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by burntwater 5y ago
I hear solely through a hearing aid and always thought the low frequencies were just being butchered by my hearing aid. Glad to learn it's not just me!
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by burntwater 5y ago
> I’ve run into a lot of people where that is decidedly untrue; they did not have the best intentions in mind. The manipulative nature of "NVC" is precisely one of my triggers for assuming that someone does not have best intent
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by burntwater 5y ago
It's not that I don't want to believe it. It's that I don't care. The cell phone is here to stay (relatively, pending whatever changes future technology brings). It's part of what makes modern life so exciting and w
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by burntwater 5y ago
An employment related service could legitimately require a valid SSN.
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by burntwater 5y ago
That's the perfect way to do it. If it's docked, you likely don't care as much about the charging speed. And if you're using on your lap or coffee table, you probably care more about the MagSafe aspect.
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by burntwater 5y ago
I've sworn off the past 5ish years of Apple laptops, but if they bring MagSafe back, ideally along with a non-Touchbar option, that just might be enough to bring me back!
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by burntwater 5y ago
Apple and Microsoft's Surface had (does the Surface still have?) the perfect connector - the Magsafe. The more we dig into this power over USB-C garbage, the farther away we go from that perfection. The patent expiration cannot come so
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by burntwater 5y ago
In the U.S. the vast majority of places have only only provider, there is no shopping around. $135/month sounds about right for the complete package. If you're lucky that includes a "special" on including HBO. Virtually
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by burntwater 6y ago
I used 150GB of LTE in the past three days and still going strong.
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by burntwater 6y ago
Cellular plans from the major US carriers change every couple months. Throw in all the resellers and you have new plans every week. Describing a cellular plan from 5 years ago is like talking about a 286.
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by burntwater 6y ago
For me, they're negotiated union rules.
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by burntwater 6y ago
It can certainly be painful from a management standpoint. But actually the biggest pain point isn't the hourly wages -- we all love to earn money, after all. The biggest pain point is labor minimums. If you need to hire from Department
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by burntwater 6y ago
I regular work with and PM projects using union labor in NYC. The rates here are about what I would expect for take-home pay. I.e. they take home (pre-tax) closer to $70/hr than $30/hr. One thing not made clear in the article is i
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by burntwater 6y ago
Headphones don't help with the particular task of controlling the mute button, but I can say the microphone of my noise cancelling Bose QuietComfort 35 headphones is significantly better than the laptop or camera microphone.
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by burntwater 7y ago
Reading the Wikipedia just now taught me that Big Buck Bunny has audio! BBB is often played on a loop while setting up large (particularly high-res) video systems, independent of the sound systems. I've seen the video hundreds, if not
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by burntwater 7y ago
Wait, you can literally control machines with SAP?
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by burntwater 7y ago
On their website, they list their plans Enterprise through Community, left to right. That's the opposite of what's standard and immediately makes me wary. They might be great, I don't know. But if something as non-standard as
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by burntwater 7y ago
Aspera is the standard in broadcast video for transferring video files. Typically you wouldn't want just a small piece, you would want the entire hour-long, 3 terabyte video. Also, you would still need to get the data into the cloud in
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by burntwater 7y ago
I don't believe this press release indicates which ports the laptop has. I assumed that meant it had a crappy selection, and further googling proves correct - 4 Thunderbolts and a headphone jack. In my eyes, that makes it a non-starter
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by burntwater 7y ago
How is this a hypothetical person?
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by burntwater 7y ago
It's hard to overstate the breadth of skills necessary for this position. Is Ansible worth learning? Possibly. But there are 100 other things worth learning too, the majority of them not even in the IT space. My time and mental bandwid
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by burntwater 7y ago
I did! And I made the mistake twice ! Huh. 80 hour work weeks will do that to you (we're in the middle of tech/dress rehearsal now).
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by burntwater 7y ago
I feel like often people forget about the small to medium setups run by "The IT guy." I'm a jack of all trades technologist in a major theater. One hour I'm configuring our half dozen Linux servers. The next hour I'
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by burntwater 7y ago
And clothes and shoes are actually the things I'm most likely to buy in a store.
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by burntwater 8y ago
Plus R&D, plus technical and warranty support, plus 6 audiologist fitting appointments, plus all the other standard business expenses and, yes, profit. Parts are a minor piece of the puzzle.
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by burntwater 8y ago
My $3,000 hearing aid (which has allowed me to hear better than I ever have before and is worth every dollar) has, for example, 2 microphones, 4 switchable DSP programs to match different sound environments, telecoil (essential in my work),
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by burntwater 8y ago
I vaguely recall hearing about some work on this front. I suspect however that latency may be an issue.
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by burntwater 8y ago
Those hearing aids aren't even remotely close to the $3,000 hearing aids a full-time wearer uses. It's kind of like comparing a free solar-powered swag calculator to a TI-84 graphing calculator. Although, much like the TI-84, $3,0
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by burntwater 8y ago
And we move nearly full circle back to radio-style ads.
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by burntwater 8y ago
I'm guessing it's a malpractice concern. All kinds of things can happen in the first week that aren't visible until a few years later. Who's to blame? The pediatrician who has been taking care of the child for 99% of the

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