Dawncloack posted:There was an old XKCD strip where cueball makes reference to some very specific decision that was taken when programming 3D graphics. I don't know the xkcd strip but it sounds like this https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_inverse_square_root
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veni veni veni posted:I clicked on some alt right Youtube video out of morbid curiosity earlier this week and it immediately poo poo up all of my recommendations with similar crap. How do I get this to go away? marking them as "not interested" does nothing. The thing that annoys me most though is how often my recommendations are videos I've already watched. That's one of the options you can give for why you're not interested in specific videos, but as far as I can see there's no way to just tell it "don't ever recommend videos I've already seen".
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Jul 1, 2018 12:14
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Sulla-Marius 88 posted:I don't know the xkcd strip but it sounds like this To piggyback off this — the mouseover text here, perhaps? https://xkcd.com/664/
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Jul 1, 2018 12:22
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veni veni veni posted:I clicked on some alt right Youtube video out of morbid curiosity earlier this week and it immediately poo poo up all of my recommendations with similar crap. How do I get this to go away? marking them as "not interested" does nothing. Go to your watch history, click on the x on the video, it'll be to the right of the video. Delete it from your history and youtube *should* stop recommending it to you.
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Jul 1, 2018 12:33
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Just a quick one, do we have any thread dedicated to fixing/rebinding old books? I checked both TBB and DIY but nothing seemed to come up.
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Jul 1, 2018 18:02
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spog posted:Buy youself an avatar for $5 and stop looking like a Stupid Newbie. Also, it's apparently impossible for even an admin to tell who bought an avatar so you don't have to worry about being hunted down unless you make it really obvious!
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Jul 1, 2018 18:24
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veni veni veni posted:I clicked on some alt right Youtube video out of morbid curiosity earlier this week and it immediately poo poo up all of my recommendations with similar crap. How do I get this to go away? marking them as "not interested" does nothing. Do you also do the 'Tell us why' part? That seems to work for me. Then there's also deleting it from your history like Leal said.
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Jul 1, 2018 19:17
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Anybody have that webcomic where a guy is in a library and reads advice that he should smile at people more, so he smiles at a girl with this hilarious face and she leaves terrified with the guy still making the face in the background? e: Found it El Jeffe fucked around with this message at 01:07 on Jul 2, 2018 |
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Jul 1, 2018 19:33
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El Jeffe posted:Do you also do the 'Tell us why' part? That seems to work for me. Then there's also deleting it from your history like Leal said. Leal posted:Go to your watch history, click on the x on the video, it'll be to the right of the video. Delete it from your history and youtube *should* stop recommending it to you. Cool thanks. Tried these and it seems to have worked
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Jul 1, 2018 20:19
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What’s the difference between using vodka or baking soda for a DIY air freshener spray? I’m making something to spray around after cooking.
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Jul 2, 2018 04:02
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Why is it on twitter, sometimes you'll be looking at a thread and there's a button to show more posts, but you click it and there are no more posts? Also, is there a setting on twitter so that you can automatically show things even though they have "sensitive" language? I'm Australian, we're pretty difficult to offend with words.
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Jul 2, 2018 06:18
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Memento posted:Why is it on twitter, sometimes you'll be looking at a thread and there's a button to show more posts, but you click it and there are no more posts? I don't use Twitter so I can't help you but I'm an expat Aussie and I'd say that we are actually pretty thin skinned Possibly the extra posts got deleted or they don't bother counting total number of remaining posts each time they load more, they just grab the next X until there's no results returned
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Jul 2, 2018 08:02
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Memento posted:Why is it on twitter, sometimes you'll be looking at a thread and there's a button to show more posts, but you click it and there are no more posts? This is for the web interface, I think the mobile app doesn't even have a button to see possibly low-quality tweets.
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Jul 2, 2018 08:20
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Speaking of Twitter, is there a way to turn off the “in case you missed it” stuff? Sometimes I’ll be following an event tweet by tweet and it’ll take one tweet out of the timeline and display it later as “icymi” assuming I suppose that I skipped a bunch of tweets. I just want a consistent timeline so I can read tweets in the order they’re made.
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Jul 2, 2018 14:38
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PRADA SLUT posted:What’s the difference between using vodka or baking soda for a DIY air freshener spray? I’m making something to spray around after cooking. In short, the baking soda is much cheaper and wouldn't make your house smell like vodka
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Jul 2, 2018 14:41
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Sarrisan posted:Speaking of Twitter, is there a way to turn off the “in case you missed it” stuff? Sometimes I’ll be following an event tweet by tweet and it’ll take one tweet out of the timeline and display it later as “icymi” assuming I suppose that I skipped a bunch of tweets. I just want a consistent timeline so I can read tweets in the order they’re made. I’m not sure if this exists in the native twitter client but you should just spend 5 bucks and get Tweetbot. No timeline fuckery, no promoted tweets, just chronological posts from accounts I follow.
