@gramnel_ Everyone thinks he has an electric motorcycle cause it’s quiet. In truth he doesn’t know Earth vehicles need liquid fuel, so he just flys while holding it with his thighs.
@ericc__ch@mitsuhiko In the most nightmare-ish way.
const re = /foo/g; re.test("foobar"); re.test("foobar");
The first is true the second false. Great design.
TIL that Škoda made a bicycle bell that can cut through ANC headphones.
Most ANC systems use adaptive filtering (like LMS) at a very basic level, it models the incoming noise and generate an anti-phase signal to cancel it. Works best for steady and predictable sounds.
Škoda's research found that around 750 - 780Hz ANC struggles a lot so they made their bell to target this particular frequency
they added irregular, transient dual tones that are hard to model in real time
this comes from a dual-resonator design : one tuned to ~750-780 Hz (ANC weak spot) using a cantilever tine, and another at higher frequencies (~2 KHz+) like a normal bell, so it’s not a single clean tone
So instead of being louder, it’s just… harder to cancel.
Pretty neat example of exploiting system limitations with pure analog design.
https://t.co/M2aH5Qfkcl
https://t.co/uXywdD01y4
genuinely fuck whoever came up w the dumbass idea to replace THE DICTIONARY BUILT INTO GOOGLE with the ai overview's definitions i hope everything in their life fucking sucks