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by nayuki 1y ago
Agreed. I still okay with real-life speech at 1.0×. But for recorded videos, I can usually handle higher speeds because I am also reading captions at the same time to fill in any unclear words, and I do exercise my option to seek back to re
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by nayuki 1y ago
I happen to come across the original videos ~3 years ago and they are good. https://www.youtube.com/@organicjapanesewithcuredol49 "Organic Japanese with Cure Dolly" https://www.youtube.com/@organic
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by nayuki 1y ago
> playback speed multipliers This is a built-in browser feature. For Chrome, it's in the lower right "..." menu. In Firefox, it's in the right-click menu. I use this feature heavily because I can handle most talking a
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by nayuki 1y ago
Unrelated to the video content, the technical delivery of the video is stunningly good. There is no buffering time, and clicking at random points in time on the seek bar gives me a result in about 100 ms. The minimal UI is extremely fast -
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by nayuki 1y ago
> Singapore's "strata malls" let individuals own shops outright, not rent them. Any building change needs 80% owner approval. Result: retirees treating shops as social clubs, refusing million-dollar buyouts. These malls be
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by nayuki 1y ago
If companies paid tax on revenue, then there would be a tremendous incentive toward https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertical_integration , because you wouldn't be allowed to deduct the expenses paid to your supplier
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by nayuki 1y ago
For this rule, the word I see most often is "naïve". I used to write it that way but now I use the simple spelling of "naive". The diaeresis emphasizes that "naive" does not rhyme with "dive", "f
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by nayuki 1y ago
> This separation can engulf the elevators such that even at full travel, the elevators are operating in dead air and from then on Does this refer to the deep stall that affects T-tail aircraft ( https://en.wikipedia.org/
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by nayuki 1y ago
Java SE 11 (Sep 2018) introduced the ability to run source files directly. So instead of the old `javac Main.java && java Main`, you can do `java Main.java`. https://openjdk.org/projects/jdk/11/ , ht
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by nayuki 1y ago
> The EU is also looking into creating a digital euro It's weird to call it a "digital euro" because the euro is already digitized by traditional banks! At an existing traditional bank, your balance is already a discrete n
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by nayuki 1y ago
> the shared reference analogy describes what happens in a computer. Nothing is truly parallel when accessing a shared resource. We need to take turns reading the pages. The hardware does this quickly by means of cached copies. This exis
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by nayuki 1y ago
> acceleration in kilo-milli-meter/second² Oh dear. I haven't looked into 3D printer specifications, but I definitely understand how it is a problem now that you mentioned it. Relatedly, most pocket-sized power banks have their
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by nayuki 1y ago
I recall from maybe 5~10 years ago where someone filmed a laser show on a camera and the sensor got damaged with lines stuck in the on state. The lasers were moving very quickly so they wouldn't hit any spot for a long time, but appare
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by nayuki 1y ago
> An interesting metric, used by noone in the Universe except you for the sake of this discussion. The speed of cryptographic function such as ciphers and hashes are quoted in cycles per byte. This is because in the pure numeric code, wi
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by nayuki 1y ago
This is one of those cases where marketing is correct. Oh tell me, if your CPU processes 1 byte in 1 cycle, and it runs at 800 MHz, how many bytes does it process in 1 second? The answer is 800 million bytes, or 800 (real) megabytes. It can
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by nayuki 1y ago
For frequency, a decade is a ratio of 10, akin to a bel. And in photography, a stop or an EV is a factor of 2, akin to an octave. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logarithmic_scale#Common_uses
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by nayuki 1y ago
There is a solution for you - log points! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relative_change#Logarithmic_ch... , http://a-loonie-saved.blogspot.com/2008/08/log-points.html An example of deceptive
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by nayuki 1y ago
Yeah, it did get similar responses. https://www.nayuki.io/page/pixel-is-a-unit-of-length-and-are... , https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43769478
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by nayuki 1y ago
> I do wish we would have metriced around base 12 Please clarify what you mean by this. Let me call your system altmetric for clarity. Surely, you want altmetric to use prefixes that are powers of 12 - okay, fair enough. I see the analog
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by nayuki 1y ago
> Sure, and 10db means "10x more power". But: 1. 10x more power than what? It changes, and you Just Have to Know. That gives me an idea - explicitly state the basis and multiply. So the current notation "3 dBm" should
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by nayuki 1y ago
> "Plain" decibels are simply (power) ratios. / "Flavored" decibels are in reference to some power quantity. I think this is analogous to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affine_space . If I un
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by nayuki 1y ago
> I have heard "bare K" refer to a great many different things The worst of the worst is when it refers to kilometres. Like, "I'm selling my car on the used market and its odometer is 150k", where they mean &quot
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by nayuki 1y ago
You can also multiply polynomials by way of analogy with integer multiplication: 3 1 2 1 × 2 0 6 ------------ 18 6 12 6 0 0 0 0 6 2 4 2 ----------------- 6 2 22 8 12 6 = 6
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by nayuki 1y ago
> Now, the only broad-gauge rail tracks in the United States are on some city transit systems. One such oddball is the TTC subway/streetcar gauge of 1495 mm in Toronto, Canada. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toro
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by nayuki 1y ago
Similar to Germany, huh.
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by nayuki 1y ago
That particular Reddit comment [2015-01-13] overlaps with a recent Graham Stephan video that explains what life is like at each order of magnitude of net worth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAPhN6o3e3o (19m57s) [2025-04-
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by nayuki 1y ago
I retained approximately one ticket in Japan. It was due to walking through a transfer exit gate at some station of the Tokyo Metro, which lets you walk through a non-fare-paid area to re-enter another station. I also retained all the Shink
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by nayuki 1y ago
The normal ticket gate behavior in Japan is that when you enter, the gate gives you the ticket back so that you can carry it all the way to the exit in order to prove that you traveled that journey. When you go through a ticket gate to exit
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by nayuki 1y ago
This proposal reeks of "What color is your function?" https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2015/02/01/what-color-is-... . The distinction between sync functions and async functions keeps intruding in
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by nayuki 1y ago
That is quite interesting. I took normal-speed medium-distance trains in Taiwan and there are many similarities to Japan. The ticket-checking gates to enter/exit the station are exactly the same models used in Japan. The tickets are si

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