Honestly, your sample doesn't sound very good. It's a bit better than the other samples that have been linked in this thread, and you're perfectly audible, but it's very muffled and there are noises that sound like the throat-mic equivalent of cable noise. If I head this on a call I'd assume you were using a particularly bad laptop mic or gaming headset.
Not bad enough that I'd comment on it, but if I knew you'd gone to the trouble of a custom setup with elaborate extra adapters etc, I'd expect it to sound excellent (like a podcast mic or similar).
This response illustrates important point - if you're expert in technology A and compare it to technology B, you're not expert in, comparison is very likely to be unfair.
I very much would like to see vendors at least to follow Journalist ethics and reach out to their competition for optimization comments and suggestions before publishing it, so others are given a chance to suggest optimizations
While serving a mission for my church, a fellow member bought me a copy of “Strongs Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible”. I found it really fascinating to flip through correlated terms and be able to draw conceptual lines between them. It was the first time I’d ever come across something like that. It strikes me as something that is relatively rare simply because what the Bible is, in terms of popularity and commonality across the western world.
> Slight problem with this is that you can’t touch black holes, so there’s nothing to hold them with. A black hole isn’t really anything, it’s just strongly curved space. They can be electrically charged but since they radiate they’ll shed their electric charge quickly, and then they are neutral again and electric fields won’t hold them. So some engineering challenges that remain to be solved.
im not even sure how to begin there... probably the only wait contain a black hole would be... warping space-time negatively? like kind of warp bubble?
I've had another one of their sites [1] open in a tab for several months now. Whenever I find a new to me subreddit I find interesting I look it up on this site to see what else is in the vicinity topic wise.
We built a map like this at reddit a long time ago. The methodology was pretty straightforward -- we looked at subreddits that had the same links submitted and upvoted. We used the map to power the "similar subreddits" feature. Unfortunately it suffered from a lot of spam and things like getting linked to very NSFW subreddits, and we didn't have the manpower to fix it or curate it, so the feature died.
Harmonicas are amazing instruments. At first people assume them to be like toys (you can buy really cheap ones everywhere) and initially the concept seems really easy: 10 holes, drawing air produces some notes and blowing air produces other notes. But the more you get into it, the more amazing it gets. Soon you discover that you can bend notes by positioning your tongue in a specific way and your repertoire increases tremendously. You learn about overbending, tongue blocking, the "Wawa" sound you make covering the flow of the air with your hand rhythmically (don't remember if that has a name)...
I knew very little about music when I decided to play the harmonica. I looked for an instrument that required little maintenance, were easy to transport and easy to play everywhere. So I decided to learn to play the harmonica by myself. It's easy to start with it, but it gets challenging when you try to learn those techniques mostly because you can't see inside people's mouths to see what they are doing and you aren't used to force your tongue to do those specific movements. When you see what people can do with it, it can be jaw dropping. I'm still a beginner at it but it's so rewarding after practising a lot to get your first bending, to reproduce songs you have learned just by muscle memory, to sound a little bit closer to those blues masters... definitely something worth to try in my opinion.
Came here to complain specifically about this. 2022-02-22 is unambiguous, big endian, and sorts nicely. IDK why society still uses any other date formats considering how international everything is.
I am looking forward to Zuckerberg, Musk, Thiel and all of the other meddling billionaires disappearing into a Metaverse. They might leave the rest of us alone then.
Why not look to small towns around state universities? Also, in the USA, look for micropolitan towns. Places that aren't tiny, but aren't major metro areas along with those kinds of challenges. Smaller towns can be easier places to afford homes, shorter distances to truly rural places. The people can be - not always though - challenging. May be more conservative politically and culturally. May be resistant to progressive ideas and efforts. Wife and I live in a smaller university town and love it here. It is a small community of similarly minded people who like the town and like technology and/or share similar progressive ideas. Fortunately we can hop in a car and be in a big city in an hour or so and enjoy big city entertainment and shopping. That said, our town punches well above its weight with plenty of shopping and entertainment opportunities.
One interesting thing is that First Class Parcels have noticeably faster delivery times than First Class Letters (as long as you both start and end in the continental US).
I see it as our minds being impressioned into a) needing new information and b) fearing a lack of information. This fear manifests as a habit of continuously craving novelty, to the point where we are used by technology.
A step towards overcoming it is to realise this fear and begin using technology as tools, like they were originally intended. This is, of course, easier said than done; however, with time, we can overcome this habit by using our technology with intent.
The biggest obstacle is not the technology, but ourselves. We often find reasons and justifications to continue this habit. Fundamentally, it's a case of self-victimisation and illusion of necessity. "It's too hard to quit", "I will learn new things", "I need to catch up with people", and so on.
I'm still exploring this topic and there's a lot to learn! What I've written above is likely just a (possibly misguided!) part of the whole equation. I'm happy to discuss this with anyone and understand the nuances of this problem, and hopefully a more effective solution.
Tangent, but I thought it was a funny commentary: I was watching the olympics with my kid (<12yo) and the Coinbase commercial came on (Didn't see it during the superbowl, but I assume they were the same?). And after the commercial ended my kid said, "was that... some kind of app for gambling or something?"
Since I've switched over to iPhone my social presence with my friends is a lot better. When I had an android it always messed up group texts and messages would come in wrong orders, or I wouldn't receive them at all. I ended up being excluded from a lot of group texts because of it. Not that it really bothered me, because I could see why it would be a minor annoyance.
Also I think the green color for non iPhone messages is an ugly green by design, to encourage the "blue is better" mentality. It's already working on you ;) But its a dark pattern for sure
Note that Wikimedia has been not using Google Analytics since forever because they're concerned about precisely the same privacy problems as the regulators.
This website is inane, juvenile and has no real use. And for all those reasons I love it. Kudos to HN for being a place where I can find things that just bring some silly fun to my life.
I remember in the early days of the Interwebs, there was so many sites just like this one. You didn't have to go to FB, IG or some other content mill to find them. Plus, when you did find one, it had the same feeling of excitement as finding a $5 bill on the sidewalk.
I don't know anything about crypto. Why can't he contact someone on the receiving end of the transaction and say "I really messed up, please transfer this money back to me?". I know crypto transactions can't be undone, but a new transaction of equal value in the reverse direction could be done, right? And if not, why the hell not?
How do you store your wallet / private keys where you would be comfortable storing an amount of money that's important to you?
It feels like a bunch of consumer grade options we have are kind of flaky:
Flash drives are extremely undependable. I've had a few fail to read after sitting in a closet for a year.
SSDs can supposedly have data loss pretty quickly if left unpowered (days to months).
DVDs have decent lasting power (I have some CDs that still work after 15 years) but this makes me nervous because it's so susceptible to damage.
HDDs also make me think what would happen if it's not powered on for 5-10+ years (it's mechanical, does it use some type of oil internally to keep friction down?).
Putting it on the cloud seems risky, even with encryption at rest and now we need to backup the encryption keys.
I guess tape is still our best bet?
I would also think if you have a decent amount of crypto you'd likely want to have 3 backups in your apartment along with 3 offsite backups, perhaps lock boxes in a few different banks in different towns (or even hundreds of miles apart).
Basically it still feels like a huge pain in the butt to keep digital currency secure and available. The more backups you have, the more risk you have around being compromised but the less backups you have the more susceptible you are to data loss and losing everything.
Not bad enough that I'd comment on it, but if I knew you'd gone to the trouble of a custom setup with elaborate extra adapters etc, I'd expect it to sound excellent (like a podcast mic or similar).