1. danadam Dec 2, 2025 parent

   I clicked on some random post from 2020, 19 em-dashes.
2. danadam Aug 27, 2025 parent

   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-pixel-911-emerge...

3. danadam Aug 15, 2025 parent

   > 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 between the loudest and the quietest part of the audio gets reduced. That's dynamic range reduction.

4. danadam Jun 6, 2025 parent

   > 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_SOURCE is not set? When I try to pass 1024 to FD_SET and FD_CLR on my (very old) machine I immediately get:

     *** buffer overflow detected ***: ./a.out terminated
     Aborted
   

   (ok, with -O1 and higher)
5. danadam May 30, 2025 parent

   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 "h" and "help" without - character(s).

6. danadam May 29, 2025 parent

   I'd probably call it "disclosure".
7. danadam May 28, 2025 parent

   I've never used it but sounds like https://rr-project.org/
8. danadam May 22, 2025 parent

   > 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 louder.

9. danadam May 22, 2025 parent

   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.

10. danadam May 16, 2025 parent

    > 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 :)

11. danadam Apr 30, 2025 parent

    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 or black font color and there is no shadow and I don't like it.
12. danadam Apr 14, 2025 parent

    I have a bookmarklet, since forever, labelled "sane width", with the following code:

      javascript:(function(){var newSS, styles='body { width: 800px ! important; margin: auto !important } '; if(document.createStyleSheet) { document.createStyleSheet("javascript:'"+styles+"'"); } else { newSS=document.createElement('link'); newSS.rel='stylesheet'; newSS.href='data:text/css,'+escape(styles); document.getElementsByTagName("head")[0].appendChild(newSS); } })();
    

    It forces the body width to 800px and centers it. Crude but it is enough for me.
13. danadam Mar 22, 2025 parent

    > 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 the shell.

    With quotes the program will receive a single argument -n␣o␣p␣e instead of multiple ones -n, o, p, e. At least it works on the machine here:

        ]$ echo "-n o p e"
        -n o p e
        
        ]$ /bin/echo "-n o p e"
        -n o p e

14. danadam Feb 6, 2025 parent

    3Blue1Brown has a very interesting video about how holograms are made:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmKQsSDlaa4

15. danadam Feb 2, 2025 parent

    > 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 above 16 kHz at full scale and/or if you play it extremely loud then maybe. With typical music content at typical volumes, I doubt it.

16. danadam Feb 2, 2025 parent

    > 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).

    Maybe with a browser that doesn't support Opus and gets AAC instead (Safari?). With Firefox or Chromium on Linux I get up to 20 kHz, which by design is the upper limit in Opus codec.

17. danadam Nov 26, 2024 parent

    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 containing pulses with sub-sample delays [2]

    Something similar, but square wave, and nicely showing that timing precision actually depends on bit-depth and not the sampling rate [3]

    Some practical experiments with capturing the playback of such files and verifying that the delay is preserved: pulse [4] and square [5]

    [1] https://troll-audio.com/articles/time-resolution-of-digital-...

    [2] https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/t...

    [3] https://audiophilestyle.com/forums/topic/58511-time-resoluti...

    [4] https://www.head-fi.org/threads/can-you-hear-upscaling.97295...

    [5] https://www.head-fi.org/threads/can-you-hear-upscaling.97295...

18. danadam Nov 1, 2024 parent

    > 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 me) seems to be quite on a subjective side. Do people still think that the price is fair and only don't want to pay it? Or maybe some of them don't consider the price to be fair anymore :-)

19. danadam Oct 6, 2024 parent

    Selenized maybe

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

20. danadam Sep 11, 2024 parent

    > So I appended a "=> yes!" to the existing comment as well.

    You will read it in 3 months and cry in despair "But why, my past self, why is it needed?!" :-)

21. danadam Aug 18, 2024 parent

    > "I'll be waiting for your patch. Surely you're not as lazy and incompetent as the existing volunteer developers."- Rémi Denis-Courmont

    > I see Rémi Denis-Courmont's arrogant attitude and disrespect for users and developers hasn't improved in all these years.

    That's out of context quote: https://www.hackerneue.com/item?id=41282178

22. danadam Aug 6, 2024 parent

    s/Disclaimer/Disclosure/

    :)

23. danadam May 30, 2024 parent

    > I haven't seen it around for a long time,

    Spotify is using it in their standalone clients.

24. danadam Mar 28, 2024 parent

    > The first looks a bit like a sawtooth wave, the second is more like a chain of pulses. Wouldn't that sound different?

    Not to me: https://mega.nz/folder/o5RWBLZZ#ihg7MAQG5qZjEmMuySwpxA

25. danadam Mar 4, 2024 parent

    > even just a volume change by the listener if it's applied digitally in the 16 bit realm ...

    I think that "if" is doing a heavy work here.

26. danadam Aug 9, 2023 parent

    "bc -l" runs it with scale set to 20. Also preloads some math functions.
27. danadam May 2, 2023 parent

    > A micromort (from micro- and mortality) is a unit of risk defined as a one-in-a-million chance of death.

    Ah... so it happens nine times out of ten.

    > The micromort concept was introduced by Ronald A. Howard

    I was genuinely surprised that not by Terry Pratchett.

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29. danadam Nov 7, 2022 parent

    Here are some examples to listen to:

    https://audiophilestyle.com/forums/topic/61633-intel-cpus-do...

30. danadam Feb 4, 2022 parent

    The youtube player keeps using codec 251 for audio (opus, about 120 kbps) until quality 240p. For 144p it switches to codec 250 (opus, about 60 kbps). At least here, on firefox on linux.

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