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I figure the reason the nice one near me keeps their eyes on the guys, is because the other three in town are exactly the type of run-down creepshows that everyone avoids, and every so often one of their regular customers winds up in the nice store with the wrong expectations. That, and I probably don't look all that above the board when I haven't shaven or put my hair up.
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Today I learned that Denmark and Canada still have malls instead of rotting grey concrete husks squatting on vast tracts of uninhabited wasteland.
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Ironically the last time I saw a really run-down sad mall was in Montreal, I live right by like 3 of the biggest/most profitable malls in the USA though so that's fun (it's not fun)
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moller posted:Today I learned that Denmark and Canada still have malls instead of rotting grey concrete husks squatting on vast tracts of uninhabited wasteland. Give us 10-15 years, we'll get there.
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I know audiophile chat was a few pages ago, but I bet it's possible to convince them that the human ear has insufficient range to really get the most out of their music and that with a simple DIY cranial surgery they can pick up all the frequencies they've been missing!
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Rough Lobster posted:I know audiophile chat was a few pages ago, but I bet it's possible to convince them that the human ear has insufficient range to really get the most out of their music and that with a simple DIY cranial surgery they can pick up all the frequencies they've been missing! Given that as you get older, you become less able to hear high frequencies, and since most audiophiles seem to be older guys - do they pretend that this doesn't happen to them? I mean surely spending thousands on a sound system that plays frequencies you're too old to hear would mean admitting you're insane?
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Danger - Octopus! posted:Given that as you get older, you become less able to hear high frequencies, and since most audiophiles seem to be older guys - do they pretend that this doesn't happen to them? I mean surely spending thousands on a sound system that plays frequencies you're too old to hear would mean admitting you're insane? It's called warmth and you wouldn't understand. But yeah, by the time you can afford this kind of poo poo most ears can't pick it up. Although you could make an argument that audiophiles, by nature of their superior hearing, seek out the highest fidelity.
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Oct 28, 2017 21:40
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Rough Lobster posted:I know audiophile chat was a few pages ago, but I bet it's possible to convince them that the human ear has insufficient range to really get the most out of their music and that with a simple DIY cranial surgery they can pick up all the frequencies they've been missing! Paleo diet? Paleo hearing!
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Danger - Octopus! posted:Given that as you get older, you become less able to hear high frequencies, and since most audiophiles seem to be older guys - do they pretend that this doesn't happen to them? I mean surely spending thousands on a sound system that plays frequencies you're too old to hear would mean admitting you're insane? No, they just think their speakers slowly start sounding woolly, so they upgrade to models with exaggerated treble response, such as those from Wilson Audio. I've even heard this referred to as "graduating from bass to treble".
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Oct 28, 2017 22:49
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moller posted:Today I learned that Denmark and Canada still have malls instead of rotting grey concrete husks squatting on vast tracts of uninhabited wasteland. Frankly, malls aren't really that big of a thing here. Most municipalities near the big cities have one, but no one goes on a date, or a friend date, and say "let's go to the mall", that'd be kind of pitiful. We use malls for concentrated shopping, and visiting huge supermarkets ("hypermarkets"), and I guess that's about it. Sure, every mall has eating places, but they are always kinda low-budget and tame. Shopping in regular street stores & supermarkets is the norm, and we are huge on online shopping as well.
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Danger - Octopus! posted:Given that as you get older, you become less able to hear high frequencies, and since most audiophiles seem to be older guys - do they pretend that this doesn't happen to them? I mean surely spending thousands on a sound system that plays frequencies you're too old to hear would mean admitting you're insane? they absolutely claim it doesn't happen to them. and/or claim to have way above average hearing to begin with - like saying they could hear 30khz, so a bit of loss is no big deal as they can still hear better than normal people
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KozmoNaut posted:No, they just think their speakers slowly start sounding woolly, so they upgrade to models with exaggerated treble response, such as those from Wilson Audio. Sweevo posted:they absolutely claim it doesn't happen to them. and/or claim to have way above average hearing to begin with - like saying they could hear 30khz, so a bit of loss is no big deal as they can still hear better than normal people This is loving hilarious. I am simultaneously glad that I don't know anyone like this, but also sad because I would love to be able to laugh at them in person. Someone ought to write a parody horror/twilight zone thing about an audiophile whose hearing starts going.
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This podcast laughs at some of the funnier ideas (i.e. scams) audiophiles fall for: https://thefpl.us/episode/138
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Danger - Octopus! posted:Someone ought to write a parody horror/twilight zone thing about an audiophile whose hearing starts going. They more or less made this already.
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This guy is an absolutely fantastic Youtuber Philo Farnsworth and the Invention of Television https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUaowcXQtOo This talks about the invention of CRT TV so I think it fits in the obsolete tech thread. Of special note here is a god damned brilliant practical demo of electron beam scanning with a Nintendo Zapper, some yarn, and a poster board. All of this guys videos are soooo good.
