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by gertlex 2y ago
Yeah, this is take is easy for the brain to start down. I blame the word "people". A more accurate term that maps to the examples in the previous post is perhaps something like "inter-team coordination problem".
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by gertlex 2y ago
It's interesting that even podcasts, which you'd think would be more focused on audio considerations, don't do this, either. I'm mostly thinking of Dan Carlin's podcasts, where sometimes he goes a weee bit quiet. (A
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by gertlex 2y ago
I'm piling on at this point, but I appreciate that this got me to go read and learn a few more things (that the internet says are true, anyways). Lane splitting has never been illegal in CA, but is apparently illegal in all other US st
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by gertlex 2y ago
I'm also far from an expert on wavelength stuff when it comes to applied uses, so I'd have similar questions. But my hearing aids do in fact already have two mics per ear (about half an inch apart), and use them to let me block ou
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by gertlex 2y ago
It's a bit physically trickier than that due to curved tubing and ear molds... but I could totally "try" it with friends, e.g. rotating the BTE hearing aid 180 so it's forward, and they'd have fun too.
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by gertlex 2y ago
Glad to help! At my recent audiologist appointment, it escalated to being suggested that I go for a cochlear implant consultation for one of my ears (I figured why not, despite not personally thinking this was something I'd do any time
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by gertlex 2y ago
Curious, is that your first pair of phonaks? If not, is the use use of bluetooth + app hurting your soul? My current pair are about 6 years old, working fine still, thankfully... But in a recent visit to audiologist, they had me test out a
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by gertlex 2y ago
Maybe you're thinking about the costs of getting a cochlear implant? Having worn hearing aids for 3 decades (in the US), and not going cheap, the high end name-brand ones have always been about 4-6k for a pair. (and most of the time g
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by gertlex 2y ago
Microphones are cheap right? Just have multiple on each ear while you're squeezing in the AI features too :)
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by gertlex 2y ago
My phonak HAs have some directional noise cancellation (or biasing at least; I don't have rigorous definitions for these terms)... It helps but isn't great. Has a problem that I think the AI headphones wouldn't solve either:
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by gertlex 2y ago
I think... it has to do with "start with" part of their statement (as in where to start to find what different people can hopefully reach a consensus on), as a more-likely-to-be agreeable thing than the general "killing a per
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by gertlex 2y ago
Hah. Well that's was a fun "here's how humans think" thought that totally missed checking for "here's how things can be read multiple ways".
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by gertlex 2y ago
Seems like a pretty human thing to do, or at least something I (a human I think) have done. Type a bunch of sentences about a couple nouns and occasionally your brain types the other one as you're thinking ahead! Certainly, I try to ca
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by gertlex 2y ago
Probably an exception in the "reason" for clicking hyperlinks, is what came to mind. Of course another reply notes the clear external vs. internal link approach of wikipedia, too.
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by gertlex 2y ago
I only scrolled through the article, reading snippets and looking at pictures, but the pictures of yoga moves were what caught my attention of "this is hard". Specifically, interpolating between a leg that's visible and exte
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by gertlex 3y ago
Nice idea for helping convince! I too am for the functional stuff; I use a tension rod (like used for shower curtains sometimes) between cupboards, over the kitchen sink to hang S hooks off, and let a significant number of pots and pans han
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by gertlex 3y ago
Curious: do you include Earthsea novels in that tier? Maybe it was just me not trying hard enough at the time (a decade+ ago); I wanted to read LHoD but couldn't get my hands on it. I know it's now available as an ebook more easil
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by gertlex 3y ago
Hah! Not actually a robot... but I half suspect I could convince the that wife a fold-out arm with a modest clamp (that could rotate a bit if needed) at the end would be worth mounting to a wall along the kitchen counters for holding/d
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by gertlex 3y ago
Corollary: If the change is going to make it harder to effectively make changes (and figure out changes that need to be made, i.e. manual troubleshooting), it's probably a bad change. (this corollary might be most applicable in robotic
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by gertlex 3y ago
Would "single purpose robot" be another reasonable term for welding robots? Just musing. The earlier "when compared to humans" statement definitely sounds pretty accurate to me, worded as "mutli-purpose robots curre
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by gertlex 3y ago
Not sure the article ("original post") makes that claim either. It just asserts that mass timber is (probably) not in fact cheaper, and has not been/is not going to accelerate building of more housing. A solution, i.e. what
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by gertlex 3y ago
Just musing, but I can definitely picture a D2-art-style cactus, and haven't played in 15 years or so...
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by gertlex 3y ago
20c/kWh? Not in California... Try 35c/50c peak or worse. Even if you have solar, and got in before NEM3.0, that's still not an incentive to electrify, when you're just selling the non-peak energy to the grid for the incr
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by gertlex 3y ago
One anecdote I've seen is that the right way to run them is to maintain a near-steady-state temperature in the house, including overnight. I'm not sure if that's maybe a bit extreme and just how they suggest use to non-savvy
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by gertlex 3y ago
> Populace keep voting for the same set of kleptocrats, so they get what they vote for. Probably not an original idea on my part... but if the # kleptocrats (elected officials) is approximately constant, and the # of decisions made per k
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by gertlex 3y ago
Maybe relatively low salary for a typical CEO (no comment)... But doesn't seem like Mozilla is a typical company; not built around selling a product... so maybe that merits a different type of CEO with different skills not normally des
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by gertlex 3y ago
This might be an option you turned on? I don't experience 2FA for paypal... But I'll probably go fix that today.
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by gertlex 3y ago
See? I didn't even tell anyone what they should do, and here's a Latex guy spouting off :)
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by gertlex 3y ago
> but when you start saying what other people 'should' be doing then they're going to speak up. That's not a prerequisite for the Latex folks, in my experience :D (I'm also in the "wrote my masters thesis in
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by gertlex 3y ago
I also never ponder personal projects from a commercial standpoint. But I sure see that narrative here on HN frequently. I have to conclude that most people on HN talking about commercializing are doing purely software projects. My project

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