Audio/video synchronization is a weird rabbit hole to get into. For video, most displays have a refresh rate of 60hz. If you have a 30fps video source this works nicely, but most anime is 24fps so some frames end up being repeated more than others in 3:2 pulldown. More advanced techniques here might involve frame blending or interpolation plus resampling.

Then you get to audio. Most soundcards will be configured to accept a given range of sample rates, and provide an audio clock to synchronize with (usually defaulting to 48khz). If your audio driver is smart it can switch the soundcard to the appropriate mode, otherwise it has to resample the input to the output (interpolating if necessary). I don't think either osx or windows dynamically set the sample rate of the soundcard [1]. The 44.1khz -> 48khz upconversion might technically introduce some artifacts depending on the specific filter used (because in the real world you are limited to finite impulse response filters), but I really doubt you'd be able to perceive any difference.

Finally you have audio/video sync. I don't really understand under what conditions this happens. In an ideal world if both audio and video clocks were stable and we are able to keep up with the clocks (the individual stream successfully plays independently without drops), then I don't think there would be any sync issues since you can just let them play independently. But in the real world I guess for some reasons if we cannot keep up with the clocks we are given (maybe we're doing some post-processing on the video so can't make it in time for the next tick) or maybe a frame can't be decoded at all, then we are at a situation where desync might occur if they played independently. So we have to tie them together, and the easiest naive solution is to just skip video frames as needed in order to match the audio (this works nicely if audio clock is 48khz and video is 24fps).

[1] https://lists.apple.com/archives/coreaudio-api/2008/Jan/msg00280.html

>>40586
And then there's other things like the fact that just because you deliver samples to the soundcard at time X doesn't mean it gets delivered to the user (i.e. played_ at time X. There's usually some latency there, which will be higher for wireless headphones. So a good audio driver must also estimate the latency to the user, and then present this to the software so it can delay the video by the same amount. Similarly there might also be a lag between data delivered to the gpu and the actual display on the screen, which should also be factored in if you want the utmost accuracy.

So even if you don't have any fancy interpolation, getting A/V sync is non-trivial. The simplest case I think I can reason about is when you use the audio clock to drive things. If we assumed we had perfect speakers with 0 delay between soundcard and speaker output (speaker_latency), and 0 delay between sending audio samples and sending video frames (code_latency), then all we have to do is send a new frame every 1/fps sec. But to account for real-world delay, we actually have to end up waiting "1/fps + speaker_latency - code_latency" since a large speaker latency means we need to delay the video by the same amount, and conversely a large delay between sending audio and sending video means we need to hurry up and send video sooner.

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Does flac or ogg sound better than mp3?

>>41218
>flac
This is lossless compression, so theoretically this is as good as you can get to source.

>ogg
Offers perceptual transparency at lower bitrates.

In practice you won't be able to tell a difference by A/B comparing lame 320k or v0 mp3 and a flac. (In fact v0 is slightly better than 320k as it allows better use of bit reservoir). And most times unless you play on some expensive setup you probably won't even be able to tell a difference between 192k mp3 and a flac. Most of difference will be in the high end of frequencies.

Enjoy!

>>41174
Thank you for your unfunny twitter screencap

>>41197
>>41174
The annoying thing about the twitter screencap is that the comic illustrates its point perfectly well.
We can tell from the man's expression in the 3rd and 4th panels that the corporate banter "got too real" so there's no point in telling the viewer that unless they expect that people aren't going to read the whole image, which might actually be the case on a platform like twitter.

Either way, I don't understand saving it like that instead of just copying the original image over...

>>41198
Over the years, I've learnt to just stop trying to understand it.

>>41142
>I'm not sure if I'd go as far as to say this life style is anti-social
I think attributing any life style to imageboards is a mistake. As if life styles are the only thing worth talking about. Can't you talk about anime whether you're a neet, or a student or a "family man"? And why does having a family entail giving up who you are? That's not "moving on with your life", it's suicide. Of course dead people can't post. I refuse to acknowledge that as "progression".

