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The α-gal story is one I continue to enjoy learning about. If you haven't listened to it yet, RadioLab has an excellent episode on the topic: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/alpha...
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For the record, the best headphones in the world are the Sony MDR-7506s, which sell for less than $100 in the US. These are well-known in the audio production and musician world and are prized for their accuracy, frequency response, comfort, and output. I’ve tried plenty of other high-end cans including a few $1000+ audiophile-realm models but just didn’t connect with any of them. In fact, I’ve owned many pairs over the past 2 decades and I just keep buying these when the get too tattered. I still have my first pair and they still sound as good as the day I bought them.
>but I can't really NFC back to my PC as easily

It should be doable with an NFC sticker switch. (With NFC Tasks on Android, for example.)
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It's a money grab, pure and simple. They've (Redhat, let alone IBM) done it before (see below).

What happens in practice with this sort of "rolling release" is users end up patching endlessly in production, which no sane person or organization would ever want to do. This was the exact situation for another Redhat acquisition for years now. JBoss EAP and community editions (wildfly now I suppose), everyone who could moved off of JBoss long ago.
And the fact that everyone is getting its name wrong is further evidence that Sony is terrible at naming things. It's a miracle the two new models of PlayStation aren't the PS-1000XM5 and PS-1000XM5D.

Same experience as the other commenters with my XM3s, sound great, battery life is great, USB-C charging is great (AirPods Max use Lightning again, thanks Apple), but the touch controls are really bad, using with multiple devices is annoying (XM4 improves the experience with two devices, but will still suck with more, maybe even worse because god knows how you manage which slot gets unpaired when you pair to a third device).

> AirPods Max come with a soft, slim Smart Case that puts AirPods Max in an ultralow power state that helps to preserve battery charge when not in use.

Let me tell you about power buttons: you hold the button, and then you can keep your battery from dying without having to carry around a special case.

AirPods Max are probably really nice, but have enough stupid Apple things on them that I wouldn't be looking at them unless they were the same price as Sony's.
The iPhone 8/X generation turned a lot of people off because of its totally unaffordable pricing. The 8, which took the entry-level spot but was essentially a previous-model phone, cost $700, and the X was $1k. They’ve made this mistake before.

The only possible saving grace that I can see is that it’s an image strategy: price a product very high in the first generation to build an “exclusive” image, then lower its price over time to increase sales.
> This is an assumption. Proof please, because I haven't seen any.

If tiktok is a US app. And not a china app. Then any content negative towards china would not be removed. Which happens daily. Whole pro china and anti America content stays. That’s propaganda.
neither has to be.
Apple announces new AirPods Max, over-the-ear headphones costing £549
> Entropy waits for no man.

"I am no man!" — Eowyn
> I flew with the Pakistan Air Force in the war with India

That surprised me (as I'm too young to remember anything about the cold war), but the US siding with a country that was committing genocide in an effort to prevent a people from self determination. Pakistan killed millions of people and raped hundreds of thousands of women in their campaign, and it seems the US navy not only didn't condemn it, but actually supported it (including sending in a war fleet on the side of the genocidal marauders)

It sickens me.
These apps have been re-built from the ground up in accordance with Chinese rules to work in China and the source code of these apps has been completely disclosed to the Chinese Communist apparatus.

Do you think any one of those apps is authorized to make API calls out of China?

API calls, not phone calls yorwba
I had a different experience. Worked at a startup, money was tight and the product had to be developed. It was stressful, but it felt great after it was done. Granted, I wouldn't necessarily try it again and not for a large corporation to that level, but I think this is typical for any R&D project, maybe software in particular.

It is just difficult to determine how long things will take in the end. I think it is great they did change the release date and not cut corners.

