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39 minutes ago, Rimbo said:

The state of digital audio.

CD-quality audio (44100HZ 16-bit 2-channels) isn't nearly enough bits for the kind of music I listen to (Metal and symphonic classical); it needs 44,100HZ and 24-bit, but nobody sells it (not unless you want to pay the Meridian Tax or worse), and people who ought to know better will waste their breath trying to convince you that 44100/16 is plenty enough, that "you can't hear the difference." And I will fucking cut the first person who links Monty @ xiph.org at me, that ignorant motherfucker has misled so many people with his dumbassery... (Repeat after me, Monty you fuck: (1) quantization noise is a function of the input signal, (2) the need for dithering is a sign that you aren't using enough fucking bits for the signal. And also (3) human hearing is designed around picking signal out from the kind of noise that is in analog recordings, but is designed to detect quantization noise.)

What made since in the fucking 1980s when a 16-bit CPU was considered super high-end, 1MB of RAM was thousands upon thousands of dollars and digital cell phones streaming GB/s over the fucking air worldwide was science fucking fiction (seriously, the 3-year-old cell phone I just ditched was more powerful than the most powerful supercomputer in the world back then) doesn't make fucking sense now, particularly since one more goddamned byte per sample per channel is more than sufficient to solve the problem permanently and forever. Terabytes are cheap now.

tl;dr: Laurel is signal, Yanny is quantization noise, and yes you can fucking hear it.

You're a bat. 

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13 minutes ago, skipperj said:

Get a record player, yo.

No point. Records are obsolete technology. The problem vanishes with one more byte per sample per channel. But you will see people barf out endless nonsense decrying the possibility that anyone might be able to hear a difference.

The recent "laurel/yanny" thing that popped up onto the internet has made me happy, because suddenly, everything I've been talking about has come to the forefront. That said, I have exactly 0 hope that anything will come of this.

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10 hours ago, Atxracer said:

Probably been addressed in 21 pages.  But, my #1 pet peeve...4 lane road.  Two cars in front of me approaching a light.  They end up side by side at a light (usually one moves over so both have the #1 spot). They then both take off slowly and drive side by side from there either at or under the speed limit.  It's truly amazing how often this happens on Bee Caves and 71.  I am agitated just typing this out.  

The person in the left lane is in the wrong. 

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14 hours ago, Celery Man said:

a) obviously it varies widely depending on the types of people invited, but it's all bets off on wedding attire these days.  i don't know what the current etiquette is, but if you don't want people wearing jeans you probably need to say something

b) are you suggesting that obviously people are going to show up to a wedding in a tux, or that it's ludicrous to think that people would go to the hassle of dressing in black tie for a wedding?  actually, 3rd version is the one that makes the most sense to me - wtf do you actually want me to wear if you're describing it as black tie optional?  My entire life is black tie optional, will most people be wearing a tux?

My surleyness comes from using the phrase itself for a wedding as it says either 1) go rent a tux or 2) dress formal. Both of these seem dumb to me. First, does anyone besides Jack Donaghy actually own a tux? I would not expect anyone to show up in a tux to a wedding unless they were part of the wedding party themselves. Don't suggest to your guests to go rent a tux. Second, I thought etiquette was to dress formal (meaning at least slacks and tie) to a wedding anyway. Do people really wear jeans? Maybe I'm the dumb one thinking people actually know how to dress.

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Put me down as fuck etiquette. Who decided the hierarchy of pants? And why did they decide jeans go at the bottom? That's some arbitrary stupid ass shit. Wear what you want. Don't show up naked or dirty and don't draw attention to yourself at someone else's wedding. That's the only shit that matters.

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1 hour ago, Llogg said:

Put me down as fuck etiquette. Who decided the hierarchy of pants? And why did they decide jeans go at the bottom? That's some arbitrary stupid ass shit. Wear what you want. Don't show up naked or dirty and don't draw attention to yourself at someone else's wedding. That's the only shit that matters.

Or, when it comes to things like weddings, either dress according to how the bride apparently wants people to dress, or just send them $100 and move on with your life.

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I don't think I've ever been to a wedding where anyone but the wedding party and a handful of older guys in tuxes they've had for 30 years were wearing one.

