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by mgdlbp 4y ago
Wild garden path sentence: Who is proposing it is? What is being talked about here?
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
Secret government projects involving combat with mysterious floating octahedra from the coast? Where have I seen this before?
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
I tend to find repetitive sound effects in games when repeating an action immersion-breaking (a known concept, I think) -- I've wondered why procedural generation (even as rudimentary as a few dozen random envelopes/pitch shifts&#
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
'Picsub' came to mind, referring to subtitles and slides that accompany something originally audio-only. ...But looking it up, it seems the term is actually a nonce only ever used to describe one particular fansub of the type (for
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
Apparently a few months ago it became known on the Chinese internet that the 980 Pro, 970 Evo Plus with new controller, and OEM versions are prone to getting unreadable sectors, where SMART 'Media and Data Integrity Errors' increa
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
and site:news.ycombinator.com surprisingly few topics haven't been discussed here. Often there's interesting technically-minded thinking, and for most (most!) topics it's less likely than a dedicated forum for any intereste
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
Huh, that probably explains... I was in a youtube rabbit hole right around then when some videos suddenly wouldn't load, turned out that I might've been the final viewer of the (small) channel that had had been banned at that mome
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
obligatory https://xkcd.com/1200/
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
Non ex transverso sed deorsum. In the New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/12/09/us/where-the-... ( https://archive.ph/rwD7G ) (How did a.s.h and a.s.r become asso
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
Most clothing is in colour (just not the categories) https://www.mcmaster.com/clothing/ Also (inconsistently) other objects where it might matter https://www.mcmaster.com/high-visibility/
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
https://metatalk.metafilter.com/tags/moderation https://old.reddit.com/r/metafilter/top/?t=all https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32877928
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
Its ideal circle is centred on the dot
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
2.7% by starting the rectangle close to the dot (it measures deviation from the initial radius)
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
And more generally the concept is known as a China brain
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/the-missile-knows-where-it-is
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
Tautological statement is tautological.
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
mpv does this (must enable manually for SSA subs). In VLC you can also add the black bars to the video with a filter so the subtitles draw on top of them, but some renderers won't like the aspect ratio change. An annoyance is that deli
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6747373
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:NOTWIKI "Tree's leaves are turning pretty colors. I think Tree looks nice today."
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
Ironically named site doesn't like deep linking -- navigate from https://href.cool/
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
Just this week Google's reverse image search began directing to "Google Lens" for me, which does visual search again, albeit rather poorly.
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
You get a little obscurity with random though
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
When you seek to a timestamp from the source, or write a temporary matroska file and go over it in parallel in a second pass, timestamps being rounded variously up or down will cause off-by-ones and dropped frames and desyncs. 1 ms is prett
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
<rant>Ah...Matroska was nearly perfect, and then they chose nanosecond-precision timestamps. Countless attempts at frame-perfect seeking thwarted and videos imbued with jitter over the years, subordinate to the tyranny of 33 34 33 33
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
The red and green is just the Iranian flag though. What culture were you thinking of? Suiseiseki?
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
1x5 https://dotsies.org
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
How about roundtripping “ Bad Apple but the lyrics are describing what happens in the video”? ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReblZ7o7lu4 )
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
See also: OS-tans from the turn of the century
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
(I don't know any Morse code) The video begins with the last two dits of the H in the group JHLRM ([.--- ..].. .-.. .-. --), near the top right of the second page. At the end, [1:44, 1:46) is the last group on the page, JTULF ([.-]-- -
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
Oh, how the subconscious did answer! The Ludum Dare entry I was thinking of is Notch's similarly minimalistic Drowning in Problems . There's also the classic, Alter Ego .

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