We did get a lot of free time in exchange after crunch and I think there has to be appreciation. I am sure developers are looking to a relaxed Christmas in the end.
Apple has made excellent headphones in the past, and at a competitive price point. For a long time their IEMs were a strongly recommended option for people who wanted excellent headphones at a pretty reasonable price. It's entirely possible that these headphones will also be competitive with headphones from other established companies that sell for a higher price. This is the same company that just brought us the M1, so we know they have hired plenty of engineering talent.
I mean, if you just want highly credentialed people saying they believe they've seen evidence of extraterrestrial spacecraft or life, you can look at Senate Majority leader Harry Reid, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence Christopher Mellon, a ton of former astronauts, Arizona Gov. Fife Symington, Sen. Mike Gravel, Representative Roscoe Bartlett, former Canadian Defense Minister Paul Hellyer. Really it's pretty shocking people dont't care. That's just a short list I was able to remember / google my way to.
The magic comes from proprietary protocols. My airpods pro switch devices intuitively, but when I pair them to my windows laptop with bluetooth things don’t work so smoothly anymore and they are just as cumbersome as any bluetooth headset. I think the core problem of bluetooth headsets is the bluetooth spec itself makes it impossible to deliver a good UX.

This isn’t just apple either. My logitech mouse is paired to my laptop via their dongle, and to my desktop via bluetooth. On the laptop the connection is rock-solid, on the desktop it loses the connection once or twice a day for a few seconds.

I’m convinced the problem is bluetooth itself, not the device makers.
Oddly, the Linked-in SRE interview is more challenging, than this.
Can you provide an example of a comment sufficiently technical to be worthy?
Then when not offer a perpetual fallback license? If you want to ship your product with version 6.1 and don't want to pay more for 6.2, so long as you paid for 6 months of 6.1 you should be able to use it (without support) for as long as you want.

Works for JetBrains.
Wow! I admire American democracy, it's institutions especially courts are super functional.

In India, this is unthinkable. District courts won't go against even the state chief ministers. And the supreme court has been showing its feet of clays lately.
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Ron Fricke, the man behind Baraka and Samsara, was the director of photography (and writer, editor) for Koyaanisqatsi. I would keep in mind how novel Koyaanisqatsi was for its time, and that Baraka and Samsara are mere evolutions on a revolutionary film.
Yes, this. However, maybe that is not a bad thing. Many purchasers will try these out in a store and be amazed by the incredible sound. Probably most will have never heard headphone sound of that quality. They will plunk down their card and bring them home. They will then enjoy an entirely new experience with all their favorite music and more. Given Apple's history of very high customer satisfaction numbers, most of these customers will have a positive, enjoyable experience and be happy with their purchase.

Could they have had a great listening experience with a more established audio name? Sure, but so what. Those companies failed to reach these customers. Apple will sell them a new listening experience (for them) and they will love it. If they don't love it, they will return the product. That's how it works. No good or evil, just products and customers. If the customers like them and find value Apple will sell a lot of headphones. If not, these will go on the trash heap of other failed Apple products. Customers always have the final say.
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> the main draw of this product is seamless integration rather than pure audio quality, and the question is whether you're willing to pay a (substantial) premium for that. I expect that many will be.

The main draw is that it's an Apple product, and it is yet another way for the rich and spoiled to signal their wealth
Something about the beef sensitivity (possibly caused by a confirmed tick bite) seemed to cause the situation to spiral into more food intolerances. Symptoms started to mimic others with an MTHFR mutation. That mutation results in less production of some enzyme that metabolizes folate into another form (eventually leading to the form I posted 5-something-or-other). Taking that supplement allows you to bypass the folate conversion metabolic pathway.

How does this all fit together? I'm not entirely sure, this is an emerging area of research, I can only share what worked for the person I know. This MTHFR business seems to be related to histamine levels as well, that methlylated folate seems to be used by the liver to metabolize histamine. This seems to be directly related to allergic immune responses.

Hypothesis: Most people can tolerate the small amount of immune response triggered by the a-gal protein. People with MTHFR mutations cannot. The exact causative pathway, TBD.
I'm curious what price range you feel a library like Qt can justify?

