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by asveikau 4mo ago
Android Auto is also a thing.
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by asveikau 4mo ago
I know the opus codec assumes everything is 48kHz and will resample inputs to that.
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by asveikau 4mo ago
Off topic, XKCD should put the original publication date on the page. This one references specific years, and I could tell it's from 2009 after thinking about it, but doesn't hit the same way.
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by asveikau 4mo ago
I was not totally clear on this. The article makes it sound like the behavior is in the debian patches, and not upstream? I believe upstream is here, and has the same code as quoted: https://sourceforge.net/p/xsno
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by asveikau 4mo ago
I frequently see things on HN where people just share the website of a well known project. I assume it's for people who legit never heard of it. Maybe they're younger. I think of a saying, every year a new generation discovers the
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by asveikau 4mo ago
A few years ago I had a C++ project going (one man project, it had a GUI) that I was testing on WinXP. I found it was fairly easy to maintain a binary that loaded on XP using VS2015 as my compiler. I sometimes had to patch libraries to no
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by asveikau 4mo ago
Hard for me to take that one seriously.. For example they call out byte swapping for endianness as the type of cruft holding back X11. Such a trivial thing to be concerned enough to put in the readme... (I guess Phoenix is also putting this
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by asveikau 4mo ago
It was a sarcastic comment. I read the book last year and I believe almost every word.
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by asveikau 4mo ago
Seems like exactly what they'd do if the claims weren't true, am I right?
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by asveikau 4mo ago
He is currently in a congressional race. 1 month ago I voted against him, for Saikat Chakrabarti. In November he will face Connie Chan. It's possible that Chan would also support this. She is not in a position to do so now, because she
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by asveikau 4mo ago
There seems to be a propaganda thread in the culture now to get people cynical and thinking everything is rigged against you in advance, and a prerequisite to accepting this is to ignore how to the system actually works. The end result is t
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by asveikau 4mo ago
By the way I also know for a fact that Scott Wiener's staff reads San Francisco's subreddit. Commenting about Wiener's vote in there will reach his staff. Given the bay area presence here it's also possible somebody &quo
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by asveikau 4mo ago
My letter opened with the fact that I generally favor reasonable gun laws, then elaborated how this is not that. It's possible that nobody reads it and captures the nuance, but I did spend time to consider the framing. Nobody who actua
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by asveikau 4mo ago
From what I know about legislators (I am a longtime SF resident but I am also a DC native and have known some congressional staff over the years), it is pretty rare that informed constituents write to them in a cogent and authentic voice ab
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by asveikau 4mo ago
California voters, write to your state senator. I'm in San Francisco, and I wrote to Scott Wiener, who recently voted to pass this out of committee. Before that when it was still in the assembly, I wrote to Matt Haney, which didn'
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by asveikau 4mo ago
> People who don't get results don't get more opportunities This shows to me that you have a lot of faith in these companies that I can't share based on my own experiences. My experience is more like: the defining characte
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by asveikau 4mo ago
Even from the selfish perspectives of these executives, it can be quite bad to isolate people from the consequences of bad decisions. It will prevent learning from mistakes, and lead to more bad decisions. Which I guess is getting at anothe
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by asveikau 4mo ago
With all the inflation going on and the AI boom affecting things like memory prices, I was surprised that eg. MacBook neo was priced where it was.
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by asveikau 4mo ago
Look how much you've moved the goalposts. First Seattle. Then it's: what about small towns? Now we suddenly have an additional requirement of matching stats from a different country. Narrower and narrower the scope gets, before yo
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by asveikau 4mo ago
What if what if what if? That whole premise of "what if lots of crime happens" -- already false. Did you know that most places in America are at historically low crime rates in most of our lifetimes? It is garbage to say this need
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by asveikau 4mo ago
Cops can politely ask owners of private cameras for access for things like murder investigation. If the polite answer is no (most people will say yes), they can go to court for a subpoena. This has happened for a long time. This is how it s
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by asveikau 4mo ago
This phrase was very popular for a good many years, popularized by Greenspan iirc: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irrational_exuberance It described the dotcom bubble, but I seem to recall people were applying it to the
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by asveikau 4mo ago
There is a very big difference between liking steak and categorizing large swaths of humanity as inferior. If you say "oh, of course Hitler grouped homeless people as inferior, antisocial beings and rounded them up and killed them, thi
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by asveikau 4mo ago
No, I'm very specifically talking about the propaganda that was used to send homeless people into death camps. If someone echoes the sentiments it should raise an eyebrow.
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by asveikau 4mo ago
From the website it seems like they're expecting that some people will do this with the intention of renting, but then decide to keep or not get around to the return process.
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by asveikau 4mo ago
It's easier to dismiss me as having a screw loose than to look inward.
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by asveikau 4mo ago
So much of this is written with an air of superiority over the noob. Indicates a bit of an ego problem. Yes, the noobs are noobs, but the goal isn't to exercise your status over them. Or even to waste that much time trying to categoriz
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by asveikau 4mo ago
I got a good investment vehicle for you. How would you like to purchase shares in the Brooklyn bridge? You could see returns in the form of tolls.
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by asveikau 4mo ago
> ... tech companies have proved to be some of the most hostile actors in most American's lives. Perhaps edged out only by things such as actual violent crime Not so fast. Violent crime has been declining for about 30 years. Tech ha
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by asveikau 4mo ago
15 years ago, both Google and Microsoft were on perforce. (The latter through a fork with a different name.)

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