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Philip was awarded a Kennedy Center Honors in 2018 for lifetime achievement [1]. St Vincent performed one of his pieces from the Mishima film soundtrack on guitar [2], but it has since been removed from the web. If anyone can locate it, please post link.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennedy_Center_Honors#2010s

[2] https://consequenceofsound.net/2018/12/st-vincent-tribute-ph...
For every value product (e.g. the SE lineup), Apple puts out an outrageously priced one like this.

Much like the $129 wireless charger (cable sold separately),it's intended for die-hard fans. Apple user demographic is across the entire economic spectrum so I'm sure that 1) this will sell well and 2) it's a great pair of headphones.

Worth pointing out that this doesn't have any auxiliary ports so you can't use it on airplanes, etc...unless there's an upcoming lightning-to-aux adapter. It feels like a culmination of the "no headphone jack" vision started with the iPhone 7.
Apple will service the battery out of warranty for $79USD.
'Success' and 'Happiness' may be conflated, depending on how Success is defined.

I think it's interesting to focus on Success, and then consider two types: a) Success for personal benefit, b) success achieving a higher purpose.

(Intentionally referencing film characters)

Success for personal benefit may be illustrated by Jordan Belfort in Wolf of Wall Street. He succeeded in becoming, for a while, the type of wealthy person he imagined as a young man that he wanted to become.

Success achieving a higher purpose may be illustrated by Terence Fletcher from Whiplash. He succeeded in turning musicians with talent into accomplished performers.

Both personalities could be considered 'dark'. One succeeded by being a charming pathological liar. The other by dismissing any sense of empathy and driving others with severe, manipulative criticism.

But in the end, it was type a) that eventually flamed out and type b) that had an enduring impact on his profession.

I think the notion of 'how to get the most out of people' actually depends on the people you are trying to get the most out of. Many musicians quit under Terence because the achievement was not worth the suffering along the way. Others were motivated to excellence by his style, and he didn't care that they hated him for it.
It's actually codified in the Canadian Constitution. See paragraph 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inuit
I don't have any resources handily available for that. I would be truly surprised if pi-hole's don't support DoH though so I'd just try searching for something like "enabling DoH on a pihole" or similar.

Basically sounds like you've already done the hardest parts. Your router is redirecting all DNS traffic to your pi-hole, this will prevent any normal unencrypted DNS traffic from leaving your local network. You pi-hole will be in turn making all the DNS requests. If you turn on DoH for the pi-hole all the DNS requests on your network will be encrypted.
More like a passive choice as it’s what is configured out of the box.

And I don’t remember seeing this option in the Bose connect app either.
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Shiiiit. I would to do 3840 x 2160, after getting used to that with HD edition.

So I finally got the NVidia Intel switchover thing working, but it didn't help at all. I have a GTX 950M which is quite a bit worse/older if https://gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Nvidia-GTX-950M-vs-Nvi... is to be trusted. Maybe GPU matters more than I thought, and mine is just too old and crummy? But I thought I read it was still software rendered.
A third book in a similar vein is Lab Girl by Hope Jahren. It's a bit of her own story mixed in with useful info, but you can feel the love she has for the subject.
You'll never get enough credit for that statement. It's exactly why there is a large pushback from the other data collection companies. Once the DOJ can set precedent on one "low hanging fruit", it can start tackling the rest. Sort of like when RICO was first proposed and used. It was a huge issue, but once legitimized in the courts, many organized crime families started to crumble. While org crime is still a problem as it adapted and evolved, they're arguably less influential on a national scale as they used to be pre-RICO. Faang doesn't want the same thing happen to them.
They did say this:
"In the first half of 2021, we will be introducing low- or no-cost programs for a variety of use cases, including options for open source projects and communities, partner ecosystems and an expansion of the use cases of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Developer subscription to better serve the needs of systems administrators and partner developers. We’ll share more details on these initiatives as they become available."

So maybe if this pans out, a lot of projects will now be able to use RedHat EL proper.
Just wanted to mention it sounds cool but it’s pretty hard to use on FF mobile on iOS
I'm not an audio engineer or a musician but I got custom IEMs and they were a great decision for me. My ears don't work with the majority of in-ear style audio devices out there for some reason-- my left ear is fine but everything falls out of my right.

