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  • tallwookie@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    got one from back when I was learning C - wanted to be a game developer but it never panned out, anyway, the compiler I was using was a Borland product and in the comments of one of the .h or .c files, I forget which, there was a comment that was… actually I went and looked it up just now so I could get it verbatim. always thought it was interesting:

    " 7 Hz is the resonant frequency of a chicken’s skull cavity. This was determined empirically in Australia, where a new factory generating 7-Hz tones was located too close to a chicken ranch: When the factory started up, all the chickens died. Your PC may not be able to emit a 7-Hz tone "

    • Shan@beehaw.org
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      1 year ago

      I watched a YouTube video which discussed a similar issue with a pop song. I want to say it was something by Jennifer Lopez (?) which had a part that matched the resonant frequency of the hard drive in a certain laptop model and would cause the hard drive to crash.

      edit: just looked it up, it was Janet Jackson’s ‘Rhythm Nation’