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  1. Re:Not much biomass in a rat. on Possible Cellphone Link To Cancer Found In Rat Study (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 2

    Well, there's Telstrat -- they're huge in Australia.

    And in spite of their lossiness there's something to be said for Adaptive Multi-Rat codecs, rght?

    At this rate, the 60GHz band will crowd up with (spatially) narrow yet energetic beams from all kinds of gadgets, too, soon. I think I'm tingling with excitement.

  2. I stole a spaghetti once because I was low on dough. Yep. Thank god I didn't grab one of those RFID tagliatelli, like my mate did.. the coroner report says he simply pastaway but he was covered in boils and had that terrible strained look in his eyes :-(

  3. Brain's need rest just like muscles.

    Yep, and that's without taking into account any anaphylaxis from allergies. Mussel damage is no joke.

  4. I nominate the photolithographic stepper. Either that or just a regular knife.

  5. Re:So what? on Developer Installs Windows 95 On An Apple Watch (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Reminds me of the time I did a fast Fourier transform on a HP calculator. It really redefined the meaning of fast.

    Lots of people, you know, that likes to hack stuff and try to defy normality... But it's k, you stay in your cozy little world

    I hate to say this, but actually it's not k.

    It's [k - 1]. But that's okay, just set the right radix and cache the twiddle factors in advance. #FastFourierTilTheDay

  6. Re:So what? on Developer Installs Windows 95 On An Apple Watch (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Reminds me of the time I did a fast Fourier transform on a HP calculator. It really redefined the meaning of fast.

    Lots of people, you know, that likes to hack stuff and try to defy normality... But it's k, you stay in your cozy little world

    I hate to say this, but actually it's not k.

    It's [k - 1]. But that's okay, just set the right radix and cache the twiddle factors in advance. #FastFourierTilTheDay

  7. Re:So what? on Developer Installs Windows 95 On An Apple Watch (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Reminds me of the time I did a fast Fourier transform on a HP calculator. It really redefined the meaning of fast.

    Lots of people, you know, that likes to hack stuff and try to defy normality... but it's k, you stay in your cozy little world

    I hate to be pedantic, but actually it's not k. It's [k - 1]. But that's okay as long as one precaches the twiddle factors. #FastFourierTilTheDay

  8. Re:"Industry desire" is all good and well on Intel Wants To Eliminate The Headphone Jack And Replace It With USB-C (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    I know this is a sarcasm thread, but 24 bits is actually a lot for an ADC. You're talking 0.2uV/LSB with a 3.3V reference. Even getting close to that requires careful attention to noise sources and PCB layout. 16 bits is pretty hardcore in its own right. 8-, 10-, and 12-bit ADCs are far more common.

    But it's about headphone jacks, isn't it? No ADCs involved.

    DACs for audio are cheap as chips, and tiny: something like TI's PCM1795 outputs two channels of 32-bit samples at 192kHz with a 120db SNR, costs less than a buck in bulk, and comes in a minuscule package (something like 1 x 0.5mm). Add another buck for a clean signal path plus a solid Neutrik-style connector and it's well underway. But the question is then, where could they put in all the DRM?

  9. Re:"Industry desire" is all good and well on Intel Wants To Eliminate The Headphone Jack And Replace It With USB-C (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    I know this is a sarcasm thread, but 24 bits is actually a lot for an ADC. You're talking 0.2uV/LSB with a 3.3V reference. Even getting close to that requires careful attention to noise sources and PCB layout. 16 bits is pretty hardcore in its own right. 8-, 10-, and 12-bit ADCs are far more common.

    But it's about headphone jacks, isn't it? No ADCs involved.

    DACs for audio are cheap as chips and tiny: something like TI's PCM1795 outputs two channels of 32-bit samples at 192kHz with a 120db SNR, costs less than a buck in bulk, and comes in a minuscule package (something like 1x0.5mm).

  10. Re:"Industry desire" is all good and well on Intel Wants To Eliminate The Headphone Jack And Replace It With USB-C (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    I know this is a sarcasm thread, but 24 bits is actually a lot for an ADC. You're talking 0.2uV/LSB with a 3.3V reference. Even getting close to that requires careful attention to noise sources and PCB layout. 16 bits is pretty hardcore in its own right. 8-, 10-, and 12-bit ADCs are far more common.

    But it's about headphone jacks, isn't it? No ADCs involved.

    DACs for audio are cheap as chips and tiny: something like TI's PCM1795 outputs two channels of 32-bit samples at 192kHz with a 120db SNR, costs less than a buck in bulk, and comes in a minuscule package (something like 1x0.5mm).

