Derbasti

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by Derbasti 14y ago
If working in the audio industry and studying the topic at university has taught me anything about audiophilia, then that would be the fact that audiophiles tend to fail to take room acoustics seriously. Realistically, any half decent sourc
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by Derbasti 14y ago
This would be true if they used a head simulator for recording. Since they don't, you will get the wrong projection. All headphones sound more like "the concert is happening between my ears" than "the concert is happening on a stage in fron
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by Derbasti 14y ago
Ah, well, I wish I was experienced in LISP ;-)
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by Derbasti 14y ago
Actually, I preferred the video lectures to the book. Still, if I charted all my learning of programming stuff over all time, the time during which I watched SICP will without a doubt be a huge spike in the first derivative.
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by Derbasti 14y ago
I sincerely hope that with regards to tablets, the next major battleground will be the desktop. I want a tablet that acts as a tablet on the go, but plugs into my mouse/keyboard/monitor at home and just replaces my desktop. Performance is
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by Derbasti 14y ago
This got me thinking (thank you for that): Are we not engineers since our solution space is bounded by the architecture we run on (hardware and software), which in turns has been constructed by engineers who were limited by scientific disco
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I so wish I could use some LISP at work!
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by Derbasti 14y ago
I would recommend project euler. Just some nice mathematical problems that can be solved in polinomial time. It has always served me well to keep some math muscle in active use.
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by Derbasti 14y ago
I sometimes head over to project euler and solve some mathematical program in scheme just to realign myself with reality.
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by Derbasti 14y ago
I had a similar reaction after working through SICP. Suddenly, I gained a new understanding of programming. I knew it would take a lot of time and practice to actually make use of that knowledge. But funny enough, I find your description ex
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by Derbasti 14y ago
Evil is better than Viper and Vimpulse in every way.
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by Derbasti 14y ago
For digital signals, 0 dB usually means full power. That scale is typically denoted dB FS ("full scale"). Other scales are dB SPL ( "sound pressure level"), which is what you where probably referring to. So in other words, you are probably
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by Derbasti 14y ago
No, analogue signals do not have a limited range. Analogue dynamic range is only limited by the noise floor of the cable and the resolution of the DACs/ADCs. The DACs/ADCs will probably do 24 bits. Audio recordings typically do not go beyon
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by Derbasti 14y ago
Well, kinda. The DAC would convert the signal at full power, then the pre-amp stage would boost it according to you OS loudness setting in the analogue domain. This is possible, but I don't know if sound cards are actually implemented that
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by Derbasti 14y ago
No. Volume sliders do not use a linear scale. A linear scale is all but useless for volume. Most volume sliders use a logarithmic scale, where 50% basically has no meaning except in relation to the minimum value chosen by the slider. This i
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by Derbasti 14y ago
On many occasions, I tried to load some data set that would not fit in memory. Usually on accident. If I do that on Windows or Linux, the computer becomes slow, I cancel the operation, and everything is well again. Same with OS X and an SSD
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by Derbasti 14y ago
HFS is producing errors all the time. Run Disk Utility to see them. They may not be fatal, but they happen. Apple computers with HDDs do get unusably slow once they start swapping. So much so that it is usually impossible to terminate the m
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by Derbasti 14y ago
I think its funny how Apple tries to solve its file system issues with SSDs. No other popular file system will get quite as unbearably slow when in heavy use as HFS+. No other file system will just randomly create errors and little corrupti
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by Derbasti 14y ago
Frankly, I don't care about DRM for fiction. I generally only read fiction once, anyway (and donate the paper book afterwards). For technical books it's a different story, but then the Kindle is not a medium that works well for diagrams and
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by Derbasti 14y ago
My idea is: Use whatever makes you happy. A happy person is sure to be more productive than an unhappy one. If you like IDEs, use those. If you like old fashioned text editors, use those. If you like new fangled text editors, use those. Jus
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by Derbasti 14y ago
Indentation by itself can be tricky, too. Is your code correctly indented when you copy and paste it somewhere? Can it correctly re-indent code that got mangled for some reason? How well does indentation cope with non-standard language exte
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by Derbasti 14y ago
I did try it. It is certainly better than before. That is, it's usable now. Nowhere near Eclipse/Java, XCode/Ocj-C or VS/C#, though. Usually, I tend to ignore it more often than I actually find it useful. Even some simplistic look-for-commo
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Except when you're not coding C#. Then it ranges from somewhat usable to utter lunacy.
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by Derbasti 14y ago
I think the defining feature of Windows 8 will be its transformability. On the go, you will use it in tablet mode, like an iPad. But at home or at work, you will put it into some kind of docking station and it will connect to your monitor,
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by Derbasti 14y ago
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/98854/Screen%20Shot%202012-10-11%20... It's a skyscraper built with the 3D DOM view in Firefox.
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by Derbasti 14y ago
Usually, all railway lines must know the position of every train at any time. This is simply a requirement for avoiding crashes. As far as I know, there are usually pressure/induction sensors at regular intervals that detect train positions
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by Derbasti 14y ago
Very true. I think the key to efficiency is alway happiness. When you're happy with your environment, you most likely can work without worries or disturbances and are thus efficient. So, use the tools that make you happy. Personally, I use
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One could argue that Sublime Text or JEdit could be an option, too.
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So, this is basically a thoughtful list of text manipulation programs for the Mac. And a great list at that. I was astonished and slightly embarrassed to find out that my personal answer to all his use cases are Emacs. Still, I fully concur
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by Derbasti 14y ago
I don't drink any coffee. That said, two pots of tea are not unheard of.

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