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Yeah. People really overlook the value of muscle memory on the keyboard and how changing the affects productivity.

Most rail equipment, powered units included, can be pulled along by just about any other powered railcar.

Yeah I don't agree with that assertion either. Microsoft will produce hardware to show the art of the possible with their software. It largely comes out of a situation where the PC/device manufacturers were doing a sh* job of it.

P.S. sitting down and learning git was probably the single most useful activity I've done on my 23 year career as a dev.

No thanks.

I've worked on teams using trunk based development before and I ended up being the one having to fix other people's messes, deal with them losing work, and the absolute hell of trying to find where a bug was introduced.

The only people I really want on my team are those that understand Git. And even when there are team members that don't understand Git, I sure do and can pretty easily un-eff any situation someone gets themselves into.

Seriously, Git is actually simple and it should be a fundamental CS class taught at all universities.

One of the giants in this industry, Lionel, has been struggling for the last 30 or so years to stay alive. It’s been through several sales and I think two bankruptcies.

One thing about them though is they continue to innovate with new ways to put effects into their locomotives. Other companies have contributed as well, like MTH, ESU LocSound, SoundTrax, Broadway Limited, and others.

Model trains have a pretty loyal following, but the industry continues to narrow year after year.

IMHO all of these companies, but particularly Lionel and MTH missed out big time in the “maker movement” due to their closed, proprietary command and control systems. The patents have expired though, and many people have started to reverse engineer everything about them.

I think they also have completely failed on the marketing aspects of their businesses. Model trains have so many educational opportunities, and pitting this against video games could be a big win for them IMHO. The great thing for programmers and engineering types is it’s low threat to us since there is still a lot of software and hardware that could be built around model train products in the form of control and automation, and maybe even gamification of the operations of a model railroad.

But all of this is coming from a long time model train (and real train) enthusiast who is software engineer by day, so I’m biased.

Was the development of those JS frameworks funded with federal tax dollars?

Tom also builds military grade subwoofers.

He had a hand the design of the BassTech 7 servo drive subs as well. Their not being made anymore as I think they went out of business 20 years ago or so. All the reports I've read about those indicated that those subs were a pinnacle of rock concert audio technology and were devastatingly loud, lol.

Once BassTech folded, he worked with an online forum known as the Live Audio Board (LAB) to open source the design and replace the servo based driver with a conventional voice coil and cone driver.

The resultant design became known as the LAB Sub. A friend of mine built 12 of these beasts ~ 45x45x22 inches and let me tell you, they were amazing performers, that you could build yourself for around $500 (at the time).

Mr. Danley truly is a treasure to audio engineering and loudspeaker design.

Nothing you said refutes my assertion.

Ah you're right. It still breaks the "even division" argument though.

>PCM is also a lossy compression due to the quantization step

Wrong, especially today. Modern ADCs use oversampling to push quantization noise into the inaudible range, and then filter it out before decimation to standard PCM.

This used to be somewhat true, but modern digital often uses such high internal rates that converting between the two is near lossless. For instance, the least common multiple of 44.1k and 48k is in the 7MHz region. Realtime conversion between them is pretty doable today. We've been doing it by using decimation with much simpler hardware for a few decades before that.

Input signals are ALWAYS band limited for digital systems. If you don't do this and you work for any company designing such circuitry, you'd be fired.

I don't know much about the Yamaha technology referenced, but he's not totally off his rocker.

CDs don't record 0s as pits and 1s as lands. A change from pit to land or land to pit is a one, and no change over a time base is a 0.

Therefore, the recording and tracking performance can be affected by the disc content and processing applied.