vithigar

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[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 56 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

The dndmemes protests were a pretty incredible thing while they lasted. The mods changed the subreddit to "nsfw" because that disabled most of the monetization. Then Reddit admins told them the subreddit obviously wasn't really nsfw and to change it to accurately reflect the subreddit content.

...so the mods changed the subreddit rules to allow actual nsfw content and people went nuts. In multiple senses of the term.

Of course "accurately reflecting the subreddit" wasn't what Reddit really cared about. They wanted to preserve the advertising stream for a popular subreddit, and this did the opposite of that. Reddit admins soon after basically said "remove nsfw content, restore the subreddit to what it used to be, do what we say or we'll replace you with a mod team of our own choosing".

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

"Clean" because all the code that does anything is split into countless three line "atomic functions" and buried under layers of observables and factories I bet.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 29 points 2 days ago (8 children)

Two and a half months is insane for a practical skills demonstration for a job interview. Those should be a couple of hours at most.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

My interest in anime has waned pretty significantly in recent years but did check out this one when I first heard about it. Absolutely excellent, fun, and very moving towards the end.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Even without any potential monetization by anyone... you kind of are? You are part of the community here, and that's what people come here for. Lemmy's community is the product it offers, and you are a piece of it.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 days ago
[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

YouTube shorts as well. I long ago stopped bothering to look at any of them after the 666th one that was like "this incredible unknown fact about (insert franchise)" that is invariably someone basically pissing themselves in excitement reiterating a main story beat as if it was some kind of hidden secret.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Durkey Tinner

Leet Moaf

Chotato Pip

Rizza Poll

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 week ago

I think you are conflating a few different concepts here.

Can you comment on the specific makeup of a “rendered” audio file in plaintext, how is the computer representing every little noise bit of sound at any given point, the polyphony etc?
What are the conventions of such representation? How can a spectrogram tell pitches are where they are, how is the computer representing that?

This is a completely separate concern from how data can be represented as text, and will vary by audio format. The "simplest", PCM encoded audio like in a .wav file, doesn't really concern itself at all with polyphony and is just a quantised representation of the audio wave amplitude at any given instant in time. It samples that tens of thousands of times per second. Whether it's a single pure tone or a full symphony the density of what's stored is the same. Just an air-pressure-over-time graph, essentially.

Is it the same to view plaintext as analysing it with a hex-viewer?

"Plaintext" doesn't really have a fixed definition in this context. It can be the same as looking at it in a hex viewer, if your "plaintext" representation is hexadecimal encoding. Binary data, like in audio files, isn't plaintext, and opening it directly in a text editor is not expected to give you a useful result, or even a consistent result. Different editors might show you different "text" depending on what encoding they fall back on, or how they represent unprintable characters.

There are several methods of representing binary data as text, such as hexadecimal, base64, or uuencode, but none of these representations if saved as-is are the original file, strictly speaking.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 week ago

Yes. Decoding a base64 encoded string will give you back the exact original data.

Importantly though, this isn't what you're seeing when you open files in a text editor as you describe in your original post, and if you copied the text of those files and saved a new copy it's very likely that it would not reproduce correctly.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago

Recover several hundred GB of disk space, if my team's experience was any indication.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago

I was casting a video to my shield from my phone and ended up needing to pause for a phone call during an ad roll. Pausing worked fine but the play button on my phone was completely unresponsive after. Thankfully the shield remote still worked, but clearly play/pause during ads is handled differently than during normal videos and something is broken.

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