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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 a…

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 solutio…

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 …

> 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 righ…

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?…

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…

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 t…

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…

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…

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 us…

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 bel…

Absolutely but that tradeoff should be for the customer to make.

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 read…

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 …

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.

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 whea…

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. Descri…

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? S…

Thanks. drinks-another-coffee

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 jus…

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 ab…

You don't need many books on it. There's Petzold.

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, a…

Feb. 2016?

> 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." Mortgage…