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Semisimian

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  • That time of year people

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  • Mobile car detailing. Have someone come out the week before Xmas and do the works on Dad's car or truck.

  • If every video game was to be destroyed but you had the chance to save five games, what would you choose to save?

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  • Tears of the Kingdom and Minecraft would be important to save for their infinite playability due to their physics and craft engines. Final Fantasy 6 for story. Stellaris so people could have a competitive, chess-like monster to wrap their mind around. And Bonk for TurboGrafx16 so everyone could know that game design just doesn't happen overnight.

  • Friends Spinoff Joey Releases 8 'New' Episodes Online — Nearly 20 Years Later

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  • 8 finished episodes sitting in the can was really odd for the time. I would expect that production would be about 4 finished episodes ahead for a weekly show, and that is generous. But 8? I wonder if they finished the episodes after cancelation back then or if they did it recently.

  • Image of pig evolution where pig starts to walk on 2 legs

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  • Cold room floor help

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  • https://www.owenscorning.com/en-us/insulation/commercial/enclosure/below-grade-under-slab-foamular-xps-insulation

    I'd remove the existing wood, grade the soil flat and compact it. I'd then put down 2 in foam board (like in the link above) to decouple the flooring from the Earth. I would pour concrete to match the subfloor in the rest of the basement, but you don't have to. You can go back with a pressure treated subfloor product on top of the foam, etc.

    A few things to keep in mind would be making sure that you get the right height of the soil so that you have the finished flooring height you desire. Also, all this work assumes you are maintaining access to that clean out. Good luck.

  • Cold room floor help

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  • Where are you building? I'm assuming this is the basement or the ground floor. What is the rest of the subfloor on that level?

    Wood resting on dirt is a big no, so that is an obvious red flag. Whatever floor you put in, I'd preserve your access to that clean out. Once you answer my Qs above, I can help give you a recommendation.

  • Disney+ Streaming Subscribers Surge by 3.8 Million As Streaming Profits Grow

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  • I canceled my subscription after the most recent price hike. Disney pulled off of YouTube TV a few weeks ago, though, so no ESPN. If you want to watch college football, you have to subscribe to their service, which I imagine would lead to a surge in subscribers.

  • Wordle 1,603 - Saturday 2025-11-08

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  • Wordle 1,603 2/6

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  • Bari Weiss vs. climate change | At The Free Press, Weiss consistently rebrands tired fossil fuel talking points as courageous, rebellious dissent.

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  • DINO? LINO? One of those is correct.

    Nolan's Batman film repeated a line that didn't land with me at the time but I have since understood: "it's not who you are, it's what you do that defines you."

    At the time, I thought myself a temporarily embarrassed progressive, thinking all these good thoughts and waiting for my sleeper-cell handler to activate me. I'm a good person, I am ready to do good when the need arises, as long as I have nothing else scheduled that day.

    But the malaise of the socially progressive 90s lulled me (and other Gen Xers) into a false optimism that things were just going to get better on their own. Our brains were also cooked by decades of deregulation propaganda. And TVs were getting bigger and cheaper, so who were we to complain?

    Weiss is the next generation of this detached ideology. She's been simmering in absurdism and pageantry so long that I don't think she has a handle on what she really wants to do. I'm not excusing her behavior, but I can't devine a coherent platform for her. I'm not sure any of her contemporaries actually have one, either. Just for the grift? It doesn't make them less dangerous, but hopefully it makes them less intimidating for those of us who have felt the tap on the shoulder to enlist.

    In conclusion, she sucks, she says inane things. Don't be surprised but also don't roll your eyes and move on. Find what you can do, no matter how small, and do it. You will instantly be steps ahead of the performative competition.

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    Enumclaw horse sex case [NSFW]

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  • I just heard about this on a podcast. The hosts and guest were giggling about "Mr Hands" and didn't go into any specifics, but I got that they were talking about a large penis. Now I know just how large, thanks!

  • Wordle 1,600 - Wednesday 2025-11-05

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    Twoers are rare, but I'll take it!

  • Rule

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  • I don't remember this quote, so I went digging and I can't find this in the show. Anyone have a link?

  • How Android handles Hi-Res audio: An audiophile's guide to the best sound

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  • Thank you, that was an interesting breakdown. I really appreciate his methodology. I'm going to deep dive into anything he has posted. Though he doesn't come to the same conclusion I do, the takeaway is:

    1. Yes, there is noticeable sound loss when converting a 24 bit sample to 16 bit.

    2. You can really screw with a 24 bit sample and still have a listenable file, presumably because of the bit depth.

    3. Recording and mastering in 24 bit benefits classical music reproduction, and I would argue, any acoustic music reproduction. So, anything with a vocal, drum kit, acoustic guitar, etc.

    Since the video is about dither specifically, he does conclude that mastering to 16 bit gives the technician a sturdier product when played back on the myriad of modern equipment we have. It's arguable, sure, but since this an audiophile sub...

    Really though, thanks for posting the video. Deep dive in 3, 2....

  • It's Saturday, what have you watched this week?

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  • I went back and watched the Star Trek DS9 season 2 opener, 3 parter. Then I listened to the Delta Flyers podcast to hear some insider info and context.

    I've seen the series multiple times, so I can picture just about every scene when the Flyers are going through their synopsis, but I thought I'd try to rewatch the episodes first and then listen. I enjoyed it, but the practice also enforced the fact that I really have seen TNG, DS9 and Voyager a ton and I wasn't missing much in my internal teleplay.

  • Wordle 1,595 - Friday 2025-10-31

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  • How Android handles Hi-Res audio: An audiophile's guide to the best sound

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  • That's why I didn't mention the sample rate. You aren't going to get really anything back increasing to 96 khz. But I promise you increasing the bit depth leads to a noticeable change in the perception of the recording. You're not going to get anything from modern pop since it's compressed to hell and back, but find a good recording of an album you've listened to a lot and find some decent, wired headphones and try an A/B of a 16 and 24 bit mix. You'll see what I mean.

  • Connections #873 2025-10-31

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  • Connections Puzzle #873

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  • How Android handles Hi-Res audio: An audiophile's guide to the best sound

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  • "considering that 16-bit, 48kHz exceeds the threshold of human hearing even for “golden ears,”

    Um, no it doesn't. 16-Bit dynamic range is 96 decibels, 24-bit is 144 decibels. 96 cuts off quite a bit of an average person's hearing range. A/B a 16 and 24 bit recording and you can hear it easily over even modest headphones.

  • Anon doesn't like the doors

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  • Hey man, let's take some poorly written beat poetry and put it over mediocre guitar compositions. Then we can take a talented keyboardist but make him play the shittiest sounding electric organ. And we can make sure the recording makes it all sound like a cat and some tin cans in a dryer.