Back when I flew a lot, I could have my IEMs in but not listening to anything and I could barely hear the engines. There was a crying baby behind me and I didn't know until I took them out (while listening to music almost as quietly as my phone would go).

It goes without saying, but they're also incredibly comfortable too.
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Is this just a ploy to get RHEL licensing $$$ while another project emerges to provide what CentOS used to? The whole point of CentOS was to be a carbon copy of RHEL. Then RedHat bought them and now this...

If you successfully fill that void, maybe you too can be acquired by IBM/RH in a few years as they repeat the cycle.
As someone who doesn’t dig much into security fixes, when does a simple crash become exploitable? Because my understanding is that a crash is an indication that something could be exploitable, so how de we know this one isn’t?
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Yep, this is exactly what I expect. I also expect they'll cost $350 by next Black Friday and force the rest of the industry to copy the build quality and some features.
> Growing food also requires tons of fossil fuel etc.

Yes, but I don't think they're doing much of that in the immediate area around Las Vegas (which is what the parents of my original comment were discussing).
IBM needs to grow revenue and they don't innovate. They didn't buy Redhat as a charity. So... you are right...
To which one can ask, what are the consequences of not getting the job done or not being a team player?

I don't see much, but I'm a cynic.
Great article. I'm curious about one thing, if Miguel happens to read this - it seems like early engineering hires are primarily located abroad. Was that strategic - and does it help/hurt with building the engineering culture? Or were they purely financial decisions?
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I think the assumption here is that an educated consumer isn’t going to just buy any $200 piece of junk that calls itself “high end”. They are going to listen to it themselves and/or do research to figure out who is providing true value at any given price point. In that context, your $50 AKG 240’s will definitely sound 2nd rate compared to options at a higher price point (HD6xx series and a couple hundred milliwatt amp would be my favorite example at a $300 price point). I do agree that other features (wireless, vanity, etc) may factor into the decision, as I myself enjoy the decent sound provided by the AirPods Pro given their convenience.
Essentially your memories after the moment has past.

I heard Steve Rinella talking about this as it relates to hunting. He spoke about how there's some trips where you're miserable in the moment (cold, bug-bitten) but when it's all over you have fond memories of the experience and consider it worthwhile.

If you mean specific to Jobs, I don't have any and was just trying to relate to the OP comment, which is why I couched it with the caveat that I have no insight into his psychology. Maybe he generally was happy during the moment and maybe he was actually miserable when reflecting on his life, I have no idea.
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It really depends what time period you're referring to. Maybe broadly we could say that it's music that is either notably ahead of it's contemporaries in terms of innovation or that intentionally breaks out of stylistic models of its time to do something new.

So in those terms, Beethoven was at one point "avant-garde" in that his some of his compositions were so strikingly progressive compared to those of his contemporaries that they stood out. They were "at the front" of musical innovation in that sense.

John Cage started to compose music that intentionally and radically diverted from the trajectory of traditional western art music, so that was considered "avant-garde," although it was so influential, that I'd say much of it has become "canonized" in a way that performing it isn't really innovative of "edgy" in the way it was at it's original reception.

Today I think it's hard to pin down because there aren't really any established traditions that composers are breaking away from like they were at the cusp between the 19th and 20th centuries. I've seen and performed pieces for amplified fluorescent light bulbs, 4 screaming men in loin clothes, and for a solo performer articulating gestures in ASL to a pre-recorded musical track. None of it was scandalous, and some of it was quite good.
This is certainly interesting especially since a lot of us are working from home and ergonomics improvements are welcome. But Lying down is good especially for those with spine problems but I find it problematic to work in more or less a supine position. Blood pressure lowers as compared to the sitting position and this can have effects on work performance and even induce sleepiness. Of course if one has constant back pain this tradeoff might be worth it.
Having said that, I sometimes work from bed and while it is comfy for a while I find that it weakens my body somewhat and try to avoid making a habit out of it.
State owned enterprises is not a bad word. The idea of having state owned enterprises is easy, when there aren't much private investment in any country. State-owned enterprises can be a good choice, especially in capital-intense industry. The side effect of state-owned enterprises is that if the enterprises can lose competitiveness (or never gain), which means they are actually very weak when competing in domestic market. And normally the objective of state-owned enterprises in modern government is to support employment and economy. It is less about control. If I think about the future, when robots take over all jobs, people don't need to work for money, there will be either state-owned company distributing the profit amongst all citizens or company-owned state (i don't know how this is going to work)
I agree with you. The whole "we were here first" argument tends to fall apart at a certain time horizon, almost like there's a statute of limitations on what constitutes "indigenous".
And yet the hospital laying off and furloughing worker.
Steve Reich mentioned a similar anecdote in which an audience member came up to the stage and banged on it with his shoe demanding that the playing be stopped.
This is bad, but the way things were going for the last few years with Red Hat gaining more and more importance in the general linux ecosystem something like that happening was just inevitable.
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The base option on the 16" macbook pro is a AMD Radeon Pro 5300M. Discrete GPUs on the 15" has been standard for I believe many years now. I don't know what the sales breakdown is between the 15" MBP and the 13" & Air, though.
Seems a push for companies to move to RedHat licenses.
>But why labeling them as evil for not following your values?

