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by gomox 6y ago
I live in Argentina and we have a revenue tax. It's a shit show and basically any marketplace / fintech business that operates on low margins is either economically unviable or needs some flaky loophole to operate.
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by gomox 6y ago
My favorite version is when that UPDATE or DELETE SQL query that you expected to finish instantly takes a few seconds before giving you your cursor back.
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by gomox 6y ago
I would be surprised if any other auto white balance camera (basically any digital camera on the market) didn't do the same in that situation.
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by gomox 6y ago
They are way more efficient than conventional sails, although a lot less practical. The F1 of sailing uses wing sails. https://youtu.be/926yzLioIxQ
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by gomox 6y ago
Our company uses a Slack bot thing called "donut" that schedules these random meetups for you.
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by gomox 6y ago
This is more likely caused by people videoconferencing with computer speakers, than by network delay.
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by gomox 6y ago
Science and religion are belief systems and therefore share some commonalities but the radical difference is that science is based on testable hypothesis, whereas religion is just religion. To say they are "absolutely equivalent"
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by gomox 6y ago
Did some poking around with Chrome dev tools. The RGBA value for the "unsent" text is #1d1c1db3. Normal "sent" (or "attempting to send but haven't yet decided sending will fail" is #1d1c1d. The RGBA value
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by gomox 6y ago
You can tell it was built for Silicon Valley. The marginally lighter gray tone on unsent messages is only noticeable by design-aware people on fancy IPS monitors. Messages are reordered semi-randomly.
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by gomox 6y ago
Interesting. I have one of the "known bad" speakerphones at home, I will test it out later and post my results. It could be that the echo cancellation software has been the culprit this whole time.
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by gomox 6y ago
I have tried enough conference call speakerphones that claimed to be full duplex to know that it's a safe assumption that the claim is 100% false. I haven't tried this specific one but from my point of view the odds of a microphon
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by gomox 6y ago
Headsets with boom microphones (specifically) capture virtually no ambient noise because the gain on the microphone is extremely low (the relative volume of your voice picked up 1 inch from your mouth is much higher than that of anything el
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by gomox 6y ago
Well, live-performance grade cardioid microphone on a stand in front of your mouth is probably the one thing that will work acceptably well with speakers. Glad I asked :) But it's really an outlier setup you have there. But lack of an
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by gomox 6y ago
The ambient sound rejection of boom microphones (the ones on headsets) is superior to anything else just by virtue of how close they are to your mouth. You have to do a modicum of adjustment to make sure you are not breathing on the actual
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by gomox 6y ago
That's because the actual silent killer of conference calls is people that use speakers.
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by gomox 6y ago
Most people don't complain because your software does echo cancellation, not because your microphone actually rejects the audio from your speakers properly. This makes your whole system half-duplex (if someone else talks, they can&#x27
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by gomox 6y ago
Some environments are actually quiet, and even silent if you sample from a boom microphone that will pick up barely any ambient sounds. Not everyone is an idiot. Forcing people to use headsets is, in my experience, more bulletproof than for
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by gomox 6y ago
It's surprising to what extent the technical factors are detrimental to the communication. Even if I assume that you are a smart person that has spent a lot of time on this, I want to question whether you have done a call with a good w
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by gomox 6y ago
Not necessarily. I can vacuum my house with my Bluetooth headset and you can't hear it on the other end. Your issue is with people that use ambient microphones, more than with people that don't mute.
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by gomox 6y ago
The higher end Jabra's are wired _and_ wireless (USB cable that can be detached) so you can get the audio quality or the freedom depending on what is more appropriate at a given time. Keep in mind: Bluetooth audio _sucks_ for calls, it
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by gomox 6y ago
It's comfortable but it's not full duplex as opposed to a proper headset. Keep in mind everyone else's ability to speak to you on a call is impaired by using a speakerphone.
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by gomox 6y ago
I grew so frustrated with this that I'm making a website just to have a link that I can give to people instead of going on a rant. People just don't realize how unacceptable speakers are. Tools should just have a prompt that says
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by gomox 6y ago
Arguably the mother of all dark UI patterns, and pretty tangible proof that Google's "Don't be evil" times are long gone.
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by gomox 6y ago
If your enemy still has missiles and you proceed to give him ample time to shoot them at your tail while you peacefully retreat, you might regret the approach.
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by gomox 6y ago
Yes for the love of god
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by gomox 6y ago
> I also wonder how much is invented, and how much is simply copied Well, the average human probably does not excel at this metric either
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by gomox 6y ago
Companies with any significant amount of employees use email as the back end of calendar synchronization. Think managers with 40 meetings a week.
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by gomox 6y ago
Matthias Wandel's channel is a true YouTube goldmine. My favorites of his are the DIY woodworking machinery videos, featuring things like making a table saw from scratch, without a table saw. https://youtu.be/RBucMKhrL8
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by gomox 6y ago
Browser WhatsApp works through a connection to the phone, and not directly to servers. If your phone is off, Web WhatsApp doesn't work.
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by gomox 6y ago
I can see how that can be a problem. I run MySQL but other commenters said that Postgres has "schemas" which appear to be more similar to MySQL's "databases". In the same way I thought you meant the query result cac

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