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ocal5 commented on A 6-Hour Time-Stretched Version of Brian Eno's Music for Airports   openculture.com/2025/03/a... · Posted by u/vinhnx
ocal5 · 5 months ago
In this field : Windows 95 startup sound, from Brian Eno as well : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnoX3E2WFcc
ocal5 commented on 56k modems relied on digital trunk lines   hackaday.com/2025/03/06/w... · Posted by u/beardyw
xnx · 6 months ago
I'm still mad that they high-quality voice audio possible through ISDN didn't become ubiquitous. It's ridiculous to hear the clipped frequency range of a plain old telephone line during radio interviews in 2025.
ocal5 · 6 months ago
Also, you may never beat it’s low latency / jitter anymore.
ocal5 commented on Show HN: An homage to Tom Dowdy's 1991 screensaver, "Kaos"   thestrikeagency.com/kaos/... · Posted by u/noduerme
ocal5 · 7 months ago
Thanks, that's beautiful to discover.

From : https://www.themacattic.com/apps/8730/downloads2/About_DarkS...

Kaos Kaos draws “cloudlike” pictures in color using an interative fractal algorithm. This fader comes to you thanks to Reinoud Lamberts, and I recommend you check out his excellent “Kaos” program which is available on Usenet and other places. Reinoud was nice enough to send me the algorithm he used, and I took some time speeding it up and making it use a bit less memory – actually the final code isn't related very much to his, but the algorithm is. However, this fader still will only work on machines with 32 bit Color QuickDraw – sorry all of you Plus and Classic owners! Kaos renders its data into an offscreen area, finally moving it onto the screen once the image has darkened enough. Kaos continues darkening the image and displaying it to you until either a timer expires (3 minutes) or an element of the image becomes fully intense. Unless you select otherwise in the settings dialog, you will see a small dot moving from the bottom of the screen to the top – this is a “progress” indicator to let you know how far away the first image will be. It takes about 15 seconds to generate the first picture on a Mac II class machine. This fader needs a good deal of RAM and a large amount of CPU – so this fader isn't a good one to leave running if you are doing background printing, downloads, or compiles at the same time. The current SIZE resource within in the fader provides enough RAM for a standard Apple RGB monitor to be rendered at half resolution. You may lower this value (which will result in a chunkier image) or increase it (which will result in a slightly smoother image) via ResEdit. Those of you with 32 bit displays will find you can actually decrease it a great deal (probably to around 40 or 50 K) because 32 bit displays do not require the large offscreen rendering area that 8 bit displays do.

ocal5 commented on Show HN: An homage to Tom Dowdy's 1991 screensaver, "Kaos"   thestrikeagency.com/kaos/... · Posted by u/noduerme
Eduard · 7 months ago
I can't find "Macintosh Garden".
ocal5 · 7 months ago
Under the screen : )
ocal5 commented on Company claims 1k% price hike drove it from VMware to open source rival   arstechnica.com/informati... · Posted by u/elorant
kibwen · 9 months ago
Agreed. Don't express changes in percentages, express them as multiples.

In addition, don't express changes in terms of ratios, express them in terms of actual quantities.

So instead of saying "our efficiency increased by 100%", get rid of the ratio and express it as a multiple of the relevant underlying quantities, e.g. "our costs are 0.5x".

ocal5 · 9 months ago
> don't express changes in terms of ratios, express them in terms of actual quantities.

Would be lovely, but transparency is not good for every way of doing business :’ )

ocal5 commented on Send someone you appreciate an official 'Continue and Persist' Letter   ContinueAndPersist.org... · Posted by u/adnanaga
aetherspawn · 9 months ago
I think the rules are you have to put a Show HN: in the title when you self post
ocal5 · 9 months ago
Yes, but, they admit they’re not lawyers :’ )

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ocal5 commented on Show HN: I made a tiny camera with super long battery life   toaster.llc/photon/... · Posted by u/davekeck
whatahw · a year ago
What is the use case? Trail cameras already do this and they cost $50 instead of $200 with better photo quality and better motion sensing.

Oh and they take video too.

ocal5 · a year ago
> better photo quality and better motion sensing

Would you have some specific model in mind, and what aspects of photo quality & motion sensing are better ?

For sure, I never seen a so nicely managed battery life.

ocal5 commented on One of world’s smallest fish found to make sound as loud as a gunshot   theguardian.com/science/2... · Posted by u/sandebert
xrd · 2 years ago
Tampa Bay is having a lot of problems with noise (https://www.npr.org/2024/02/01/1228286349/south-tampa-myster...) that none of the neighbors can figure out. Some speculate on a party boat with speakers. Some are speculating is it the black drum fish (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_drum) making loud noises when mating.
ocal5 · 2 years ago
That’s Daft Punk - Daftendirekt, actually.
ocal5 commented on I Went to FOSDEM   leejo.github.io/2024/02/1... · Posted by u/leejo
ocal5 · 2 years ago
Thank you for these nice quality images and words

> a) remove the card fees, and b) increase the likely hood of the customer leaving a tip.

c) to avoid taxes : )

u/ocal5

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