 

One cousin's wedding had "black tie optional" on the invite and our grandmother complained that it was at 3 in the afternoon so no one but the wedding party should be in a tux.

 

 

 

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I don't think I've ever been to a wedding where anyone but the wedding party and a handful of older guys in tuxes they've had for 30 years were wearing one.
 
One cousin's wedding had "black tie optional" on the invite and our grandmother complained that it was at 3 in the afternoon so no one but the wedding party should be in a tux.
 
 
 

She is correct.
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What about at 5 for an outdoor wedding where temperature is 90? And, imo, a nice 3 piece suit>>>> tuxedo, therefore I do not own a tuxedo. I will be going in a grey 3 piece with a black neck tie and sweating my balls off.

I would be going in a black 3 piece but my cleaning lady washed my black one recently and ruined it.

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6 hours ago, Celery Man said:

Or, when it comes to things like weddings, either dress according to how the bride apparently wants people to dress, or just send them $100 and move on with your life.

People that really care about that shit don't invite me to their wedding.

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On 5/17/2018 at 1:00 PM, Lat22 said:

It’s 95 degrees, you’ve just teed off on #6 and the beverage cart appears on the horizon.

And it’s a dude.

Or when you step into the tee box on 17 and the beverage cart appears for the first time that day. Too fucking late, ho.

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Women need to be taught how to take a group photo. Tallest in the back row, shortest in the front. Instead, they jump in a big scrum with taller people in the front and then they start semi-squatting like they're trying to shit while standing up. And when one person does it, they all have to follow suit. So the whole group looks like fucking morons.

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On 5/19/2018 at 8:34 PM, Okie State said:

Why do people give a shit about any celebrities at all? Let me know when you find out.

I know. People are in such a state of ignorance and low level intelligence. They see someone that has money and luxuries they don't have and therefore want to see what is it like to have those luxuries. Even though they have no personal attachment to said "celebrity" they are at such a low level of intelligence and want to see how people with greater status live. It's really simple.

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On 5/19/2018 at 12:40 PM, elfenix said:

I don't think I've ever been to a wedding where anyone but the wedding party and a handful of older guys in tuxes they've had for 30 years were wearing one.

 

One cousin's wedding had "black tie optional" on the invite and our grandmother complained that it was at 3 in the afternoon so no one but the wedding party should be in a tux.

 

 

 

I have been to plenty of black tie weddings.  I like owning a tux, so I do not have to mess with renting one.

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On 5/18/2018 at 10:13 PM, FriendofaFriend said:

My surleyness comes from using the phrase itself for a wedding as it says either 1) go rent a tux or 2) dress formal. Both of these seem dumb to me. First, does anyone besides Jack Donaghy actually own a tux? I would not expect anyone to show up in a tux to a wedding unless they were part of the wedding party themselves. Don't suggest to your guests to go rent a tux. Second, I thought etiquette was to dress formal (meaning at least slacks and tie) to a wedding anyway. Do people really wear jeans? Maybe I'm the dumb one thinking people actually know how to dress.

I own a tux.

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I've thought about buying a tux- probably average renting one 1x a year. The only reason I'm glad I haven't bought is my weight/size has fluctuated in the last 5 years from guardrail to guardrail.

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55 minutes ago, BurntEyes said:

Seriously, how often do you use it? 

Less now than 10 years ago.  So maybe once a year.  When I was in late 20s and early 30s it was 5-6 times a year for weddings.  A lot of my friends, most fellow Texas alums, had black tie weddings.

Black tie things are not something I love.  My wedding was a lot less formal.  But the tux I bought in my late 20s has held up for 10+ years and saved me money and hassle of rentals.

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10 minutes ago, Okie State said:

My Aunt, who I maybe see twice a year, texting me out of the blue to let me know I must vote Republican in the primaries if I care about unborn children being murdered.

Tell her you are offended that she hates the constitution because the right to murder babies was right from Jefferson himself.

Then skip next Thanksgiving. 

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Italians who think all Italians are from some sort of pure, untainted bloodline directly to the peak of the Roman Empire ~200AD.

"And where are the Romans now?"

"They are dust." 

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