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I hope the Dota 2 battle pass comes out soon... But it’s delayed by a “few weeks” in Valve time... 😔 I'm arguing with my friend: If you're in a room, and you have two small rooms connected to it. If you open the doors to those rooms, does it increase or decrease the reverb in the room? In my opinion, it would increase the reverb, as the room would effectively be larger. My friend think it would decrease the reverb as the sound would be broken up more. Who's right?
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@Gargron @Gargron A similar question was infamously posed to the Royal Society by King James the first. He asked why a goldfish could swim in a full bowl of water without spilling the water when alive but once it died the water spilled. Scientists gave forth various explanations a week later when he told them it wasn't actually true. Lead to the Amurkan aphorism. Do the fucking experiment. Nine million logs of Brits' road journeys spill onto the internet from password-less number-plate camera dashboard https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/04/28/anpr_sheffield_council/ @Gargron This is where I live (Sheffield, UK). These cameras are used for total bullshit reasons too, basically milking cash from out of towners for ending up in a bus gate. The fact they have bollocksed up the management of them does not surprise me at all. Hopefully they shut the whole fucking thing down.  @Gargron No surprise at all there. I suspect the only reason this is the first time we hear about an ANPR systems' case is that they are so boring that no security researcher bothered to look into them before. The focus is usually on "cooler" systems like traffic lights, charging stations or the cars themselves. Can you recommend me some music that incorporates a hammered dulcimer as a supporting, but not central, instrument? @Gargron They actually going to do it, partially, in may here in The Netherlands. I don't know, doesn't sound very good to me.
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"The precious beauty of the night sky is in danger. We are asking for your help to protect it." New Coke, 35 years on: Inside the recipe tweak that sparked nationwide backlash and almost ruined Coca-Cola  @Gargron A Conspiracy Theory from that time suggested that the "blunder" was deliberate. Coke allegedly wanted to switch from a corn syrup/cane sugar mix to 100% corn syrup (much cheaper), but it kept failing side-by-side taste tests. Solution: Replace Coke with "new" Coke, wait two months, then, after everyone's memories have gone hazy, introduce Classic Coke using 100% corn syrup which tastes *almost* the same as the original. Coke looks silly, but saves millions in costs. The new notifications UI on GitHub will take a lot of getting used to. Information overload 😕 I've just added this documentation page, which talks about why you, as a user, might want to run your own Mastodon server, and what that would require https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/run-your-own/ Let me know what you think!
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@Gargron I think the document should also mention the work required to maintain the personal server. There are updates that require manual intervention, a small server will not last forever and at some point you will have to migrate, for example. In the end it is always the classic trade off, control vs convenience.
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