I’ve stopped because I realized that I love music first and gear second, and the quest for better gear was keeping me from enjoying music.

In the quest for some kind of holy grail of perfection within my budget I realized I was always listening critically. I used to record in music studios and tracking and mixing was grueling — listening critically is taxing on the brain, saps enjoyment, and is fatiguing. Before I reached that place, when I listened my brain wasn’t really enjoying music, I was evaluating audio gear.

Don’t get me wrong! I am enough of a gear head to find that fun, for a while.

But deciding to be done where I was with the gear I had, and calling it “good enough” — with full knowledge that there is better gear out there — has allowed me to enjoy music again. And since I am a musician and music head first, and a gear head second, that is the right place for me.

Outdoor winter sports are in real danger from climate change, so it's good to see athletes pushing these bodies to make stronger steps. These bodies, for their own survival, should be doing these things and using that leadership to push other industries to do the same.

That said: the sad reality is that the vast, vast majority of greenhouse gases are emitted in other ways, so the push needs to rapidly grow beyond winter sports themselves to join with broader climate efforts.

I was guessing just on the headline alone that it was because of higher levels of vigilance for signs of cancer and compliance with treatment.

I can understand not knowing some of these but it takes a special degree of out of touch to have never heard Adele, Taylor Swift, or Beyonce. I mean, I don't go out of my way to hear pretty much any top 40 type popular musician but I guarantee you have heard at least one of them even if you weren't paying attention.

The article leaves out how exactly the energy would be used to propel the spacecraft. It does not seem like it will be “throw the bomb out the back” type nuclear propulsion. Perhaps the idea is to use the energy to power an ion drive of some kind?

The self awareness is not strong here

Wouldn’t that show a positive for both reasons why an audible difference would exist? Either a different master or a difference due to format would be audible via a null test.

Yeah, it’s a shame. Heck, even a DIY “solder this here” thing would help if that was technically possible. Most people have bought theirs directly from the company so they have our mailing addresses.

Interesting claim here:

>The controls can also be quieter, minimizing detection from audio sensors

As a lay person it's kind of surprising that traditional control surfaces would generate enough noise compared to something like a jet engine to make much of a difference in detectability. Not really questioning this claim, just expressing my surprise that this would be the case.

There was an album of Christmas music from the 70s that my family would always play during the holidays that had an identical horn solo. I doubt they were consciously copying it but it was uncanny the first time I heard the song, live on their tour in support of the album, and in the middle of this mind blowingly novel music was a trumpet line I was intimately familiar with.

This is actually probably the right answer.

Are they neutral? No. Do they hit hard in the sub-bass? Not at all. Are they objectively better than the Sonys? Not necessarily, depending on what your sense of objective quality is.

But! Do they sound very different from a pair of closed back Sony cans, and will give a far "airier" and spacious sound that will make them say, "yeah, this sounds very different and kinda awesome"? Absolutely. And you can have a lot of change left over from $200.

Truth in advertising with the name I guess

Oof. I’ve been mostly laying off my Heresy since all these reports have started coming out. I can survive damaging a pair of cans but I really do not want to damage my hearing.

They should probably just sell or give away adapters, seems like they should be cheaper in bulk even than headphones. And people could use their own headphones.

Some are non-binary, I’m sure

I was in sixth grade and had a similar experience. We were in NH so Christa McAuliffe was a local hero of sorts. We were all pulled out of class to watch the launch in a common area, only to see the explosion and the see it replayed a bunch more times. Shocking and saddening.

And thicknesses! And types! And there is no “endgame,” you just have to keep buying the stuff to feed the crochet beast.

Headphones are a cheap hobby by comparison.

Have you ever tried to remove a crochet needle from someone’s arm? You gotta push it all the way through. Just brutal. Knitting violence is much easier to deal with.

My wife has sensory sensitivities around anything on/over/in her ears. She can barely handle work calls, she doesn’t want to spend a single minute with headphones on she doesn’t have to.

It’s OK. We also have nice speakers and she appreciates those.

The one potential saving grace I see for SLS is that there is a realistic escape aystem

Old people too if I am at all representative

If the scientists didn’t consume some ethanol themselves after finding it in space they really missed an opportunity

And even green hydrogen isn’t as carbon neutral as one would think if it is produced using renewable energy that otherwise could have fed a non-100% green grid. Because in that case there is demand that needs to be met with fossil fuels — you might as well have just used fossil fuels to make the hydrogen and had the same carbon footprint. The only way green hydrogen is really green is if it is using renewable power that would otherwise have been dumped.

This is the correct answer

Looking forward to those. Very curious how those GPUs stack up against traditional laptop GPUs as well.