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by hunter2_ 3y ago
By far the main source of degradation in any typical analog audio path is going to be transducers (microphones, speakers, phono cartridges, tape heads) and inferior media (tape, etc.). The vast majority of modern amplifiers, and high end ol
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by hunter2_ 3y ago
A reduction in soundstage/width is likely due to using "joint stereo" or "intensity stereo" encoder modes, which do things such as mid-side (M-S) conversion (which isn't itself the culprit) in order to give mor
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by hunter2_ 3y ago
That's like saying it's wrong to flank some plain text with underscores or asterisks if the UI is not parsing that into rich text; actually the parsing isn't necessary for successful conveyance of emphasis (and the convention
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by hunter2_ 3y ago
Probably if they use this media query: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@media/pref...
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by hunter2_ 3y ago
Tooltips (hover text) are actually the title attribute, not the alt attribute, and they definitely do work on mobile. Head over to xkcd and long press on an image. I think it works not only for <img> but also <a> elements.
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by hunter2_ 3y ago
Most subjects taught in K-12 tend to be ancient: language, math, history, science, music, etc. with occasional modern electives. Obviously personal finance is also ancient on some level, but I wonder how long it's actually been so comp
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by hunter2_ 3y ago
That depends entirely on the ratio between how much you already had invested at the start of that time period versus how much you invested throughout that time period. If the ratio is nearly infinite (i.e., you had a lot to begin with and h
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by hunter2_ 3y ago
Thank you!
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by hunter2_ 3y ago
> They offered API that they don't want people to use. I wonder how this would play out if instead of serving responses for nonhuman consumption (i.e., an API), it was serving responses for human consumption (i.e, HTML documents). I
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by hunter2_ 3y ago
> I stopped sending compromised key notifications to CAs. Instead, now I’m publishing the details of compromised certificates to everyone, so that users can protect themselves directly If this is most feasible, ok, though it smells like
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by hunter2_ 3y ago
In a browser context, doesn't the HTTP stack sort out any issues in lower layers such as those stemming from packet loss (e.g., packets arriving out of order) such that what's presented to the client app (and debuggable by the dev
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by hunter2_ 3y ago
The platform doesn't get as strong of a signal from the user about which posts they find interesting.
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by hunter2_ 3y ago
After seeing two Facebook posts of quite different length each having a "more" link that revealed only a few more words, I came to the conclusion that it has nothing to do with a clean layout and everything to do with the algorith
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by hunter2_ 3y ago
On average, yes it's easy to get stuck in a rut with low quality content, toxic social media, attention-stealing recommendations, etc. but with just a reasonable amount of effort it can be avoided in favor of the good stuff. Just like
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by hunter2_ 3y ago
Indeed, over the years a symbol gets added for length/complexity/rotation purposes.
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by hunter2_ 3y ago
So if you wanted a bunch of those to transmit onto the same bus/network, and use exponential backoff to resolve collisions, they would just keep colliding forever, right? Because even if they tried to seed their delay with randomness,
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by hunter2_ 3y ago
That makes sense. I could be wrong but I just have this sneaking suspicion that some systems literally have no inputs, though. Nothing received from the outside world... no HCI or sensors of any kind. But maybe such a simple system isn&#x27
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by hunter2_ 3y ago
Displaying hit points of a game character would be the bomb (alternatively: health points would be sick).
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by hunter2_ 3y ago
I seem to recall early Windows using mouse movement, to the point where lack thereof would block if entropy was exhausted. Then other things like network rx timing was added to the mix. But what's a system to do in the absence of all s
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by hunter2_ 3y ago
IMHO the comparison is to inform the decision point of whether to fly or drive somewhere, so the inputs should be limited accordingly: exclude drives that couldn't reasonably be flown. Is it safer on average to do a long road trip, or
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by hunter2_ 3y ago
Oh! I was keeping my thoughts scoped to the output of existing tools. Beyond that doesn't seem worth considering in this particular context.
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by hunter2_ 3y ago
> when you change 1 line of code, the diff may or may not show it as having changed one line of code. Can you offer an example where an editor is used to change one line of code, and a resulting diff leads the user to believe that the nu
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by hunter2_ 3y ago
Wardrivers with sufficient randomization to avoid any denylist you implement will get very annoying if you let those notifications interrupt you. Maybe only receive such requests while you expect guests.
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by hunter2_ 3y ago
You could store all state in the URL fragment. Maybe each key is a sound and each value is the volume, like /#whale=5&fire=8 or whatever. Call replaceState (better than pushState to avoid polluting the back button history with ever
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by hunter2_ 3y ago
Might be their style, or could it be because geothermal is thriving and evolving in places using metric and rounding is problematic?
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by hunter2_ 3y ago
> if there isn’t enough spare capacity from other sources to compensate for the missing wind and solar This seems like a problem Elon would gladly dabble in, pushing out a NACS firmware update or something as an emergency limiter. Maybe
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by hunter2_ 3y ago
I tried to search before asking, but only found the contrary. [0] How does this work? [0] https://www.usgs.gov/observatories/yvo/news/why-cant-we-dril...
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by hunter2_ 3y ago
> infrastructure that just didn't exist at the time until after the Rural Electrification Act in 1936 While not entirely critical I suppose, not getting stranded in an EV today also relies on much newer stuff as well, like the on bo
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by hunter2_ 3y ago
I like high information density, but HN does have troubling click target density. On a phone I often misclick links if I don't zoom in first to make the target bigger than my finger. A design change that made UI links (not UGC links) m
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by hunter2_ 3y ago
Based on it mentioning MDM, I assume profiles are the only way to join a network on some phones with MDM enabled? So maybe it's for companies that procure many iPhones and zero Macs?

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