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by mikaraento 2y ago
Things that have helped me: - nose mask rather than full face mask - nasal spray if my nose feels congested - upping the pressure. In theory a professional is supposed to set your pressure but I do tweak mine. If the setting is not visible
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by mikaraento 2y ago
To be fair, in the case of hearing aids you are both in the right. Excessive regulation has created oligopolies and kept prices high in the US. The OTC hearing aid category is meant to help. Before that, low-cost devices tended to remain ni
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by mikaraento 2y ago
There was a influential internal white paper about not being a "tech island" that drove open-sourcing. The point was that by having its own tech stack Google would eventually be left behind and have a harder time recruiting. Not s
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by mikaraento 2y ago
(Some) TPUs look more like those non-shared memory systems. The TPU has compute tiles with local memory and the program needs to deal with data transfer. However, the heavy lifting is left to the compiler, rather than the programmer. Some T
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by mikaraento 2y ago
Indeed, this happened with Symbian. An IPC server could panic the client. As an application developer without access to the OS source code this was pretty terrible. Not all preconditions were easily understood and could vary between devices
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by mikaraento 2y ago
GPS signal disturbancecs are surprisingly common: https://gpsjam.org/
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by mikaraento 3y ago
While C3 might not be strong evidence against XP neither should it be considered evidence _for_ XP.
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by mikaraento 3y ago
On newer planes both of them often are
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by mikaraento 3y ago
I used to be like that. Cooking in milk instead of water made the difference for me. I use regular rolled oats with 2 parts milk, 2 parts water and 1 part heavy cream.
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by mikaraento 3y ago
You are correct about SELinux in general terms. However, there is a large scale exception to this: Android. Android uses SELinux extensively, and it is also used as part of further sandboxes in Chrome and Android System Intelligence.
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by mikaraento 4y ago
We've shared some plans for client-side inference (TFLite) support in https://www.w3.org/2022/11/17-webmachinelearning-minutes.htm... . The presentation was for WebML but mentions non-WebML work. It's not
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by mikaraento 4y ago
https://archive.is/eoiwi
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by mikaraento 4y ago
It's used for several ML-related projects, including as the model format for TensorFlow Lite (TFLite). The TFLite format also has long-term support as part of Google Play Services. The main attraction is ability to pass large amounts o
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by mikaraento 4y ago
Korppu (hard cracker/bread) and lerppu (floppy) in 80s-90s Finland :)
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by mikaraento 4y ago
I don't understand the difference between in-ear monitors and hearing aids well enough to give a reasoned counter-argument to that. However, Costco does sell hearing aids for 400-1000 USD while audiologists sell mostly comparable equip
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by mikaraento 4y ago
Would you have a pointer to the 20% number? I'm genuinely interested in learning more.
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by mikaraento 4y ago
IIRC the overall prevalence of hearing loss is has not been changing that much. There are a couple of opposing forces at the population level. Most common hearing loss is age-related and the population is getting older. Two other common cau
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by mikaraento 4y ago
Before the new OTC regulations, the situation in the US has indeed been confusing in multiple ways. This has lead to consumers mostly perceiving hearing aids as prescription devices and the industry being able to maintain higher prices beca
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by mikaraento 5y ago
ML Kit only runs on devices with Play Services, sorry.
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by mikaraento 5y ago
We do offer an official SDK that does that, see https://developers.google.com/ml-kit/language/translation (I work for Google but do not speak for it)
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by mikaraento 5y ago
Google also provides an official on-device translation SDK that is free-as-in-beer ( https://developers.google.com/ml-kit/language/translation ). The models are around 20M for any single language so there is a not i
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by mikaraento 5y ago
ffmpeg/libav is being fuzzed with reasonable success. See for example https://github.com/google/oss-fuzz/tree/master/projects/ffmp... and https://security.googleblog.com/2014&#x
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by mikaraento 5y ago
FWIW, I created a production batch transcoding backend using python to construct ffmpeg command lines. If you don't need streaming you may not need to talk to the libraries. (The transcoding was for transforming DVB-T captures to multi
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by mikaraento 5y ago
That is pretty much how macros worked in Excel 4.
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by mikaraento 5y ago
This is very true. However, it's likely to be correlation rather can causation. Loving parents pass on loving genes. I recommend Judith Rich Harris's book "The Nurture Assumption" on the topic. ( https://en.wik
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by mikaraento 6y ago
Eliyahu M. Goldratt And yes, everybody should read it.
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by mikaraento 7y ago
Scheduling is one of these areas where the core problem is quite well-defined, but the devil is in the details - both static and dynamic. Bit like one module of ERP. Static details include things like local labour laws, skill constraints, u
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by mikaraento 7y ago
Full disclosure: I work for Google and like it I left Google in 2009, quite unhappy about the difference between a startup and corporate politics. After that I worked at 3 startups (5 years), 1 telco (1 year) and at McKinsey (3 years). I en
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by mikaraento 7y ago
I can confirm this from personal experience (at least it was the case 10 years ago).
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by mikaraento 8y ago
McKinsey tests for something like this through a structured probing of past actions. I always felt we did a reasonably good job of discovering evidence of such skills.

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