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Fun, but raising the view above a clock face would be cool. How would time perspective be if clocks were ovals? Would that change people's feeling about time? Could it help people fix sleep issues or get more productive

Pre-2022 Books 1 month ago

There are people churning out 40k word novels daily on AO3, and they get the eyes and feedback that up and coming writers desperately want. Real content is being drowned out and ppl are hurting because of it.

I've been using OBS on wayland, they got captures working really well a few years ago.

But for VR stuff I've been going back to X11, and I was just last night trying to finish a screen capture program on wayland (w/ kde plasma) and idk I just have to do repeated screenshots ana analyze those > horrible fps, but at least I think I got that working finally after many attempts last year.

Gaming is not really an issue now with DEs that help ppl disable compositions and wine/proton.

I passed a series of those and since I remembered the questions from a relatives autism diagnosis testing I asked what they do since they are effectively filtering for things like that.

HR rep said those applicants should probably go see a shrink instead (!!???) and that was the end of me interviewing there.

The testing needs to end. The people using these tools don't know how they work, what they are testing and what blanket denials of personality types really means.

This has nothing to do with the discussion. Do you have a HN poster bot just acting like an annoyed teenager with gripes about everything? 20 day old new account, what happened to the previous ones?

Some just link Israels submission urging channel members to vote for it. Some join and casually but randomly for the channel bring it up "are you guys watching Eurovision this year?" asking what people's favorites are and saying Israel is their favorite (always ends in name calling when someone says Israel sucks or isn't their favorite).

If this isn't automated id love to hear from the people behind it some time. Nice feeling relevant on irc in TYOOL 2026

Avian Visitors 2 months ago

I like this a lot. I've been fascinated by Suzuki Toshitakas work on mapping bird sounds to syntax and want to experiment in that space too.

Ive been assisting at a wild bird rehab but not until I got pet birds (released pet birds that no owner could be found for) did I realize they make these extremely faint sounds to each other that I can sometimes just barely make out when I'm right next to them but are not the other quiet humming they make.

My mic can capture those sounds sometimes, but I don't know how to analyze for example 24h of recording in the cage to find slight variations to background noise. It doesn't have to be real-time and not bird specific (want to capture sounds they make that doesn't register as bird in the models).

If anyone has a suggestion please point me in any direction you know of. Audio is pretty new for me.

Since the best resource is personal recommendations, got any entry level cheap IEM recommendations?

Primarily to avoid even more headphone dent, not an audiophile

Yeah, but I guess harder for the professor to check up on too. It's a course on a specific kind of creative writing so human feedback would be QUITE helpful instead of AI responses about how good parts are.

Taking a distance uni class now to maybe swap away from dev work and my submitted works that are to be reviewed and commented on by other students all come back with AI generated feedback and it's making me go insane. If I needed AI feedback I'd go ask an AI but for any communication now it's a cointoss if you're getting a human reply.

/rant

The difference might be there in regards to Iran, with it's global market impact. But it's not there in regards to human life or suffering. That was made _very_ clear during the electoral campaign. But now it's _very different_ because it's "them" doing it and we can say we were always against this.

We have to say "us good, them bad" because we're voting the same way next time, and we're not planning to vote for something bad, right?