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by ovao 8y ago
I’ll quote Jerry Seinfeld here: “I can’t watch a man sing a song.” Jerry and I share sentiments on this.
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by ovao 8y ago
That we can’t all have home theaters (weird example) and wireless earphones does not mean no one should.
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by ovao 8y ago
Unless I misunderstand you, artists who own their music and don’t intend to be on Spotify aren’t on Spotify. When artists make the choice to sign the ownership or their music away to someone else, they face the potential consequences of tha
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by ovao 8y ago
It’s not clear to me how one person selling boutique equipment at high prices is indicative of any flaw in measurement methodology. There are many companies doing this, of dubious real value to consumers. How is Nelson Pass different, and h
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by ovao 8y ago
But “sounds worse” in this case is relevant only to your preferences and to the preferences of some N of listeners, where N is totally unknown. The parameters you believe amp manufacturers should measure are therefore only relevant to your
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by ovao 8y ago
Not likely. The DAC will almost invariably oversample anyway, and even though stretching may not happen in a high-sampling-frequency domain, the result eventually does.
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by ovao 8y ago
Radio is actually compressed in real-time by use of broadcast compressors, so they solve the problem rather directly.
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by ovao 8y ago
The ability to incrementally adopt strict static type checks is a feature of TypeScript, without which TypeScript wouldn’t have seen much adoption. Without adoption, you’d not see library typings and TS-native projects, rendering it fairly
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by ovao 8y ago
I don’t like the Touch Bar, but the keyboard itself I have no real quarrel with. Weirdly I have two 2016 MacBooks: a 13” base and a spec’ed up 15”. The keyboard on the 13” feels substantially more tactile.
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by ovao 8y ago
Technically, it doesn’t print “inkjets” either.
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by ovao 8y ago
Stripe does not require you to use any particular bank. Setting up an account for you is simply part of the Atlas process.
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by ovao 8y ago
And, to be fair, the OP’s situation with getting the runaround between Stripe and the bank is “confusion”. It’s just that the confusion appears to be either on Stripe’s end or on the bank’s.
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by ovao 8y ago
> It's perfectly legitimate to expect to sustain yourself while building open source products and projects. I’m not convinced that should be the case. Any business endeavor carries risk, whether its basis is open source software, cl
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by ovao 8y ago
> The author explains that it's a psychoacoustic model and then demonstrates how various artifacts in various waveforms are the result of compromises within this model. The explanations aren’t themselves incorrect — there’s certainl
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by ovao 8y ago
It’s interesting that the author seems keen to discuss the concept of psychoacoustic encoding only to dedicate much of the article to looking at waveforms and making condemnations based on looking at those waveforms. Which misses the point
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by ovao 8y ago
"Cop" is colloquial. A mall cop is a "security guard"; a cop is typically a "police officer" or "law enforcement officer".
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by ovao 8y ago
The question is: is the fabric of the Internet breathable ?
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by ovao 8y ago
If your argument is that scale or extent of publicity is the differentiator, then we’re not talking apples and oranges: we’re talking apples and bigger apples. The decision to be philanthropic is personal. Both in the sense that it’s up to
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by ovao 8y ago
I think we’ve probably all regretted doing things we’ve done to “pay the mortgage” at various times in our past — that doesn’t necessitate that we donate that money to charity.
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by ovao 8y ago
Why did you let your employer effectively commandeer your personal phone number?
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by ovao 8y ago
The first sentence of the article is a run-on, contains an inappropriate “and”, and omits a necessary word. I’m not convinced that Gizmodo should be judging anyone for being “terrible”.
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by ovao 8y ago
For me it was free two-day shipping on Prime-eligible items until Amazon at some point decided to make only some Prime-eligible items eligible for Prime shipping. In effect they’ve silently and somewhat arbitrarily changed the definition
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by ovao 8y ago
The option I subscribe to is ad-free, at least for the shows I’ve been watching.
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by ovao 8y ago
If that were truly the case, wouldn’t Apple and Canonical be doing exactly that?
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by ovao 8y ago
Where on this page does it say that LMDB was run with MDB_NOSYNC? Tests were run with the DB on a tempfs and then again (lower down on the page) on ext4.
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by ovao 8y ago
One often doesn’t need TypeScript. TS solves some classes of problems that would otherwise become crippling in projects of certain sizes and of certain levels of complexity, but, by design, JavaScript tends to happily let you throw any da
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by ovao 8y ago
Writing certain data structures in safe Rust can be hard, but not impossible. I’m not aware of any data structures that simply cannot be written in Rust.
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by ovao 8y ago
While you make a fair point, the commenter is suggesting that Tim Cook is well-intentioned, and the comment that a company like Apple is suspectible to market forces is not an indication that Cook is not well-intentioned. (Not that intentio
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by ovao 8y ago
The user to whom you’re replying most likely has Two-Step Verification enabled on their account, which is why they received a prompt on their Apple device. If you do not have an Apple device this particular step could not apply to you.
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by ovao 8y ago
The thing about interviewing Carmack is that it doesn’t really matter what you ask him: you still typically get a really interesting answer, plus answers to four other questions you didn’t even think of. People who interview him can only

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