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by ben7799 4y ago
Does it matter? This is for distortion/noise, like in music. Nobody using clipping as an effect in their music cares if a fuzz/distortion/overdrive effect is less than pristine from an audiophile standpoint. Audiophiles woul
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by ben7799 4y ago
You realize that's enough to kill about 25,000 people, right? The penalties are already pretty big for selling just a few lethal doses.. having 50g+ is enough to blight an entire region.
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by ben7799 4y ago
Early Macs didn't use Power chips.. that came quite a bit later. They went through Motorola 65XX -> 68XX -> 68XXX -> Power PC -> Intel. That portion before Power PC was a long time, 18 years.
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by ben7799 4y ago
This is mostly a bad argument. F1 rules cause all kinds of similar problems due to their arbitrary rules. It's very easy for the aerodynamic rules to result in unpredictability. The last 10 years many of the F1 cars due to the rules
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by ben7799 4y ago
I have a mid-range Audio Technica one, the LPW40WN. Good enough for me, the quality of the actual LP you put on a record player seems vastly more important relative to the player than it does for a CD.
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by ben7799 4y ago
Both are relevant for me. It's about focusing on the listening, but in some cases many albums are getting better masters on vinyl than any other format. It's technically stupid but it is what it is. What's so stupid about t
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by ben7799 4y ago
Not even thinking about whether the rip is bit perfect there's no expectation Apple even keeps serving up the version of the master you originally bought and want to keep. It's not even about the rip, it's that they might sw
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by ben7799 4y ago
It's funny people are still learning this, but I guess some are younger. I have hundreds of CDs I started buying about 1992 or 1993 and did a big project at one point making MP3s and early on in the iTunes/iPod era they found thei
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by ben7799 4y ago
All these 1990s Unix workstations lacked polish compared to Mac OS too. They were rock solid stable whereas Mac OS 9 was incredibly unstable back in the 1990s. But usability for the user was atrocious on a lot of these machines, and they
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by ben7799 4y ago
Everything about this is misinformation. The neck torque thing constantly has been trotted out by anti-helmet motoryclists and has never been shown to be real. And there are many bicycle helmet standards, some of which are very strict. CPS
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by ben7799 4y ago
You're right, if anyone was rational we'd all wear helmets in the car all the time. It's all irrationality and a belief that cars are much safer than we pretend they are. As someone who has worn a helmet in the car from time
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by ben7799 4y ago
bike infrastructure quality can be more important than quantity. A lot of what we are getting for bike infrastructure in the US is horribly designed and often ends up being statistically more dangerous than no infrastructure at all. A lot o
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by ben7799 4y ago
I have a Canon 5D Mk III, 5-6 lenses, maybe 4 flashes, umbrellas, stands, a background, etc.. I gotta sell it but keep procrastinating.. 99% of the time these days I just want to not carry stuff and use my iPhone 13 Pro, because 99% of the
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by ben7799 4y ago
This is nothing compared to 2001-2002. We’re just hearing about layoffs right now back then companies went out of business left and right which meant the layoffs were 100%.
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by ben7799 4y ago
I get it.. mid-40s, married with one kid. I've worked at a bunch of startups since 2000. I am currently in my second stint in a public company. I've been at my current job 8 years now. The first 3 was when we were a private
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by ben7799 4y ago
The funny thing is these techniques were introduced in books like "Effective Java" before many of the developers who complain were even born. Everyone should know these things by now. They are good things to ask about in intervie
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by ben7799 4y ago
Way too many developers are lazy and haven't actually studied the language they're using to adapt their code. So instead you get discussions where the tools are blamed. Obviously there are a lot of lazy/bad developers and
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by ben7799 4y ago
I keep trying to figure out how many employees actually built twitter in the first place. I've been on there a long time, but have never been a heavy user. Twitter seems like it was mostly complete a long long time ago. It's chan
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by ben7799 4y ago
The tech industry greatly predates Silicon Valley so saying this is East Coast vs West coast doesn't make any sense.
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This used to be handled by having a non-free cafeteria. The cafeteria will still be cheaper for employees than going out to restaurants, and it will be cheaper than the company picking up the tab for everyone. It used to be common to make a
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by ben7799 4y ago
I can't remember how long ago it was.. before Google and Facebook started pushing crazy benefits Microsoft was kind of famous for it. MS's level of it back in the day was much lower than today, but still generous for the time. A
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by ben7799 4y ago
The Facebook/Google crazy level of perks with 3 meals provided very day, dry cleaning, massages, etc.. ? Free alcohol in the office? That stuff can go, and people will have to deal with. Some of the other stuff like untracked/un
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by ben7799 4y ago
If they're flying secret aircraft over the public it's a really, really high bar to think they can charge anyone with a crime in the US for taking a picture in 2022. This is not the 1950s or something where 99% of the public didn&
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by ben7799 4y ago
Excellent point.. in these places it is not normal to ever travel from point A to point B without getting in a car. Anyone walking is suspect. It's bizarre. Where I live the police are not insane like this but people will still be s
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by ben7799 4y ago
CPS dismissed the case.. it seems it's the police and/or district attorney that kept pushing it.
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Go look at comments at some place like Ars Technica. They are covering/click-baiting all this stuff like crazy. I don't know how clued in commenters are there or if they are actually tech workers but the groupthink there is ve
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by ben7799 4y ago
Definitely Musk's fault he bought it. It sounds like the made the initial offer without due diligence and then realized what he was buying and it was too late. It's just there's this bizarre reaction to all this that everyone
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by ben7799 4y ago
When you look at balance sheets, financial results, and reviews over on places like Glassdoor it sounds like there is a kernel of truth to this, except maybe the socialism stuff. Lots of talk about very slow progress, work life balance extr
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by ben7799 4y ago
Not putting massive 21" wheels on everything saves a lot of weight too, while making it possible to carry the spare. The giant wheels are easier to brake, easier to get a flat tire on, cost more to replace. The tires cost more to re
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by ben7799 4y ago
This really didn't take off till closer to 2010. There might have been outliers at places like Google and Facebook in the 2000s but it didn't start exploding till after 2010 when all the more traditional companies started thinking

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