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lozf
10y ago
Or just boot into single user mode.
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10y ago
Brendan Gregg's "baud.pl" script[0] is great for re-living those nostalgic moments. e.g. find ~ | baud.pl -300 [0]: http://www.brendangregg.com/Specials/baud
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10y ago
Way less with modern speech codecs. Even Opus at 32kbps would be overkill for the required quality.
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10y ago
Just be sure that you're comfortable with the trackpoint on the 450... They swapped the buttons for a touch sensitive area at the top of the trackpad. The physical buttons have made a welcome return on the T460 range, but if that doesn
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10y ago
Phil Lapsley's book "Exploding The Phone" [0] gives a well written overview for anyone interested. [0] http://explodingthephone.com/ (AudioBook also available)
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10y ago
FLAC developer Josh Coalson made the point well: [QUOTE] ... to me, GUIs are like a caveman language where you have to grunt (click) and wave your hands (mouse) at the computer until it does what you want. (imagine the mouse pointer as you
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10y ago
Fully open source and cross platform: mpv (or mplayer) + aalib in conjunction with ffmpeg.
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10y ago
But not so much for the voice over talent.
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10y ago
One could also say that many people who suffer with certain issues /only/ do so because they've already successfully lied to themselves, and believed these less healthy lies.
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10y ago
Just as a counterpoint; Sennheiser HD25 headphones connect from the right headphone in the default configuration, however there are plenty of replacement cables of various types, some of which may change this. I agree that its quite unusu
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10y ago
> I was really sad at how short season 3 was Huh? It's already 6 episodes, compared to the first two seasons that were just 3 episodes each, not including the one-off "White Christmas" special. The runtime of the season 3
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10y ago
If you have sox installed, simply while true; do sleep 1800; play -n synth 0.15 sine 800; done
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10y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BI23U7U2aUY
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10y ago
Yes of course, sorry -- I was kind of in 'reddit mode' and being particularly pedantic about "all cases". Agree with all your other points, and glad to see others that grok it.
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10y ago
Yes, Opus is fantastic -- been following it's development since the start due to Telecoms background. For those of us that care and have software that plays it, it's great but AAC is still the next best thing for compatibility on
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10y ago
Yes, ALL lossy codecs have some "killer samples" -- the source material always matters. It's a sad fact that there are so many sub-par AAC encoders around. Best to use either Apples implementation, or either of those from Fra
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10y ago
For some definitions of "all" I agree. i.e. for Hifi quality Stereo Music to end users where file size and bandwidth are not so important, yes fine, but in situations where space or bandwidth are limited / expensive, AAC can
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10y ago
Appear.in is great, but like all the other WebRTC chat services, you still need to use another method of communication to notify the other part(y/ies) of the call either by phone, SMS, IM, email, IRC etc. so they can then click the lin
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10y ago
WebRTC handles the actual p2p audio and video, but has no method of signaling the other party for attention to actually join the "call", -- no concept of userid, so you'd always need to send a link to your WebRTC service via
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10y ago
As demonstrated by Bunk & McNulty: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lElf7D-An8
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10y ago
> * Perhaps white noise on headphones if you need it, timer on your laptop or phone If you have sox[0] installed, just run play -n synth 20:00 pinknoise (or whitenoise if it suits your environment or preference better). [0]:
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10y ago
A Saudi artist's take on this law: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZMbTFNp4wI
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10y ago
It's not old, it's "mature".
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10y ago
Alternatively: mpv --audio-channels=1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5GVOFAYi8k
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10y ago
I've heard them called "chunts" before.
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10y ago
I was in Kashmir a couple of years ago and Aircel 3G was almost invariably faster and more reliable than the BSNL ADSL "Broadband".
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10y ago
Now we've just been added to another list of people that know they're on lists.
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10y ago
Yet there are probably a fair few here for whom the risk of crossing borders with a laptop and suffering a similar attack is not unheard of.
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10y ago
Awesome, thanks.
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10y ago
Any chance you could share (or point us towards) the Lenny audio and scripts. The only resources I can find seem to be outdated and unavailable.
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