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no-such-address commented on Listen to what gets lost when an MP3 is made (2015)   vox.com/2015/3/4/8147377/... · Posted by u/teleforce
no-such-address · 10 months ago
Funny article.

"The exact master copy that the artist recorded and wanted for us to hear" In the digital era, does that even, uniquely, exist?

"a set of standards created by a bunch of engineers in 1993" Nice!

Was hoping the article would mention double blind studies about the ability to perceive differences and the quality between various audio file format, available elsewhere. Interesting, though not as overwrought as the reporting in this article.

no-such-address commented on Finite State Machine Designer   madebyevan.com/fsm/... · Posted by u/gurjeet
tgv · a year ago
You might want to add graphviz/digraph export (and possibly import). It's a pretty decent format for this kind of task, supported by several IRL tools.

Oh ... 2010. I guess it's not actively being maintained.

no-such-address · a year ago
We moved to https://gitlab.com/graphviz/graphviz/

There were 8 merge requests and 3 commits in the last 24 hours.

no-such-address commented on Things I said as a manager part 2: Hiring is emotional   reactiverobot.com/writing... · Posted by u/reactiverobot
lkramer · a year ago
This reads like a parody of a LinkedIn post, poor candidate.
no-such-address · a year ago
It's so awful, maybe it's a troll.
no-such-address commented on Things I said as a manager part 2: Hiring is emotional   reactiverobot.com/writing... · Posted by u/reactiverobot
no-such-address · a year ago
It sounds as if the hiring managers got cold feet and made an emotional or impulsive decision. It's not surprising they could feel bad for treating a candidate that way, for indescribable reasons. It's not as if the justification offered was, "We lost our budget and couldn't go through with our offer" or "We have another much more highly qualified candidate and the organization needs that person." Managers that interact with candidates should be decent enough to anticipate the possibility of not going through with an offer and create sufficient emotional buffering to leave people with their self-respect, or give the candidate more useful clues about how they're really doing. There are many ways hiring managers can increase their skill at this difficult work. I will never forget, I made someone cry in an interview once. You can ask hard questions but we all have to decide if this is the kind of human being we want to be.
no-such-address commented on What I’ve learned from users   paulgraham.com/users.html... · Posted by u/sginn
panopticon · 3 years ago
My Toyota experience was okay, but I still needed to sit at a dealership for almost two hours to deal with the paperwork, wait for financing, etc. Tesla allowed me to take care of all of that from the comfort of home.

Buying a Ford was the worst experience I've had with a new car, but that could have been entirely on the dealership.

no-such-address · 3 years ago
Yes, they are there all day, until closing time, or longer. Usually, the longer you stay, the more likely you are to buy their car, or give them more money. They control the situation and the incentives are in their favor. This is one reason we loathe car shopping.
no-such-address commented on Donald Knuth – The Patron Saint of Yak Shaves (2017)   yakshav.es/the-patron-sai... · Posted by u/rdpintqogeogsaa
no-such-address · 4 years ago
Wasn't DEK giving a talk entitled, "The Letter S" in connection with the invention of Metafont? Nothing but admiration!
no-such-address commented on Ticketmaster changes policy, no longer offering refunds on postponed shows   metalinjection.net/its-ju... · Posted by u/fortran77
bane · 5 years ago
Ticketmaster is corporate cancer that could probably be 90% replaced by a couple folks with a webapp.
no-such-address · 5 years ago
Something else to know is that Ticketmaster is happy to list and collect commissions from 3rd party ticket sales, but they excuse themselves from "Ticketmaster Fan Support" policies. Caveat emptor.
no-such-address commented on Penrose: Create diagrams by typing mathematical notation in plain text   github.com/penrose/penros... · Posted by u/espeed
waynenilsen · 6 years ago
See graphviz
no-such-address · 6 years ago
Yes, there is so much potential to integrate diagramming and recent work on constraint solvers including SAT solvers, but also very difficult to make such systems usable and convenient. There is a lot of hackery in graphviz that seems difficult to recreate in a general context. It would help if graphviz could be brought up to date or moved to a better environment for doing new work.
no-such-address commented on Vim.wasm   rhysd.github.io/vim.wasm/... · Posted by u/fibo
sbr464 · 6 years ago
Try:

Ctrl and [

That should send the same as Esc (ASCII 27).

I seem to remember this working on a new iPad Pro keyboard.

no-such-address · 6 years ago
This is incredible. I think I needed this about 40 years when typing on a small Teletype (non-ASR33) without an escape key.
no-such-address commented on ‏ 21compilers and 3 orders of magnitude in 60 minutes [pdf]   venge.net/graydon/talks/C... · Posted by u/bishala
no-such-address · 6 years ago
The information and know-how in this talk is amazing.

It would be interesting to know the author's thoughts about other early influential software in the early PC era, such as the UCSD P-system (was UCSD Pascal an early version of Turbo Pascal?) and Microsoft Basic (fitting the whole interpreter, including floating point arithmetic emulation into 6.5K of RAM on an Intel 8080 seems like a minor miracle today.)

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