Cees Timmerman CTimmerman

Windows sucks, too!

Audio

Needs a registry hack to stop audio pops.
Windows 11 TTS stops working randomly.
64-bit Windows 10 Home version 1909 build 18363.900 (and probably 11) lacks audio enhancement tab. Turns out MSI decided to change that to Realtek Audio Console, Sound Effects, Nahimic, Effects ON, Volume Stabilizer.
Audio mixer sucks since 11. Doesn't show the Xbox game bar making noise, eg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNCQzwPptbA
Settings app fails at volume mixer and Bluetooth settings, unlike the settings popup from the systray.

Apps

If you don't learn from the past you're doomed to repeat it.

Audio

Dell
Latitude 5501 sounds even worse than my MSI MS-16P7 due to ratting its plastic case. Interviews sound like a poor phone connection. Iron Maiden - Can I Play With Madness on the other hand is tolerable and even has some bass, almost enough for Robbie Williams - Angels, which sounds like a not-quite-tuned FM radio for the vocals (too little power), particularly noticable on U2 - Discotheque. Without "audio enhancements" disabled, its audio jack adds a rumble to videos like this. Worst audio hardware I've ever used, especially playing this. Then again, using my

Coal ash contains more energy than was gained from burning the coal.

https://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/facts-and-figures/heat-values-of-various-fuels.aspx

Natural uranium, in FNR                28,000,000 MJ/kg [so 28e9 J/g]
Hard black coal (IEA definition)            >23.9 MJ/kg
Hard black coal (Australia & Canada)        c. 25 MJ/kg [so 25e3 J/g and 207.25 g/mol according to https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/1-Anthrylmethanolate]
Sub-bituminous coal (IEA definition)    17.4-23.9 MJ/kg
Sub-bituminous coal (Australia & Canada)    c. 18 MJ/kg
Lignite/brown coal (IEA definition)         <17.4 MJ/kg

	echo -e '"$RANDOM returns a pseudorandom integer between 0 and 32767" - False.'
	(( r = 1 ))
	until ((r <= 0 \|\| r >= 32767))
	do
	(( r = $RANDOM ))
	done
	echo -e "$r.\nSemicolons replace newlines:"
	(( r = 5)); while ((r < 10)); do echo $r; (( r ++ )); done

	echo "Ranges include end:"

	# Generate a 440 Hz square waveform in Pygame by building an array of samples and play
	# it for 5 seconds. Change the hard-coded 440 to another value to generate a different
	# pitch.
	#
	# Run with the following command:
	# python pygame-play-tone.py

	from array import array
	from time import sleep

	node {
	echo 'Results included as an inline comment exactly how they are returned as of Jenkins 2.121, with $BUILD_NUMBER = 1'
	echo 'No quotes, pipeline command in single quotes'
	sh 'echo $BUILD_NUMBER' // 1
	echo 'Double quotes are silently dropped'
	sh 'echo "$BUILD_NUMBER"' // 1
	echo 'Even escaped with a single backslash they are dropped'
	sh 'echo \"$BUILD_NUMBER\"' // 1
	echo 'Using two backslashes, the quotes are preserved'
	sh 'echo \\"$BUILD_NUMBER\\"' // "1"

	#coding: utf8
	""" Simple debugging HTTP server
	2020-11-20 v1.0 by Cees Timmerman
	"""
	import logging
	from pprint import pformat as pf

	from flask import Flask, request, make_response

	app = Flask(__name__)

	"""Euler's pentagonal formula, by Cees Timmerman, 2020-11-23.
	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJ8pnCO0nTY"""
	import math

	def get_lookback_index(x: int):
	i = 0
	a = 0
	b = 1
	steps = [1]
	while i < x-1:

	// from https://fireship.io/lessons/wasm-video-to-gif/
	// formatted using prettier --write "src/*/.{js,jsx}"

	import React, { useState, useEffect } from 'react';
	import './App.css';

	import { createFFmpeg, fetchFile } from '@ffmpeg/ffmpeg';
	const ffmpeg = createFFmpeg({ log: true });

	function App() {

	[
	{
	"key": "ctrl+f9",
	"command": "editor.debug.action.goToNextBreakpoint"
	},
	{
	"key": "ctrl+shift+f9",
	"command": "editor.debug.action.goToPreviousBreakpoint"
	},
	{