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by jlnthws 6y ago
Women at home I guess.
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by jlnthws 6y ago
No, I was definitely not hearing high pitch when noise cancelling was on. I was hearing it when I removed the headset after using it of a few hours. It usually disappeared the next day. One time though i could still hear the high pitch for
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by jlnthws 6y ago
Not specific to AirPods: I’ve had the same issue before with Bose Quiet Comfort 25. After using noise cancelling a few hours for a few days I was having this high pitch issue for a day or two. So not a permanent tinnitus (for me), still doe
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by jlnthws 6y ago
Quite a milestone for sure but let’s not paint it as if it was an unexpected shock. Only the high-end equipment were still made or assembled in Japan. A big part of Nikon products have been made in Thailand and China for years if not decade
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by jlnthws 6y ago
Probably because the iceberg is 4200 sq km while Jamaica is around 4200 sq mi. Still, at 2/5 the size of Jamaica, this freely moving ice mass is enormous.
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by jlnthws 6y ago
True. The reason is that voting and downvoting semantic is perceived differently, and people’s ego. The easiest, although imperfect, solution I think would be that downvoting costs you some karma (both the downvotee and the downvoter).
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by jlnthws 6y ago
Discipline is all what matters, automatizations are imperfect and temporary tools. Simply put: all abstractions are leaky, all abstractions have trade-off, and you cannot necessarily rely on some abstractions in every context. The GC exampl
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by jlnthws 6y ago
F1-F2 to change MBP brightness, CTRL+F1-F2 to change external monitor brightness. Works with my thunderbolt LG 5K. (I dislike the Touch Bar so I always use an external keyboard when at my desk)
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by jlnthws 6y ago
What about security / hacking threats? Say I have precious metal in safes at some banks, good luck to steal it from me overnight. Now imagine people get a digital wallet on their smartphone. It's now easier to rob them of their li
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by jlnthws 6y ago
Having personal exposure, taking accountability for your actions. From Taleb of course. The case of Snowden shows how bad it can turn when not everybody in the loop has skin in the game (asymmetry). Ironically, his behavior tells us he has
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by jlnthws 6y ago
Exactly. An oath means nothing: what you need is skin in the game. Some health practitioners are literally bought by Big Pharma, by their hospital accountant, etc. How would an oath fix that? Same with engineers or any other discipline.
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by jlnthws 6y ago
Could someone knowledgeable in this topic maybe tell us which international financial institutions will be mostly impacted by this kind of defaults (short or long term). Any CDS-like turmoil possible?
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by jlnthws 6y ago
I was being satirical with my wording but the issue with Apple is different. Android is fragmented by design, there is Google, Samsung, Huawei, etc. companies which sell a lot of other things, so Android image may be less of an issue for th
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by jlnthws 6y ago
Apple sells an experience, it's hard to find a common ground to those single store monopoly issues without compromising this experience and tarnishing Apple's precious image. Suppose Apple standardizes jailbreaking: say they allow
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by jlnthws 6y ago
Where do you get the UBI from? Taxing reach people and companies? Which ones? Can they avoid it, even with a complex sequences of numerous administrative steps, clever legal interpretations and social engineering? ... Now suppose you have U
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by jlnthws 6y ago
Do they not realize? It's just served as a convenience for family trees and cure together services. Same mechanism with any "social app" that asks access to all your phone contacts to "easy friends discovery": you
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by jlnthws 6y ago
I've always used a sticker (black dot-shaped) or a piece of post-it note. Post-it is really convenient but it's ugly. I still think the best solution would be to have no builtin camera or microphone. Just have something like the
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by jlnthws 6y ago
So, COBOL is lindy. Not because it's more efficient but because a complete rewrite is still more expensive and risky. Though I hear now and then that parts of those systems are being rewritten gradually (usually in C# as COBOL runs on
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by jlnthws 7y ago
My "data loss" happened when Firefox updated itself automatically, said add-on was not compatible with latest Firefox and was disabled. After some time it became compatible again and was reenabled. All cookies in "containers&
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by jlnthws 7y ago
Indeed, I was not aware of it and it makes a huge difference. So local emissions reduction is probably in the 70+% per vehicle. Tyres and roads are the last big chunk of emissions then. Where is my flying Tesla? [2] https://elect
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by jlnthws 7y ago
I had in mind that at most 60% of particles emitted by non-electric car are due to the exhaust. It's actually a bit more complex as there are different types of particles with different distributions depending on many factors. In [1],
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by jlnthws 7y ago
The title might indeed be flamebait, but I can relate to parts of the rant: - after 2 years, my LG Ultrafine 5K still won't turn on at least once a week. During the first year, it was even freezing the MBP (monitor is up to date). - af
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by jlnthws 7y ago
Yes, nobody uses brain anymore.
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by jlnthws 7y ago
Ask any French kid about "Les Animaux Malades de la Peste"[1] (in English [2]). You need power to survive / for a better life, freedom is not enough. When times are good, be happy and forgetful. But when times turn bad (plagu
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by jlnthws 9y ago
As with most supplements, ask your doctor. Do a blood test every year. Maybe see a nutritionist. Vitamin D is ambivalent: as said in the article, it helps calcium absorption so if you're too low on vitamin D you might be too low on c
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by jlnthws 9y ago
So nice to see progress in privacy but please someone explains how GDPR will help EU startups! GDPR is inevitably going to hinder any new company forced to abide by it. So the next Uber/Wechat will first flourish in US/China&#x2F
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by jlnthws 12y ago
True today, but not 10 years ago :) Plus Odoo ORM and SQLAlchemy have different purposes.