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by magnetic 7y ago
There are therapies in the works that attempt at reversing this maladaptive plasticity (and reach the holy grail of silence). The most promising one (and unfortunately, the only one too) uses bi-modal stimulation (sound + electrical) with a
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by magnetic 7y ago
It depends. Tinnitus is believed to be, in many cases, due to the maladaptive plasticity that happens in response to hearing loss. The brain doesn't hear some frequencies so it "reconfigures itself" to amp up the volume on
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by magnetic 7y ago
I've been pretty happy with the following setup: I have a domain at namecheap, which forwards my address (say foo@bar.com) to my gmail account. I use fetchmail from my home computer to bring the gmail content to my local mail server (d
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by magnetic 7y ago
You explained it in 2 lines that would make for great comments. It seems useful to educate C programmers who don't have "significant experience" because, well, by definition, not every C programmer has "significant exper
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Ask HN: How to fly with a (non recalled) 15 inch MacBook Pro
1 points by magnetic 7y ago|3 comments
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by magnetic 7y ago
Nobody likes to fly a plane that falls.
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by magnetic 7y ago
I don't want to minimize the work you've done with your scripts, but perhaps you don't know that all of that can easily be accomplished with TimeMachine. From your new mac, during initial setup select "Restore from TimeM
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by magnetic 7y ago
> I would even not mind something like one-time payments for support calls, for example pay $50 for a service call to get assistance in a case like this. I just can't fathom the "no support" model at all. Have you consider
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by magnetic 7y ago
> What's the term of the load in your calculation? What do you mean by that? The amount you can draw from the power walls? This page has a chart with specs that cover this: https://www.solarquotes.com.au/blog/te
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by magnetic 7y ago
> The theory goes that as solar panels and battery prices drop, it will eventually make sense for homeowners to produce their own power, and "defect" from the electrical grid completely. I think it already makes sense in Califo
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by magnetic 7y ago
Why did you use double quotes around Paris?
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by magnetic 7y ago
> the engineers frequently work from 9am-9pm and then some weekends Ironically, this could be because they have no tests...
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by magnetic 7y ago
Very timely question: I'm in the process right now because my current Model S has a sticker that expired in 2019, so I'm looking into trading in (or selling) my current S for another Tesla. I don't know if the whole sticker o
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by magnetic 7y ago
As a Model S owner, this is one of the things that worries me a lot. I rely on my Model S to make my commute "bearable" (via Carpool lane use), which even a covered insurance rental car isn't likely to enable. Doubling my com
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by magnetic 7y ago
In addition to the penalty you'd incur, the IRS is unlikely to dig into your deductions and credits with your fervor, so they will likely compute a number that is "quite suboptimal". There are also multiple ways of doing thin
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by magnetic 7y ago
> My issue is mostly with the financial situation of the company. Its clear that the $35k M3 has been relegated as a "loss leader", and there's no work on actually making the car profitable at that price . Doesn't it
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by magnetic 7y ago
> The tax-credit is gone, never to return... and the $35,000 car is no where to be found. Where I live (CA), both Fed & CA tax credits are still valid. Go to tesla.com and configure your M3. I just did and it comes out as $33,250 (af
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by magnetic 7y ago
> I do disagree that a) there are bad guys between me and the http://catpictures.com right now I don't know how one can disagree with something that can't be known one way or the other. Security features/proce
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by magnetic 7y ago
There's a few common sense recommendations, but I think I wouldn't recommend the part on white boarding: > When the whiteboarding task starts, make a quip or light joke along the lines of Oh, wow. I hope you provide full-time s
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by magnetic 7y ago
This is explained in part by the Dunning-Kruger effect (which ties into the Impostor Syndrome). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning–Kruger_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impostor_syndrome
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We Were All Free of Facebook's Iron Grip on the Internet for a Few Hours(gizmodo.com)
16 points by magnetic 8y ago|0 comments
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by magnetic 8y ago
I don't know for sure since I don't know which apps you are talking about, but DNS blacklisting can be worked around by embedding your own libresolv and server configs into your app. That means you don't use the DNS servers p
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by magnetic 8y ago
Once you move to the front of the queue, you need this to happen too: https://youtu.be/uMM0lRfX6YI
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by magnetic 8y ago
How did you know she was distracted by her phone? I'm asking not because I don't believe you, but because my wife got rear ended about a week ago, and when the person got out of his car, he had his cell phone in his hand, but that
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by magnetic 8y ago
If you have a malicious browser publisher, you have bigger problems than the networking layer to worry about. The browser already has access to all your keystrokes and all the data it's displaying to you. In some way, it's a &quot
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by magnetic 8y ago
Was your original backup encrypted? Did you log into your iCloud account before restoring? (I don't remember if that's a step that happens prior to restoring in the new Mac setup flow) There could be some credential that needs to
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by magnetic 8y ago
Something's amiss here. You can use TimeMachine to transfer data from an old computer to a new one. I've done this a few times, and clearly the new one doesn't have any piece of hardware in common with the old one. The last t
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by magnetic 8y ago
thanks!
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by magnetic 8y ago
The kid from the $50K/year high school got an education for that price (albeit expensive) and got in through his/her own work & dedication (you could say that the expensive high school "paid off"). That kid is suppos
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by magnetic 8y ago
> In the best job I ever had in my life, my boss basically told me that she didn't care about the hours I kept or how long I worked every day as long as I got my job done. I usually showed up to work at 12pm and left around 4pm. Did

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