(genuine question, I'm doing a bit of market research in this area)
Proprietary blue tooth implementation most likely?
Also, if you're going to automate bots on a large scale (for resource farming or just interfering with other players), Linux makes more sense for the same reasons it makes sense for other server based software. Combined with a lower player count, devs decide actual Linux gamers are acceptable collateral damage sometimes.

Or anti-cheats looking for unusual factors of the execution environment that might indicate cheats using DLL hooking, or just something wine does differently to windows.
Out of curiosity, which apps do you use that come packaged in a snap? My Ubuntu 20.04 tells me this:

$ snap list
Name Version Rev Tracking Publisher Notes
canonical-livepatch 9.5.5 95 latest/stable canonical -
core 16-2.48 10444 latest/stable canonical core
core18 20200929 1932 latest/stable canonical base
gnome-3-28-1804 3.28.0-19-g98f9e67.98f9e67 145 latest/stable canonical -
gnome-3-34-1804 0+git.3556cb3 60 latest/stable canonical -
gtk-common-themes 0.1-50-gf7627e4 1514 latest/stable/… canonical -
snap-store 3.38.0-55-geb45541 498 latest/stable/… canonical -

I think it's the bare minimum before utterly removing all support for snaps [1].

I installed everything I need either as .deb or docker. BTW, slack has a deb on its download page.

I installed another 20.04 on my old laptop from 2006 yesterday because I read that its kernel would finally support again the old ATI X1600 graphic card. It does. When I run emacs and thunderbird from terminal it told me "command not found" and something along the lines of do you want to install as a snap or with apt? I run the apt commands.

[1] https://www.kevin-custer.com/blog/disabling-snaps-in-ubuntu-...
Is your point that the music is bad because it can function as background music and doesn’t require active listening to enjoy? Or that the music is good but the listeners are bad as they play it in the background?

Would your opinion of his music be any different if you were alive when it came out? He is so influential that when you listen all you hear is a tired old style, which would never exist without him.
How expensive could it be to rent your own truck and deliver it yourself to a fedex/ups sorting center? Seems weird that retailers are complaining over a $100 cost (very generous estimate) spread over 100+ packages.
I didn't realize the latency on AirPods was that bad. That actually explains a lot of the difficulties I have with phone calls on them. (One of my hats is "audio engineer", and two people on AirPods plus transmission delay has to get up into the 350-450ms range, and that definitely is fatiguing given that my ears are always cued to this.)

Back to holding my phone against my face, I guess.
Honestly as someone with $4,000 in-ear headphones that are just beautiful, the AirPods are great. I mean, subjectively crappy on any 1 on 1 dimension vs some competitor on the audiophile forums, but they sync, charge fast, shift between devices, etc.

My usage is 50/50.

Plus, the old apple stuff was hilariously bad on certain sound things; but it’s clear they’ve focused on it, and usually that means it’s fine.
It's possible you had a Tylenol 3 or 4 (or 1,2) which are paracetamol + codeine. Not the strongest painkiller but more than anything OTC.
every social media app. I'm sure the Android calculator app is permitted.

Funny you bring up Skype because in China they get a special version that enables the CCP to surveil your "private" communications for dissent. I'm sure other communications apps are similar, or plain blocked. For example telegram is banned, although Signal is still allowed for now (maybe it's under the radar).
Is there a Linux version of Half Life Alyx without Proton?
"Magic" syncing, spatial audio, and transparency mode are likely top three.

Many people didn't see how iPhone was better than its competitors at first either, mostly because they were focused on the things the competitors emphasized and dismissive about what Apple brought to the table. Until, of course, those things because all any company was trying to deliver.
Ah, my mistake...I attributed a portion of the general topic to your comment (ah, the sweet irony)!

