jlokier

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by jlokier 8y ago
If you get the wrong phase, you can hear it - it's louder. So, if it's quieter, you're ok. If the device makes the outside world louder, then yes, you might want to turn it off. (This actually happens on my headphones when t
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by jlokier 8y ago
TBH your question strikes me as having a trolling tone. But I'll answer in good faith anyway. I'm pretty sure most people here understand why people like going to communal places to sit, enjoy snacks and drinks, and read or work
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by jlokier 8y ago
Some places are more explicit. There's a "no laptops" café movement now. One where I live has a "no laptops at mealtimes" sign. If you get out a laptop, they ask you to leave. If you come during a quiet period, g
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by jlokier 8y ago
I don't know if it truly protects them from damage overall. That would take science. See "complicated" below :) But the basic answer to your question is, no, it doesn't double the sound energy. To the extent the headph
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by jlokier 8y ago
Same here. I'm not usually deaf, but from time to time one ear blocks for a few weeks. When that happens, I totally know what you mean about being unable to hear conversations in restaurants, bars, etc. Even when my talking partner is
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by jlokier 8y ago
There's an ice cream and bagel place in town. In the late evening it's consistently packed with people on their laptops or reading books. One day I noticed the music was much louder than usual, and asked the staff to turn it down
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by jlokier 8y ago
I agree, although in my experience the Wetherspoons volume varies over the full range. I have a local Wetherspoons and go occasionally. If it's quiet I'll stay. But sometimes it's unbearably loud just because it's pack
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by jlokier 8y ago
I thought this didn't apply to computer programs, but I looked it up and you're right... In France, authors' moral rights are quite strong. In the UK, the moral right of attribution exist, but there's a specific exceptio
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by jlokier 8y ago
15 decimal digits isn't enough to encode a file's st_mtime seconds and nanoseconds value. I use Perl and found this to be a problem. Like Python, it uses a double for st_mtime, and the nanoseconds value is truncated, so it fails
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by jlokier 8y ago
Check the timestamps which are actually set on the files. I was surprised and disappointed to find Linux sets mtime to the nearest clock tick (250Hz on my laptop) on filesystems whose documentation says they provide nanosecond timestamps. I
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by jlokier 8y ago
If you get on the bad side of the banks, it's much worse. You can't get a bank account at all, or you can't keep the accounts you have. If you had credit (overdraft or credit card), it is taken away exactly at the moment you
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by jlokier 8y ago
I'd estimate dead battery and network signal problems occur two orders of magnitude more often than people losing their wallet. Even for rarer problems like phone software freezing up, touch sensor going awry, phone memory full but can
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by jlokier 8y ago
Abruptly terminating a VM is quite common in cloud services, can "unapply" a write, because it's equivalent to a power outage. The data lives in the VM guest's cache until the fsync sends it to the host. With VM termina