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hummo56on Aubio, a C library for analyzing songs

Funny, I stumbled upon this just today when I was looking for good realtime beat detection code.

Does anybody have experience, using some of this code for realtime detection?

Interesting project, especially to gain insights into the FPGA programming part.

I think it is essentially a mixture of PTP and NTP now.

I guess this will work within the same local network, as the major inaccuracy of NTP comes from the asymmetric path delays at the network layer over the Internet.

PTP solves this by incorporating these hardware timestamps exactly. But this works only within the same LAN.

Here is an interesting PTP core:

https://github.com/freecores/ha1588

Yes it is "old" but that is typically fine with HW projects.

hummo56on World's First Fully Programmable and Open-Source Massive-MIMO Platform

The page is really bad. I am working in telecommunications and needed some time to find what it exactly is...

hummo56on Don't close your MacBook with a cover over the camera

That is exactly what OP meant: you need to

A) trust that in your actual laptop in front of you, this mechanism is correctly implemented.

B) trust that you are not in the vulnerable phase where your LED broke and you did not notice yet. (Especially when you rarely use your camera).

hummo56on The Idea of Entropy Has Led Us Astray

I am still confused by the notion of entropy being unorder. I think there was an article about this being a common misunderstanding.

hummo56on Hardcoded secrets, unverified tokens, and other common JWT mistakes

Could you elaborate on the why here?

hummo56on Show HN: Aviary.sh – A tiny Bash alternative to Ansible

Looked good but I needed to leave the site after seeing they suggested doing

curl https://aviary.sh/install | sudo bash

hummo56on The Inheritance Tax Is Far Too Low

This is one of the questions whose answer is not immediately obvious if you think only one step. If you generalize this in a society, riches will accumulate further over subsequent generations because it is easier to make money if you have money. Even if you are. It that skilled, your financial advisors will just turn your money into more money.

As a result, the split between poor and rich will widen and widen. Until at some point, where the situation will implode or be unfavorable in some significant way. Hence, to have a stable system, the limitless accumulation of wealth should be reduced.

There should be inheritance, of course, and half of few million is still lot. However, this requires some progressively adapting tax percentages, based on the amount of inherited wealth.

hummo56on Using the Specification Pattern to Build a Data-Driven Rules Engine

So happy I did not have to work with Java for a long time. The amount of boilerplate and cognitive overhead is insane! The factory was really the cherry on the cake...

hummo56on Coronavirus pandemic takes hold, we are making decisions without reliable data

That was exactly my thoughts. The article makes valid points but this does not fit.

hummo56on Burnout: 'Sick and tired of feeling sick and tired'

How did you find that out?