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Explosionface posted:I can't shuffle anymore since I have too many concept albums where the tracks need to flow into each other. It's really jarring to have them next to anything else other than the appropriate lead-ins/outs In iTunes/I'm guessing Apple Music, there's a field called "grouping." Tracks with the same grouping are always played together in shuffle, so you can keep intros/outros together with the other parts as necessary. Might be worth looking into if your music player supports similar functionality.
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My wife's car starts playing the first song on her phone Alphabetically when she starts it. So the first 10 seconds of A-Team every drat time. I don't know if that's an iPhone thing or what. But she either deleted that song or added something that starts with a number to play first instead.
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Trabant posted:Reject shuffle. Embrace full albums, straight through, no skips. okay but what album do I listen to next though
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Cojawfee posted:I still think Spotify just straight up does not shuffle. There's no other explanation why, when I pick any song in a genre, it will then play the exact same songs in that genre in the exact same order every time. If I play, say, the third song in the usual playlist of similar songs, it will still play that song third when the original song ends. I've picked a song, it goes to the similar songs playlist, then I pick a different song in that genre and then plays the exact same songs it just played. Spotify has this bullshit hidden feature called 'automix' that tries to keep a flow going when you turn shuffle it so it doesn't play songs that clash with each other. You can turn it off in settings and it makes things a lot more random-seeming.
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Phanatic posted:Spotify has this bullshit hidden feature called 'automix' that tries to keep a flow going when you turn shuffle it so it doesn't play songs that clash with each other. You can turn it off in settings and it makes things a lot more random-seeming. Thank you for this, just turned it off. Was wondering why it would always play 4 songs from the same album, then another 4 songs from a different album instead of mixing songs from different albums.
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Visions of Valerie posted:okay but what album do I listen to next though Next artist in alphabetical order, next album in chronological order.
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Mar 28, 2024 21:40
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Maybe I've never noticed, but I swear I don't have that problem with Windows media player.
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Guy Axlerod posted:My wife's car starts playing the first song on her phone Alphabetically when she starts it. So the first 10 seconds of A-Team every drat time. I don't know if that's an iPhone thing or what. But she either deleted that song or added something that starts with a number to play first instead. Wasn't that such a common problem for a while that the best selling song on iTunes was named "_a" something and it was just 5 minutes of silence?
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No thanks, being raised Catholic was bad enough.
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https://twitter.com/Lord_Arse/status/1773479271152935231?s=20
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That looks XXXpunk as gently caress. Love the 80s font. I watched Royal Space Force recently, there were so much hand drawn details in old 80s anime movies. Those guys would rock this bracelet.
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Mar 29, 2024 14:59
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Mar 29, 2024 16:57
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LEASURE TIME PRODUCTS
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Very few people know about the mixed-signals sequel:
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Trabant posted:Very few people know about the mixed-signals sequel: that looks like john holmes on the watch.
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So that guy is wearing a watch with a naked man on it that says "time to gently caress" and he expects that it will be women that he attracts?
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LifeSunDeath posted:different watch but same vibe: WARNING: DO NOT TRY TO KEEP UP WITH THIS WATCH
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LifeSunDeath posted:different watch but same vibe: I love the idea of a guy spending $49.95 on the novelty Time To gently caress watch and just waiting for some hottie to ask him what time it is...and when it finally happens it's five seconds past the time so he has to fill 25 seconds of time before he can lead into the reveal.
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BalloonFish posted:I love the idea of a guy spending $49.95 on the novelty Time To gently caress watch and just waiting for some hottie to ask him what time it is...and when it finally happens it's five seconds past the time so he has to fill 25 seconds of time before he can lead into the reveal. "What time is it? Ah, a question asked by many through the ages. Aristotle, for instance, suggested that... Anyway here check out my watch quick, QUICK"
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Mar 29, 2024 19:22
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Trabant posted:Very few people know about the mixed-signals sequel: I know that it's actually the guy's arm, but it REALLY looks like the blonde lady just has a freakishly long arm. I've heard of giving a reacharound, but not from two people away.
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I still have one of these, and its 3D successor sitting around here somewhere. I think the 4G support was the main reason I got it, and there was actually 4G service in Austin at the time. I remember showing the kickstand and download speed to a friend by watching a youtube video or something like that at a bar.
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SLOSifl posted:I still have one of these, and its 3D successor sitting around here somewhere. I think the 4G support was the main reason I got it, and there was actually 4G service in Austin at the time. I remember showing the kickstand and download speed to a friend by watching a youtube video or something like that at a bar. Wasn't it just Sprint's lovely "WiMAX" 4G? Lol. Just full fuckin' lol at anyone who bought one of those. It was me, I bought one.
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SLOSifl posted:I still have one of these, and its 3D successor sitting around here somewhere. I think the 4G support was the main reason I got it, and there was actually 4G service in Austin at the time. I remember showing the kickstand and download speed to a friend by watching a youtube video or something like that at a bar. Was that an Evo? or a Hero? Anyway, I was spinning through randomwaffle, and a few images later I got this? 
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When I worked at T-Mobile we sold HTC products and a lot of customers would ask what it stood for. I'd say "Hi-Tech Corporation" and they'd laugh every time. What a boring rear end name.
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I only ever had one HTC phone, the One E8, and it was the most embarrassingly anemic phone I've ever had.
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BalloonFish posted:I love the idea of a guy spending $49.95 on the novelty Time To gently caress watch and just waiting for some hottie to ask him what time it is...and when it finally happens it's five seconds past the time so he has to fill 25 seconds of time before he can lead into the reveal. to be fair, people didn't always have clocks or watches on them back then, so you'd have to ask people that question more often.
