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> Another post in this thread backs up entirely my point that this is music to be played in the background, not thoroughly consumed and heard

Those two are not necessarily exclusive. I enjoy some kinds of
songs as background music as well as by itself. Why would I
listen to background music that I wouldn't like otherwise?

> I hope to provide a counter-point to The Guardian, which is neither an authority on music nor the broader culture.

Neither are you. Or anyone else except the individual person
deciding what they want to listen to.
> You forgot that Apple owns Bose

Majority owner of Bose Corporation is MIT, yes, that MIT:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bose_Corporation
Of course they have no advantage in batteries, controllers, brand recognition, or efficiency, this is why their stock is only so so.
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Exactly.

As stated in https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/centos-stream-building-innova... (linked from the article):

"CentOS Stream now sits between the Fedora Project’s operating system innovation and RHEL’s production stability"

So if we compare to Debian, this means:

Fedora <=> Debian unstable (Sid)

CentOS Stream <=> Debian testing (currently Bullseye)

RHEL <=> Debian stable (currently Buster)
I get that, but then surely that policy is not discriminatory, what would seem to be be discriminatory would be the hiring practices of Salesforce? It just doesn't seem a valid line of attack -- yes I'm definitely lacking context, but sans that context it reads as sour grapes.
Your assumption is indeed correct, see the original article in joule. https://www.cell.com/joule/fulltext/S2542-4351(20)30516-X?_r...
Any stock has a lower bound of 0 and no upper bound, so the answer is of course that no one knows.
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Ep6CIsW7r4Q/VaNXuMjLvaI/A...

But are those real goats or decoy goats?
Huh? Apple doesn't own Bose.
I see, so it is not the kind of situation when you need to consider getting mortgage to pay off the medical bill.
It was just an example. General advice I heard is that when you can't go to GP and walk-in is either too far away or closed, you can go to A&E or call 111 for instructions.
> does that give one group an authority on taste

What the hell? I never made any such comment on the subjective experiences of listeners.

You can enjoy music and know it's "junk food." I like listening to plenty of bad music. I don't judge anyone for what they enjoy.

To call Philip Glass a master of his domain, a rightfully-celebrated contributor to Western art music, or any of this other crap - that's what I take issue with. Enjoy his music all you want - it's all available and in print, and his various corporate music labels make sure of that. Just don't mislead others who may actually take HN users at their word.
Ah, i kinda agree. My former employer developed and sold an editorial suite architected in about 1999-2000 around the SOA model (along with corba) and later evolved through the years.

So basically some monoliths playing together.

I've always been admiring that design and how much it could do and handle with so little resources.

Most times for a whole editorial newsroom a single 48c/128gb machine can be more than enough.

They were particularly smart on avoiding relational databases and sticking to an object database (Versant oodbms, another mostly unknown marvel of software engineering).

That software, even with its shortcomings, was really a great piece of software engineering.
Oh, wow. My whole extended family has CentOS on their machines for years because of LTS. Not sure what I'm going to replace it with now and how. Perhaps there's going to be Fedora LTS at some point soon. I sure hope Fedora is not the next casualty.

IBM strikes again.
Disagree, it's crap with all the phantom breaking. I rather drive a car equipped with Mobileye.

I think Tesla are good cars and the model 3 has a good value in its price range and provides the best package overall. The network is also a big advantage in some countries.
It's not necessary for the Thunderbird team to do it, there are paid plugins for Thunderbird. I'd happily pay for a decent plugin if it is developed properly.
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No! Solving the SNI problem is far from enough.

The server IP address can be easily correlated with the domain for 90% of Internet traffic.
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As someone how has lived in both cities, I can say I felt unsafe way more often in SF than Chicago. Chicago's crime is gang related and isolated to a part of the city kind of disconnected from the main hub. But in SF the craziness is in the nice areas, I have had to deal with way too many violent mentally unstable people there, in fact I remember one of the two years I lived there a British woman randomly got a kitchen knife jabbed through her skull. In SF you're dealing with a large number of seriously mentally ill going to and from work.
This kind of egregious injustice happens daily.

This will, too.
That's awesome!

If anyone at Valve is reading, I think this would be an excellent feature for Proton or the Steam client.
At or below around $1k, price is a decent proxy for sound quality in headphones if you stay away from the trashy consumer stuff e.g. Beats, Raycons. Audiophile snake oil crap (e.g. ionic crystal cable risers, brass pyramids, $10k USB cables) isn’t really part of the same market.

High quality wireless headphones tend to come with a price premium and sound not quite as good, which seems fair since they are generally closed-back and have to drive a DAC and amp off a relatively small battery. At $549 these had better sound really good but I wouldn’t necessarily expect hur-dur-six-hundo level of audio quality.

