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Re:Python Is Easy. Go Is Simple. Simple != Easy on Monday November 27, 2023 @11:54AM (#38434681)
Huh? Having defer statements and error returns vs. dealing with exceptions gives Go the win all by itself.

And then there is the business of being able to make a type automagically satisfy an interface. (Java may have fixed some of the agony of creating classes just to satisfy a required interface. Last I used Java, it didn't have delegates and whatnot.)

Re:You Win or You Learn on Thursday November 09, 2023 @06:13PM (#38212741)
See https://conntects.net

It's a free alpha. The finished product will be paid (but cheap) for those who want to post.

But it's not for porn if that's the sort of photos you want to post.

Indeed, a truly cringeworthy article.
Re:Why Vinyl Won on Wednesday November 08, 2023 @11:41AM (#38192935)
CDs have the information to perfectly reproduce frequencies up to the limit of human hearing. But to do that perfect reproduction, you need to sum up the sinc functions for all the samples. CD players do not do this.

As the article points out, the sum of sinc functions constitutes an extremely non local spline. And analog filtering of the stair step function coming off the A/D converter is not equivalent to summing the sinc functions.

Re:Why Vinyl Won on Wednesday November 08, 2023 @10:55AM (#38192190)
A possible explanation for why audiophiles prefer vinyl: beats and other distortions due to not completely applying Nyquist's theorem.