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Rupert Neve, audio engineering pioneer, has died(twitter.com)
3 points by crmd 6y ago|1 comments
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by crmd 6y ago
Rupert was the hardware engineer behind the legendary Neve consoles, microphone preamplifiers, and equalizers, which had an incalculable impact on modern music recording from the 1960s to the present. RIP to a legend.
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by crmd 6y ago
I’m glad you enjoyed it! When you have time, check out one of his BOLTR (bored of lame tool reviews) videos for more of the same. He’s a piece of work.
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by crmd 6y ago
Check out AvE’s tear down of a $500 Dyson hair dryer.[1] He was expecting to ridicule it but was instead blown away by the engineering - tiny high torque zinc cast brushless DC motor, CNC-milled impeller, etc. It’s a good watch, including F
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by crmd 6y ago
You should have heard IBM's blockchain executive (I forget his name) giving his pitch at an investor conference in Palo Alto back in 2017. Standing ovation after an amazing presentation about disrupting banking, healthcare, and global
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by crmd 6y ago
> Uber and DoorDash said they do not have any specific rules about bathroom access. Grubhub, Seamless, and Instacart did not respond. Can anyone familiar with policy making in gig economy companies explain why the spokesperson wasn’t tol
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by crmd 6y ago
There are clear antitrust issues here. The consequence of his misbehavior using Messenger includes no longer being allowed to use a competitor of Messenger (WhatsApp), along with Facebook, Instagram, Oculus, etc. These services are leaders
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by crmd 6y ago
This does not match my experience. I bought 12 Philips Hue bulbs in June of 2013. They run an average of 15 hours per day across three color/brightness profiles, and in these 7.5 years only one has failed.
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by crmd 6y ago
@mcenedella, great concept! However the TOS language seems quite permissive - you can basically do anything with my data. Can you elaborate on why such permissions are needed, for example the right to sell my data without compensation to me
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by crmd 6y ago
If I remember correctly all they needed was the last 30 seconds or so of missing data, and they were able to recover it off the drives in the symmetrix lab up in Hopkinton.
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by crmd 6y ago
A colleague of mine worked for EMC in the 90s and early 2000s, and has some insane stories around 9/11. They drove him down to New York later that week, where he joined a team of federal reserve, SEC, DTCC, and army combat engineers wh
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by crmd 6y ago
The only solution is not to engage with emotionally manipulative content. Even, for example, with nerdy YouTube channels that I love, if a video shows up in my feed: * with a title $villain $unflattering_third_person_present_verb $somethin
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by crmd 6y ago
The linear IOP density model seems clever and logical but is a huge source of headaches because it includes a patently false assumption that IOPs scale in proportion to growth in object size. Performance quotas should be assigned at the obj
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by crmd 6y ago
I’ve listened in on a few community board meetings on road safety in New York City in order to better understand the situation, and was really put off by how the bicycle advocates were simultaneously demanding more protection from the polic
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by crmd 6y ago
Thanks for clarifying this important point. Can you elaborate on how this ruling intersects with the doctrine of qualified immunity?
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by crmd 6y ago
“My team and I have therefore voluntarily surrendered to the Peacekeeping Force at The Hague, Netherlands, and we welcome the investigation and verdict of the UN Committee on Human Rights”. What a joke
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GM to Sell Car Insurance, Using Data on Your Driving to Set Prices(wsj.com)
7 points by crmd 6y ago|1 comments
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by crmd 6y ago
The word “privacy” does not appear once in the WSJ article.
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by crmd 6y ago
It’s an organizational/professional culture issue. Lawyers are trained to instinctively operate and communicate in a way that seems outrageous and like straight up bullying to reasonable non-lawyer colleagues, but seems to them perfec
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by crmd 6y ago
I’m not a fan of battle style but is it really fundamentally different? Eddie’s patent is more like rotating the deck about the z axis and holding it like a guitar. Which would be pretty cool and ridiculous come to think of it :-)
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by crmd 6y ago
That's exactly what it is. I worked at IBM many moons ago, and at one point was asked to create a list of job requirements that would ensure I was provably the only person in the world who met the constraints. Big companies are weird,
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by crmd 6y ago
What IBM really cares about is limiting the older employees’ defined-benefit pension liabilities. That is why it was so important to IBM that these folks were made to no longer be IBM employees. Lower salary was icing on the cake.
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by crmd 6y ago
> The knowledge costs money. Tangible things are laughably low value by comparison. I imagine Peter Venkman in Ghostbusters saying this to the Columbia dean as their lab is being disassembled and they are being fired.
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by crmd 6y ago
What do you do?
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by crmd 6y ago
You can get around that with a performance-linked note. The bank owns the equity and issues a note whose value is explicitly linked to the valuation of the underlying stock.
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by crmd 6y ago
You got the joke! ;-)
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by crmd 6y ago
64 TB is all that that anybody would ever need on a computer.
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by crmd 7y ago
I’ve been focusing on blue chips that were already in the dog house, e.g. IBM, GE.
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by crmd 7y ago
It put a big smile on my face that big clive is the first comment here :-) His videos are hypnotically good! He's tied with aVe IMO as the best teardown channels on youtube.
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by crmd 7y ago
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