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TITTIEKISSER69 posted:Was that an Evo? or a Hero?
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Does anybody really know what time it is?
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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.
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credburn posted:When I worked at T-Mobile we sold HTC products and a lot of customers would ask what it stood for. I'd say "Hi-Tech Corporation" and they'd laugh every time. What a boring rear end name. Their full name is High Tech Computer Corporation, which I think is even funnier as it's so weirdly unimaginative. Just "we make computers, they're high tech, what of it?" I had a few HTC phones as I was into "smart" phones way before iPhones/Android was a thing so had a bunch of Windows Mobile ones: HTC Artemis  This one was pretty fun, as it contained a GPS back when that was still rare. As such, it could run TomTom for in-car navigation without requiring a separate GPS (I did also have a TomTom Bluetooth GPS for that reason before I got this one). Because it was intended for "navigation" they also slapped a bunch of random inputs on it - a jog dial (which generated cursor up/down events, so let you speed through menus/etc.) *and* a little nipple you could use if you didn't want to use the touch screen. The little nipple could function like cursor keys, or you could switch to a mode where a little mouse cursor appeared on the screen you could move around with it, which seemed pretty pointless for a PocketPC. In the end I sold this one to my dad. HTC Touch Diamond  This one was their flagship briefly, and you can see the Windows Mobile custom homescreen they developed for it resembles the one they also shipped on Android when they started developing those devices. It was nice and all, pretty fast CPU but otherwise a pretty generic PocketPC you couldn't really customise the home screen on because they'd modified it so heavily. Had the 3G videocall stuff, but most notably it came with an extremely good "marble" game where you just had to guide the ball to the destination without falling down any holes, but it somehow had haptics that felt better than even on a modern iPhone, which Apple constantly goes on about as if it's some amazing groundbreaking thing. I sold this one on eBay as I had no money at the time. You couldn't put it down on a table easily because the "diamond" rear case was actually a bunch of angles. HTC Universal  This one was kind of cool as it was also somewhat high end CPU-wise, but also had a 640x480 screen so it was "high DPI". It had a user-facing camera so it could implement the 3G videocall stuff, on top of the usual build in camera, too. The screen could rotate so you could have a normal "PocketPC" formfactor or a clamshell, with a little hardware keyboard with terrible keys. It was also like half an inch thick, which was way too thick even for the time. I still have this one, though I know the audio no longer works (I believe the audio ribbon cable through the screen joint has failed, so it's probably repairable) and the battery is gone, obviously. I still have this one, though. I actually have a bunch of non-phone Windows CE devices too. Edit to add: I once went to the Microsoft Embedded Developer Conference for work, and while I was there, Microsoft did not waste a single moment badmouthing HTC the whole time. I was no fan of HTC beyond they made devices of the sort I wanted to buy (e.g. non Symbian smartphones) but it seemed incredibly unprofessional how they'd just make fun of HTC (who were their literal primary partner for Windows CE, they'd develop new versions in conjunction with HTC for testing on-phone and things), right up there on stage during presentations and things. One funny thing I remember them mentioning though was a phone with 32Mb of RAM, which should have been plenty at the time, barely working as HTC's video capture driver for the work allocated like 25Mb of RAM on boot and just hung on to it forever. Charles Ford has a new favorite as of 05:40 on Mar 30, 2024 |
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wesleywillis posted:Does anybody really know what time it is? Timekeeping is a minefield of obsolete and failed technology. We have synchronous time and whatnot, but some absolute morons decided that we should have a prime number of days for the week. And don't even get me started on what the Romans did to the months.
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Rappaport posted:Timekeeping is a minefield of obsolete and failed technology. We have synchronous time and whatnot, but some absolute morons decided that we should have a prime number of days for the week. And don't even get me started on what the Romans did to the months. 13 28 day months with a single worldwide holiday at the beginning. Every 4 years, there's a 2 day holiday instead.
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spookykid posted:13 28 day months with a single worldwide holiday at the beginning. Every 4 years, there's a 2 day holiday instead. Holiday goes on the end, to simplify calculations. (See Euclidean affine functions and their application to calendar algorithms, section 4.)
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LifeSunDeath posted:different watch but same vibe: meh, I thought there would be a cheap knockoff on aliexpress. sadly, no 
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Charles Ford posted:Their full name is High Tech Computer Corporation, which I think is even funnier as it's so weirdly unimaginative. Just "we make computers, they're high tech, what of it?" That reminds me when my sister was shopping for some appliance and the LG was highly rated among the competition. She lamented the higher price, saying something like "I don't want to pay extra for the LG name." My response was to chuckle, and say "LG? Lucky Goldstar?" Because almost no one knows the actual name.
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https://i.imgur.com/bo2kwuj.mp4 Apparently it has no error detection built in so it will just go on like that until manually interrupted.
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Trabant posted:https://i.imgur.com/bo2kwuj.mp4 These work by (for each output digit) subtracting the scaled divisor from the dividend until an underflow occurs (which never happens when the divisor is zero).
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Charles Ford posted:it seemed incredibly unprofessional how they'd just make fun of HTC (who were their literal primary partner for Windows CE This is the era where the only group that managed to ship a working upgraded PC OS was the NT team, which was a lot smaller and less ambitious about Great Ideas that were beloved elsewhere in the company.
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Zopotantor posted:These work by (for each output digit) subtracting the scaled divisor from the dividend until an underflow occurs (which never happens when the divisor is zero). CuriousMarc has, as always, an excellent video about mechanical calculators and dividing by zero: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Kd3R_RlXgc
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