> Transactions like full user flows start to finish, or 1 transaction = 1 post/get and 1 response?
For most applications we are talking closer to 1 transportation 1 web request. Distributed tracing across microservices is possible, the level of extra effort required depends on your stack. But that's also the out of the box, plug and play stuff. With lower level APIs you define your own transactions, when they start and end, which is needed for tracing applications where there isn't a built in framework integration (e.x not a web application).
My dumb theory is that they’re trying to break up the “monopoly” allegations. But, I’m not sure what the stats are for how many people use ad block blockers like ublock, and are willing to migrate to a different browser because of its loss. On top of that, like others say there are still ad blockers available.
Terrible sample size: I moved to FF as soon as I couldn’t use a cookie cleaner for web dev work, and ublock origin.
This article does not provide much insight and reads like it’s extremely SEO optimized. Super repetitive without much actual information and just a lot of opinion?
In this bowl of congee, in which Chinese American home cooks have deftly merged tradition with creativity, we find an embodiment of diasporic modernity, the dynamic interaction between traditional Chinese cuisine and contemporary experiences in America. The congee becomes a metaphor for more than simply a meal; it represents the ability of food to bring people together, celebrate variety, and accept the ever-changing world of global cuisine. In the heartwarming simplicity of a bowl of corn congee, we witness the journey and blending process of American corn in China and Chinese cooks in America, creating a culinary harmony that transcends time and place.
This refined congee rendition captures the culinary voyage’s essence, demonstrating its versatility and ingenuity. Congee morphs into a beautiful symphony of tastes when combined with crispy bacon, scallions, cheddar cheese, carrots, celery, garlic, and soy sauce, perfectly harmonizing the rich culinary traditions of China and America.
Yikes, you weren't kidding. This reads like LLM-generated tripe with the purple in the prose dialed up so high it would make Harold blush.
It's a shame too because one of my favorite comfort foods is 皮蛋粥 - a congee with thousand-year-old eggs mixed in.
Nah, it reads like someone in academia who is used to writing for other academics.
LLM generated stuff tends to make less sense. The overly pretentious wording is not much different than some books I had to read in graduate level courses in college.
This is often used by audio mixing engineers and taught in a roundabout way at schools and studios. We think a lot about where thins “sit” in the mix. Proximity wise, and even height wise in a stereo mix.
Eventually you learn how to locate things in headphones and it’s a really weird sensation when you realize you can do it.
The kicker is we start out by simulating real environments in mixes, but then end up having to simulate what people expect from the medium as opposed to real life.
For example something I learned doing video audio, if someone is writing something on a train, viewers expect to hear the pen on paper. But irl, there’s not a chance it’s audible. Explosions are always distorted because microphones end up clipping due to the volume, etc.
A great book on spatial simulation is The Art of Mixing by David Gibson. Older but forever relevant
> For example something I learned doing video audio, if someone is writing something on a train, viewers expect to hear the pen on paper
Just yesterday was watching Territory season 1 where the characters have an intense suspenseful, almost whispering "serious voice" conversation while standing next to a running helicopter, without even raising their voices which took me out of the scene.
So the question is, do viewers want it, or do know it all producers say people do and put it in?
My clearest memory of that was me as a kid watching a Bond-movie where a sportscar makes a screaching sound when driving down a sandy beach. I turned of the TV and don't think I ever saw a full Bond movie after that.
The list on the page you linked had one thing that isn't toally correct though:
>The very specific (but entirely unrealistic) echoing thud that is heard when all the lights are turned on in a large spacenote .
That sound is realistic if it is an old building with the heavy type of power relays or whatever they are called. They do make that sort of sound if the acoustics are right. They could be set up with timers so they don't start the lights at exactly the same moment to prevent overloading the fuses.
Surprisingly, it’s also present in live sports, see for example this article (in Finnish) about sounds in winter sports broadcasts: https://yle.fi/aihe/a/20-10005843
You went on quite many topics there. Could you expand on the proximity and height? Fascinating
The closest analogue I can think of is how due to practice now anyone can close their eyes and imagine typing entire essays how they know exactly where the keys are. Try it.
I have played alot of videogames & at some point identified, how can I guess, the source of sounds.
Guess, because it's nowhere near actual approximation.
Most often, source is guessed by context. E.g. The door knocking sound illusion, which was used to troll streamers.
