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> Analog aids merely amplify existing sound—a more sophisticated version of an ear trumpet—such that there is no real interruption of the original acoustic wave. Digital aids, by contrast, pick up the sound, process it into binary digital information, and then reproduce the sound as a new wave using a built-in digital-to-analog converter. Digital devices thus have to re-create the activity that our brains and ears co-evolved for eons to perform. It is hubris to think that a few decades of research and development might not fall short.

Why do writers so often accuse experts of "hubris" while arguing that their own poorly informed opinion is superior to the well-informed opinion of said experts?

That said, most digital systems don't make it easy (certainly not easy enough to be relevant to a casual user) to obtain the many noise / filtering / distortion effects you get with an analog setup, and that's a legitimate complaint. While the audiophile scene is rife with placebo effects and woo, I've long wondered if some UX lessons couldn't be salvaged. Could hiss+pop+lowpass+distortion+hardware_pickiness settings be packaged into a form that would make people willing to consume them in a digital context?
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I've always wondered if you could just stick a colourimeter on a GBA SP and generate an ICC profile for it, then use that profile to adapt the colours to your display. It probably wouldn't be that easy, but there are colour management tools and libraries available that are designed for adapting colours between devices, so if you could somehow obtain a device profile for the GBA LCD, it might be possible to use it to produce very accurate colour emulation.
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1) Assange isn't a journalist.

2) He's not being tortured.

3) It's entirely reasonable that a known and proven flight risk will be held without bail when facing criminal charges.
I've been really struggling with my weight for the past few years. It has gotten to a point where it's affecting my social life and my mental health. I've always been fairly introverted and shy, but nowadays I find myself sitting at home wishing I was out with friends, or wishing someone would text me.

I'm a fairly active gym-goer, but I have incredibly bad eating habits, so instead of losing, or just maintaining weight, I've been slowly gaining it.
This combined with my general shyness and low confidence, has caused me to just cancel social events, and stay home. And of course eat fast food to compensate. I'm struggling with sleep, and I'm at a point where I don't care much for work anymore (I've been arriving late, and leaving early for the past few months). I realize I'm borderline depressed, and my best guess is that my weight is the major cause of this.
> Eh, it’s just an attention getter.

Admitting it is clickbait does not lessen my disdain for the use of clickbait.
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In US anyway, my understanding is that most of our containment structures should be sufficient to survive a plane impact without loss of containment. [1]

[1] https://asmedigitalcollection.asme.org/PVP/proceedings-abstr...
His hearing aids can already connect over BT. He uses it a lot to watch TV. But I just checked and there seems to be a bunch of apps on the App Store that do some variation on this idea. Something to try out with him on my next visit home. Thx for the idea!
AKA a "6 Wheeler". At least that's what we called them when I was kid. They use differential steering, which makes them a good fit for automation. Don't have to worry about turning a steering column, just shift the power around which the off the shelf ATV already handles.
I've been fascinated for a long time by how people get angry at others for taking risks. Ride my mountain bike slowly on a side walk without a helmet? It invokes ANGER in others. Why? Is it an evolutionary trait built into pack animals perhaps?
That would make sense. But still, leave me alone! =)

Also, yes internet I understand that falling from a mountain bike at a slow speed can impact your head just as hard as falling from a high speed, that isn't the point, or even entirely true.
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This.

I always use Amazon and eBay as go-to examples of Optimization that works as a counter-force to those that want massive redesigns every 6 months because some other new app or competitor has some sexy slick UI.
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I think particularly in the US, there is certainly a link between race rights and socio-economic class, but I think to that end ,improving access to education and helping lift those in the least-privileged socio-economic class out of poverty would do a lot more to combat racial imbalance than anything else.
As far as female/LGBTQ rights, I'm not aware of them being statistically more likely to come from a lower socio-economic class, but I could well be wrong!
I would imagine most emulators do not include colour-correction or gamma adjustments for RGB-native consoles, unless the "native" colours are particularly ugly.

For example, the original NES does not work with RGB, but with analogue NTSC signals, so an emulator has to do something to make the output appear on an RGB screen, and that implicitly involves colour-correction.

The SNES and Genesis do work with RGB, and the output is good enough to look reasonable on modern monitors, so most emulators would probably leave it as-is.

