Why I use Safari

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Why I use Safari instead of Firefox

From a political and philosophical point of view, I would love to be using Firefox on all of my devices. All things being equal (or even nearly equal) that’s what I’d be doing.
But all things are not equal, or nearly equal.

I’m certainly willing to inconvenience myself for my political beliefs. I’ve done it before and I’ll do it again.

But in this case, the inconvenience is too great. Apple’s approach is resulting in a product that is just so much more usable than Mozilla’s (and especially Google’s) product that using it all day, every day would be just too much of a pain in the ass

Why CD-quality audio will always be more than good enough

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24/192 Music Downloads …and why they make no sense

Here’s the short explanation: CD-quality audio has enough dynamic range to record the difference in volume between a sound-proofed room and a pneumatic drill, and a sample rate high enough to records frequencies we cannot hear.

Audiophiles often claim that higher frequencies are important because we can hear the harmonics, and indeed we can – the harmonics are audible as distortion sprayed across the audible spectrum. Higher sample rates are actually worse.

So unless you have more than two ears and are really into surround-sound, you can safely enjoy your CDs forever.