Then you have directional localisation based on delay between ears, difference in volume & properties of reverberations.
Things to the sides are going to arrive in either ear at different moment. Add source if first echo & you have confirmation that a sound is coming from either right or left.
The more directly to the side is the sound, the bigger the delay between ears is, so you get approximate angle.
Now we consider sound muffling, caused by shape of our head & ears. Things in front are going to sound clearer in the opposite ear, than sounds from the back.
The same principle is used for detection of height. Things below are going to get muffled, things above will be clearer. In reality, feeling sounds with the whole body helps in source localisation, which can't be emulated with headphones.
Ive seen a BBC doc that tested this. They had people use putty to change the shape of thier ears, resulting in an inability to judge the height of a sound. Given how differently-shaped ears are, as opposed to the inner structures which are virtually identical, this result points towards a learned skill rather than something genetic. We each must learn how our paticular ear shapes modify sound.
I once lived in a shared 4 story house and I always intuitively knew where everyone in the house was, even if they weren't being loud. You could just tell where everyone was based on how the house creaked in response to footsteps. We had someone new move in once who walked very quietly and it made me feel slightly uneasy because they were sort of invisible to my hearing.
That's not at all what echolocation is. What you describe is locating the source of sound using binaural hearing (similar to how we can gauge distances using stereoscopic vision).
Echolocation is finding out distance to objects (not sound sources!) by sending a sound wave in a direction, and listening for echos that bounce back. Hence echolocation.
The only sound source is you.
It's a form of active sensing: literally how a submarine sonar works (or radar, for that matter). Bats do it, too.
This has very little to do with "locating things in headphones", as that is entirely missing the active part in the first place.
Then, locating sound sources using binaural hearing is not the same as analyzing the scattered echoes when the sound source is you (relative to yourself, you know where you are already!).
It's interesting that this is currently the top comment. I wonder how many people read the article before engaging in this discussion.
Interestingly, it took until after the invention of SONAR for the theory that bats navigate by echolocation to be accepted. The theory that bats use hearing for spatial awareness was first proposed in the late 18th century, with experimental evidence, but was rejected by the scientific establishment for more than a century. People didn't know marine mammals used echolocation until the 1950s.
I didn't know this, but the intuition that a tech example will be easier to grasp than an example from biology was why I mentioned sonar before bats in the first place.
Fascinating to find out that the scientific community had this kind of bias as well.
>The parent comment is obviously stupid and has already been down-voted, so HN is doing its job? There is no need to feed the troll.
It's visible, and from my experience, it's not obviously stupid to many people, while being actively harmful.
This is not a trolling comment either, so I don't feel like "feeding the troll" metaphor applies. The "do not feed the troll" advice is usually given to not create opportunities for the troll to come and engage with.
Bigots are not trolls. When countered and having nothing to say, they shut down. Unlike trolls (who say things to simply provoke emotions), bigots want to feel in the right, and will abandon the conversations (and spaces) where that isn't feasible.
To stop the troll, you stop feeding them. When met with no response, trolls move on to something else.
To stop the bigot, you stand up to them. When met with no response, bigots feel emboldened, and do more of the same.
There is no need to feed the trolls. There is a need to stand up to bigotry.
yeah- yikes I did not expect that to happen. My comment was extremely tangential and there were a good few comments already when I added it. I completely agree - it’s not about echo location
Are you in a gig scene? The vast majority of the Brooklyn gig scene have service industry jobs, film sound jobs, or they play a lot of 3-4 hour event gigs (wedding bands but plus all events) on top of their own music projects. It’s not feasible to just do main music project gigs to start out in the slightest. And we all have the cheapest rents in ny.
true it is tedious but I have a vs code shortcut for doing the following (and same goes for queryselectorall)
let foo = document.queryselector(‘.foo’);
I’m a junior-mid level web dev now and when I first cut my teeth my senior dev was very much a wall. It wasn’t intentional but when you do something for 10 years, you just forget how it feels to not know what you don’t know.
It made me really start to learn on my own and figure out how go from 0 on many different skills. So personally I really think it’s about the junior and how much they’ve figured out their learning style, and being “a wall” like this can sometimes force them to learn by reading through all of your old code. Inadvertently leading by example is still really good
Transactions like full user flows start to finish, or 1 transaction = 1 post/get and 1 response?