>>41143
>why does having a family entail giving up who you are?
I recently spoke with a former anon/waifufag who told me they dropped the otaku life style in spite of moving to japan (and getting married), which really left me wondering about this. When someone starts a family, it takes priority above all else in their life. Their time, money, attention, it all goes to that family. Even their very freedom seems to get lost most of the time. Just yesterday I overheard someone at the store talking about sneaking away from their wife for half an hour. I hear that sort of thing a lot. Sometimes it's people having to justify buying a game console to their partner, or just hanging out with friends. It makes me wonder if it's really worth it.
Meanwhile, there's a guy at work who seems to like (surface level) nerdy stuff, and never shuts up about his kid, so who knows? Maybe it's not impossible to find some balance?

>>41136
A good chunk of it might just be demographics. People mellow out with age and there just aren't enough young people to bring that youthful spirit into the culture. Might just be the places I frequent but younger people seem to be the minority everywhere now. Online, real life. Dominated by millenials and older.

>>41146
Young people still don't get that involved in online communities like people seem to think. They usually stick to large social media sites and interact with people they actually know.
Obviously, there are some around and they're noticeable because young people are foolish.

Even though there was a lot of shit that happened to me, it wasn't a bad year for me. Even considering the fact that I live in a country at war.

I'm wanting to get out a bit more this year and start working on some writing. Nothing grand, just go out, sit in a coffee shop and hack away. It feels a bit pretentious but it helps me get more done. I'm not surrounded by so many easy distractions.

Same with getting more physical exercise. I get really broody when I don't move my body. It's kind of a hassle but I reckon it saves me time since I won't waste as much. Bodies need patched to require less upkeep.

Be more a human doing. Cold made me lazy.

Rock bottom honestly,
Trying to take some steps to remedy that but who knows.

>>30267
normal people are like that. NTs are not like that.
don't give NTs credit for being mental healthy, NTs are uniformly insane. no intelligent, thinking person could ever accept those extreme levels of conformity. only an idiot savant with the knack for gaining social acceptance could.

>>30270
NTs?

>>30272
Neurotypical, probably.

Normal people only care about their finances and social lives enough to actively put effort into them, or a means to their end.

>>38162
Sorry mate, I meant no harm, just wanted to poke a bit of fun at the argument.

>>38162
Detecting people of the tribe is my super power. This ability was gifted to me for a reason and it was meant to be shared. Why, not using it to expose the works of the tribesmen would be simply immoral.

>>38168
And what do the subbers and dubbers who do that have in common? Perhaps... strikingly well developed nasal structures?

>>38200
Gen Fukunaga, the founder and president of Funimation, isn't jewish. So you're not even right about that.

For archival reasons, I've been going back over past subs back from when groups such as ddy were more active (and you could usually expect to see alternate subs for seasons). I think my general conclusion is that people have no idea how to evaluate anything

A decent chunk of sub groups just repackaged official subs with minor (but nonetheless positive) edits, and they get worshipped like they're the second coming of christ when the effort involved is about an hour's work. On the other hand you have some subgroups that put in an immense amount of effort with their subs and somehow end up getting pissed on (GG's joshiraku subs are my go-to example. I have no idea what they did to receive so much heat, those aren't low-effort subs considering they included both out-of-band TL notes and inline comments in the ass file). Then you have the groups that decide that "real" translations shouldn't make any reference to japanese terms at all, and so will mercilessly strip off any foreign word (sensei? No that's your "bossman". Yakuza? Nope, "gangster"). [*]


[*] Maybe someday given unbounded time I'll go back and re-edit the translations for my favorite shows. Sabagebu and Flying Witch are good low hanging fruit here, Anime-Koi did a pretty decent job on most of the lines (actually brining it closer to the original JP clause order) but missed on a few others which were worse than the original. And flying-witch had two separate groups (other than the official) make a pass, that'll surely be a fun diff party!

Probably the most annoying thing is that releases don't document the general changes they made, and most people aren't going to bother diffing subs so that's how these cargo cults develop (as an example, the commie subs for Yuyushiki are excessively demonized when as I think I might have written somewhere before they ultimately fixed a few isolated bad word translations, stripped honorifics, and maybe clobbered 1 [honorific-related] joke in total, which while not good is also not the order-of-magnitude fuckup you'd expect from hearing crowd sentiment).