Because they view those values as inherently good, and thus opposition to those values as inherently bad. If you view freedom of religion or speech as a fundamental human good or need, then naturally a government opposed to (or seen as greatly curtailing) those values will be seen as 'evil'.

On a more human and physical level, people see, say, the Xinjiang camps and view that as reflective of the values of that government, as evil, the same way they may see the immigrant child separation in the US as reflective of its government's values, and as evil. Actions speaking louder than words of intent.
That’s true for 6 as well. I believe there are clauses in Qt’s ownership documents that prevent it from ever becoming closed source without automatically invalidating previous licenses and becoming GPL-only, or something to that effect. The poison-pill was designed when Trolltech first sold away Qt, if i remember correctly.
> I always find the audiophile market to be borderline fraud.

Not all of it is crap.
I am a little confused about the statement of 8000 messages per second. What messages? Sensor readings? 8000 ASCII commands received via UART? To be honest, parsing 8k of data per second is not much at all. I am also wondering why this particular board uses a PIC microcontroller when other multi- core and cheaper variants are available (e.g. ESP32, XMOS, ..).
I can accept the author's argument, but:

1. It absolutely doesn't apply to the case of person A telling person B a joke about person C (or the category to which C belongs), while A and B are not in that category and C is not in an apriori "joking relationship" with them.

2. It is not so difficult for someone from a privileged group to basically decide unilaterally they are in a "joking relationship" with someone else, who is forced into being the butt of jokes.

... and I would say these context are where the offensive jokes are "really" offensive. However, Zizek's point about such jokes allowing issues to surface may still be valid even in this situation.
You still need SREs for using cloud services at large scale, and they can manage more cloud infrastructure per person than if it was colocated
As someone living in the Midwest, I assure you that we do get slandered far more often than San Franciscans and no one bats an eye.
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That would be cool "stick it to the man" trick, but how do we organize?
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If the US were pure Libertarian-esque capitalist, you'd be right.

But we're also a country with medicare and food stamps and we recognize pure capitalism isn't flawless. Had a company like GM been allowed to fail suddenly then entire major cities would have seen unemployment go up 3x or 4x, and that's a lot of people who don't have jobs in a city that just lost it's primary industry. Most of those people are not white collar professionals who can hop over to SV - there are very limited jobs building cars.

As a country where we do sometimes engage in non-capitalist behavior (FDIC insurance, jobs programs, so on) it's sometimes more efficient to prop up a bad business and let it fail slowly then to entirely take a hands off approach.
That's still orders of magnitude more goods crossing a border without a quarentine period than you get from air freight to Aus/NZ
The more likely scenario is that the next decades gains are just going to be priced in. Speculators think that Tesla will be a 1T company (in 2020 dollars) by the end of the 2020s, and I don't disagree, but a lot has to go right for that to be true. That means if it hits 1T within the next year, I suspect they'll have a decade of stagnation like the tech companies did after the dotcom bubble.

But also, the fact that I have to stress that the valuation is in 2020 dollars should tell us all we need to know about this current market and the valuations we're seeing. Flood the markets with dollars, and you'll have outlandish valuations.
Please recommend more amazing headphones that meet the basic specs that the NCH 700/WX-/AirPods Max have:

- 20 hours battery life

- wireless

- noise cancellation

- has microphone(s)

Does audio quality matter that much when they have to work with bluetooth where the bandwidth will be halved whenever you have to use the microphone?
My problem is that subscriptions have crossed over into the consumer space to become a tax on whatever it is you use the software for.

