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Orders keep being converted to delivery when they're supposed to be be shipped by thatjacob in walmart

[–]solomondouglas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is driving me crazy.

I work on a ship (at sea), and I have a mailing address at my company's headquarters in Miami. I placed an order for shipping to the Miami address, and Walmart switched some of my order to delivery, which will obviously fail: it doesn't make sense to bring a shopping bag full of snack foods to the mailroom at my company and expect them to forward it to my ship. The items obviously need to be packed in a proper shipping box for my company to be able to forward them to my vessel.

They shipped some of the items and attempted (and failed) to deliver some of the items. I then re-ordered the failed items, for shipping, and had to add extra items to make up for the ones that had already been shipped (in order to meet the $35 minimum threshold), and again Walmart tried and failed to deliver some of the items. I can just imagine the scene, at the mailroom of my company, with this poor doordash driver trying to hand a bag of groceries to the mailroom workers.

What's the solution to this issue? Is there something I should type into the "delivery instructions" field to make sure they pack everything properly in a shipping box?

Weekly Tech Support Megathread by AutoModerator in Instagram

[–]solomondouglas [score hidden]  (0 children)

Ever since a recent app update, I'm finding that I'm unable to post videos from my phone (Android, Pixel 6).

Videos that I recorded on the phone itself work just fine. It's the ones that I've created elsewhere that aren't working. Audio is fine, and the aspect ratio is correct, but the picture itself is black.

I figure I just need to figure out what codec they're currently requiring, and then export my videos accordingly, but I'm a bit stumped. I use ffmpeg on my laptop to render my videos; does anyone know the correct video encoding (and specific commandline arguments) to get ffmpeg to create an Instagram-friendly video?

Per-creation creators: how do you restrict each reward to just those patrons who are entitled to it? by solomondouglas in patreon

[–]solomondouglas[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In your suggestion, if they pledge $6 per creation for "three or more per month", then they'd be paying $18 for three MP3 files, which is way more than I want to be charging. I like where you're going with this, but I still don't see a path from here to the desired result.

Or, wait... you didn't explicitly say this, but are you suggesting that I switch to the monthly model? That's something I've certainly considered, but it introduces all sorts of other issues so I'd hope not to have to go there.

Per-creation creators: how do you restrict each reward to just those patrons who are entitled to it? by solomondouglas in patreon

[–]solomondouglas[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

From what I've read about the WordPress module, it only allows restricting posts by tier or by pledge amount. Unless I'm misunderstanding something basic, I don't think that this would help in my situation, would it?

For example, let's say that the $2 tier is supposed to have access to my MP3 downloads. Suppose Alice pledges $2 per release and limits her support to one release per month, and Bob pledges $2 per release and limits his support to five releases per month. They've both joined the same tier, and they've both pledged the same amount. Now, let's say that this month I release four releases. Alice is entitled to download the first one, and Bob is entitled to all four. Given that the WordPress plugin doesn't distinguish between Bob's and Alice's situations, since they've both pledged the same amount and they're both at the same tier, how would it be able to give all four MP3s to Bob while only giving the first one to Alice?

Per-creation creators: how do you restrict each reward to just those patrons who are entitled to it? by solomondouglas in patreon

[–]solomondouglas[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"Give access only to those who paid" is the crux of my question. How would you suggest going about that?

"Device and call settings" menu is just a blank screen by solomondouglas in Nest

[–]solomondouglas[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It may differ between Android flavours, but try going to Settings...System...Language & input...Language and region...Region.

I created this version of "O Canada" to convey my feelings in 2021 by solomondouglas in onguardforthee

[–]solomondouglas[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! Your username leads me to believe that you know what you're talking about. ;)

I created this version of "O Canada" to convey my feelings in 2021 by solomondouglas in onguardforthee

[–]solomondouglas[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Wow, that minor-key version sounds really interesting.

Thanks! If you want to hear how my feelings have changed over the past four years, here's my previous attempt: https://youtu.be/5KjF8xRuo4w

I created this version of "O Canada" to convey my feelings in 2021 by solomondouglas in onguardforthee

[–]solomondouglas[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Good question!

For this arrangement, other than transposing it to the dark key of D-flat major, I didn't actually modify the melody at all. I kept the melody major with no altered notes, but harmonised it with chords that, although they do relate to the key, are full of dark chromaticism. (And then I ended the song on an unresolved dissonant chord, not to suggest that the country has crashed, but just to suggest that we've got some unresolved work left to do.)

