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yeah, why is that?
The thing is, Beats' build quality and technical design absolutely suck. The hinge is weak plastic, and even a little bit of over-opening them can and will break it.

This is leaving aside the relative merits of the electronics, audio quality and featureset, where they also fail to deliver for the $.

I'll never understand what led Apple to align itself w this overpriced junk.
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These should compare to the AirPods and also they are not wireless. In that regard, if I compare them to the AirPods, then Apple pricing is competitive.
I think they look a bit too sterile for something that people "wear". Very corporate, not very soulful. Especially the big blank aluminum surface. The head band also looks rather plasticky.
The british stuff, eg from B&W, has more elegance. Combine with nordic minimalism and maybe some natural materials like leather and it would be more appealing. But I'm sure they are technically superior.
Who was in mortal danger? The video showed no evidence of a gun being aimed at anyone, simply up the stairs. It's also not assault unless there's motive. Without a physical or verbal act indicating unlawful use or potential use of violence, it would be hard to prove assault. (You might be surprised when you look up case law on this)

Your civilian scenario isn't exactly congruent because you are missing the legal authority point. If you are a civilian with the authority to search a building (your house when you hear a noise at night for example), then you you would be justified in clearing the building in the same way the police did. The response of deadly force depends on if there are alternatives to that use of force (and greatly varies by state). In this case, the alternative to the occupant using deadly force is to comply with the warrant, and if necessary, sue in court for any damages.
I personally would be very interested in hearing your opinion on how good the noise cancellation is with these headphones, compared to Bose QC (which I am wearing right now). When you have them, could you comment?

I have never owned anything from Apple. However, that new CPU suddenly sounds interesting, and it may be that these headphone are suddenly interesting too, although they are double the price of the Bose ones.
I agree, and I own a pair AirPod Pros which I love.
When Humor Becomes Horror
When RH bought CentOS, it was clear they would kill it eventually, the question was when. Well, it looks like it's happening just now. Time for a CentOS replacement.
Steve* Reich.

IMO, an excellent first listen would be Tehillim. [0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiaTvR9sFX8
Agreed. I never thought there was any confusion about what CentOS meant. This feels like B.S.
No there's not a line, in this weather I don't think that'd be a good idea, and it'd likely be chaotic. These patients are attending hospital anyway for follow-up, so since they are here they are being vaccinated.
Serious question. If open headphones (which I've never used) let everyone else hear what you're listening to, why would anybody ever use them? Isn't it better just to have decent speakers and not use headphones at all?
"We can also do microbiomes to figure out which possible beasties are found in the saliva. "

Good luck with that.
Exactly that. It strengthens their image amidst the whole ordeal with app signatures. It is equivalent to investing for an ad.
Sequoia Capital Warned of a ‘Black Swan.’ Instead, 2020 Is One of Its Best Years
Based on who I have seen as leaders I would say this is true.
RedHat will probably get a one time boost in RHEL sales at the expense that the void created by the CentOS project will be filled by some CentOS-fork they have no control over.

Maybe they have some grand scheme I'm not seeing but it feels short sighted.
Thanks for the link, just tried Green Tunnel on the use case where my ISP is blocking me and just managed to change the error from PT_CONNECT_RESET_ERROR to PR_END_OF_FILE_ERROR.

Side note, looks like that if installed by snap on Ubuntu 20.10 it cannot automagically change the proxy configuration in Gnome

green-tunnel:system-proxy [SYSTEM PROXY] error on SetProxy (Error: Command failed: gsettings set org.gnome.system.proxy mode manual
green-tunnel:system-proxy /bin/sh: 1: gsettings: not found

Enabling proxy manually makes it work but yet, it doesn't circumvent my ISP filtering :(
Average people will be getting vaccines long before May. That just sounds like naysaying for the sake of naysaying. Or maybe you have inside info about which additional vaccines will be granted approval and when?
TBF, until I spent what I considered 'proper' money ($200+) on headphones I didn't really 'get it'. But the difference my first 'proper' pair of headphones made to listening to music, I'm not sure I'd ever be happy going back.

Agree $500 is a punchy headphone purchase though!
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It's strange to believe that you know what people undergo during something as subjective as a sensory experiment. No matter your expertise, you can never really know how another person is perceiving their reality.

We're all given a set of senses and a brain to explore the world in our own way. It will not be the same from one individual to the next. If some people are looking to be soothed by music, while others are looking to be stimulated, does that give one group an authority on taste over the other?
I hate to be the guy that responds to the obvious throwaway, but have you broken the speed of sound in an airplane? Have you been a 2 time WWII fighter ace? He was the best of the best, and an inspiration for a generation.
That's what I read from GP's comment.
Ironically one of the flaws with my QC35s is that I don't find them as comfortable as many others do, haha
Sometimes I feel like I'm the only person in tech who doesn't like over the ear headphones. I've always preferred earbuds, and fortunately, both iterations of Airpods fit my ears great. I also have never worked in an environment where I need to shut the world out just to get things done.
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> Does this imply the majority of consumers care more about the brand perception than actual value?

