rplst8

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by rplst8 2y ago
Yeah. People really overlook the value of muscle memory on the keyboard and how changing the affects productivity.
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by rplst8 3y ago
Most rail equipment, powered units included, can be pulled along by just about any other powered railcar.
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by rplst8 3y ago
Yeah I don't agree with that assertion either. Microsoft will produce hardware to show the art of the possible with their software. It largely comes out of a situation where the PC/device manufacturers were doing a sh* job of it.
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by rplst8 3y ago
P.S. sitting down and learning git was probably the single most useful activity I've done on my 23 year career as a dev.
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by rplst8 3y ago
No thanks. I've worked on teams using trunk based development before and I ended up being the one having to fix other people's messes, deal with them losing work, and the absolute hell of trying to find where a bug was introduced.
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by rplst8 3y ago
One of the giants in this industry, Lionel, has been struggling for the last 30 or so years to stay alive. It’s been through several sales and I think two bankruptcies. One thing about them though is they continue to innovate with new ways
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by rplst8 3y ago
Was the development of those JS frameworks funded with federal tax dollars?
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by rplst8 3y ago
Tom also builds military grade subwoofers. He had a hand the design of the BassTech 7 servo drive subs as well. Their not being made anymore as I think they went out of business 20 years ago or so. All the reports I've read about those
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by rplst8 3y ago
Nothing you said refutes my assertion.
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by rplst8 3y ago
Ah you're right. It still breaks the "even division" argument though.
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by rplst8 3y ago
>PCM is also a lossy compression due to the quantization step Wrong, especially today. Modern ADCs use oversampling to push quantization noise into the inaudible range, and then filter it out before decimation to standard PCM.
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by rplst8 3y ago
This used to be somewhat true, but modern digital often uses such high internal rates that converting between the two is near lossless. For instance, the least common multiple of 44.1k and 48k is in the 7MHz region. Realtime conversion betw
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by rplst8 3y ago
Input signals are ALWAYS band limited for digital systems. If you don't do this and you work for any company designing such circuitry, you'd be fired.
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by rplst8 3y ago
Wrong. You need to read some more Shannon and Nyquist. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyquist%E2%80%93Shannon_samp...
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by rplst8 3y ago
I don't know much about the Yamaha technology referenced, but he's not totally off his rocker. CDs don't record 0s as pits and 1s as lands. A change from pit to land or land to pit is a one, and no change over a time base is
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by rplst8 3y ago
This is a great example of why I prefer lossless source material. I can tell an MP3 from a CD nearly every time (on recordings of good original quality) once it's sent through Bluetooth.
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by rplst8 3y ago
Agreed on the 44.1k 16-bit is all you need as a delivery medium for a final audio product. However higher bit rates and sample rates are needed for multi track recordings so that during the mixing stage and mastering, the fidelity is preser
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by rplst8 3y ago
AFAIK, 48k was preferred over 44.1k in movie and cinema recordings because it divides evenly by 24. Both 44.1k and 48k are evenly divided by 30 and 60 fps. However, none of that really matters for TV where the actual frame rates are 59.97 a
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by rplst8 3y ago
That's not how it works. Each bit of sample size yields about 6db of SNR. If you amplify a source to 120db SPL that was recorded with 4-bit samples the quantization noise would be about 96db SPL.
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by rplst8 3y ago
Most professional (i.e. cinema or public address) amplifiers have an SNR of around 108db. A properly functioning amplifier is never a likely source of noise.
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by rplst8 3y ago
What do TV and radio stations have to do with active radar?
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by rplst8 3y ago
Not to mention all the additional access constraints that require folks that use it to be properly credentialed.
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by rplst8 3y ago
Some states, like Oregon I believe, have similar prohibitions about the word "engineer" being one's job title. Others only prohibit signing off as a PE unless certified. Most life critical systems, such as medical devices, br
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by rplst8 3y ago
With a HUGE infusion of cash from Microsoft.
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by rplst8 3y ago
Yeah but when you find out they lied, you can't just look the other way. People and organizations shouldn't need the threat of oversight to be honest.
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by rplst8 3y ago
A billion times more complex than the safety-critical parts of an airplane? I think you lack perspective on avionics packages and the safety measures that are undertaken in that industry. Additionally, I think you're vastly over estima
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by rplst8 3y ago
5/3rd has some suuuuper sketchy loan terms that caught my parents up during a refi on the mortgage for their primary residence. I do not recommend that bank, at all.
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by rplst8 3y ago
The fact that the loss of particulate matter in the atmosphere increases warming has been known for at least two decades. This is not surprising to me. It started years ago when scrubbers began to be installed on coal power plants and conti
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by rplst8 3y ago
The reply was a bit harsh, but let's not act like the real estate industry isn't riddled with skeezy practices. 1) Home inspections that aren't really "inspections" and are just there to grease the skids 2) Buyer&#x
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by rplst8 3y ago
Wrong. Most compact cars and midsized sedans from the 80s were downright awful. Sub 100 hp motors, with restrictive exhausts and poorly designed emissions systems. They were mostly garbage. My family's Pontiac 6000 had a 2.5 liter 92 h

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