Its not that they don’t have pitch, per se, it’s that the nature of the sound they produce makes the concept of “pitch” kind of meaningless.

Except for a pure sine wave, every tone is going to have multiple harmonics over the fundamental which is what actually gives an instrument, even the human voice, its timbre.

Percussion instruments like cymbals and the snare drum create broad-spectrum noise. There’s essentially so many frequencies that it’s difficult for our brains to nail it down the fundamental pitch. It’s also what helps us hear them over the rest of the ensemble.

Drums in general produce very short pulses of sound, which also makes it harder for the brain to tell what pitch it is. In harmonic analysis, any very short sound is actually broad-spectrum because it takes a ton of harmonics to produce a single sharp spike with rapid decay.

I highly recommend downloading a spectrum analyzer app on your phone to get an intuition for this. If you’re on Android, I recommend Spectroid.

Just run it and watch the screen while you make different sounds, approach various sound sources, play music, or just talk or sing. If you can whistle, that also produces an interesting result. You can actually see the frequency of the power grid in the harmonics produced by electric motors and transformer coils which is personally really fucking cool.

The consensus on Powerwash Simulator DLC from what I’ve seen so far is that it’s not a lot of content for the price.

What do ya’ll think?

It’s a troll toll. It’ll get you a software engineering job with a roman numeral in the title at a company you’ve actually heard of. But if you’re almost done then there’s no reason not to stick with it.

The early years of my career were quite a slog, having taught myself to program. I started out on freelancing websites, competing with devs from the third world who worked for pennies a day. I lucked into my first salaried job, got hired through my cousin.

I will say, having some theory knowledge does come in handy occasionally. You might never have to write your own hashtable, but being able to understand the implementation of the structures you’re using helps a lot to make informed decisions about how you organize and access data, especially when you’re trying to optimize for performance or memory usage.

One piece of unsolicited advice you might have heard before is to not discount the power of networking. The best written cover letter in the world can’t hold a candle to knowing someone who can put in a good word. Make friends with your professors and classmates, you never know who might think to look you up one day when their company is hiring. My old boss still offers me a job occasionally, more than five years later.

I’d tell myself not to waste the time, money or energy on college.

I’m not against it in general, but going for a compsci degree when you’ve already gotten software dev work is definitely a waste of time unless your employer is paying for it. I just let my dad talk me into it after getting out of a bad job. Thankfully I only wasted one semester on it and got out because I found another job.

Still, that turned out to be $4k in loans for just 6 units because I couldn’t file my FAFSA in time to qualify for any grants, thanks to my fucking undiagnosed ADHD father who couldn’t be bothered to file his taxes or even give me an accurate income required by the form. That was $4k I could have put into savings or invested instead.

Good suggestion.

It runs okay, but the segment after the jump gate didn’t run very well with everything on screen, even at low settings.

Besides that, the flying itself feels sluggish and unsatisfying, and the demo has you fucking with the radio while you’re trying to drive.

Also, I could swear it had an AI trucker steer into me so it could teach me about crash penalties, but then it made me deal with the radio shit while my truck was yelling at me for leaking air. I rage quit the demo at that point.

Overall, not very impressed. It’s got too much going on for a truck sim.

No mention in the article or on the Steam store page of whether it’s meant to be compatible with the Steam Deck or not.

This game has been on my wishlist since I spotted it on Steam a while back, but I’m not likely to buy it unless I can play it on the Deck. I’ve got too many other games in my backlog already that don’t run on it, but I need more casual games I can play on my Deck while watching TV.

The Steam store page says the game only takes about an hour, but it doesn’t say anything about replayability.

I love Powerwash Simulator so much because it has enough levels to play all them through multiple times without getting too tired of them. It’s a game I can play absentmindedly while watching a show.

It is starting to get old though, so I’ve been trying to find games that scratch the same itch.

It’s not even summer yet and I’m already contemplating if I can afford to move to New Zealand for half the year.

I feel like a zombie wouldn’t be able to consent. If they can speak intelligently, they’re not a zombie, they’re something else.

As for marriage, I think the contract would be automatically void, “til death do us part” and all that.

PlateUp, it’s surprisingly addicting. Very similar core loop to Unrailed but more much more open-ended.

Runs well on the Steam Deck but really chugs battery for what it is, even on low settings.

Plays better with a controller; the keyboard controls are kind of weird.

Wait, what year is it?

You can apply this same logic to basically all of chemistry:

H: explosive, the main ingredient in stars

O: literally the reason fire is a thing, causes rust and kills cells via free radicals

H2O: I’m so wet, UwU

Don’t let this fool you into thinking AI is green. Finland is certainly not the only place they’re going to be expanding datacenters.

What baffles me is I’ve yet to see another handheld with touchpads that can even begin to rival the Steam Deck’s.

AYANEO has them on the Retro Mini PC but they’re smaller and way too far down to be comfortable to use regularly.

The touchpads are one of the Steam Deck’s greatest features. They actually make it enjoyable to play games designed for use with a mouse. Why are none of the other manufacturers getting that?

I have a theory hypothesis notion that the concept of hallucination in artificial neural networks is not a failure mode that is unique to ANNs but is an inherent property of any neural network, artificial or biological.

Essentially, I posit that a neural network by itself is incapable of maintaining coherence without a rigid external framework, such as consistent feedback in training an ANN, or the laws of physics for biologicals.

This would explain why people start tripping balls in sensory deprivation chambers. And it provides a counterargument to any thought experiment or philosophy that involves a disembodied brain vividly hallucinating reality.

Everything is just different Brassica cultivars.

I have two strong opinions that will lead me to never be interested in the ROG Ally X:

• Fuck Windows 11.
• Any handheld that looked at the glorious touchpads of the Steam Deck and decided “nah, no one wants those, just touchscreen and joysticks for us,” will never have a place in my home.

The 2020s are going to go down in history as the decade of enshittification.

The author who coined the term recently also came up with a name for this era of human history: the enshittocene.

Well, you know. Time heals all wounds. I’m sure I’ll get over it.

My AMA on their Skibidi Toilet post yielded some good karma (is that what it’s even called on Lemmy?).