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by badsock 11y ago
If you end up with a giant ball of hidden complexity, that's a strong indication that you're dealing with that complexity at the wrong level. Both PulseAudio and systemd seem to have the "throw everything out, start from a be
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by badsock 11y ago
Massively overdesigned while trying to solve a problem that almost no one had (network transparency). FreeBSD's implementation of /dev/dsp is a good example of how simple it can be.
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by badsock 11y ago
I switched all my servers and desktops to FreeBSD. It's like going back in time in many, many good ways (commandline/text-config focus, less magic, etc.), and one bad way (HW support).
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by badsock 11y ago
I have the feeling that things will settle into a Microsoft-like "things mostly work, most of the time, because so much effort was put into it rather than good design" kind of world. Sort of like how PulseAudio is now. Most peopl
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by badsock 11y ago
The critical difference, in my view, is that Google et al. do not have the authority to incarcerate people.
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by badsock 11y ago
I know it's not what you're asking, but for the record you can buy memristor-memory-based microcontrollers in single quantities from Mouser today. The reason I mention it is that memristors are being accused of being vaporware whe
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by badsock 11y ago
I think it's naive to trust that the USA is using the NSA's surveillance capabilities for just security and not economic gain: From http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/nsa-hacked-email-a... "I
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by badsock 11y ago
The NSA engages in industrial espionage: http://www.bbc.com/news/25907502
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by badsock 11y ago
Respectfully, I don't think it needs to said again. This is English - meaning is determined by common usage, and for quite a while now the Linux has meant both the kernel and the OS to almost everyone (disambiguated by calling the for
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by badsock 12y ago
Dammit! Sorry, carry on!
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by badsock 12y ago
Ah, but println "Hi there" doesn't return nil, it returns a value of the type IO nil which can be transparently substituted for the call.
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by badsock 12y ago
It makes me sad that Idris is (explicitly) never going to be an industrial language - so many nice things in it.
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by badsock 12y ago
It sounds like it runs fine once you get past the tricky install: http://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/2zbtm2/asus_zenbo...
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by badsock 12y ago
It depends a bit on the model, but in general yes you can. I haven't done it on a Chromebook, but I've completely wiped out ChromeOS and ran Arch on an Asus Chromebox (using instructions meant for the very similar C300 Chromebook
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by badsock 12y ago
Ah, I get what you're saying now. On the downsampling side, correct me if I'm wrong, but my understanding is that resampling in general is a well-solved problem (brick wall included), given reasonable target rates. In terms of it
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by badsock 12y ago
Agreed, which is why I don't think anyone argues against, say, 192kHz/24bit on the production side. Unfortunately, I think that people look at what the studios use and interpret that as a quality signifier when it really has no u
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by badsock 12y ago
But that's why we've got oversampling. The higher sample rate can be in the conversion stage, it doesn't have to be in the transmission format.
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by badsock 12y ago
The thing is, we've long past the point where it's a difficult task to exceed the the perceptual limits of the human ear. Even the middle-of-the-road DACs are indistinguishable from perfection now, and the rest of the circuit is
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by badsock 12y ago
Right. Given the number of countries and companies and people that are involved as you move up the chain from transistor to application, how complex even the smallest stack is, and how many opportunities there are for inserting code at ever
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by badsock 12y ago
My point, though, is that it doesn't really matter if the whole stack is open source if the binaries have been compromised, or if the browser/OS it runs on has. There hasn't been a widely used OS without a remote exploit, in
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by badsock 12y ago
It freaks me out that people are so nonchalant about this. Browsers and OSes get cracked on a regular basis: you can't trust the server, you can't trust the client, and you can't trust the pipe in between. There is no voting
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by badsock 12y ago
From the Helios FAQ: Should we start using Helios for public-office elections? Maybe US President 2016? No, you should not. Online elections are appropriate when one does not expect a large attempt at defrauding or coercing voters. For some
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by badsock 12y ago
I lived there for a couple of years, and couldn't agree more. There's a lot of awesome people making their best efforts to counter it, but really it's a dead city. I remember realizing that all the cafes closed around 6 or 7
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by badsock 12y ago
Sure, Netscape Corp. did, and good riddance. But the Mozilla Foundation was founded in between IE6 and IE7 and, if I recall correctly, their stand on a standards-based web was there from the get-go. They fought a war, against Microsoft in
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by badsock 12y ago
Sure, you can decide to just spectate, but like it or not we all have to share this tech ecosystem. If there's no consequence for companies or people that behave in ways that harm the whole industry, we're all going to suffer.
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by badsock 12y ago
I think you're being too mild in your side note. The first half of the IE6-9 era was part of a deliberate scorched-earth strategy to harm the open Internet, and the second half was them furiously backpedalling from that when it failed.
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by badsock 12y ago
One of the big differences between Oculus and Valve's philosophies is that the latter believes that there must be a 1:1 correspondence between motion in the virtual world and the real one. No doing so kills presence and causes the n
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by badsock 12y ago
The thing I don't like about the parental support argument is that I don't see it offering any avenues for improvement. I have a hard time believing that these massive multi-billion dollar organizations full of trained professiona
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by badsock 12y ago
Well thanks, and likewise!
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by badsock 12y ago
Right, so I agree that the engineering challenges aren't very great, but I would argue that little of the current infrastructure was designed with the ability to de-prioritize packets based on their origin, and so there'd be a pre

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