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New comment by siriaan in "Removing 'um' from a recording is harder than it sounds"

siriaan — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 04:19:18 +0000

Occasional ums and ahs are fine but when every other phrase starts with a long aaaaah it can be pretty unpleasant to listen to.

New comment by siriaan in "Rotten Dot Com"

siriaan — Sun, 10 May 2026 10:25:46 +0000

I was never interested in seeing the gore pics but the library section had some great writing in it. They even had an interview with Patton Oswalt: https://web.archive.org/web/20170902074735/http://www.rotten...

New comment by siriaan in "How Pizza Tycoon simulated traffic on a 25 MHz CPU"

siriaan — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 21:22:10 +0000

Corncob 3D was a flight simulator with quite realistic physics and flat shaded 3D graphics written in x86 assembly. It ran pretty well on a 286!

New comment by siriaan in "Dinosaur Food: 100M year old foods we still eat today (2022)"

siriaan — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 21:58:21 +0000

Don't forget dirt - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geophagia#Humans

New comment by siriaan in "How Apple designs a virtual knob (2012)"

siriaan — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 21:59:08 +0000

In the physical world, sure, but there's no reason why a virtual linear slide could not be made endless

New comment by siriaan in "Boeing has started working on a 737 MAX replacement"

siriaan — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 08:09:40 +0000

There's also the issue of cargo space. The 777-300 actually has a larger hold, about 11% more. Cargo is pretty lucrative so even passenger airlines like being able to devote some of their hold space to it.

New comment by siriaan in "Tech terms I was pronouncing wrong"

siriaan — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 20:39:08 +0000

Took me several years to unlearn 'Lie-nix'!

New comment by siriaan in "Seeing Through the Spartan Mirage"

siriaan — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 18:52:48 +0000

I'd love to see someone make a kind of response to 300 based on the Battle of Leuctra where the Spartans got their butts handed to them by the Thebans

New comment by siriaan in "True Crime: Allan Pinkerton's Thirty Years a Detective (1884)"

siriaan — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 22:57:31 +0000

Not the Pinkertons, but John Sayle's Matewan from 1987 features the Baldwin-Felts agency behaving similarly.

New comment by siriaan in "Notes on Guyana"

siriaan — Sat, 09 Nov 2024 21:59:26 +0000

Just like Andorra - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3q_iqrvnC_4

New comment by siriaan in "How the SNES Graphics System Works"

siriaan — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 07:10:20 +0000

Japan used NTSC-J, not PAL. Apparently it's close enough to American NTSC that they are basically compatible.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTSC-J

New comment by siriaan in "27 Years Ago, Nintendo Almost Revolutionized Digital Games with Nintendo Power"

siriaan — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 08:56:46 +0000

Sega had basically the same service several years earlier - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_Channel

New comment by siriaan in "Earth rotation limits in-body image stabilization to 6.3 stops (2020)"

siriaan — Thu, 16 May 2024 11:51:49 +0000

Except a moving subject, of course.

New comment by siriaan in "'If anything happens, it's not suicide': Boeing whistleblower before death"

siriaan — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 07:29:14 +0000

Well a university in New Zealand got the ok to blast pigs in the head with a Glock for a blood spatter study - https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/284438/how-did-shooting-...

New comment by siriaan in "Rotating house goes up for sale in New Zealand"

siriaan — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 21:00:45 +0000

Those houses across the street are reminiscent of the sort of mid-century build you'd see lining the streets of every city and town where a young New Zealander might have grown up. So you get views of the three things your average Kiwi idolises - the sea, the bush, and the suburb.

New comment by siriaan in "Some U.S. cities are banning gas-powered leaf blowers"

siriaan — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 09:28:11 +0000

> You couldn't fit a four stroke engine to a leaf blower or chainsaw etc.

Actually not true - you can definitely get four stroke blowers, chainsaws, weed whackers, etc.

New comment by siriaan in "Could an industrial civilization have predated humans on Earth?"

siriaan — Sat, 15 Jul 2023 04:42:19 +0000

The bedrock around Göbekli Tepe is apparently limestone, so saith Wikipedia, so no, metal is not required to carve it.

New comment by siriaan in "AI Junk Is Starting to Pollute the Internet"

siriaan — Fri, 14 Jul 2023 06:44:18 +0000

I found an obvious one I thought was fairly amusing. This site acting like "The Far Pavilions" miniseries from 1984 had only just come out and was up for a second season next year, complete with a countdown clock - https://whenhbo.com/the-far-pavilions

New comment by siriaan in "How much does it cost to develop and manufacture an electronic product? (2022)"

siriaan — Mon, 29 May 2023 11:24:28 +0000

Parts printed in ABS can be smoothed with acetone vapor - https://all3dp.com/2/abs-acetone-smoothing-3d-print-vapor-sm...