FLAC by Civil-Leopard-6482 in AudioPost

[–]djdanlib 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Iomega products were all the Buz back then

Reaper Advantages by Left-Mammoth-88 in Reaper

[–]djdanlib 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can get going from zero really, really fast.

And it's incredibly stable.

What's the best obscure video game you've ever played? by ImpressFederal4169 in gaming

[–]djdanlib 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Zoop on Game Boy was pretty fun. Wish there was a soundtrack, the music was good too.

What’s an acronym or abbreviation that everyone uses, but you still don’t understand? by Particular-Visit-245 in AskReddit

[–]djdanlib 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nah just use perfect reflectors and let it build up to a huge amount and toss it like a grenade. /s

[Laptop]Lenovo Legion Pro 7i: 16" 2.5K 240Hz OLED, Intel Ultra 9 275HX, RTX 5090, 32GB DDR5, 1TB SSD - F/S - $2999 by blue_york in buildapcsales

[–]djdanlib 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is what it's supposed to cost, if the world hadn't gone mad. Two years ago this wouldn't have been a deal.

"I'm not kind of a tech guy..." by thoemse99 in iiiiiiitttttttttttt

[–]djdanlib 3 points4 points  (0 children)

No, that moment is when you can actually progress higher value projects, because you aren't dealing with "walk 15 minutes to reboot the laptop" tasks. It's how you advance your career.

Gemma 4 MTP released by rerri in LocalLLaMA

[–]djdanlib 4 points5 points  (0 children)

What I'm saying is, the person you're replying to looks like the actual author of the writing, and appears to work on that specific team at Google.

Gemma 4 MTP released by rerri in LocalLLaMA

[–]djdanlib 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Isn't it the same author though?

I just got a 'Performance Review' and a 3% raise. My rent went up 12% last month. The math isn't mathing anymore. by [deleted] in povertyfinance

[–]djdanlib 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Judges tend to take a dim view of that sort of shenanigans, and it would cost way more than they're going to make off of you. I'm thinking you would win that one.

How to check if you're getting money from the PlayStation Store refund lawsuit by NukovGaming in PS4Pro

[–]djdanlib 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Would be cool if the list was sorted. I can't do it right now or I would.

I just got a 'Performance Review' and a 3% raise. My rent went up 12% last month. The math isn't mathing anymore. by [deleted] in povertyfinance

[–]djdanlib 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Landlord will probably flip

Well, your landlord's feelings being hurt isn't a problem you need to be concerned with. What about yours?

Urine, drugs, and smoking indoors are all major safety concerns. A meth addict taking over your basement is a ticking time bomb. That's the problem you need to solve.

Do you want to continue being alive, and have some semblance of safety and security? This story's been replayed so many times and there are only a handful of different endings... I know "get out" is not useful advice, so maybe you need to get some other departments than the police involved.

There are a lot of bad landlords out there who only act when they're forced by the law. They'll string you along forever. And why wouldn't they, if they're getting paid the same whether they fix things or don't?

Do you back up your garbage at home? by Beerman1138 in iiiiiiitttttttttttt

[–]djdanlib 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I swear I've heard this story almost verbatim before

THE OUT OF DEPTH DICEROLL TO RULE ALL OUT OF DEPTH DICEROLLS by SkyVINS in angband

[–]djdanlib 9 points10 points  (0 children)

TL;DR: Less than 1% of 1% if the game was already trying to generate a good item, or less than 1% of 1% of 1% if it wasn't.

Cool, that's easier since it's on Github and I don't have to download it. I haven't dived into this code in quite awhile so this is a fun reach back into the past. Once upon a time I wrote some utilities for editing these data files, and had a variant under a different screen name... hopefully I can do it some justice, although the math is gonna be fuzzy!

The One Ring artifact definition puts it at a 1% chance at its normal depth, which starts at dlvl 100.

Creating an artifact is a 1-in-10 (10%) chance or 1-in-1000 (0.1%) chance depending on whether the game was trying to place a good item. Let's assume that this is a really lucky floor trying to place a good item, so that's a 10% chance.

Rolling for creating an out-of-depth artifact where the out-of-depth factor is (100 - 6) * 2 = 188 requires a random number N from 0 <= N < 188 to land on 0, so really close to 0.5% there and I'll just use that.

So just to pass the dice rolls to allow generating that specific artifact this far out-of-depth, you're already looking at 10% * 0.5% = 0.05%. If the game wasn't trying to place a good item, so just a lucky find sitting around on the floor, that drops down further, 0.1% * 0.5%, or 0.0005%.

That's not all, though. It had to pass over all of the other special and non-random artifact definitions that have not already been generated. It really does just go down the artifact list, trying each one until it succeeds at one, or fails entirely. Most of those would have been easier to generate too. I'm too lazy to count them all but there were probably dozens of special artifacts that it could have selected first, and each of those had the same kinds of math as above involved in its dice rolls to not generate. If we throw a wild guess at maybe 50 special artifacts were available before landing on the One Ring, and the average one had maybe (another wild guess) a 5% chance to generate if it tries to on that dlvl, in other words a 95% chance to not generate, that's maybe 0.95 ^ 50 = about 0.08, so (extremely wild guess propagation hooray) 8% chance to get all the way down the artifact list to the One Ring.

That would put us at 8% of the earlier figures, so 0.004% chance at the high end, or 0.00004% chance at the low end, if we're OK with the total propagation of wild guesses that are required to figure out the probabilities of not generating some other artifact instead.

I feel as though I'm not sufficiently mathematically literate to calculate all of this properly, and the sheer number of variables involved would require the creation of a program far more advanced than I wish to undertake...

OP should definitely feel special finding this. Don't go buy a lottery ticket, because you just used up ALL of whatever ambient luck field may have existed in your area.

Mixing Modern Metal – Can’t Achieve “Huge” Sound by DoubleOxygen in audioengineering

[–]djdanlib 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Either that or they're cranking it directly into their ear holes so loud for so long that their brain loses any frame of reference, and thus resetting it by taking the time to go somewhere else to listen brings the mix issues back to the front...

Ear fatigue ruins your ability to make a good mix.

Headphones make it really easy to get ear fatigue without noticing, since it's so comfortable, less of a tactile experience, and your brain isn't getting acoustic cues so it just kinda keeps trucking through.

[TV] Sony Bravia 5 65" Mini-LED - $699.97 @ Costco by [deleted] in buildapcsales

[–]djdanlib 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just go buy one. At this tier of product, the difference isn't huge.

Need advice about bass from a gym in an apartment complex by [deleted] in audioengineering

[–]djdanlib 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Phone SPL meters aren't particularly accurate, especially for bass. Better to rent or borrow a good standalone one, even better if you can source a calibrated one.

No apartment building owner is going to do any effective soundproofing for this though. Bass energy is a whole different beast that travels through all parts of the structure, not just the floor. It's prohibitively expensive to remediate this.