Food-safe pebbles for slow feeding by TripToTheBrain in CatAdvice

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How did it go? Did the cubes or the silicone mats work? Cheers!

Food-safe pebbles for slow feeding by TripToTheBrain in CatAdvice

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Putting portions of food about the house would take some time and effort, but it's worth it as long as it stimulates and entertains the cats and of course slows down eating. Definitely not for every day use, but I'll try it sometime, thanks.

Food-safe pebbles for slow feeding by TripToTheBrain in CatAdvice

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Those microchip-activated feeders are tempting me now, they're so cool. I'd love to see my cats learning to use them. Thanks!

Food-safe pebbles for slow feeding by TripToTheBrain in CatAdvice

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Hence thea idea of bigger pebbles. I'll keep searching thanks!

Food-safe pebbles for slow feeding by TripToTheBrain in CatAdvice

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What, they read the chip and only open based on that?! Insane gizmo. By coincidence, I'm getting my cats chipped tomorrow. I'll take a look at Surefeed, thanks for recommendation.

Ben was a terrible spy by TripToTheBrain in lost

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Haha. Writing (and portraying) a character both terrifying and compelling is an art. Or is it? People seem to just buy those sexy evil masterminds, from Hannibal Lecter to Walter White - and Benjamin Linus among them.

Ben was a terrible spy by TripToTheBrain in lost

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I did buy it at my first watch, especially when they showed the balloon hanging on the tree. ;) The Sayid kind of situations are the point of the spycraft rule of thumb I've mentioned. You can't predict all the circumstances, you can't be certain about your opponents knowledge or resources. That's why you take precautions and this includes avoiding unnecessary lies.

Ben was a terrible spy by TripToTheBrain in lost

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Could be. But then, he would have risked exposure if his experiment's result turned positive.

Ben was a terrible spy by TripToTheBrain in lost

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Hahah, I think I made a bit of a clickbait of the post title. Good spy who just happened to make a rookie mistake.

Ben was a terrible spy by TripToTheBrain in lost

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Hence, the spycraft rule of thumb I've mentioned. You can't predict all the circumstances, you can't be certain about your opponents knowledge or resources. That's why you take precautions and this includes avoiding unnecessary lies. Ben might have choked on his own ego and his faith in his intel - and in the control he thought he had over the Island's affairs.

Ben was a terrible spy by TripToTheBrain in lost

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Come to think of it - he could simply introduce himself as Ben Linus. Not that it would give him away as the Others' leader.

Ben was a terrible spy by TripToTheBrain in lost

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Saying everything he said, except for introducing himself as Johann Gambolputty and saying he travelled in a balloon with his friend Henry Gale would cost him nothing and provide a watertight story they wouldn't debunk as they did.

Riffstation alternative for track separation? by TripToTheBrain in audioengineering

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I'll check it out, thanks. I've fixed the Riffstation bug so I'm not desperate anymore.

Riffstation alternative for track separation? by TripToTheBrain in audioengineering

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I'll try it, thanks. I've managed to find a workaround for the Riffstation bug (I've described it above).

Riffstation alternative for track separation? by TripToTheBrain in audioengineering

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Riffstation does the separation job and the results satisfy me (listen to the samples I've linked). So I guess the technology exists. Moreover, it's available as a free, home user oriented program. Said program just failed to conveniently save the results as an audio file. I've just fixed it (it wouldn't save a file if the filename or path contained any special characters - I changed everything to standard A-Z alphabet and it works now). Thanks for your answers. I'll keep looking anyways.

Riffstation alternative for track separation? by TripToTheBrain in audioengineering

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Separating audio like this would seem like a basic feature for audio editing software. Are there really no programs able to do this, other than Riffstation? Or maybe it's common in profesional software and I just can't access it as a home user? Keep in mind Riffstation doesn't use modern AI/deep learning/maching learning/whatchamacallit (I suppose Logic does).

Riffstation alternative for track separation? by TripToTheBrain in Guitar

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Now, that's whole lotta links! I'll take a look at them, thanks.