biggieshellz

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by biggieshellz 8y ago
The amount of lead fumes you'll inhale from soldering is minimal -- the temperature at which the work is done is almost always below the temperature at which the lead will vaporize. See https://diamondenv.wordpress.com&#x2F
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by biggieshellz 9y ago
That's correct. Even in a factory environment, where most of the noise is in the lower frequencies, you'll still end up with a noise notch at 4 KHz. It has to do with the anatomy of the ear.
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by biggieshellz 9y ago
You got really lucky. Sudden sensorineural hearing loss (what you had) is often permanent.
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by biggieshellz 9y ago
FYI, if you lose hearing from noise exposure, you'll generally lose it around 4 KHz (noise notch). You generally lose the really high frequencies (20 KHz on down) due to presbycusis, hearing loss due to aging. Even if you can still h
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by biggieshellz 9y ago
Anyone else notice the name tags on the employees? Vint (Cerf) and Robert (Kahn)!
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by biggieshellz 9y ago
Mac OS X has always used POSIX compliance as a selling point. Would the change you're suggesting break that?
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by biggieshellz 9y ago
If the ear doctor you saw couldn't diagnose the problem, you might want to look for an otologist or neurotologist. It's a more specialized version of an ENT that deals with problems of the inner ear.
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by biggieshellz 9y ago
That's how Tinnitus Retraining Therapy works, but there's also a physical component that makes it more likely. Researchers have hypothesized that if you have sharp notches in your hearing thresholds at certain frequencies, your b
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by biggieshellz 9y ago
Note that if you're trying to habituate to the tinnitus, they recommend that you keep the masking noise just below the volume of the tinnitus. That way, your brain learns to ignore the noise in a way that it wouldn't if it were m
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by biggieshellz 9y ago
Have you seen an audiologist and gotten your hearing checked? Often, if you have a hearing loss, if the missing frequencies are boosted by a hearing aid, the brain doesn't feel the need to fill in with the tinnitus (or at least as lou
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by biggieshellz 9y ago
See https://www.google.com/patents/US5973252 -- it looks like the trick is somehow simplifying the autocorrelation operation by fitting a quadratic curve.
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by biggieshellz 9y ago
C64 BASIC is pretty terrible -- to do anything with graphics or sound, you really have to use PEEK/POKE and do it in 6502 assembly. Aside from that, 6502 assembly is your best bet. There are lots of tutorials online for the C64 speci
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by biggieshellz 9y ago
They were definitely built to a price, though, and they have a lot of reliability issues now: * The (epoxy-potted, non-serviceable) power supply fails (and the resulting voltage increase takes out the 4164 DRAM chips). * The PLA is not heat
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by biggieshellz 9y ago
Looks like fun, but you'll have to have a VIC-II in the cloud or something like that if you want to do anything graphical with it. So much of the way those machines worked depends on the NTSC/PAL video timings -- raster interrupt
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by biggieshellz 9y ago
Keep in mind that it's a common misconception that if you're exposed to noise or loud music, you'll lose hearing at the highest frequencies first. Hearing loss due to noise exposure tends to be centered around 4 KHz ("n
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by biggieshellz 9y ago
Seems to work OK for the Linux kernel, and the tooling is not onerous -- just run checkpatch.pl on your commits before pushing them upstream.
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by biggieshellz 10y ago
It depends on how the ear was damaged. The cochlea has two types of hair cells: inner and outer. The outer hair cells amplify the incoming sounds by vibrating in tune with them, and the inner hair cells actually pass the signals along to
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by biggieshellz 10y ago
The filter bands they're talking about are Bark bands ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bark_scale ) and are actually representative of the way the ear perceives loudness. In a traditional hearing aid, you might have
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by biggieshellz 10y ago
Definitely not true. There were plenty of producers who were "involved in selecting the musicians who play together, what songs they record, how they're arranged, mixed, sometimes even contributing to the writing, etc." -- O