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> If you're not on a US-based IP, you should check out https://src.infinitewave.ca/ There is also https://src.hydrogenaudio.org/ (with no IP based restrictions, AFAIK).

> So many of these things would have been really painful to find if I'd had to sift through every line of a big commit. > So to watch people intentionally balling up an entire PR's…

Wayback Machine still has them: https://web.archive.org/web/20260208100527/https://magicviny...

IIUC, "clearly shows" doesn't apply to "they have certain concerns" but rather to the part that you replaced with "...". In other words "the statement clearly shows that they value…

> Your comment really deserves nothing more than an eye roll emoji, but HN doesn’t support them. (◔_◔)

I clicked on some random post from 2020, 19 em-dashes.

Some Google Pixel phones couldn't dial emergency number (still can't?). I don't know if there were any deadly consequences of that. https://www.androidauthority.com/psa-google-pixe…

> Normalization increases gain of all frequencies at any given point-in-time while reducing gain of all frequencies at other points in time. When you do that then the difference be…

> trace it down to the select bitset having a hardcoded max of 4096 Did it change? Last time I checked it was 1024 (though it was long time ago). > and no bounds checking! _FORTIFY…

page 112 > if [[ "${1-}" =~ ^-*h(elp)?$ ]]; then > ... is an option that starts with one or multiple - characters ... "one or multiple" is + not *. The regex above will also match …

I'd probably call it "disclosure".

I've never used it but sounds like https://rr-project.org/

> It isn't tho. It's close but not exactly. It isn't tho :-). It's not close to double loudness. It's double power, which is 1.41 higher sound pressure, which is only slightly loud…

Some laboratory-grade equipment probably. > 0 dB doesn’t mean “zero sound pressure” From the decibel definition, zero of anything is -∞ in dB_suffix scale.

> English, meanwhile, gives learners fits, because the pronunciation has nothing whatsoever to do with spelling. Consider ... the poem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chaos :)

I use a picture with a solid color because with pictures the text under the icons is white with a black shadow. The "Solid color" option (instead of "Picture") chooses either white…

I have a bookmarklet, since forever, labelled "sane width", with the following code: javascript:(function(){var newSS, styles='body { width: 800px ! important; margin: auto !import…

> No, the quotes are not seen by the program. The program receives a list of strings, it does not get the information about whether and how those strings were originally quoted in …

3Blue1Brown has a very interesting video about how holograms are made: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmKQsSDlaa4

> However, if you put on a headset and apply only frequencies above 16kHz, you will distinctly notice a change in the pressure in your headset's ear cups. If you put something abov…

> When I use an FFT to view the spectrogram on YouTube music videos, it is very obvious that YouTube applies a lowpass filter at 16kHz on all videos (true since 2023 at least). May…

That's unrelated. This difference is the inter-aural or inter-channel difference and 16/44.1k can capture that to much greater precision than microseconds. Some math [1] 44.1k file…

> The problem with sites that extract text from movies and other content is that they reduce people’s desire to pay a fair price for content A bit strange to use "fair", which (to …

Selenized maybe https://github.com/jan-warchol/selenized/blob/master/whats-w...