This guy is a little annoying in the intro but this is a genuinely informative and in depth look at how different sound quality was in this earlier computing era based on your sound card hardware. You’ll likely learn something, I know I did.
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No paywall: https://archive.is/xrhez
Anyone out there still playing MUDs? Any good ones to recommend?
astronads commented on GM says new battery chemistry will enable 400-mile range EVs theverge.com/news/665223/... · Posted by u/01-_-
Lot's of EV's (including mine) can charge from 20% - 80% in 20 minutes. I would not pay extra for any faster. It takes 20 minutes to shuffle the entire family through the bathroom and buy a coffee so faster charging wouldn't save us any time.
Some EV's take an hour to go from 20-80%. That's unacceptable. But below 20 minutes is very much diminishing returns.
And 99% of our charging is done at home, where DC fast charging time is completely irrelevant.
Plenty of people would greatly appreciate charging times much quicker than 20 mins. People without large families taking long breaks, apartment dwellers, etc. would
astronads commented on Experts testify at UFO hearing in Congress text.npr.org/nx-s1-518942... · Posted by u/samizdis
The probes can’t be both so incompetent that they can’t avoid detection and competent enough to successfully fly thousands of light years over god knows how much time.
You’re making some assumptions here and I suggest you broaden your mindset a bit. First of all, at least according to testimony under oath, they are not avoiding detection and there is a plethora of high resolution imagery and sensor data, they just keep it hidden and highly classified. I get that there isn’t a lot of quality stuff coming from civilians, but we don’t know the UAP intentions or quantity. They could be just trying to observe us without freaking us out or interfering with us en masse, much like we observe animals in nature ourselves. They may only be interested in subtly monitoring our military assets and nothing else. There could be any other unknowable reasons. They may not perceive existence the same way as us, they may not have the same 5 senses or see in the same spectrums, they may not have emotions or a completely different thought process.
They also may not be light years away, but rather ultra terrestrial or interdimensional or time travelers or they use wormholes to “teleport”. We just don’t know, but the possibilities are not constrained to just your “incompetent but competent” paradox.
Edit: you may find this article thought provoking: https://jdmadden.substack.com/p/naturalizing-without-demytho...
How would you use this and ensure privacy and security? Without investing time in becoming an amateur network engineer?
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