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    Barack_Embalmer
    2mo ago 100%

    "Crust" makes it sound like superfluous detritus. It's cornicione! Pizza is mostly bread, so if the bread is bad then it's not worth eating.

    Neapolitan pizza has a high hydration dough cooked at very high temp, resulting in a delightfully light cornicione filled with large air pockets. The bread is delicious enough to enjoy on its own, which is why it only needs simple toppings like uncooked San Marzano tomato and a few shreds of mozarella. IMO Italian cuisine excels at allowing high quality produce speak for themselves through its simplicity and elegance. What they're shitting out at Papa Johns and whatever is an abomination.

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  • How can everything be captured in simple data like people's exact voice noise?
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    Barack_Embalmer
    3mo ago 100%

    Everything about the exact timbre of your voice is captured in the waveform that represents it. To the extent that the sampling rate and bit depth are good enough to mimic your actual voice without introducing digital artefacts (something analogous to a pixelated image) that's all it takes to reproduce any sound with arbitrary precision.

    Timbre is the result of having a specific set of frequencies playing simultaneously, that is characteristic of the specific shape and material properties of the object vibrating (be it a guitar string, drum skin, or vocal chords).

    As for how multiple frequencies can "exist" simultaneously at a single instant in time, you might want to read up on Fourier's theorem and watch 3Blue1Brown's brilliant series on differential equations that explores Fourier series https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spUNpyF58BY

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  • How can everything be captured in simple data like people's exact voice noise?
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    Barack_Embalmer
    3mo ago 100%

    Yes digital media, and computers in general, are miracles of science and engineering. Is there some reason digital audio in particular inspires you in this way, as opposed to digital images?

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  • How can everything be captured in simple data like people's exact voice noise?
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    Barack_Embalmer
    3mo ago 100%

    Long list of numbers in sequence. Each represents how far away from equilibrium the speaker cone should be, at each point in time, as it vibrates back and forth.

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  • Linux May Be the Best Way to Avoid the AI Nightmare
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    Barack_Embalmer
    5mo ago 100%

    I used to use FL Studio, but hated using Windows. I got almost all features (including VSTs) to work in Ubuntu under Wine, but had a problem with WineASIO, which I seemed to require to use the USB sound card properly.

    Because of that, I since changed to a DAW called REAPER which is built natively for Linux and works flawlessly and is very nice. There is a program called Yabridge to help run Windows VSTs. I even got more complicated plugins with authentication like Addictive Drums 2 to work using Wine no problem.

    If you want a fully FOSS solution there is Ardour which is also great but a little less slick than Reaper IMO.

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  • Reality check
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    Barack_Embalmer
    5mo ago 100%

    TBF I'm branching out and I just installed Debian on my second laptop and I like that too. But Ubuntu's been mighty good to me for a lot of years as a reliable workstation and server VM in Proxmox.

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    What is Fediverse, precious!?
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    Barack_Embalmer
    7mo ago 100%

    “Linux good, Windows bad lol” which is a dumb take

    Nope, this is the objectively correct take :)

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  • That's why we need two ssds for dual boot
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    Barack_Embalmer
    7mo ago 100%

    I recently had this issue needing to run Excel macros. I ended up using Oracle Virtualbox to run Windows from inside linux. Even more linuxey is using Proxmox to run your Windows VMs but that's a bit more of a faff.

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  • Microsoft in their infinite wisdom has replaced the Hide Desktop icon with Copilot.
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    Barack_Embalmer
    8mo ago 100%

    That's pretty disingenuous - it's one of the many reasons that comprise a pattern of behavior whereby Microsoft makes Windows worse at each iteration. More bloat, more spying, more locked-down for user "security". And for what? The dubious benefit of being "compatible" with other shitheel software providers like Adobe who use their monopoly power to stranglehold the corporate and professional media sectors? Toeachizown but IDK how anyone can use Windows by choice. The small amount I have to use it at work is torture enough.

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  • Tesla Cybertruck Owners Who Drove 10,000 Miles Say Range Is 164 To 206 Miles
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    Barack_Embalmer
    9mo ago 100%

    I think it does look pretty cool. I applaud automotive design that dares to be different. Everything nowadays is a giant snarling grill with angry anime eye headlights up front, then a bunch of superfluous sharp creases and fake air vents to add visual elements for the sake of it. Tesla took a boldly minimalist approach with this one.

    Before you crucify me, note that I don't particularly like the vehicle overall - it doesn't seem to be a design that translates well to mass production, practicality of maintenance, or pedestrian safety. It's no Alfa 33 Stradale, but I think visual flare isn't an area you can fault it much.

    Rivian has done a good job of embracing EV design features (e.g. lack of need for frontal air intakes) in a more conventional way.

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  • Piers Morgan gets owned
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    Barack_Embalmer
    9mo ago 96%

    He must have meant the first 5 digits of the theorem expressed as some kind of Godel numbering. I mean there's no way he's a complete moronic cunt, right?

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  • Redditors - you buy them a Christmas tree, they'll give you their grandmother. But you know how tight these Fediverse cocksuckers can keep it.

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