YES. People are vain. News at 11.

Stop betting against vanity.
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A few years ago I bought a pair of Hifiman HE400i headphones for around $300 (they’re less than $200 now I think). These are wired, open-backed and have planar drivers. Going from a pair of $100 headphones to these was like night and day. I’m not an audiophile by any stretch, but wow is there a big difference. If you enjoy music, and are in a position to use open-back headphones, I’d highly recommend trying something like them in the ~$200 range. With proper care they should last many years.
You cna check it again now, it's fixed :)
But it does. Newer batteries have more capacity and charge faster. It's very obvious on smartphones or electric cars.
Thanks for the feedback, I will get this updated so it's more legible.
Pretty sure that quote was in his Autobiography. I recall reading it when I read that book.
It's true for the most part. They really do produce good quality products. The markup reflects the branding, true, but that's OK if the products are good.

I wish Apple had a competitor in the US. Google competes with software and phones, but is losing the phone battle hard. Microsoft puts out an operating system that is too busy making sure legacy software from 1995 still runs. All (most) of the hardware "competitors" run Windows and can't compete on the performance side. We need a company that produces their own hardware and operating system that competes with Apple, I think.
Norway is also a member of NATO which could subject it to additional pressures (same applies to other member states).
The Kenmore stove that was installed here has the ignition feature past the 9 levels of gas you can choose to release. That means to even get a flame going there would have to be wasted gas pushed into the air, and a lot of times it does not even light for several seconds, which usually leads to a following smell.
Not really. RHEL / CentOS is basically a hardened snapshot of Fedora taken every few years, with a few bespoke changes on top. So in that sense you could argue that Fedora is a front-runner for "the next RHEL" but at any point in time it is too far ahead of the current RHEL to be a useful testbed in any respect for those users. Although I guess you could argue that it helps knock down bugs in packages like GNOME that do get updated regularly in RHEL.

CentOS Stream is basically "the next x.y release of RHEL". Some updates, like GNOME updates and new hardware enablement, will be present in CentOS Stream a few months before they are released to RHEL and CentOS as part of a new x.y-release.
Yea, it's easy to understand if you want to do something well, you need to spend a ton of time focused on it. It's another to actually commit that time and show up day in and day out with a mindset that's fresh and always looking for ways to improve.

I think the purity of purpose and sense of adventure is what attracts a lot of people to stories like Chuck's.
Sennheiser doesn't integrate seamlessly with the iOS experience, though
>Seems reasonable?

Yes. I dont quite understand what's the fuss here. So someone please explain to me like I am five.

QT 6 decide to charge money, in this case a commercial license for commercial usage. i.e If your software is making some money using QT6, you will have to pay. Otherwise you can happy use the LGPL License.
Seems fair. You might disagree with its pricing, depending on your business model, And may be that business model would not be a good match / fit for using QT6.

But so far all the comments seems to be against the company charging anything. Why?
It seemed that Trump administration had already gotten bored of the ban effort anyway, missing their own deadlines without comment.
> The issue is lowish wage

Lowish wage for game developers? I beg your pardon?
No Bluetooth LE Audio. Less battery than a Sony. Lame ;-)
If anyone wants the draft RFC:

https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-pauly-dprive-oblivious-doh...
You're thinking of "pixilated," not "pixelated."
Sony WH-1000XM4 or Bose 700
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It's one of those things where you don't know what you're missing until you know what you're missing. If I'd never tried a pair of HD 598s, I'd have stayed satisfied with $50 whatever. If I'd never tried a pair of HD 650s, I'd have stayed satisfied with HD 598s.

I don't try headphones any more.
VW-backed QuantumScape solid-state batteries a potential game-changer for EVs
Kafka Is Not a Database
The Airpod Pros works with other devices - but they seem to have a lot of issues though. Loosing sync between each unit and loosing sound and needing reconnect all the time.

That's my personal experience when using them with Windows 10 and Android devices. No issues when using them with Apple devices.
Other question is when is the best time to change jobs? The bottom line is that it's a question of balance, with enough years put in to learn and grow, but not so many years that your skill set becomes stagnant or entrenched in one company's way of doing things.
I’m trying to understand the DevOps of this concept. Is everybody working in the same repo, or are these personal forks that get hammered until nice merged PRs can be submitted? Do devs complete whole features before submitting, or do they submit partial work that everybody else is trying to contribute to? Are multiple developers working on the same code modules, or have they been split out? Are there tests and interfaces written ahead of time, or do they do tasking by prose?

