Anechoic

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by Anechoic 10y ago
>Bill Gates is really what saved Apple back then. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Canyon_Company
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Harman uses juries of "trained" listeners to evaluate its products and to participate in audio experiments (Dr. Olive and his mentor Floyd Toole are prominent in the field for their audio listening experiments). The "How to L
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MacPorts does install the GUI (just finished compiling it).
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I was doing something similar to this over the summer when I sprained some ligaments in my left hand so it was painful to open the door using the "usual" left hand motion. The video seems to imply that reaching over your body to o
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by Anechoic 10y ago
If I were a women I would be a bit offended[...] The implicit presumption here is that if you were a woman, your life experiences would otherwise be identical and those experiences would result in you feeling that way. I highly doubt that
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by Anechoic 10y ago
Surely there's a way to bring technological deflation to tunneling. Tunnels are complex beasts. Existing utilities need to be located snd rerouted. You need drainage. You may need soil stabilization. You need ventilation - yes if the
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Meet the Airbnb police(money.cnn.com)
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This post is from (2013) [..] The difference was significant (p<0.001) Just as an FYI, USPS closed and consulted a bunch of distribution centers from 2011 through early 2013. These closures were (according to postal employees I spoke w
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IATA lithium-ion battery shipping rules make it pretty clear that packages containing Li-on batteries have to be clearly identified using warning labels. There are also limits to number of battery packs and Ah capacities in packages. If you
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I might buy the argument if Apple didn't include an adapter with the phone.
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In true Wolfeian style, Chomsky is repeatedly portrayed as a nasty and arrogant twit, reigning smugly as the King of Linguistics "in an air-conditioned office at MIT, spick and span." I take it Wolfe never visited the old Buildi
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by Anechoic 10y ago
This isn't exactly an unbiased view. True, but one thing to consider is that engineers and construction workers can make a lot more money performing emergency repairs (replacing a bridge that has just collapsed or fixing a broken w
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Being headquartered in San Francisco, CA is negatively correlated [..] with having a successful exit On the other hand, Silicon Valley appears to be well-represented on that list with four SV locations in the top 20 and ten locations ov
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There are alternatives now. As a seller I use PayPal because they offer two features I haven't been able to find anywhere else: 1) easy drop-in code to add a button to take payments on your site (I'm not a developer) and 2) inst
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Widow of Taunton victim is petitioning Facebook to unlock husband’s account(boston.com)
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Army's Smart Earplug Damps Explosive Noise, but Can Enhance Whispers(npr.org)
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Drives me slightly crazy seeing lawn sprinklers going while it's raining and humid.. The underground sprinkler system my parents installed 30 years ago has a sensor to prevent that, it's certainly not unusual. It would be intere
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by Anechoic 10y ago
Microphone array (beamforming) or sound intensity. But since those approaches typically require expensive hardware, the current approach is basically "we don't" unless the frequency characteristics are clearly distinct and we
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Interesting that this has been out for 3 years and this is the first I've heard of it. I'll have to try out the tool to separate out sources from various recordings we make for noise control projects (for example, separating out t
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by Anechoic 11y ago
If a site owner chooses not to do this, it's safe to assume they intended to allow deep links, [..] Or it could mean that the site owner doesn't have the technical expertise to block deep links in the manner you describe. I agre
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by Anechoic 11y ago
The "minority" is just skimming the "take" not building a business or anything else useful. In same cases? Maybe. In many cases (including my own MBE/DBE-certified business) we are using those projects to build a
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Off the rails: the misunderstood history of the wheel(bostonglobe.com)
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I once sent a package to Curaçao. I bought postage online from USPS. Click-N-Ship used to be able to handle Unicode characters but for some reason that was removed a few years ago. I always had success with it, but there must have been en
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I understand, but why not just offer the domain for a million or two? He did [0], Nissan Motors didn't want to pay. [0] http://nowiknow.com/why-you-cant-buy-a-car-on-nissan-com/
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by Anechoic 11y ago
The google method of getting around the paywall stopped working (as least for many of us) a little while back.
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In the same vein what would happen if Apple decided to destroy their master key and all backups? Tim Cook would go to jail.
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* Contrary to how it was phrased in the WW, this seems to only affect serving in the Legislative branch and the Judicial or Executive branch at the same time. I don't think it in itself puts limit on serving in the Executive and Judici
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The general public handling bare lion cells has increased significantly, whereas the amount of incidents related to cells catching fire etc. doesn't seem to have increased correspondingly. This may in part be due to certification and
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by Anechoic 11y ago
This is a followup to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10947023 (why people keep coming to one couple's house to find stolen/lost cell phones)
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In the Desert(gimletmedia.com)
1 points by Anechoic 11y ago|1 comments

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