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[–] [email protected] 37 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

The correct order to watch all 4:

  • Cars
  • Cars 3
[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

I hope they're just patenting this to prevent other manufacturers from doing it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

I remember using Xiph's integer implementation of Ogg Vorbis on my Nokia N-Gage (Symbian S60). I wonder if it's not a priority for Opus. IIRC, Opus is floats all the way down.

update: it exists.

https://wiki.xiph.org/OpusFAQ#Is_there_a_fixed-point_implementation?

[–] [email protected] 33 points 4 days ago (5 children)

Even if you can't cleanly remove it, you can probably delete a few system files and break it. It's not like the whole thing will be baked into kernel32.dll.

[–] [email protected] 86 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (8 children)

IPv6. Stop engineering IoT junk on single-stack IPv4, you dipshits.

Ogg Opus. It's superior to everything in every way. It's free and there is absolutely no reason to not support it. It blows my mind that MPEG 1.0 Layer III is still so dominant.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

I love this standard. If you dig deeper into it, the standard also covers a way to express intervals and periods. E.g. "P1Y2M10DT2H30M" represents one year, 2 months, 10 days, 2 hours and 30 mins.

I recall once using the standard when writing a cron-style scheduler.

I also like the POSIX "seconds since 1970" standard, but I feel that should only be used in RAM when performing operations (time differences in timers etc.). It irks me when it's used for serialising to text/JSON/XML/CSV.

Also: Does Excel recognise a full ISO8601 timestamp yet?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 days ago

I hope salary man gets the break he deserves.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Wired xbox controller for PC games.

Wired switch controller for Nintendo emulation.

I happen to have both consoles and they work instantly over USB.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

That's about $110 per household.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

This was at a stockpile yard at a port where raw mined materials were stored before being shipped.

Basically, if the wind was blowing strong enough in the right direction, it would blow over a nearby town. The problem wasn't really knowing where the dust was going, but where it was coming from. Accurate monitoring could detect exactly which pile the dust is coming from, so you could direct all the water to the source. It's impractical to wet the entire yard, as it's huge.

[–] [email protected] 66 points 1 week ago (13 children)

This reminds me of something I worked on at my last job. I made software to detect plumes of dust pollution from a mining site blowing onto a nearby school and town. The EPA issued fines if they detected too much dust over the town. This system could catch it early for quick intervention.

After it was deployed, I got a glimpse of their production config. They hadn't configured the alarms for early intervention. They had configured them so that they could get as close as possible to their allocated limit before they intervened at all. Because, ya know, spraying water on stockpiles of ore is expensive.

Fucking mining companies, man.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

I know about that one. The 800MB "fix" for it has been crashing machines quite hard.

I don't have that problem because I don't run Windows.

Windows is shit.

 
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