Generally I find the “Apple tax” worth paying for consumer gear if it’s something I can actually make use of. I’ll be very interested to see how these stack up, but unless they’re the second coming of headphone Jesus I already have enough headphones.
> It's a ridiculous label to apply to Philip Glass.

I disagree.

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

What's that meant to show? I opened the first four references on that Wikipedia article and all contained the phrase 'avant-garde':

[1]https://www.biography.com/musician/philip-glass

>Philip Glass is an Oscar-nominated avant-garde composer whose notable works include 'Einstein on the Beach,' 'The Hours' and 'Notes on a Scandal.'

[2]https://nymag.com/news/features/influentials/16903/

>Took the avant-garde mainstream, offering hope and inspiration to countless composer-followers.

[3]https://www.theguardian.com/education/2001/nov/24/arts.highe...

>The project that would propel Glass from downtown New York notoriety to international stardom came in 1976 - an avant-garde music theatre collaboration with theatre visionary Robert Wilson"

[4]https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9ugCQfxwym0C/page/n5/mode...

OK, this one doesn't use the phrase in reference to Glass.
I've wanted Apple to be more proactive with making DNS more secure and now they're doing it. Everyone on iCloud should be able to use ODoH.
My worry isn't addressed by this study: Some portion of people with dark personality traits start from a privileged position.

If someone's parent is the head of a company, or even well-connected, "achiev[ing] less and [being] considered poor team players" are much less of an impediment. If someone can effectively skip or get more slack in passing through the career levels for which dark traits are a disadvantage, they'll likely do quite well once they're at the top.
The Philip Glass Mishima string quartets by the Smith Quartet are pretty nice if you havent heard them. From the soundstrack to a film about Mishima, who was also being discussed on HN the other week

String Quartet No.3: "Mishima": "Blood Oath"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXf77yY8qVg

String Quartet No.3: "Mishima": "1957: Award Montage"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJE7I8GfOaY
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It's much more likely that the desire to burn churches makes you more likely to make black metal/be a black metal fan than that black metal makes you want to burn churches.

It's reverse causation, kind of.
Yeah, that's a big part of it. I've had BT headphones before my Airpods, and I really kinda hated them all. They were just clunky and awkward to use. Airpods changed my expectation around that kind of listening.

The competition for a $549 Apple over-ear ANC headphone is, realistically, $300-$400 over-ear ANC headphones from everyone else. Because user experience and usability matter a LOT; I'd definitely pay a premium to avoid all the goofy crap that goes with "regular" Bluetooth.
These already require Big Sur? Not even a year in, an Apple is already making it a requirement for the rest of the ecosystem? How do the fanbois do it? They are frankly being herded as cattle with no negotiation leverage or power within a system seeking to milk them at every level.
> On the other hand Red Hat does offer RHEL for free (gratis) [0] and that should fill the needs of CENTOS users (right?)

They offer a no-cost "developer subscription" of RHEL, but I'd wager the majority of users are running CentOS on servers.
many people also plainly abhor when other people refuse to think.

Yes, many do not put as much thought into their purchase as you think is warranted. That is something you’re just going to have to quit obsessing over. Or here’s a thought to keep you up at night: I put more thought into the decision to buy a pair of Beats than you put into not buying them, and I still bought them anyway. You’d buy some to, if only you’d quit being an anti-Apple zealot and think about it.
There are several different ways these figures are collected and reported.

As for the cause of death, FullFact has this to say:

When completing a death certificate, the responsible medical professional is asked to determine which conditions may have contributed to death. They are also asked to determine “the disease or injury that initiated the train of events directly leading to death” and this is called the “underlying cause”.[0]

So deaths that were caused by COVID-19 will be reported as such, and that's different from the number of people that died with COVID-19.

Note also that it's a criminal offence to knowingly report an incorrect cause of death on a death certificate.

[0] https://fullfact.org/health/causes-of-death-october-2020/
Microsoft does support Windows 7 through the Extended Security Updates (ESU) program which last utill 2023 and 2024 for the Windows Embedded POSReady 7

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/faq/extended-secu...

Moreover Microsoft just released .NET 5 with Windows 7 support.

https://github.com/dotnet/core/blob/master/release-notes/5.0...
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Pricing is rarely an issue. People spend stupid amount of money to show their status, if anything it's a feature
Is there a free non-developer, i.e. home version of RHEL without any subscription/registration?
Adobe Lightroom is now native for Apple Silicon and Windows Arm
I've never seen a character system quite like it, especially running on the web. Love that you can actually grab the resulting 3D asset from it in addition to the render provided.

So what's next for it? Integrations into games?
I decided not to source my suppliers in China.

Having a gigantic conglomerate in control of my supply chain is too risky.

