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distantsoundson QOA, the Quite OK Audio Format

the target audience is practically non-existent. nobody with 40 year old hardware is clamoring for a new audio codec.

distantsoundson QOA, the Quite OK Audio Format

the only time I ever had issues playing MP3s was on an old overclocked 486

distantsoundson QOA, the Quite OK Audio Format

"There still remains a huge gap between lossless codecs at ~800kb/s and MP3 at 128kb/s with seemingly little interest to fill it."

Not only does mp3 go to 320kbps, 192kbps was considered the 'standard' for ripping audio CDs, with the V0 variable bit rate being another common choice. if this only does 277, what am I getting aside from. another audio codec?

distantsoundson Extracting training data from diffusion models

Ah yes, because robots.txt is definitely a valid deterrent for preventing people from stealing your images and using them for their own purpose!

distantsoundson BioGPT: A language model pre-trained on large-scale biomedical literature

hey Microsoft, IBM called. They have this tech called "Watson" you might have heard of. Trained on tons of medical literature, even showed up on Jeopardy! a couple times. I can't imagine this turning out any different, though.

distantsoundson LLM discourse needs more nuance

Imagine spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on infrastructure to serve out content that isn't even yours to begin with, and then wonder why there's such a blowback in its usage

distantsoundson Extracting training data from diffusion models

don't worry, all the VC founders will exit with their startup funds long before the lawsuits come in!

distantsoundson A URL shortener not shortening the URL but makes it look very dodgy

not only is this useless but it's been done at least half a dozen times already in the past 2 decades

distantsoundson Ask HN: How do you test SQL?

Flyway, https://flywaydb.org/

distantsoundson Show HN: New AI edits images based on text instructions

If only Stable Diffusion wasn't already populated with a host of copyrighted images already.

Make your own art, dammit. This is the equivalent running some Photoshop filters through someone else's work.

distantsoundson My husband was right about DVDs

no, you were both wrong. rip the discs to an external drive and play it over your local network. or even better, over the internet with plex/emby/jellyfin.

how are these articles getting up voted? what boomers are reading HN on a Saturday and going 'yeah I miss my DVD collection'?

distantsoundson Apple HomePod 2nd Generation

you're aware Apple _reduced_ the number of internal speakers, right? what makes you think it will be better, aside from flashy marketing materials?

distantsoundson Emacs Is Not Enough

this article is hilarious because the vim csv plugin 'just works.'

distantsoundson Small Visual Basic

I'm sure I have a copy of dos32 and genozide around here somewhere...

distantsoundson “My PGP key is compromised, and at least many of my bitcoins stolen”

LUKS isn't rocket science, you're looking at the wrong guides. using the TPM to encrypt a partition is a few commands on the shell.

distantsoundson This Year in Matrix

there's no money to be made in interoperability. did you RTFM? they clearly state they are not getting support on the core services while third parties just build out bridges where they see it beneficial to them.

distantsoundson Launch HN: Slauth.io (YC S22) – IAM Policy Auto-Generation

https://flosell.github.io/iam-policy-json-to-terraform/

you can do this for free

distantsoundson Paul Graham is leaving Twitter for now

considering how many YC-funded ventures have failed, it's hard to believe he'd be wrong about this, too.

distantsoundson Linux, Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft want to break the Google Maps monopoly

they should be competing with Waze, not Google maps. Waze does all the things you want a mapping app to do, either by flagging traffic events or cops, marking roads under construction, or just having a pleasant UI.

I'm aware Waze and Maps are finally merging together, but let's be real, all the good stuff Maps has gotten recently has come from the Waze side of the house anyway.

distantsoundson Ask HN: Why are some YC startups not posting salary ranges when law requires it?

HN is also not a hiring outfit, but if it wants to participate in that field it needs to follow the rules

distantsoundson Telegram: No-SIM Signup, Auto-Delete All Chats, Topics 2.0 and more

https://cancel.fm/ripcord/ - also a slack client!

distantsoundson Show HN: Domain Name Search with AI

What better way to feed your own AI-powered domain squatting engine than to ask all of HN to submit ideas for you!

distantsoundson Emacs should become a Wayland compositor

the only ignorance is from you, not realizing how much better literally any other text editor is

distantsoundson Emacs should become a Wayland compositor

emacs exists at this point only to generate hacker news articles, nobody actually uses it to edit text files

distantsoundson Keyboard shortcuts for GNU Readline

shhh, don't tell them there's a superior text editor out there, it's fun watching emacs users consistently do things the hard way

distantsoundson Show HN: A color picker for named web colors

The colors look entirely muted on Firefox compared to Chrome (Windows 10).

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox/Rel...

I had to set gfx.color_management.mode to 0 for it to look correct.

distantsoundson Mastodon Is Just Blogs

if mastadon is "just a blog" then why are you posting this on something that is quite literally _not_ mastadon? if you want to promote mastadon as a blogging platform, why aren't you using it as such? you built your own blogging platform, and you're trying to convince us that mastadon is the right choice? how does that work?

distantsoundson webЯcade – WASM based retro emulation on any device

there are emulation test suites. the fact you throw out 'there should be auditing' without acknowledging the literal _years_ of documentation and research leads me to believe you know nothing on the topic, rather just want complain on hacker news about something you have no involvement in.

MAME literally scans the dies to read the chips and understand their logic. FPGAs faithfully recreate this as well. and no, you can still run a 8bit micro on whatever display you want. Projects like dolphin and BSNES documented the hell out of everything they do with a goal of accuracy in mind.