whyoh

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by whyoh 4y ago
Still can't choose to "never combine" taskbar buttons, like in previous Windows versions. That's a major usability flaw.
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by whyoh 4y ago
>The problem with audio in general is that its really difficult to find decent reviews of the product. The website linked here is in fact trying to solve this problem, with reviews based on measurements: https://www.audioscien
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by whyoh 4y ago
>Also below is a particularly egregious example from Canada, where it explicitly states white straight men need not apply. Is such discrimination therefore legal in Canada? I don't think it's legal in the US ( https:/&#x2F
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by whyoh 4y ago
Long term is difficult, because it's a relatively new thing. Even 4G and 3G haven't been around very long. So we don't really know, but there are legit concerns about its safety: https://blogs.scientificamerican.co
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by whyoh 4y ago
>You can send to someone @gmail.com that you've never messaged before and it won't get rejected. It will probably end up in their Junk folder. That happens even if you send from @gmail to @gmail. Well, it happened to me not lon
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by whyoh 4y ago
Yeah, I don't think the UK deserves a place in the highest tier for "free expression". https://fee.org/articles/uk-man-arrested-for-malicious-commu... Some European countries have questionable laws too,
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by whyoh 4y ago
>the EU blocks that web site I think only the RT video broadcast is blocked, not the website.
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by whyoh 4y ago
BitLocker can be used without TPM, for example with a password or a key file on a USB drive. And those are probably safer options if your whole computer gets stolen.
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Microsoft is showing ads for Microsoft 365 in Office 2021(bleepingcomputer.com)
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by whyoh 4y ago
>I don't even see what the Kindle value prop is The device itself seems pretty good (hardware). I don't own one, but I'm looking at the Kindle Paperwhite now and I can't find anything better for the same price. If you
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by whyoh 4y ago
>Now that Kindle is supporting ePUB... Kindles do not support ePUB. But you can send ePUBs through the Amazon online conversion service now, which wasn't possible in the past.
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by whyoh 4y ago
>but, AFAICT, it is 1:1 correlated with the set of countries that have strong avoidance of tanning / strong interest in skin-whitening. I'm not seeing that. The countries that are most into avoidance of tanning are probably in
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by whyoh 4y ago
Right. But isn't it so that each device gets its own IPv6 public address? So that PC1 and PC2 connected through the same modem are identifiable by different IPs, while you can still see that they're from the same modem/househ
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by whyoh 4y ago
Well, for me it's noise, power/heat and shock resistance (in laptops). And these have also indirect negative consequences. For example, an external 3.5" HDD needs an additional power supply and cable in addition to the data c
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by whyoh 4y ago
Yeah, I'd gladly take a cheap large capacity SSD that can only do 500MB/s for storing data. It's still gonna be much faster, quieter and cooler than a HDD. Looking at the prices, they have barely gone down at all in the last
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by whyoh 4y ago
I disabled hardware acceleration, it was on by default. I think seeking is faster with it off and I believe there was another advantage, which I don't remember now. I find that CPU usage is negligible, but YMMV.
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by whyoh 4y ago
It loads much faster than VLC and it also seems faster in general. The GUI is very minimalistic and you can leave only the video itself (with the 'no-border' setting). It has a bunch of nice little features/settings, but it r
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by whyoh 4y ago
View -> Facing
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by whyoh 4y ago
>"Normalization" means applying some constant gain factor to the signal so that the loudest level is 0dBFS. Not necessarily, although that has been perhaps the most common use of that term so far. But you can normalize to a low
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by whyoh 4y ago
>Sounds incredibly easy to cheat Not if they make you write something when you come for the interview. It's not uncommon to have to fill out a questionnaire, even in Western companies.
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by whyoh 4y ago
So the governments would pay Twitter for moderation and for subsidizing the platform, if advertisers leave in response? I think that the governments should treat social media platforms similarly to other addictive/harmful substances, s
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by whyoh 5y ago
This one is from a study with real data: "In 1985, men ages 20-24 had an average right-handed grip of 121 pounds and left-handed grip of 105 pounds. Today, men that age had grips of only 101 and 99 pounds, the study found. Men 25-29 po
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by whyoh 5y ago
Yeah I should have made it clear that I mean specific problems, like musicians who release an album under a different name... With a folder based approach it's easier to put all of those in one place. The filesystem also has some drawb
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by whyoh 5y ago
Tagging challenges are one reason why I sort and browse music by folders/filesystem.
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by whyoh 5y ago
I like to have the 3.5mm jack too, but the reality is that the vast majority of users don't miss it. That's because they either don't use headphones at all, or because they prefer wireless ones anyway. So as much as I persona
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by whyoh 5y ago
>SSD storage is getting cheaper quite fast I'm not seeing that. In the last 2-3 years prices haven't changed much, when comparing drives of the same performance and warranty. And the best price per TB are still 1TB SSDs, large
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by whyoh 5y ago
I just use completely different email accounts for different purposes. This also makes it easier to receive email notifications at a different rate and on different time schedules. So, notifications for some emails are displayed quickly, so
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by whyoh 5y ago
https://indiehd.com/ sells FLACs. It doesn't have a ton of music currently, but the payout to musicians is very good, so it could become more popular in the future.
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by whyoh 5y ago
indieHD: https://indiehd.com/ I'm not affiliated, but I've known it for a while. It was known as IndieTorrent back then. (also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30534759 )
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by whyoh 5y ago
indieHD used to be IndieTorrent years ago. It was one of the first music stores to offer FLAC downloads. And it's probably still the store with the largest payout to musicians (~85%).

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