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  1. Comment on Size matters? "Size" dissatisfaction and gun ownership in America. in ~science

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    I thought it was pretty clear that by "otherwise a good person" I meant that they don't display the behaviour commonly associated with "small dick energy" and the like.

    I thought it was pretty clear that by "otherwise a good person" I meant that they don't display the behaviour commonly associated with "small dick energy" and the like.

    15 votes

  2. Comment on Size matters? "Size" dissatisfaction and gun ownership in America. in ~science

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    How do you think someone who actually has a small dick but is otherwise a normal good person feels when they see that phrase?

    How do you think someone who actually has a small dick but is otherwise a normal good person feels when they see that phrase?

    38 votes

  3. Comment on Don’t fix it just because it’s technical debt in ~tech

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    Mate you need to honestly just leave, you will feel so much better. It's obvious to me from your comments that you know deep down the situation is not going to improve any time soon, and the...

    Mate you need to honestly just leave, you will feel so much better. It's obvious to me from your comments that you know deep down the situation is not going to improve any time soon, and the amount of stress is palpable through your words.

    7 votes

  4. Comment on Studio musicians are still waiting for credit in the streaming era in ~music

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    Ha, Wikipedia was the second place I checked so kudos to that editor. Like a Version is probably my closest exposure to studio musicians and is exactly what I thought of when I saw this topic....

    Ha, Wikipedia was the second place I checked so kudos to that editor.

    Like a Version is probably my closest exposure to studio musicians and is exactly what I thought of when I saw this topic. Especially for some of the bigger ensemble-style covers, it can be tricky to ID everyone (e.g. Alex Lahey's cover of Black Parade)

    2 votes

  5. Comment on Studio musicians are still waiting for credit in the streaming era in ~music

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    That's Meg Holland, she's a touring member

    That's Meg Holland, she's a touring member

    7 votes

  6. Comment on "&udm=14" strips AI junk from Google results in ~tech

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    Hopefully they just define !G to use it. I think it's fair to say that most of the kind of people who use ddg would prefer it over the regular google.

    Hopefully they just define !G to use it. I think it's fair to say that most of the kind of people who use ddg would prefer it over the regular google.

    2 votes

  7. Comment on Weekly Israel-Hamas war megathread - week of May 13 in ~news

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    This is infuriating and unbelievable to see. What is going through the heads of these people to make them think doing something like this is ok?

    This is infuriating and unbelievable to see. What is going through the heads of these people to make them think doing something like this is ok?

    7 votes

  8. Comment on Adding your own multi-channel audio to Music app in ~tech

  9. Comment on A scam obituary site in ~life

  10. Comment on California says restaurants must bake all of their add-on fees into menu prices in ~finance

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    There was no objective, I genuinely didn't know. I'm in a country that uses the metric system, so when some products are per kg and some are per 100g it's still obvious without having to do any maths.

    There was no objective, I genuinely didn't know. I'm in a country that uses the metric system, so when some products are per kg and some are per 100g it's still obvious without having to do any maths.

    5 votes

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  12. Comment on Adding your own multi-channel audio to Music app in ~tech

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    Seems like a strange restriction but I guess you can only do what you can. Seems like you found a good method that works for you. On a slightly different note, how is music.app compared to itunes,...

    Seems like a strange restriction but I guess you can only do what you can. Seems like you found a good method that works for you.

    On a slightly different note, how is music.app compared to itunes, specifically in how it manages large local libraries? I have a very old macbook that still has itunes and the lack of it in the newer versions of macOS has been a big concern when I think about of upgrading.

  13. Comment on Bike brands start to adopt C-V2X to warn cyclists about cars in ~transport

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    This is a local, offline system instead of a centralised system that relies on external inputs (e.g. gps). Personally I'd be more ok with something like that than the gps limiters described above.

    Every e-bike sold has to be sold with a governor on it. Everyone who relies on a bicycle or e-bike is subject to mechanically enforced speed limits.

    This is a local, offline system instead of a centralised system that relies on external inputs (e.g. gps).

    Personally I'd be more ok with something like that than the gps limiters described above.

    1 vote

  14. Comment on Adding your own multi-channel audio to Music app in ~tech

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    I'm definitely not an expert and I only have one device that I still sync over usb, so I'm a bit old fashioned and I could be way off the mark here. Also I wasn't expecting to talk to the blog...

    I'm definitely not an expert and I only have one device that I still sync over usb, so I'm a bit old fashioned and I could be way off the mark here. Also I wasn't expecting to talk to the blog writer, I was trying to ask a question to learn myself.

    But after all of your ffmpeg encoding you end up with a regular music file, right? Then you add to music.app before uploading to icloud library. But if you just synced your phone the regular way instead, would you be able to bypass the 256 bitrate limit?

    1 vote

  15. Comment on Adding your own multi-channel audio to Music app in ~tech

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    Is there any reason you can't just sync the files straight to your phone? Why would you go through all the effort and compromises to get it up onto icloud library?

    Is there any reason you can't just sync the files straight to your phone? Why would you go through all the effort and compromises to get it up onto icloud library?

    3 votes

  16. Comment on In streaming milestone, Disney and Warner Bros. Discovery team on bundle featuring Disney+, Hulu and Max in ~tv

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    Very similar situation in Australia with foxtel

    Very similar situation in Australia with foxtel

    3 votes

  17. Comment on ‘The Fall Guy’ box office disappointment hurts more than opening weekend in ~movies

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    I don't understand this comment. Are you saying that it's unrealistic for Ryan Gosling to be cast as a stuntman in universe? Do you mean if they took a real-life stuntman and cast them as the lead...

    The concept never seemed believable to me because of the fact that Gosling was supposed to be the stuntman. In what world is he the stuntman instead of the leading man?

    I don't understand this comment. Are you saying that it's unrealistic for Ryan Gosling to be cast as a stuntman in universe?

    I would have been more interested if they took a well known stuntman and made them the lead.

    Do you mean if they took a real-life stuntman and cast them as the lead actor, playing a stuntman?

    Stuntmen are amazing and vital parts of the film industry, but they are stuntmen and not actors. Surely it makes more sense for an actor to play a stuntman (and I assume, have any actual stunts performed by an actual stuntman) than vice versa.

    16 votes

  18. Comment on ‘The Fall Guy’ box office disappointment hurts more than opening weekend in ~movies

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    As long as people don't tag every every discussion about films with box_office, otherwise everything would end up being filtered out.

    As long as people don't tag every every discussion about films with box_office, otherwise everything would end up being filtered out.

  19. Comment on Ffmpeg and AV1 for HTML5 streaming in ~comp

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    That is exactly what I did, and it seems to make a difference so that I'm not pushing 90 degrees and 90% CPU usage on a regular 720p video. My laptop is a 2011 MBP which I've put 16GB of RAM and...

    That is exactly what I did, and it seems to make a difference so that I'm not pushing 90 degrees and 90% CPU usage on a regular 720p video.

    My laptop is a 2011 MBP which I've put 16GB of RAM and an SSD into. It still chugs along for any regular tasks I do on it, but the lack of software support is starting to show. For example, just recently Firefox have stopped supporting my OS.

    1 vote

  20. Comment on Ffmpeg and AV1 for HTML5 streaming in ~comp

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    I don't know much about media but you've just helped diagnose why my 13 year old laptop uses so much CPU for youtube videos.

    I don't know much about media but you've just helped diagnose why my 13 year old laptop uses so much CPU for youtube videos.

    8 votes