As for localized vs. unlocalized, I think it's a false dichotomy. Unless you're translating poetry in 80% of cases you can usually do a literal translation p

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Game I won against a bot. I'm just showing off games I won, but whatever.

GO seems to be a simple enough game to play...

OGS sucks, I stay all day trying to find someone to play with, and when it finally connects it's some motherfucker who takes 10 min per move.

>>40651
I guess you have a bad time zone. Also, you can set the game length to "Normal" instead of correspondence, to avoid people taking a long time.

>>40454
>Overpopulation is mostly an issue among brown-skinned cockroach people, and they'll probably never listen to that messaging.
That's a problem I'm... willing to help solve, whether they like it or not.

You can't deny we have populations too large to be supported by pre-industrial agriculture, and that's what concerns me. I don't personally think, based on how our societies structure our economies, that this state is sustainable in the long run. Not because of fuel or food or whatever, but because our allocation of resources is horrific. With current technology we could probably hit 100 billion if population momentum was great enough.

The real problem that keeps me up at night is this: so many natives in first world countries ( middle-upper class whites if I'm being honest ) are being paid or employed for positions that do not contribute to the production of directly useful goods and services. I don't think it's a bad thing to have upper or middle classes, or for them to be wealthy enough to live like this, so don't take me the wrong way. My problem is that it seems we're justifying employed positions of do-nothing work just to make sure the upper and middle classes retain their lifestyle. Retail workers selling goods made of imported materials, office jobs selling nothing, construction workers building nothing but new housing units to trade on the market. This isn't productive, to me. I'm concerned by how many jobs seem to produce so little actual value. I haven't done the math, but it seems pretty obvious to me that a tiny minority of the population is actually producing value and the rest are just moving product around or doing tiny amounts of work at a high price, in so many creative ways.

I just cannot imagine that having millions of people pushing cereal boxes around and building essentially cardboard houses is a good idea. There's no way I could be convinced that what we have right now specifically in the U.S. is a truly efficient economy. So much money just seems to go to keeping people alive, and doing jobs that don't actually produce a si

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>>40450
>>40457
We would not be able to house 100 billion people, not for any length of time anyway. As it is we are running out of resources, we will run out of fossil fuels one day, maybe not soon but one day and there are not enough resources to actually transition to green energy using the methods we are now, we could mine all the Uranium and it still would not be enough to power us, we don't have the rare earths to build the batteries and such we need either.

But I don't mean to be alarmist. These things sound bad but they are also the kinds of things that will sort themselves out in the long run. It's natural that when a resource starts to run out more is done to properly manage that resource. If the metals it takes to build a mobile phone become scare, prices of phones will go up meaning people stop buying a new one every year, phone makers start treating them as long life products and the cost of these metals will make recycling more viable than mining. We are in a time of abundance, a time of consumerism and we are only slowly coming to realise that this time will end one day, maybe not in our life time, but one day.

A sudden agricultural collapse won't end humanity, little realistically could at this point. Even the asteroid that wiped out non-Avian dinosaurs would not wipe us out, so long as a handful of people survive somewhere we will bounce back.

Most the useless jobs you mention are not actually useless, we need more houses and we are in a service economy so a lot of the jobs people have are based on selling things. We don't need many people to do any of the real, tangible work. Land is finite and modern technology allows small numbers of people to manage large amounts of land. People don't want to work in factories and where it's possible we offshore it, automation is bringing it back but that also is because small numbers of people can work large factories. And sure we do have useless jobs but that is because we live in a time that allows that, society would not have to coll

