Lv. 3 Pidgey used Gust

It's super effective!

Fiat Panda has fainted!

He's talking about the electromagnetic shielding in a cable, not the contact-points. Usually a copper mesh sheath housed underneath the outer-most rubbery layer and runs around and along the entire length of the signal-carrying wires inside the cable. Works like a Faraday cage, helps prevent electromagnetic interference from large power sources, other unshielded cables running parallel, or anything else that can generate an electromagnetic field near the cable.

Very important to protect signal integrity, widely used even outside the audiophile world (although there are of course plenty of audiophile gimmicks related to shielding).

Basically, if you have a bunch of live unshielded cables bundled and zip-tied together along with your speaker wire, you'll definitely hear it. Run the signal through an oscilloscope, and you'll even see it

This is such a bizzare proposal. The terms outlining what types of discourse would be allowed or warrent removal/bans seem to be very open to moderator interpretation. Wouldn't this leave anyone who takes part in a discussion vulnerable to heavy-handed moderator action, if a moderator happens to disagree with or dislike an argument?

And if we assume that no moderators would take advantage of the vagueness of this proposal to silence the discussion of viewpoints opposing their own, it still undermines free speech.

Additionally, I strongly believe that if a viewpoint is incorrect or based on misinterpretation, or if an argument is built on a shaky foundation or made in bad faith, it should be the job of those who recognize this to refute it properly, publically, for everyone to see. To simply silence them robs everyone of the chance to read or write a properly argued opposing viewpoint, and spares the offending party a potentially much-needed "verbal evisceration" of sorts.

Hard no from me, if my vote is worth anything at all.

V-Sauce had an incredible video on this, outlining exactly how unfathomably colossal the number 52! actually is. If I remember correctly:

Stand at the equator and set a timer for 52! seconds, press start, then stand still and wait for 1 billion years. Then, take one single step forward, and wait another billion years.

Continue walking at this pace until you've made your way around the Earth and back to your original starting position, then remove one drop of water from the Pacific ocean, and set it aside.

Repeat this process until you've completely emptied the Pacific Ocean drop by drop, then set a single sheet of paper on the ground beside you. Refill the Pacific Ocean again (instantly), and do it all over again.

Continue this process, setting each sheet of paper on top of the last, until the stack of papers reaches the sun. Then tear it all down and do the whole thing over again, 999 more times.

At this point, the timer would be about a third of the way to 0 seconds.

The video continues with an alternative mind-boggling process to kill the rest of the time while you're waiting for the timer to reach 0, which involves dealing yourself 5 cards from a well-shuffled deck once every billion years, and buying a lottery ticket for each royal flush you deal yourself. If that lottery ticket hits the jackpot, you'd (EDIT: throw a grain of sand into the grand canyon, repeating until it's full - forgot this step) then remove 1 ounce of rock from Mount everest, and repeat all of this until Mount Everest is completely leveled.

After doing this 256 more times, then the other two-thirds of the timer will have elapsed, and it would finally reach 0.

That's how long 52! seconds would be.

To this day, I've never laughed harder than I did when I first saw this scene. My cheeks and abs cramped up, my back started to hurt, my lungs damn near collapsed from laughing so hard.

Thankfully, I don't think I'll ever laugh that hard for as long as I live, because I think there might be a good chance I could actually die of laughter.

Jim Carrey is the GOAT

I feel like it's not fair to use data measured strictly in price per terabyte, I think a better representation to make your point would need to take into account how much total RAM was used by an average person's devices each year, and track that price over time, no? Because the issue is that people are becoming unable to afford to upgrade their devices due to price hikes, and I wouldn't exactly say that's dismissable by the fact that the price of RAM now is less per Terabyte than it was going back over half a century ago.

FIVE THOUSAND?!

Jesus nun-fucking Christ, what an absolute scam. I bought a 1070 for $220 in the first few months after release. Guess I'll just have to hope it can run for another 10 years...

I've been using it in beta for the past 2-3 months or so on my windows pc, and it's been excellent in terms of functionality and customization. Twice, I started up a game, and Steam immediately notified me that game capture ran into a problem and isn't recording (resolved by just restarting the game). Other than that non-issue, it's been perfect.

Anyway, was very happy to replace the nvidia spyware with something that works. I'd still feel better about a FOSS alternative for screen capture though. Anyone have a suggestion? The handful I've tried weren't working out.

