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psycotica0

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  • Feeling that groove

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  • Yeah! The "timbre" (which despite how it looks is said "tamber") of an instrument is its audio "profile". It's what makes a piano different than a flute, or on a more subtle level makes one piano slightly different from another.

    But here's the nuts part: what makes up the timbre of an instrument is a bunch of different resonating bits all resonating together. Essentially the reason a flute sounds like a flute is because it comes "pre-loaded" with a boatload of simple waveforms already added together. When you play a note on one, you get the main pitch you're playing, but the instrument's body and your breath all also produce a whack-ton of side tones all playing at the same time. And like a fingerprint, our ear/brain hears all these bits start and stop together and says "that's a flute".

    So it's the same process, really: simple bits adding together. But "flute sound" isn't the atom. It's made up of a bunch of simple waves already added together, which then gets added to the other sounds that sound like pianos or guitars, which produces the final mix.

    I don't know if you'll get anything out of it, but you could look up videos of a "modular synth" setting up a trumpet sound or something. These devices have simple electronic tone generators, but by layering them and plugging them into each other, and using effects and the like, they can start to mimic the timbre of a trumpet or whatever. By essentially adding together the "key bits" of the harmonics (these other waves) they can start to approach the feeling of a trumpet sound, but just with simple, raw, parts.

  • Americans' thanksgiving pie preferences by state

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  • I know a lot of people are complaining about the accuracy of... basically everything about this map.

    But what really bothers me is that I feel with every fiber of my being like Pumpkin Pie and Key Lime Pie shouldn't be in the same category as each other. They're just not the same kind of experience. Regardless of who eats them when.

  • Feeling that groove

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  • Highly basic answer, let's say the strength of the vocals wave over time is:

    5, 4, 3, 2, 3, 4, 5, 4

    And drums is:

    4, 0, 2, 0, 4, 0, 2, 3

    Then you add them together for each time slice and get:

    9, 4, 5, 2, 7, 4, 7, 7

    And you put that on a record, or out to a speaker, and our ears are able to break that up into the two parts when it hears it. This is the same as when two things are in the room making sound, there may be two sources, but my ear only has one hole, and that hole has one eardrum behind it. The different sounds just add their powers together and hit my ear as one mixed wave.

    Alternative answer: magic

  • Dude read the rules of woman only community and decided to post anyway

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  • Congratulations, you're the man they're trying to forget exists for 10 fucking minutes a day in their off time!

  • Blender 5.0 Released With Better Vulkan Support, HDR On Wayland

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  • The good news is that's the first step to being maybe eventually okay at this!

  • Cloudflare went down today and took half of the internet with it. How does one company have that much impact? Do you think that's concerning?

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  • Yeah! We call those "Cascading Failures"

    They're a nightmare! 😄

  • I’ve already been using a “Steam Machine” for months, and I think it’s great

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  • I think there's people who have gaming as a hobby, and people who have speccing and building a gaming PC as a hobby.

    And Valve was never going to sell anything to the PC Hobby crowd, because they get their fun from squeezing every dime and finding the absolute best bang for the buck or whatever.

    So I think it's sensible for Valve to be like "yeah, we're just going to make a pretty good machine for people who don't care about how much VRAM it has".

    And the comments of every review and YouTube video will be full of people complaining about how you can get so much more for so much less, and that it's dogshit, but that's because the people on those sites are the hobby people.

    But that won't necessarily translate into selling like hotcakes. I hope it does, for several reasons, but only time will tell if there's enough people in the market for that kind of machine that aren't the hobby people.

  • Fact File: No 'plan' to 'euthanize' 15 million Canadians with MAID

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  • This CBC article claims that in 2023, in Alberta Canada, a box of 50 9mm rounds cost $13 retail. That's $0.26 a shot. Multiply that by 7 billion and you get $1.8 billion.

    I assume Alberta Canada is not the cheapest place to buy 9mm rounds, and that if you were buying 7 billion rounds some kind of economy of scale would kick in, and that you could get a better price even just as wholesale rather than retail. Oh and that's Canadian Dollars. But that's still an upper bound.

    $1.8 billion dollars is more than I have, but is not more than anyone has.

    Toronto is Canada's largest city, and is the 4th largest city in North America. In 2025 they spent about 1.8 billion Canadian dollars of their budget on "Community and Social Services" alone. That's child services, fire, paramedic, parks and rec, shelters, that sort of stuff.

    I'm not advocating for shooting every human on Earth, but for the cost of parks and shelters and ambulances for a single year in the 4th largest city in North America, we could make that happen.

  • Please help me under stand my spouse's gift and their hurt

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  • That's totally fair! It was a little intuition, a lot of "going with the gut", and a bit of flair, it's true. But I figured if none of this resonates with OP at all, they can choose to ignore me as full of shit 😛

  • Please help me under stand my spouse's gift and their hurt

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  • To piggy back off this one, because I liked it, I'd like to zoom in on the spouse's reaction. Yes, it's an expression of their love. But also, if they're the sort of person that feels gift-giving is important, then they probably struggle with you being hard to buy for, because they want to get you something, because that's how they demonstrate love and attention.

    So probably they've been watching you, and they noticed you spend a lot of time with this item, and they thought if they got you a new or fancy version it would make for a great gift. They finally found something they know you'll like! They'll watch you open it, you'll light up, and thank them for their keen insight, attention, and creativity. The perfect gift.

