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Yeah. People really overlook the value of muscle memory on the keyboard and how changing the affects productivity.

Most rail equipment, powered units included, can be pulled along by just about any other powered railcar.

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…

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.

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 …

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 a…

Was the development of those JS frameworks funded with federal tax dollars?

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…

Nothing you said refutes my assertion.

Ah you're right. It still breaks the "even division" argument though.

>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 fi…

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 4…

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.

Wrong. You need to read some more Shannon and Nyquist. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyquist%E2%80%93Shannon_samp...

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…

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 Blue…

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 d…

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 re…

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 …

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.

What do TV and radio stations have to do with active radar?

Not to mention all the additional access constraints that require folks that use it to be properly credentialed.

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 …

With a HUGE infusion of cash from Microsoft.

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.