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ChaoticNeutralCzech

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  • The Future of Magic

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  • Vibe spelling doesn't work. I looked up a spelling on Google and the AI contraadicted itself.

    It was in Czech but basically

    Milosrdní bratři is an organization and its name is therefore correctly spelled with a capital M and capital B. The hospital is thus called "Nemocnice Milosrdných bratří" with all words capitalized, as you can see.

    (Yes, we have different capitalization rules from English. The bold spellings are correct but don't correspond to the "reasoning".)

    Not to mention all of Grammarly's brain farts like this.

  • what would happen?

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  • Is the caption ragebait, invoking Cunningham's law? It's neither Schrödinger's nor a dilemma, it's a reverse irresistible force paradox.

    Please don't mention that pedophile more than necessary, his cat's fame is more than enough.

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  • It's not really a secret, it was reported on public radio in my country recently, zoos admit to it when asked. But they don't actively spread this information: during beasts' of prey public feeding hours, they are given something less gory but more expensive, like a skinned pig you might see at a butcher's.

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  • Zoos secretly buy rejected 1-day-old male chicks from egg farms: it's the cheapest live meat for carnivores. I wonder if that's how the chick got near the tortoise.

  • Have clankers visited my blog one hundred twenty-one sexagintillion eight hundred ten novemquinquagintillion times so far in November??

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  • That's insane... Can't a website owner require bots (at least those who are identifying themselves as such) to prove at least they're affiliated with a certain domain?

  • Have clankers visited my blog one hundred twenty-one sexagintillion eight hundred ten novemquinquagintillion times so far in November??

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  • I don't know what "12,181+181" means (edit: thanks @Thunraz@feddit.org, see Edit 1) but absolutely not 1.2181 × 10185. That many requests can't be made within the 39 × 109 bytes of bandwidth − in fact, they exceed the number of atoms on Earth times its age in microseconds (that's close to 1070). Also, "0+57" in another row would be dubious exponential notation, the exponent should be 0 (or omitted) if the mantissa (and thus the value represented) is 0.

  • magic recovery

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  • magic recovery

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  • Unlike most, this title was not translated.

    I tried to find the YouTube video but failed. I think everything is the same but the text is replaced with Czech (Československá televize uvádí at the start, and v hlavních rolích before the "starring" credits). Since they likely didn't have a textless copy (those get licensed separately), they had to replace scenes with text like "Written by" with others, with no regard to lip syncing because it's a dub anyway. They really despised covering text with opaque rectangles, which is what I wish ČT avoided at the "Česká televize uvádí španělský seriál" card of the Willy Fog intro linked above (I purposefully set the start time of the link to 39 seconds to avoid that awful edit at 00:30 obviously done with a 90s character generator and not meticulous hand-made lettering and film like the rest). Speaking of, they obtained textless scenes by cutting in parts of musical intermissions in certain episodes, which are all missing in the Czech dub (no idea what's so bad about this, Dick Is My Name, America, America or Looking 'Round For Better Land, two of which can be heard elsewhere, so is the dance number so problematic? And how about the somewhat absurdist scenes that were cut from credits? Couldn't they use a mask to remove the original Spanish text?)

  • magic recovery

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  • That makes for great anime fansubs but good luck explaining that to kids in 5 seconds of audio. Or finding another joke that starts with Bill crying. At least in my country, localizers don't get to make edits to the video despite doing a great job otherwise (licencing issues? In communist Czechoslovakia, they could: they replaced lettering in the MASH and Willy Fog: Around the World in 80 Days theme songs, for example, and even changed the melody in The Smurfs with Johan and Peewit's; also note the repeated scene and the well-executed smurf walking in front of and through the "ŠMOULOVÉ" text animation)

  • magic recovery

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  • I wonder how this got translated into other languages...

  • I wasted all my generational luck for this

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  • 99.999999999999% chance the lava lamp inside your computer is broken.

    (The difference from 100% might be my CPU's floating point rounding error)

  • I wasted all my generational luck for this

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  • That would indeed be way (quadratically) more likely but we don't count the number of attempts but measure run time, and since comparisons (even with optimizations like insertion sort) take time, the speed difference between the two methods will be "just" a few orders of magnitude.

  • One media player to rule them all

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  • MP4 is decent at this, it's the camera's fault for writing critical information at the end and not retrying on SD write errors. A bad couple of frames is still preferrable to losing up to 20 minutes (yes, that's the split size, and it loses 5 seconds in between).

  • One media player to rule them all

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  • One media player to rule them all

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  • My camera shat out an MP4 without a moov atom and VLC nor anything else could play it :( Not even when inserted in the middle of a valid file of the same format.

    Yes, ffplay can interpret it as rawvideo when asked but so can it /dev/random

  • One media player to rule them all

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  • Eww, that's a kitschy video

    The bill could be a playable CD too if you don't care about folding, or add bends around the central square. The widest rectangle that can be cut out of a CD and still retain a bit of the data area is about 108×51 mm, as opposed to approx. 156×66 mm of a $1 bill.

    But yeah, NFC or just printing the data is more viable.

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  • I have a 2013 phone running Android 13. Sony Xperia Z, found in e-waste in 2023 in great condition (except for dust in the camera). I used it a lot and even replaced the battery, although that didn't make much difference, it just kept overheating and discharging like crazy on modern websites. The notification LED broke in a peculiar way (likely shorted driving transistor, burning it out within hours) and so did the vibrator. Recently, I dropped it and the back shattered but I still carry it every day, although now it's a secondary phone (can't get some apps running on my primary one although both are degoogled). It has a 32-bit processor, noisy camera and no fingerprint reader, but a 5" 1080p LCD, MHL (HDMI over microUSB), NFC and headphone jack. And a mediocre FM transmitter that can be enabled with custom drivers for the Qualcomm chip. It was covered in Janus Cycle's video on monoliths.

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  • Welp, I remembered this post and it's most likely valid CD-audio, just with awful noise.

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  • I know, among other things there is a time code inserted very frequently between audio data, without which seeking would not be possible at all. However, the audio uses over 90 % of the data so it's largely responsible for the overall appearance of the track.

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  • Records are very easy to understand. Even without a microscope, you can see periodic patterns on test vinyls with beeps. And sound being periodic motion is also obvious from string and percussive instruments.

    You can even see tracks starting and ending on pressed CDs under the right lighting with your own eyes. I wonder, is the encoding of silence (approx. 2 seconds) really that different or does the density of grooves or pit/land pattern intentionally differ to help the player seek there faster? I know that uncompressed audio naturally results in a repeated pattern when silence is encoded but given the 8-to-14 modulation and other error correctiion techniques, I find it hard to believe it would result in significantly different density unless they specifically added a special mode just for encoding silence that makes the track brighter-colored for easier coarse seeking.