    Obviously it didn't go down that way, but I think in addition to just "rejecting their love", I imagine there's also a huge factor that is just shock and disappointment. They had high expectations, they were excited for the reveal, and what they got was so much worse than what they expected they just don't even know what to do with this energy. They may even be a little embarrassed, both that they got you a bad gift, and at their misplaced excitement.

    It's just an emotional letdown for them, I imagine. Now depending on their emotional maturity, they may just need to collect themselves, realize this whole thing was their fault for getting their hopes up even though you've told them you're not interested. They'll realize you have good reasons to want to keep the old one, and that they overlooked the importance of it. And if they don't have that level of mindfulness, then they may calm down, but they'll still blame you fully.

    Anyway, just wanted to point out what I expect the source of the "outsized"-feeling reaction might be. Acute, sudden onset, disappointment.

  • Pokémon Lazarus: When a Fan Game Becomes a Conversation

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  • Sounds like Nemo needs to spend some time watching Matt Colville's video on Community

    Everyone should watch it, really... even if it is an hour...

  • It happened

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  • One small step for ham...

  • Playing with dolls

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  • The more typical words would be "husband / wife" or "boyfriend / girlfriend" which have gender built into them. Whereas "partner" is more popular with lefty folks who want to use the same word no matter what the gender of their partner is.

    But importantly there will be gay men who say "husband" or "boyfriend" when referring to their partner, and lesbians might say "wife" or "girlfriend", and some straight people will say "partner", so partner doesn't only mean homosexual.

    Some straight people say it to provide cover for homosexual people who say it, so that it remains an ambiguous term, but also a lot of people of all sexualities like the term because it shows a commitment to their relationship without involving marital status. Like "boyfriend" can feel a bit new, or a bit highschool. But not everyone gets married anymore. So maybe you've been together for 12 years, but you aren't married, so you can't say "wife", but "girlfriend" maybe feels a bit childish for this women you've been committed to for over a decade and live with and maybe even have pets or kids together. So even for straight people "partner" can be a mature, committed, term without relying on marriage.

    Some people will use "significant other", sometimes shortened to "SO", as a different way of saying the same thing. That one feels even more... dry?... to me. It feels like something you'd see on a government form. But some people use it and love it. And sometimes people will say things like "my better half" or something like that to refer to their partner, and that one is a little more folksy and warm.

    So to wrap up, partner has been gaining popularity for a while, and has some advantages, but most of those advantages apply to non-traditional situations. The traditional version would be man meets woman and gets married quickly. So in some places and communities and cultures "partner" will be a very normal word, but in some more traditional areas it might make people suspicious when you use it because they'll think "why did this guy not say wife... is he secretly gay?" or something.

  • The secret-keeper

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  • Valve says they want SteamOS to be installable on any PC

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  • For sure, I've been running Linux as my daily driver since... 2005? Fuck... and ran it on the side even before that. And I've been trying bazzite on my gaming PC and it's been pretty cool. But I'm still pumped about SteamOS, not because I'm planning on running it, but because any success SteamOS has will be likely directly applicable to Linux desktop gaming in general.

    Every game that adjusts something to test on SteamOS will make it better for me off SteamOS. Every peripheral that is built to work with SteamOS, all the user demographic numbers that set priorities withing the gaming industry, are all great.

    I'm excited for the year of the Linux desktop.

  • Valve says they want SteamOS to be installable on any PC

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  • I played Helldivers 2 on Linux literally last night

  • Removing CO2 from atmosphere vital to avoid catastrophic tipping points, leading scientist says

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  • I'm not a climate scientist, but my understanding is that oil is matter that was previously part of the climate cycle that was buried, and thus removed from the wheel.

    Then we dug it up and burned it, reintroducing it to the cycle for the first time in many millions of years.

    So if we stop emitting now, that would be better than not emitting. Not making things worse is a great start. But I think to "fix" it, we need to spend a boatload of money taking all that extra carbon we spent the last hundred years releasing, and put it back in the ground where we found it. Or a big box, or space, or whatever. It needs to be removed, or else this level is the new normal.

  • Removing CO2 from atmosphere vital to avoid catastrophic tipping points, leading scientist says

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  • What better place than here?

  • The Economist on using phrenology for hiring and lending decisions: "Some might argue that face-based analysis is more meritocratic" […] "For people without access to credit, that could be a blessing"

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  • "Imagine appearing for a job interview and, without saying a single word, being told that you are not getting the role because your face didn’t fit. You would assume discrimination, and might even contemplate litigation. But what if bias was not the reason?

    Uh... guys...

    Discrimination: the act, practice, or an instance of unfairly treating a person or group differently from other people or groups on a class or categorical basis

    Prejudice: an adverse opinion or leaning formed without just grounds or before sufficient knowledge

    Bias: to give a settled and often prejudiced outlook to

    Judging someone's ability without knowing them, based solely on their appearance, is, like, kinda the definition of bias, discrimination, and prejudice. I think their stupid angle is "it's not unfair because what if this time it really worked though!" 😅

    I know this is the point, but there's no way this could possibly end up with anything other than a lazily written, comically clichéd, Sci Fi future where there's an underclass of like "class gammas" who have gamma face, and then the betas that blah blah. Whereas the alphas are the most perfect ughhhhh. It's not even a huge leap; it's fucking inevitable. That's the outcome of this.

    I should watch Gattaca again...

  • Passkeys Explained: The End of Passwords

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  • Technically they are the 2fa. The second factor is something you have. I store all my passkeys in my password manager too, so I'm not faulting you, but technically that's just undoing the second factor, because now my two factors are "two things that are both unlocked by the same one thing I know". Which is one complicated factor spread across two form fields.