Are timecode vinyls cheaper than encoding the rotation of the disc directly be the player? Is it for backwards compatibility with old players?
A Phase DJ is $400 for a pair, compared to $80 for the Serato timecode vinyls.
Readit Newsvhcr commented on How Does Timecode Vinyl Work? (Pt. 3) mixxx.org/news/2025-08-27... · Posted by u/SamWhited
The only complaint I have about RSS is that it seems antagonistic to edits. It's not usual that, when refreshing my podcast RSS feed, there are multiple versions of the same episodes because they made some edit somewhere in the title or description, etc. I've had five versions of the same episode before. I feel like we should have the technology to fix this by now :P
That's what the guid / id field is for.
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vhcr commented on Electromechanical reshaping, an alternative to laser eye surgery medicalxpress.com/news/20... · Posted by u/Gaishan
I have had multiple PRK treatments. I completely understand why it is not mainstream.
It is an unpleasant procedure and the recovery is quite painful. There is a reason why it is almost never done today.
The rates of people getting PRK compared to LASIK seem to be raising.
https://moskowitz-eye.com/blog/most-popular-laser-eye-surger...
vhcr commented on Secure Boot, TPM and Anti-Cheat Engines andrewmoore.ca/blog/post/... · Posted by u/gm678
This is a hill I'm willing to die on: Failure to do proper server side checking is carelessness in the face of making a quick buck.
I distinctly remember being a kid bypassing this type of software back when it was just Game Guard at the top. There's nothing that's going to stop kids from doing it today.
It's an arms race doomed to failure until these game devs stop being lazy and just put in the sweat required to get their houses in order.
Server side checks. That's it. User input is tainted evil and you can't trust it. Anything less than server side checking is insecure.
vhcr commented on 'Safety Today Is a Luxury,' Giorgetto Giugiaro Says After His Crash jalopnik.com/1930930/gior... · Posted by u/rntn
Are we sure about this? In the US the pedestrian death rate from cars in 1980, 1990, 2000, 2010, and 2020 was 3.6, 2.6, 1.7, 1.4, and 2.0 per 100k.
Some cursory research turns up some interesting characteristics of the increase from 2010 to 2020.
• It was almost entirely in urban areas.
• Over 2/3 was on non-freeway arterials. Only about 1.4% was at intersections. (The percent of pedestrian deaths at intersections is around 16%)
• 90% was in darkness.
• It was adults. The rates for children continued to go down. For the years given above they were 2.7, 1.6, 0.8, 0.4, and 0.3 per 100k.
Cars did get heavier from 2010 to 2020 by about 4%. That would mean 4% more momentum at a given speed and 8% more kinetic energy but when dealing with getting hit by things that weigh a lot more than you do velocity is more important than momentum or kinetic energy [1], so I doubt that this was a significant factor.
Cars with shapes that are less safe did get more common, so that could be a part of it, but from where and when most of the increases were it seems there is a good chance that it is not so much that cars themselves but the behavior of drivers (and to a lesser extent) pedestrians that is mostly responsible.
Distracted driving due to phones, speeding, and reckless driving are all way up.
[1] Would you rather be hit by a Fiat 500x at 60 km/hr or the largest freight train ever constructed at 0.2 km/hr (since we usually don't talk about speeds that low to help visualize it at that speed it takes 18 seconds to go 1 meter)? The train would have 500 times the Fiat's momentum and 1.7 times the kinetic energy, but I'll definitely choose to be hit by the train. I'd even pick the train at 1 km/hr, where it has 2500 times the momentum and 42 times the kinetic energy. (Going the other way, a typical 9 mm bullet has 1/1500000th the momentum of that 0.2 km/hr train, and 1/87th the kinetic energy, but I'll the the train over the bullet).
In the late 1970s children younger than 15 represented 18% of all pedestrian fatality victims. By 2021 they represented just 2.4% of all pedestrian fatalities (NCSA, 2023c; Schneider, 2020). These decreases correspond with declining rates of walking by children as measured by national surveys of household travel (Buehler et al., 2020; Kontou et al., 2020).
https://www.nhtsa.gov/book/countermeasures-that-work/pedestr...
A public key can be associated with an individual user. Same with the pseudo-UDIDs, that are required for push notifications.
If they're so privacy-focused, can't they generate a key specific to the app?
vhcr commented on Tor: How a military project became a lifeline for privacy thereader.mitpress.mit.ed... · Posted by u/anarbadalov
If I could wager a guess, it sounds like the startup was in the business of scraping Amazon.
You won't be able to scrape Amazon using Tor.