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🏆 We're thrilled to announce the 2024 Golden Grot Awards finalists! Polls for public voting are now open, so vote for your favorite dashboard from now until Mar. 1: bit.ly/3IdJIz7

Personal dashboard finalists:
Josh Gitlin
Amar Lokman
Asep Supriyadi
Ruben Fernandez
Andreas Rahimic Andersen

Professional dashboard finalists:
Varun Bhaaskar
Martin Olsson
Satoshi Takano
Wilson Acero
Christopher Field

Congratulations, everyone!

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@Quinnypig Kubernetes is the Greek word for infrastructure toil

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Fun random fact: the sample rate of Audio CD format is 44100Hz. The Nyquist frequency for audible sound is roughly double the upper limit of human hearing, which is 20kHz.

So why is the CDDA sample rate more than 40kHz, but only a little bit more?

The prime factorization of 44100 is 2^2•3^2•5^2•7^2, which gives a LOT of options for computationally cheap downsampling and playback speed reduction. 😁

Edit: See replies for more reasons this sample rate was chosen! 💙

#math #electronics #audio

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Ideally, I'd like to see libc get ported to another more sane programming language, but that take would get me pilloried by neckbeards that insist that C is possible to write safely.

At least I don't have to be pager bitch for THIS time when the entire internet broke due to C.

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Is it less bad here than on Shitter? Of course.

Is it non-existent? Nope.

Delete, and move on.

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PSA: some people have inane takes on the most fundamental of topics. Some see it as a chance to shoehorn A Topic In The News onto their own lived experience to the point of losing any direct relation with The Topic. Some might even be on your local instance.

Some might be baiting. Some might simply be unaware. Some might simply be wrong

Delete that reply you wrote and move on. If it annoys you some time later, just mute the person for a week or eternity when you next see them

Life's too short

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Oh, and if you wanna know the secret to surviving air travel; after you get where you're going, take off your shoes and your socks then walk around on the rug bare foot and make fists with your toes. 😂

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Merry Christmas, everyone! 🎄
Best of wishes to your families and loved ones!

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I used shelter via f-droid and that worked. Thanks for the suggestions!

First time in my life using #WhatsApp and it's a cesspool of dark patterns, forced "consent", and deliberate lies. I expected it to be bad, and it still managed to negatively surprise me.

Good thing I won't have to touch it again after this.

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Multifactor auth factors:
* something you are
* something you have
* something you know
* something you feel
* something that has been revealed to you
* something always known, but not by the conscious mind
* something hidden in the space between moments
* something dreamed about, unremembered

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It's been 0 days since someone asked "hey you work with computers, do you know how to install Windows?"

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I posted to my desultory blog the transcript of a talk I gave in 2009 inside Google, mostly because someone recently asked me to, feeling the message needs reinforcing.

commandcenter.blogspot.com/202

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First time in Miami and excited about a virgin voyages cruise

@matt Slowly building an all-white AM5 build with 🌈 colorful LEDs! Will post pictures once it's done!

Recounting all the computers I've ever used:

- Family Pentium 4 desktop — learned GW Basic (don't ask it's what the library had 😂) tried to Hackintosh
- Government-subsidy Pentium D desktop — learned C++, Python, dual boot Ubuntu
- Dell Inspiron i3 — bought mainly with carol money, nearly got me through uni, deployed my first web app
- Government-subsidy Celeron w/2GB of RAM — forced me to use Vim+LaTeX
- Employer-owned Carbon X
- Employer-owned Intel MacBook Pro
- Employer-owned M1 MacBook

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