hctaw

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by hctaw 6y ago
The simple response to your whataboutism is that we're not talking about other fields like psychology or education or nursing. If you want to discuss sexist attitudes towards men in those fields be my guest, but it's a different c
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You cannot objectively analyze the performance of perceptual audio codecs. They exploit subjective perception of audio signals... I haven't dug into your analysis but on the surface it appears quite biased against MPEG codecs that expl
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Masters will differ for target platforms, sure, but do you have any examples of records with a different master for MP3 for digital distribution and a lossless record from an "audiophile-focused source"? > sometimes the lossy
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by hctaw 6y ago
Lossless is only useful as an archival or intermediary format during production/recording where you can't tolerate lossy encoding. For listening purposes lossy codecs are all capable of being perceptually lossless for trained or u
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by hctaw 6y ago
SVG is another chapter in the long and storied history of engineers attempting to the question, "How hard can 2D graphics be?" And if you look at the industry standard answers (from PostScript to AutoLisp to Gerber to SVG) the ans
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by hctaw 6y ago
NPR isn't news radio, it's talk radio.
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That take is absurd for two reasons, the biggest that NPR doesn't have "programming" (local member stations decide their schedules) and the second that there is very little "progressive political ideology" on displa
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by hctaw 6y ago
One upvote on Reddit is worth 1,000 5 star reviews, for now at least.
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by hctaw 6y ago
Real applications don't hit CPU walls, they're bottlenecked by I/O more often, and the biggest CPU wall is memory accesses. There is a lot of room for innovation there if you shirk off POSIX compatibility. Also, state is not
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by hctaw 6y ago
This includes attempting to use ubuntu studio. Still no joy, I have never gotten jack to work properly with relatively vanilla audio gear.
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More fragmentation is not the solution to current fragmentation...
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by hctaw 6y ago
ASIO doesn't support low latency shared modes either, last I checked you still had to release the device in software when focus changes (which is not strictly the same thing as a true shared mode). I don't think ASIO has been upda
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by hctaw 6y ago
Here's my Linux audio anecdote: I've never successfully gotten jackd to run on my computer(s) running Ubuntu or pop_os, and pulseaudio doesn't let me run with low enough latency to be usable in Bitwig. I don't want to sp
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by hctaw 6y ago
I really don't think they get that much right. Everything above the drive train is subpar for vehicles much cheaper than theirs, and now it's become clear that they're less reliable too.
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Zoom is QT, not electron. Also browser engines have good support for hardware decode, it's really in OSS libs and on platforms like Linux where there is little to no support.
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Audio/video encoding is not cheap and it's questionable whether your device and software support hardware encoding. Decode is expensive too, but has better hardware support (which gives you the illusion that "just" video
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by hctaw 6y ago
There are memory safety bugs that won't cause a segmentation fault or create a buffer overflow exploit, but result in logical errors. For example: void inner (const T& t1, T& t2); void outer (T* t, int i, int j) {
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by hctaw 6y ago
I think Rust makes a compelling case for production code with a high degree of reliability without sacrificing too much performance. Something I think developers don't appreciate enough is that Rust helps you write code that doesn&#x27
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This works across FFI? How?
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by hctaw 6y ago
Last I tried to bind to ObjC APIs through C you needed to use NSAutoReleasePool at some point, and to interact with the GC as the APIs expect. There was no option to use anything else. Has that changed?
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by hctaw 6y ago
That's not a bare script then, it's a project with dependencies that need to be installed. This misunderstanding is how you fuck up a developer environment.
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by hctaw 6y ago
I'm surprised this is getting downvoted. This is the only sane way to manage dependencies. They must be relative to the thing you care about. There are tradeoffs for sure, like the ridiculous sizes of those directories on development
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by hctaw 6y ago
It's a play on words
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so, almost universally derided and a major source of division in the linux ecosystem that make it unsuitable for general consumer use?
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> 74% of containers have lifespans ≤ 1 hour This sounds like a design flaw in the architecture. You don't tear down a house to replace a lightbulb.
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by hctaw 6y ago
> if a business depends on non-consensual tracking to be able to survive, then I'd prefer that the business has to fold before stripping users of their opportunity to understand and agree to the surveillance infrastructure at issue
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by hctaw 6y ago
Those people shouldn't be releasing on the App store then, if it's a hobby use hobbyist distribution channels and let users side load the app.
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by hctaw 6y ago
I mean the app store is filled with garbage already because review, much like DRM, only solves a few surface problems while punishing good-actors more than clever bad-actors. Geofencing seems easy enough to spoof if you're Apple and ha
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by hctaw 6y ago
Pure anecdote, but I've never seen a project become less native. Meanwhile state of the art JITs (for .NET, JVM, Swift, and other traditionally managed runtimes) are increasingly blurring what it means for a language to be native and
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If the binary users download isn't the binary you sign and send to app review, what's the point of signing or reviewing anything?

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