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by badsock 12y ago
I view regulations like rules in sports. Good rules don't diminish the players efforts, they channel them away from maladaptive avenues into productive ones. Forgive the extreme metaphor, but if you were suddenly allowed to uses weapo
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by badsock 12y ago
Well yeah, those were the companies that were lined up to build the infrastructure for the multi-tiered Internet. How could you expect them to take any other position?
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by badsock 12y ago
Intel, Cisco, and IBM all sell deep packet inspection products. They have a material interest in not seeing NN go through.
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by badsock 12y ago
As part of "fixing their mistake" Lenovo just outright lied about the security implications. So what does that tell you about them?
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by badsock 12y ago
Well, as vertex-four pointed out that API is not stable, and as far as I've seen there's no expectation that it ever will be. Feel free to correct me - for me this is the nub of the issue and I'd be happy to hear otherwise.
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by badsock 12y ago
There's an election coming up. The terrorism boogeyman has been so expedient in America that the Conservative Party is trying to invent a similar threat.
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by badsock 12y ago
Genuinely curious, how would you resolve the problem differently?
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by badsock 12y ago
The forces you describe have been in effect for more than half a century, and during that time the actual damage we've seen from stateless actors has been miniscule compared to what has been visited on people by their own governments,
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by badsock 12y ago
This perspective makes me hopeful for things like basic income. Highly arguable, I know, but to me this is evidence of what people (in aggregate) do when they don't have to work so much to provide for basic survival: they create cultu
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by badsock 12y ago
I'm not sure I'd agree with the comparison to the FM transmitter. That TV DAC claims to have a SNR of 90dB, which is well above the ~70 of FM radio, and comparable to "CD quality" (modulo marketing BS). That being said,
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by badsock 12y ago
I don't think we actually disagree. The tablet/desktop convergence is them trying to sit between two barstools - true that they're still mostly toward desktop, but they aimed for both and hit neither. And agreed on your seco
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by badsock 12y ago
You can switch to Linux, but unfortunately it's been degrading along similar lines. Big, wrong ideas are destructive, and the two biggest, wrongest ones right now seem to be: "desktops are just out-of-date tablets", and &quot
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by badsock 12y ago
Counter-anecdote: over several years and across multiple installs, I've experienced intermittent stuttering, multi-second latency, and random crazy-high CPU usage. Uninstalling Pulse and going back to alsa in each case completely fixe
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by badsock 12y ago
Do - it's a great book.
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by badsock 12y ago
That sounds very plausible to me. Makes me wonder what it would take to graft the positional tracking from the DK2 onto something like Samsung Gear.
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by badsock 12y ago
Agreed about Gnome 3, but from the Wikipedia article on Unity: "In July 2012, at OSCON, Shuttleworth explained some of the historical reasoning behind Unity's development. The initial decision to develop a new interface in 2008 wa
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by badsock 12y ago
Loose coupling allows the "shiny thing of the week" folk to not wreak havoc on the "good engineering" folk. When DEs like Unity followed Microsoft down the disastrous blind alley of "desktops should act like tablets
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by badsock 12y ago
I can't speak for morenoh149, but my issue with that kind of disparity is the inevitable amount of difference in political power that comes with it.
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by badsock 12y ago
Not sure I agree with your first sentence. It's awfully easy to write a FFOS app that doesn't need an Internet connection to function.
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by badsock 12y ago
What do you think of Western Australia's desalination efforts? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perth_Seawater_Desalination_Pla...
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by badsock 12y ago
I understand PCM, 1 bit DACs, et al. What I'd love to see are some equations relating the three quantities of bit rate, sampling frequency, and distortion. Turns out to be very hard to Google. In any case, thanks for your patience, I&
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by badsock 12y ago
It's a kind of rite of passage, I think, to implement a Lisp. I wrote half (the easy half) of ISLISP that ran on the Python VM back in 2005 :)
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by badsock 12y ago
Which gets back to your original point about both sample rate and bit depth contributing to the dynamic range. I'm very curious: can you give me some search keywords that would get me to the math behind that? Also, I've never he
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by badsock 12y ago
Right, 22,050hz looks exactly like a triangle wave on a computer screen. The thing is that a triangle wave is composed of a fundamental sine wave (22kHz), and a series of ascending odd harmonics above it. So after the filters nix everythi
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by badsock 12y ago
My understanding is that oversampling is done in DACs so that digital filters can be applied without introducing the effects that you describe at the top end of the frequency range. Basically it interpolates to a higher sample rate so that
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by badsock 12y ago
In your last example about the harmonics, I can see that being so in the most simple case, but surely that's a limitation of the playback system, not the storage medium. And isn't that addressed by the oversampling that is used a
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by badsock 12y ago
Intermodulation in this case is distortion that wasn't in the source material. It's a product of the failings of the playback system to perfectly recreate high frequencies without distorting the lower ones, and will vary dependin
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by badsock 12y ago
Agreed - my definition of "the end" being anything past the far end of the speaker cable.
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by badsock 12y ago
Thanks for posting that! However, it's worth point out that that study has its detractors: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypersonic_effect I find the intermodulation argument a convincing one - it's hard to n
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by badsock 12y ago
If you're playing a 16 bit PCM at a reasonable listening level of 85dB SPL, then your 6 bit sinusoid is at 25dB SPL, which is quieter than a whisper at 6 feet away in a library. The quantization noise floor of a 6 bit recording is a f

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