@El'endiaStarman Is this just for fun, or did you actually use this somewhere?

@flawr Totally for fun. I was playing around with Algojammer which IIRC Phi mentioned in here.

@DJMcMayhem still listening almost daily to MH. My current fav is Mistaken

@El'endiaStarman ah I see :)

still on my todo list :D

The UI learning curve is really steep (albeit short) but once you get past that, it's really cool.

I was able to edit a bar chart into a histogram of path lengths on a Sheet and watch how it changed as I moved back and forth in time.

The omniscient debugger part is pretty cool but that combined with being able to output certain variables, possibly with tweaks/edits, at any point in time as an alternative to print/log statements everywhere was really cool.

@flawr :D That's awesome!

I think it's really funny that I recommended one song really offhandedly, and now you like them way more than me. I don't even really listen to them, I just know Down

@flawr Sylvan Esso is similar too, I think you'd like them

@DJMcMayhem has happened before: someone recommended some song to me, and I really digged (dug?) it, and started buying albums of that artist. A few years later I meet that person again and started talking about this artist and they didn't even recognize the name :)

I don't think I've ever actually seen the slang meaning of "dig" used in the past tense, but "dug" is probably most correct nonetheless.

@El'endiaStarman In what other ways could you express the same? (Apart from using "liked" instead of "digged/dug".)

Not really, if we're only considering replacing that one word.

"I was hooked" would work.

ah right, thanks!

Which isn't quite the same as "I dig it" though.

But whatevs, language is what you make of it! :P

@DJMcMayhem that is what I like about the english language =P

On another note, a couple coworkers were talking about car exhaust systems and how there's a tradeoff between loud but powerful and quiet but weaker because a major part of how engines work is that they pump air through them, effectively (explosions just happen in the middle). If you slow down that air to make it quieter, you necessarily reduce the power of the engine. One coworker linked to this article after I asked about the possibility of using destructive interference:

researchgate.net/publication/…

> The exhaust pipe is divided into two sections and joined again downstream. One divided pipe has a sliding mechanism to vary its length, which is controlled to make half wavelength transmission path difference for the major engine rpm frequency.

I thought this was really clever.

take an old trombone and weld it in there to make it adjust to the actual freqency:)

I'm not convinced how much it would help if you only have one fixed frequency where it works, considering that car engines are usually used over multiple "octaves"

have you heard about fresnel zone plates?

if you have two antennas (a receiver and a transmitter), you basically can improve the signal by placing obstacles in between (very carefully)

It is basically the same principle, you just block out waves that would cause a destructive interference

@flawr I think that's handled by "has a sliding mechanism to vary its length".

@flawr Oooh, that's cool.

so they do use a trombone :D

Now I'm imagining that if you accelerate the right amounts at the right time you could play a song

hehe:)

that reminds me of one of tom scotts videos

here we go: youtube.com/watch?v=Ef93WmlEho0