danadam

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by danadam 6d ago
To me, as non-native, it seems that it may be because the idea [1] of "cases" was already introduced. So, at the start of a conversation you would say: - The rules of a/the are simple. - Not really, if you think so, then you
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by danadam 6d ago
> The funny thing is is that all the examples you gave are correct English. > [I learned it] "at school" - I learned it at school, I'm not specifying which school According to most comments here this should be "at
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by danadam 3mo ago
> If you're not on a US-based IP, you should check out https://src.infinitewave.ca/ There is also https://src.hydrogenaudio.org/ (with no IP based restrictions, AFAIK).
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by danadam 4mo ago
> So many of these things would have been really painful to find if I'd had to sift through every line of a big commit. > So to watch people intentionally balling up an entire PR's worth of commits and squashing them togeth
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by danadam 4mo ago
Wayback Machine still has them: https://web.archive.org/web/20260208100527/https://magicviny...
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by danadam 6mo ago
IIUC, "clearly shows" doesn't apply to "they have certain concerns" but rather to the part that you replaced with "...". In other words "the statement clearly shows that they value [their certain conc
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by danadam 8mo ago
> Your comment really deserves nothing more than an eye roll emoji, but HN doesn’t support them. (◔_◔)
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by danadam 10mo ago
I clicked on some random post from 2020, 19 em-dashes.
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by danadam 1y ago
Some Google Pixel phones couldn't dial emergency number (still can't?). I don't know if there were any deadly consequences of that. https://www.androidauthority.com/psa-google-pixel-911-emerge...
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by danadam 1y ago
> Normalization increases gain of all frequencies at any given point-in-time while reducing gain of all frequencies at other points in time. When you do that then the difference between the loudest and the quietest part of the audio gets
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by danadam 1y ago
> trace it down to the select bitset having a hardcoded max of 4096 Did it change? Last time I checked it was 1024 (though it was long time ago). > and no bounds checking! _FORTIFY_SOURCE is not set? When I try to pass 1024 to FD_SET
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by danadam 1y ago
page 112 > if [[ "${1-}" =~ ^-*h(elp)?$ ]]; then > ... is an option that starts with one or multiple - characters ... "one or multiple" is + not *. The regex above will also match "h" and "help"
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by danadam 1y ago
I'd probably call it "disclosure".
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by danadam 1y ago
I've never used it but sounds like https://rr-project.org/
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by danadam 1y ago
> It isn't tho. It's close but not exactly. It isn't tho :-). It's not close to double loudness. It's double power, which is 1.41 higher sound pressure, which is only slightly louder.
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by danadam 1y ago
Some laboratory-grade equipment probably. > 0 dB doesn’t mean “zero sound pressure” From the decibel definition, zero of anything is -∞ in dB_suffix scale.
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by danadam 1y ago
> English, meanwhile, gives learners fits, because the pronunciation has nothing whatsoever to do with spelling. Consider ... the poem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chaos :)
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by danadam 1y ago
I use a picture with a solid color because with pictures the text under the icons is white with a black shadow. The "Solid color" option (instead of "Picture") chooses either white or black font color and there is no sha
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by danadam 1y ago
I have a bookmarklet, since forever, labelled "sane width", with the following code: javascript:(function(){var newSS, styles='body { width: 800px ! important; margin: auto !important } '; if(document.createStyleShee
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by danadam 2y ago
> No, the quotes are not seen by the program. The program receives a list of strings, it does not get the information about whether and how those strings were originally quoted in the shell. With quotes the program will receive a single
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by danadam 2y ago
3Blue1Brown has a very interesting video about how holograms are made: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmKQsSDlaa4
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by danadam 2y ago
> However, if you put on a headset and apply only frequencies above 16kHz, you will distinctly notice a change in the pressure in your headset's ear cups. If you put something above 16 kHz at full scale and/or if you play it ex
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by danadam 2y ago
> When I use an FFT to view the spectrogram on YouTube music videos, it is very obvious that YouTube applies a lowpass filter at 16kHz on all videos (true since 2023 at least). Maybe with a browser that doesn't support Opus and gets
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by danadam 2y ago
That's unrelated. This difference is the inter-aural or inter-channel difference and 16/44.1k can capture that to much greater precision than microseconds. Some math [1] 44.1k file containing pulses with sub-sample delays [2] Some
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by danadam 2y ago
> The problem with sites that extract text from movies and other content is that they reduce people’s desire to pay a fair price for content A bit strange to use "fair", which (to me) seems to be quite on a subjective side. Do
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by danadam 2y ago
Selenized maybe https://github.com/jan-warchol/selenized/blob/master/whats-w...
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by danadam 2y ago
> So I appended a "=> yes!" to the existing comment as well. You will read it in 3 months and cry in despair "But why, my past self, why is it needed?!" :-)
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by danadam 2y ago
> "I'll be waiting for your patch. Surely you're not as lazy and incompetent as the existing volunteer developers."- Rémi Denis-Courmont > I see Rémi Denis-Courmont's arrogant attitude and disrespect for users
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by danadam 2y ago
s/Disclaimer/Disclosure/ :)
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by danadam 2y ago
> I haven't seen it around for a long time, Spotify is using it in their standalone clients.

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