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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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but ironically this communication style would make steve jobs look tame

Not really if his biography is remotely accurate.

I said the inverse of what I meant to write! oops

*Steve Jobs would make this look tame

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

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Nobody noticed the bug in the last three years because it’s more recent. You can hear it clearly in real world usage compared to the M1. Harassing Apple over 99% P3 certification is not remotely comparable because that’s neither perceivable, nor incorrect behavior. It’s clearly a bug, an egregious one at that and it will be fixed no matter what you think about Marcans choice of words.

This is an egregious deployment of the word "egregious". In a world where security catastrophes are de rigueur (all of them driven by oversights), this level of drama over an audio bug is so unjustified that it reads like trolling.

You're completely wrong. Signal processing is regularly used to make life and death decisions in medical technology, including audio techniques which are particularly useful in say, heart beat analysis. Your perspective appears rather narrow. In any case, I said egregious "signal processing cock up", which from a purely signal processing perspective, it absolutely is (as in, it has a big impact).

It might well be the case that a bug in a bass audio driver is not that big a deal, but these sorts of bugs are easy to avoid and shouldn't happen. It does indicate something about the quality of the engineering.

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