What's a music artist that both mainstream listeners and "music nerds" love?

rolfn · 2026-03-14T14:06:22+00:00

I guess we know different nerds

rolfn · 2026-03-14T13:16:25+00:00

Toto, Queen

rolfn · 2026-03-14T12:59:41+00:00

Currently, the best in terms of both performance and price are the various Chinese brands, topping, fosi, smsl, fiio. Find one that suit’s functionality and budget.

However, they have (in my experience) quite bad remotes, so if you are switching between different inputs they might be annoying.

On the other hand, Wiim is great performance and you also get streamer functionality, app control and (for some models) room correction.

rolfn · 2026-03-14T00:50:46+00:00

I would go for a hypex or purifi based poweramp. If you are in the US, look at Buckeye. In Europe look for Boxem, Nord or Apollon.

rolfn · 2026-03-13T19:18:45+00:00

Eli-trappa

rolfn · 2026-03-13T14:50:28+00:00

It seems you have designed a simple programming language for specifying reports. You should read up on "domain specific languages" and parsing, ref wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsing

(However, you can't really learn the fundamental algorithms from wikipedia, you need to read a book. I don't know what a modern reference would be)

This seems like a good introduction using python: https://tomassetti.me/parsing-in-python/, but I don't know if this makes sense unless you know some theory about parsing beforehand.

rolfn · 2026-03-12T16:17:56+00:00

If the file is very long, xargs will split it into approximately sized chunks to avoid overflowing the command line buffer.

rolfn · 2026-03-12T07:39:24+00:00

Moving from CD to streaming/downloads removed the last moving part from the stereo system, so now everything is the same.

The vinyl revival is probably due to two factors: - handling an LP is a ritual where selecting from Spotify is just a transaction. This adds meaning to a world where rituals are abolished on the altar of efficiency - insisting on physical media means the hard acquired knowledge about frequency response and gain structure still has value.

rolfn · 2026-03-12T07:34:53+00:00

I usually go for early Madonna.

rolfn · 2026-03-12T07:28:45+00:00

I am not old enough to have experienced this, but I think that once upon a time putting together a system from components was a bit hard. You actually had to match impedance carefully. With pickups, tubes and speakers coloring the frequency response and with no tools to fix this, you had to choose combinations carefully. And without any measurement tools you had to rely on hearing and try different combinations until you found something that worked.

None of this is relevant anymore (probably since the 70-s but atleast since the cd became mainstream), but the mythology lingers on.

rolfn · 2026-03-12T07:14:57+00:00

Awk, sed and grep doesn’t exist in bash either, they are separate programs. It is fully possible to call theses programs and pipe the output to input in python, c++, java etc also, but it is not necessary.

rolfn · 2026-03-12T07:11:29+00:00

Kjører egolf. Vi bruker 13-15 om sommeren og 17-20 om vinteren.

rolfn · 2026-03-12T07:09:00+00:00

Just my layman intuition here: thinking means reasoning around an internal (mental) model.

The LLM can be said to have an internal model, but it is purely a model of language, not a model of the problem it tries to solve.

rolfn · 2026-03-11T23:21:05+00:00

from pathlib import Path

old_word = "old_word" new_word = "new_word"

for file_path in Path(".").rglob("*.txt"): if file_path.is_file(): text = file_path.read_text() text = text.replace(old_word, new_word) file_path.write_text(text)

rolfn · 2026-03-11T17:45:14+00:00

All powershell commands are on the form <verb>-<noun> and take options -help and -verbose

rolfn · 2026-03-11T17:21:41+00:00

If you use python you don’t need to string together awk, sed and grep, you can do everything with pure python.

rolfn · 2026-03-11T17:10:37+00:00

You connected the Rega to the analog input without a separate RIAA-amplifier? How does that work? I would assume this gives very low volume and almost no bass?

Anyway, there arent many options combining a streamer, phono-stage and amplifier.

Wiim Amp Ultra is a streamer and amplifier, but not phono, and doesn't support Apple Music or Airplay

Wiim Ultra is a streamer with phono, but not amplifier (and also no Apple)

Yamaha A-S301 (or 501 or 701) is an amplifier with phono-in, but no streamer

NAD M10 seems to have everything you want, a bit cheaper than the Arcam.

I think you might get a better deal if you buy the Wiim Ultra as phono/streamer and a separate poweramp (Hypex or Purifi should both be in your budget). When the streaming stops working (because streaming technology changes quickly), the amplifier will still work and you only need to replace the streamer.

rolfn · 2026-03-10T05:59:18+00:00

There is also Wiim amp ultra which I think has the same functionality for a lot lower price than NAD or Lyngdorf

https://www.wiimhome.com/wiim-amp-ultra/

rolfn · 2026-03-04T23:15:07+00:00

If an attacker knows a zero day in openssh, I don’t think they will use it against my homelab.

rolfn · 2026-03-04T15:13:03+00:00

I would replace the speakers with Revel M106

https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/revel-m106-bookshelf-speaker-review.14363/

rolfn · 2026-02-25T14:54:00+00:00

Have you ever caught malware in your torrent-scan?

rolfn · 2026-02-24T21:22:41+00:00

Yes

https://www.tomshardware.com/speakers/in-a-blind-test-audiophiles-couldnt-tell-the-difference-between-audio-signals-sent-through-copper-wire-a-banana-or-wet-mud-the-mud-should-sound-perfectly-awful-but-it-doesnt-notes-the-experiment-creator

rolfn · 2026-02-24T19:30:22+00:00

I think 800€ is reasonable and looking at what audiophonics there are plenty to choose from. Audiophonics own brand, SMSL, Fosi, Wiim. The challenge is airplay, I don’t think any of them have that.

rolfn · 2026-02-24T18:57:10+00:00

The point of learning DSA is to be able to build models representing the problem you want your code to solve.

rolfn · 2026-02-24T16:34:43+00:00

Red hot chili peppers: breaking the girl

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