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>>40403
I quit browsing imageboards until now not long after I made this post and a few others here. This was a devil's advocate post of mine that I made out of boredom to see what the reaction would be. Also, I found the thread quite dull compared to semi-similar threads on other places that had deep and interesting replies, so I wanted to see if making that post would have any impact. I think it was potentially worth it solely for learning about the lying flat movement. I might've never known about it if not for making that post.
That being said, my real stance is way off from the one I espoused there, though I wouldn't call myself anti-tech either. I would guess that we live in a dying world (it feels that way to me), maybe with a few cyberpunk elements thrown in, and if it is as such, we might as well enjoy it.
Broadly speaking, technology gives people tremendous conveniences but has the potential for annihilation of its system through something like a nuclear war or engineered pandemic (or maybe sci-fi disasters like an AI one).
I don't feel that concerned about the future for the simple reason that it would make no sense to feel concern if there is little or nothing that I can do about it, especially since the societal future is unknowable. If society is destined to collapse, then it will collapse, and if it is destined to become more dystopian, then it will be dystopian.
I'm okay with the internet being as is. It's an improvement on my life if I mainly use it to order books rather than lurking all sorts of small sites.
I used to think that life in the past would probably be better, but now, I am skeptical. Of course, if some time period is unambiguously bad, then I could say that I would want to avoid it, but otherwise, it would be a difficult decision. For example, would I rather be alive today or in the 19th century? But where in the 19th century, born into what country, what region, what class, what family members, what lifespan, what jobs available, et cetera?
As for "progress," I think it's mainly the elites nowadays who believe in that dream (no surprise there). I would assume that most of the lower and middle classe

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>>40613
> semi-similar threads on other places that had deep and interesting replies
What are these other places?

Edit: Also I believe the fact that you didn't specify the post was meant to play devil's advocate ultimately stifled discussion since the tone of the post ended up coming off as dismissive and not conducive to fruitful back-forth discussion.

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>>36312
> My best experience was a small non-English BBS with quite a nice community. I still miss friends from there, but it died quite suddenly when the admin went to Iraq and didn't come back so most people didn't connect up again.

I'm sorry to hear that, online communities just going down with no backup means of communication is always a tragedy.

>How long have you been on the internet?
Complex question. I first experienced it on the PCs at school in 2004. After that I started going to internet cafes to play Runescape on and off.
In 2010 I could use my laptop in highschool to browse mostly anything, since I found proxies and whatnot to circumvent the school restrictions. I got into Wikia/fandom communities especially and small weeaboo YouTube communities.
I had the internet connected at home properly in 2011-2012. I discovered 4chan a matter of months after that and became obsessive about it.

>What are your best memories?
The Shazbowl, uncovering certain memes for the first time, reading things like Encylopedia Dramatica, making friends and forging communities.

>How have your internet habit changed?
I used to download a plethora of things back in the day with no VPN, was just generally very lax with internet security. More recently I've thought more seriously about that sort of thing, but I still don't know much and I probably make a lot of mistakes. I don't really browse 4chan much anymore, /v/ is an absolute shithole for example.

>Do you enjoy it nowadays?
Unsure. It's just still 'there'.

>How long have you been on the internet? How have your internet habit changed?
I did not grow up with a computer so as a kid all I used the internet for was playing flash games on school computers.
We got one when I was 16 but I still did not participate in online communities, my cousin told me about torrent sites so I used the internet for that, that did lead me to anime wallpapers which lead me to Konachan, anime in general and 4chan and thus imageboards. I was about 19 then. A lot of my online habits have been slow to form, I did not start using Youtube until a few years ago when I was 26 or something like that and even then I did not have a Youtube profile for years, I would just open a tap on my browser with every channel I liked.


>What are your best memories?
Discovering things for the first time and delving into them, whether that is a new tag on Geelbooru, or a new website about things I like.

Probably my best imageboard memories would have been of early 8chan /jp/ and /int/. They were fairly varied in the people there particularly /int/, like there were two desu posters that would have interesting discussions with me about things like the Prussian-Austrian war and I had another conversation with some guy about whether Hong Meiling was a cannibal or not, they are probably the only three posters that I have ever really liked. Well I mean that sounds bad but it's just that on imageboards like this I don't know the posters as individual posters, we don't use flags so a post could be made by anybody they don't create personas, so people can make good posts but I would not attribute them to one person. But anyway, then I left to do some IRL overseas stuff and when I came back they were gone and 8chan lost all it's appeal to me.

