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maep

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    Comment #44726589

    Neat, but it has problems following in-universe rules, i.e. fantasy novels.

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    Comment #43389707

    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 embe…

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    Comment #42995516

    That must be the bigest scandal since Watergate-gate.

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    Comment #42990874

    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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    Comment #42796978

    > 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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    Comment #42195900

    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 wit…

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    Comment #42183408

    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 de…

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    Comment #42183337

    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 thro…

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    Comment #42183011

    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 y…

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    Comment #42134762

    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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    Comment #41445126

    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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    Comment #39618571

    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 …

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    Comment #39609868

    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 …

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    Comment #39601314

    "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 t…

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    Comment #38161049

    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 apparentl…

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    Comment #33412015

    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 wa…

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    Comment #33409601

    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 every…

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    Comment #31932408

    > 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 b…

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    Comment #31203373

    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 sa…

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    Comment #28760141

    It's more than a skin. Microsoft put some effort into optimization, like using a segmented heap allocator.

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    Comment #28758494

    Meteorology is a sub-branch of physics.

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    Comment #28706066

    > 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 a…

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    Comment #28705761

    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 ja…