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by rdale 11mo ago
You can install 'code-server' with termux's pkg and access it from a browser. $ pkg install tur-repo $ pkg install code-server
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by rdale 11y ago
"The audiophile community is full of fanatics as extreme as religious fanatics.." No it's not.
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by rdale 11y ago
One guy who I would describe as a genuine 'Audiophile Genius' is Nelson Pass. See: https://passlabs.com/ Nelson Pass has designed a series of innovative amplifiers that he sells as commercial products. He also rel
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by rdale 11y ago
Red book CD quality at 16/44.1 isn't 'mathematically perfect' at all anyway. The 22 khz Nyquist frequency is too close to the audio band, and there are unavoidable effects in the audio band of the 20 khz brick wall anti
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by rdale 12y ago
With digital audio going to a DAC even with cheap cables, the '1's and '0's should be arriving OK and will be in "working perfectly" mode. You have to hope that is the case with USB audio as there is no error c
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by rdale 12y ago
It doesn't mean that the cables or other equipment differences, can change the 'beats per minute' of a music track. If the bass is reproduced poorly and sounds 'woolly' it will subjectively mess up the timing of the
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by rdale 13y ago
In over 100 audiophile bashing posts, at last someone who actually understands the issues. USB cables have an 'eye pattern' which affects the timing of the signal presented to the DAC. If USB cables make a difference, then there i
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by rdale 13y ago
Most modern audiophile DACS have asynchronous USB inputs, and hardly any have HDMI. I assume that is because the designers of the DACs all think USB works better than HDMI for high quality 2 channel audio.
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by rdale 13y ago
"I don't think you need to worry about only accessing the web via apps - it just won't happen." That's all right then.
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by rdale 13y ago
You don't need to be an native english speaker to understand what the site is about - it is mostly pictures. We don't need some 'pompous twat' (as we say in the UK) explaining blindly obvious stuff in pretentious language. And defending the
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by rdale 13y ago
You've completely missed the point. At the moment we have a free web and we can use a variety of browsers to access it. If instead we can only access the web via apps and those app are controlled by the likes of Apple or Google, then we don
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by rdale 13y ago
Dead right. It's people with pitchforks outside the Bastille. It's starving people rioting to reclaim common land taken as 'enclosures' by the rich people. I somehow think that saying something like "Relax. For fuck's sake." isn't going to
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by rdale 13y ago
Thank you for explaining the jokes to us.
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by rdale 13y ago
No it won't because the Raspberry Pi uses an older ARMv6 CPU type that isn't supported by Ubuntu.
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by rdale 14y ago
I found the first NeXT keyboard was very uncomfortable to use, as the keys had very little spring and you would ram home hard against the 'end stops' all the time. I suppose keyboards are pretty subjective. They did a second ADB based versi
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by rdale 14y ago
I've been a professional programmer since 1978 and the article seems 'off-beam' to me. He thinks that because programmer was harder 30 years ago, that would be there was a higher barrier to entry and therefore only really good programmers w
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by rdale 14y ago
If writing language bindings for Qt based C++ apis is harder than writing language bindings for GTK C based apis, how come there are at least as many high quality language bindings for Qt as there are for GTK? Just because an api is C based
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by rdale 15y ago
The are a couple of very helpful articles on the Blue Jeans cables sitee about what is wrong with HDMI. "HDMI is a horrid format; it was badly thought out and badly designed, and the failures of its design are so apparent that they could ha
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by rdale 16y ago
OK, thanks I've read the paper. If we are talking about whether 16 bits is sufficient dynamic range (the main subject of this Hacker News discussion) they say: "In one brief test with two subjects we added 14 dB of gain to the reference lev
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by rdale 16y ago
I thought I listed some of the possible flaws in blind tests - there is nothing unscientific about that. If you value the results of any sort of blind test, no matter how badly conducted, over the opinions of recording engineers, then it do
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by rdale 16y ago
Why would you value a 'blind test' over what an expert recording engineer, such as Barry Diament, thinks? There are a lot of problems with blind tests, and there has certainly been much discussion about the arguments and counter arguments.
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by rdale 16y ago
"When the CD was designed, 44kHz at 16bits was chosen because that exceeds the limitations of human hearing." No it wasn't, it was designed to be implementable given the technology of the time. Philips thought they were working on a 14 bit