zachwood | 5 years ago | on: AirPods Max: An Audiophile Review
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zachwood | 5 years ago | on: AirPods Max: An Audiophile Review
Guess I just need to move into a place without walls.
zachwood | 5 years ago | on: AirPods Max: An Audiophile Review
I returned a homepod after really wanting to like it. I tried several locations, didn't matter, the bass is overpowering.
There's a HUGE bass boost. It's unlistenable to anyone familiar with what a relatively neutral frequency response should sound like.
I don't know what type of curve they are targeting with all of their auto-eq magic but if you're not going to make it user-adjustable, I don't know why you would choose a bass cannon.
zachwood | 5 years ago | on: macOS Big Sur
iTunes disappeared in Catalina, replaced by Music. For all of my uses it's functionally equivalent.
iPod sycing moved to Finder, but other than that it's not very different.
zachwood | 5 years ago | on: Facebook will block ads from state-controlled media outlets
Can we just ban these accounts?
zachwood | 6 years ago | on: Walmart Gets Into Health Care
From what I've been told, physicians spend a relatively short amount of time actually studying the details of drugs while pharmacists spend several years and know considerably more about dosing, interactions, etc.
zachwood | 6 years ago | on: Walmart Gets Into Health Care
I mean this may be partially true for a retail pharmacy setting, but is much different in a clinical one.
Even in an place like Walgreens where customer service is a big part of the job, the idea that it's all a pharmacist does feels simplistic and reductionist and plainly wrong. There's lots of coordination with the patient's doctor and insurance and other pharmacies they might use.
It's like saying programmers just type into a keyboard.
zachwood | 6 years ago | on: Walmart Gets Into Health Care
I'm pretty familiar with pharmacy roles and pharmacists do not count or fill pills. That is the job of pharmacy technicians.
zachwood | 6 years ago | on: Windows 10 live tiles reportedly getting killed by Microsoft
Windows 8 came out almost 8 years ago. A decade to restyle some GUI panels seems a bit extreme to me.
zachwood | 6 years ago | on: Switching from Chrome to Firefox
How do you use this workflow? Do you ever get around to those 500 tabs? Whenever I get to ~30 I feel like it's time to figure out what my focus actually is and I'm always so baffled by people that operate like you do.
zachwood | 6 years ago | on: Switching from Chrome to Firefox
Instead of hitting `ctrl+l` hit `ctrl+k` (or cmd) and you get a naked search directly to your default search engine.
zachwood | 6 years ago | on: Switching from Chrome to Firefox
> It's intrusive spyware.
Please explain.
zachwood | 6 years ago | on: Apple has made it difficult to use web-based technology on its platforms
That's not what a monopoly is.
zachwood | 6 years ago | on: Why New York City Stopped Building Subways (2018)
What?
zachwood | 6 years ago | on: Why U.S. Cities Aren’t Using More Electric Buses
Easy fix is to make the sound of the horn as loud inside the cabin as it is outside. Those things are absolutely deafening.
zachwood | 6 years ago | on: Texas Is Latest State to Pump the Brakes on Red-Light Cameras
Where I live, it happens hundreds of times per day. And that's just the ones recorded.
https://denverite.com/2018/12/05/denvers-small-force-of-red-...
zachwood | 6 years ago | on: Apple Pro Display XDR
I thought they made a pretty good case why there is nothing else in its class, the only thing close being the $30k sony reference monitor.
zachwood | 6 years ago | on: Faster Smarter JavaScript Debugging in Firefox DevTools
That's got nothing to do with Chromium becoming ubiquitous as far as market share goes. Which is bad for everyone.
zachwood | 7 years ago | on: House of Representatives Passes Net Neutrality Protections
Mitch McConnell has already stated that he will refuse to allow the Senate a vote. Because he is trash.
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/438133-mcconnell-net-neu...
zachwood | 7 years ago | on: Rethinking Streets for Bikes
Ever consider that cycling drops because the bike lanes are where snow is either not cleared, or is used to deposit snow from auto lanes?
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The biggest sales pitch for the device is the smart eq that makes it sound good no matter where you put it. The only takeaway I have is that they delivered on this but the tuning target is insanely bass-boosted.