Rather than far right, I actually meant the subculture that you (seemed) to be referring to. But your last response here well illustrates that you seem to appreciate the complexity (and uncertainty) of the system, which is the fundamental idea I was hoping to introduce into the memeplex.
It might be as primitive as people naturally preferring to sit on a high place and looking down.
"Design belongs to management" is actually the best case for work broken down into itty bitty tasks. The worst case is "design only happens in the sense of figuring out how to hang the new thing off the side".

Agile coding is supposed to contain refactoring where the existing system is redesigned to be more coherent, after each step of mere accretion. But this is never treated by management as equally important to the task-work, so it always gets bumped.
>> the Pro doesn't really mean for Professionals

That is a problem. That it is continually brought up to the point that you're bringing it up in advance in attempt to dismiss it means it's so much of a problem that it shouldn't be dismissed.

The branding is just wrong. No, it's not an 'iPad Pro', if I can't run 'Logic Pro', Apple's own 'Pro' software on it. It's not a 'MacBook Pro', if it has the same goddamn SOC as the MacBook Air. (You can order an Air with the identical 8-core processor as the Pro)

A consumer could easily make the mistake of buying an iPad Pro, reasonably thinking it could run Logic Pro, only to find out that it can't.
I’m curious of what is the quantifiable difference between those price brackets. It’s especially confusing to me how people are buying in ear headphones and spending hundreds of dollars and somehow getting a better sound than $50 ones.
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Yes it does. Clearly the OP wanted Apple, since otherwise they wouldn’t have made reference to ‘stopping Apple’ affecting them.

If they didn’t want Apple, they wouldn’t care if Apple was stopped.
If the mic on the AirPods max is anything like the AirPods Pro it will be hot garbage as well.
> Apple's products don't break down by themselves but Beats do.

Except the cables, which are terrible. I have two broken charger cables for a MacBook and a MacBook Pro, a thunderbolt cable from an Apple Thunderbolt Display, a Mac Pro power cord, an iPad charger cable and a couple of old wired earphones. All broken where the cables bend.
Do you know what the CAP theorem is, and can explain it to me like I'm 5? Can you tell me how a SQL DB fits into it, and where something like DynamoDB fits into it?

Congratulations, you are better than 95% of the people that I've interviewed out there saying they are experienced building distributed systems. Including system/solution architects.
I think there's also a sort of a tension with this approach of little tasks with little trust and the complexities of modern code. Many small tasks involve a pretty in-depth understanding of a large stack to do correctly. This understanding is not easily developed if the programmers are not encouraged and empowered to explore how things work and having little trust in them is the opposite of encouragement.

So at the end programmers have "small" tasks but they end up being ill equipped to solve and become despondent.
If you think about how big many ocean going sail ships have been, its not that different. The Viking Dragon ships didn't even have decks and they went all around the world with them.
I thought this was going to be about machine learning. It would be really useful for generalizing Ml models as well
Take a look in buster-updates (or any X-updates for older ones).

I guess there are only so many ways to organize a distro.
This will be the new trendy way to do Zoom calls.
No, not at all. People routinely develop on OS X and deploy on Linux without issue.

Here, though, i just meant that i can develop on Ubuntu 18.04, build on CentOS 6, and deploy on RHEL 7 without issue.
Ask HN: Did Captcha suddenly get terrible for you, also?
I've noted that over the last week, Captcha is requiring a ~5s transition between each click, and multiple iterations of image identification, all across multiple browsers and machines. It's at the point where I've just given up and walked away on several sites. Is this the new normal?
>"... stunning over-ear design ..."

I guess I have different taste as I do not see anything stunning in this design.
Unlike most other dual licensed software, Qt Company has legally binding agreement with KDE related to LGPL licensed version.

What they have done in last year is to retreat to the minimum they need to do to comply. They can't stop distributing the LGPL version or alter the deal anymore.

