InputZero

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

So part of it was to be backwards compatible with some mono record players, that might be the needle explanation. Another part was how the mixer wanted to use the two channels. Are the channels left and right, or two mono channels of vocals and instrumentals. Lastly it was because mixers could do that when just a short time before they couldn't. They were artists who were experimenting with a new medium. It wasn't just one reason, and it wasn't for very long really. It's just a lot of music was recorded during that time.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Not really, but sort of? So it is wise to use a mild antiseptic after you shave, even if you don't get irritated skin. Realistically if you're wallet isn't packed it can be one of the first things to go, easy.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I recently had the realization that I've just been putting up with Windows bullshit forever recently when a friend asked me for help with their work PC. They're a Mac user, but they just started working from home and have been provided a Windows laptop. They sent me a bunch of rushed texts when their headset stopped working. They changed the default audio device after they launched the program. Which never works on a Windows PC. I never have that problem because I have just learned to live with it, I don't even think about it anymore.

Now I'm really starting to notice all the little things I put up with from Windows on my machine. To be fair my Linux machine is just as janky but at least I can say I made it that way. I keep telling myself to 'tidy' my Linux machine up but I never do, it still plays games just fine. Usually. If I didn't fuck with it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Welcome to the truth about university. It gives you more debt than you can handle, and a job that doesn't pay enough.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Depends on where you were in the 80s and 90s. If you were in America, the future EU, or Eastern Asia, for example, those were great times. If you were in Rwanda, Bosnia, or Afghanistan (The Soviet-Afgan war) I doubt many people call that peak humanity.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

What makes you think the police are more qualified than you or the people involved. Calling the cops like that will get an innocent person killed. I called the cops for dumb reasons when I was younger but now that I know better. I'll only call if I see serious violence. Otherwise I'm just calling someone else's executioner.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think one reason is it's the other way around, the cart is leading the horse. One problem with using a basket of goods to measure inflation is that it cannot keep pace with the substitutions consumers make. Consumer choices can switch really quickly but the basket of goods used to measure that needs to be workshoped before it can be used. It's in part, because it's impossible to have a perfect snapshot of a market.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Without further information it's really hard to say. My first thought was those fractions are the gain the controller is expecting or maybe a tolerance of some kind. Could be some weird type of connection notation I'm not familiar with.

Health and safety warning: if you are unsure of what you're doing call a professional. It's better to ask for help than to burn down your home or get yourself or someone else hurt/killed.

What I might do if I was in your situation would be to hook up the 5v and common to the sensor. Then short the signal to the 5v with a potentiometer. Start with a really high resistance and slowly lower the resistance while observing the voltage drop over the pot and the boilers behavior. Basically your simulating the input. That'll tell you what the system is expecting from that sensor.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I was like that too until I realized that all media is compressed in some way. A digital recording is only ever as precise as the analog to digital converter that was used in the studio. Analog is only as precise as it's smallest distinguishable change. Eventually enough is enough and I was only wasting money.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Yeah you already do. I'm assuming that you're in a public highschool. This advice becomes bad advice when there is any money on "the table". NEVER do this at a university, private, chartered school, and absolutely NEVER do this to the person who will be giving you a paycheck.

I'll repeat this to be clear to everyone reading this. Do not do anything on a computer or network someone else owns that they don't allow when money you have, or money you could have gotten could be taken away.

When I said break the system I didn't mean become so smart at computers that you can just walk past any barrier in any code. That's impossible. Breaking the system means learning to understand the people who enforce it and working with them to get yourself around it. It means talking to the IT person, getting them to like you, then getting them to show you how to get around a firewall or tunnel out of a network or at least letting you try without getting into huge trouble.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

This is the best answer. You didn't go charging through their system with complete disregard. You made the IT staff like you first, then broke through their system. That's social engineering at it finest here people, and is the first skill any great hacker needs to learn. Please do good with this skill.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Please read Charger8283's reply. It's the best one. You're thinking small, how do I break out of their system, that will only land you in trouble. You should think big like how Charger8283 thought and break the system altogether.

If you first find vulnerabilities and report them to your school, later when you find another one you don't tell them about it until they ask. Keep it a secret and use it for a while. Just pretend like you weren't ready to tell them because you didn't understand it yet.

Sometimes it pays off to play nice and stupid.

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