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Jul 2, 2018 15:23
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Lawnie posted:I’m not sure if this exists in the native twitter client but you should just spend 5 bucks and get Tweetbot. No timeline fuckery, no promoted tweets, just chronological posts from accounts I follow. This is exactly what I was looking for, $5 seems like a bargain.
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Jul 2, 2018 15:31
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CzarChasm posted:In short, the baking soda is much cheaper and wouldn't make your house smell like vodka Baking soda, otoh, will gradually create a layer of the stuff on everything that you don't clean regularly. In any case, I've never heard of either being used as a deodorizer, though I could see the baking soda working at least somewhat if the mist evaporates quickly enough to leave a fine powder in the air.
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Jul 2, 2018 16:21
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OK I'm now a patron. What's this Discord thing? I'm not a gamer btw so is there any use to it other than gaming?
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Jul 2, 2018 21:54
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General socializing platform with some game-specific features. Like a combination of Skype, BBS, and IRC
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Jul 2, 2018 22:28
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How come when I scan my public transport ticket it doesn't work if my credit card is within five metres of it because the machine gets confused and half the time just doesn't work anyway, but my local library has a machine that you can just sit a stack of books on and it instantly identifies all of them? Is it a different technology? If so, why aren't they using that in public transport and credit cards? If it's the same technology, why does one work so much better than the other?
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Jul 3, 2018 09:37
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Jiru posted:Just a quick one, do we have any thread dedicated to fixing/rebinding old books? I checked both TBB and DIY but nothing seemed to come up. Have you tried asking in the literature thread? Should at least get some sort of response to your question in there https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3643994&pagenumber=420&perpage=40
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Jul 3, 2018 10:03
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You know how you can get good at video games by playing them a bunch? Can you do the same to learn piano? Also how long does it take to learn the piano if you are some shumck that has never played a thing in his life? Also also, once you learn can you (basically) play anything? or is it like learning a new thing for each song?
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Jul 3, 2018 11:51
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504 posted:You know how you can get good at video games by playing them a bunch? Wouldn’t it just be repetition and learning patterns? I’m sure you could. It would take longer without lessons but sure you could. I learned how to play bass guitar (to some degree) by just listening to songs and following along.
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Jul 3, 2018 11:55
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504 posted:You know how you can get good at video games by playing them a bunch? Of course you can, that's how anyone gets good at anything. Your last question also makes no sense if you think about it for a second in terms of any other skill, like your video games example. Do you "learn to play" a platformer and then you can just play it? Or do you start off bad at them and then get better and find that you can transfer the skills you learned playing one platformer to another one? Get a cheap keyboard and some piano books and off you go (a teacher or youtube videos might be useful too if you've really had nothing to do with music before).
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Jul 3, 2018 12:15
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Learning to play a musical instrument is a complex process and varies a lot depending on the person. In attempting to learn any complex skill, it's generally useful to break that skill into various sub-skills and practice them independently before combining them. It's also useful to separate theory from technique and study both separately. Like many things, it's easier if you're younger when you start learning, but an adult can still do well if they're dedicated to learning the skill. I never learned piano so I can't offer any specifics on how to get started but I'm sure there are tons of books/websites/YouTube videos and plenty of local teachers in your area.
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Jul 3, 2018 12:30
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Any decent book/video series/teacher will start simple and introduce new concepts as they go. There really isn't much to break down with first learning an instrument, especially piano where you just tap the keys at the right time and it practically plays itself (to quote a composer I'm too lazy to look up right now). Anyway, if you tried to break it down into scales and theory etc too early you'd suck all the fun out of it.
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As with most things, your enjoyment of playing music increases dramatically if you start doing it with other people, so focusing on achieving some basic ensemble musician skills will help with reaching a point where you can do that. A bit of sight reading, improvisation around chord structures, and practicing playing things by ear are all mid-level skills* that will be really valuable playing with other people. * Mid-level to have some basic facility with this stuff, obviously really good ability with all these things marks you out as a top class musician.
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504 posted:You know how you can get good at video games by playing them a bunch? Sort of. You get better at anything the more you do it but you really have to learn how to learn to master any musical instrument. You'll sound like total rear end when you start but that's fine. Get books and lessons, watch some YouTube. Start with simple, easy things and techniques. Once you've got those go harder. Then keep going. If you want to learn more keep going for a harder song or technique than the last one. As for how long that varies. Do you want to play classical masterpieces? See you in a few years, if ever. That takes a gently caress ton of time. The people who become the best generally dedicate their lives to it with room for little else. Do you just want to play popular songs as a hobby? That happens more quickly. So the question there is really which one you're after. Of course you can also not decide that right now and just start and see where it takes you. But if you only play the same five songs all you'll do is get better at those songs. But hey if you think learning piano sounds cool loving go for it. There are worse things to do with your time for sure.
