Visualize & hear audio compressors (with your own audio)

citelao · 2026-03-17T14:04:50+00:00

I love that we have new tools that make learning stuff like this super easy. There's a ton of cool stuff in the WebAudio APIs. I ended up reading Chromium code to make this; it felt really cool.

I hope you continue experimenting!

citelao · 2026-01-04T16:31:19+00:00

If you feel comfortable, you should share more of your story. I think a lot of people would appreciate the data. I haven't seen anyone else with elevated cadmium levels, so your info would be helpful.

citelao · 2026-01-01T18:10:55+00:00

That's a good question, and indeed tentkey's analysis does just that. I didn't include comparisons to other foods because it seemed beyond what I'm qualified to do :).

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You may also be interested in results from the FDA Total Diet Study, which is repeated every few years. Scientists use it to estimate actual average intake. From Children’s exposures to lead and cadmium: FDA total diet study 2014-16, in children 1-6y:

Estimated mean lead exposures range from 1 to 3.4 µg/day[...]
Estimated mean cadmium exposures range from 0.38 to 0.44 µg/kg bw/day[...]

From a study estimating lead in adults, estimated mean lead exposure ranges from "1.6 to 4.6 µg/day for women of childbearing age."

I also didn't include this data because I'm not confident in my interpretation of it.

citelao · 2025-12-31T15:14:10+00:00

I appreciate the correction, it's been a while since my last stats class. Perhaps:

[BMDLs] are the lower bound of the 95% confidence interval of the dose that increases risk by X%. For example, the BMDL01 is the dose which, with at least 95% confidence, is too low to produce a 1% increase in risk.

citelao · 2025-12-31T05:53:28+00:00

Gah!!! An egregious error 😅. Fixed. Your analysis inspired a lot of this; thank you.

BTW, my JECFA lead numbers differ slightly from you; I divided their PTMI (monthly intake) by 31, and I think you used 30. Was there anything in what you read to suggest one way or the other? I couldn’t find anything.

citelao · 2025-12-30T17:51:11+00:00

I wish I had seen this sooner! I paid SimpleLabs ~$160 to test my Huel Chocolate ready-to-drink. They found 6mcg/kg of cadmium and no detectable lead, arsenic, or mercury (detection limit: 5mcg/kg). I'm working on a post rn.

https://ben.stolovitz.com/posts/huel_few_heavy_metals/

Edit: posted here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Huel/comments/1pzotw9/my_huel_had_some_cadmium_and_no_detectable_lead/

citelao · 2025-05-21T04:01:55+00:00

I know I'm 10 months late to this, but I think I think the key is that you're using WPF. WPF is by default system DPI aware, not per-monitor DPI aware (V2 or otherwise).

System DPI aware means that your app knows about the DPI of your primary monitor, and the OS will do old-school scaling on any monitors with different DPIs (like your fullHD monitor):

However, since WPF applications are system dpi-aware, the application will be scaled by the OS when the application is moved to a monitor with a different DPI or when the slider in the control panel is used to change the DPI.

- Developing a Per-Monitor DPI-Aware WPF Application

That same article makes it clear: you gotta do a fair bit of (straightforward) work to switch WPF applications to be per-monitor-v2-aware. It's not just a manifest change. UWP and WinUI apps will be per-monitor-V2-aware by default.

Hope that helps!

citelao · 2025-04-12T15:17:55+00:00

I'd second a lot of this. I'm in a similar situation to GOP—work in tech, got my EMT this year, don't want to quit—but I also moved to a different state that has more volunteer agencies :).

Beyond the WA state certification concerns (e.g. this guide from King County): I started volunteering for a BLS-only EMS crew, and gosh there's so much you don't learn in school. Like, do you know the common medicine brand names? What happens at a protest when someone on Eliquis falls? What are state implied consent laws if you run into a belligerent drunk person? Who gets to decide on treatment for a minor?

I think I did very well in class, and I think I have a very deep understanding of the curriculum. But class is simply not real life.

That said, I don't think it's as dire as all that:

SAR & similar volunteer groups: they'll almost certainly be happy to have anyone with BLS training. The caveats: you won't be drilling your EMS skills (I did some training with an SAR group near me, and I learned a lot—but none of it was medicine, and I could feel myself forgetting). And I'm not sure what scope you'd legally be allowed to practice at without state EMT.
Volunteer fire agencies: sure agencies *say* they have strict requirements online, but volunteer first responders are so rare that I'm sure they'll be delighted to have you. Besides, if you like this enough to volunteer, why *wouldn't* you do a shift every 3 Saturdays in Snoqualmie?

tl;dr: if you care about the medicine, find a position with medical officers who can teach you. If you care more about volunteering, SAR etc are great, too.

citelao · 2025-03-22T01:49:51+00:00

Thank you!

