Derbasti

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by Derbasti 15y ago
Sorry, you are wrong. Placebo is astonishingly powerful. Read up about it. Clinical trials usually test three cases: No medication, placebo and actual medication. Placebo usually works really well compared to no treatment. Not for a broken
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by Derbasti 15y ago
The point of homeopathy practiced today, by licensed doctors, is to administer placebo in cases where it is likely to help. Placebo is amazingly powerful--in particular when prescribed by a doctor. Funny enough, one of the most helpful medi
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by Derbasti 15y ago
Obviously. Analogue audio does not have a sampling rate. The ADC however can oversample all it wants, but if the output is 44.1 kHz, it needs an aliasing filter that cuts off at 22.05 kHz.
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by Derbasti 15y ago
> Modern (i.e. anything from 1995 onwards) DACs do not suffer from aliasing problems. True, but they do so using (long, high-quality) high-cut filters. And these filters are pretty sharp, as they have to close within, say, 18-22.1 kHz.
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by Derbasti 15y ago
You will still need a aliasing filter that cuts off between, say, 18 and 22.5 kHz to avoid aliasing noise. That is one sharp filter no matter how you look at it. You can use a high quality, long, linear-phase FIR filter, but you can't cheat
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by Derbasti 15y ago
He raises a lot of valid points. However... 192 kHz is clearly overkill for listening. Not so for further editing of the data. Same goes for 16/24 bit, however, the difference between 16 and 24 bit is actually audible. 44100 is not a bad sa
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by Derbasti 15y ago
Haha, that is great!
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by Derbasti 15y ago
I can't seem to comment or upvote in your app. Without that, it has little value to me. Apart from that, it is quite good! Or am I overlooking something?
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by Derbasti 15y ago
Awesome! This is so far the most beautiful and readable HN App I have seen on the iPhone and iPad. Except: There does not seem to be a way to post comments or to vote. Is there something I am overlooking?
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by Derbasti 15y ago
Awesome! Now I want a good one for the iPad, please!
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by Derbasti 15y ago
Gray is the new Purple
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by Derbasti 15y ago
Sublime Text 2 has a plugin that emulates Surround. It has a pretty good mode for Git interaction. Even its Vintage (Vim emulation) mode is really surprisingly good. Hell, it even has a mode that is beginning to emulate Emacs' org-mode. Onl
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by Derbasti 15y ago
It is amazing at what pace Sublime Text 2 is being developed! It feels like there are new updates every day. I love it!
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by Derbasti 15y ago
Well, I guess that was long overdue. Anyway, another nice step to bring Objective-C forward. It seems to develop into a nice combination of low-level, high-performance C and a pretty straightforward, dynamic, object system. In short, I vast
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by Derbasti 15y ago
Apple is a corporation that is traded on the stock market. Their primary customers and their board of directors are the stakeholders, not the paying buyers. Hence, they absolutely want to screw with us if that is producing better stock pric
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by Derbasti 15y ago
Well, if I remember correctly, all that stuff did not happen to me when I upgraded to Snow Leopard. That's really all I'm saying.
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by Derbasti 15y ago
yes, I did update to Lion.
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by Derbasti 15y ago
I have been a Mac user for the last four years. I used to really like it, everything was stable and polished and just worked really well. But in the last few months, things started falling apart. My computer would freeze every few days, syn
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by Derbasti 15y ago
What a sad, sad statement of a government. The most important resource any country has is intelligent people. Cutting library funding is cutting general education for the masses. It is actively dumbing down populous.
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by Derbasti 15y ago
Funny how German podcasters pretty much unanimously decided not to do ads or sponsoring while american podcasts are often littered with ads to the point where it gets unbearable. Compare and contrast the TWiT network or 5by5 with Tim Pritlo
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by Derbasti 15y ago
Lets do it for Notepad and TextEdit, too!
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Survey of Text Editors (on the Mac)(daskrachen.com)
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by Derbasti 15y ago
See, I don't really agree with that. Yes, fullscreen is worse than useless on more than one monitors. But you don't have to use it. Fullscreening an app on a big monitor was never very useful in the first place. But as I said, inertial scro
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by Derbasti 15y ago
I don't know man. You sound like you just don't like new stuff. That said, I am not very excited about many pieces of the Lion UI either. Inertial scrolling is amazingly useful, though. Also, I quite like the 'Ribbon' in Office. Much better
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by Derbasti 15y ago
Because the point of DMA is to give fast access to RAM without involving the CPU. That is what makes the speed of Firewire or PCMCIA or Thunderbolt or PCIE feasible. Without DMA, these technologies would not work. Also, the password needs t
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by Derbasti 15y ago
I used to think that, too. Then I actually tried Vim. I was wrong. Vim is significantly faster for text editing. Go check out some screencasts from experienced Vimmers or Emacsers.
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by Derbasti 15y ago
It is absolutely awesome! A few finer points are missing, but overall I can wholeheartedly recommend it. (missing: put last deletes in number registers) There is also the free VsVim, though.
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by Derbasti 15y ago
Emacs is anything but monolothic. I think that is what our argument boils down to. Emacs is a Lisp virtual machine and someone happens to have implemented da rather splendid text editor in it. Claiming that Emacs is monolithic is about as m
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by Derbasti 15y ago
You did indeed misunderstand my post. I was not arguing about the relative merits of clang vs some-other-tool. I was simply saying that Emacs can open a C++ file and have all tags and completions right there, no setup required. No external
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by Derbasti 15y ago
That is precisely what I am saying: Other editors interface with some tools, you configure them, they call some external process, they have to be run regularly... Well, Emacs has that stuff built-in, and better. That is precisely the way in

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