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It's not like your brain can process each ear separately.

If you've ever seen a dance music DJ (Tomorrowland is streaming on Youtube right now!) - that's exactly what many of them do.

To DJ a continuous mix as is the norm for this style - generally you'll have headphones on, but only covering one ear. You'll listen to "currently playing" though your right ear, through the venue sound system (well, it's monitors). You'll also be listening to "up next", on the other record/cd/mp3 deck, through the headphones to your other ear. And you'll work the pitch slider, trim controls etc and hopefully produce a good mix!

Not everyone does it like this, some have the headphones permanently on and mix in stereo both tracks at both ears. Or split ears, headphones only - that is an option on the usual Pioneer mixers. But it's surely the most common mental image of a club DJ to have them holding their hand to their headphones on one ear only, I'm sure!

I love it! I discovered it'll switch to a 3 column view if I take the zoom to 200%, I'd maybe prefer it at less but it's a bit tricky to guess if that's true or not. Regardless, it's very nice. And infinite scroll for the hackernews feed is a bonus!

Maybe Google could come up with some fancy algorithm to give variable weight to the source pages, some sort of ranking system for pages on the web, instead of just assuming any random page contains 100% truth. Perhaps counting the tally of other pages on the web linking to this one might be one clue that this is a particularly highly ranked page? It would be quite the revolutionary idea!

llcat looks like it could be very handy, thank you!

But, if you were asking (and I'm not sure that you are)

I was wondering, so thank you!

TFT Central is still very good imo.

This is correct. I'm a UK Discord user, so I've been subject to these requirements for ~6 months now. It's basically nothing - I'm in near 50 "servers", of them all I only really can think of one channel in one of them that is flagged "nsfw" and thus blocked to me as I never ID'd myself.

If you don't use Discord as a source of "nsfw" content you can comfortably ignore these requirements. I do realize there are some communities that may fare a lot worse than my gaming / software dev interests, and may be falsely claimed "nsfw" just for their existence. Which yeah, that absolutely sucks.

Thank you for the recommendation, that sounds much more like my level at the moment!

Microsoft intend to deprecate V2 and move fully to V3 basically as soon as they can, pretty much in lockstep with Google:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/extensions-...

The board recommended has 16 ram slots.

For online Poker, one of the current database tools runs in to this issue - PokerTracker 4 (PT4).

These tracker databases are usually used to generate a HUD - numerical readouts surrounding each player shown on the table. PT allows for custom HUDs to be saved/exported/shared, and there is a cottage industry building and selling such HUDS. These HUDs can often bundle hundreds of custom stats - basically a subset of SQL queries, a simple example would be "times_raised / opportunities_to_raise WHERE position= 'button'", that sort of thing.

For performance reasons these custom stats are cached, which obviously makes some sense. However, each cached stat creates a new column in the custom_cache table of PT4's current database, a PostgreSQL 9.0 backend. If you play mostly Heads-Up SNG or the 3-handed Spins, it's actually quite easy to go over the (IIRC) 4096 column limit there by purchasing and importing one too many fancy HU HUD packages!

This completely borks PT4, it can no longer open - and players can no longer make money! In my previous work, I've supported many a player and fixed this "too many columns" error numerous times (by deleting enough custom HUDs from their account until the PT4 can start up correctly once more). Funny to see this pop up elsewhere!

Isn't RUMINT on the Intel problem that, even though it's nominally a chip problem, it may occur primarily due to motherboards not following guidance?

That was merely Intel's first attempt at deflection / damage control. Kernel of truth to it, of course.

An interesting project, from what I can tell it's a JavaScript version of AutoHotkey's window interaction features? (also it works on Linux and Mac!) Very cool!

I expect this will be resolved with an update quickly, but ExplorerPatcher is wonderful and absolutely key to my enjoyment of Windows 11.

If you aren't familiar with it, Synplant 2 VST does an incredible "sample -> synth patch" for almost any sound you give it

Excellent, that's the one! Sorry, too late to edit. Perfect definition I think.

Those "not triple-A" games are often called "AA" to mean "bankrolled, but not blockbuster".

Can't remember who said it, I think probably Rami Ismall? But I can't find the source. Something like: "If there is another person, company or entity that while not actually working on the game, can significantly change the course of that work - that is not an indie game".

Basically, indies should be in control of their own destiny. This seems like a very reasonable definition to me.

Yes, long may PC Pro continue! I currently sub to the print versions of that and Edge (gaming coverage).

I don't really care if I already knew the news as covered, it's much more I like to read their opinions on said news, I love the random stories from the "Real World Computing" section, and their reviews are a decent starting point when I'm considering something or asked to recommend, also giving an insight in to all sorts of areas I may otherwise not pay any attention to.

edit: Also, I worked computer fairs every weekend back in the day, all over the North - Cheshire, Aintree, North Wales, Bradford/Leeds. Those were great times!

Glad I'm not the only one!

I believe the major claim is that the Ukrainians are Nazis, and the "special military operation" (not War!) was to free the "real" Ukrainians from their Nazi oppressors.

Nah can't feel bad using Sponsorblock - it tells you when it skips a chunk, and makes it very easy (just press Enter!) to skip back, check what they're going to talk about - and if it's of no interest just tap Enter again to resume. That way I can see if my favourite Youtube channels are promoting something I might actually be interested in, but Raid Shadow Legends, Raycon and Ridge Wallet can be skipped every time.

This is on some android phones, double tapping power will open the camera.

Holy... wow, thank you!

There's still lots of extra weight on that Tesla! Take a look at this one lol:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z27t9uHp7nY

From a certain angle it looks like they're currently trying to destroy the market for paid video games in a similar manner with extreme bundling/giving away.

I love AutoHotkey, it basically gave me my start in this career and still makes me occasional commissions to this day. My current "Dave's Utilities" AHK is rather lean compared to times gone by, but I have these "essential" functions always a keypress away on my Win11 installation:

- ctrl+alt c / n / s for calc / notepad / snipping tool

- toggle "always on top"

- send to "other" monitor (I have a 2 monitor side-by-side setup)

- turn a Youtube "shorts" url in to it's regular Youtube page "watch" version via URL manipulation

- remap ctrl+shift+c to do nothing, instead of very slowly opening Chrome dev tools when I miss ctrl+shift+v "paste as values" in my huge Google spreadsheet

I see it's already mentioned upthread and you've added to your reading list - but I just want to add yet another recommendation here - Code by Charles Petzold is so so good in it's early chapters when it gets to the program counter and the fetch/execute cycle. I'm sure you'd really enjoy it!

There's a whole section on the MMU, virtual memory, paging, process isolation in there already?

I still keep floss handy for getting truly wedged stuff out (it can provide much more force), but it's worthless for me otherwise.

One thing I wish I learned earlier on in life - flossing isn't to pull out chunks of food from in between the teeth (although it can do this too) - if you're flossing correctly you're breaking up biofilms formed by bacteria at the gumline.

Back in the day I had an Autohotkey script to do exactly this on Windows. Was very simple with the WinGet, list, WinGetPos and WinSetPos in loops with window title, x,y,w,h, persisted to a .ini file

I wonder how you might do this on Gnome or KDE these days.