@clacke @jessica "do you want to listen to the left side of this 1960s hard-panned stereo recording where the drums are, or the right side, where the piano is?"

@jessica fun fact: while mono FM is encoded by having the frequency of the carrier track the amplitude of the audio signal, the stereo part of the signal is encoded as an AM side carrier.

stereo FM is basically L+R encoded in FM as the main carrier and L-R encoded in AM as the side carrier. since AM is more sensitive to noise, it's more prone to dropping out. the receiver drops it if it's too weak/noisy.

HFCS isn't actually used much in Europe, in case anyone was wondering. nobody subsidises maize here, so it's not particularly cheap compared to cane or beet sugar.

old programmer saying: if you want code to run faster, have less of it

@Arcana like this?

@clacke @notclacke we tried just doing RE: and a URL earlier. that didn't display correctly on Misskey. "we" as in me and @GNUxeava

@notclacke @clacke the actual post body probably just contains that. i reckon the actual mechanism is in the metadata. i want to inspect the JSON from the browser but gotta figure out how.

@dave don't know why this isn't common - home computers came with some sort of programming language bundled well into the 90s

if being stupid makes you successful, i encourage you to continue being stupid

it's certainly better than trying to bring it down all the time, as Mr. Putin is currently trying to do... :ablobblewobble:

Terms Of Service was the best version of Star Trek

who else started learning to code when they were around 8 or so?

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@clacke anything that's based on the current main branch of Mastodon, including Glitchsoc, understands edits right now. there's support for editing too but it's been commented out of the JS until more instances understand edits. i've got it uncommented over here though.

who runs Kubernetes and why

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so what's the reason why we don't like quoting posts on fedi again?

@Mac_CZ techno-utopianism, in other words

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you're probably not going to get your account on berserker.town suspended because you got into a fight with someone.

the sort of thing that would get you suspended, i think, is if you keep going after people all the time, or otherwise don't seem quite right in the head.