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bennettbackward

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bennettbackward··on Turning a VLP‑16 into a "Spherical" Scanner – A Cave Mapping Project
It's wild you can just buy stuff like this off ebay.
bennettbackward··on GIMP 2.99.18: The last development preview before 3.0
Not if you're saving to the GIMP project file format. You'd lose it if you saved to a raster image but you'd also lose layers, vectors, etc. too.
bennettbackward··on The Oxford Comma and the Internet (2013)
"I believe it was Orwell who wrote a friend [a letter]:"

It's perfectly correct and common to say "wrote a friend".

bennettbackward··on WebAssembly Playground
The official Windows video editor Microsoft Clipchamp[1] also extensively uses WASM for it's video export process.

[1]: https://clipchamp.com/en/windows-video-editor/

bennettbackward··on Nine apologises for using digitally altered image of Animal Justice Party MP
> Nine attributed the error to artificial intelligence and said no staff member was involved in altering the image.
bennettbackward··on Ask HN: Has anyone gotten complete, permanent relief from tinnitus?
It's fun to test what happens when you play the same wave through your headphones but one channel is inverted.

Funny enough lots of stereo widening magic relies on a physical property of sound not existing when it's in your head.

bennettbackward··on How to compete with Patreon
What did they get away with? Is there some drama around that cover?
bennettbackward··on Test Data on Booking.com
Seems like some test data that has leaked onto the production site.
bennettbackward··on Why scalpers can get tickets
That or those who can afford to pay people to stand in line for them: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/2/13/18223836/p...
bennettbackward··on How to Produce Green Hydrogen for $1/Kg
There's somewhat a recent Planet Money episode (Green energy gridlock[1]) that talks a little bit about this. There are massive hurdles in the US to getting new energy projects actually connected to the grid because of supposed fears of overloading the infrastructure. The result is energy prices stay high and the number of green energy projects stays low.

[1]: https://www.npr.org/2023/05/16/1176462647/green-energy-trans...

bennettbackward··on KV.js
You can run Redis on the same machine with a Unix socket to share it between processes without the network latency