Yeah, but the comment you replied to was making a point that the conductor doesn't really matter if there isn't any noise present. What makes a good cable has much more to do with proper shielding, because electromagnetic interference is what will muck up your signal, not a lack of gold plated connectors

A re-usable PCB is a hugely important development if it proves profitable. Some of the most heinously environmentally unfriendly "forever-chemicals" are more or less irreplaceable for use in electronics, in terms of function, price, and raw effectiveness (looking at you, flame-retardants), so reusability would create incentive to reduce waste and therefore our environment's exposure to pollutants. I could imagine an electronics return-for-cash system, like the extremely effective "pant" system in Scandinavian countries. I believe that the availability and ease of return for empty bottles (automated return stations at virtually every grocery store) is what contributes the lion's share of the pant system's effectiveness, so if there were a similar system implemented for electronics, with electronics stores being required to take in any old electronics using these reusable PCBs, I could see it being extremely effective in reducing e-waste.

However, if these new PCB's aren't profitable to implement, I'm sure we'll never see them used in the first place, unfortunately. But it's definitely something I would use for my own home electronics projects, no question.

The article also mentions a water-soluble PCB at the end. It sounds like an interesting solution to simplify the material/component recovery process (and most likely reduce the cost of material recovery dramatically), but I also wonder how easily and quickly water-soluble PCBs would degrade from humidity.

This is not true. I personally acquired citizenship of Lithuania for example, solely because my grandmother was born there and left during Soviet occupation (as many did). I speak no Lithuanian, have no other connection to the country, and have never even been there.

Came here to say Peep Show, what an absolute treasure

Simply put, both protect against certain types of interference in different ways, and each is effective in ways that the other is not.

Mesh shielding is going to help prevent electrical interference from being introduced via the wire itself from an external source. Like other cables carrying signal and running very near/parallel, or electromagnetic fields generated from other devices, certain electrical components, household appliances, etc.

The ferrite beads protect against radio-frequency interference (RFI) via induction, acting like low-pass filters which attenuate specific bandwidths of very high frequency signals. Essentially, they intercept and absorb high-frequency electrical noise, and convert that energy into a small amount of heat instead of letting it pass through further down the signal path. This kind of interference can be from an external source, or generated internally from the various electronics/components in the signal path (which mesh shielding would do nothing to protect against). They also help dissipate any RFI that the mesh shielding itself may be carrying, so you often see both ferrite beads and mesh/foil shielding, like on laptop chargers or USB cables for example.

I just had a conversation about common confrontation-averse social norms/behaviours which are considered generally polite or courteous, and how damaging they can be to relationships between people. This is a good example of that.

It might be considered polite or courteous to say nothing, but in doing so you'd be enabling your friend to unwittingly annoy you repeatedly by sharing a non-mutual interest, which only erodes the net positivity of your friendship little by little. I'd bet that your friend is sharing these garbage amalgamations of sound morphed into something resembling a musical arrangement (like a freshly birthed greasy unit of bologna, haphazardly moulded into a lumpy homogeneous sculpture vaguely resembling a six-fingered mutation of Michelangelo's David) simply because it's something that brings them enjoyment, and they just want to share that enjoyment with you.

If you break the pattern of toxic courtesy by just being honest and letting them know that you aren't interested in hearing any of it, you'd be saving yourself from allowing your friend to (again, unwittingly) annoy you several more times, potentially lowering your overall perception of the friendship to a point that creates distance between you.

TL;DR be honest and tell your friend that you don't like AI-generated audiobominations. But of course keep in mind that there's a fine line between being honest and just being an asshole.

Want to save this thread for later, may as well name a couple as well

The Faceless - Planetary Duality. Technical death metal album that found an outstanding balance between technically-impressive musicianship, interesting compositional intricacacies, and raw primal brutality. Nothing scratches that itch like this album does for me. And if you're into drums, Alex Rudinger's drumming in Xenochrist is wholly and entirely inhuman. The dude is an octopus trapped in a man's body. I'd recommend watching his Xenochrist drum playthrough video if you're particularly interested

Infected Mushroom - Converting Vegetarians. These two guys are absolute wizards of music production, and this album showcases their insane ability to bring out such colorful personalities from their meticulously crafted synth leads, through gradual and dramatic evolution... Which they usually do in a familiar psy-trance setting. But the "chill side" half of this album accomplishes this wonderfully in a unique, much more relaxed, low-tempo style that I'm genuinely struggling to find words to describe

OBS was the first I tried, but ran into some issues with certain audio channels via my DAC. I actually found a workaround while trying another option later on, but never tried it with OBS. Thanks for the reminder!

I love news outlets that go back and edit any statements they made which were determined to be false after publishing. Even better when they put them in a red box like that