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by wheels 5y ago
That's very, very different from whistled languages. In Silbo Gomero, one of the main examples here, there's a whistled equivalent to each sound in Spanish. The difference is approximately as far as waving-hands-to-indicate-some
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by wheels 5y ago
S-VHS was very commonly used for data in the pro-audio world in form of ADAT: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADAT Apparently that was about 1.8 GB of data. Cassette tapes were also common in early computers: https:&#x
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by wheels 5y ago
> Beyond that though, I'm really interested in foods that could be created that don't mimic existing foods derived from animals or plants. That's literally what processed food is. Nothing from a Twinkie to cheese (one o
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by wheels 5y ago
> the groove is a 1:1 copy of the sound wave False. There's an EQ curve that's applied to all records that rolls off the bass, which has to be re-added by the preamp. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIAA_e
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by wheels 5y ago
> Increasingly it's becoming more of a good idea to have some math knowledge with GPUs, neural networks, machine learning, etc. but as with many deeper mathematical concepts, they'll no doubt get "black boxed" into s
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by wheels 5y ago
There's a price graph on their website showing the price development over time.
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by wheels 5y ago
I use the Keepa website and never realized before this article that they even have browser plugins. On the website you can set up price alerts that go out via email or Telegram. That works well enough for me.
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by wheels 5y ago
A couple other interesting points: - You get that same coverage level at any income. - There's no co-pay on anything (with some exceptions for higher-end elective dental work, e.g. if you want an implant instead of a bridge). What som
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by wheels 5y ago
No, nowhere closed to that. There seems to be some confusion because Americans tend to quote things in yearly rates, while Germans tend to quote things in monthly rates. I pay just over €10k/year for my public health insurance in Ger
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by wheels 5y ago
In fact, restaurants are pretty much the pathological case of small businesses: they're a lot of work and a high percentage of them lose money. If your deli was already losing money, I can imagine a lot of owners deciding not to thro
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by wheels 5y ago
There are a bunch of different ways that one could approach this, depending on if you want to learn to play a synth vs. understand synthesis (which obviously have some overlap). Neither of the books that I'll recommend here are specifi
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by wheels 5y ago
I realize it's unlikely anyone will see this, but to amplify this point a little, I thought I'd poke through the Posgres source (which I'm not otherwise familiar with). By my count, mmap is only called in 4 places, in three
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by wheels 5y ago
Most people don't get into systems programming by writing a database completely on their own, and it's fair to say that the line between application and systems programming is fuzzy. Here are a bunch of things I would broadly cons
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by wheels 5y ago
Most POSIX APIs are crap, but most significant systems projects don't code to them directly. Almost all large projects have their own internal (or third party) libraries that either wrap or reimplement the underlying POSIX APIs. That
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by wheels 5y ago
I basically came here to suggest the same thing. The biggest part is a mental shift: realize that if you find a bug (or feature you'd like to have) in an open source project that you have the ability to fix it. The rabbit hole of rea
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by wheels 5y ago
> the Netherlands, parts of Denmark, or perhaps Japan I think it's far more common than that -- actually, guessing wildly, I suspect most children around the world get themselves to school and that the US is the outlier. In German
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by wheels 5y ago
https://www.statista.com/statistics/476456/mass-shootings-in... As another poster pointed out, as a percentage of the population, white people are slightly underrepresented, but in absolute numbers, they're t
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by wheels 5y ago
> caucasian people don’t seem to have that stereotype as far as I can tell Really? For mass shootings? They're overwhelming done by white people.
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by wheels 5y ago
Three things: - Laws are virtually never there to regulate the median case. They're there to reduce the risk of harm. The reason we don't let people have automatic weapons isn't because most people would go on a killing spr
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by wheels 5y ago
It's been very interesting to me listening particularly to American podcasts and the extent to which the American left equates Covid rules to piety. You can here that there's significant genuine resistantance to the idea of letti
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by wheels 5y ago
It is an entirely crazy proposition. A single physics course is approximately 50 hours of instruction. You have to take about 20 of those. You can't squeeze that down 30x with no loss of resolution. Again, in your example, you'
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by wheels 5y ago
> It’s a series of 24 1-2 hour lectures [...] level of a modern undergrad BA physics. Wait, what? That's completely bonkers. There's absolutely no way to condense four years of studies into two days of YouTube. I can'
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by wheels 5y ago
Which European languages don't have compound verb tenses? All of the four I'm reasonably familiar with do. Germanic languages lean on them more than Romance languages (which have a wider breadth of non-complex tenses), but the c
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by wheels 5y ago
Hamburger is "from Hamburg", not "made from ham", and is borrowed from German. "Frankfurter" (from Frankfurt) and "Wiener" (from Vienna, Wien, in German) have the same etymology. All languages have
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by wheels 5y ago
So, I like working remotely, but there are many fallacies in your statement: Distributed open source projects are obviously an example of survivorship bias: the people who thrive in them are those that work well in a distributed environmen
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by wheels 6y ago
Just saw this now. Not sure you caught the context, which was implied by the poster above. This was 1998, when loads of major corporations were terrified of "the Y2k bug" which was talked about in very apocalyptic terms. There
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by wheels 6y ago
I placed second in a statewide (Texas) COBOL programming contest in high school. This was the late 90s. While in college (which I started early), I kept having people track me down to offer mid-six-figure salaries. It was very tempting.
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by wheels 6y ago
For most of the things Audacity does, Ocenaudio does them in a less clunky way: https://www.ocenaudio.com/
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by wheels 6y ago
I don't like having my hands off-center. I assume I'm not alone there. Among other things, it causes amplified wrist pain.
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by wheels 6y ago
The middle part. It's a little more complicated than that, but mostly, away from the coasts and famous cities (Chicago, Austin, etc.), most of middle America is pretty cheap -- by American standards. It's still a lot more expensi

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