>Do you enjoy it nowadays?
I guess I still enjoy it or I would not be on it. It gets worse over time and I find it harder to find places that I feel comfortable in or to feel comfortable on the internet as a whole. I post on Tohno and Kissu, Tohno is fine, but Kissu has issues but is the best I can find like it, both sites together don't fill the things I want them too, they don't have the kind of discussion about the kinds o

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>How long have you been on the internet?
It depends on what you'd consider being "on the internet". I've been using computers and the internet since I was a tiny, pants-shitting child. My memories are practically nonexistent, I only really touched flash games on sites I probably got help with from my family members. A few years later I'd have my own computer where I was a little more independent because I probably learned to read. Primariy looking for porn because the teachers told us not to do so multiple times. It was around that time I stumbled onto 4chan. That would have been late-mid 2000's. I didn't pass the homepage because I saw a ton of words and not boobs. It just seemed like a boring site to my elementary school brain. Aside from porn I also lurked video game forums a bit, used youtube, and played flash games.
That was basically all I did until 2014 when I started using imageboards, and what a shitty time to start it was.

>What are your best memories?
I don't really have many memories. Internet was heavily limited in early 2017, and I didn't really have much fun until 2020 or so. It was alright at first, reading the epic screencaps, but outside of that, everything was always the same and anything new got immediately got old due to overuse. My best memories were pretty much all in the past couple years when I started focusing on small boards. /jp/ was also really fun for about a year. It was fun familiarizing myself with things I had occasionally seen over the years and digging through vague memories, probably from early youtube, flash games, and people I was around as a kid.

>How have your internet habit changed?
I don't waste as much time browsing these days. I still check often, but usually during whatever breaks I take. It's nice since this way I actually do stuff instead of being bored refreshing pages.

>Do you enjoy it nowadays?
Yes, but in a different way compared to how I used to. Nowadays it's less of a direct source of fun. More of a guide. I do still enjoy small boards. TC in particular is my favorite. It's a site I feel right at home at.

>>34496
No, this is all on the public internet and there isn't anything illegal; it's just a bunch of imageboards all linking to each other.

>>34491
Just a group of small (dead) imageboards who conspired to take down the remnants of 8chan and scoop up their users. It was an incredibly retarded plan that never would have worked and their plot was eventually exposed by the owner of Julay.world.

>>34491
It was a thing centered around spacechan, getting jealous or scared or otherwise touchy about 420chan having the second highest popularity after 4skin. And so, seeing how 420 had quite a noticeable commited contingent of communists on its /pol/ (when it was there) or elsewhere, they wanted to have a distinct rival to all that.

So, spacechan did manage to actually muster a higher traffic /b/ than 420, naturally together with not having many other boards, in contrast to 420 where the users simply constantly ignored those boards and just posted on /high/ with grumbles that the other boards are to slow and shouldn't exist on "a board with only 50 users". But spacechan went to shit though, apparently due to one or two cohorts of "anallockman" flooding endless tranny pics, or some stuff very close, shortly after 420chan had axed its porn boards.

Oh yeah, 420 is of course is where the original transsexuality chan board, very ironically labelled /cd/, arose, until it tanked basically right upon the introduction of /lgbt/, which itself had some horrendously dramawhoring headcases, such as "Kayla".

It reminds me of when I browsed nuchan because the site owner, puddles I think, was rebelling against something that I can't even remember now.

I was in their IRC for a while but didn't say much. I wonder what those guys are all doing now.

>>36560
There's probably plenty in Japanese.

I watched bad vegan the other day. It's not about a cult per say, but basically some crazy ex-military dude using cult-like techniques to brainwash an eminent raw-food cuisine chef and restaurant owner. I think some of you might appreciate it. The meat suit part is fucking hilarious.

Join my cult of silence

>>36381
My friend whom I'm no longer in contact with went to a /fringe/ meetup once.
Apparently most people there were very stupid, which makes sense to me because he was not very smart either.