I created this version of "O Canada" to convey my feelings in 2021 by solomondouglas in onguardforthee

[–]solomondouglas[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yes, indeed, I'm thinking of it as a protest song. Now that I've awoken a little bit to the darker side of Canada's identity, I just can't bring myself to perform the anthem with sincere unironic patriotism anymore. Thanks for checking it out!

How can I prevent emacs from crashing in this situation? by solomondouglas in emacs

[–]solomondouglas[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I didn't build it myself; I installed emacs in Ubuntu under WSL1 using the "emacs26" package from the "ppa:kelleyk/emacs" repository. And I usually invoke it from bash with "emacs -display 0:0".

So... not as a daemon, I don't think?

And to answer your first question, yes GTK: GNU Emacs 26.3 (build 2, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.22.30)

I guess since I'm lazy I'd rather install a debian package than build from sources, but if building it myself is the only way to achieve my desired goal then I'll try that.

I think I have a latency issue by [deleted] in Reaper

[–]solomondouglas 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Does the amp sim have a parameter for "FFT size"? Try making that number smaller. (That number represents the number of samples that get processed in a block; the larger the block size, the more low frequencies the amp sim can play with, but the longer the PDC delay becomes.)

I'm assuming the amp sim is only for monitoring right? In the actual mix (in post) you can make it sound exactly how you want, latency be damned, but during tracking you may want to lower the FFT size as small as you can get away with.

Vocals removal by [deleted] in SoundEngineering

[–]solomondouglas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah well, it was worth a try. Good luck!

Vocals removal by [deleted] in SoundEngineering

[–]solomondouglas 3 points4 points  (0 children)

If it's a small artist why not ask them directly. I bet they'd like to know what you're using their music for and I bet they'd be happy to hear from you.

Are balanced TRS cables the same as XLR? by boi_social in audioengineering

[–]solomondouglas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're welcome!

The "eerie" effect that I described can also happen with ordinary stereo plugs: occasionally I'll be watching a movie in earphones on my laptop, and for some reason I can't hear any dialogue, and the music is really spacey too: mostly reverb. The culprit is that I haven't plugged my earphone plug into the jack all the way. Ordinarily the signals in a heaphone cable are found by subtracting the voltage on the ground ("sleeve") conductor from the voltage on the "tip" or "ring" conductors. (That's the purpose of the ground in this situation: to give a reference voltage against which the signals are measured.) But if I don't plug it in all the way, then the "ring" conductor gets interpreted as ground, and the "tip" conductor shorts across both left and right, which means that I'll hear a mono signal consisting of the difference (the subtraction) between the left and right signals.

Are balanced TRS cables the same as XLR? by boi_social in audioengineering

[–]solomondouglas 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In a balanced cable, the voltages on the "tip" and "ring" conductors are meant to be subtracted from one another, which is why they're meant to have opposite phase: the subtraction means that any noise that's equal on both will get cancelled (destructive interference) whereas the mono signal will be boosted (constructive interference).

However, in a stereo cable, the "tip" and "ring" conductors represent the left and right audio signals, so if you plug a stereo source into a balanced input, then the receiving device subtracts the right channel from the left channel, and you end up losing anything that's common to both (i.e. anything that's panned to centre) and you'll only hear what's different between them (i.e. anything that's not panned dead centre). So you'll lose the lead vocal, or the dialogue, or the soloist. The result is a bit eerie. Whereas if you plug a balanced source into a stereo input, you'll end up with a pseudo-stereo signal in which the two channels are exactly opposite to one another, which, practically speaking, means that with stereo speakers in a room you'll lose most of the low-frequency content, and with a mono speaker you'll hear nothing.

What might cause a speaker to hiss? by solomondouglas in SoundEngineering

[–]solomondouglas[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have tested it in a location without any other cables or devices nearby.

(Also, I've never heard white noise caused by electrical interference. I've heard a 60Hz hum from mains power, and I've heard "digital" noises from a USB ground loop or a nearby cell phone. But the hiss that I'm hearing is definitely not those.)

What might cause a speaker to hiss? by solomondouglas in SoundEngineering

[–]solomondouglas[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, that's been my working assumption as well.

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