Thought you loved Python? Wait until you meet Rust

Apr10
by on April 10, 2022 at 11:00 am
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“Technology from the past comes to save the future from itself.” That’s how Graydon Hoare, the creator of Rust, describes what he wants to achieve. That’s one of the key hallmarks of Rust: using technologies that are well-known to academia but rarely implemented in contemporary programming languages. Technologies that are old, reliable, and sometimes forgotten. But which, above all, work extremely well. These technologies are used mainly for one thing: safety. Sounds boring? It is not, if you ask the community. A whopping 87 percent of Rust developers love this language above all others, making it the most-loved language since…

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Shopping for headphones? You should know about the ‘Harman curve’

Apr09
by on April 9, 2022 at 7:15 pm
Posted In: Basics, Plugged


If you’ve shopped for high-end headphones recently, there’s a pretty good chance you’ve come across something called the ‘Harman target curve,’ or perhaps just the ‘Harman curve.’ Maybe you read a review that said a pair of headphones sound amazing because they’ve been tuned to said target. Or perhaps you saw an edgy comment suggesting headphones tuned to the Harman curve suck. But why exactly are more manufacturers, audiophiles, and reviewers paying attention to the Harman curve? There is a lot of science behind the acoustics of headphones, much of it covered in our primer on speaker measurements, but in…

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