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> Warning: when tinkering with sound, it’s very important to output things at safe levels to avoid damaging one’s hearing or worse: one’s headphones. As someon
by KineticLensman 5y ago
> Warning: when tinkering with sound, it’s very important to output things at safe levels to avoid damaging one’s hearing or worse: one’s headphones.
As someone who needs to wear hearing aids, it's somewhat depressing to see hearing loss treated as a joke. Hearing all the little noises of the world as you interact with it is more precious than many people realise.
- ronenlh 5y agoI really apologize. I'm fixing it now.
- anshorei 5y agoGrow a backbone and stand up for yourself. Your joke didn't make light of losing one's hearing, to the contrary it played on the obvious absurdness of caring more about a headset than one's hearing. This grovelling is utterly unbecoming.
- jpmoral 5y ago> Your joke didn't make light of losing one's hearing, to the contrary it played on the obvious absurdness of caring more about a headset than one's hearing. How can you tell? Why not give the benefit of the doubt that the apology was sincere and not grovelling?
- scrollaway 5y agoId say fixing up a fairly minor issue and apologizing for it takes a lot more backbone than the blatant fear of having made a misstep that your comment reeks of. I don't usually agree with the pro-social-justice, everything-is-offensive PC crowd. But sometimes, a joke is in bad taste. It's not the end of the world, it's not a horrible joke the author should be ashamed of, it's not a huge deal, and "sorry, you're right, fixing" is a perfect response. Your response however is full of severe insecurity. "Grow a backbone", as they say.
- KineticLensman 5y agoThank you, and sorry if I came across as too negative about what is actually a great article, from which I learned a lot. On the theme of the article, sound is a great way to understand what is going on, and I really like how you've used it here. I think some people believe that hearing mainly applies to obvious sounds such as speech and music, but it is, as you demonstrate here, an excellent diagnostic tool. I've personally learned that all of the little sounds contribute significantly to ones mental map / model of the world to the extent that I'm prepared to believe that total deafness would be as devastating, in the long term, as total sight loss.
- ronenlh 5y agoI'm sorry to hear that. No, your reply wasn't too negative considering it's a very serious loss. Yes, as you said, we underestimate the power that small sounds have, and that we, as professionals, are losing this accidental feature from our tooling.
- rasz 5y ago>I'm sorry to hear that just keep rubbing it in
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- emerongi 5y agoIt's good to raise that point, but it's clearly just a light joke. If you would have phrased this comment as a PSA (I have hearing loss and it's not great, please take care of your ears everyone!), it would have come better off. Your current comment just feels like it's critizing the author for a very minor joke.