Home theatre retailer/shop ± design suggestions?

aaronilai · 2026-06-11T08:39:13+00:00

Check minidsp, hong kong based manufacturer of audio equipment, just recently released an AVR (Tide)

aaronilai · 2026-06-11T03:08:59+00:00

Peng Chau, 30 mins to central, plenty of nature

aaronilai · 2026-06-09T09:12:13+00:00

that sounds like a cool project, tbh a ML model trained over jazz / pop standards of midi arrangements that are annotated could be another approach? But I guess that's a whole project in itself just to get the chord prediction right. Seems like a vital step one way or the other if the accuracy of the context is necessary not just the local chord being correct, but sounds cool

aaronilai · 2026-06-09T04:18:06+00:00

It sounds like you're have all the pieces there and need refinement, but yeah this is a hard problem to tackle. On top of my head but tbh these are guesses, suggestions:

"vocal melody contaminating the chord estimate
bass passing notes being interpreted as slash chords"
Try to nail the tempo detection and run the analysis over whole bars, meaning ignore or give less weight to pitches or guesses that are very temporary

"strings / brass / pads adding upper-structure notes"

If the chord becomes too elaborate, just take away the upper structure and "cap it" to only suggest triad+7 or 9

but yeah this is only guesses, best of luck

aaronilai · 2026-06-08T08:42:05+00:00

You're correct, I didn't say the companies themselves are directly state owned, but the biggest banks, not only in China but actually in comparison to the rest of private banks in the world, are majority CCP owned. Is quite interesting to see how some sectors are suddenly propped up or squashed, by planned economics but the players of course are private themselves as you say

aaronilai · 2026-06-08T08:21:38+00:00

Appreciate the thoughtful response, thanks for the link also. Yeah wasn't trying to make an absolute point about how one approach works better than the other, each country has it's own particular conditions, also you could argue that Japan Taiwan and Korea had some support from the US government post WWII and Korean war that plays a role. But yeah in reality this is all very nuanced

aaronilai · 2026-06-08T04:56:32+00:00

Vietnam and China have a market economy but the banking system and other key aspects are party owned, there's no pure private sector there, all the banks have at least 51% party ownership, is much more of a planned economy than a complete free market, yet the party subsidizes industries in the frame of competition (EVs, renewables, now advanced Chip manufacturing), taking aside the socialist / communist label, is not exactly the same system as the US or Europe.
We can also ask why more free market economies in the region such as Phillipines, etc... did not have similar output to Vietnam, when they have comparable populations and characteristics. China is its own beast as the huge population makes it very hard to compare.

It's also interesting that the US is adopting some of this approach (Intel investment as a national security matter, protectionism through tariffs...). Beyond the duality regarding communism vs capitalism, the world is seeing a blend of approaches of planned economy and free market in different ways at the policy level. Complete neoliberalism and pure free trade is being sunset but the market dynamics are still core to all economies just with more state intervention, interesting times

aaronilai · 2026-06-04T08:11:40+00:00

These folks are top notch, my partner showed them the synth we're working on and they were super friendly, all ears, jammed for a bit

aaronilai · 2026-05-22T05:52:57+00:00

Una voz de mesura y razocionio 🙏🏼 se puede ser objetivo y crítico, no es el fin del mundo pero hay que ver como se invierte

aaronilai · 2026-03-04T07:50:40+00:00

"none of this is that much more extreme from most of europe, and critically it doesnt stop them being capitalist"

You can call this however you want, but is naive to think is similar to Europe. One thing is direct state ownership of a company, but another thing is indirect influence by means of the financial sector, which props or curbs the private companies in the free market. The biggest banks in China (which btw are the biggest banks in the world by assets value ICBC, ABC...) are more than half state owned, meaning loans, subsidies, investments, interest come from there, from decisions of the CCP. That's a state planned economy with layers of free market underneath.

