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by rplst8 10y ago
It is. I've not written anything in it other than a few simple tutorials, so I'm not an expert, but from what I've read you can drop to straight JS in your TS source code.
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by rplst8 10y ago
> We tend to make a strong distinction between Natural and Legal Rights[1] and to group the Constitution into the latter category The framers debated the inclusion of the Bill of Rights in the US Constitution for the simple fact that enu
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by rplst8 10y ago
That is cool. While I think it's sad that Kodak and it's employees were displaced by digital imaging, I also think part of the role of technology is to bring a better life to all, through its use in medicine or by reducing the co
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by rplst8 10y ago
I'm not sure if you've looked into Fuji's digital camera offerings as of late, but their doing much better there IMO than Canon/Nikon. Fuji has been innovating in sensor tech with their X-Trans sensor and their X seri
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by rplst8 10y ago
Your dad is Bryce Bayer?
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by rplst8 10y ago
I disagree. People can be cleared fully of a crime when justified. Murder is illegal, unless it's self defense. I'd argue that what Snowden did was in defense of his country.
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by rplst8 10y ago
Yes. One was courageous. The other was cowardly.
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by rplst8 10y ago
These platforms are worth nothing to society per se. They are worth something to investors in the potential returns they might yeild once they find a way to turn the aggregate data and metadata into a more acurate advertising model.
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by rplst8 10y ago
It's only saving grace is that works alongside existing FM without much intrusion into the way FM already works.
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by rplst8 10y ago
> I suppose long term FM is dead, but meanwhile it has its uses. If true, this is really unfortunate. I've written about this before, but FM is a really great technology, and in a lot of ways it's only suffering because of the
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by rplst8 10y ago
So according to the article, Pittsburghers and Western Pennsylvanians contstuct it the way those in England do. Huh, we speak Queen's English n'at.
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by rplst8 10y ago
It's perfectly valid. It's just a non-standard construction. ...for American English I'll add.
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by rplst8 10y ago
> Companies shouldn't be able to do an end-run around taxation by giving you valuable stuff They already do in the form of health and retirement benefits.
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by rplst8 10y ago
I just wish instead of celebrating these days on arbitrary month/day combinations, that we'd instead use some physics or math based use of them. Pi day should be when we've gone half way around the Sun and Tau, New Years Day
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by rplst8 10y ago
Unlikely. The DACs in most of the available chipsets in phones are far superior to something you could put in a pair of headphones or as a bump in a cable - and would need batteries to run it.
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by rplst8 10y ago
Comparing the 3.5 mm audio jack to the floppy drive is ridiculous. The jack has become far, far, more ubiquitous than the floppy drive. Additionally, the things that use the jack are often of higher quality and not disposible like a flopp
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by rplst8 10y ago
It's interesting how you want to take those who worked hard, got a degree, bettered themselves, and who are using their skills to better society (programmers, doctors, lawyers), and reward them with higher taxes.
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by rplst8 10y ago
The system we have now is far from perfect, and it's being changed with every passing moment by more forms of automation. However, it's a system that was able to take a species of this earth and raise it out of the dirt to be abl
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by rplst8 10y ago
I believe the Lightning port itself is digital signal and power only. There may be cables that have a small lump in them somewhere that provides an inline DAC to output to analog audio. This would be an example of a propreitary adapter th
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by rplst8 10y ago
True, they don't care. They do care about price, and when/if digital interconnects become the norm, don't expect the cheap implementations to handle the loud pop on disconnect situation any better.
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by rplst8 10y ago
Maybe there is. I've seen references to the ability to encapsulate a compressed stream directly. That said, support for it varies widely. However, uncompressed 24-bit audio is not gonna happen.
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by rplst8 10y ago
I would be remiss if I didn't point out a huge error in this article... > USB-powered headphones will (in theory) run a lot like Bluetooth headphones which have their own DAC/AMP. Your phone passes the raw data through to the h
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by rplst8 10y ago
This boggles my mind too. I've had a few friends that are audiophiles that love to use Bluetooth headpones and will argue about the quality of the DAC in the player. And people here talk about the 3.5mm jack being a hack or a kludge.
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by rplst8 10y ago
> you can't unplug them without shorting the signal to ground. Wrong. This is evidence of a cheaply desigined output circuit. There are many jacks that include muting switches. They are spring loaded, and when contact is lost, a
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by rplst8 10y ago
Fine, replace one analog connection with another - that will not likely be standard on all devices. Cue plethora of easy to lose adapters taking up more space in my backpack. It's just silly.
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by rplst8 10y ago
This is likely why Apple is so interested in killing the 3.5 mm jack. They want a cut of Square's business.
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by rplst8 10y ago
I think this more and more every year. The amount of technologic obsolescenced is growing with each passing day - and some of it, for no good reason. Getting rid of analog jacks that go directly before analog devices (like headphones) is
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by rplst8 10y ago
Honestly, I don't know why people complain about stuff like this. Please expand upon the tonne of downsides, because in practice, none of the issues you have mentioned have ever impacted my use of the jack. Keeping a small cable sized
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by rplst8 10y ago
The quality of the cables you buy and how you treat them is an idependent issue from that of the 3.5mm jack. I've had more iPod and phone charger cables (read - digital cables akin to what a new headphone jack would use) die than I&#x2
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by rplst8 10y ago
I disagree entirely. I'm not an Apple fan boy, but I've actually run my own tests on iPods as early as the 3G iPod (the 30 GB hdd based one, not the phone) and the sound quality from the electronics was excellent. The MP3s are a

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