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"Voice Isolator costs 1000 characters for every minute of audio." - can someone expand on this currency for someone out of the loop?

>"Also, consider that if you can only read at 100 MB/s off a mechanical drive but your CPU can decompress data at ~500 MB/s then the mechanical drive is able to provide 5x the throughput you'd otherwise expect thanks to compression."

I'd not really thought of that aspect before... My old brain is hard-coded to save cpu cycles ... Time to change my ways :)

I feel the pain. People here will recall the heyday of Paper Prototyping i think. It sounds silly in the 21stC to even suggest such a low tech step, but it's saved my a$$ in the past.... and given me a solid basis to renegotiate a price if/when the feature-creep begins! Anyone else done similar for a client who doesn't _really_ know what they want? ;)

greylisting was a fun time. And yes i too have absolutely been that person :)

a number of the channels i follow have a regular set of porn bots that post links, and also there are also obvious (to a human) machine generated comments.

I assume (without any evidence) that YT has a programmatic / ML approach to attempt to minimise this sort of crap..

I note that in this case the problem seems to be a particular word, but i don't see this as malice on YTs part.

I no longer post links as references for answers etc even when the channel creator allows them, after having one YT account permabanned for spam based (as far as i can tell.,) on links posted...

(anecdata is notoriously lacking in peer review)

i use ffox on android because (for some reason) it's the only one I'm aware of that has ublock origin addon...( happy to be proven wrong :)

I also used to use reader mode once in a while...

well, to be fair to these guys they wear their agenda pretty proudly on the home page:)

"Our mission is to drive impact around the world through great storytelling. Our platform is free, funded by carefully chosen brands dedicated to committed sustainability agendas over the next decade. These companies are vetted extensively by WaterBear to avoid greenwashing, and join the network to develop integrated partnerships over the long-term"

respectfully, that article simply repeats variations of scenarios tom brings up in his video;)

pick any part of the process in that article and ask "how do you know that the black box is trustworthy?" , in the context of assuming that some nation states have a vested interest in messing with the process...

i still refer people to this also. He neatly summarises the core issues. People watching other people count marks on dead trees works great.

fellow kdenlive user here, would really like to hear your findings...

for some reason recent kdenlive releases seem to have inordinately slow render times on my laptop (no GPU ;) so I'm open to alternatives..

ps don't take this as an assault on kdenlive,please!! It's been good to me,,

i respect your view. But IMHO for low speed home-to-office commutes there is a market for 100% autonomous cars that can free a person up for productivity tasks or other activity rather than have to drive the same route over and over.

OR say the trip to the supermarket past school zones.

Maybe not in my driving lifetime (I'm an old fart) , sure :)

mick west posted a pretty convincing case for this being "bokeh balls" created by presumed (but unproven) tape anti-glare measures on the front on the lens.

Extraordinary claims and all that.....

i'd love a pocket-sized "real" camera that could make calls, check messages and do basic social media :)

8-800 mm zoom not essential though ;)

thanks for this.. finally a tool even I can't misuse:)

ps i didn't see a way to manually set a location, maybe just my old android tablet...

surely the big picture for "trust the science" is not "science is always right" (as the writer notes,) but that the PROCESS of testing and revising scientific theories can be trusted.

As sabine hossenfelder says.. science doesn't tell you not to pee on electric fences, it just points out that urine is a decent conductor of electricity...

(or words to that effect)

I trust the "best available science"... as a rule. (YMMV)

hugged to death? 6pm sat 13th feb australian eastern summer time

(7:00 am Saturday, 13 February 2021 UTC)

were any of your ancestors Pheasant Pluckers?

maybe just my old android tablet, but i only see a list of tracks/ thumbnails vertically, with no search by genre, author, tag, length etc. Is it just me ? Nice idea though. thanks

>The photons, each about two centimeters long, emerge at the end of an optical fiber.

this is a use of the term "photon" i haven't come across before.... anyone have time for an ELIF how there are "2cm long photons"?

Destin from SmarterEveryDay posted a video today that referenced this site and it's organizer. Some astonishing amount of time went into it..

end of an era for my oldest email address then, i guess!

may i ask if using phone as camera and/or audio support will come to linux users at some point?

i didn't see on the site how audio was handled, probably just my reading skills :)

warning: cat-like typing detected

so.. you CAN have a box that is "the internet"....

thanks. Out of curiosity, did the twitter OP have to originally post these 8 items in reverse order (to have them appear as intended)? Or is this a bunch of "replies" to post one, that stay in the right order as added?

IIRC A 10 Db increase in SPL is perceived by most people as a doubling of "volume".

thr article mentions this too... its hard to get a feel for log scales lol.

I hear you :) but IIRC the US "rail guns" are generating muzzle velocities in this speed range (?)

I've seen very spectacular footage of these rounds tearing a hole in the atmosphere ... so maybe our shared intuition isn't reliable...

or maybe once you get a cross section bigger than a playing card, things become.... interesting at these speeds at sea level;)

wasn't one of these washed ashore recently....

https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/aviation/a33808381...

a free "problem_name.wordpress.com" type setup might suit your needs?

https://wordpress.com/free/

thanks, yeah that's what mean... but i see that the the core insight is that using salted hashes has an exponential decrease in the ease of finding and storing "hashed passwords" for a lookup tabke

So am i still in the right mindset to think that the "uniqueness" of every hash/ lack of collisions is still a valid area?

ie that the hash function is really unlikely to produce the same hash twice....