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Asahi dev found off-by-one bug in M2 MacBook Air bass enhancer

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Re: Asahi dev found off-by-one bug in M2 MacBook Air bass enhancer

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Post by gigatexal »

mesebrec wrote: post #2

Interesting how rebuilding the support from the ground up allowed them to find a bug in the existing implementation. It really speaks to the quality of Asahi's work, imo.

yup -- they continue to do amazing work and if i had more money i'd give it all to them for this effort. what a team of legends

Re: Asahi dev found off-by-one bug in M2 MacBook Air bass enhancer

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Post by teruakohatu »

> They have a stupid off-by-one bug in the middle of their bass enhancer AND NOBODY NOTICED NOR FIXED IT IN OVER A YEAR.

The mocking tone of this post is really not necessary. An engineer made probably one of the most common coding errors that nobody noticed because real world impact is minor to non existent. The devs should be trying to build a relationship with Apple, not mocking then each time they find a minor bug.

Re: Asahi dev found off-by-one bug in M2 MacBook Air bass enhancer

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Post by marcellus23 »

It's hard for me to understand how noticeable this actually is. In the video where he plays samples from an affected and unaffected machine, I can hear there's a difference, but I couldn't tell you which one is correct. It sounds like it could just be normal differences in speakers between the two models.

If that's the best example of the bug, then probably no one has caught it because it doesn't really matter.

Also, the tone of the post comes off as petty and immature, regardless.

Re: Asahi dev found off-by-one bug in M2 MacBook Air bass enhancer

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Post by 015a »

This seems like a needlessly aggressive and poor take. Its a cool bug that they discovered; but going into "Apple's audio engineering team is, at least on some level, incompetent (or incompetently run; I'm not blaming the employees here, but rather the organization)" is just unproductively mean.

"and obvious in a sine sweep frequency response test, which is the most basic test you can run end-to-end on a completed audio system to ensure it is performing properly. So they didn't even run that." The one conclusion you can draw, outside looking in, is: whatever tests they ran resulted in the creation of the best sounding speakers on any device in its class. That doesn't scream incompetence to me; it screams "We tested this against songs people will actually listen to, not 300hz sine waves."

This post is a bad look for Asahi.

Re: Asahi dev found off-by-one bug in M2 MacBook Air bass enhancer

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Post by agildehaus »

teruakohatu wrote: post #4

> They have a stupid off-by-one bug in the middle of their bass enhancer AND NOBODY NOTICED NOR FIXED IT IN OVER A YEAR. The mocking tone of this post is really not necessary. An engineer made probably one of the most common coding errors that nobody noticed because real world impact is minor to non existent. The devs should be trying to build a relationship with Apple, not mocking then each time they find a minor bu…

These devs didn't even notice it until they tried to rip into the inner workings.

Re: Asahi dev found off-by-one bug in M2 MacBook Air bass enhancer

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Post by supriyo-biswas »

teruakohatu wrote: post #4

> They have a stupid off-by-one bug in the middle of their bass enhancer AND NOBODY NOTICED NOR FIXED IT IN OVER A YEAR. The mocking tone of this post is really not necessary. An engineer made probably one of the most common coding errors that nobody noticed because real world impact is minor to non existent. The devs should be trying to build a relationship with Apple, not mocking then each time they find a minor bu…

Unfortunately, it appears that the Asahi Linux team carries this holier-than-thou attitude everywhere. Their GPU driver reversing had similar snipes at Apple; and we also have the whole HN/asahilinux.org referrer debacle.
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