nitrogen

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by nitrogen 4y ago
smartest person in the room ... falling right into the consequence that taboo was intended to protect against. I think you've made an interesting argument, but isn't this evidence that the taboo mechanism is failing at its job a
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by nitrogen 4y ago
> Or a (american) white supermarics and (american) person of color. Counterexample: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daryl_Davis > His efforts to fight racism, in which, as an African American, he has engaged w
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by nitrogen 4y ago
What's your fixation here? You're wasting a lot of people's time.
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by nitrogen 4y ago
I had the same problem with a Roku. The Roku claims to support 5.1 passthrough, but in every conceivable hardware and settings page configuration it only outputs stereo for all the streaming services, even if the movie shows "5.1&quot
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by nitrogen 4y ago
Check out Duff Room Correction for an old school open source option. There's also Room EQ Wizard, but that is not open source. In high end home theaters there were proprietary installer tools like JBL's ARCOS (which I worked on).
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by nitrogen 4y ago
Stereo can't provide a true rear or side image for more than one person, and it can't do vertical. Phantom center is great for one person in a good room with eq matched speakers, but for multiple listeners the extra speakers real
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by nitrogen 4y ago
For PC audio into an AVR I have a fake HDMI second screen set to clone the main monitor. Sometimes vsync chooses the HDMI port at 60Hz instead of my main monitor at 120Hz, but for the most part it works.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
There are some x86 clones embedded in "PC in an ethernet port" style parts for upgrading old industrial designs. IIRC clones do things like a 486 clone clocked at a few hundred MHz.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
To add an example to your arguments, the C64 and PC/XT demo scenes show what can be done with cycle accurate retrocomputing. Especially 8088mph: https://youtu.be/yHXx3orN35Y
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by nitrogen 5y ago
I disagree with this traditional pedagogical approach. Learning is much easier when motivated by a complex problem to solve that requires learning and applying multiple "building block" concepts. Start big, then learn small.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Everywhere? Probably not. Enough to live a fulfilling life? Absolutely. Everyone deserves that much.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
I'd be perfectly happy to use software whose last release was in 1987 if it gets the job done and I can isolate it from the network.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Both recollections can be correct. Sometimes an idea that starts for one reason is kept for different reasons.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
This is something that needs to change ASAP. Drones are the worst kind of modern pollution -- acoustic, visual, and surveillant pollution all in one.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
All my friends thought I was crazy when I pointed this out the first time I tried it.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
It's also easy to forget how big of a deal human health is. If you can spend 5% more energy to unlock 5% more enjoyment and productivity, you can use that extra productivity to engineer better, less polluting systems. If every high d
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by nitrogen 5y ago
If you want people to _want_ to move to apartments and condos, then they need to be built so they're desirable. Yes, absolutely this. Ever since I was a kid playing Sim City and seeing the Arcologies I dreamed of living in a high ri
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Breathe in completely, breathe out completely, then breathe in just a little bit before speaking. The breathing out is the most important part.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Menus, of course. Commercially people did use DVD menus to make interactive trivia games. There was some fairly sophisticated linking possible between different menus and videos.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Are American's asked when they open a bank account if they are a citizen of another country? As far as I remember, yes, asking citizenship and residency status is part of KYC (know your customer) regulations.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Look up retrocomputing -- lots of people preserving history for fun.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
There is no lack of building. There's an insane amount of single-family and multi-family construction going on where I live, far in excess of natural population growth. But corporate landlords are buying up entire neighborhoods and
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by nitrogen 5y ago
This results in a transient population and concentration of wealth, and reduced overall housing security. A mortgage doesn't go up by 10% every year, but my rent sure does.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
And yet here we all are, and there the future they will all be.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
If pure semantic HTML isn't accessible then that is the fault of the browser/screenreader, and that's where the burden should lie. Do a whole fix in one place for the benefit of everyone, rather than making every tiny website
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Look at Microsoft's membership in Khronos and Google's membership in W3C for examples of this counterbalance not exactly working.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
The main problem with single-use bags is that they blow away too easily and end up being seen.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
I suspect there's very little overlap between users of development software and participants in the bureaucracy that designs the software. The requisite personality types are very different.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
> It seems after this entire process not enough people need them in the standard library. I'm reminded of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: "It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disu
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by nitrogen 5y ago
It still implies a teleology that doesn't exist in nature. Evolution adapts, it doesn't optimize.

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