evo

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by evo 2mo ago
I think there's a close linkage between "predictable" and "stationary". Ultimately, if you strip everything away, either there's a core where the future looks like the past (which is equivalent to being station
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by evo 3mo ago
I wonder if there's also distortion or ring modulation stages where some of the energy above hearing range might spill into audible sidebands if they're not nyquist-limited first.
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by evo 3mo ago
Yeah, I was oversimplifying a blit, the raw waveforms are usually okay, but I distinctly remember old-school VSTs where you couldn't achieve a nice saw lead at 44.1.
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by evo 3mo ago
32-bit float has become popular in filmmaking/field recording equipment lately because, with a microphone preamp that supports it, you can capture the entire dynamic range of the microphone--there's no accidental clipping if you d
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by evo 3mo ago
24/192 is also great for digital synthesizers--if you're generating a waveform like a sawtooth that has theoretically instantaneous transitions, they can eat as much frequency as you can give them. Running at 44khz loses noticeabl
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by evo 3mo ago
Could be this (from the article): "Another scenario I can think of is that the financial model for the building requires spaces to be filled by “credit tenants,” meaning name-brand businesses of a certain caliber and creditworthiness.&
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by evo 3mo ago
Would it make sense to frame this as a Baumol's Cost Disease problem? E.g., the labor of child rearing has been historically offset by the inherent emotional surplus of the task, but the march of productivity in other sectors gradually
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by evo 5mo ago
I wonder if this is a nuclear proliferation risk--could it be used for AVLIS/SILEX?
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by evo 7mo ago
Can’t wait til someone makes a Gemini prompt to find these public keys and launch a copy of itself using them.
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by evo 7mo ago
I wish them the best, but to my knowledge most metal laser sintering setups involve powders so fine as to be both a fairly serious health concern and (depending on the metal) a plausible fuel-air explosive if there's sufficient concent
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by evo 1y ago
One of the big use cases for Genlock these days is when you're doing virtual production with LED walls; you want to make sure the screen refresh of the wall is locked to the shutter of the camera. It's almost like 'vsync&#x27
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by evo 1y ago
Another way I like to think about this is finding 'closeable' contexts to work in; that is, abstractions that are compact and logically consistent enough that you can close them out and take them on their external interface withou
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by evo 2y ago
Yeah, I think that’s traditionally the route when you’re not running with near-real-time constraints. I’m out of practice with DSP/filter math but I think there’s a constraint such that any theoretical filter that doesn’t impact phase
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by evo 2y ago
I imagine the lossy encoding process could use a bunch of stacked filters to cut away imperceptible frequencies, but filters in the general case are implemented by summing delayed copies of the input and can smear the output in the phase do
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by evo 2y ago
I feel like the thrust-to-weight dynamics on multicopter drones don’t really lend themselves to heavy payloads like water bombing in the quantities needed. An additional issue is that, due to wanting to maximize power density for the high a
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by evo 2y ago
My take is that this (and similar effects in other media) is the consequence of the rise of targeted advertising. Prior to the advent of surveillance capitalism, there was a vested interest in the development and refining of subcultures. So
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by evo 2y ago
I feel like the most novel aspect of this image is an implication of the shape of the reflective casing at the far rear of the device--it seems to suggest a parabolic "shaped charge" sort of focusing element that likely helps to b
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by evo 2y ago
Perhaps it has to do with the relative densities of RP-1 versus methane?
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by evo 2y ago
I suspect that would fall under the rule that if two black holes’ respective event horizons ever cross, they merge and initiate the eventual merger of the two respective black holes.
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by evo 3y ago
Not only are these aircraft hangar sized buildings with soundproofing, they’re also likely wired for hundreds of amps of lighting, including truss and catwalk systems to he able to position and distribute that lighting. I could see it addin
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by evo 3y ago
I suspect if you're wary about fomite spread of disease (later shown to be airborne for COVID but initially assumed), then it's easy to pick up a phobia of grappling the handlebars of a scooter that a stranger has recently used. A
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by evo 3y ago
It’s less that this allows new unprecedented weapons, and more that this allows one to validate material properties in similar conditions to a nuclear bomb detonation without actually testing a full scale device. This lets one verify and re
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by evo 3y ago
This gave me a bunch of insight into the workings of those old survival tricks of using analog watch hands to find cardinal directions: - Since the video starts at solar noon, the sun is always at 12:00 relative to the video. - Swapping ref
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by evo 3y ago
I suspect that they would, if for no other reason that if the direct action is indiscriminate in whom it harms, then the well-heeled will have the resources necessary to seek compensation via litigation while the marginalized will be out of
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by evo 4y ago
Right! But that's talking about compressing a plutonium pit in atmospheric pressure--being an extremely dense metal, plutonium will preferentially "squirt out" in any direction rather than compress, if there's a directio
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by evo 4y ago
I disagree; under normal circumstances regarding the HE explosives you are 100% correct but I suspect a nuclear shockwave at near point blank range might be fast enough to push the near side of the primary pit to the far side in a time inte
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by evo 4y ago
I suspect in reality the increasing compensation of the executive suite in stock, while intended to alleviate the principal agent problem, means that it's substantially more remunerative for leadership to try to goose their stock price
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by evo 4y ago
Even the Medallion Fund only averages 20-40% gains a year and they've stacked the deck with every possible advantage of resources and the most brilliant folks they can find. If the risk management on this is geared to the point where i
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by evo 4y ago
I believe the Museum of Flight in Seattle has had the original production 747 for some time. https://www.museumofflight.org/aircraft/boeing-747-121
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by evo 4y ago
This feels like a refinement on the existing practice of 3D printing metallic powder mixed with a low-temp meltable binding agent, then sintering the resulting object in a kiln to burn off the binder and generate the final part. As far as I

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