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Danger - Octopus! posted:Someone ought to write a parody horror/twilight zone thing about an audiophile whose hearing starts going. Asimov did a short story on the theme (with a sci-fi twist) 25 years before Serling. Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_Sense Full text: https://archive.org/details/TheSecretSense
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quF45LvBtwA Techmoan reviews another old, obscure device, but this time,  . Can you guess what it does before the reveal? Hint: it's probably not what you would think based on the name.
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Doctor Bishop posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quF45LvBtwA That is the weirdest thing.
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Got it first guess, that thing is cool.
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I got the general idea once I saw the microphone input... but I didn't figure out all of it until he took the cap off
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Salvaged this today: It's been sitting in a bin bag since 2010 when it was de-commissioned. Test page came out OK if a bit dim (ribbon's dry of course). Here's the thing though: Lexmark still lists it as 
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Even though inkjets got cheap (and then lasers too), dot matrix printers have stayed around for a few niche uses like being able to print into those carbon duplicate/triplicate forms a lot of places still use.
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Sweevo posted:Even though inkjets got cheap (and then lasers too), dot matrix printers have stayed around for a few niche uses like being able to print into those carbon duplicate/triplicate forms a lot of places still use. Well yeah that thing's literally called Lexmark Forms Printer 4227 Plus. Now I just need a sheet feeder for it but that'll probably cost more than a cheap printer  It can still print single sheets and I have tractor paper so at least I'll get some use out of it.
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Sweevo posted:Even though inkjets got cheap (and then lasers too), dot matrix printers have stayed around for a few niche uses like being able to print into those carbon duplicate/triplicate forms a lot of places still use. Yep. My old job had some for that reason and some that lived in filthy environments that destroyed more advanced printers within a few months. As long as no one tried to gently caress with the network settings, the worst that could happen is it wads up the paper. That only takes like a minute to fix. Most of ours used a drop in ribbon cartridge that was dead easy to change too.
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pienipple posted:Yep. My old job had some for that reason and some that lived in filthy environments that destroyed more advanced printers within a few months. I just wish I'd known about the "disable control keypad" option back when it was still in use 
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Our programmer prints code on one of those gently caress off old green bar printers.
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GreenNight posted:Our programmer prints code on one of those gently caress off old green bar printers. I never saw anything except brown and blue bar tractor paper used by programmers until the late nineties, and I think it was just because being "green" was commercially sensible even if it was only the colour. Cut sheets on the other hand were usually copies of copies so you couldn't really tell what colour they'd had if any.
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Doctor Bishop posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quF45LvBtwA I didn't recognize it at first but when I was a small child in the mid-80's I had something very much like this. It went with a series of books that I want to say included Sesame Street titles and stuff.
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titties posted:I didn't recognize it at first but when I was a small child in the mid-80's I had something very much like this. It went with a series of books that I want to say included Sesame Street titles and stuff. Here it is: http://www.museumofplay.org/online-collections/1/13/110.1011 And here's the Fisher-Price Talk To Me player in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlR053J35B8 I just finished reading the entire thread, having started, oh, a year ago? It's been a wild ride. 
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On a similar note was the 1970s Fisher Price "record" player. The records were plastic discs with bumps for the stylus to read like a music box. This video is from someone using a 3d printer to make his own song discs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sE57VdMjFA EDIT: HALP FALLEN DOWN THE YOUTUBE RABBIT HOLE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdzCv_9eaoM
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I wondered what music you'd etch onto a tortilla but in retrospect it makes total sense.
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My Lovely Horse posted:I wondered what music you'd etch onto a tortilla but in retrospect it makes total sense. I guessed right.
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Nice to know those tortillas are certified laser safe.
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I use only corn tortillas to preserve the music's natural warmth. 
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Does anyone have a link to the train posts by Axeman Jim? I was thinking about them the other day and would love to have a re-read.
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TotalLossBrain posted:I use only corn tortillas to preserve the music's natural warmth. 
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TotalLossBrain posted:I use only corn tortillas to preserve the music's natural warmth. Hand-pressed on the thighs of virgins for a pristine dust-free groove.
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Dick Trauma posted:On a similar note was the 1970s Fisher Price "record" player. The records were plastic discs with bumps for the stylus to read like a music box. This video is from someone using a 3d printer to make his own song discs. They still sell these, at least it looks outwardly identical except it isn't a music box anymore. The discs are smooth:  The grooves press a combination of buttons on the bottom of the stylus which tells it which song to play from its internal memory. It still has the clockwork turntable, but it's just for show.
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Horace posted:They still sell these, at least it looks outwardly identical except it isn't a music box anymore. The discs are smooth: Well that’s kinda lame. At least with the other one there was a clever mechanism involved.
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Hattie Masters posted:Does anyone have a link to the train posts by Axeman Jim? I was thinking about them the other day and would love to have a re-read. They're in the AI Locomotive Insanity thread.
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