psycotica0
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- Comment on [Video] A good cameraman says more than a thousand words 3 days ago:
That would be Toronto’s Pearson Airport! Often ranked the worst or nearly the worst in North America, depending on the survey. It’s not great…
YYZ is a pretty great song though!
- Comment on LinkedIn homepage swaps the "sign in" and "create account" buttons depending on whether you're a new or returning visitor 1 week ago:
Ugh, my bank does this. But they fucked up so bad, it’s on the client side and so slow that the page loads, and I go to click the login button, and then it moves out from under my cursor and I click the register button.
I don’t know who decided this was a thing people wanted, but they should have their UX license taken away…
- Comment on friendship ended with pi, now sigma is my best friend 1 week ago:
I know we’re joking… but just in case people don’t know, π, despite what we call it in English, is the letter “p”, which ought to be said “pee”, and was chosen for “periphery”. Though “perimeter” could be used as as well. Because even though we have the special word “circumference” for the perimeter of a circle, pi is the ratio of a circle’s perimeter to its diameter. As in, take diameter, multiply by magic constant p, get perimeter.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
I don’t know what this pic of Ron Perlman has to do with anything. Maybe he’s one of the good ones!
- Comment on Actual theft 4 weeks ago:
I fully support this correction, and I’m glad I know more than I did before. Thanks!
- Comment on Actual theft 4 weeks ago:
All of her facial features are a bit bigger on the left, like her nose. I wonder if it’s a focal length thing like this dude?
- Comment on Best "screwing around" Game Request 5 weeks ago:
I’ve played a bunch of Valheim with friends, but I can’t do it by myself. The openness is cool, but I can’t grind, so any kind of survival or crafting game becomes tedious so fast.
It seems like fun when other people do it, but it just doesn’t happen for me. Oh well!
- Comment on Best "screwing around" Game Request 5 weeks ago:
A few people mentioned Saint’s Row, and it basically wasn’t even on my radar as a series I knew about. I’ll check it out!
- Comment on Best "screwing around" Game Request 5 weeks ago:
All good info, thanks! Time to put some stuff on a wishlist…
- Comment on Best "screwing around" Game Request 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, I said in another reply I didn’t even think of Spiderman, but I actually have been playing the remaster of the first modern one, and I agree fully. It totally matches this vibe and it’s pretty great!
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- Comment on Outer Wilds drawing I made 5 weeks ago:
I fully understand. But if it helps (without major spoilers), the horror elements are not permanent, and as you learn to progress you learn to work around them and through them.
But yeah, if they’re too deal-breaky upfront, I totally get that. You do spend a lot of time, pun intended, in the dark.
- Comment on 'Huge respect to the folks at Obsidian': Todd Howard invited Obsidian devs onto Fallout season 2's set so they could see New Vegas in the flesh 1 month ago:
As a person who didn’t work on New Vegas, and in fact has never even played a Fallout game, I’d like an invitation if we’re giving them out!
- Comment on He a little confused, but he got the spirit 1 month ago:
Pop what? Pop what Magnitude? What’s he trying to say!?
- Comment on Epic boss Tim Sweeney thinks stores like Steam should stop labelling games as being made with AI: 'It makes no sense,' he says, because 'AI will be involved in nearly all future production 1 month ago:
Huh. I didn’t know this was a feature Steam had. Weird!
- Comment on Epic boss Tim Sweeney thinks stores like Steam should stop labelling games as being made with AI: 'It makes no sense,' he says, because 'AI will be involved in nearly all future production 1 month ago:
I hear people say this sometimes, but I don’t know what they mean. Is there part of Valve’s system that has a gambling mechanic I’ve just never engaged with?
Or is it one of their games that has gambling?
Because I’ve been using it for years as basically my sole gaming interface and haven’t seen any gambling.
- Comment on Feeling that groove 1 month ago:
Yeah! It’s dope. With this new understanding I’ll circle back around. In an indirect sense the groove of a record represents how far our eardrum should be from its “silent resting position” over time. That’s it. The brain is what takes that complicated signal that varies over time and makes something it recognizes out of it.
And then the information encoded on a CD, or magnetic tape, or in a compressed audio file is just the same thing: distance of eardrum from neutral over time.
Oh, and stereo and surround sound and all that is just different audio tracks that play out of different speakers at a synchronized time. Again, it’s our brain that notices it hears a flute in the left ear very slightly before it hears it in the right ear and thus feels like that means there’s a flute to our left. But there’s nothing “flute left” about either individual signal, they’re just different audio that we detected a slight difference in from ear to ear.
- Comment on Seals the deal, once and for all. 1 month ago:
Entirely unrelatedly, I think I’ve concluded that black men are also real women.
- Comment on Feeling that groove 1 month ago:
Yeah! The “timbre” (which despite how it looks is said “tamber”) of an instrument is its audio “profile”. It’s what makes a piano different than a flute, or on a more subtle level makes one piano slightly different from another.