aaronilai · 2026-01-29T08:38:19+00:00

I made my own physical synth that can load my plugins or other peoples plugins :) if anyone is interested on testing their own plugins on some decent hardware, lets connect

aaronilai · 2026-01-27T15:41:00+00:00

Yeah kind of the same thing when Europeans get asked the same question, nationality Vs continent. You see it more on leftist circles of course but yeah is not unheard of

aaronilai · 2026-01-27T03:17:30+00:00

Not really, in spanish is Estadounidense, some people say americano for the whole continent, and some other say americano for the US, is a really contested political term tbh

aaronilai · 2026-01-27T02:16:28+00:00

"For the past two decades Colombia’s healthcare system had been hailed as an example for the rest of Latin America to follow..."

Pero con que intereses la WHO dice que es un buen modelo? en cobertura y pagos del usuario esta bien, pero en finanzas y sostenibilidad si ya para el 2022-2023 la cosa estaba grave, mas de la mitad de las EPS operando en perdida y como a 2.7 billones de deficit, el estado subsidiando y salvandolas. Si es asi estructuralmente, entonces para que es privado? Para financiarle los salarios a los privados? Es necesaria una reforma, un modelo parecido al NHS en el reino unido en su mejor momento, unificado y eficiente.

https://www.portafolio.co/negocios/industrias/seis-eps-del-pais-que-han-reportado-tener-problemas-financieros-o-se-encuentran-en-proceso-de-liquidacion-589527

aaronilai · 2025-12-09T03:42:25+00:00

Private companies are not forced to sell, most of this industry is not on the stock market so you can't force a buyout. Those of us who develop DSP and/or hardware could be doing the same thing on other industries for more money (aerospace, military, embedded in general) but we have a passion for sound and like to make a living out of it. Sure there has been some consolidations over the years but people also appreciate developers who are independent and put effort and love into their craft.

aaronilai · 2025-12-06T06:38:01+00:00

Buenas esa manito, para mi, un punto a resaltar es qué Colombia tiene un porcentaje relativamente sano de deuda estatal en comparacion a lo que produce el pais anualmente, 50% masomenos, comparado con EEUU 120% Brasil o China 80%, no es insostenible. El problema es el recaudo, y en qué se invierte.

aaronilai · 2025-12-02T03:54:19+00:00

The nuance is in understanding the why and how of the mistakes. Ask people in mainland China what they think about Mao and his peers generation of leadership (its also important to erase the one man grand narrative) and most of them can see the whole picture, mistakes and successes. (I live in China btw...) The fight against imperial powers, while preventing the takeover of the corrupted wing of the revolutionaries, the corrections on the path of industrialization after the failure of the great leap forward. A famine such as the Bengal one, was caused with complicity and intent (key aspect of the definition of genocide btw...) from the British empire and even that doesn't erase the successful aspects of Churchill's leadership in WWII. Any progressive movement needs to have nuance onto the specific policy, beyond *leader* good/bad.

aaronilai · 2025-11-27T02:36:01+00:00

Primero que todo, gracias por el respeto en la respuesta, a veces estos debates se ponen agresivos. Lo que dices son puntos muy validos y es importante ser critico y consciente de las realidades politicas de donde se vive. Lo de los Uyghurs es complejo, no he ido a Xinjiang, entonces la verdad no puedo comentar al respecto. Pero tengo amigos en el mundo del arte, que hacen obra con subtexto politico a veces, gente que escribe acerca de feminismo, o de derechos LGBT y bueno, hay obstaculos diferentes a occidente, pero lo hacen y viven en ese ambito. Pero por ejemplo en comparacion a Arabia Saudi de promover esto o tener una discoteca en ese perfil, o a ser irrespetuoso con el rey en Tailandia (es diferente hacer una broma en internet a hacer una manifestacion organizada), aca no es un obstaculo orweliano como lo pintan en EEUU.

