archepyx

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by archepyx 3y ago
Optimistic outlook without reasonable skepticism is probably at least something you should not strive to achieve.
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by archepyx 3y ago
HN discussion did not particlarly have "reasonable skepticism". This is probably because people (i) were not aware that there had been many other hypes about RTSC before but less publicly visible all proved to be false, (ii) not b
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by archepyx 3y ago
Wikipedia seems to be a good first stop here, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult and contains several other useful references for entering the rabbit hole of what these cults are and why they appeared.
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by archepyx 3y ago
The wag who dubbed various false alarms of room temperature superconductivity in the 1990s as USOs (Unidentified Superconducting Objects) got it quite right. First there is the condensed-matter equivalent of blurry photos of floating saucer
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by archepyx 3y ago
Another comment from a well informed source on the topic: https://nitter.net/condensed_the/status/1684255515944034304 Also, on the sentences in the manuscripts trying to explain the effect: I think that is wild gu
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by archepyx 5y ago
Get a headset that has Faststream or bidirectional APTX-LL A2DP vendor codec, and use it with BT stack that implements these codecs (e.g. Linux/Pipewire). Such devices are very hard to find, and aptx-ll in most devices is not bidirec
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by archepyx 5y ago
There are vendor A2DP codecs that support duplex audio (faststream; aptx-ll optionally) but very few devices implement them. Software support is also fairly bad, although on Linux Pipewire does support them. Also iirc CSR has a vendor codec