Unlike what you hear you can make commercial closed source software and link LGPL binaries dynamically or statically, makes no difference. You just need to have to provide linkable object files to comply. Just stuff them into some /gpl_comply/ directory and be done with it.
Ah, I see you have experience in enterprise environments.
I've added a guide here to help you figure out the impact on chatbots specifically: https://medium.com/chatlayer/breaking-facebook-messenger-api...
I had a project assigned that I was completely responsible for, except that every technical and architectural decision was made for me. As I became more familiar with the project I raise concerns about these choices as they introduced maintainability and performance issues, but was overruled and told to stay the course. The project was a failure.

I feel like if you're not coding a project, your opinion on it is less valuable and should be secondary to the primary contributor. After all, the manager doesn't maintain a project. The person who built it does.
Have you used a pair of ANC headphones?
North Korea executes tens of thousands of dissidents every year. The Bush administration tries to hold one person without habeas corpus, and all of a sudden the Supreme Court's up his ass. What's the deal with that!
Like 5 year old? Well, I have consulting business and sell solutions based on QT5. I can not use QT6, because it is impossible to buy a license for QT6.
I don't see a problem with a subscription model for development, but requiring a perpetual license as long as you distribute your Qt-reliant software is insane in my mind. The software is built. It's not getting any benefit from future Qt improvements or bug fixes.

It's amazing how many people in this thread are not only defending this, but talking about how great this licensing model is.

I'm guessing all these people have startups (or ideas for startups) that rely on gouging customers with never-ending subscription models.

I personally think subscription licensing models is the worst thing to happen to the software industry. I miss being able to purchase and own copies of software. I recently stopped using any Adobe apps and moved my entire workflow over to the Affinity suite. I prefer to support developers who don't rip-off their consumers
You can actually get a new pair of XM4s for $278 from Amazon. It's so much cheaper than the AirPods Max that you can buy a pair of AirPods Pro to go along with them and still have money left over.

And I doubt this is just any special price. The XM3s were always below MSRP.
I don't know - on the other side of the coin imagine if no data was collected. It would be near impossible for companies to do any sort of troubleshooting or QA.

Taking it a step further, it'd also be significantly more difficult for them to understand their audience and users... which could actually make the experience worse for those users.

Even in the more nefarious case of ad-tech, I'd personally prefer more relevant ads than generic non-relevant ones.

I'm not saying all data collection is fine and well intentioned, but I also don't think it is necessarily as zero-sum as people think.

I do think when data gets licensed or shared w/ 3rd parties it should be more clear how it gets used.
Very true, I'm still waiting for my 80% solar panels.
of course they don't advertise the per-device royalty for embedded - do you (or anyone else here) have an idea what it costs?
I totally agree that the pro headphone market, for actual content production ie. music, timed editing etc. needs to have below - i would say 20 ms.

Personally i think it's the BT standard though as i have been looking far and wide for actual good "live performance" headphones.

If anyone knows why Bluetooth is so horridly bad i'm all ears, my previous post taken into consideration where i can literally stream 10MBps video with 16ms latency including decoding over a normal WiFi router.
I was pleasantly surprised watching the tv show Devs when they made very effective use of "Come out"
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In my experience Californians move to a new area, often more rural or with a differing local culture and want the same chain-store consumerist culture they left behind in California. And sure, there may be some political differences between their old home and the new place but it's more about the lack of respect for where they're moving and pushing their old culture onto the new place with no disregard to what made the new place nice in the first place. Change is inevitable so I can't complain about it too much but there are fewer and fewer places to escape to that aren't becoming Californicated. Or New Yorkified. Or Floridiated.
Stop giving me 5000 line PRs. I get you are doing the jobs of five people, and maybe you haven’t mellowed on the Adderall yet, but I hate these reviews and I’m not doing as good a job as I otherwise could.
That's insane. Back in the day you bought Photoshop (a tool) and could use it forever. You bought a tool you could use.

Now you need a subscription to keep using your tool? You need permanent Internet access, to keep using your tool? You need t keep paying to access you files?

This is why Affinity Photo will probably end up taking more and more market share away from Adobe's products.