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It was, and there are even some significant differences. On she's leaving home, the mono mix was speed up with the mono version's length coming in at 3:26 and the stereo at 3:35 [0]. I believe (running off of memory here too) that the first album where the stereo mix got some actual attention was the white album.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/She%27s_Leaving_Home

PAGAN_WIZARDon Sgt. Pepper’s to get new Atmos mix: current version ‘doesn’t sound quite right’

Personally, only the mono mix sounds right.

PAGAN_WIZARDon Valve Steam Deck

Check out itch.io

PAGAN_WIZARDon The Vivaldi browser will not support Google’s FLoC

firefox on android supports noscript

PAGAN_WIZARDon macOS unable to open any non-Apple application

Maybe suicide linux? https://qntm.org/suicide

PAGAN_WIZARDon Secret gyms and the economics of prohibition

>I think quarantine should be down to the individual and the rules they'd like to implement on their private property

Too bad most people leave their private property and interact with people in public spaces where their personal rules are moot.

PAGAN_WIZARDon The most prized degree in India became the most worthless

Then (most) electrical engineers are not engineers either.

PAGAN_WIZARDon Signs you’re working in a feature factory (2016)

For some software products, the runtime and output can be measured for quality.

PAGAN_WIZARDon Ask HN: What’s the most important modern simple invention?

The electric motor/generator.

PAGAN_WIZARDon Firefox Preview adds support for recommended extensions, including uBlock Origin

Are the number of users that use adblock actually increasing? I feel like we are already at a saturation point where anyone who would use an adblocker already does. Adblocking has been around longer than these big sites that use ads as a main revenue source yet they managed to become big in spite of adblocking.

> Will the government move to rule adblocking illegal?

Absolutely not, serving ads is not a protected activity, you can't force someone to consume something they don't want to.

> Will websites engage in sophisticated technical anti-adblock measures?

Already been tried, see anti-adblock and its counterpart, anti-anti-adblock. The solution to adblock is product placement and sponsorship, which has already extremely prevalent.

PAGAN_WIZARDon Ever Plugged a USB in Wrong? (2019)

I feel like I am the only person who can plug one in correctly the first try >90% of the time. The trick is simple, look at the damn connector first.

PAGAN_WIZARDon Andrew Yang’s math on the robot takeover doesn’t check out

Bloomberg reported that super micro motherboards were compromised with a Chinese spy chip the size of a grain of rice. Every one refuted it, super micro's stock fell, no new information since.

PAGAN_WIZARDon Half-Life: Alyx

If I know I can play day 1, I'll gladly shell out the $1k for the full index package. I just spent about that on new gpu + monitor so I was gonna wait to save up, but tux == bucks.

PAGAN_WIZARDon Zuckerberg doubles down on Facebook political ads policy after Twitter ban

>At least when watching television, it's absolutely clear when you're watching paid-for commercials

That is not true, product placement can be very subtle and even when it's not, it's not like the actors look at the camera and say "This show brought to you by X" even when it really is.

PAGAN_WIZARDon Xilinx Vitis and Vitis AI Software Development Platforms

Ive seen plenty of HDL written by people who are software engineers, it's not good. It seems to me most software engineers struggle with visualizing their behavioral code as a schematic and tend to write code that is not very synthesis friendly and overly convoluted. Not to mention most issues with hardware engineering cant be solved by a google search of how to do X in Verilog/VHDL, problems tend to be device specific which means you NEED to understand your tool chain and can't abstract away the code from from the implementation like you can with most high level software to the ASM/binary.