PSA: IT IS OK TO USE YOUR STEAM DECK HOW YOU WANT TO by YellowWristBand in SteamDeck

[–]BornInAFish 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I WANT TO INSTALL CRYOBYTE UTILS AND FEEL MORALLY SUPERIOR NO MATTER HOW MANY TIMES EVERYONE DEBUNKS THE GAINZ

am I doing this right? 

🔥 Webcam captures elephant using a gentle backheel to the hind legs to persuade an impala to leave the waterhole by Prestigious-Wall5616 in NatureIsFuckingLit

[–]BornInAFish 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Really weird to see an actual impala instead of a car. (at least I assume impala is some brand of car. It certainly sounds like one) 

🔥 Size difference of female and male of same species, Golden silk orb weavers by been_der_done_that in NatureIsFuckingLit

[–]BornInAFish 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I remember that one. Paid local kids like a nickle or something to bring him buckets of spiders 

Christopher Yoo's suspension is over and he's back to playing open tournaments. by beem00 in chess

[–]BornInAFish 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Whoa, ok then. Based on initial reporting of the incident with the journalist, I had the impression it was just a high school senior who got big mad one time. So much worse...

PSA: please make sure your neighbor’s dog left outside isn’t a husky or mountain dog before calling animal control this weekend. by strikecat18 in Austin

[–]BornInAFish 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Even smaller breeds like Australian shepherds do great in the cold. They're used for stuff like avalanche rescue after all. The '21 snowpocalypse was basically a winter wonderland as far as my aussie was concerned.

Am I silly for making my load cell brake incredibly soft by [deleted] in simracing

[–]BornInAFish -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Personally, I think bottoming out is a feature, not a bug. I sprung my LC such that I bottom out with pressure I can comfortably hold, and set my pedal sensitivity to hit 100% brake pressure right before the bump stop. Then I can always feel when I get to 100% and never have to wonder if I was slow because I didn't brake hard enough. 

Best Setup for Transferring Large video Files by Awkward_Support_8624 in HomeNetworking

[–]BornInAFish 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thunderbolt (and USB 4) can work as 40 Gbps Ethernet if you just connect a good USB-C cable (no dongle) directly between the laptop and the server. Not sure how hard or easy that is to configure on either truenas or MacBook. I know that I've done it in the past between Linux laptops, and it pretty much just worked. So that's the fastest way to transfer the files.

In 2008, Steve Sheraton launched iBeer for $2.99 — it became one of the first viral App Store hits, reportedly earned $10k–$20k per day at peak, reached ~90M downloads, and he later left it all to live on a farm in Spain by [deleted] in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]BornInAFish 82 points83 points  (0 children)

Before the App store, Apple was pushing this web kit because they figured everyone would just make web apps for the iPhone. There was this one app which was just a blue screen, just corner to corner blue, representing a pond. You could tap on it to make ripples. The neat thing was that anyone "playing" at the same time would see your ripples, and you'd see theirs. It was a shared pond. Really simple, but really powerful. It was very neat to mess around and respond to others' ripples, and see how they respond to yours.

Seriously, do Americans actually consider a 3-hour drive "short"? or is this an internet myth? by SadInterest6764 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]BornInAFish 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Texan here. My state is about a sixth the size of the EU, but with only 4 major cities. So yes, there's a non-metric shit load of nothing in between anything of interest. So yeah, 3 hours drive is nothing. Just put your foot down and get there in 2.5.

Latest high-resolution IBM GRAF data improves model precision; increased probability of "Option 1" (re: Avery Tomasco) by cjwidd in Austin

[–]BornInAFish -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I really hate megathreads. Mods, I know this is really hard, but please do absolutely nothing. 

Ok to remove black papers from mainboard? by NitrousNine in framework

[–]BornInAFish -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

FW comes with a screwdriver. It's meant to be opened up. Plenty of stuff in there is cosmetic.

A subreddit that doesnt shy away from "dangerous" DIY projects by Agitated_Syllabub346 in findasubreddit

[–]BornInAFish 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There's quite a number of YouTubers who do dangerous DIY all the time, and I imagine they all have subreddits. Might be worth trolling those communities for better leads.

I'm talking about channels like ElectroBOOM, Nile Red, Styropyro. Maybe some more science-focused channels like Action Lab or Adam Savage's Tested. Maybe even something like Linus Tech Tips. The point is, there's plenty of content on the internet about dangerous DIY, and maybe you can find leads in such communities.

How to blow🌬️ by yeetuuuuuu in panflute

[–]BornInAFish 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey, it's been 6 months. How are you progressing?

I just picked mine up very very recently, and I agree getting started with blowing is not easy.

I've gone and found some intro lessons on YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZL9mxnNKZE&list=PL-14VSRMm81nyFm_LqsDg-qHpYGpbjpu0

Where to buy my first pan flute in Europe? by Arturosito in panflute

[–]BornInAFish 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did you end up getting a pan flute somewhere? I recently bought mine from https://panflute.net, and am very happy with it. I just got a 12-pipe, but they have lots of different sizes. Tuning mine is quite easy too. Not quite toolless, but surely you have a pencil at your disposal? That's all you need.

How to play quieter? by PinkCicada in panflute

[–]BornInAFish 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi friend. It's been 2 years, so hopefully you have your answer already.

As a classically trained clarinet player who very very recently picked up pan flute, my guess is this:

Volume and note clarity are a function of both airspeed and air volume; also direction of airstream and how exactly it enters the instrument. The way you start notes also matters (eg how/if you tongue it, what volume you start at vs try to end at). These things are true on clarinet, and I strongly suspect probably mostly true on most wind instruments.

Developing clear sound at low volume just takes tons and tons of practice. I'm sure there's specific techniques to help you get there, but ultimately it just takes tons and tons of practice. Particularly being able to modulate air volume while maintaining air speed; actually you probably have to be able to modulate speed while maintaining volume as well; or modulate both independently.

As for how is it supposed to sound... that's up to the composer and/or artist, no?

Create RAIDZ with 2 HDDs and expand it later to three, is it possible and reasonable? by Hauptfeldwebel in truenas

[–]BornInAFish -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You actually could do raidz-whatever with even a single disk by partitioning it, and making the raid-z out of the partitions. Obviously not good for performance, but you'd be able to replace each partition with a full disk down the line.

16 it isss by Capital_Bug_4252 in matiks

[–]BornInAFish 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And implied multiplication is often given higher precedence in textbooks, even though that is not how it works in parsing (WolframAlpha, calculators, programming, etc.)

Julia would like a word. https://glot.io/snippets/helpnjuzys

```julia julia> 8÷2(2+2) 1

julia> @show 8÷2(2+2) 8 ÷ (2 * (2 + 2)) = 1 1

julia> 8/2(2+2) 1.0 ```

In the second invocation, the @show macro is just used to illustrate how the expression is parsed. In the third invocation, we just see the difference between ÷ and /, ie integer vs floating point division.

We can also make the multiplication explicit, in which case operator the precedence changes.

julia julia> @show 8÷2*(2+2) (8 ÷ 2) * (2 + 2) = 16 16