I'm surprised to see no references to space applications. Back when I was using Kermit on CP/M I had an acquaintance who hacked Kermit for satellite coms at TRW in El Segundo. Long live W6TRW!
Readit Newsb1c837696ba28b commented on Try the last internet Kermit server changelog.complete.org/ar... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
What? The Perl 6 debacle has gone down even worse than Python 3.
Really? Was Perl 5 deprecated with prejudice across ecosystems, forcing projects to work with a janky, still-evolving replacement well ahead of production-grade stability? Because the boot marks in my ass from the forced march to Py3 are still bleeding.
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Null Island is where you will find Bias Beach, the "/dev/null" of magnetic tape recording. As in, "where is the guide vocal?" "I sent it to Bias Beach to make room for the cowbell."
b1c837696ba28b commented on How to pack a stereo signal in one record groove vinylrecorder.com/stereo.... · Posted by u/pubby
I will add that the “mid-side” technique is used elsewhere, besides record grooves:
- In compressed audio file (such as MP3)
- In signal processing chains in the studio (process mid and side channels separately, then convert back to L/R)
- In certain stereo microphone recording techniques (there is a type of microphone which records left and right, but with opposite phase)
FM radio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FM_broadcasting
> left and right, but with opposite phase
The classic mid-side mic technique uses two capsules. The first (middle) is a cardioid or omnidirectionsl facing the subject, the latter (side) is a figure-8 turned 90 degrees. The capsules should be as close to each other as possible to avoid low-frequency phase errors. The signals are converted to L+R via a simple Mid/Side network:
L = 0.707 * (M+S), R = 0.707 * (M-S)
which is where "opposite phase" comes into play.
Seeing how the new political trend is "Protect the children", (Is it new?) I can't see this not ending up in court once the AI goes off the rails.
Kids being kids are going to try really hard to get them to go off the rails.
> (Is it new?)
Nope:
b1c837696ba28b commented on If you unscrew your belly button, your bottom will fall off mrjamesbell.com/if-you-un... · Posted by u/ecornflak
"When you turn 12 you will have to get your belly button re-tied."
b1c837696ba28b commented on Colors in movies and TV: What happened to them? vox.com/culture/22840526/... · Posted by u/JaimeThompson
Just another fad.
Visual artists are very fashion driven. As technology creates new possibilities, they get abused.
In the 80/90s music videos had fade/dissolve effects. Then in early 2000s a lot of them played with the aspect ratio "black bands" (like when you play 4:3 on 16:10), making them white, pink, or textured, with border lines and other effects.
In 2010s slow-motion (high FPS played back at regular speed) was the thing. So every other video had the slow motion "water/colored dust hitting something" scene.
Since 2015, color grading is the new fad. Also unnatural weird (LED) lighting, like the left half of the frame in strong red light and the right half in strong blue light.
Color grading is also infecting instagram. For example in city photography, there is quite a trend of grading them orange/teal.
There is also a lot of social pressure to color grade. If you don't, fellow artists will say something like "look at that peasant, he didn't grade his stuff, what a noob, putting out real colors, he probably doesn't even know what a LUT is".
And then you have the honest noob who tries to improve his skill, and he sees all the pros doing it, so he concludes that he should too, since all the pros can't be wrong, even if to his eyes the strongly color graded video kind of looks like shit, but he's just probably wrong and just needs to educate his aesthetics.
There will come a point when color grading will fell out of fashion, just like you rarely see a fade/dissolve or slow-motion effect today, and when they are used it's because they make sense, not because you must do it no matter what.
Gated reverb on snare drum. Looking at you, Hugh Padgham.
b1c837696ba28b commented on · Posted by u/deepCelibate
I'm going to assume that the WAS gate was a NAND...until the smoke got let out.
See also DED: Darkness Emitting Diode.
b1c837696ba28b commented on ATT services down due to bombing in Nashville tennessean.com/story/news... · Posted by u/SpaceInvader
Upon seeing the reports of the location of this specific real-world incident I researched to try to find an article I know exists describing how indestructible those windowless telecommunications hub buildings are. Isn't there an article somewhere describing how they're hardened against unconventional military attack? Visually the Nashville structure seemed very very well reinforced.
As for the NSA angle, this location was not on the list published by the Intercept in 2018.[1]
[1] https://theintercept.com/2018/06/25/att-internet-nsa-spy-hub...
The Evolution and Special Features of Bell System Telephone Equipment Buildings: https://archive.org/details/bstj58-2-427