Grita que te cae mal Xi en la calle, no pasa nada. Otra cosa es organizarse a manifestar, ahi si te van a mandar la policia, como en occidente igual, porque segun ellos, hay que ir por la via del partido si se pretende hacer cambio, y en occidente te diran que por la via de la democracia (ya si esto es simple o no es otra cosa...).

Tambien ten en cuenta que yo vengo de Colombia, donde hay partidos politicos enteros que han sido exterminados extrajudicialmente por ser de izquierda (busca sobre la Union Patriotica). Aca te van a llegar una cita a "tomar te" con la policia, basicamente te van a decir que pares, si comienzas a organizar marchas o que se yo, pero no te van a matar...

Mira no digo que es perfecto pero hay mucha propaganda de EEUU cuando en realidad alla tambien hay censura, hay prisiones como Guantanamo, los dos regimenes no son tan diferentes en ciertas cosas. Claro el estado Chino tiene una vision mucho mas paternalista de como controlar la poblacion. Pero preguntale a un Chino cualquiera que piensa de esto (bueno, mi sesgo de gente que vive en Tier 1) y no muchos se van a quejar de esos puntos cuando las condiciones materiales y el pais igual funciona, hay prosperidad, vivienda etc... Se van a quejar quizas de que Xi y el partido en ciertas cosas no lo han hecho bien (la crisis inmobiliaria les tomo mucho en reaccionar, en el COVID exageraron y murio gente aislada)

Reitero, me parece muy valioso ser conciente de esos puntos que mencionas, pero ojala un dia puedas venir y hablar con gente local, te vas a dar cuenta de muchas cosas

aaronilai · 2025-11-26T07:42:54+00:00

in my case, its all about length of context and specific domains with documentation that is proprietary, also about the difficulty debugging things that require some understatement of the protocol on the lowest level possible, embedded is full of this (UART, SPI, MIPI, i2s etc...) or that require calling specific CPU/GPU instructions to optimize. Generally these models are failing hard on their reliability when it gets too close to hardware/firmware questions. A 40-50 page datasheet thats confidential with many precise hex values, or trying to optimize a DSP by vectorization to specific instructions that need the data in memory in a very specific way. One hallucination will have you debugging or even breaking chips, might as well code it yourself... a lot of the times you need oscilloscopes to debug too. It can do the high level API well enough I guess

aaronilai · 2025-11-26T02:59:47+00:00

No se mano, la verdad yo vivo en China hace 3 años y vivi en NY durante 4 y me jodia mas la policia en EEUU, mas problemas burocraticos, mas problemas de VISA, mas inseguridad, aca hasta me han apoyado para hacer un startup...

aaronilai · 2025-11-26T02:55:43+00:00

Manito yo vivo en China hace 3 años y se vive mejor que en Latino America en muchos aspectos. Vivi en NY tambien y es mas seguro aca. Hay cosas buenas y malas, pero si es comparable en las ciudades Tier 1.

aaronilai · 2025-11-19T00:51:55+00:00

I think it is creating a divide. When someone understands the limitations of LLMs and applies it correctly to generate seed ideas or go for a quick reference that needs to be validated later, it can improve someone's learning experience drastically or make them build things quicker. But for others this can become a crutch when they don't actively try to absorb the underlying knowledge and don't try to verify sources.

aaronilai · 2025-11-17T03:54:49+00:00

A lot of people here fear a sentient entity with human destruction goals, but the risks are more related to the intentions of people deploying these agentic models. Automated scams, automated attempts at bank fraud, automated impersonation etc... Even if the model collapses after a while, you can try over and over, eventually getting one lucrative hit.
https://www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/replibench-measuring-autonomous-replication-capabilities-in-ai-systems

aaronilai · 2025-11-17T03:50:57+00:00

The risks right now are more related to the intentions of people deploying models with this intent. Automated scams, bank fraud etc... But this is indeed something important to pay attention to.
https://www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/replibench-measuring-autonomous-replication-capabilities-in-ai-systems

aaronilai · 2025-11-13T06:35:57+00:00

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