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by magnetic 4y ago
Not quite. After an acoustic trauma, especially bad enough to degrade your hearing, there is a good chance you will be gifted with life-long Tinnitus.
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by magnetic 4y ago
What does restic offer that borg doesn't? I've been using borg for a while (successfully, with Vorta as UI on mac) and curious to learn if there is something I've been missing that restic provides.
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by magnetic 4y ago
AFAIK hidden hearing loss is due to synaptopathy (see Liberman's work). This work helps regrow hair cells, though. Does your Pure Tone Audiometry show any losses at all on your audiogram? It would be surprising that such an auditory in
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Ask HN: What can you do when “unsubscribe” doesn't work?
21 points by magnetic 5y ago|34 comments
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by magnetic 5y ago
Is there a way to tell what was generated vs edited post generation?
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by magnetic 5y ago
> i.e. Do I only ask questions I already know the answer to and not questions I don't know the answer to? I've been advocating for a "coding interview" where both the interviewer _and_ interviewee draw some random que
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by magnetic 5y ago
> If you model a back-of-the-envelope sustainable civilisation, you'll find we're nowhere near any sort of fundamental population limit. How did you model it? I'm curious about the assumptions you made and how you came up
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by magnetic 5y ago
Remember that death isn't the only bad outcome: just because you survive doesn't mean you're out of the woods, unfortunately. I'm afraid "Long COVID" is a thing, for adults and children. "Evidence from the
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by magnetic 6y ago
Do you need a PayPal account or is there a "take my credit card and check out as guest" option somewhere?
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by magnetic 6y ago
There are trade-offs. Behind the ear is great when you still have reasonable hearing in a good chunk of the spectrum, so the dome from the BTE provides the boost that is additive to the natural signal. Wireless earbuds' counterparts in
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by magnetic 6y ago
> People who are actually bad at what they do rarely realize it Apparently, they may often think that they are good at it! See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning–Kruger_effect
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by magnetic 6y ago
Where did you go specifically?
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by magnetic 6y ago
> App stores don’t currently build their apps. On iOS (not sure about macOS apps), when you submit an app, it is submitted as "bitcode" (note, this is not "bytecode" - it's bitcode, not a typo). This allows Apple
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by magnetic 6y ago
> And recharging is still relatively slow. I know not all EVs are Tesla, but it's interesting to see where charging is going (others will follow suit). Supercharging v3 gives you 1,000 miles of range per hour of charge (approx. if y
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by magnetic 6y ago
Confirmed. Once I switched to Chrome, I could see the 4K quality option.
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by magnetic 6y ago
MacBookPro with Safari.
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by magnetic 6y ago
In my youtube quality menu, it only goes up to 1080p. Is this really 4K?
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by magnetic 6y ago
What do you mean? I've done this not so long ago on my pool. https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/530968/adding-disks...
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by magnetic 6y ago
What makes VRBO more ethical/sustainable than AirBNB?
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Accommodating Dysfunction(city-journal.org)
1 points by magnetic 6y ago|0 comments
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by magnetic 6y ago
> For many, many repairs the Genius bar just tells you that it is not repairable even though it is. A 2000$ device that you just bought a couple of months ago. If you bought your device a couple of months ago, wouldn't you still be
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by magnetic 6y ago
Can you elaborate?
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by magnetic 6y ago
> A month or two later I tried to withdraw some cash and was told I had no money. My full $100.00 had been consumed by insufficient balance fees. Is that an exaggeration? It amounts to $100 or $50 a month in "low balance fee"!
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by magnetic 7y ago
Aren't they going to do that even if it's not open source? (I mean, patch the binary)
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by magnetic 7y ago
> If their tenant goes out of business, they're not getting the back rent and now they'll have a vacancy in a time they're unlikely to find another tenant quickly. In some cases (I have first hand experience - perhaps it i
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California public schools can’t suspend students for disobeying teachers(kron4.com)
1 points by magnetic 7y ago|1 comments
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by magnetic 7y ago
Numbers (on Mac) has smooth scrolling.
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by magnetic 7y ago
You can select "Amazon Day" delivery to accomplish that (kind of).
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by magnetic 7y ago
> I've seriously considered declining invitations before because I don't want to be in a house with all that crap in it. Why did you end up not declining them after all? (if I understand your "considered" wording co
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by magnetic 7y ago
Like many other conditions, severity matters. Mild tinnitus is very common and generally not an issue. Severe cases are a very different beast and can easily lead to suicide. See https://journals.lww.com/thehearingjournal&#x

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