I think that's how we need to look at Chinese companies. Are you willing to deal with the biggest company in the world?

Although most humans are not going to understand that the CCP owns 51% of every company. And if they do, even less are going to understand the implications.

As a result you can have networks formed out of ignorance.
Well celebrities were tested before frontline workers.
> Seems reasonable? As long as you're getting benefit from Qt by distributing software using it you need to keep paying for it?

No, the reasonable model (as someone how's shipped commercial libraries and researched the market) is that subscription gates support and future updates. So as long as the subscription is active you get updates, patches and support. Once it passes you're kept on old version. It's fair to the seller (keeps a steady revenue stream and most customers will want to keep the subscription for updates anyway) and fair to the customer (they can't be easily extorted with price hikes and their software doesn't get sabotaged by external subscription pricing).
It seems like you are arguing against yourself now. If the phenomenon you describe is real, and you think it's also present in audiophile circles, then you agree with the post you replied to in the first place.

Your earlier allusion to "not program the computer" is a bit strange. Nobody is saying "stop listening to music".

It's fine to spend a little extra on actual good quality headphones. Or to push for certain software design for good/pragmatic reasons.

It's less fine if the headphones are completely overpriced because of unsubstantiated claims or unproven features. Same as it is less fine to push for some software design because of infatuation/obsession/narcissism despite significant downsides.
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It's likely the chain of custody for fish and critical medical supplies will be somewhat different.
I mean when you think about it in the grand scheme of things luggage isn't secure anyway, you can just cut through the fabric and other materials if you're so inclined to steal someones belongings from their luggage.
Headphones don’t require a treated room to sound excellent. Speakers will engage the natural acoustics of whatever space they live in and comb filtering will result. Almost always a great pair of headphones will beat a great pair of speakers in a listening test.
I don't understand anything about Tesla valuation anymore. It's like watching Theranos and Enron (Tesla is currently 10x Enron market cap at peak) happen at an even larger scale from memes and hope and hero worship and fuzzy math. It's 2.6x Toyota's market cap now and Toyota made 24x as many cars in 2019. I don't see any way "future performance" can make those numbers ever work. And I assume that is why they keep shoveling this crap to retail investors.
This is the reason why i buy Apple stocks.
By an order of magnitude or two, yeah. In addition to the very pricey speakers and receiver, you also, at that point, need fine control over room shape and acoustics, as well as more space than any apartment is likely to provide, in order to get the benefit of what you're paying for. Headphones are a much more controlled and thus easily engineered environment, so it's a lot cheaper and easier to get equivalent quality, albeit with a necessarily narrower soundstage in almost all cases.

The $450 I paid for my endgame headphone/amp/DAC wouldn't even get you in the door of an audiophile speaker place.
Both of those links lead to insults to my EE education.
Congrats you discovered discovered minimal music.

Clearly looking at his age he is already an elder. Nevertheless he definitely qualifies as avant- Garde. You can compose listenable pieces and be avant- garde
Yes of course, we have to lower ourselves down to China's level otherwise we're weak.

I guess also ignore China then pointing to the US and saying "our behaviour is fine, even the US does it."
From their FAQ [0]:

Q4: How will CVEs be handled in CentOS Stream?

A: Security issues will be updated in CentOS Stream after they are solved in the current RHEL release.

So a "front runner" for bugs but not security issues.

[0]: https://centos.org/distro-faq/
The price is high at $549 however given Apple's proven audio engineering I will give them the benefit of the doubt on sound quality on par with similarly priced headphones from Sennheiser, etc. I mean have you heard the speaker quality on the 16" MacBook Pro?! Literally no other laptop sounds as good.

My biggest concern is if they are user serviceable. I have a pair of Sennheiser that cost around £700 when I bought them 16 years ago. Granted they are not wireless but I can and have repaired them with parts directly from Sennheiser.

I doubt I will be able to do that with the AirPods Max which is a concern. At this price point I expect them to last at least ten years and there is no chance a battery will last that long so if it is not replaceable I can't see why I would buy these over an alternative in the same price range.

Sure they have some "cool" features but that does not justify a product that will most likely have a battery in need of replacement in 3-4 years becoming worthless.

Edit: OMFG They use Lightning for charging not USB-C?! WTF are Apple doing :(
If I wanted $4-$600 over-ear headphones to go with an iPhone where phone calls and general phone integrations are an important part, then I'd seriously consider these. Otherwise not. As you say, as far as headphones go you can get better for less. But if seen as a phone headset that also has some hi fi qualities, then it makes more sense to go with the ones from Apple.

