngryParsley 14y ago
Do moderators actually go through all flagged items? If so, that would probably explain why I can't flag anymore. I assumed flagging was automated, so I basically used it as down-vote for articles. I emailed info@yc about my lack of flaggin
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by AngryParsley 14y ago
I don't have a Windows machine or VM, but it looks like full-screen mode on Linux is the same as presentation mode on OS X: the UI is completely hidden unless you move the mouse to the top of the screen. In addition to presentation mode, Ch
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by AngryParsley 14y ago
That's clever. It was pretty obvious to me, since I run Chrome in presentation mode (no UI elements visible) and Chrome popped up a dialog box telling me about the switch to full-screen mode. Still, I can see how a lot of people could be tr
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by AngryParsley 14y ago
This is yet another case of reporters grossly exaggerating a discovery. It was discussed 10 months ago on Less Wrong: http://lesswrong.com/lw/8th/link_matrixstyle_learning/ . Here's the actual paper: http://commonsenseatheism.com/wp-conte
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by AngryParsley 14y ago
Apologies. I don't know what I was saying.
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by AngryParsley 14y ago
The more OTP you know, the less time you expect it takes to adapt to a code base. I don't think your conclusion is as concrete as you make it out to be. One's knowledge of OTP likely correlates with general programming ability and experie
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by AngryParsley 14y ago
Ask some smart business analysts with no coding experience to solve FizzBuzz in Excel. All should be able to do it. Instead of asserting this fact, put the hypothesis to the test. Ask some smart business analysts and see how many of them
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by AngryParsley 14y ago
I'm not saying that theft by finding isn't bad, just that it's not quite as bad as normal theft. It is still pretty damn bad. Consider these options: Option 1: TSA agents steal things from your bags. Option 2: TSA agents steal things that
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by AngryParsley 14y ago
No. I'm saying not only was his action inexcusable, wrong, and illegal, it was also stupid. I'm not sure why people downvoted me and replied with such stern disagreement. I used as many hedge-words as I could (" slightly incorrect", "isn't
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by AngryParsley 14y ago
The headline gave me a slightly incorrect impression. ABC news left valuables at checkpoints as part of a sting operation. While it's still inexcusable, taking a lost item isn't quite as bad as actively stealing. I think the legal term is "
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by AngryParsley 14y ago
I'm sorry, I'm confused. If she was the deal-broker, why didn't she dictate the prices?
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by AngryParsley 14y ago
That's interesting. Has your dad ever tried partnering with some sort of agent/hustler (I don't know the right term) to do business deals? A confident front-man might be able to sell your dad's expertise to businesses for a pretty penny.
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by AngryParsley 14y ago
So you've set something like that up for your grandparents and they have no problems using it? Otherwise, this is just Monday-morning quarterbacking. There are many ways music could have gotten on the iPad. You can purchase music from the i
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September 26th is Petrov Day(lesswrong.com)
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by AngryParsley 14y ago
From http://squid314.livejournal.com/260949.html : Contrary to popular belief, you can put a dollar value on human life. That dollar value is $5.8 million. Denying this leads to terrible consequences. Let me explain. I'm guessing these 4
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by AngryParsley 14y ago
I'm glad you like it, but homebrew discourages people from submitting their own projects. I agree with that policy. It filters out a lot of junk.
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by AngryParsley 14y ago
$ brew install inotify-tools This isn't Linux. It's too late to save shazow time and stress, but I wrote a notify-wait for OS X: https://github.com/ggreer/fsevents-tools . It's not as fully-featured as inotify-tools (since
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by AngryParsley 14y ago
Cmd + k clears scrollback how you want. If you want to script it, you can use osascript: http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/31872/how-do-i-rese... Yeah, it's hacky. It's a usability trade-off. Defaulting to allow scripts to erase al
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by AngryParsley 14y ago
It's not getting paid twice. The reason there's no option for "free with ads" is because ads have diminishing returns. Each extra ad you show makes customers less likely to buy a given product. Advertisers won't pay as much if they're part
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by AngryParsley 14y ago
I agree with most of your comment, but calling Manning a traitor is an example of the worst argument in the world: http://lesswrong.com/lw/e95/the_worst_argument_in_the_world/

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