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by electrograv 5y ago
Edit: My original response totally misunderstood your post, below is an updated response: When Bitcoin's fiat-denominated value drops, the claim that the price of everything actually increased while Bitcoin remains stable — becomes a c
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by electrograv 5y ago
If you re-read my posts, you'll note several things I point out or at least allude to, beyond the oversimplified characterization of "not subjective": (1) We have an objective science that disambiguates and understands differ
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by electrograv 5y ago
For speakers, I’d recommend a pair of Revel M106 (or M105) for ~$1500 new (on sale price, which you can negotiate with dealers usually) plus a ~$500 AVR or integrated amplifier capable of wifi music streaming and HDMI ARC support for TV con
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by electrograv 5y ago
I didn’t miss it; it’s just not valid. (1) The HD800S is actually not as highly regarded as you may think on ASR because these issues do show up in the measurements and are pointed out in the review (did you read it?), but also (2) the HD
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by electrograv 5y ago
If a $80k watch or turntable makes you happy, then that’s great for you. The reason the science matters here is because most people don’t necessarily have a ton of money to waste, and aren’t necessarily trying to recreate a historical repro
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by electrograv 5y ago
For the absolute best, cost is no object? Genelec 8351B + W371A, Revel F328Be, Dutch & Dutch 8C, Kii Three BXT, and many others. But you really don’t need to pay this much unless you want the absolute best quality AND quantity (capable
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by electrograv 5y ago
This trope that ‘the best audio product for you is a highly subjective personal choice’ directly contradicts decades of well-established science, and is a long-standing myth that plagues this industry — and not coincidentally, serves to
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by electrograv 5y ago
The “Speaker Rankings” tab here is useful: https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?pages/Spe... Otherwise, let me know your price range and size constraints, and I’ll refer you to the best engineered (w
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by electrograv 5y ago
I am surprised there aren’t more mentions here of AudioScienceReview.com For anyone interested in buying speakers (or other audio products), it’s a fantastic resource and an essential one to avoid getting ripped off with severely overpric
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by electrograv 5y ago
Const in C++ is entirely unlike immutability in Rust. Even ignoring the existence of “const_cast”, C++ const is vastly weaker than Rust immutability in several extremely fundamental ways that should be immediately obvious if you’re a C+
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by electrograv 6y ago
Science must find a balance between extremes in how experimental resources are invested: Extreme “Exploitation” Bias: “For maximally economical progress, experimental physics must strictly stay within the hard boundaries established by the
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by electrograv 6y ago
Ironically, this serves as an excellent refutation of the above analogy’s goal (to scoff at EMDrive experiments): * Imagine telling a mechanic that mounting a ski box on your car with the fat/blunt end pointed forward seems to improve
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by electrograv 6y ago
What you describe would be a healthy form of lending (lending out money you otherwise have sitting around, so it can be put to good use). Unfortunately, this is not actually how our global financial systems work. I think most people would b
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by electrograv 6y ago
So what is a good “low fructose” (or otherwise healthier) sugar that is recommended over table sugar and HFCS? I had thought honey was generally regarded as a healthier form of sugar, but now I’m a little confused, since it appears to also
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by electrograv 6y ago
Question: Does this mean honey and high fructose corn syrup are approximately equally [1] unhealthy? Or is honey an anomaly/enigma [2] in this respect? [1] Apparently honey contains ~40% fructose, which about the same as “HFCS42” (a st
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by electrograv 6y ago
Here’s the TLDR: > - The High Energy Electromagnetic Field Generator testing occurred from October 2016 through September 2019; > - The cost was $508,000 over the course of three years. Around ninety percent of the total - $462,000
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by electrograv 6y ago
I would assume that’s precisely the point of this silly game — to demonstrate directly that you can’t accurately judge someone by their appearance. But maybe I misinterpret?
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by electrograv 6y ago
Yes, I 100% agree with you that “append()” vs “concat()” are certainly no less confusing in their differences than “/=“ vs “+=“ (and the latter are arguably less confusing due to the mnemonic effect you mention). In fact, to generalize
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by electrograv 6y ago
I suspect it might have bitten me if I wasn’t so lucky to encounter “/=“ first, which lead me to read the documentation and discover the different kinds of concatenation (“+=“ and “/=“) and their behavior. To someone just skimming
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by electrograv 6y ago
Allow me to introduce you to C++’s new std::filesystem::path class, which overloads the divide operators "/" and "/=" to concatenate two paths. (Not to be confused with the “+=“ operator, which also conca
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by electrograv 6y ago
Unfortunately, it becomes virtually universal when a small set of massive companies (with similar censorship ideas) control 99% of all our communications and social media. I think this evades the spirit of the legal protections here, at l
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by electrograv 6y ago
Wow. I cannot believe I’ve been reading HN for so long and never noticed that. Thank you.
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by electrograv 6y ago
I was not aware that HN had a search feature. Link?
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by electrograv 6y ago
I think the problem here is when buggy “science code” / “prototype code” is used to inform life-and-death decisions made in the real world. It is therefore rather irresponsible of the scientific community to allow such a bad state of c
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by electrograv 7y ago
Yes I’ve done a ton of research here and have spent a lot of money on speakers (both with good and bad results), so I am happy to answer all your questions. In my opinion and from much research I believe Ascend speakers (with RAAL tweeters)
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by electrograv 7y ago
Yeah, there’s a good chance your B&W from the 80s sound better than any of Sonos’s speakers, and perhaps even better than modern B&W (since in modern B&W regressed to less neutral speakers to demo a more sparkly sound in showroo
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by electrograv 7y ago
Additionally, notice the strange and perhaps clever wording of “do NOT reflect the company WE ARE AND NEED TO BE” . It appears they’re trying to have it both ways: They imply that these emails do NOT reflect the company they “are”, but als
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by electrograv 7y ago
As I understand it, San Francisco reportedly has an even worse problem than Seattle with drug addiction and homelessness, despite more/higher taxes across the board. Therefore, it is not clear that taxes alone will fix this problem; in
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by electrograv 7y ago
This is interesting because the idea of owning a car that takes regular OTA updates, and can be disabled or tracked remotely at any time by the manufacturer — to me is very scary/creepy. Maybe I’m paranoid, but I have a hard time not e
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by electrograv 7y ago
The article you linked is in error — plain and simple. The top budget pick, for example, is claimed to have 0.7ms input lag and 1.0ms gray to gray response time, which is obviously wrong — how can total input lag possibly be less than the t

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