Skip Navigation

InitialsDiceBearhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearhttps://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/„Initials” (https://github.com/dicebear/dicebear) by „DiceBear”, licensed under „CC0 1.0” (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)AF
Posts
0
Comments
82
Joined
2 yr. ago

  • Really astonishing what kind of stories people come up with here...

    https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/USA/united-states/murder-homicide-rate

    Look at "annual % change" for 2020/2021 and you should quickly realize that this "historic drop" is actually just a slow recline from the historic rise we just had.

    And the framing of this article is just as astonishing. The whole "does anyone even notice" spiel! Amazing.

  • Ah so you found yourself in the old conundrum of not wanting to do drugs but also not wanting to seem boring, not cool and weak.

    The solution is simple: just tell your friends that their drugs are shit and you are way more hardcore. Weed?! I mainline brown brown bitch.

  • Please do forget about .ape. Proprietary, obscure format. Only advantage is that under some circumstances it can get you higher compression rates than flac. But it's way more resource intensive to decode so that advantage is really more theoretical. Use flac, forget ape.

  • Motorola Mobility LLC, marketed as Motorola, is an American consumer electronics manufacturer primarily producing smartphones and other mobile devices running Android. Headquartered at Merchandise Mart in Chicago, Illinois, it is a subsidiary of the Chinese multinational technology company Lenovo.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_Mobility

  • Wow that's a gold mine! Some highlights:

    Every person shall be liable to a penalty [...] who [...] commit any of the following offences;

    [...]

    Every person who shall roll or carry any cask, tub, hoop, or wheel, or any ladder, plank, pole, showboard, or placard, upon any footway, except for the purpose of loading or unloading any cart or carriage, or of crossing the footway

    [...]

    Every person who shall blow any horn or use any other noisy instrument, for the purpose of calling persons together, or of announcing any show or entertainment, or for the purpose of hawking, selling, distributing, or collecting any article whatsoever, or of obtaining money or alms

    [...]

    Every person who shall wilfully and wantonly disturb any inhabitant by pulling or ringing any door-bell or knocking at any door without lawful excuse, or who shall wilfully and unlawfully extinguish the light of any lamp

    [...]

    Every person who shall fly any kite or play at any game to the annoyance of the inhabitants or passengers, or who shall make or use any slide upon ice or snow in any street or other thoroughfare, to the common danger of the passengers.

    So don't even think about checks notes flying a kite and playing games in general and also don't you dare to checks notes again slide on ice or carry a wheel on a footpath, punk!

  • This is not an issue of Bluetooth itself. Some audio devices include too large caches (because in the early days not having interrupted audio was a bigger deal than having video and audio synchronized), but you get Bluetooth audio devices just using the default SBC codec that don't have any noticeable delay. Using codecs like aptx adaptive fully solves the problem.

    The reason you don't see BT gaming headsets is not latency, it's Bluetooth missing a proper mode to submit audio in high quality bidirectionally. Long story short: when you got high quality sound on your headphones, the mic of your headset is not in use. When the mic is in use, the quality of the headphones is reduced to basically telephone call quality.

    There have been technologies trying to work around that, most important would probably be faststream, but it never really caught on. It's pretty
    obscure still, you have to take care that all the devices and software you want to use support it, so I guess it's just easier and cheaper to get a dedicated wireless gaming headset with dedicated USB dongle.

    At least since BT 5.0 I read stories that BT will be able to support gaming headsets aaaaany day now but well, nothing for now.

  • Make each program do one thing well. To do a new job, build afresh rather than complicate old programs by adding new "features".

    Unix philosophy. 50 years old idea. Imo devs would love to work that way but they are never the ones making decisions. And every CEO wants to have the new everything app ala wechat.