The goal of software management is to keep everybody productive. If you have an imbalance in commits or pull requests in the main repo/branch, that’s a strong sign of a broken process. Tasks should be given according to familiarity and skill so this doesn’t happen.

This also says something about software design. Good design is easy to split up. Bad design requires a ‘go to’ person. Therefore, a ‘go to’ person is by definition not a good software engineer, because their design was bad, and/or they never fixed it. And if it worked the first time, you wouldn’t have to ‘go to’ anybody.

The skill ladder of software engineering goes something like: watching, practicing, contributing, designing, teaching, leading. Every developer goes through this process from scratch in every project. Getting stuck is a problem (as is skipping steps). Preventing other people from progressing is a bigger problem.

Perhaps rethink this.
Yes, it’s not like the Cold War was armies staring at each other, there were a lot of preparations going on. Some bridges also were over-dimensioned so that heavy tanks could bridge them (and bridges, viaducts and roads are marked as to load-carrying capacity. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_Load_Classification)

Also, the original strategic plan for NATO against a soviet attack was defense in depth, so I think all NATO countries in Western Europe prepared for the need to destroy infrastructure. The Netherlands had plans to flood large parts of the country, for example. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IJssel_Line, not just Germany, and not just near the border with Eastern Europe.

And of course, there was a nuclear backup plan in case infrastructure couldn’t be destroyed before the enemy took it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Atomic_Demolition_Muni....
But, again, from what my Canadians friends told me, Toronto is practically American in terms of roughness!

Toronto is like the New Orleans of Canada.

> Those neighborhoods are what SF is to many people, including myself.

Yeah, I know for a lot of people SF ends at Twin Peaks, but that's my whole point: folks ignoring the gritty reality of life in SF, living in bubbles, protected by wealth and privilege, and then complaining that the rest of the city can't be their Disneyland too.

> To me, SF is a nice place with bad parts. To you, it seems to be a bad place with nice parts.

Like I said, I love this city. I grew up here, it's my home town. But I also know our history. (And shady stuff goes on up to this very day, just for example check out the FBI corruption probe[1]. Shady.)

> I don't know if anyone has told you, but we've been allowed to go on walks.

Self righteous and snotty? No thanks, I'm all stocked up.

> Even in the current lockdown, you are permitted to walk to a park.

But that's not what you said you were doing. You said "I started taking walks in Russian Hill, North Beach/Telegraph Hill, the Marina, Ocean Beach, etc. Those are awesome neighborhoods with great people and many things to do."

Which sounds like you're touring around and chillaxing at the pub.

I'm out.

Good day sir.

[1] https://sfist.com/2020/07/15/ongoing-fbi-corruption-probe-hi...
I always find the audiophile market to be borderline
fraud. They sell CD demagnetisers, ceramic cable lifters
and all sorts of items that don't make any sense whatsoever.

I, too, find that stuff abhorrent.

The good news is that many, if not most audiophiles do as well. There are a lot of objectivity-minded audiophiles who reject that snake oil stuff with a passion.

The fact is that basic audio reproduction -- which is essentially just signal reproduction -- is engineering, not art, and has been pretty much worked out for decades. We know what sounds good and we know how to make it happen. Long story short: reproducing the signal as accurately as possible, with a slight shift to emphasize bass frequencies (Google "Harman Curve") is what sounds good. Floyd Toole and Sean Olive are names to research if you want to know more.

As an example of grass-roots efforts in support of objective audiophile-dom, one example would be this guy's site, full of detailed measurements of various gear: http://audiosciencereview.com

The perception of audiophiles has become a bit wacky over the years. Essentially, in the 70s/80s/90s, the stereo magazines became dependent on advertising from snake oil purveyors, and therefore weren't really free to decry that stuff. And then the media tends to focus on the really wacky fraud crap like CD demagnetizers and the like. That stuff exists, but that is the lunatic fringe and the rest of us laugh at it.
In normal times I drive less than 45 miles a week on average, and have no place to plug in an ev here. So this would work for me (if it becomes a real product). The problem is that at that level of driving, I'm not sure I can justify the expense of a new car.
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Ah yes, the included mic is very useful for videoconferencing. The battery only really runs out for me if I'm on calls for multiple hours without recharges, or if I forget to charge the case.
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I thought GP's summary was pretty accurate. I think yours is grasping to make GP sound elitist.
>Once the technique is mature and well-understood, wouldn't it be much quicker to roll out vaccines for all sorts of things?