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Music is made of building blocks basically. Play basically any notes in the same key and it sounds ok. You start learning notes and basic rhythms, carry on to chords and intervals and so on. You'll quickly start to recognize those building blocks in every piece you play and eventually be able to improvise using those pieces. I'm a drummer though, so not really qualified to give advice on this. Piano seems like a good instrument to start with.
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504 posted:Also how long does it take to learn the piano if you are some shumck that has never played a thing in his life? The famous number quoted is 10,000 hours, but really that's for becoming a super virtuoso type master. You can get passably good much quicker than that, especially if you're playing pop songs* and not advanced conciertos. Learn what a major scale is, learn what a major chord sounds like, learn to play the I, IV and V chords of that scale, and you're 90% of the way to what most people at a party would care to hear. Start peppering in minors (like the vi) and 4-note chords like a dominant chord (V7) and you can do some pretty cool stuff without having to be any good at playing fast melodic lines or whatever. For the second question, you'll learn very quickly that songs are not as different as they sound to the untrained ear. Like I said before those chords are the building blocks for the majority of what you hear out there. Of course a lot of songs will have their little quirks if you really wanna nail exactly what the original performer did, but once you get the foundations of playing chords within a particular key the rest is all window dressing and practice. *and by pop I don't just mean "modern-ish r&b type hits", but literally any popular genre of music since about the turn of the 20th century. Blues, swing, rock, metal, folk, country, r&b, they've all got frameworks that, while not universal, will let you learn to write a passable song or pick up an existing recording pretty quickly.
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Tiggum posted:How come when I scan my public transport ticket it doesn't work if my credit card is within five metres of it because the machine gets confused and half the time just doesn't work anyway, but my local library has a machine that you can just sit a stack of books on and it instantly identifies all of them? Is it a different technology? If so, why aren't they using that in public transport and credit cards? If it's the same technology, why does one work so much better than the other? I have no idea which particular system your local library uses, but a lot of the common RFID tag solutions for libraries involve much larger transponders and antennas than would fit in the tiny space alloted in a credit card, or the somewhat larger space for a dedicated farecard. This generally allows for clearer reading and less chance of material blocking a proper read. Additionally, a library is going to use the exact same sort of tags for all its books, which means it's much easier to reduce interference between each other and make sure the reader system can properly tell them apart. Likely your farecard was manufactured and designed by a different group altogether than your credit card. And finally, your local transport system probably has lovely readers in general or they aren't maintaining the equipment well.
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did tinder change the way it worked? It used to be you swipe on someone and they swipe on you and you get a match and its free, I just popped into a new tinder account and instead of a match I got a like and when I click on it it asks me to pay for it?
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Jul 4, 2018 03:18
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Doorknob Slobber posted:did tinder change the way it worked? It used to be you swipe on someone and they swipe on you and you get a match and its free, I just popped into a new tinder account and instead of a match I got a like and when I click on it it asks me to pay for it? Is it a feature where you can pay to see who liked you without having to like them back? That's just a guess.
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Tiggum posted:Is it a feature where you can pay to see who liked you without having to like them back? That's just a guess. That might be it, kind of what I was wondering.
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If you've swiped right on everyone you find acceptably attractive and it's giving you that message then you got liked by an uggo so don't bother paying.
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This is anecdotal, but I have a friend who uses Tinder a lot to go on dates or hook up, and he says it's gotten much harder to get matches in the past year. Likely they have changed the algorithms to push more users into paying.
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regulargonzalez posted:If you've swiped right on everyone you find acceptably attractive and it's giving you that message then you got liked by an uggo so don't bother paying. Or a fake profile run by someone contracted by tinder to run fake profiles to pad the female:male ratio and entice more guys into paying $30/month
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So you know how in the vacuum of space you can only dissipate heat through radiation? Let's say you're stranded in space and being hit by sunlight, wouldn't that heat you up over time and eventually burn you alive? Or would you still dissipate more heat than you take in?
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Elman posted:So you know how in the vacuum of space you can only dissipate heat through radiation? Let's say you're stranded in space and being hit by sunlight, wouldn't that heat you up over time and eventually burn you alive? Or would you still dissipate more heat than you take in? I haven't done the math but I believe you'd fry pretty quickly in sunlight, overheating is always a big concern. It'd take you a long time to freeze, though, because of how hard it is to shed heat.
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