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  • People say it’s against all private property but it only explicitly criticizes private ownership of land. That does not imply Communism, see Georgism.

    …is what I would say if I didn’t always twist the lyrics to praise the compact disc 💿

    How I sing the song. Warning: Cringe

    💿 My pit and your land,
    💿 your pit and my land,
    💿 from err’r correction
    💿 to the sampling theorem
    💿 From the Red Book’s premise
    💿 to the bitstream coders
    💿 CD was made by Sony and Philips.

    💿 My laser’s gliding
    💿 on the spiral pathway,
    💿 my cradle keeps it
    💿 pointed the right way.
    💿 Plastic is never
    💿 made ideally
    💿 but wobbles are no problem for CD.

    💿 There may be dust bits
    💿 that try to fool me,
    💿 disks can be tainted,
    💿 varying light intensity
    💿 But the extra data
    💿 carry everything
    💿 I need to get the music error-free

    💿 Audiophiles
    💿 are total dickheads,
    💿 claiming they can hear
    💿 the “discrete DAC steps”
    💿 But Shannon proved that
    💿 a low-pass filter
    💿 Makes samples match the input perfectly

    💿 My pit and your land,
    💿 your pit and my land,
    💿 from err’r correction
    💿 to the sampling theorem
    💿 From the Red Book’s promise
    💿 to the bitstream coders
    💿 This was made by Sony and Philips.














  • If you have a recent phone, websites and PWAs are about as fast as native apps. I’m using a 2014 flagship Sony Xperia Z that came out with Android 4.4 and can barely run Android 13 — it will overheat and sytem UI (thankfully not apps) will restart if rendering stuff for too long. (The difference is staggering: basic old apps like Phyphox and static websites run indefinitely. Modern apps or JS-enabled pages like Voyager or 480p30 video for 10 minutes. Post-modern bloated crap or 720p30 video, 4 minutes. Imgur, new Reddit and 1080p video turn the phone into a hand warmer immediately and the framerate goes from 15 to <1 in 10 seconds, followed by a slew of ANRs and the battery percentage going down every 20th frame rendered. Should I have applied more heatsink compound after replacing the battery? Yes but I’d argue no app with a simple purpose and basic GUI should require 5 W to the CPU while running at half rate.)



  • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.orgtoProgrammer Humor@programming.devMicrosoft Please Fix
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    21 days ago

    That’s what happens when people stumble across that website called GitHub, get hooked and now have unrealistic expectations for the real git.

    “I just installed Git for Windows. Where is the drag-to-upload box?”

    — A statement dreamt up by the utterly deranged

    Real git involves a lot of sweat, requires you to clean up any mess you make, and communicate with any partners about their preferred techniques instead of rawdogging it and waiting for issues. The pushing and pulling will come naturally but you need to know how and when to release, and be clear about how you wish to commit. Nightly is an option but good luck getting everyone on board. People might judge you for using the word “master” but it should be alright in private.