lukas099

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by lukas099 4y ago
Interesting. Do you have a source for further reading?
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by lukas099 4y ago
Good point. If you are entertaining a large party, you can expect to pay a lot more for quality too, for similar reasons.
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by lukas099 4y ago
Are you sure? I thought the limitations of vinyl required music to be compressed, but that was not true for digital. Back in the day music was definitely less compressed, but I thought that was more due to different mixing philosophies.
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by lukas099 4y ago
> As long as the master is digital there's no way a vinyl record could possibly sound better than a lossless digital recording ...Unless you happen to like the particular brand of distortion that every song you loved growing up ha
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by lukas099 4y ago
I’ve lost a noticeable bit of hearing, but my ability to discern different instruments is much greater than it used to be. I think practice more than offsets hearing loss up to a limit.
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by lukas099 4y ago
> Figure: bodily shape or form especially of a person Source: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/figure
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by lukas099 4y ago
Not really that amusing, nor is the term meaningless.
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by lukas099 4y ago
Maybe having many specialized neural chips on a motherboard is the next step on the way to making an artificial brain. Then, we will have just a few large chips running several functions in parallel, with those functions having the opportun
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by lukas099 4y ago
Something to consider: small phones are a niche and producing them is a way of capturing a specific set of customers. I was an Android guy, but one of the top two reasons my newest phone is an iPhone is due to the small form factor (the oth
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by lukas099 4y ago
It's a shame they are getting downvoted because I really like the wordplay.
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by lukas099 4y ago
Pretty cool that speakers are driven in part by software that knows the screen angle. Add in the position of your head and you'll be able to do amazing things with those speakers. Sad that you can't get studio monitors that are in
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by lukas099 4y ago
Your standard of proof for 'this is a simulation' seems low to me...
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by lukas099 4y ago
Some would say we're in them.
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by lukas099 4y ago
Does anyone have any foraging tips or resources for the Mid-Atlantic region of the U.S.?
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by lukas099 4y ago
This would not matter to the parent poster listening to Spotify, which is not a Dolby Atmos source.
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by lukas099 4y ago
Does the laptop have knowledge of the screen angle, or does its calculations just assume an 'average' angle? Or does it not matter too much (it seems like it would to me)?
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by lukas099 4y ago
They probably mean 'neighbors' as in people nearby in the same room. This is indeed a good use case for headphones/IEMs.
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by lukas099 4y ago
I meant that the 20% low income requirement is not sound economics. I agree with you.
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by lukas099 4y ago
I am dealing with something similar. Sleep and exercise help, as can CBT or other psychological interventions, but nothing works as well as stimulants.
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by lukas099 4y ago
That part seems more like feelgoods than sound economics, but sometimes you need feelgoods to make something politically viable.
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by lukas099 4y ago
TIL that blasting walnut shells at something is a widely-accepted technique in car repair
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by lukas099 4y ago
It is also nice how long Apple continues to release security updates for their phones, which I believe is longer than any Android phone manufacturer.
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by lukas099 4y ago
Here is a thread on r/Teachers where teachers discuss how many hours they work [1]. From a quick skimming it seems to vary with new teachers working really hard, older ones having pretty easy hours, and some teachers doing things like
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by lukas099 4y ago
Yeah, it's pretty easy to say that teachers should make that much.
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by lukas099 4y ago
We wouldn't have had tax cuts in 2017 and we would have a much more liberal Supreme Court. I guess Jan 6th wouldn't have happened either. I have no idea how we would have fared differently through the pandemic. I don't think
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by lukas099 4y ago
The federal government already uses locality pay tables when calculating civil servant salaries [1], so I guess they could use those. [1] https://www.federalpay.org/gs/locality
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by lukas099 4y ago
Is this even physically possible to significantly improve? How many calories of sunlight energy do plants use to create 1 calorie of chemical bonds?
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by lukas099 4y ago
> If it were not for RNA vaccines, that approach certainly would have been better than what we did with COVID. I know that 'flatten the curve' largely left the public consciousness, but wouldn't letting the virus run large
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by lukas099 4y ago
I think the percentage of fertilizer in the groundwater would reach an equilibrium where just as much is going out as is coming in.
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by lukas099 4y ago
They don't need to worry about it if they hire people to worry about it for them, which would save them time to work on what they love anyways.

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