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unmagical

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  • In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud

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  • I fucking love audio and have an extensive collection of equipment. The last thing in the chain before your ears (so headphones and speakers) will absolutely make a difference and the thing that provides power to that can make a difference. But the cables? The fucking cables?! Absolutely no impact once you're above like $10. Turns out, electrons are electrons and they behave like electrons. Shockingly that doesn't change in copper, gold plated copper, pure silver, or mud. Doubly so for the non analog part of the chain. Hell I've even seen "audiophile grade" ethernet cables.

    The other part of the equation is if the differences made by the things that do make a difference actually matter to the listener. They do to me, but my dad is more than happy to just use the speakers on his Dell monitors.

  • Wicked hangover

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  • M&Ms oughtn't be measured in units of pounds.

  • What to do if i want to make games oneday, but im unsure where to start?

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  • That Brackeys one I linked doesn't have the same kinda workshop, but they do have a number of tutorials on their YT channel and it starts this Sunday.

  • Can Students Fail an Assignment if They Cite God? Not if Florida Republicans Get Their Way.

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  • There's rage bait and there's making laws. Even if meant in jest, laws still are expected to be followed with deleterious consequences for disobedience.

    It does no one good to let evil slide just cause you think they're messing around.

  • Can Students Fail an Assignment if They Cite God? Not if Florida Republicans Get Their Way.

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  • Or maybe, and I know this can be hard to believe, the university gets scared of baseless suits backed by powerful figures supported by disingenuous interpretations of these kinds of laws and they bow to political pressure and fire the people that gave the assignment so they don't have to defend themselves in a costly, frivolous case?

    If that were to happen, and I know it's a stretch and would never actually happen in the US because every civil entity here has steadfast morals based upon dignity and respect, then modifying laws that already forbid discrimination to make the language a bit more ambiguous and easier to use as a cudgel is a dangerous move targeting our educators.

  • What to do if i want to make games oneday, but im unsure where to start?

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  • Join a game jam.. You might not get far, but joining and trying will get you started down the road. A theme will be provided which can help get your ideas flowing, and you can use existing assets to pull stuff together along with tutorials.

    For your first jam, you can even just make a physical game using cards or tokens from other sets to explore different ideas.

    From there, pick a game engine and try a bunch of tutorials then pick something you want to make and use tutorials and documentation not as guides, but as references to achieve the thing you want to build.

    Also, start small, like really small. Smaller than you think you need to. Pong and Snake are significantly easier than Battleship or Risk.

  • Can Students Fail an Assignment if They Cite God? Not if Florida Republicans Get Their Way.

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  • So what happens when the student writes a sermon instead of doing the assignment, rightfully gets a 0 for not doing the assignment, and then writes to the governor and right wing media apparatuses complaining about religious discrimination?

  • Lawmakers increasingly intimidated by the public

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  • This seems like a very loose definition of "violence."

  • Over 2,000 Britons [and over 3,000 Germans] served for Israel amid Gaza genocide (Declassified UK, 2026-02-11)

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  • The article sourced (a UK focused publication) only mentioned Britons in the title, likely because they focus on the UK.

    As to Germany? One can only assume why OP injected that.

  • Judge blocks Hegseth, Pentagon bid to punish Mark Kelly over ‘illegal orders’ video

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  • Yes, the Fed. As in "an informal identifier being used as a metonymy for the executive branch of the Federal Government". It's not exclusively used to refer to the Federal Reserve.

  • Judge blocks Hegseth, Pentagon bid to punish Mark Kelly over ‘illegal orders’ video

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  • Amazing that the Fed ever thought it was against the law to tell people what the law says.

  • British Woman shot by dad in Texas after 'arguing about Donald Trump'

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  • Nah, they fascis who support a pedophile. They need to know they stupid, wrong, and dangerous.

  • Epstein Files: X Users Are Asking Grok to 'Unblur' Photos of Children

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  • In the case of what wound up on Roman Numeral Ten (formerly twitter) that's correct, but given the actual PDF dump from the gov, if they just slapped an annotation on top of the image it'll be possible to remove it and reveal what's underneath.

  • Epstein Files: X Users Are Asking Grok to 'Unblur' Photos of Children

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  • It was simpler than that. You can just copy the black highlighter text and paste it anywhere.

  • The WHOLE system? Do you promise?

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  • Pretty sure if everyone in the Epstein files was shot I'd still have a job, a boss, bills, hunger, thirst, neighbors, etc.

  • MacOS is the worst Operating System

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  • Ignoring your speculation on the source of my expectations, the expectation that when an application is not doing something I asked it to (i.e. making draw calls to my window manager, processing data, polling for updates or notifications, etc) it doesn't run at all is not unreasonable.

    To continue to run when I've instructed it that I'm done and that I have no further work for it is a violation of my intent in interacting with the machine I own. On Windows that violation is up the app developer and most that implement such systems have a settings option to disable staying alive. On MacOs Apple has made the decision of what I want, and, at least in my case, it's the wrong one. On Linux I have extremely acute control over whatever the heck my computer is doing and it works how I like it. Linux is a good OS.

  • MacOS is the worst Operating System

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  • If I close all documents I don't want the app running. It takes up visual space in the dock making it more cluttered and it takes up more RAM or swap space that I'd rather have allocated to things I'm doing than to things I've told the computer I'm not doing.

  • Save as PDF

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  • It's a fine format for what it's intended for, exact preservation of content, format, and layout. Once you start looking at a the immutable archivist/distribution format and start thinking to yourself "I'd rather like to edit that" then you've messed up.

  • MacOS is the worst Operating System

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  • Unix underpinnings make it comfortable for developer work, but that does not necessarily make it good for power users.

    MacOs is pretty locked down and basic which makes it a reasonable choice for someone that just needs a computer, but if you're the kinda person who wants to tinker with and change a bunch of stuff to make your computer work for you (i.e. a power user) you're gonna meet resistance.