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by widerporst 6y ago
>And yet 20+ years later no single Codec can produce MP3 128Kbps quality at 64Kbps I don't have any hard data on this, but I'm pretty sure that Opus produces better quality audio at 64 kbps than a 2000 MP3 encoder does at 128 k
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by widerporst 8y ago
>It also has amazing tooling in intelli-j. Code completion, linting, package recognition, all the good stuff. Yes, this makes writing Typescript actually faster for me than vanilla JS. The code completion in IntelliJ is really amazing.
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by widerporst 8y ago
Interesting. Are you sure you were using the right settings and a recent version of LAME for this? The only artifact I can reliably hear in 320 kbps MP3s is pre-echo, for instance with castanets, and only in a few very specific situations.
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by widerporst 8y ago
Most consumer laptops are probably used quite often for watching movies, but this shouldn't be an issue. My laptop has a 3:2 screen and I don't even notice the black bars when watching a video. An OLED display would be even better
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by widerporst 8y ago
>The first one is the tab research feature. It available for many years in chrome I don't understand why it's still missing in firefox. I can't type "yo [hit tab] my video" to find a video on youtube. This is the
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by widerporst 8y ago
I'm using KeepassXC on desktop, Keepass2Android on mobile and Dropbox for syncing the database and I'm quite happy with it. Bitwarden looks a bit more polished, but are there any other advantages over Keepass?
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by widerporst 8y ago
This is something that completely baffles me. Why the hell does Google Maps completely hide vegetation when zoomed in? It's incredibly confusing that forests look exactly like urban areas.
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by widerporst 9y ago
Yes, it's very similar to the X1 Carbon. There are small differences, such as the bezel size and the cooling. There are a few quirks that will hopefully be fixed with driver updates, but apart from that, I'm quite satisfied.
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by widerporst 9y ago
I'm not a medical professional, so I'm unsure about the details. Aspirin is, to my knowledge, the only NSAID that works as an anticoagulant due to some mechanism other than affecting prostaglandins and is therefore recommended by
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by widerporst 9y ago
Not sure if I understand you correctly, but what anti-inflammatory medications except for aspirin are you talking about? To my knowledge, NSAIDs such as ibuprofen or naproxen actually promote platelet aggregation and therefore increase the
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by widerporst 10y ago
This is a Windows 10 problem. I've got an HP ZBook G2 15 and a ThinkPad T440s and it happens to both machines.
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by widerporst 10y ago
I agree with you and I also don't think that existence of intelligent life will necessarily lead to all stars being surrounded by Dyson spheres. Maybe there are other sources of energy that are easier to harvest for an advanced civiliz