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Bells and metal tubes all can have funky harmonics too (and sub harmonics which is interesting). I don't know if it qualifies as "timbre" but if you remove the initial attack, many…

This has been the majority of my professional coding experience since the 90's ::shrug::. Having to take ownership of some Java Spring application felt a lot like stepping through …

Works pretty slick for me. Are you considering adding things like super sampling for anti-aliasing and alternate coloring methods like triangle inequality, etc?

This played out at my last place. My boss would assign my co-worker to build the world's crappiest car in the least amount of time and when it broke down I would be the only one th…

I try to never ever use the word "refactor" or "clean up" in any of my work items or even commit messages. My boss and other teams I am collaborating with are like clients to me. R…

This is a good point! We've gotten some instances of Chesterson's Fence that some devs casually remove during a "test refactor" that later allowed a regression to make it into prod…

I believe "transparent" is the term used when claiming a lossy audio codec is indistinguishable to a lossless one by a human for some definition of an average human. For example I …

White tea does not undergo the "killgreen" step that green teas and oolongs teas do IIRC. The drying slows the oxidation but does not arrest it. "Aged" white tea is a thing. If you…

That would be green tea no? You pick the green tea, cook it to denature the enzymes to arrest the oxidization (called the "killgreen" step in Chinese) and voila, green tea! Lots of…

If you argue that from the site's side then you can bring up that ads are taking up data, bandwidth(thus time) and battery (insane JS "game" ads) on the client side no?

The throttling is so severe it is effectively blocking. The throttling goes down to 50KiB/s on my PC trying to download a basic youtube video. That around 0.4mbps which puts you ba…

I think software can create a good version of a video taken from a middle-tier camera. My 8-year-old DSLR, Nikon D750, can take 4k video at 60fps. Its sensor has more dynamic range…

The final mastering/mixing has an avg db level they target. The more compressed mixes tend to have much louder avg db. Some of these modern "loud" mixes target -3db whereas the pre…

Interesting that you read it as "end of life-dates". I read it as "end-of-life dates" and thinking it was about very old people or terminally ill people dating each other and suppo…

I loved FF7. They definitely make games like that today! It's just that we've since grown and don't have as much time to sink into a game and you're more influential when younger. …

The chicken/egg question always irks me. Eggs came first. Eggs have existed far longer than chickens (eg dinosaur eggs). Whatever the first thing we could possibly call a chicken c…

I don't like this take at all. Copying is always easier than creating no? A lot of times the things that make or break or game are fine tuning the mechanics in order to balance dif…

I'm in the Northeast (Fairfield County, CT) and see red light blowing on an almost daily basis. Even during rush hour after 2020. I mean people even anticipate it. At least twice a…

Even simple type systems like in Java can help with correctness. For example if you have a list of "Person" but the code itself assumes it's a unique list of people you can convert…

Why would a company choose to do anything that didn't directly make money or cut cost? Companies often have to be compelled to do things where the ROI is measured in decades no?

Just looking at the Wikipedia page suggests that Polio outcomes are quite similar to COVID: * 70% asymptomatic * 25% minor symptoms with a 2 week recovery * 0.5% chance of infectin…

I used to be a huge gamer in the mid-90's but now I only really play 1-2 games a year. No matter if PC/console, AAA/indie, there are just so many insanely good games to choose from…

For what it's worth, I lost 2 weeks of my life to Metroid Dread on the Nintendo Switch. It's a 2D side scrolling action/adventure/platforming game that I enjoyed and not once did I…

We still have some ways to go in low light. My room is lit by 2 40W incandescent light bulbs. This is more light than a typical urban sidewalk or restaurant at night. This is low e…

I thought N95 and other HEPA filters are not simple sieves? You can't just say anything smaller will be collected less as they rely on different effects of the materials to trap pa…