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by maep 1y ago
Neat, but it has problems following in-universe rules, i.e. fantasy novels.
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by maep 2y ago
It's cheap and beginner friendly and very easy to learn. There is an overwhelming amount of ESP32 boards, variants and software which is daunting when you're just getting into embedded development.
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by maep 2y ago
That must be the bigest scandal since Watergate-gate.
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by maep 2y ago
I used this back in the Vista times and it worked very well. Very similar to how people use WSL these days.
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by maep 2y ago
> Mutable global state is evil. Friends don’t let friends use mutable global state. Throw away your CPU and RAM then.
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by maep 2y ago
I can assure you that audio codec testing is a through science. Tools such as PSNR, PEAQ or POLQA all have limitations and cannot fully replace a human listener. Those familiar with the topic are often vocal critics of audiophile bullshit.
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by maep 2y ago
Yea same with me. Unless you have a perfect setup this is good enough. Though if you want to do a little experiment, try Fatboy Slim's Kalifornia, the beginning is notorious for destroying transform based codecs.
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by maep 2y ago
If anything those tests make it easier to find subtle differences, which is good if transparency is the goal. I don't think that makes them fundamentally flawed. They are used throughout the industry, making results comparable. Of cour
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by maep 2y ago
I spent half my professional career doing listening tests (MUSHRA and P.800), specifically on test items like Tom's diner. 128 kbps mp3 ist fairly easy to pick out, especially if you can compare it to the original. Double the bitrate a
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by maep 2y ago
Shoutout to h0ffman, in my opinion the best contemporary junglist on olschool hardware. His 8-Bit Jungle music disk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--J66FY7qro
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by maep 2y ago
Perhaps it's Gwynne Shotwell's doing. She seems to be one of the few people on this planet who can say "no" to Musk and not get bullied.
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by maep 3y ago
If used in a small device like a hearing aid, a 2x factor can have a significant impact on battery life. VoIP in general experiences full packet loss, meaing if a single bit flips the entire packet is dropped. For radio links like Bluetooth
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by maep 3y ago
I remember seeing published numbers based on instrumented code, but could not find it. I did a quick test with the Google implementation ( https://github.com/google/liblc3 ) which is about 2x faster than Opus. To be hone
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by maep 3y ago
"Inferior" is relative. The main focus of LC3 was, as the name suggests, complexity. This is hearsay: Bluetooth SIG considered Opus but rejected it because it was computationally too expensive. This came out of the hearing aid gro
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by maep 3y ago
I'm glad this was rejected. The author consideres violations of PEP8 to be broken code that doesn't generate exceptions. Lots of people treat PEP8 as the word of god, but apparently have not bothered to read it. "Many project
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by maep 4y ago
I've spent hours looking over code before delivering to FAANG. Our company had put a clause into the contract that our code was free of any GPL'd code. It happened before and it was discoved. The whole thing was a very expensive e
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by maep 4y ago
If this tool was trained on open source code, what license does the generated code have? At least with Codepilot people were able to generate verbatim GPL code with typos and everything. More importantly, I wonder if companies behind these
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by maep 4y ago
> Could Throat mics be the ultimate in high quality audio for cheap? How can those microphones even capture fricatives or plosives in decent quality? Most of the vocal tract lies behind the throat. I looked for some examlpes and they all
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by maep 4y ago
A commonly used way to create an discrete sine wave efficiently is to use an IIR oscilator. If it needs to be long running, use a real sin to correct for rounding errors every N samples. If you're using something like Q30 fixed point t
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by maep 5y ago
It's more than a skin. Microsoft put some effort into optimization, like using a segmented heap allocator.
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by maep 5y ago
Meteorology is a sub-branch of physics.
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by maep 5y ago
> Every wired headphones I've had started to break down after a year or so, including ones with a detachable cable. To counter your anecdotal evidence, let me offer mine. My AKGs are almost 20 years old now. I only had to relpace th
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by maep 5y ago
Too bad they are chasing all the bad trends (notch, no audio jack, camera bump, flatness over battery size, growing size). That pretty much kills it for me. Especially the audio jack is a hard sell when their mission statement is sustainabi