Yes, that's the huge leap forward made with this tech versus traditional vaccines. It turns vaccine development into a software problem, instead of hardware problem. For instance, we'll be able to rapidly roll out new flu vaccines for the latest strains and produce them on demand, rather than making a guess at which ones will be circulating a year ahead of time and committing to mass production of those.
Ask HN: What's the best paper you've read in 2020?
I know there are classics that get posted every time this question comes around, so bias them towards more recent ones :)
Perhaps because when you walk into the Apple store for headphones you won't find the other brands there and these shoppers are only interested in Apple blessed products.
For me, it was "Erasure Coding in Windows Azure Storage" from Microsoft Research (2016) [0]

The idea that you can achieve the same practical effect of a 3x replication factor in a distributed system, but only increasing the cost of data storage by 1.6x, by leveraging some clever information theory tricks is mind bending to me.

If you're operating a large Ceph cluster, or you're Google/Amazon/Microsoft and you're running GCS/S3/ABS, if you needed 50PB HDDs before, you only need 27PB now (if implementing this).

The cost savings, and environmental impact reduction that this allows for are truly enormous, I'm surprised how little attention this paper has gotten in the wild.

[0] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...
I would love to read that thread
> If the mother remains calm and tells them everything was fine and normal, then there should be no harm.

Kids vary a lot, but I've not seen a kid that ever behaved in such a way.
You edited out the first sentence which read: “Please don’t stop them.”
I have a feeling that this 'allows' Bose and Sony to raise their prices causing everything to normalize around $500 price range. Remember the original pixel (or nexus)? they were priced around $350-$400 and look where they are now ($700).
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I mean that's basically Yubikey. There are cheaper alternatives for the actual product and a browser-based password manager and a sw authenticator on your phone gives you all the same phishing and security benefits for $0.

I'm not about to be upset that someone still wants a Yubikey though.
Not sure how much that counts. In the US, under certain warrants under the so-called "PATRIOT" Act, it's illegal to admit that government accessed user information. China likely has similar ways to compel silence upon threat of losing privileges.
We cannot rely on tech monopolies for ethical guidance
This isn't the main benefit, of course, but I do like that as a bonus my current over-the-ear headphones keep my ears warm during winter. There are cheaper ways of solving that problem, which is why I describe it as a bonus, but it's top of mind because it's cold today where I live.

And while it's not a benefit this year for me, I also like them on flights.
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We are working on Clayio to give your Apple iOS14 icons another, 3D dimension.
I don't know what your use case is, but one of the flavors of BSD might be an option for you.
>nor do I want to invest any time learning about headphones

That categorically sounds like not wanting to read any such articles. I highly doubt the barrier is to do with Google skills or finding them in the first place. GP just doesn’t want to. Not to mention most people will not feel they have sufficiently researched a topic by reading the first piece they see.
The grinding sound is the pump trying to evacuate water. Your outbound filter is clogged. Look to the bottom left of the front of the unit, open the little door. Watch some Youtube videos on how to clean it. Agree with others that Samsung appliances aren't great, but if you inherited them like I did, you might as well learn the simple fixes.
> Because he values image over substance, and his personal identity is tied to Apple.

This is a great example from yesterdays conversation where anti-apple people are more passionate with their hate than apple fans with their love.

If I had $500 laying around and I wanted a pair of over ear headphones these would be on my shortlist. Not because of image, but without trying them I can say they probably sound great, and will pair/move between my Apple devices with ease. The w1 chip is a game changer if you have multiple apple devices.
To me it was literally the most straightforward Linux distro: RHEL without the license & trademarked material

I've been leaning on Debian-based distros for my own servers for a while now, but I still use CentOS in the lab. Hopefully RedHat provides an easy way to legally develop on RHEL without messing with a license.
That's true, I was more thinking of the smaller, boutique companies he mentioned. Sennheiser had $916mm in 2019 revenues. But consider that Apple is estimated to have close to $18b in total AirPods revenues in 2020. And my point isn't that they "must know nothing about audio," it is that they do not have some kind of monopoly on audio engineering. There is absolutely no reason why a company like Apple can't hire the very best people and give them insane amounts of resources to produce a better product. Also, it's important to remember that Sennheiser has dozens of products (I count 26 over-ear headphones alone on their website) and must spread R&D resources much thinner. Apple focuses all their energy and spend into just a couple of key products.
Yes I'm thinking about fluent design widgets/theme.
It's a ridiculous label to apply to Philip Glass. He would likely reject it himself.

The word "avant-garde" comes up not once in Philip Glass's Wikipedia article [0]. The only uses of the word "experimental" are in reference to his early interest in experimental theater.

Philip Glass is easily the most popular, mainstream living music composer. His music is extremely "listenable," and inoffensive to the casual listener. Calling him avant-garde is a complete disservice to what he has actually accomplished in his career. It's more avant-garde to call Philip Glass avant-garde than his music is avant-garde.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Glass