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sk0g commented on Dynamic music and sound techniques for video games   blog.gingerbeardman.com/2... · Posted by u/ecliptik
rkagerer · 2 years ago
I've noticed while playing PC and Android games, volume will sometimes apparently increase or decrease on it's own - without me touching the volume knob or any visible change in the volume setting. Is there some known bug in common (eg. Realtek?) drivers or hardware that may explain it? Has anyone else encountered?
sk0g · 2 years ago
Is some sort of volume "equalisation" or compression being applied maybe? Could also be reacting to the change in ambient volume conditions otherwise.
sk0g commented on Report Phone Spam – Shut down robocallers and text spammers   reportphonespam.org/... · Posted by u/troydavis
AussieWog93 · 2 years ago
This might be a cultural thing, but at least in Australia nobody under the age of 60 would ever leave a voicemail.

If you're deliberately making yourself hard to contact this way, a lot of people will just stop calling you.

sk0g · 2 years ago
That's surprising to me, almost everyone I know will leave voicemail. Recruiters especially, which tends to be myst of my legitimate phone calls TBH!

Though with people of my age "cold calling" isn't all that common, typically you text the person first to make sure they are available and keen on a call. Unless it's an emergency of some sort, of course.

sk0g commented on Report Phone Spam – Shut down robocallers and text spammers   reportphonespam.org/... · Posted by u/troydavis
mastazi · 2 years ago
Wait a second, do you pick up any call you receive? IME Australia is one of the worst places with regards to spam calls (by far the worst out of all countries I lived in), if I allow calls from numbers not already in my contacts, I get an average of around 10 spam calls per week. If it's something important like my daughter's school or strata or the lawyer, they do leave voicemails.
sk0g · 2 years ago
Honestly pre-COVID I got spam calls maybe once a quarter. After giving out my number every second time I left the house, that number is more like a few times a week.

I would say I am pretty privacy conscious (when possible), so this may not be the average person's experience.

sk0g commented on Report Phone Spam – Shut down robocallers and text spammers   reportphonespam.org/... · Posted by u/troydavis
TeMPOraL · 2 years ago
Why are ads a thing on cable? On the web? It's literally the same problem, and since this site's audience is likely more familiar with the latter, it should be clear it's not a technological failure, but a social/legal one.
sk0g · 2 years ago
YouTube ads have no ability to interrupt my day-to-day life out of the blue, and also don't poison a legitimately useful communication medium for personal relationships.

Phone spam is much more harmful than ads you kinda-sorta opt into, IMO.

sk0g commented on Report Phone Spam – Shut down robocallers and text spammers   reportphonespam.org/... · Posted by u/troydavis
viraptor · 2 years ago
Because contrary to the page, they don't really care about the spam that much. Now, if more people started calling the support for every spam they get... that would translate to some real cost.
sk0g · 2 years ago
Who would bear that cost though? My prediction would be the customers again, because they would make the phone support harder to reach than it already is as a "solution" to the increased demand for phone support.
sk0g commented on The world nearly adopted a calendar with 13 months of 28 days   washingtonpost.com/histor... · Posted by u/benbreen
stavros · 2 years ago
Ahh Paraskevi is the Greek name as well! It means "preparation" or "manufacturing".
sk0g · 2 years ago
Oh nice, the more you know! Kvira probably refers to the same word meaning "week", but seems like there's theories it could derive from Greek mythology as well.

Lots of influence from Greek culture in Georgia for sure. For a fun fact, the Georgian for "Greece" is saberdzneti -- the land of the wise. Berdzeni itself means wise (as well as Greek), but I'm not certain if it's derived from an alternative historical name for the Greek.

sk0g commented on The world nearly adopted a calendar with 13 months of 28 days   washingtonpost.com/histor... · Posted by u/benbreen
stavros · 2 years ago
The Greek word for Monday literally means "second day". Tuesday is "third day", up to Thursday, "fifth day".
sk0g · 2 years ago
Similar for Georgian, Monday through to Thursday are named roughly "two-Sabbath" to "five-Sabbath", with Saturday being Sabbath of course. Not sure why those numbers, but I assumed it was because it was the number of days past Saturday?

Friday and Sunday get different names, unrelated to Sabbath as far as I can tell -- paraskevi and kvira.

sk0g commented on Cooperative C++ Evolution – Toward a TypeScript for C++   herbsutter.com/2023/10/09... · Posted by u/pierre-renaux
jmisavage · 2 years ago
I'm confused doesn't C# fill this role?
sk0g · 2 years ago
C# does not transpile to C++, so no. You are still left with the .net runtime, garbage collection, etc.
sk0g commented on California suspends Cruise's autonomous vehicle deployment   reuters.com/business/auto... · Posted by u/ra7
HDThoreaun · 2 years ago
Any bus that has stops every 100-200 feet is unbearably slow. Even every 1/8 of a mile is too much to be an time efficient mode of transportation unless you have BRT imo.
sk0g · 2 years ago
(On average), for a walk to the stop of 100-200 feet the bus would need to stop every 200-400 feet. 300 ft seems to be roughly 100m, which is probably much too short a distance still. 250m or ~800 ft aligns better to my experience with cities with good transit, and in the worst case scenario you have to walk 125m to your nearest stop.
sk0g commented on This is what the year actually looks like (2018)   nrkbeta.no/2018/01/01/thi... · Posted by u/nkurz
aaronharnly · 2 years ago
Found the Atlassian employee :)
sk0g · 2 years ago
I wish :) I feel like I use BitBucket more than they do; JIRA has dark mode while BB doesn't...
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