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by voidpointer 3mo ago
To implement groove packing digitally, you don't need to put that process in the signal chain, do you? You can digitize the master, analyze it, and determine the required spacing at various points on the record. You then feed that info
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by voidpointer 4mo ago
I think this is just the way the decision tree works in safety-sensitive areas where many human lives are at stake. The catch-all in the decision tree, if there is no exact solution, is always the "get to safety at all costs" opti
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by voidpointer 4mo ago
In general and long-term I agree with what you are saying. I assume this was a new/unknown situation. (On the other hand, the article links to other similar stories, so maybe I am cutting them too much slack). If "electronic devic
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by voidpointer 4mo ago
> Was any of this a good idea? No, probably not, but people need to calm down. I can understand the safety concern - and I think the decision to turn around was ultimately the right call. Especially given that they had called for people
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by voidpointer 4mo ago
So, how did it eventually show up? Owner's phone goes off/airplane-mode, watch starts advertising; someone else wants to connect their BT headphones and sees the name of the watch?
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by voidpointer 4mo ago
According to the article, it was a Fitbit device belonging to a teenager... Chances are, the kid selected that nickname for the device a long while ago and forgot about it, and was probably unaware that the device was using Bluetooth at all
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by voidpointer 4mo ago
Maybe you have a point there. An optimistic outlook would be that AI allows people to create content that can compete with the polished, mass-produced, standardized stuff without the prohibitive budget requirements. The pessimistic view is
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by voidpointer 4mo ago
Isn't the scenario you are describing the ultimate collapse of art and culture as we know it? If everyone sits at home and creates the content that they want, what do we talk about? How do we engage in shared culture if there is nothin
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by voidpointer 9mo ago
Why is this relevant for understanding how the IP works or even tweaking it? Whatever is relevant for that matter will most certainly not be a modification to the Linux kernel that the android system is running. It will not fall under the G
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by voidpointer 1y ago
Probably a silly question, but if you take this all the way and treat everything as a DB that is synchronized in the background, how do you manage access control where not every user/client is supposed to have access to every object re
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by voidpointer 2y ago
The relative ease with which called-IDs can be spoofed seems to be one of the major "tools" with which scammers can gain the trust of their victims (or trick other systems into believing that they are the victim). Most of the non-
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by voidpointer 3y ago
Absolutely but that tradeoff should be for the customer to make.
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by voidpointer 3y ago
Reading speed at that age will vary greatly. Reading subtitles while also having to follow the picture takes away focus and that makes it hard much harder for an inexperienced reader. My daughter, who picked up reading very naturally would
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by voidpointer 3y ago
I did experience the issue with an FIIO headphone DAC too. Basically, when connecting the device, the balance slider in audio settings would get initialized to what seemed to be a random value. I am using several other audio interfaces (bot
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by voidpointer 3y ago
Texture-wise it should be very different due to how the gluten will develop. Taste-wise you are probably right. It’s mostly a substrate for the butter and syrup.
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by voidpointer 3y ago
In order to get close to how these might have tasted in Locke's time, one shouldn't be using modern white flour which is a 19th century development. Using (stone-milled) whole wheat might come closer to how things were in the 17th
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by voidpointer 3y ago
The cover-band analogy isn't so great; the issue where a specific solution becomes a proxy for solving some problems that no one bothered to fully understand is real though. Describing problems and doing thorough discovery is hard and
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by voidpointer 5y ago
What I'm not getting: If Project Gutenberg is US based, how can they be dragged in front of a German court at all? How could a German court enforce anything on a US based entity? So couldn'd PG's response just have been to ig
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by voidpointer 7y ago
Thanks. drinks-another-coffee
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by voidpointer 7y ago
This is going to be a dumb question I fear... If, as the article says, photons can't travel through a vacuum how are we able t see the stars (let alone distant galaxies)? Is it just because space isn't enough of full vacuum, or wh
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by voidpointer 7y ago
If it's just about having a usable safe, it's an easy decision. They just need to decide whether the cost for the locksmith is worth it for them to have a usable safe... If it's about what might be in there... shouldn't
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by voidpointer 7y ago
You don't need many books on it. There's Petzold.
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by voidpointer 8y ago
Somehow, the examples all sound more like a quality and/or testing issue. The workflow seems prone to people rebasing to a buggy state and at that point, in a non-trivial system, all bets are basically off. Basically I need to be able
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by voidpointer 8y ago
Feb. 2016?
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by voidpointer 8y ago
> The interesting thing here is that the common response here is: "Hey that's a great theory, but in real life, I just paid off my mortgage with my proceeds from bitcoin." Mortgages have been payed off with lottery wins. T
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by voidpointer 8y ago
Unfortunately, it cannot power the dock. That was a bit of a letdown for me
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by voidpointer 9y ago
passing 0 to f returns infinity (IEEE 754) Not arguing the point here. It's just a terrible example.
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by voidpointer 9y ago
Just out of curiosity... What is the point in testing all 2^24 possible color values?
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by voidpointer 9y ago
Because freelancers get paid sick days?
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by voidpointer 10y ago
Not sure how this is designed in this game, but if you want to make the game only show a certain portion of the map to clients at a given time, you need to make sure that things that the player should not see are never sent to the client. O

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