The Game Boy Advance works with RGB, but the built-in screen on earlier models was (as the article describes) low contrast, and games were made garish to compensate. Later models of GBA used better screens, and the GBA Player for the Gamecube output straight RGB to an ordinary television, so later games often used more sensible palettes, or even provided a palette option in the main menu. Thus, GBA emulators probably provide their own colour-correction, and almost certainly make it optional.
It's not uncommon slang in the US to call nuclear power plants "nuke plants." Hell, cooking something in a microwave oven is often called "nuking it," and that's not even the same kind of radiation.
As someone with personal experience with psychiatric illness and having a degree in psychology and neuroscience, being trained on recognizing and treating disorders, I'd recommend avoiding attributing a clinical diagnosis to people without knowing more of the story.

As a climber who's met Honnold and many other extremely high-end climbers, it's a pretty common thread that they don't feel 100% alive except for when they climb. You may be able to argue that they're all depressed people trying to get their fix, but I don't think that's true. The thing is though, it can be hard to explain this phenomenon to people who don't have some sort of hobby that gives their life such purpose. I really enjoy my life outside of climbing, I honestly do. But it's the stories of adventure and hardship (even if self-imposed) that really enrich my life and have made me who I am. Honnold is similar, just a lot more so.
Maybe it's a regional way of saying "nuclear" but, given the highly negative context of actual nukes, I expected a fervently anti-nuclear article.
It'd be like an article in support of euthanasia being titled: "This state wants both end of life care and murder".
Didn't the accusers attempt to withdraw charges?

If you read into the events, it seems possible/likely that the two women got together and filed charges as retribution for being cheated on, without a condom. And were possibly encouraged by a 3rd patty.

Are the "rape" victims still pushing for justice?
questioning about some "rape" allegations which in any other country would be considered minor

https://www.vox.com/identities/2019/4/12/18306901/julian-ass...

> Assange tried to have unprotected sex with her, she said, but she asked him to use a condom. He agreed, but, she said, he had “done something” to the condom so that it ripped before he ejaculated.

> Assange told police that he had sex with Ardin but did not tear the condom, according to the Guardian.

> In the days that followed, Ardin told a friend that she was still allowing Assange to stay with her, but they were not having sex because he had “exceeded the limits of what she felt she could accept,” the friend told police.

> Miss W met Assange at a seminar organized by Ardin, she told police. They later met up and went to her apartment, where they started to have sex. But Assange did not want to use a condom, Miss W said, so they stopped and eventually fell asleep. Later that night, she said, they woke up and had consensual sex, during which he “unwillingly” used a condom. But in the morning, Miss W said, she woke up to find Assange penetrating her without a condom.

> Assange has denied any wrongdoing with respect to Miss W. A lawyer for Assange has not yet responded to Vox’s request for comment.
>but the idea heuristic that what people link to is authoritative is an opinionated decision

There are two decision spaces here. One is the selection of search ranking algorithm (whether to use PageRank or any other), and that decision was taken by Google[1].

The second decision space is the decision whether to link (or not) to any given document, and what content to put around it. That is a long lasting iterative process rather than any singular decision. Arguably it's geared towards approximating the distributed consensus - which is a global mutable state; expressed with edges the graph rather than any singular node.

Can the process be gamed, perverted, or corrupted randomly or maliciously? Sure. Do we know any better one? Not yet, at least not in the public.

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[1] practically speaking we all selected PageRank, by preferring Google's over multiple competing engines.
As far as I understand it, the latter provides information needed for the former. It's possible to have deficits in either or both:

1) Hearing loss in specific volume/frequency notches instead of loss strictly at the high/low end (sometimes referred to as "hidden hearing loss", which is more a statement about the capabilities of routine screenings than it is a statement about the nature of the hearing loss)

2) Deficits in attention regulation, which are seen in numerous conditions (most obviously ADHD, but also autism spectrum, PTSD, traumatic brain injury, schizophrenia and "schizophrenia-like" conditions, and some forms of dementia)
>And yet, Heidegger still stands as one of the commanding figures of 20th-century philosophy. His heirs include Arendt and Emmanuel Levinas, Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone De Beauvoir and Jacques Derrida. His denial of mind-body dualism – his belief that we are rooted beings, inextricable from time and place – continues to influence fields as diverse as architecture, ecology and art history. Readers are left to discern whether the essence of his ideas leads inexorably to fascistic thinking or whether, in that aged refrain, the life can be separated from the work, so that we are free to forage as we please.

There's a third option, that didn't seem to pass through the writer's mind: that what they call "fascistic thinking" is a constellation of things, many of which were invoked in the past without negative consequences, and most would still find totally find, were they not today tarnished by association with a mass murdering regime...

The fascists also pushed major welfare reforms for example, and nobody today (hopefully) considers welfare something fascist in the bad sense...