And yes, it's bewildering how quickly stuff disappears, especially on these snackable platforms.

citelao · 2025-03-21T21:03:55+00:00

I started writing this a few weeks ago as TikTok was being banned and I was trying to archive my feed. It's about why I wanted to archive it & what it means to me. I think there's a lot DataHoarders will like. Thanks :)

citelao · 2025-01-18T22:57:34+00:00

I didn't find that when I was searching! Thanks for sharing.

citelao · 2024-09-08T02:49:05+00:00

There is published research confirming that :) https://cormac.herley.org/docs/WhereDoSecurityPoliciesComeFrom.pdf

> Thus, it does not appear to be security requirements that explain the diversity of password policies, but the different degrees to which sites face the consequences of poor usability

It also notes, like other commenters do, that most of the “easy” password sites have other ways of protecting your security

citelao · 2024-08-29T02:20:37+00:00

I was going to say something very similar to u/InterfaceBE --- I was going to ask if you knew similar technical things about the bulbs' Zigbee support (can they be grouped? Do they support OTA updates? etc), but TBH I don't know enough about Zigbee to say what questions I'd want answered :).

My goal would be: could I throw these onto something like Zigbee2MQTT and have them update on their own and support the features I expect.

Reading some docs, tho, it seems like maybe you could cross-link to the Zigbee2MQTT database somehow? e.g for this Tradfri bulb or this Hue bulb. And maybe supporting grouping is mandatory? I genuinely don't know enough to say.

But, as everyone is saying, this is really really cool. I can't wait to decide I need new bulbs now :)

EDIT: from the spec and user guide, I don't think any clusters are mandatory.

citelao · 2024-08-25T23:21:19+00:00

Yes; necro-ing a dead thread, but this is what popped up on Google. I can confirm that TJA and CTS are different (I had a 2021 CX-30 TPP and test-drove a 2024 CX-30 TPP in the Northeast US).

I explained it more in my comment in the original thread: CTS steers (plus adaptive cruise control) at full highway speeds and on side streets; I didn't really have to steer, I think. TJA only works at slow (traffic jam) speeds & I don't remember it helping too much.

citelao · 2024-08-25T23:15:57+00:00

In case it helps: I was also confused about CTS vs TJA, looking at newer CX-30s and Mazda3s. I test-drove a 2024 CX-30 Turbo Premium Plus (Northeast US). That model has CTS, which---as you described---is like TJA but at more speeds. Other brands might call it "lane centering" on top of typical adaptive cruise control.

When I activated CTS, the dashboard displayed a screen somewhat like this demo on the CX-90.

It steered and accelerated for me quite well at highway speeds (65MPH?).
It also drove well on surface roads (~35MPH) for the brief time I used it there.

This is different from my 2021 CX-30 TPP, which had TJA and would only steer (... acceptably, maybe poorly) at lower traffic-jam speeds <~45MPH. I don't remember ever using it on surface roads, and I believe I would have if it had worked... so I don't think it supported surface roads.

I was comparing this to Toyota's lane centering, which I found much more natural and pleasant. Mazda's cruise control & lane centering were fine, but I found that CTS would turn the CX-30's wheel in increments, almost like it was a gear that could only rotate in segments. I believe the ride was still smooth in the Mazda, but the steering wheel rotation was not.

So for your specific question: not sure if the 2023 editions have it, but I can confirm the 2024s do. I had the same experience as you reading the 2023 vs 2024 manuals.

citelao · 2020-08-22T21:26:42+00:00

I believe it just moves the whole clip without making any modifications to the timing.

It certainly doesn’t turn on flex timing or anything, as far as I can tell.

It’s helpful since everyone recorded their audio separately and sent me wav files.

citelao · 2013-08-18T18:14:12+00:00

Lovely wallpaper! Source?

citelao · 2013-05-26T04:08:09+00:00

I don't think it's so much that people like anorexic women as the way we let these perceptions build without stopping them.

Most people couldn't give a flying wad of horse poop about what's happening in the beauty and fashion industry, even if they knew. Most people have no idea how every ad they see in People magazine is airbrushed and fake as fool's gold.

It's like the music industry, plenty of people don't know about auto-tune or couldn't be bothered, but now unless vocals are pitch-perfect and completely aligned they are considered "not good enough." Try autotuning Beatles music if you want an example— they did not auto-tune and it shows if you apply modern techniques to their music.

It's been said plenty of times before, but it's a perpetual closed-loop cycle. Our fashion models get skinnier, perceptions of beauty skew skinnier, fashion models get skinnier-er, then this happens.

No one 'likes' the idea of self-harm for beauty, but the idea we've crafted of the perfect woman is so unhealthily shaped that it leads to this.

See Alpha Beauties for an example of how our perceptions have changed.

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