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by tacos 10y ago
It's decode only for some reason. For whatever reason sox and libsndfile won't touch it; ffmpeg won't encode it. And iOS and Android browsers won't play it. Shame because it's clearly the current winner.
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by tacos 10y ago
Probably because there's no widely available encoder. Why hasn't this been folded into ffmpeg/sox/etc?
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by tacos 10y ago
Using the same file extension for non-lossy and lossy music... ugh. If they wanted to sell DRM protected lossless files I'd even cut them some slack, but they didn't. This was just poorly thought out. Likewise both formats are tri
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by tacos 10y ago
Apple's needless introduction of ALAC, basically a slightly dumber FLAC, was inexcusable.
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by tacos 10y ago
Bootstrapped, sold to a publicly-traded corporation, set for life, and nobody knows who the heck you are. Perfect! Lots of people did it. Getting real shit done post crash was a glorious time.
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by tacos 10y ago
S3 guarantees three nines of uptime. Thus, you should be prepared for 8+ hours of downtime at any moment . If Salesforce gives you 99.8% vs. Amazon's 99.9% and this shocks you into writing a reactive web post, it's a good time to
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by tacos 10y ago
Right. My argument is that you could fork the relevant subset of jQuery and own your own compatibility story in the event that Rails wants to push this on apps for some reason (I don't see the benefit of that). An alternative would be
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by tacos 10y ago
I did, then Safari 1.0 happened, and we all went screaming for a solution. Praise jQuery.
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by tacos 10y ago
Someone in DHH's position could approach jQuery and request a subset containing what he needs. And then other projects could benefit from the refactor. If there's even a benefit. This same post by the leader of any other project w
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by tacos 10y ago
Because bots don't have ears.
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by tacos 10y ago
The headphones are pretty bad -- and not isolated. So part of my brain is hearing "living room" while the rest is hearing "wide open space." I posit this contributes to the problem. Also two imperfect immersive sources (
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by tacos 10y ago
In addition to the distance cues the brain derives from eye musculature he mentions, there are also distance cues based on audio perception. This perhaps explains why dramamine has an odd impact on VR motion sickness. The audio tech in this
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by tacos 10y ago
Of course they were. And I was frustrated (and creeped out) by their "wacky robot dog prancing through the forest getting kicked by the handler" videos. Evolution seems to tell us certain things about legs. I assume they have reas
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by tacos 10y ago
I too pointed out that RC1 was a debacle. Scott Hanselman responded here "what debacle?" That's when I knew we had a real problem. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11646939 The worst open source projects
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by tacos 10y ago
I've read at least three previous articles from Wolfram where someone dies and yet he makes it all about him. I know 'dang' has come in and said "yeah yeah, he's a nut, we know... move on" on these threads befo
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by tacos 10y ago
So many ways to predict how this study is off in the weeds before it even got started. Doing it for something measurable like interruptions versus a fuzzy thing like "stress" would be so much easier. And then you could take action
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by tacos 10y ago
If, like me, you've learned to avoid everything Mr. Wolfram writes do yourself a favor and make an exception to read this one. It's great. Either he's learning from his mistakes or the meds are working.
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by tacos 10y ago
I suppose. But pushing out a low-quality version of a previously high-quality service isn't disruption; it's just peeing in the pool. LANDR is now on version three of their algorithm and it still sucks. The goal here is to move pe
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by tacos 10y ago
And your apples and oranges are the wrong color because the color rendition on them is so poor that Philips doesn't even publish the number. The only downlight I could find on their site has a CRI of 80 -- basically garbage. CRI is imp
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by tacos 10y ago
I question your valuations... they're neither public market numbers nor completed acquisitions. You're using the bubble to validate your assumptions that you're not in a bubble.
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by tacos 10y ago
Previous discussion from longer than 1 year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9271679 My comment(s) then: Ironically a basic statistics class indicates that cherry picking companies that deliver 2x, 3x and ... whate
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by tacos 10y ago
The problem with these platitudes is that they distract from the real issue: all the money is made by the players who control the "routing around." It is not futility at all. It is a vital energy input to the system. Broken to you
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by tacos 10y ago
2 million screenings per day, stuff happens. PayPal does 13 million transactions a day, I bet somebody somewhere got ripped off. Before ranting, please consider that you may not be a snowflake and that even the finest systems occasionally h
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by tacos 10y ago
> Also, humans prioritize and are sensitive to visual input more than sound to a large degree. Our evolved ability to detect and localize sound in the dark at night is why we're here typing. Ironically codecs tend to see phase infor
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by tacos 10y ago
There are online mastering services and the results are tragic. Take a couple devs who are into music and maybe have some math chops but no actual mixing/mastering experience and no access to real equipment either. A little open source
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by tacos 10y ago
Microsoft SQL Server added various machine learning primitives to their SQL dialect. So not only can you query and summarize past data; now you can select from the future as well. Bayesian, NN, clustering, the same old flower matching demo
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by tacos 10y ago
Guilty as charged. :)
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by tacos 10y ago
Ironically while reading this I got the distinct impression that the writer was a manipulative asshole.
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by tacos 10y ago
Real paper -> Pop reporting of real paper -> Derivative crap on arxiv.org in essay form -> HN homepage. We've got it down to about two weeks now. It's a game of telephone with massive information loss at each step.
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by tacos 10y ago
44+ minutes at morning rush now. Buying a million dollar property then watching your commute times increase 10% every few years is another joy of living in the area.

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