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New comment by markedathome in "Simulate cassette tape audio profiles using FFmpeg"

markedathome — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 08:55:51 +0000

Wonder if there would be a preset called "I left the tape on the dashboard too long last summer"

New comment by markedathome in "Red Hat Technical Writing Style Guide"

markedathome — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 20:48:52 +0000

Are there any comparisons between this and other style guides from the likes of IBM, DEC, Sun, Apple (Early MacOS), Microsoft, etc?

All of these had in-house printshops, so would have had some style guides even if just to provide consistency for internal use.

New comment by markedathome in "Honda conducts successful launch and landing of experimental reusable rocket"

markedathome — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 19:45:06 +0000

Using a Class N rocket motor, the High Steaks rocket reached about 8500m, earlier this year. I think Joe abandoned the thrust vector control for control surfaces within the fins to stabilise rotation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UX7NJLYyb4

New comment by markedathome in "John Cage recital set to last 639 years recently witnessed a chord change"

markedathome — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 12:09:14 +0000

is that also the album/live shows that had the audience dancing to the beats 1,2,3,4 which they thought was 4/4 but in such a way that the underlying time-signature was different?

New comment by markedathome in "5G networks meet consumer needs as mobile data growth slows"

markedathome — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 09:18:49 +0000

> The Unreal Engine 5 demo, "The Matrix Awakens", is a download of more than a terabyte. That's before decompression.

The PS5 and Xbox Series S/X both had disks that were incapable of holding a terabyte at the launch of The Matrix Awakens. Not sure where you are getting that info from, but both the X S/X and PS5 were about 30GB in size on disk, and the later packaged PC release is less than 20GB.

The full PC development system might total a TB with all Unreal Engine, Metahumans, City Sample packs, Matrix Awakens code and assets (audio, mocap, etc) but even then the consumer download will be around the 20-30GB size as noted above.

New comment by markedathome in "Amazon blew Alexa's shot to dominate AI, according to employees (2024)"

markedathome — Sat, 08 Feb 2025 20:34:03 +0000

The current favourite frustration of reddit seems to be that in the past you could cancel requests, by saying "Never mind".

Apparently now saying "Never mind" gets you an in-depth speech about Nirvana's album, or it playing.

New comment by markedathome in "Motion sickness accessibility in video games"

markedathome — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 09:56:11 +0000

I've often wondered if there is a problem with 'handedness', or more specifically 'footedness' whereby my brain is expecting the motion to start off with my right foot moving forwards first, but the game model goes left foot first. Mixed with head bobbing as well this throws off the brain's balancing model, as everything is "opposite". Certain games I have immense problems within 15 minutes playing, such that I feel drenched in cold sweat and nauseous, others I can play for hours or more without a problem, even if they are the same type of games. For instance Quake nope, Unreal tournament fine. Rainbow Six Siege fine, CoD not a chance, though Battlefield is fine. Maybe there needs to be something in games like the goofy test that snowboarders use to decide which foot forward for orientation, but more developed for motion sickness?

New comment by markedathome in "SrsRAN: Open-Source 4G/5G"

markedathome — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 21:31:13 +0000

This site[1] details setting up an LTE network, including programming a blank SIM.[2]

[1] https://www.quantulum.co.uk/blog/private-lte-with-limesdr-an...

[2] https://www.quantulum.co.uk/blog/private-lte-with-limesdr-an...

New comment by markedathome in "Why did clothing become boring?"

markedathome — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 13:39:46 +0000

Much comedy was born of the "bathe wearing your jeans" and lying on the bed trying to get tight jeans over the thighs, especially during the late 80s. Then came leggings and lycra woven into jeans that now allow slipping tight jeans on without too much fuss.

New comment by markedathome in "Phased Array Microphone (2023)"

markedathome — Fri, 22 Nov 2024 18:29:14 +0000

Microsoft Research had papers on speaker arrays that allowed speaker focus and noise cancelling a couple of decades ago. I think the technology eventually ended up in the Kinect.

I think Cisco had something similar in their large screen meeting room video conferencing systems that could do positional audio tracking of multiple people. Could be wrong, but I think that was at least 10 years or so ago, if not more.

New comment by markedathome in "Thomas E. Kurtz has died"

markedathome — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 13:12:42 +0000

The mice were the mechanism by which the hyper-intelligent, pan-dimensional beings observed their experiment. The experiment being "what is the Ultimate Question?" by running a 10 million year simulation.

New comment by markedathome in "The Impact of Jungle Music in 90s Video Game Development"

markedathome — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 11:57:24 +0000

The "Spaceman" track was used in a Levi's ad[1] which used the intro. Then everyone went out and bought the single, and rocketed it up the charts in a lot of countries. At the time there was much disappointment that the rest of the song was not like that intro.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTIrUXYLtpA

New comment by markedathome in "Australia's 3G Shutdown – Why your 4G/5G Phone is now Blocked"

markedathome — Mon, 11 Nov 2024 14:12:00 +0000

Hugh Jeffrey's video[1] on this block demonstrates the phones might be blocked, though it seems to vary depending on phone, and which telco's SIM. Often it can block one SIM from working, whilst a similar SIM will work in slot 2. or vice versa. Or they are both blocked after rebooting. Or maybe not.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIJavqEzEIw

at the time of writing the above video is listed in the OP article near the beginning. I believe Hugh references James' work in this and other videos covering the topic.

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