The same can be said for all kinds of philosophical ideas (including of Heidegger). Just because they were themselves adopted by Nazis doesn't mean adopting them brings upon a Nazi regime, antisemitism, or mass murder...
They could switch depending on Doctype- it wouldn't be the first time they've done it...
A party with an objective "negating the existence of the State of Israel as a Jewish and democratic state" is not the same as voicing disagreement. Almost half of the Knesset voted against 'Israel as the Nation-State of the Jewish People' basic law, and many regularly voice disagreement with this definition.
I just got my real estate license in Texas. The total cost of education, license, then signing up with broker and joining NAR, will be around $3,000 for the first year. Ongoing cost would be around $2,000 yearly.

As an agent you will likely split your commission with your broker, usually 50% for new agent but you can find some that offer take only 30% or even less.

For me, it was a little bit of impulse decision, we are planning to sell our townhome and move to a house in next few years. But also we have been looking into real estate investments.

We need to close one transaction a year to breakeven on cost of real estate license. Probably not worth it but now that I have license and I will helping friends and family and hopefully it will be worth it.

Also like others have said if you are selling your own home, you most likely don't need a license.
The lecture in my Calculus IV course where we walked through that derivation is literally my only memorable math lecture in university. It just so beautifully ties so many different concepts together!
Sorry, that was a typo - clearly I meant "possible" here!
I should have clarified that this applies to the US.
At this point nobody know who is moving things behind the scenes. Sweden has reopened the investigation , even though it had been closed. This whole saga is a disgrace to the integrity of Justice in the entire west
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>but nothing in today's world surprises me.

there is no time in the world when it wasn't full of crazy.
Yep, there were ads for them in the back of Popular Science magazine. They were fully amphibious too and could float.

Don't get me wrong, I love my fellow kinematically-complicated meatbags but I do kind of think wheels win this round.
Decades from now we'll likely fight each other for food and water as climate change reduces the amount of arable land and important ecosystems collapse
I thought in recent years the Linux device driver situation has much improved, and I think perhaps the vanilla Linux kernel has more drivers bundled in than the stock windows. Of course the GPU drivers are a bit troublesome to get the hardware acceleration working, but basic video I find gets set up without issue.
Yes you were given it, which means you were lucky in what you received. By all means try to do the same for your descendants I didn't say anything to the contrary, just that they would be lucky in the same way
Detektivbyrån's music has a huge Yann Tiersen's vibe for my neophyte ears. I love it. Thank you for this.
I'm also profoundly deaf, using two BTE hearing aids as well and your comment is 100% what I'm frustrated with as well. My hearing aids are CONSTANTLY "adjusting" noisy environments for me - Usually exactly when I don't want them doing a damn thing. I'm very good friends with my audiologist, but it would take hours upon hours in her office, fiddling with all the various controls and options, to get things perfect. I want to be VERY clear too, it isn't a problem of have too many controls, that's actually an amazing benefit... The problem is that we can't reasonably expect audiologists to really spend the hours upon hours of time making minute tweaks and adjustments to capture that perfect hearing aid experience. It would just be SO much easier if after wearing them for months and I suddenly noticed my "noisy environment" adjustments were actually annoying, I could go in and make adjustments on my own.

It's also infuriating how sub-par the accessories market is. I have a compilot air 2 (bluetooth add-on) that lets my hearing aids connect to my phone, car, computer, etc. It's great, but at $300 I really expected it to work for more than a couple of hours... It also has to be clipped within 12 inches of BOTH hearing aids? My phone communicates through bluetooth across the house to my computer... Is there really no way around having to clip this dongle on the neck of my shirt? It doesn't bother me now, but damn. People in meetings and in public constantly think I'm recording them or something. Nevermind the disgusted look I've gotten at a urinal. It's just... Not ideal.
No, read the parent's (inesprimibile) comment for an explanation.
Well its not an impossible argument to understand from a game theory perspective of civilization.

I don't agree with it. Much as i don't agree with the Dark Forest premise set forward in the Three Body Problem series, I thought it was very interesting nontheless and worth spending quite a bit of time musing over. As with Nick Bostroms thoughts.

Just because we disagree with a concept on ethical or practical or whatever reason doesn't mean we should be discussing it or that we can gain something from discussing it.

At least he can argue his side, unlike the politicians constantly pushing for a more and more draconian state.
Go watch some rock crawling videos on YouTube. That's the kind of terrain legged vehicles are envisioned for. Making wheeled vehicles navigate that kind of terrain is non-trivial and requires lots of design compromises. There's a reason you see most people doing it in dedicated recreational vehicles.

