Impedance mismatch between two pieces of equipment (amplifier and speaker, in this case) is a thing, and depending on how the amplifier is built can be a problem. But for the piece of wire connecting them to behave like a transmission line it needs to be a significant fraction of the wavelength of the signal, which at audio frequency is quite a lot, so unless you have your amplifier on the other side of town it is totally irrelevant. The guy was blabbing nonsense. We didn’t talk about quarks.

Resistance can reduce the volume. E.g. if your wires are too thin for the current you want to send over them. The guy was talking about impedance.

Once someone tried to tell me that the wrong cable impedance to the speakers affected sound. Asked him what is the wavelength at audio frequencies, conversation died.

That’s the joke. They would claim that … I don’t know… electrons are going to fall off that copper wire or something like that.

Twelve audiophiles around the world just had seizures

Small form factor, or something like that . Little motherboard possibly fanless, space for one or maybe 2 2.5 hd. The little thing you can use for a nice video player at home or the cash register at work

It wasn’t TeX, more like a command that is used daily, but I can’t find it anymore. Nice on metafont though.

There’s one of the GNU utils that actually does that

The first thing I thought about was “there’s suddenly going to be lot of 2N2222 available”

Yo mama so old Debian calls her stable

404 brain not found. Sorry:)

Linux kernel has had support for 64 bit time for years. On Debian, packages for the upcoming release were updated to 64 bit time earlier this year. I’m fairly sure the other distributions have done or are doing the same. So basically you now have 2 years to upgrade your OS and to pester the vendors of commercial software to do the same.

Like someone else said, it will be 2 very busy years, but we can survive this.

In the eyes of the board of directors, sure . Plantings a billion worth of trees would probably have been too green

It’s SEO all over again, but worse.

Hi there, fellow QC reader

Food is not the only thing that gets packaged. The worst example that comes to my mind is the way they package microSD cards.

Due diligence what…?

TBF, I have those AND a programmable thermostat.

If you set it up with a password it makes it harder for people who shouldn’t have access to it to read your stuff

It’s distracting.