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    Audacity : Record stereo that is playing in browser

    I will look up more info on pulse config and see if there is something that helps, thanks.
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    Audacity : Record stereo that is playing in browser

    I am running Audacity on a Raspberry Pi 5. I am following the steps given here https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/tutorial_recording_computer_playback_on_linux.html trying to record in Audacity a stereo track playing in Chromium browser. This sound is concurrently being sent to a speaker via...
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    Collection of Lame Jokes

    Or the pane is made of sugar glass.
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    Collection of Lame Jokes

    I see that this post has been read by at least four "" minded people.
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    Collection of Lame Jokes

    Won't it also waft the alcoholic smell all around?
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    Collection of Lame Jokes

    As one does, I geeked into the "que" rabbit hole and googled up whether this is related to a similar word in Persian and Indian languages.
  7. Calm Traffic Needs More Than Calm Driving

    Calm Traffic Needs More Than Calm Driving

    How traffic jams can result from subtle instabilities in the collective behavior of drivers, and how a few control-theory-savvy drivers can stabilize traffic and avoid jams.
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    Misc. Nonlinear rubberband type thing - "k" dropping fast as it is stretched

    Sorry... X is displacement and Y is force. (If it was the other way round, there would be some interesting hystereses type things going on I guess)
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    Misc. Nonlinear rubberband type thing - "k" dropping fast as it is stretched

    What materials can I try in order to get a curve of displacement versus force that looks somewhat like this.. (of course, there would be a small kink around the origin where the ends of the rubberband are closer together than its length, which is not shown here). I am looking for something...
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    Collection of Lame Jokes

    "Today I Learned I was not on the Today I Learned thread".
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    Collection of Science Jokes P2

    Thanks for ruining my day. Until now, it had never crossed my mind that I've been a sexagenarian for quite a while now. And don't anyone trot out that old joke about how it sounds like more fun than it is.
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    Today I Learned

    Apparently that video drew a lot of interest, but many people still had questions or had trouble understanding it. The presenter has uploaded a second video in order to clear everything up...
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    LibreCad : Optimizing print scale and offset

    LibreCad has this print preview mode where there is a text box that accepts a print scale ratio. Also, the screen shows a representation of the page that you can drag aroud to set the offset, and thus select which part of the drawing will be on the page, and where on the page it will be. The...
  14. The Physics of Multiphonics in Woodwinds

    The Physics of Multiphonics in Woodwinds

    It's hard, but a woodwind instrument can play multiple notes at the same time. This shouldn't be physically possible. In this video, we learn about acoustics and chaos theory to understand how this phenomenon works.
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