But here’s the nuts part: what makes up the timbre of an instrument is a bunch of different resonating bits all resonating together. Essentially the reason a flute sounds like a flute is because it comes “pre-loaded” with a boatload of simple waveforms already added together. When you play a note on one, you get the main pitch you’re playing, but the instrument’s body and your breath all also produce a whack-ton of side tones all playing at the same time. And like a fingerprint, our ear/brain hears all these bits start and stop together and says “that’s a flute”.
So it’s the same process, really: simple bits adding together. But “flute sound” isn’t the atom. It’s made up of a bunch of simple waves already added together, which then gets added to the other sounds that sound like pianos or guitars, which produces the final mix.
I don’t know if you’ll get anything out of it, but you could look up videos of a “modular synth” setting up a trumpet sound or something. These devices have simple electronic tone generators, but by layering them and plugging them into each other, and using effects and the like, they can start to mimic the timbre of a trumpet or whatever. By essentially adding together the “key bits” of the harmonics (these other waves) they can start to approach the feeling of a trumpet sound, but just with simple, raw, parts.
- Comment on Feeling that groove 1 month ago:
Highly basic answer, let’s say the strength of the vocals wave over time is:
5, 4, 3, 2, 3, 4, 5, 4
And drums is:
4, 0, 2, 0, 4, 0, 2, 3
Then you add them together for each time slice and get:
9, 4, 5, 2, 7, 4, 7, 7
And you put that on a record, or out to a speaker, and our ears are able to break that up into the two parts when it hears it. This is the same as when two things are in the room making sound, there may be two sources, but my ear only has one hole, and that hole has one eardrum behind it. The different sounds just add their powers together and hit my ear as one mixed wave.
Alternative answer: magic
- Comment on Dude read the rules of woman only community and decided to post anyway 1 month ago:
Congratulations, you’re the man they’re trying to forget exists for 10 fucking minutes a day in their off time!
- Comment on Pokémon Lazarus: When a Fan Game Becomes a Conversation 1 month ago:
Sounds like Nemo needs to spend some time watching Matt Colville’s video on Community
Everyone should watch it, really… even if it is an hour…
- Comment on fucking French 2 months ago:
Duh, it probably divides by 3 in metric…
- Comment on Discuss 2 months ago:
Woah Woah Woah. I’m Canadian and peanut butter and chocolate is also a thing here. Peanut butter may be my favourite thing. Why am I catching strays?
- Comment on Took me a moment 2 months ago:
Unsure if… fuck it I’ll just blow it open.
The context is that log~e~ has a shortcut called “ln”, that is L N, said lawn, for “natural logarithm” (but not in English)
And so the joke is that “ln” looks like “in” in this context.
- Comment on VOIP - Lifetime alternative to hushed 3 months ago:
That’s true, but JMP holds a balance. So you could put a bunch of money into it and then forget about that for a while and it’ll truck along until you run low. If you feel like that’s similar enough.
- Comment on A national tragedy 4 months ago:
I know this is just a me thing… but I think there’s a lotta "me"s on here. I wish they’d used “JESUS CHRIST, GAZE INTO YOUR ORB” or something instead. The idea of “turning on” an orb just really rubs me in a bad way.
- Comment on What are the main differences between GPLv2, GPLv3, AGPL, and LGPL? 4 months ago:
The other answers are really great, but I want to dig into the APGL a little.
The GPL said everyone you distribute your software to is also entitled to the code. This made sense in the pre-web-service era when software was some code you downloaded or got off a disk and ran on your own computer.
But with the internet it became common to run software on a server, which responded to distant users’ requests. But that was a problem for the GPL because now the software wasn’t distributed to the user, it was distributed to the server, which is controlled by me. So now I’m entitled to the code from my own changes, but the user has no such freedoms.
So the AGPL was created to try and close that loophole, and make it so that the internet users are protected as the license was originally intended to protect local users.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
As a Canadian visiting Munich with only very basic phrasebook German, virtually everything was English Compatible, and I had nearly no problems. The biggest problem I did have was that one night we got takeout from a Thai restaurant (don’t ask…) and the people at the Thai restaurant spoke German, and presumably Thai, but not English. These were the only people in Munich we encountered that didn’t speak English, but that seems fair to me since presumably German is already not their first language.
And the second was that we went to a grocery store that apparently only had Self Checkouts or something, and we didn’t understand the protocol for how the line divided between the checkout machines, so we were shouted at for not taking machine 7 when it was our turn. Again, our fault, but the shouter didn’t know we didn’t speak German, and so shouted in German, and I didn’t put together right away that what they were shouting meant “7” in the context, but in the end it worked out and we all lived.
The last problem I had was just the general vague sense of shittyness I feel about myself anytime I visit somewhere without speaking their language, but the Munich trip was kind of a surprise addition to a France trip for logistical reasons, and I had no time to study. But none of the people there made me feel that, it’s just a me thing.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
Comedian James Acaster offers “crizzos” in one special. That’s got some zip to it.
