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    Audio compression software

    That was something I learnt from some musicians back in the 90s, and the true beauty of the CDA format - all the individual tracks are in it, the file hasn't been "flattened" to use a graphics term. These blokes were playing as a trio, little corner pub gigs on Friday and Saturday nights...
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    I say pot-a-toes!

    And just in case you didn't already know - Potato leaves are poisonous, so, not good for the summer salads. Potatoes are a member of the Nightshade family. This is also the reason we keep potatoes in the dark, if you leave them in the light the skin will start to become green, and then it's...
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    Audio compression software

    Over 300 meg is not a little file, wouldn't take too many of them to fill up a drive. Mine is all music and even one of Jimmy Page's guitar solos is only around 10 megs.
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    Audio compression software

    I stopped buying CDs when the last ones I bought didn't have music in CDA format but instead just had MP3s on them, at 196 Kbps. :(
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    Audio compression software

    As you mentioned above, what quality the files were originally recorded at limits what you're going to get. You can't "remove" that type of compression, it works by deleting information in exactly the same way as Jpeg compression does. You can make the file bigger again but you can't magically...
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    Audio compression software

    That's where my experience is the opposite of what @cooljethro wants and what @Angular Chap does - I have very sensitive hearing and I'm a bit fussy about my music, most of it I ripped from CDs myself at 256Kbits/second. With the size of harddrives people have these days there's little point in...
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    The money we use is not legal tender

    Big floods up the top end at the moment, there's people that were evacuated due to a cyclone over a month ago but the rains haven't let up and they still can't get back home. Now there's another cyclone running right the way across the entire north coast and bringing more heavy rain. Hit the...
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    The money we use is not legal tender

    They're a pet hate here too. :) Here that's compounded by the fact that they're seen as a fashion statement rather than sports wear, you don't spend all day in the Aussie sun wearing a hat that's going to let your ears get burnt.
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    I say pot-a-toes!

    I agree with this totally. Many of the vegetables I've planted over the years have come straight from the supermarket shelf, potatoes, tomatoes, chillies, capsicums, etc. We also didn't plant whole potatoes but I think that was as much Mum's country upbringing as anything else, not wasting...
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    Reptiles in Australia

    There's been a bit of that going on for the last few years, I don't know if people think it's a funny joke or if they're trying to achieve something but either way it's a slow cruel death for the crocodile. The Tropic Of Capricorn is about the southern limit of their range due to climate, on...
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    Audio compression software

    Actually a complex question. There's no such thing as more compression with no loss of quality. Reducing the size of MP3s (more compression) reduces the quality of the sound, in some instances this is more acceptable than in others. If your recordings are complex sounds such as a full...
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    De-extinction

    There's a life size replica of one at a park near Mt Gambier in South Australia, they're huge. Nearly 2 metres tall at the shoulder and weighing over 3 tons. And they dig holes. ;) Diprotodon - Wikipedia
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    Adapting to New Realities

    I've just had a full week of unbroken sleep every night, at least 7 hours each time.
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    Adapting to New Realities

    It is for me at the moment. :) It's currently 8:30 in the evening here, I just woke up a while ago and I'm about to get that second cup of coffee.
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    De-extinction

    Even that number is far too few to allow for survival because they're marsupials, not dogs. They don't live or hunt in packs, they are solitary creatures that live a similar lifestyle to Jaguars. If breeding is successful none would be released in to the wild until they had well over 100...
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    Understanding video compression

    Essentially what you need to read about for the technical details is Jpeg Compression because that's how it works. To simplify - the computer sees an image as a single line of code. If there's a lot of pixels all in a line that are exactly the same colour then the computer can make the line of...
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    I’ve been talking with Claude

    What I really miss the most is being able to restrict search results to one specific country. For example, if I was searching for something in Australia search results would show only site addresses that ended in .au, and yes there's a lot of Aussie sites that don't bother paying the extra for a...
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    I was just about to comment the same as Judge, except for me it was the 70s. What an era!

    I was just about to comment the same as Judge, except for me it was the 70s. What an era!
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    I’ve been talking with Claude

    It used to be fantastic but sadly AI overrides it.
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    Adapting to New Realities

    One of your other comments in your previous post is accurate, I don't think we're made to just get up and race off to work in the mornings. Early morning is the best time to hunt, most animals are on the move at dusk and dawn, and as the sun rises you have enough light to clean your kill, but...
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