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by Anechoic 5y ago
It's presumably some sort of machine learning to distinguish gunshots from firecrackers, backfires and other kinds of impulsive sounds one would find in a city. It just does not appear to work well.
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In-Vehicle Infotainment Systems Especially Distracting to Older Drivers(newsroom.aaa.com)
3 points by Anechoic 5y ago|0 comments
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by Anechoic 5y ago
> Any metro can plop an airport down Development of a new runway at an existing (US) is a $billion* endeavor and can take decades.
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by Anechoic 5y ago
Yes. The noise impact of trains is measured in hundreds of feet (maybe thousands if a locomotive is blowing a horn at a grade crossing). The noise impact from an airport is measured in miles. Furthermore, for a given noise level, any number
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by Anechoic 5y ago
> , or of choosing not to do either of those things if they don't want to. Obviously, you can currently install and use other applications that provide the same functionality, but you cannot uninstall or disable defaults. With Apple
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by Anechoic 5y ago
their soil stability test holes kept failing inspection What do you mean by "stability test holes kept failing inspection"? If you're referring to geotechnical boreholes, there's nothing to inspect - it's a test o
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by Anechoic 5y ago
You can only believe this if you've fallen for the spin perpetrated by media outlets. The only reason you think there is (or was) an epidemic of police shootings of unarmed Black people [...] This is unfair - note that the comment
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by Anechoic 5y ago
And comparing to retail workers at walmart also seems a bit weird? The comparison is with Walmart warehouse workers, not retail workers. See the actual report posted by others.
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by Anechoic 5y ago
It's likely that surveys reference positions from that stone. No one may care now, but a few years down the line if someone is trying to survey the path for a rail project, power line, etc, that could lead to problems.
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by Anechoic 5y ago
My question was ambiguous, what I meant was whether or not there were any known exploits to work around pair locking (all of my iOS devices are pair-locked). I didn't know about the exploit that lights0123 linked to, but it appears tha
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by Anechoic 5y ago
Do we (reasonably) know if this still works?
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by Anechoic 6y ago
The US did do it with things like the Interstate Highway System Which in part resulted in the passage of NEPA and our current morass.
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by Anechoic 6y ago
As someone who works on EIS/EIRs it blows my mind as well. But I do think that it's important to balance the interests of the community with the project, and I'm not sure that limiting litigation (as the paper suggest) would
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by Anechoic 6y ago
One thing I think they missed, environmental impact studies It's mentioned in the NEPA discussion on page 9, and in the litigation discussion.
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by Anechoic 6y ago
Standards cost money because the process to create them costs money. But the money you pay to the standards doesn't go to the creators, it goes to the organization to make them available. (I've contributed to ANSI standards).
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by Anechoic 6y ago
Apple audio engineering teams consist of many engineers from Bowers & Wilkins Tom Holman is there as well.
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Boston Globe launches “Fresh Start” initiative(bostonglobe.com)
2 points by Anechoic 6y ago|1 comments
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by Anechoic 6y ago
For what it's worth, the big tech companies working on drone delivery (including Uber & Amazon) are aware of noise concerns and are working with noise control researchers to develop quieter drones and noise control criteria.
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by Anechoic 6y ago
I suspect the article is referring to things like bruising from tight fitting earcups or maybe muscle strain from the weight of the headset, not something specifically related to the noise canceling function (except perhaps from excess nois
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by Anechoic 6y ago
Is that noise canceling or is it masking?
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by Anechoic 6y ago
There was a time where people could passionately debate politics, or even more personal issues such as abortion, and then still enjoy a game, party, or have a beer at the pub with someone you just passionately disagreed with on another top
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Five Takeaways from Eno’s Transit Capital Construction Database(enotrans.org)
1 points by Anechoic 6y ago|0 comments
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by Anechoic 6y ago
Range hoods with powered vents are required, by code, basically everywhere in the US and Canada. Is "powered vent" supposed to imply exhausting to the exterior? While every home I've seen does have some sort of powered vent
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Can We Make Our Robots Less Biased Than We Are?(nytimes.com)
1 points by Anechoic 6y ago|0 comments
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by Anechoic 6y ago
That used to be the norm When was that? In the US you can go back as far (at least) as Mark Twain and Harriet Beecher Stowe for popular figures getting involved in politics. In terms of actors and singers, you can go back to Bert Willams
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by Anechoic 6y ago
Keep in mind that these numbers may not be current. For example, as of right now (5:40pm EST), the estimated number of remaining votes in Pennslyania listed on the site is 431,723, but the PA Secretary of State put the number remaining as 3
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by Anechoic 6y ago
Your face can easily be mimicked. Article: "I was ushered into a dome-like studio containing 50 cameras [...] The final model took a few days to generate at the cost of just over £300." I don't how that can be characterized
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by Anechoic 6y ago
If you travel a lot already (say, for work), loyalty programs can provide worthwhile perks. I had a 10-day vacation in Japan a couple of years ago, complete with first-class flights and luxury hotel stays and only paid ~$500 out of pocket (
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by Anechoic 6y ago
The bar wouldn't be sufficient motivation to prevent this?
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by Anechoic 6y ago
And somehow, that turned into a system where cops can stop you and take your property according to mere presumption of guilt, as in this stupefying example from a few years ago: Not to take away from csilverman's valid point, but as

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