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HOW YOUR TECH IS LYING TO YOU: the volume control is logarithmic so it feels perceptually linear
real weird way to start a video with this
i saw this thumbnail and i thought "bro is not gonna make a whole video essay about how logarithms exist right" but that's what he did (well, at least a minute of it. i am not watching the rest)
did the algorithm wake up today and decide that it was going to serve me its strongest potions
it's really funny that our work VPN alternates termination between the UK, Ireland, Romania and Kenya, which fucks the ad bidding algorithm up severely
not entirely sure why the ad algorithm is this convinced that I am in the UK and dying
bit on the nose, isn't it
I suppose it is true that the target audience for people who might want to install an ad blocker is the people who are currently seeing ads
buddy. bro. like. people of marriageable age just don't have money or if they have money, don't feel like they can spend large amounts of it rather than putting it aside to save for potential future catastrophes or old age
codl@halcy for parts???
aeva@halcy do you think he just like knocked up 100 people in like one summer and his kids are all the same age or do you think he spread them out over time
estelle@aeva I figure that the practicalities of it demand that you'd spread it out, since you'd want like, 2 to 3 days pause for sperm count, and pregnancy is not guaranteed so you'd have to try more than 100 times to end up with 100 children total
but also I have decided that clicking the article to find out cannot possibly be worth it
Mia ‘Meetings? I Abstain’ Luna Tearmoon@halcy what happened tho
Thomas Sturm@halcy "micro-weddings" - or as we normal people call them - "weddings".
ANIME_~1@halcy the rise of not being able to afford anything
Siph 
@halcy pictured : a normal wedding
@halcy that's a Godox flash, a TT685 or very similar
Mrs Beanbag@halcy gonna get micro-married on staycation
@mrsbeanbag aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
LR@halcy i keep saying you definitely don't want an outcome where your wedding was the best day of your life.
Tina Stormcaller@TinaStormcaller this could be me, if I was willing to spend uhhhhh 1000 england dollars plus shipping
Simon LucyImagine the algae you could grow in that.
trois@halcy maybe algo is trying to say you are senior and rich?
@halcy homeowners without the will to do anything
elomatreb 🚂@halcy every sock can be self-heating for a while (a very short while for polyester socks)
Jeezy Peeps
@colon_three @halcy i stopped reading google news because it is devolving exactly into this kind of race to the bottom. we don't get the best articles, we get the articles that most people click on. and people click on unsettling and ominous headlines. i'm feeling sorry for journalists who have real intent to inform but must debase themselves for the algorithm
@colon_three @halcy fucking medieval
aldroidia@colon_three @halcy what the article doesn't tell you is that it's the spinach that makes the real difference
Anthropy@colon_three @halcy *algorithmic bowel noises*
also here@halcy I’m sure next they’re gonna expose the terrible industry secret that screens are actually made from tiny pixels that merely create an illusion of an image
Weird 2 - Electric Boogaloo@halcy thumbnail SEO at its worst.
josef@halcy wait until they find out about colors
@jk nevermind that, wait until he learns about frequency responses of various components involved, nevermind nonlinearities
@halcy common mode noise rejection is going to blow his mind. imagining a thumbnail of a twisted pair of wires. "look at the double helix. Its kind of like the DNA of electronics"
@jk the pointing at the screen like "images on the screen do not actually move, it is merely an illusion created by displaying many static images in rapid fire sequence"