{"id":1953,"date":"2015-01-24T17:31:42","date_gmt":"2015-01-24T17:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/?p=1953"},"modified":"2015-01-24T17:31:49","modified_gmt":"2015-01-24T17:31:49","slug":"scale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2015\/01\/scale\/","title":{"rendered":"Scale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m impressed by scale. Scale is an important concept because it\u2019s easy to see 4 (2 power of 2) but way less to see 65536 (2 power 16).<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/-UWyHj_bn3Bg\/VMPUZG9NkQI\/AAAAAAAABh8\/Uo_nA41XXt0\/s800\/3p3m40.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a stupid example that shows how complex things can be:<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/-TXr26lj0ywE\/VMPKOzyO6lI\/AAAAAAAABhk\/D4Rn1rAy_j4\/s640\/highvolume.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So for some computers running Windows 8.1 or above, when you crank up the volume you get that annoying popup.<\/p>\n<p><em>Damn it Microsoft, it\u2019s all your fault and you suck and you\u2019re the worst oh god why?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Where does that message come from? Well <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/windows\/comments\/1qintf\/hearing_loss_warning_in_windows_81\/\" target=\"_blank\">Reddit answered<\/a> and a MS engineer confirmed that there\u2019s no code in Windows that displays that popup.<\/p>\n<p>This popup is a European Union requirement that manufacturers are free to implement or not at the audio driver level. So Samsung thought it would be cool to implement that on my laptop.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not much of a deal \u2013it\u2019s loud enough before the popup shows up 90% of the time- but what\u2019s interesting to me is that at the scale Windows and Microsoft work, there are tons of shit we don\u2019t know about, things that as users we think are all about Redmond getting their shit together but it\u2019s not. It\u2019s WAY more complex there\u2019s even countries chiming in.<\/p>\n<p>Right there we have MS, computer manufacturer, audio driver maker, EU battling over the sound volume experience in an OS.<\/p>\n<p><em>If you don\u2019t know now you know.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m impressed by scale. Scale is an important concept because it\u2019s easy to see 4 (2 power of 2) but way less to see 65536 (2 power 16). Here\u2019s a stupid example that shows how complex things can be: So for some computers running Windows 8.1 or above, when you crank up the volume you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1953"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1954,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953\/revisions\/1954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}