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New comment by porbelm in "Listen to what gets lost when an MP3 is made (2015)"

porbelm — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 10:54:06 +0000

With space not much of an issue anymore, FLAC is pretty much the default nowadays. And even though Opus and AAC and others have better encoding than old MP3, but I guess a 128 Kbps MP3 encoded in the original Fraunhofer l3enc (the best back then) and one encoded with LAME will be different - and the LAME version will be "better" because of improvements in psychoacoustics? At least I remember l3enc being MUCH better than anything else at 128 Kbps (Xing lol, cymbal washing anyone?) before LAME came along.

New comment by porbelm in "Grim Fandango"

porbelm — Sun, 10 Nov 2024 12:37:12 +0000

I learned "vee-hickle" from the TV show M.A.S.H

New comment by porbelm in "Grim Fandango"

porbelm — Sun, 10 Nov 2024 12:35:22 +0000

Same experience here. I loved The Great Mouse Detective, at age 8. Not much later I read The Dark Knight in a translated trade paperback, and it really tickled my little mind. There was a trend of having comic adaptations of movies back then, so I also read and loved the License to Kill comic and was disappointed when Terminator 2 omitted some scenes in the movie -- until the Director's Cut came out.

I was certainly not traumatized (apart from the week of nightmares after seeing Alien one night on TV at age 12). Because of this, I had no arguments when I learned my 11 and 13 year old kids' mom and their stepdad had secured tickets for us to go see Deadpool & Wolverine when I was visiting last time.

Kids understand more than one may think, depending on how much "real life" they assimilate through culture (and parental guidance), I believe.

New comment by porbelm in "Trump wins presidency for second time"

porbelm — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 09:36:09 +0000

But... but... Trump's policies are even more tax breaks for the rich and tariffs on everything, do people not understand this?

New comment by porbelm in "Nobel Peace Prize for 2024 awarded to Nihon Hidankyo"

porbelm — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 20:28:01 +0000

We have an atmosphere.

New comment by porbelm in "Tesla Robotaxi"

porbelm — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 20:20:51 +0000

I do recognise his major contributions: Made electric cars commonplace sooner than I thought with the Model S, financed SpaceX's doubtlessly awesome progress, and... well that's pretty much it.

Thing is, the illusion is fading, his previously "inscrutable" politics are on his sleeve, and you can't just pretend he's not a complete liability for any company because of his irrational, and frankly childish, behaviour.

New comment by porbelm in "Tesla Robotaxi"

porbelm — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 20:16:35 +0000

Yeah of course I can't find it now, there was some lame Youtuber memelord that let his buddy shoot at it with a handgun and at least one bullet went through. But I also see that it can resist it, so IDK and retract my statement.

I do know the difference between the calibers though, having shot a few different weapons in different calibers (as a hobby & in the military)

New comment by porbelm in "Tesla Robotaxi"

porbelm — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 08:49:20 +0000

They also use remote drivers though.

New comment by porbelm in "Tesla Robotaxi"

porbelm — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 08:45:59 +0000

There are videos of people shooting holes in it with 9mm at least.

New comment by porbelm in "Porch Pirates Are Stealing AT&T iPhones Delivered by FedEx"

porbelm — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 07:42:48 +0000

It's strange, here in Norway I usually get phishing attempts of the "check your parcel" variety around the time something is on its way with DHL from another country. I guess they have someone on the inside that supplies the tracking numbers.

New comment by porbelm in "Tesla Cybertruck 'too big and sharp' for European roads, say campaigners"

porbelm — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 21:35:13 +0000

The thing will never, ever be approved under EU rules, and the only bad thing about that is that I'll never get the chance to point and laugh at the driver of one.

New comment by porbelm in "Vikings in al-Andalus and the Maghreb"

porbelm — Sun, 28 Jul 2024 08:21:04 +0000

The appropriation of the Scandinavian norrøn viking lore by the extreme right/nazi-adjacent/nazi groups is so annoying. I'm from around Tønsberg (look it up) and we have a lot of people with a healthy, normal interest in the old medieval stuff. We also have a lot of people that use it for their nazi feelgood shit. Problem is, you can't tell 'em apart unless you can see their other, less visible tattoos :(

New comment by porbelm in "Domino's retreats from Italy having failed to conquer the home of pizza (2022)"

porbelm — Sun, 23 Jun 2024 09:34:47 +0000

Pizza is a little bit of flour, yeast, water and salt; crushed tomatoes; herbs, cheese, and whatever other toppings. It's a super cheap thing to make, even fresh, in a place where all these ingredients are already cheap basic stuff.

New comment by porbelm in "Domino's retreats from Italy having failed to conquer the home of pizza (2022)"

porbelm — Sun, 23 Jun 2024 09:31:44 +0000

Knowing the pizzaiolos and other southern italians I work with over this summer, this was no surprise... There's a reason there are no pineapples, in any form, on this island. They are, understandably, crazy proud of their pizza and other food. When their fast food has been clean, local, and fresh ingredients, thrown together in a jiffy, for ages, anything else is a desecration :D

New comment by porbelm in "Hacking millions of modems and investigating who hacked my modem"

porbelm — Tue, 04 Jun 2024 10:18:47 +0000

Yeah when a company says one of their responsible disclosure rules amounts to "just don't ruin our prod system, or reveal or steal data pls" they basically invite you to try and break in - responsibly.

New comment by porbelm in "Knulli Linux – Custom Firmware for Retro Emulation Devices"

porbelm — Fri, 17 May 2024 18:47:29 +0000

So that's the name you're going for, yeah? snickers in Norwegian

New comment by porbelm in "Americans 'just work harder' than Europeans, says wealth chief"

porbelm — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 19:00:37 +0000

No reason to work yourself to death like in the US though

New comment by porbelm in "Attempted Audio Deepfake Call Targets LastPass Employee"

porbelm — Sun, 14 Apr 2024 12:41:55 +0000

Wow, LastPass did not fuck up a security thing? That's so not like them.

New comment by porbelm in "Running DOS Apps on Windows from 1.0 to 95 (2020)"

porbelm — Sat, 13 Apr 2024 10:37:18 +0000

DesqView. Used it for BBS stuff, like being logged into admin at the same time as having a user on AND running Norton Commander or whatever at the same time.

New comment by porbelm in "Smoking cannabis is now legal in Germany"

porbelm — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 10:13:38 +0000

How high were you when you wrote this ;)