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931.
by rodgerd 5y ago
> what is told about Russia here on HN slowly kills me with its striking primitivism. I can believe it! I do judo with a Russian and it's interesting the difference between how others talk about Russia and knowing even a single act
932.
by rodgerd 5y ago
I do. I'm very pleased with the (relatively) flat response using powered studio monitors in my home theatre setup, which are (relatively) affordable compared to something with similar performance purchased from a hi-fi specialist.
933.
by rodgerd 5y ago
Here's one way to think of it: spend money on audio gear until you can't hear the difference, or until you run out of money. If you can't hear the difference at a low price point, that's not a curse, it's a blessing
934.
by rodgerd 5y ago
I imagine that by now, skilled audio engineers who are working on distribution tracks for artists will well and truly have the hang of mixing for the various lossy codecs out there.
935.
by rodgerd 5y ago
Precisely. It becomes a talking point, whether for true believers in support of the current Belarussian regime or its allies, or useful idiots; one of the challenges of an open society is how to move without becoming hopelessly bogged down
936.
by rodgerd 5y ago
I mean Mark Prince has shown that he and his family's companies are happy to murder for hire. That's probably a good starting point if you want killers that operate with at the support of a major Western government.
937.
by rodgerd 5y ago
Certainly around 2010 I had Google folks saying things at conferences like "who wants root on their phone!"; I do think they saw the idea of user control of their phone, hardware diversity and so on as key selling points at that t
938.
by rodgerd 5y ago
That would be great in theory, but in practice it's far more straightforward to run an iOS device for many, many years (supported by Apple, no less) than to run a device that ships with Android.
939.
by rodgerd 5y ago
If they come from Qualcomm they'll be at least as much of a binary blob problem as the M1s, probably with worse longevity.
940.
by rodgerd 5y ago
Something similar has happened with the Thai government - seizing people from transiting flights to apply Thai lese-majeste laws to foreigners who were not expecting to end up in Thailand.
941.
by rodgerd 5y ago
> The $50k Cybertruck gets you 300 miles. The Cybertruck gets you nothing. It doesn't exist.
942.
by rodgerd 5y ago
> The writer wants to believe that C is a well-designed language suitable for writing large programs [...], and so people reading the spec and finding a minefield _must_ be reading the spec wrong. I think this is the core of the problem.
943.
by rodgerd 5y ago
Great. So now we'll see blood supplies for actual life-saving proceedures dry up in favour of blood going to VC snake oil aimed at keeping Peter Theil alive for a few more years.
944.
by rodgerd 5y ago
Apple's chip designers have the advantage, I assume, of being able to wander down a hallway and ask what the telemetry from iOS and MacOS devices are telling them about real-world use.
945.
by rodgerd 5y ago
It's a common problem when people have tied up their sense of self-worth in tweaking with janky, broken stuff, rather than on the things you can create with that. See also bitter, mediocre photographers who revile folks for being &quot
946.
by rodgerd 5y ago
I mean that was literally their business model until Facebook purchased them. It was a successful stand-alone company! And now look at it. The bad drives out the good.
947.
by rodgerd 5y ago
There are already manufacturers who do in-body correction alongside their lens design to get results that would require a ton more glass; Olympus are one. Sites like DPReview use it as a relentless talking point that those manufacturers are
948.
by rodgerd 5y ago
It's the new high dynamic range - splattered everywhere in a gatekeepery effort to substitute "I have spent a lot on camera equipment" for "I know how to compose photographs in an interesting way".
949.
by rodgerd 5y ago
Sure it is. It's just that the IOC, the Japanese government, and the various athletic orgs value the money in this over, you know, not having a global super-spreader event.
950.
by rodgerd 6y ago
See also: the return of vinyl. Tube amplifiers. Yellow lighting. All from people arguing that poor reproduction of audio and natural light is superior!
951.
by rodgerd 6y ago
> I suspect if they had alternate employment opportunities available that were more pleasant/better-paying, they'd have already taken them. Spoken like someone who thinks that mining is conducted by volunteers.
952.
by rodgerd 6y ago
> - Had a conservative senior employee go off about politics on the call discussing the new no politics policy. Ironically it seems that, contra to the narrative existing in the minds of quite a few HN posters, it was the Brietbart quoti
953.
by rodgerd 6y ago
Yeah. "I want a shed". OK, let's build a shed. "Oh yeah, and maybe some power, IDK maybe three phase. Also PoE and smart lighting and some insulation and enough room for a CNC machine and..."
954.
by rodgerd 6y ago
> If The Illiad is to be trusted, open warfare still has plenty of soap opera. During World War II, some Royal Navy battleships turned their anti-aircraft guns on their own torpedo bombers, because they were determined that carriers not
955.
by rodgerd 6y ago
> In today's "cargo" culture, that's considered "being negative," or "being timid, and only the bold survive," etc. ad nauseam. Frame it up as "I'm just putting on DiBono's black hat
956.
by rodgerd 6y ago
I mean we just had an example of one company that would rather lose a third of its staff than allow them to criticise a founder!
957.
by rodgerd 6y ago
Yes, I think this will be the way that Google satisfy e.g. the Australian government's mandate to aid intelligence and law enforcement agencies to surveil in a targeted way. Not "everyone gets a subverted copy of Signal", but
958.
by rodgerd 6y ago
ksmd will do that for you today!
959.
by rodgerd 6y ago
A nice wrap-up of the kinds of considerations that people are working with. Thanks for submitting it.
960.
by rodgerd 6y ago
> As Serge Guelton said in a followup email, one of the reasons that Linux distros use dynamic linking is to reduce the disk usage and bandwidth requirement for updates. There are a number of ways to solve the latter problem, though: dn

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