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541.
by dhosek 11mo ago
I remember when Google’s superpower was leveraging commodity hardware.
542.
by dhosek 11mo ago
How would an audio emitter affect a bluetooth signal?
543.
by dhosek 11mo ago
The big problem is that I want prescription-level HAs and the regulatory apparatus around this is complex enough that they probably don’t want to bother.
544.
by dhosek 11mo ago
I would absolutely love for Apple to make proper hearing aids or license their chipset to a HA maker. Before I became completely dependent on HAs I had a set of Beats headphones with the Apple wireless chipset in it and the ease of switchin
545.
by dhosek 11mo ago
I just replaced my Jabras (from Costco) whose microphones stopped working. I tried Phonaks and found that the use of Bluetooth to connect to my iPhone was painfully flakey (there were certain locations in my neighborhood that every time I w
546.
by dhosek 11mo ago
This may be the thing to get me to upgrade to MacOS 26.
547.
by dhosek 11mo ago
Finally.
548.
by dhosek 11mo ago
The difference between the two is that it’s clear that 123456789 can’t be prime since the sum of the digits is a multiple of 3, which doesn’t even require finding the sum since we know 1+8, 2+7 up to 4+5 are multiples of 3. I can even tell
549.
by dhosek 11mo ago
Or for high school teachers of algebra as it turned out.
550.
by dhosek 11mo ago
One of my favorites is one that you should be able to do in your head: The product of two numbers is 37, their sum is 18. What is the sum of their reciprocals? (I happened to encounter this two times in close succession when I was getting m
551.
by dhosek 11mo ago
A hint (bordering on solution): each game eliminates a player. Note that this will also give a solution to a tournament where there are not a power of two entrants (ignoring byes).
552.
by dhosek 11mo ago
There’s a part of me that speculates that the kashrut laws are meant to rule out eating the most intelligent animals (pigs, cetaceans, cephalopods).
553.
by dhosek 11mo ago
For personal use, I used to write #!perl to avoid the hassle of keeping track of the location of the binary across differing systems (although now I wonder if this only worked in the shell I ran under WinNT4—it’s been ages since I’ve done t
554.
by dhosek 11mo ago
My role model as a parent. I had the why are old pictures in black and white conversation with my kids almost word for word. It wasn’t until they were in fourth grade that they learned that the world didn’t used to be black and white. I thi
555.
by dhosek 11mo ago
I’m not sure that the NTSB is really in the clickbait business. But yes, contact does seem to really be underselling the event.
556.
by dhosek 11mo ago
>WTF? If the term is about superficial depth wouldn't the bros be into like, abridged graphic-novel adaptations of difficult Russian classics, and not actually diving into genuinely difficult stuff regardless of quality? —Apes don’t
557.
by dhosek 11mo ago
Only towards black cats with a white stripe.
558.
by dhosek 11mo ago
I had a cat once who didn’t grasp the idea of a box having an inside. I used a cardboard box as a laundry basket and when folding laundry, I would ball pairs of socks and toss them inside the box. He always ran behind the box and couldn’t f
559.
by dhosek 11mo ago
Or terrifying.
560.
by dhosek 11mo ago
At first I read that as vaccine laden bats and for a moment, the world was just a little more delightful.
561.
by dhosek 1y ago
Whenever I see one in the wild, I point and laugh like Nelson from the Simpsons. Ha-ha!
562.
by dhosek 1y ago
This was the US under Bush II. I’m pretty sure there wasn’t any government payment to Lenscrafters involved.
563.
by dhosek 1y ago
I got it when an eye clinic wanted to do my blood pressure (which is kind of weird in itself), which they did shortly after the glaucoma test which never works for me because I have an overdeveloped blink reflex and it turned up high. It
564.
by dhosek 1y ago
What makes you think they wouldn’t if they felt it would be useful? Or more likely, require a particular government-endorsed Linux.
565.
by dhosek 1y ago
There were numerous other standardized code pages beyond those. ij is a digraph traditionally used in Dutch and was present in at least one of the ECMA code pages and isn’t really a publication ligature (it’s more on par with, e.g., the dz
566.
by dhosek 1y ago
Yeah, I’m aware of that and I hope one day to do this myself. A somewhat isolated time like this seems super appealing to me.
567.
by dhosek 1y ago
And thinner too.
568.
by dhosek 1y ago
Umm, you’re confusing things here. When you said “several of the standard grapheme clustering algorithms” that indicated the first element of confusion. There is one grapheme clustering algorithm in Unicode.¹ Ligature combinations, whethe
569.
by dhosek 1y ago
The first thing I thought when I saw the article was, I wonder if they have passenger service.
570.
by dhosek 1y ago
Ligatures are a whole other thing independent of graphemes. Grapheme clustering is based entirely independently of the font and a sequence like U+1F1E6 U+1F1E6 is considered a single grapheme according to the Unicode specification even thou

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