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iOS has supported ALAC (Apple Lossless Audio Codec), I think since day one, but at least for a long while. You can convert FLACs to ALAC without any loss in quality obviously, but the coding tends to be a bit more efficient for FLAC.

Hashes cannot be undone, so... this is just a tool to tell you how long a string of hex characters is and show you a list of hash functions with that length?

If you wish to undertand and to be understood, I agree that vocabulary is very important.

I assume from the class of errors you made (understand instead of understood; know instead of knowing) that your native language doesn’t have verb tense like Chinese. But it doesn’t matter if these small grammatical errors are made, because native speakers can still understand sentences with flawed grammar. However, if you are missing vocabulary you will have a hard time understanding what other people are saying, and when you speak you end up spending a lot of time trying to describe words you don’t know in terms of words you do know.

I think the bit about imitating a foreign accent in order to sound more like a native in your target language is one of the better pieces of advice in this post; at least, doing so has worked pretty well for me in the languages I’ve tried to study so far.

It’s not always a benefit to quickly pick up the phonology, though. When native speakers hear a foreigner speaking with such a non-foreign accent, they tend to assume that I know the language a lot better than I really do, and I find myself asking people to slow down and repeat quite often...

Wow, that's extremely impolite.

Assuming Apple is only using cookies for technical purposes, like providing a way to log in or use a shopping cart, then there is no need to use a banner. Google needs the banner because they are using cookies for advertising and tracking purposes, and you can probably guess why there's no way to decline

Honestly, it looks like HN does right now, albeit with a different color scheme.

In the keynote today, they did explicitly mention new fitness features like calorie tracking with what they’re calling “Oculus Move”. There’s a link to an article about it at the end of this blog post:

https://www.oculus.com/blog/oculus-quest-platform-updates-oc...

You can probably read the article via the outline version: https://outline.com/https://www.wfla.com/news/hillsborough-c...

The article you linked is littered with misinformation. I would not recommend that anyone read it.

It asserts "facts", like the false statement that wearing a mask lowers blood oxygen concentration by 20%, using citations of Facebook videos and conspiracy theory "news" websites as sources.

It’s definitely about vowel sounds, because we don’t say “a hour” or “a herb”.

Congress has not made any law prohibiting the exercise of religion.

I'm not very familiar with Rust, but I don't understand why you wouldn't just use a reference-to-HeavyThing as the function argument, so that the object isn't moved and then dropped in the `get_size` function?

The second argument is a Rectangle, which means you'd be repeating 'Rectangle' twice in one line with the second style.

I wouldn't be surprised if this is due to FOSTA/SESTA legislation

At least for wide screen ratios, there’s 1366x768 and 1440x900

Stuff like this is the reason I don’t connect smart TVs to the internet. If I need web content on the TV, I can connect my laptop with HDMI. The TV should be no more than a display and speakers with a tuner.

I only first heard about this company earlier this year, and was pretty excited because they were the only way to buy DRM-free lossless, CD-quality music at a reasonable price (without having to ship and rip an actual CD). But I was concerned that their business model was unsustainable - keeping an inventory of millions of physical discs is a big ask.

It's surprising to me that there is still no iTunes-like service that just sells CD-quality audio. Sure there is HDTracks, but their price is way too high to be reasonable (usually double the iTunes price, or more) and their selection is pretty limited. Even Amazon's music store, with it's "Auto-Rip" feature when you buy a real CD, only gives you 256k MP3s. So for now, the most reasonable way for me to download FLACs is to torrent.

I donated a week or so ago. The Internet Archive has come in handy many times for me, not just for the Wayback Machine but also things like their live music archives. They're an indispensable resource.

Julian is the person she is collaborating with. If you follow the link after that sentence there is a link to his blog.

Who's to say Signal will protect you any better against targeted remote-code-execution attacks from well-funded cyber mercenaries like NSO?

This piece isn't about Americans or their reactions to this horrible situation.

What is your goal in bringing up these unrelated massacres? Neither one is the same as the Tiananmen massacre, as in neither of those two cases was the government killing its own people in response to peaceful protest.

Youtube used to do that, until at some point they added the “bell” feature and converted all subscriptions to subscriptions-without-a-bell which means only some videos get put in your feed. Of course, if you go the extra step to click the bell icon you get the notifications like usual.

They are probably not saying "cleartext" because the data was still encrypted, just not hashed.

It's cancerous in the sense that a consultant for 3M called it "one of the strongest cancer promoters I’ve ever seen." (quote from TFA)

This isn't quite the same as what you're talking about. The lenticular displays only vary in the x-dimension, but this display seems to work in both dimensions, which would probably create a noticeably better 3D effect.

Cheating in single-player games is absolutely fun and a good way to introduce oneself to reverse-engineering. The key difference, though, is that cheating in multiplayer games can directly (usually negatively) impact the experience of other people playing the game.

A monthly visit is not the same as a user. Facebook has ~1.4B daily users, each of whom visits many times a month.

I think a better comparison would be the lover of an old e-book whose publisher has shut down their DRM validation servers wanting to be able to read the book again in the future.