WaterWaiver

@WaterWaiver@aussie.zone

I once met a person that never drank water, only soft drinks. It’s not the unhealthiness of this that disturbed me, but the fact they did it without the requisite paperwork.

Unlike those disorganised people I have a formal waiver. I primarily drink steam and crushed glaciers.

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WaterWaiver,

I think it will take insane amounts of effort to wrangle the model into not doing its own thing. Possibly more than the amount of effort it takes to animate manually.

“Yes this is brilliant, now generate just a few more se… why have you added a clone of my character? What? And why have the emotions on the faces of the other two swapped again? Arghh it’s confusing the subjects again! Now the room has started strobing too, goddammit this is a bathtub not a disco!”

WaterWaiver, (edited )

SAAS isn’t a one-off purchase, it’s a rental with ongoing rental fees.

The intention of the wording of the petition is that it only covers “purchased” items. If a customer is given the impression that they are buying something then it should act like any other bought item. If they are given the impression they are renting something then it’s out of scope, that’s expected to abruptly die one day.

effectively withdrawing customers’ rights under the Australian Consumer Law to ownership and undisturbed possession of their purchased goods

^ it’s a bit subtle if you’re not familiar with the campaigns’ language.

This means other people will misinterpret it too :(

WaterWaiver,

Do geo storms affect up into the GHz where wifi sits? I can only find material talking about the ionisphere and frequencies up to HF :|

WaterWaiver,

Corrected, thankyou. I blindly took the page title.

WaterWaiver,

Little do you know that I’m secretly in charge of the Bureua Bureua Bureau. I believe https should be a premium feature that valuable customers will pay for.

WaterWaiver, (edited )

Only for certain types of capacitors. In practice they can overlap quite a bit, especially with common aluminium electrolytic capacitors (these form & dissolve complex aluminium oxide & hydroxide layers on the plates).

WaterWaiver, (edited )

There have been constant news articles coming out over the past few years claiming the next big thing in supercapacitor and battery technologies. Very few actually turn out to work practically.

The most exciting things to happen in the last few years (from an average citizen’s perspective) are the wider availability of sodium ion batteries (I believe some power tools ship with them now?), the continued testing of liquid flow batteries (endless trials starting with the claim that they might be more economic) and the reduction in costs of lithium-ion solid state batteries (probably due to the economics of electric car demand).

FWIW the distinction between capacitors and batteries gets blurred in the supercapacitor realm. Many of the items sold or researched are blends of chemical (“battery”) and electrostatic (“capacitor”) energy storage. The headline of this particular pushes the misconception that these concepts can’t mix.

My university login no longer works so I can’t get a copy of the paper itself :( But from the abstract it looks first stage, far from getting excited about:

This precise control over relaxation time holds promise for a wide array of applications and has the potential to accelerate the development of highly efficient energy storage systems.

“holds promise” and “has the potential” are not miscible with “May Be the Beginning of the End for Batteries”.

WaterWaiver,

I wouldn’t know, but it’s totally not on there, or so I’ve been told.

WaterWaiver,

Will do.

N.B. It was only upside down whilst we handled it, not as it was found.

WaterWaiver,

Glad to hear it got cared of :)

This one was only 10m from a creek, so we were not too worried.

WaterWaiver, (edited )

Meanwhile the fan PC port is absolutely amazing. I couldn’t play my copy of PD on my actual N64 because the low framerate made me motionsick, the fan-made PC port runs smooth.

This makes me remember what happened with the re3 and revc (GTA III and GTA Vice City) projects. Fans fixed so much in those games, in their spare time, and published it as a patch (so you still had to own the games). Take Two DMCA’d and sued them just before releasing their the maligned “GTA Trilogy”. I wonder if Microsoft would have done the same before releasing new Perfect Dark content?

WaterWaiver,

Are they actually reading the meter or estimating?

I’m also curious what they’re charging per kwh and monthly fee, if you’re comfortable sharing. (Please don’t upload a bill, that would allow us to find your NMI and then your address).

What is your “workshop”? Is it on the same block of land as a house, or in a commercial zone? I believe you can get it changed by calling your retailer (company who bills you for elec) but I don’t know how hard it is to convince them.

This also applies to internet which is more expensive for a business account with no difference in SLA.

Lol NBN. Yeah same backhaul and lack of SLA.

Try switching to a new provider with a residential plan, see if anyone cares.

WaterWaiver,

Anopheles nonaleggius s.s.

WaterWaiver, (edited )

I wouldn’t say placebo. It’s definitely doing something.

I would say this is still a placebo. Placebos always still do something. A sugar pill tastes sweet and modifies the sugar levels in your blood. The important questions are validity and effectiveness, not whether or not it does something.

