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4y ago
If it was intentional ... I hear your cry for help.
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It seems there are two problems with something in common. Many people don't use their expensive hearing aids after purchase and fitting. And many people might not use inexpensive hearing aids after purchase and whatever fitting. Hmmm.
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4y ago
You have probably considered this, but just to wonder about an option, might a larger (say 15 or 30 total) preset space be searched by a user, UX-wise, via A/B testing or better/worse responses?
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4y ago
> some gadget that projects someone's speech back at them with a slight delay I wonder if it would be more disconcerting with a varying delay. Long ago I saw a proposal to eliminate "feedback" in a Public Address system by
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> There is a lot of potential in this area! I imagine a role for being able to select between 3-4 enhancement personalities, just as one might wish to select between different self-driving personalities for different road and traffic con
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> stress-corrosion cracking in pipes located in the critical cooling systems of numerous French nuclear units Yes, the term of art "common mode failure" calls attention to failures (and latent contibutions to potential failure)
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Just a thought, incentive-wise. Could part of the motivation for automakers to use touch-screens involve regulatory risk? It is one challenge to freeze requirements within a companies own process well enough in advance. It is a risk to have
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I was attempting to be generous in advance to multiple views and did not wordsmith or use qualifying words well enough.
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AFAIK safety engineering, at its heart, allows for different levels of severity, and does not censor lesser-severity events as outside its scope. AFAIK the whole meaning of the discipline is to not brush things off. No one is advocating for
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First I have heard of Solvespace so a naive zen-mind question. Does any system aspire to be a Prolog for 3D? You sketch a variety of views and a system solves, if possible, for a solid geometry representation?
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> There's no catastrophic failure mode for a solar/wind/storage based grid Not to start the usual HN debate, but specifically in terms of the word 'catastrophe' being used. ... [Given current lack of storage] if
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Good reporting here, of the kind one can crave for these days. For anyone familiar (or concerned) with saftey-critical work, appears to deserve careful reading. Not necessarily mentioned (I haven't finished reading), but part of the ap
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> had to do them all at once Not entirely sure of this. "What's your bag" was a popular phrase. https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/294306/what-does...
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4y ago
Music in left channel only, voice center?? Then the viewer removing one earphone or changing a balance control?? Also (and more plausible), in a "lower information" mood I will stream music in a different tab. Generally each tab&#
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So true CICO is necessary but not sufficient, particularly as calorimeter-derived CI numbers are suspect, and other reasons?
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4y ago
Boeing HQ to Chicago was always a little weird, as mentioned in the video. The video also qualifies this to suggest 100s of exectives rather 10000s of workers.
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Ten pages in, an attempted summary: Measured as longer-duration microstates, longer thoughts and fewer of them correspond to less sensitivity to distraction and more self-control. This standing in contrast to "strength" models of
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Very important article. One translation: You can explain one level of a stack but imagine you can explain many levels. Overconfidence in self-estimation correlated to limited performance-testing and limited experience with challenges. I hav
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4y ago
Based on the posted title, not so much the article, Bible-code type analysis meets TAOCP: If you print the lsb of the source to volume 1 of TAOCP in 42 columns, converting 1 and 0 to '*' and '_', the result of move 37 ca
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This is mostly Knuth/TeX/TAOCP history rehash. To me it is a little creepily tinged with religious language (TAOCP as a Bible of CS, disciples must carry on TeX) -- not because religion is creepy, just a strange juxtaposition here
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Watched the full video (22min). Quite decently informative. The host is optimistic essentially throughout. He mentions "internship requirements" several times, which is intriquing. I did not hear a single mention of resource const
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Of course, first read the title as: Your GPT2 Car Is Not Road Legal. > The GP2 (now Formula 2) series
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4y ago
> Every new release of wine breaks it. Is there any way to easily choose which Wine version you use for compatiblity? Multiple Wine versions without VMs etc?
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The old quote: I would trust Einstein, but I wouldn't trust a committee of Einsteins.
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Interesting twist. > people in New York State earn I assumed this was referring to age cohorts (assuming the statement is true in at least some sense).
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> Then when I want to read one, I buy it. In the past I collected half-read books. Now I collect little cards, each with a book title and author written on it. Ordering online is only a search and click away.
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That's the blub-paradox. There's also the excuse that one could have completed an assignment if they could have used blub language; this is the fizz-blub excuse .
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Back in the day, I heard it said of the Fairbanks group, that they could have a collective publication career if they did no more than publish all the systematic effect discoveries they made in attempting very difficult experiments. Same gr
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> A bachelor’s degree in anthropology from Ithaca College costs $132,656, on average, and two years later, graduates are earning $19,227. That’s less than people in New York State earn with only a high school diploma and no college educa
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> As we said, solid and complete automation is hard to do right. Automating 80% of the steps can be quicker to implement (20% of the effort) and simpler to debug (20% of the time). Examines some of the costs and fragility of scripting-ba
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