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by ldarby 6y ago
It still doesn't even make sense. How does something that "induces long term depression" have a separate effect of "reduces evidence of tinnitus"? Are they saying this stimulation that apparently cures tinnitus al
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by ldarby 6y ago
Oh this is bloody awful: > we developed a guinea pig model of tinnitus induced by noise exposure ... > choosing a stimulus interval known to induce long-term depression (LTD). Twenty minutes per day of LTD-inducing bimodal (but not un
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by ldarby 6y ago
> Further testing in guinea pigs revealed the best body parts to stimulate to shut off tinnitus How on earth do they know if guinea pigs have tinnitus and if this method shut it off in them?
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by ldarby 6y ago
Yes, I have strong feelings about clipping... For many years I was using the track Moby - Inside trying to find a hifi system or headphones that could play it without sounding crap, then discovered it couldn't be because it's cli
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by ldarby 6y ago
> clip without blowing out your meters If the audio clips, and the meter doesn't "blow out", then in my opinion that is a defective meter. ALSA already has an eq plugin ( http://quitte.de/dsp/caps.html#
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by ldarby 6y ago
> These days, especially in EDM / Hip Hop, slight clipping in bass in somewhat stylistic. No it's not, it's just widespread incompetence and has ruined lots of music I would have liked. Having better software tools that a
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by ldarby 6y ago
It looks like it really is Zoom in the screenshots (but yes if it wasn't Zoom and someone called it Zoom, I think that would be terrible).
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by ldarby 6y ago
The article was talking about asteroid sized (as in diameter), not mass. https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=black+hole+horizon+rad... shows a black hole of mass 1×10^29 kg (which is about 1/20 of one solar mass
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by ldarby 6y ago
How about not using the term "ROM" to refer to software images people install on to writable storage?
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by ldarby 6y ago
To follow on, it's a valid point though. /bin/ls can handle different file systems because many other separate people/projects are responsible for the file system specific support (in the kernel). Youtube-dl should be a
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by ldarby 6y ago
This is misapplying the unix philosophy. There would be too much duplicated functionality between different tools for different sites. It would be like having different versions of /bin/ls for different file systems.
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by ldarby 6y ago
I guess it's fine to hold things like dry fruit but if you pour boiling water on it, I think the risk is if that could that leach something into the water? Certified food safe epoxies exist but are expensive, e.g. ArtResin is one.
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by ldarby 6y ago
Thanks, this was the question I had before purchasing, if they might decide to pull a Tivo in a future software update and kill off everything on https://github.com/reHackable . I mean, with enough resources they could repl
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by ldarby 6y ago
> wireshark your connection This isn't good advice for trying to show someone their messages aren't being sent in clear text. It could be encrypted using a weak cipher or have other implementation bugs that make it trivial for
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by ldarby 6y ago
Yes but I've been in a situation trying to debug CUPS because it was corrupting fonts, and urgently needed a print out of something. So, pick your poison...
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by ldarby 6y ago
I once shipped a python script with a dependency on the requests package, and installing that on the customer's system caused an outage on their production server with 1000s of users because of a permissions issue, that wasn't pre
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by ldarby 7y ago
I have these, for an office. Yes they are silent if you slowly push and release a key, but thumping away at 50-60 wpm still makes a huge amount of noise, even with o-rings installed (although a lot quieter than blue switches which I used t
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by ldarby 7y ago
The whole point of the article is that it shouldn't be embarrassing. The current dark energy theory is just currently the best explanation for observed phenomena (or was, I'm not sure what you're referring to). Even if it&#
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by ldarby 7y ago
https://engineering.fb.com/
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by ldarby 7y ago
For the people complaing about closed firmware, remember that obtaining FSF certifcation can be achieved by e.g. cutting off the hardware pins to make upgrading it impossible, turning the "firmware" into "hardware". Thi
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by ldarby 7y ago
Did you not read the article? He is effectively being killed on the spot, just a bit more slowly than less civilized countries.
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by ldarby 7y ago
The first thing I do on a new windows PC (and android phones nowadays) is turn off all the animations, menu fades etc. for an instant performance boost. I wish I could also disable those lightbox image loaders on web pages that slowly fade
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by ldarby 7y ago
That link redirects to a spam site for me. Anyone else?
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by ldarby 8y ago
Hi Tim, I just upgraded to 2.0 and was so damn impressed with upgrade code. I run Zulip in a VM with an NFS root, and hit some random NFS bug that resulted in this error: ... Found existing installation: cryptography 2.3 Uninstalling
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by ldarby 8y ago
This is symptomatic of hiring people to do tech support whose only ability is to follow a script. Usually they can't even understand an if statement in the script. They lack the basic ability to think. I work in tech support myself (
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by ldarby 8y ago
The constant popups asking me to signup for Prime, with obvious dark patterns that twice tricked me into clicking 'ok' put me off buying from them altogether.
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by ldarby 8y ago
Yes, that's fine for images like that, that's several GB in size, but there's a cut off point where tiling becomes less efficient and slower than just downloading the whole image in one request, I'd guess it's aroun
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by ldarby 8y ago
I think using IIIF is why this site is so broken. Trying to load an image sends 50 separate requests, when the entire image is less than 400kb. This is the exact opposite of what web optimizers try to do, which is combine lots of small ima
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by ldarby 8y ago
Offtopic, but you now do "analytics on user behavior" at Salesforce. Do your analytics let you know that logging out my brower tabs overnight to show me some marketing bullshit is really f*king annoying?
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by ldarby 8y ago
You're forgetting what "easter eggs" are IRL - chocolate eggs hidden in a back yard that people have to look for. The analogy applies to computing in 2 ways: they're hidden, and it's something desirable. Niether

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