Balanced audio will not eliminate noise in most of the circumstances where a headphone user hears noise. There are far more likely sources (the source file itself, DAC limitations, audio amp limitations, external sound from their environment, etc). It will help in some very specific circumstances, but that’s like trying to sell snow chains to all car owners on the planet because you can claim that they improve traction.

If you do work in an environment where changing to balanced headphone signalling helps… why are you working with your head inside an RF hazard zone?

(From page): However, balanced audio does a better job of eliminating noise, should it exist in your signal. In a case where extraneous noise is present

Misleading.

Noise exists in all signals. Balanced audio only “does a better job” in circumstances other than what this product is being sold for. Discussing this at all gives it false merit anyway.

EDIT: Giving this some further thought: balanced and unbalanced signalling is mostly moot when you’re an isolated device with one cable attached. From an RF standpoint you’re not forming both halves of an antenna (dipole or monopole+ground). Electrically they both look extremely similar in this scenario. Your partially conductive human arms waving around will probably couple to RF noise better than the headphone cable.

WaterWaiver,

I don’t like adaptors, as they almost always noticeably reduce audio quality.

Huh? 3.5mm to 6.35mm adapters, the small bits of metal and plastic, or are you talking about something else?

WaterWaiver,

That’s really weird o.o The adapters should just be metal and plastic, same as the cables.

Maybe they have a really weak connection internally, ie high resistance? This might lead to both lower volume in the headphones and (in some circumstances) higher noise, especially if it’s an unstable resistor.

I recommend starting a shelf of cursed items :)

WaterWaiver,

Balanced will reduce noise (in terms of RF noise, of course) significantly better than unbalanced,

In this situation I don’t think it will at all.

I don’t think that balanced vs unbalanced is actually electromagnetically that different in this particular configuration (see my edit at the end of above). Things like where the wire is sitting on your body and what pose you are in will probably affect RF noise pickup levels on the headphone wires much more than changing between bal & unbal signalling.

but the source of noise does need to be far enough away from the capturing device to not affect it directly and, therefore, be able to be negated by the balanced cable.

I didn’t get into near-field and far-field effects. I’m not sure that it really matters here, but I might be wrong.

WaterWaiver, (edited )

This could end up competitive.

Invite people to your house, give them a tour and briefly mention the shelf before scurrying them on. Watch their faces contort but don’t give them the opportunity to ask any questions.

EDIT: I have a vague guess at what could have gone wrong with your adaptor. It might have had OK L and R contacts but a broken G contact. You would then hear the difference between the L and R channels, which most often sounds like garbage. Music would be weird (entire instruments/vocals disappear) and mono audio would be silent or near-silent (so you’ll have to turn it up a lot and will hear noise).

WaterWaiver,

learned from experience the differences between using a standard jack and an XLR, and I can say that the sound is vastly cleaner with XLR (at least on a set).

Your experiences were correct, don’t doubt them. That would have been ground-referenced equipment, ie plugged into wires that eventually join a wall. RF interference would interact with that quite differently, unbal vs bal would be quite different.

WaterWaiver, (edited )

Oh. Back to resistance: Doesn’t really matter audio quality doesn’t care it’s still the same AC signal just with less amplitude

Only for ideal resistors.

Resistors are noise sources. Intentional resistors tend not to be too bad (and probably won’t be heard in this situation unless you have super-high-impedance headphones, perhaps 10’s of K), but unintentional resistors (eg corroded unstable metal contacts inside a plastic part) can be atrocious.

A few things to add to this:

(1) If your resistor acts even slightly like a diode then you will encounter partially rectified RF signals (more noise yay). Metal oxides between metals can do this, eg if the connector has crimped two badly-plated bits of metal together.

(2) Plasticisers in some plastics can leak out, causing corrosion on unseen internal metal parts.

(Of course linking all of this together is just conjecture, the causes of Moss’ bad adaptors might be something completely different)

WaterWaiver,

I thought Jobseeker was an emergency fund to assist with seeking jobs.

You’ve fallen for the rename. It didn’t used to be called “jobseeker”. It covers people who can’t work too.

Besides lemmy, what's another good reddit alternative?

Hi! Recently exiled reddit user, here. I’m curious what other alternatives to reddit there are, besides Lemmy, and Raddle, of course. Also, imho, Phuks is a good alternative, there’s no hate-speech (that I’m aware of) and people are pretty respectful. Anyways, let’s hear your suggestions! Thank you!

WaterWaiver,

Slashdot.org

Don’t forget its fork, soylentnews.org

WaterWaiver,

His other videos seem interesting too.

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