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Ah, but wait. Now I put my audiophile hat back on and pull back the curtain to reveal: it’s fake!

Yes, much of that magical soundstage is in fact manufactured by the headphones’ Digital Signal Processing (DSP). The same technology that enables Spatial Audio to work also allows Apple to artificially enhance the sense of space and re-balance the sound to remain steady and clean even at very high and very low volumes. Those dual H1 chips are working hard.

This is also where my review became very tricky.

When you’re dealing with DSP-based sonic enhancements—especially ones like this that are actively tuned based on the shape of your head, your environment, etc.—different people will very literally hear different things. Already, I’m seeing commentary from audiophile reviewers saying that the DSP is horrible, ruining the balance of music. And those people may well be correct for their listening environment. I can’t judge their experience because it’s so dependent on factors that can’t be controlled.

What does that mean? How is it fake?

> different people will very literally hear different things

How can anyone know if other people hear the same thing as them?

Don't age.

What's wrong with bluetoothd?

Does the terminal emulator handle the ctrl-v or shell or somewhere in kernel?

Is <ctrl-v><esc> same as \x1b? Why are they same?

> Mark Twain said of English as She Is Spoke that "Nobody can add to the absurdity of this book, nobody can imitate it successfully, nobody can hope to produce its fellow; it is perfect."[6]

Maybe a weekend playing with gpt-3 will prove otherwise.

Edit: nevermind it's not even grammatical

Does selling advertisements for cars or penis pills provide societal value? I think a lot of things we do don't have societal value but we do it because there's a demand in the market for it.

All problems stem from people being alive

Very well executed ad though.

> An internal Boeing memo described it as a “risk” to give air sensors to even one airline, according to a deposition of a Boeing executive.

> “Flight attendant, pilot unions, and congressional supporters could use this effort as evidence that sensors are needed and ... to drive their agenda forward to have bleed air sensors required on all aircraft,” said the 2015 memo, which Boeing turned over in litigation.

> Boeing told The Times that it has not equipped its planes with air sensors because suppliers have not “demonstrated the existence” of devices that could “reliably detect contaminated bleed air.” The company said in a statement that scientific studies have not proved a link between fume events and health problems. “The cabin air inside Boeing airplanes is safe,” the company said.

Thanks Boeing

Google doesn't want to be disruptive when it hurts Google. Disrupting users of a profitable product hurts Google. Disrupting users of an unprofitable product does not hurt Google. Google happy. Google kill unprofitable product.

You're assuming that at least some choices of the dark trait choices are better than non dark trait choices.

You're also assuming people are able to find those better choices when presented with more choices.

But this kind of direct corruption is so uncivilized. Look how shocked the civilized world is at this atrocious practice. Don't they know they can't maintain the facade of law abiding democratic society if they can't even hide their corruption properly.

This is clearly intentional.

Why do people write essays on twitter

Russia was only good at this after they liberalized their economy.

Doesn't invalidate but makes it less convincing.

What makes this keyboard philosophical? Will it hurt my head when I use it?

What's self referential about it? The huge number encodes the image that the equation plots it. The plotted image is another representation of the image and the huge number. It only takes two sentences to explain but the author writes on and on about useless stuff rather than what it actually is.

This is pretty cheap if you don't care about privacy

I went through the same journey. My use default to minimal configs now.

icat and diff programs are nice but I've never thought other terminals needed to print or scroll faster.

That sounds like an expensive hobby.

Kubernetes comes pretty close to what he's describing. It has 3 of 5 characteristics he's describing. I'm not sure if you want a cluster wide file system for distributed applications. File systems usually don't have any sort of synchronization and that'll be tons of trouble.

You fight like a dairy farmer

MPG*person is probably a better measure.

That's because Zhang Yiming is a big fan of American free market. Now they're mocking him because the free market he loves is not tolerating him. Gotta admit it's pretty funny.

I think HN wants something like this to succeed and compete with firefox and chrome but I can't help but think that's never going to happen.

Every competitor aims for dominance. Engineers should be paid more, telling them not to accept money from firms from authoritarian governments is laughable.

You should be encouraging western firms to be competitive not blaming China for being authoritatian or seeking dominance. I suppose it's easier to blame others than encourage western firms to improve though. So much for democracy.

This is good for silicon engineers and tech industry in general. This will make the entire sector more competitive. Unfortunately HN can't see that and would rather have silicon engineers be paid lower wages than to have them go to China.

When workers fall for nationalistic rhetoric in the media it's the workers that suffer.