johnr2

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by johnr2 6y ago
> Unless there’s a reason we can’t repeat the famous infrastructure jobs programs from a century ago That had positive effects in the USA, but in Europe the economic woes of the 1930s led to WWII.
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by johnr2 6y ago
> Emergency measures being valid for the duration of the emergency would be pretty straightforward. Deciding when the emergency is over is less straightforward than a fixed time period. A government that wanted to extend the measures ind
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by johnr2 6y ago
> You need to write it with what python provides to stay unified. Like TkInter, which uses tcl/tk?
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by johnr2 6y ago
> But the panda gets to be the beloved symbol of cute cuddliness while the wolf is reviled as the symbol of all that is evil. This may be because a hungry panda is unlikely to eat you. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W
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by johnr2 7y ago
> Why do sites like nytimes get a free pass with their paywalls? I've never encountered a paywall on the NYT links on HN and I'm not a subscriber. I'm guessing the complaints here are from people who only have access to br
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by johnr2 7y ago
> I would love to read this, but keep getting blocked by paywalls. Have you tried blocking JavaScript? It works fine here in Firefox with NoScript and in Dillo (which has no JS support).
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by johnr2 7y ago
> Medium has paywalled me. Any non-paywall links? The link works here in Firefox with NoScript, also in Dillo (no JS support).
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by johnr2 7y ago
> Perhaps one day unsafe programming languages will be forbidden to use. That would mean ruling out a whole lot of performance-critical software (including that written in unsafe Rust). Be careful what you wish for.
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by johnr2 7y ago
> I’d love to see a running tally of the cost of buffer overflows. It's probably a lot lower than the cost of never implementing the software in the first place.
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by johnr2 7y ago
> What’s the point of these labels? To dehumanise those they're applied to so you can say bad things about them without feeling guilty.
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by johnr2 7y ago
> apparently, this technique works quite well for "customer retention"--you feel "safe", for everything that is presented to you is cosy, cartoonish, kid-oriented staff It has the opposite effect on me. I feel like I&
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by johnr2 7y ago
> Jack, while incredibly powerful has been a huge hurdle for pro audio on Linux. For me JACK was a huge step forward. After 25+ years of recording on tape, JACK allowed me to switch to computer based recording ~14 years ago. It did away
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by johnr2 7y ago
> You're claiming that when mostly people say "electric heating" they are specifically excluding heat pumps? No, just pointing out the usual definition of electric heating. A heat pump doesn't necessarily even use ele
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by johnr2 7y ago
> do it all inside one program (e.g. a DAW or something a bit like it) is easier for most people (no complex state management) and closer to their pre-existing mental models. This may be a generational thing. As someone who learned recor
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by johnr2 7y ago
> Electric heating via heat pump is ridiculously efficient Strictly speaking that's "electrically assisted" heating. What most people refer to as electric heating is the conversion of electricity directly into heat, eg. by
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by johnr2 7y ago
> you still aren't going to be able to use Linux as they don't build plugins for that platform. You can still use Linux, but you won't be able to use those plugins.
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by johnr2 7y ago
> I know a fair number of privacy-concious people, and not one of them have any sort of verifiable control of their hardware. I have a reasonable level of confidence that my use of wirecutters and/or soldering iron gives me enough c
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by johnr2 7y ago
> RF burns are a right of passage for PA designers, and are harmless as it's the outer skin layers. A literal example of skin effect?
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by johnr2 7y ago
> what daw software are you using with this on linux? I used Ardour for ~8 years, then switched to Non DAW ~6 years ago: http://non.tuxfamily.org/
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by johnr2 7y ago
> I don't know any production-grade sound cards that have Linux drivers (my RME ADI-2 Pro certainly doesn't) Most of the RME HDSP/HDSPe PCI/PCIe cards work on Linux using the ALSA snd-hdsp or snd-hdspm drivers. The AD
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by johnr2 7y ago
>this is completely wrong. internal audio interfaces tend to be worse than external audio interfaces. what internal soundcard can compete with a universal audio apollo? Audio engineer here. It isn't wrong. PCI and PCIe cards with ex
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by johnr2 7y ago
> You have unemployment and more than enough time to find a new job. And let's say you don't find one, the state will still give you enough money for you to survive. Quite a few commenters on this forum live in parts of the wor
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by johnr2 7y ago
For many years my purchasing policy for test equipment was "no schematics, no sale". I still try to stick with that as far as possible, but it means I don't buy much new equipment.
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by johnr2 7y ago
> Could the tin whisker problem be solved by simply reflowing circuit boards every 5-10 years Apart from logistics, many components have a hard time surviving the heat of soldering during original manufacture and may fail on subsequent r
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by johnr2 7y ago
> Funny, the simplest thing to do there, and relatively cheap, is to lacquer the whole device after it's soldered. This is done on military grade hardware - or even tougher conformal coating. That helps avoid tin whiskers, but those
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by johnr2 7y ago
> Firefox afair only supports PulseAudio The default compilation option is PulseAudio, but some distros (eg. Debian) also enable ALSA support. On OpenBSD Firefox uses sndio.
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by johnr2 7y ago
Thanks for clarifying.
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by johnr2 7y ago
> No actual simplicity, just some neckbeards complaining about software evolving... Care to rephrase that without the insulting terminology?
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by johnr2 7y ago
> https://www.infoq.com/presentations/power-144-chip/ Fascinating talk. Thanks for the link.
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by johnr2 7y ago
> Think about all the gas that is saved because people don’t have to drive to the library.... You're right that computers have saved huge amounts of energy compared with the things you mention. My point here was that even more could

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