>No better than a souped up ATV would

Big obstacles necessitate some combination of big tires (and all the big heavy parts to turn those without breaking) and massive amounts of suspension travel in order to maintain wheels on the ground (and therefore stability). A legged vehicle of the same weight would be able to carry much larger cargo or go over much rougher terrain because it would simply be able to step through each obstacle rather than roll over it.

>Probably worse, with harder maintenance and more breakdown potential.

Pin and bushings joints aren't exactly maintenance intensive and in "you should have replaced this last year" condition they tend to be more operable rotary power transmission systems. The problem is figuring out how to control the damn thing. Fairly recent advances in programming techniques (ML, basically) have resulted in new solutions for this problem which has resulted in renewed interest in legged systems.

>Doesn't matter, it's the concept itself which is nonsense.

There's a reason people keep trying to make legged designs viable. They're very attractive for navigating rough terrain because they offer the potential to do equivalent work with a smaller (and therefore cheaper and simpler to maintain) vehicle. It just turns out that every time someone has tried to build one the technology isn't quite there yet.
And more to go wrong since a replacement plane is a big ways away!
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Where’s everyone’s passion for discovery and research? They state clearly that this is decades off at best. Still cool that they’re trying. It’s through trying that you learn things.
>Obviously I am firmly in the analytic camp

Obviously. But it's not the only camp, nor it's some settled question. It's just the most popular in anglosaxon countries...
You're not taking inertia and friction into account.

Centipedes appear to move very fast because they're small relative to us and lightweight - at scale, they don't move very fast. But if you take a centipede and scale it up to the size of a train (square cube law notwithstanding), it would just be a very slow train-sized centipede. To make it faster, you would have to make its legs longer, because legs are levers.
“as if he is on the spectrum.”

Which makes him relatable to me and probably quite a few other programmers.
There is so much misinformation here on college admissions.

First, class rank is not reported by a majority of high schools, and many top high schools specifically for the reasons you mentioned. Beyond that, the class rank statistics don't often apply to top schools because regional admissions officers know the schools well and would rather have a middle of the pack student from a top high school than a top 10% from school X. Regional adcoms exist exactly for this purpose, and the top schools have more than anyone else. Colleges weigh GPA, test scores, course rigor, essay, and extracurriculars the highest by far.

You list your son's test scores, but don't list his GPA and course rigor beyond B+, which if I take that on a 4.0 scale is a 3.3ish. That sets him up to be an imbalanced applicant (by test scores compared to GPA) for most schools in the top 50ish by selectivity, especially if he wasn't taking the highest course rigor available to him. I'm guessing the "moderately selective" schools were hanging around a 30-45% acceptance rate yeah? UC's are tough for instate Californians (plenty of issues there but it's not a cultural thing or zip code thing).

> he wasn't allowed into ANY "selective" schools because "oh your ZIP code indicates you are privileged and you must have crammed for the SAT. And hey did you hear the news? The SAT means nothing!"

Go pull up the Common Data Sets for all the schools he was rejected from. You'll find top SAT/ACT scores all over it. You'll also find top other things too. Your son was rejected because college admissions are getting more and more selective and his GPA didn't match his test scores. Essay and EC's can always factor in as well, though it's hard to know how those affected him. But I can assure you his zip code was not a factor - the most geographic diversity colleges look for is by state.

By the way, your son didn't have to pay much tuition with its scores. Many schools give out automatic scholarships for those test scores, regardless of NMF status.
This is not minor. Tampering with a condom behind your partner's back is a violation of their fundamental right to consent.

If it's not illegal in other countries, it means something is badly wrong with those other countries.
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It's possible to obtain a hearing aids programmer and fitting software for it, depending on your model, but it takes some work. It's so much worth it - I'm now self-fitting and it makes up for a HUGE difference.

If you're interested, this place should get you started, or let me know and I'll assist you. https://forum.hearingtracker.com/c/hearing-aid-self-fitting-...
You can program perfectly fine in CL without using CLOS.

TCO is not part of the standard, but most implementations have it. All the widely used implementations have it. People use it and it is certainly not frowned upon.
I found such a brush with flexible back (from a broken sauna brush).
Amazing discovery: If you move the said roller forward along the back the bristles make the walking movement backwards.
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The quality drops off if you do that and you get a completely different set of images. There's no way to turn of the 3D garbage and still see the same thing.
Sure, build carports where they make sense, and put solar panels on roofs where those are economically worthwhile. There are not especially large synergies between solar power and carports compared to other permanent structures, it's just an example of something that is still superior to solar panels on cars.
It doesn't help that we have headlines calling them "nukes" which continues that negative spin.