Take photoshop... I'm not a professional graphic artist, and I have need for PS maybe once a year at most. Depending on the importance of that need and my desire to own the software it might justify a onetime purchase. But with their subscription model it just isn't worth it.

One of the things I liked about the old model was it put professional tools into the hands of amateurs if they were willing to save up their money. Now, instead, you pay a yearly tax that is not insignificant for no real gain
If we really want to be part of a modern world with freedom of access to information, there needs to be some way for people in the United States to communicate with people in China. If US social media companies are banned in China, that means the US needs to allow Chinese social media companies to operate in the US.

Completely removing all the ways for less-tech-savvy people in the US and China to communicate feels like setting the US back to before the global internet. It's not protecting US interests, it's breaking apart friends and families who have no other way set up to stay in contact.
It becomes almost unusable when you connect the third device.
This blows my mind, because why would a customer come back when they're treated like that? Oh right, because they don't have anywhere else to go.

For the last several years, I've gotten my mobile service through an MVNO named Ting. On the rare occasion that I've needed to call support, there's no IVR, just a human who typically answers on the second ring. They speak native English, and have never failed to solve my problem either immediately or with one prompt escalation.

They're so jarringly competent I wonder how they still exist, if being obnoxiously incompetent is apparently a business requirement.
The correct answer will be reverse, get rid of SNI completely and enforce ESNI everywhere.

Most bad entity now only need to block ESNI, and then the client will happily fallback to plain SNI.

If everyone enforce ESNI only, then it is not gonna going to work.

Just like nowadays, a browser can't view https site is completely useless because most of sites on internet were already encrypted(and the percentage is only going to be more) no matter how useful/useless the site is.
They work fine on older Apple hardware, as well. The older versions of iOS just don't auto-pair, can't support spatial audio, etc.
It's hard to replace all the people who were paid to maintain CentOS without another corporation stepping in. Large software projects like this unfortunately don't happen in a vacuum.
Have another look at that internals picture (which is a render so take it with a grain of salt), they appear to be using an extremely unconventional arrangement of a rigid cone driven by two linear motors mounted at 45 degree angles to the driver axis.
A rigid cone is challenging but a goal in many high-priced designs (less so for headphones but definitely in speaker drivers with say carbon fibre drivers).

Dual actuators mounted like that could be interesting for spatial audio and may also be used to overcome some of the challenges with suspending rigid driver cones.

In other words it should be interesting to see the reviews...
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ehhh I'd say mostly solved. The problem of turning a recording into a perfect sound-wave replication is actually not easy, because the physical world is annoying with heat and friction and and physics.

I'd say 24/96 is comfortably the "end game solved problem" quality for source recordings though, not CD. Even if it is just for the baseline safety margin that it is easier to implement perfect filters with no transition bands anywhere near the audible frequencies, and that additional bit precision has no downside unless you get into accuracy problems with noise on the recording side.

From the speaker point of view, I think IEMs are the closest to being "solved", since the tiny drivers minimize the physics issues with larger drivers, they are probably closest to pure reproduction. For full-size speakers etc., pure reproduction can be accomplished for certain frequency ranges by individual drivers, but over the full range it is not so "solved", e.g. with bass there is often a physics issue with the kinetics of moving a large driver cone in perfect phase-sync with the relatively tiny and light tweeter.

I've actually been wondering if speaker cones are a possible application for graphene.
Commercial aircraft were also totally unreasonable for quite a time after Wright's first flight in 1903.

Musk has explicitly stated that a "safety first" attitude does not get people to Mars. His hierarchy of action is "don't panic", not yet specified, "safety third, maybe". This philosophy is hard to implement in modern day America, but the attitude is part of what allows Elon Musk and the people that work with him to do what they do.
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Not obvious who would use CentOS Stream.
> At first, it seems like an easy, clear-cut problem to solve. We all use recliners, we all use desks, we all use chairs...surely, you can just take a part from this and a piece from that and call it done. Well, we tried all that and came up with prototypes that kind of worked, at best.

What about pointing a projector to the ceiling above the bed and using a split keyboard?

Another idea could be setting up a monitor with an arm[1] attached to some furniture or wall at the head of the bed.

Making use of the bed seems both easier and more space efficient.

[1] https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=monitor+arm&iax=images&ia=i...