  11. Re:"Industry desire" is all good and well on Intel Wants To Eliminate The Headphone Jack And Replace It With USB-C (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    I know this is a sarcasm thread, but 24 bits is actually a lot for an ADC. You're talking 0.2uV/LSB with a 3.3V reference. Even getting close to that requires careful attention to noise sources and PCB layout. 16 bits is pretty hardcore in its own right. 8-, 10-, and 12-bit ADCs are far more common.

    But it's about headphone jacks, isn't it? No ADCs involved.

    DACs for audio are cheap as chips and tiny: something like TI's PCM1795 outputs two channels of 32-bit samples at 192kHz with a 120db SNR, costs less than a buck in bulk, and comes in a minuscule package (something like 1x0.5mm).

  12. Slashdot on How San Francisco Hazed a Tech Bro (backchannel.com) · · Score: 2

    Stuff Those Matters!

  13. Re:Fails the "stuff that matters" test on HP's New Logo Is the Awesome One It Never Used (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I vote for changing it to "Stuff Those Matters!", who's with me?

  14. Re:The incredibly expanding mountain cabin on 20th Anniversary of Unabomber's Arrest (abc10.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Maybe it was stored on his iPhone, which they couldn't unlock until recently?

  15. Re:DO NOT BROADCAST on Astronomers Find Rare Triple-Star Planet (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure, whenever I'm in China I'm more concerned with things not going over my head. Door posts and such.

    Wait. Did I just fall for one of those lame "Wu is Chinese" jokes? :-(

  16. Re:Gas giant ... on Astronomers Find Rare Triple-Star Planet (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    The picture is for another planet in a triple-star system.

    Jeez. Things must be bad if they're even skimping on artist's concepts now :-(

  17. Re:DO NOT BROADCAST on Astronomers Find Rare Triple-Star Planet (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    You can't blame China for this one. China has five stars, not three, and most of 'em look like yellow dwarfs to me.

    (ffs that was unintended and truly beyond the pale)

  18. Re:Surprised? No. More challenged. on Oculus 'Always On' Services and Privacy Policy May Be a Cause for Concern (uploadvr.com) · · Score: 1

    But the hardware itself isn't even such a great step up from the previous prototypes/devkits, for example, the field-of-view seems to be lacking.

    Besides, Linux support has been dropped and Windows 10 is now required.

  19. Sounds like you've got it twisted, sir. They used Steam and, in the end, they let Valve off. Which is also a waste of energy, of course, but the difference is in the direction of entropy. I can readily illustrate this with a paint analogy: when you watch the stuff turn from wet to dry in front of your own eyes you'll say, ah I'll just turn it back later, but NO sir, this same process is NOT reversible, no matter how long you keep staring.

  20. Am I reading this right? That the man who wrote "Watch Paint Dry" is not able to muster the patience to set a release date barely three days into the future? Those zero-day vuln'ers never cease to amaze...

  21. Re:TFS could be a little less obscure on 'My Heroic and Lazy Stand Against IFTTT' (pinboard.in) · · Score: 1

    I use adb from my PC so I hit the same limitations as with other busybox-based embedded systems: creative scripting tends to get awkward or impossible and even basic stuff like sleep and grep is gimped. Testing latency is all I've ever had to do on these machines though, so there's cron to kick off some periodic profiling and tracing. Not that it helps much for repeatable audio latency test, but hey, that's a Dalvik-based smartphone for you.. So far I've never bought one and I don't like any of them for calling or messaging.

  22. Re:if it ain't broke... on New NASA Launch Control Software Late, Millions Over Budget (go.com) · · Score: 1
    That's not bad. Not bad at all.

    Just need to make sure that those O-Poetterings can withstand the cold.

  23. IFFT on 'My Heroic and Lazy Stand Against IFTTT' (pinboard.in) · · Score: 4, Funny

    I immediately clicked on the link mistakenly seeing what I thought was going to be a discussion advocating avoiding inverse fast fourier transforms.

    I couldn't agree more, these convoluted summaries are confusing me on a periodic basis. I mean, this whole subject is no less than orthogonal to fast fourier transforms. That CEO they're quoting? He's not even trying to save phase.

  24. Re:Correllation is not Causation. . . on Ocean Temps Predict US Heat Waves 50 Days Out, Study Finds (ucar.edu) · · Score: 1

    Correllation is not Causation

    Oh FFS, I wish this meme would die. I mean in particular the way people parrot it as a subsitute for insight.

    No, correlation does not necessarily imply causation, but it does have predictive power, which is what TFA is about.

    I hear you. Try this: the next time some insensitive clod brings up that played-out prat just tell them about autocorrelation.

  25. Re:Analogy on 'My Heroic and Lazy Stand Against IFTTT' (pinboard.in) · · Score: 2

    Did Maciej Ceglowski just use an analogy in which his users live in a sewer and his content is the shit he flushes down the drain?

    No surprise there, considering that a "pinboard" is common Dutch slang for one of them ol' wooden shithouses.