I trust Apple to make that 100% integration with my iPhone whereas I don't necessarily trust Sennheiser to. The third party ones will turn out to drop calls more frequently in iOS 15 or something similar. That's the kind of issue you are paying to avoid.
I share your pessimism about RHEL. I think Canonical could be a big beneficiary, if they can stop shooting themselves in the foot with stuff like upsells for live kernel patches, and snaps for non-desktop apps.
Looking at the actual commit for this issue:

https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/f960d81215ebf3f65e...

I highly doubt that rust would have prevented this.

Rust is not a silver bullet that solves all bugs.
migrating GitLab from "cloud" to self-hosted is as easy as importing the project. You can even import in batch and things will "just work".

https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/import/gitlab_com.ht...

hosting CI yourself is equally simple. The worker can be installed with few commands, and with a few extra you can configure autoscalling:

https://docs.gitlab.com/runner/install/
Thanks for that. And you're right, I hadn't seen that document before.

But concerns absolutely are being dismissed. I've personally listened to Matt Hancock and other ministers doing it.

The idea that someone might want to wait just a little longer to see if any side effects emerge is not necessarily irrational.

Would you not concede that, if and when any unexpected side-effects do emerge (however rare or insignificant), this gung-ho attitude will backfire?
Protect privacy? By disregarding the firewall that the user has set up?
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To give you an idea: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1279316/

"We are grossly ignorant of bacterial life on earth. Environmental microbiologists estimate that less than 2% of bacteria can be cultured in the laboratory. "
Huh. I just downloaded it and like the idea, but it definitely will take an adjustment period. I generally just use the default iOS swipe keyboard, and haven't had any issues besides the occasional retroactive (incorrect) spelling correction, which are sort of annoying.

Is there any plan to implement full swipe functionality in the future? I like the idea of swiping for space/backspace, so I think extrapolating that out to a full gesture based keyboard would be a logical next step.
Does high agreeableness necessarily translate into more empathy, or vice versa?

I define empathy as "knowing your customer" (whoever it may be). You can be very attuned to this whether you are agreeable or disagreeable, no?

(Perhaps this is not a widely accepted definition of empathy, and that definition instead somehow indicates "being nice"? I don't think being nice/agreeable necessarily helps you know who you're speaking with.)
> Which means that your "cartel" is just the real world itself.

Well, it's your "cartel". I don't think an unconscious conspiracy really counts as a nefarious cartel. But the effect is very real: we ignore things like Red and Elm in favor of things like Rust and JS-et.-al. and I think a large part of it is that we know, deep down, that we're getting paid to party, effectively.

As far as it being "just the real world itself", sure, because that's tautological.

> you don't wanna fight things like gravity, you have to build ugly and bulky flying machines until one day you have a teleport which will be so far ahead that you can throw away all your planes and airports on a whim. But until then the planes is your best bet.

But bad software isn't gravity, it's just bad software. Westinghouse changed the emergency brakes on trains from default open to default closed (when the pressure failed) and saved who-knows-how-many lives and dollars (from trains not rolling down hills when the pressure failed.) We are just really stupid. Even when we build trains and things.

We should be so lucky to have the constraints of aviation on our software. Wouldn't be so broken and wasteful then.

Again, Englebart invented the "teleporter" in 1968. (Changing the content of the metaphor doesn't unbreak it. We have the magic teleporting cure for cancer already, and have had it for decades.)

> there is no way you can scrape existing process and rebuild it with better technologies from the ground-up, because you'll starve billions to death in the process.

Yeah you hear that a lot but it's not true. (E.g. "Treating the Farm as an Ecosystem with Gabe Brown Part 1, The 5 Tenets of Soil Health" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUmIdq0D6-A )

It turns out again that we are just being stupid. It's an easy fix.
Change for support. If I am happy with the version I have and don't need support I gain nothing in a subscription model based licensing.
Totally valid point. In most cases, I think the layman will generally find an equivalently priced speaker setup over $600 sounds better.

Reasons that I can think that someone might still go with open backs are:

• Portability - You can move around your house or go running without leaving the music.

• Less dependent of environment - they basically sound the same in a small, big, or acoustically reflective rooms.

• Leak less sound than speakers - you can blast music without waking up your kids or downstairs neighbors.

• Better high frequency reproduction - whereas full sound systems will generally do better with lower.

EDIT: Added price stipulation to where speakers start to sound better. Agreed that if you're not willing to spend much and want to listen alone, headphones are the better choice.
No. And all those headphones are not my villains. They are just different products making different trade offs.
He's talking about the computation involved in turning any digital sound into the analog one needed for a speaker. If there's no cable between the digital-to-analog conversion chip and the analog speaker, there's no chance for cable characteristics to have an impact on the sound.

I think you're taking about audio pre-processing stuff that Spotify or others do to qualitatively ""enhance"" audio for their lowest common denominator listeners, which is completely independent from what's being discussed.