Apparently you’re supposed to set the quality to 1080p, the highest setting YouTube currently offers, and even then one of the higher-frequency samples gets garbled. You’re also supposed to use headphones.
Ah at 1080, that time heard everything up thru 18kHz, which puts my hearing at much MUCH younger than I am and would have expected (1984 Who concert inter alia gave me permanent hearing loss and mild tinnitis I s’pect)… and then the falloff to 19k was complete… I’m still a bit skeptical. I’m constantly saying “What?” and “Speak up, sonny”.
I’m in my early thirties and could hear everything. Just like on my last medical, I could detect everything the hearing machine got.
In the real world that translates into me returning things like computer parts or alarm clocks because of coil whining, which no-one else can hear, so there’s always an argument…
I read about some places even using high-frequency sound (which causes discomfort) in combination with classical music to disperse teenagers. You want Trayvon to move on, put on some 18th-century baroque music. That’s one stop and frisk alternative they can’t pin down.
Gaikokumaniakku: “It’s unusual.” One might say it’s “unwonted.”
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Isegoria: “Selcouth” is not a word you see every day. It’s unusual.
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McChuck: Anybody who has ever played a wargame can tell you that your defenses can handle a certain amount of opposition, but when enemy numbers, regardless of quality, exceed that number, you get overrun. The mobs in Mogadishu back in 1993 weren’t well organized, weren’t well equipped, weren’t well trained, and weren’t well led. But there sure were a whole lot of them shooting at the Rangers.
Russell: New article about Thorp https://archive.ph/fq5JC
Phileas Frogg: The class divide in the US is as deep and wide as any as has existed in history, but instead of acknowledging the divide, much less trying to bridge it, we have chosen moralization and mutual animosity, which will be the death of us.
Freddo: https://www.zerohedge.co m/geopolitical/us-drones -are-expensive-and-error -prone-so-ukraine-turns- china
Jim: The principle applies whatever the source of the wall-penetrating radio waves in question.
Can compressed digital video (mpeg??) reliably transmit 16 KHz and higher sounds??
Apparently you’re supposed to set the quality to 1080p, the highest setting YouTube currently offers, and even then one of the higher-frequency samples gets garbled. You’re also supposed to use headphones.
Ah at 1080, that time heard everything up thru 18kHz, which puts my hearing at much MUCH younger than I am and would have expected (1984 Who concert inter alia gave me permanent hearing loss and mild tinnitis I s’pect)… and then the falloff to 19k was complete… I’m still a bit skeptical. I’m constantly saying “What?” and “Speak up, sonny”.
As to the sounds… My wife and I and daughter listened. Daughter claimed to hear stuff. Wife and I didn’t.
I’m in my early thirties and could hear everything. Just like on my last medical, I could detect everything the hearing machine got.
In the real world that translates into me returning things like computer parts or alarm clocks because of coil whining, which no-one else can hear, so there’s always an argument…
I read about some places even using high-frequency sound (which causes discomfort) in combination with classical music to disperse teenagers. You want Trayvon to move on, put on some 18th-century baroque music. That’s one stop and frisk alternative they can’t pin down.