SlurpingPus
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- Comment on The only science fiction in 1984 by Orwell is that there is a drug that could make you "Happy" 1 hour ago:
Why would lsd be cheaper when it’s well-known that it’s difficult to produce? Whereas, from what I know, there are a whole bunch of different amphetamines, and e.g. meth is pretty abundant.
A person who’s never tried actual lsd by the virtue of absence of such in their country, wouldn’t know what it should be like. They’d just have some buzz and a somewhat psychedelic effect from whatever they were sold. I’m not convinced you yourself got real lsd, if you think it’s cheaper than other drugs.
And again, for what reason? What is the motivation of adulterating drugs?
Do you seriously have trouble with the concept of why mixing flour into coke is beneficial for the dealer’s bottom line?
- Comment on The only science fiction in 1984 by Orwell is that there is a drug that could make you "Happy" 8 hours ago:
My own dealer told me to stop buying hash, because he’s seen it padded with random gunk. It’s not like the user can tell what’s in there.
Afaik various random amphetamines are most often sold as molly and especially lsd, which latter is reportedly completely impossible to find clean in the parts of the world where I am.
- Comment on Dell brings back XPS laptops — ditches the capacitive touch bar, adds 1Hz display option, and upgrades 14 and 16-inch models 18 hours ago:
Such argument, very informative, wow. Maybe don’t attempt an argument if you don’t actually have anything to say.
- Comment on The only science fiction in 1984 by Orwell is that there is a drug that could make you "Happy" 19 hours ago:
Rumor has it that molly is typically laced with some nasty shit these days.
- Comment on The only science fiction in 1984 by Orwell is that there is a drug that could make you "Happy" 19 hours ago:
face down arse up
- Comment on Dell brings back XPS laptops — ditches the capacitive touch bar, adds 1Hz display option, and upgrades 14 and 16-inch models 19 hours ago:
How many millions did they give? I know of the one million for the inauguration. Do you think one million is much money for either Apple or Trump?
- Comment on Dell brings back XPS laptops — ditches the capacitive touch bar, adds 1Hz display option, and upgrades 14 and 16-inch models 19 hours ago:
Tim Cook designed and delivered a custom award to Trump.
Which looked like a gold-plated turd, but Trump likely can’t recognize that with his absence of taste. Apple so obviously could make something better-looking that I’ve had a solid chuckle seeing that shit, and my opinion of Apple hadn’t moved. In exchange for that piece of crap they’ve gotten Trump to lay his mitts off tariffs on what Apple needed, so sounds like a job well done to me. It’s not Apple’s business to topple an idiot that stupid USian public elected.
- Comment on Dell brings back XPS laptops — ditches the capacitive touch bar, adds 1Hz display option, and upgrades 14 and 16-inch models 20 hours ago:
The touch bar is pretty good if a) most everyday shortcuts you use are on the modifiers and the alphanumeric keyboard instead of the f-keys, and b) you can put custom controls in the touch bar. Both of these are true with Macbook: there’s a third-party app for controlling the touch bar. E.g. I’ve put in it a button to handoff the Bluetooth headphones from the laptop to the phone or the other way around.
- Comment on Dell brings back XPS laptops — ditches the capacitive touch bar, adds 1Hz display option, and upgrades 14 and 16-inch models 20 hours ago:
The touch bar worked well for me on a Macbook. Most of the hotkeys there use cmd+something instead of the f-keys, so I needed the f-keys with only a couple apps, namely Double Commander. But what’s better, there are apps to put custom controls into the touch bar. The most useful one for me was the button to hand off the Bluetooth headphones from the laptop to the phone (via a bash script of mine). Plus I could also have app-specific custom buttons.
- Comment on Dell brings back XPS laptops — ditches the capacitive touch bar, adds 1Hz display option, and upgrades 14 and 16-inch models 20 hours ago:
There’s a lighter band at the top of the screen on my phone, corresponding to the darker header area in the RedReader app for Reddit. Just from using that app every day. Though that seems to be kinda reverse burn-in, in that the rest of the screen became darker since I use the light colorscheme.
On the desktop, the taskbar alone would definitely burn in with my usage pattern. And probably also the tabs and the status bar in the editor.
- Comment on The information density on a vinyl can be higher earlier in the record than later... 1 day ago:
‘Vinyl Mastering 101: What You Need to Know Before Cutting a Record - Mix & Master My Song’
Place tracks with more complex or high-frequency content towards the beginning of each side, where the sound quality is inherently better.
The last tracks on each side are more susceptible to inner-groove distortion, which can degrade sound quality. Reserve these positions for tracks that are less sonically demanding or have less high-frequency content.
‘Inner Groove Distortion: The Problem No One Wants to Talk About’
Bright, aggressive EQ that sounds fine on the outer grooves becomes an exercise in sibilant torture by track four.
Putting your most complex, frequency-dense track at the end of a side is engineering malpractice. When an album sequence allows for it, loading the outer grooves with demanding material and saving simpler arrangements for the inner tracks is smart mastering. The original Blue Note engineers understood this instinctively in the 1960s.
Pink Floyd “The Dark Side of the Moon” (original UK Harvest): say what you will about vintage pressings, but the mastering engineers understood sequencing. The album’s most demanding moments land on outer and mid-grooves; simpler material occupies inner real estate.
Any Bernie Grundman cut for a major artist: Grundman’s reputation exists for a reason. His cuts consistently demonstrate that proper EQ adjustment for inner grooves, pulling back excessive brightness, managing phase issues, makes a profound difference.
