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After ridiculing 96 kHz sampling for years, I finally found a use for it.

A niche use, mind you.

Basically, I found myself doing real-to-complex baseband conversion for audio signals, and doing so efficiently halved my Nyquist rate.

Increasing my sample rate to 96 kHz let me construct the 48 kHz analytic signal that I wanted.

Hoisted on my own petard :)

Thank you for sharing. Stories like yours remind us that there is good in the world, and even if it isn’t everywhere, it is still worth cultivating.

I’m a software engineer née scientist, but my spouse is a therapist who specializes in addiction. They (and I!) cherish stories like yours because we had seen up-close the struggle that so many people face.

Very nice writeup, thank you for the time and effort!

I haven’t used Android or Windows in any meaningful way for years, so I cannot comment on them.

I can tell you that the hearing accommodations on the AirPod Pro 2/3 headphones brought literal tears to my eyes because of how fabulous it makes music sound for me.

This is a a LOT more work than just adding an equalizer because you have to do multiband real time compression and expansion, in relation to other frequency bands and respecting band-specific sound energy limits.

I know I might sound like I’m gushing, and I kinda’ am. They didn’t have to put in the time or energy to do that or maintain it and they did ... and for that, like I said, I am extraordinarily grateful.

As someone slowly and idiopathically losing their hearing, and as someone just... getting older and losing visual acuity...

Thank you, Apple, for taking accessibility seriously and dedicating resources towards it.

I very much appreciate it, and the work of the entire accessibility team.

OP Thank you for taking the time to write and post this! It was an interesting take on a very difficult problem.

FWIW, I have been reading policy documents for a long time and I thought you sounded rather human and natural… Just very professional! :)

1Password integrates with all pass keys on my iPhone, my Mac, and my Linux box.

By a far and away WORTH the subscription, for me!

Very nice, thank you!

True... but whether the ability to so is a superpowers strength or a debilitating weakness depends on both your values and point of view!

Huh.

That may explain why google search has, in the past couple of months, become so unusable for me that I switched (happily) to kagi.

I have worked at multiple companies that vilified open source anything, while building their entire businesses on Linux, Java, Debian, and thousands of other "OSI Approved" software.

It's because, in my experience, the majority of businesses want to take but do not want to feel any obligation to give back or support.

Hearing loss is one of the very few proven and CAUSAL mechanisms behind cognitive degeneration as we age.

They even know the mechanism: the slow imperceptible year by year withdrawal from rich communication patterns with our environment.

I found that it took me a little while not to feel "old" when I discovered that I needed hearing aids.

But my oh my what a difference.

It's difficult to describe to someone what it's like and how much less cognitive energy you have to put into even simple things like discussing lunch with your wife!