JensRex

>Not sure that's a fair comparison though

Maybe not in a technical sense, but I've never encountered Bash without GNU coreutils (or busybox). I'm just comparing how I would solve a problem in a typical *nix environment, compared to a Windows environment.

>tab completion on program arguments

Bash has that as well.

This thread is full of praise for PowerShell, but every time I've tried to use it, I've become annoyed with it. For example, to get the size of a folder in Bash, I'd type `du -sh <folder>`. In PowerShell it's some absurd code spaghetti that someone put in a Github repo [1]. No matter what I try to do in PS, I find the syntax ridiculously verbose. Maybe I just don't get it, whatever it is. \shrug\

[1] https://github.com/gngrninja/PSFolderSize

Not available in Europe. We can never have the fun toys. :(

If your body isn't already "flushing out toxins", you are suffering from liver or kidney problems, and you should see a doctor immediately.

>it's not a cheap one

80€. You're right, it's not cheap, but I actually expected much worse.

Nothing happened. Great game music is still being made. FTL [0] has an awesome soundtrack. As does RimWorld [1].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBES0jOmbCs&list=OLAK5uy_noi...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFzPW2mlg28&list=PLh4Eme5gAC...

I didn't say Telegram was perfect (nor did I even mention it), but at least the desktop client uses a sane gui framework (Qt).

I took a look at Signal again a few days ago, and their desktop "app" is still a 323 MB Electron tire fire.

Confirming an artist not in the database leads to an infinite redirect for me:

http://www.gnoosic.com/vote_save.php?pstVote=add&pstItem=cv+...

It doesn't. The ethernet is connected to a USB 2.0 bus. Yes the link trains at 1 gbps, but it's limited by the slow bus.

I'm not sure what you mean. I use Lightning with CalDAV, and it works fine.

archive.is is censored by CloudFlare. Use a different DNS resolver.

I agree, but it's not very different from Alexa or Google Home, and people are buying those, for some reason.

Windows and iOS/OSX badly needs LTS branches. Either that, or stop releasing major versions annually. But that would put lots of marketing people out of a job.

PS: I know Win10 LTSB exists, but that's enterprise only.

This is old news. We already grabbed it all, when it was first announced.

I lost a lot of respect for them, when they participated in Gab censorship.

I get GDPR-blocked as well, and your URL doesn't work for me either. Says "something went wrong".

Archive mirror of OP: https://archive.ph/fkYGW

Bit-depth reduction is counter-productive. You're just adding noise to the signal, and reducing the dynamic range.

As for resampling, it depends on the specifics of the resampler used by a specific codec implementation. If a resampler is terrible, it could add artifacts like ringing and aliasing that would degrade the encoding quality.

A great souce for resampler comparisons: http://src.infinitewave.ca/

Because making money off your data is their whole business model, they're very motivated to lose as little of it as possible.

Aparently I'm a bad actor, because the "checking" page never redirects to anything. Guess the author doesn't want people to read his site. I'll comply.

>How have they let their core product get so lost?

Search is not their core product. Google is an advertising company, and everything they do is centered around that.

>This also bypasses Ad blocker.

Not for me. `/pixel.png?` is blocked by default in uBlock.

Too bad it's closed source.

I have the same reaction to modal newsletter popups, or anything that blocks the content I want to see.

No, you can't, because if people are unable to speak their mind on one platform, they will move to another or go underground. I would prefer it, if people with terrible ideas were kept out in the open, where their ideas can be debated, challenged or mocked, instead of having them in isolated echo chambers. Such places breed radicals.

Also, "hate" is such a super vague term.

I wish there was something like this not written in JavaScript.

My last comment on HN was four months ago, and incidentally also about Electron. No, nobody has a gun to my head, but a sadly increasing number of applications are Electron based, some of which I'm "forced" to use.

Yes, I hate Electron with a passion. It's a slow, wasteful framework for lazy developers who can't be bothered learning Qt or something else non-silly. IMHO.

A 200 MB text editor, no matter how fancy, is also insane.

>...is an Electron-based

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