The NES' own sound chip didn't have a sawtooth channel, but some games had an onboard sound chip that added one, like Konami's VRC6: https://www.nesdev.org/wiki/VRC6_audio
Incentives. I use consumerlab because trust is their product, if they break their trust once - they will ruin their business.
I inclined to trust the business which earns money from me - this means they are aligned with value I get and there is little incentive to break the trust and a high stakes to keep the trust when you get paid to be trustworthy.
I trust more the greedy capitalists than politicians in this question because I don't understand incentives of the latter. At least the business model is fairly transparent - you can check the company and how it makes money, in reverse incentives of the governments and their officials is broken - to get elected, get rich, get power, not lose job and keep producing new laws and regulations because if you want to keep your job you can't say “Everything is working, the best thing I can do right now is to monitor the system, collect the data and do nothing for a few years”.
Does Japan have those values, though? Last I heard, Japanese mostly don't travel (not abroad at least); strongly promote monogomy / long-term relationships; abhor the notion of adult children living with their parents; mostly don't have trouble deciding on which city to live in; and still put a lot of pressure for mothers to stay at home instead of going to work.
I should read TFA first but it seems like the root of their birth problem is simply that the financial & social costs of having children far outweigh the (short-term) benefits.
Respectfully, I think your idea of the value the Japanese have is quite off; adult children living with their parents is something almost all east Asian nations see not as big of an issues compared to almost every western nation.
Japanese travels a lot, I'd say even more than your average American. They just travel inside the country (and why not? The best beaches and the best snow is in the south and north of their own country, and it's not like culture is lacking).
I think the original comment you replied to is quite off too, most raw answers you'll get by actually asking the Youngs in Japan is that they're simply too busy; the neither have time or stability to pursue children. Almost all young people flocking to big cities doesn't help this trend either
“There is, however, more evidence for a health risk from eating too few vegetables. That is really the risk of a high-meat diet, those meat calories are displacing vegetable calories.”
Isn't a calorie just a calorie though? Or is this in regards to what comes alongside those calories?
CICO is true at the highest level but not in general. The effect 200g of protein has on your body vs. 200g of carbohydrate (in particular insulin, ghrelin, etc) means not all calories are created equal.
Energy-wise, yes, but the devil is in the details. If I had to infer the meaning here it's that high protein = constipation = not good. Vegetable calories include fiber which is important to insure you're processing things efficiently. Additionally, good vegetables (unfortunately not the ones you can get at the store usually) contain lots of great vitamins and minerals. I would be curious if they mean a typical American chain store vegetable which demonstrably has almost no nutrition compared to it's natural counterpart.
Honest question: why did TypeScript succeed while ActionScript 3.0, another ECMAScript-superset language with typing and OOP (and predates TS by a few years), is all but a distant memory? Is it more than just Adobe being a terrible steward of its tech?
With that said, TS is definitely a blessing; I recently had the privilege of migrating to it after having written a hobby project in plain JS, and the difference in usability between the two is night and day. But I can't help but feel that I've seen this all before years ago in AS3.
> Honest question: why did TypeScript succeed while ActionScript 3.0, another ECMAScript-superset language with typing and OOP (and predates TS by a few years), is all but a distant memory? Is it more than just Adobe being a terrible steward of its tech?
Microsoft and Yahoo voted against ES4 adoption at the ECMA committee, cause Microsoft had, what was it called again? Silverlight, Their flash alternative to promote so they weren't interested in improving Javascript in anyway. Due to Microsoft stupidity, carelessness for standards, the web lost a decade of improvements.
Adding insult to injury in that absurd era, Microsoft had its own AS3 implementation called JScript.net before C# became more popular.
I'm surprised nobody ever wrote a book about this saga, it's completely absurd and petty but there are plenty of stories to tell.
As a former Flash/Air/Flex dev way back in the day I agree, AS3 was a great language that JavaScript still hasn't fully caught up with in some ways but it was only really viable to author ActionScript within Adobe's endorsed editors and their Eclipse fork abomination. Being confined to the Flash runtime also made life difficult as a general purpose programming language. It was a rough development experience and no amount of language superiority would ever fix that.
Wasn't fate of ActionScript strongly tied to Flash? As much as some open source community try, they can't beat the full force of the investment done and talent assembled by Microsoft.
IMO the flash runtimes leaked memory and that made them bad for long-running applications.
I remember writing a long-running digital display app and the memory would balloon to the point where we would use a product (mdx/mdm?) to restart the flash player periodically.
I'm aware of how they were related... AS3 was based on ES4 ideas, and, as the major implementation of ES4, AS3 influenced the evolving direction of ES4. But ES4 was never really finished to the point where everyone who needed to actually agreed on it.
I think MS, who had a browser monopoly at the time, was never going to agree to something that made Adobe Flash more important. It seems crazy now, but at the time it seemed like a real possibility that browsers could end up mere shells for the real internet runtime, Flash Player.
Self-hosted Matrix servers still incur the risk of leaking metadata to whatever other servers it federates with (which of course isn't a problem if you don't federate, but that kind of defeats the purpose of using Matrix in the first place).
IMO that's an acceptable tradeoff for achieving decentralization without making the protocol overly complex (AIUI something like Signal's "sealed sender" system doesn't work in a decentralized environment)...but it still feels like a nagging threat that needs a proper solution eventually.
