We record them. as some others have pointed, we measure all kinds of sources, be it a sound wave which is recorded by a mic, where we have some diaphragm, which physically moves, and depending on how the mic works (for example, a mic with a working principle of capacitence would use this motion of diaphragm as one of the capacitors plate, and measure change in capacitence by measuring voltage across the plates)(also, i am not saying this is how all mics work, just something i came up with for a example, but it works in theory).

At a much better level, for complex sources, for example, you gently resting your hand on a table, the sound currents produced are not strong enough, so one could potentially amplify, but doing that also amplifies noise (which means erroneous data here, and not like bad sounds), so we go to a better measurement technique, for example seismography (very complex stuff, which i am not going to go into).

in a lab setup, we may actuallu pick a material, and excite it. Think of like plucking a guitar string, but instead, we use for example a piezoelectric material, and give a input source voltage (which will vary periodically) and use it to excite a wave, and we can, for example optically measure the motion of material (if for example, we start with a block, we can measure it’s compression and expansion). though this requires quite high quality cameras, this can be done.

acoustics as a phenomenon originates as large scale effect of molecules vibrating (i will not go into detail about vibrations here, because that is way out of scope), but think of it like this - you may know that electricity, or to be precise current, is just flow of electrons, so if electrons move slightly on application of a electrical voltage, and large scale effect is current, then sounds or all mechanical motions can be roughly considered as large scale motion of these vibrations. at this level, there are not really any optical cameras that can measure, so what we do spectroscopy (fancy words warning - we shine different wavelengths of light, and material absorbs wavelengths corresponding to particular vibration’s resonant frequencies)

tl:dr - we record the motion

what is wrong with pugjesus? dude almost single-handedly posts history memes, gives context, and seems a very chill person

you do more than your civic duty, sire

ideally do not send a hard drive, as shipping might corrupt data. if you do, please package it with good care - hard disk inside sponges inside softer thermocol insider harder thermocol inside cardboad. it is overkill, but hard drives really do not like to be shaken, and stuff in courier is often shook violently.

you should not know what a grenade casingg looks like. in a ideal society, average people shoukd not know anything about any of the weapons. if they do, they either were using them (which is bad), or they were being used against them (which is worse).

is it possible that he can use something like puppy linux like distros (essentially live usbs, where you can make a persistent partition and make changes)? that way you can prepare a usb, and maybe teach them how to plug the usb in, and change the boot order to include usb? it would be slow (for boot times, if you use some faster usb, that would help), but does not require any fancy operation requiring him to open his computer.

Or if opening the computer/laptop and installing ssd/hdd is within scope, then maybe you can prepare a ssd with complette install, and just ship that. give him additional video/text instructions on how to open a computer, and install it. (In case their system supports ssds, then I highly recommend ssds over hdd, as they do not require special packaging, would be much faster, and ssd installations are also easier(detachhing and reattaching sata ribbon is hard imo, where as with something like nvme ssd, it is very close to like plugging in usb, and then just screwing or something similar.)) If their system is old, and does not have nvme/u.2 connectors, i would still recommend ssd over hdd, then you would also have to procure (and ship) an extra enclosure (i think they are called caddys) to fit a ssd in a husk, which after closing looks like a harddisk and connects via sata. these steps are tad bit hard, but if it is within scope, then I do not think their is a better option.

is there a like a community for thoughts, but which is like eye bleach?

US really needs to increase it’s nuclear energy output (i know that current amount is also big, but it needs to be increased). Nuclear is one of the most cleanest forms of energy, and depending on the age of existing coal plants, some of them can even be converted to nuclear.

that is great. I feared that it may cost way too much and libretranslate folks might not like the cost

its the other way round for bears i think

meme template choice was pretty good. tips hat

how much is the cost of running libretranslate (i am presuming it is not a small amount)? this can be abused to run commercial translation jobs for free by just posting comments. I know libretranslate by itself has a free website available, but i presume they would restrict the free apis, but I do not know how would they restrict here

on my laptop (specs wise - consider steam deck non oled, but worse graphics performance, 1080p screen (IPS)) - 5.3-6 Wh for 2x speed playback. for full hd playback 6-7 Wh. Idle power is much higher though 4.5 Wh, on my old laptop, video power consumption consumed similar power, but idle power was close to 2.5-3 Wh (in terms of specs, it had halve the number of cores, and a tn panel)

Indian babies are mostly free (or a much more reasonable charge)(assuming no pregnancy complications requiring a very fancy operation in a private hospital)

ah that makes so much sense. I frequent to llm related comm, and most posts get immediately downvoted because of lemmy’s general opinion on llms. Now that you have described this, I think this should be a feature upstream

can you please describe a use case for this? (sorry for posting on a old post)

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thanks matey

a serious question - snails must be using more than 2 brain cells right? i presume that for most beings with a brain that almost all are always working, some less activated some more?

i would presume yes. you could run cinnamon wayland since early 2024 (iirc), but it was only experimental, so i would presume it might have become more stable since then.