Many modern rock reissues with “hot” mastering: excessively bright, compressed mastering that sounds aggressive even on outer grooves becomes actively unpleasant by the inner tracks.
Placing tracks with high-energy, bass-heavy content towards the outer grooves and tracks with softer, acoustic elements towards the inner grooves can mitigate distortion.
‘Vinyl Record Inner-Groove Distortion (A Simple Explanation) - Sound Matters’
Mastering engineers will attempt to mitigate end-of-side distortion by pressing quieter songs, with moderate bass and lower HF energy towards the center of each side.
These and other articles highlight that higher frequencies in particular suffer from the inner-groove distortion.
Keep learning, grandpa.
- Comment on The information density on a vinyl can be higher earlier in the record than later... 1 day ago:
The examples of good closing tracks are indeed a better argument than “I’ve been in the industry since 1995, the golden age of vinyl”.
If a song wasn’t good enough that it required being put in a “second-rate” position on the album, why would they be putting it on the album at all?
You claim to have been in the industry, and you never heard of selling albums full of crappy songs on the strength of the singles? Boy you have plenty of stuff to learn yet.
- Comment on The information density on a vinyl can be higher earlier in the record than later... 1 day ago:
News flash: vinyl records existed before 1995.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
If you seriously don’t understand how bacteria get in your innards, you should probably spend a couple hours reading about how your own body works, what with it being your sole manifestation in this finite life.
Firstly, indeed you’re likely to ingest some bacteria with crappy food from a shitty food place. Now guess which regions and social stratums are likely to buy prepared food more than others, instead of cooking at home, while you’re registered on feddit.uk.
Secondly, people occupying the same space have been shown to exchange gut bacteria pretty quickly. Unless you’re exclusively working from your own home, get ready to catch some helicobacter pylori now and then.
- Comment on The information density on a vinyl can be higher earlier in the record than later... 2 days ago:
That depends on the quality of the turntable and the vinyl, and the rotation speed. Early on, the quality wasn’t enough for dense stamping, so vinyls played at 78 rpm. With time, 45 and 33 rpm became possible as the tech improved, allowing for longer play times per vinyl.
Regardless, from what I’ve heard back in the day the producers took care to put more demanding track on the outside, which led to the phenomenon of CDs suddenly having some busy and loud tracks in the middle of the album.
- Comment on The information density on a vinyl can be higher earlier in the record than later... 2 days ago:
I’ve heard that good songs were put on the outside and the shittier ones were relegated to the inside since the quality is worse. But a vinyl has two sides to it, which lead to the phenomenon that when listening to a CD, there was suddenly a big loud and busy number right in the middle of the album, after a lull.
- Comment on Is there any way to modify community subscription weight? 2 days ago:
US politics communities are pretty damn loud.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
If you can eat whatever you want, be glad. Once gut microbiome is damaged, it’s pretty much irreparable without fecal transplants (and even that sounds like it only helps the intestines, not the stomach).
That said, kefir helps a lot, but only short-term.
- Comment on China calls for Maduro’s immediate release, accuses US of breaching international law 2 days ago:
Russia already condemned the US’ actions in this.
- Comment on Cory Doctorow proposes how to break free from US digital domination 2 days ago:
Just to check, you know that Doctorow is the one who came up with ‘enshittification’ in the first place? He’s been on this topic for decades now.
- Comment on Cory Doctorow proposes how to break free from US digital domination 2 days ago:
Coincidentally, Doctorow is the one who coined ‘enshittification’ originally.
- Comment on Insider trading, but make it worse 3 days ago:
The one who bets for collects the money if that happens. They would also benefit from actually carrying out the deed. These markets are essentially crowdfunding for dirty stuff.
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 3 days ago:
Thank God the protest people are here. They were constantly on Reddit for the last four years saying how Russians need to protest against the dictatorship. Good thing Russians heard that and had the massive protest of Bolotnaya in 2011 and endless protests in the far-east and northern regions in particular. As we know, Russia is a thriving democracy now.
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 3 days ago:
Shame on all the children who didn’t go vote for Harris.
- Comment on I love science 4 days ago:
Ah, ok. Then math isn’t science, it’s just a tool for physics, computer science, and such. Also physics isn’t science, it’s just a tool for engineering and biology. Biology isn’t science, it’s just a tool for medicine and agriculture.
- Comment on I love science 4 days ago:
Physics, engineering, statistics, economics, and mathematically modeling in general aren’t science? Big claim there, bud.
- Comment on I love science 4 days ago:
Watching races becomes way better if one plays some sim racing games and gets into adjusting the car for the track. Racing is a rare sport that one can somewhat experience themselves without athletic training.
- Comment on Is there a practical reason a lot of FOSS project don't offer torrent downloads or is it just a stigma thing? 4 days ago:
Afaiu DHT works for any torrent. It’s not as quick as a tracker, but it works. I download some torrents by exclusively using the DHT.
- Comment on Wikipeter was the founder of the site in 1993 when he wanted to know more about model trains without having to visit the library 4 days ago:
Wikipedia still recommends against primary sources as authoritative sources of information (recommending secondary sources instead), which is not great.
Indeed, Wikipedia should cite Trump and Musk on the actions and views of Trump and Musk, because who would know better about them than Trump and Musk.
- Comment on Wikipeter was the founder of the site in 1993 when he wanted to know more about model trains without having to visit the library 4 days ago:
that published article is a primary source.
It’s not a primary source, that’s the whole point. It’s a secondary source, which takes information from the primary source and publishes it with some degree of verification.
The whole ‘no primary sources’ thing is simple if one considers that Trump and Musk are the primary sources on their own doings.