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rawland

1,281 karma · joined December 3, 2011

Likely a random naive idiot.

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rawland··on One week of empathy training (2019)
This.

Being disabled sucks even more. Because there is no "now I opt out" decision as the author could do. Kudos to doing the exercise.

rawland··on Using AirPods as a hearing aid
Thank you!
rawland··on Using AirPods as a hearing aid
Yes.

Size (= compute+battery limitation) and the ear also being a somewhat hostile environment for electronics.

PS: Is that zoom recorder able to "beamform" (~= directional mics / mic modes inside?)

rawland··on Using AirPods as a hearing aid
Apple AirPods Pro 2 Detailed Hearing Aid Review:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=x0gsTz1sSDE

rawland··on Using AirPods as a hearing aid
Let's get in touch.
rawland··on [dead]
Impossible to answer without more information.
rawland··on Notmuch – Just an email system
Up to a certain degree one can interpret the folders as tags. I think fastmail does it that way, iirc.

Edit: Checked it: Yes, they treat folders as labels/tags, i.e., they simply copy the mail into all folders/labels/tags.

See: https://www.fastmail.help/hc/en-us/articles/1500000278282

rawland··on Ask HN: Have you set up a procedure to disclose your passwords in case of death?
Yes.

SO has a paper sheet with all important ones and the algo which changes them (depending upon date).

rawland··on Rainwater everywhere on Earth unsafe to drink due to ‘forever chemicals’

    > [...] linked to fertility problems,
    > increased risk of cancer and developmental
    > delays in children.
All mammals and all animals are exposed...
rawland··on Ask HN: How many computers you got?
Depends how we count... Car? Your smart fridge? Your Alexa?

>20, I would say. Don't know for sure, due to intransparency what contains a computer these days...

rawland··on I couldn’t get over my brother’s death
Thank you
rawland··on Nearly a third of TV ads play to empty rooms

    For this research, the co-authors worked with TVision
    Insights, a TV performance metrics company that
    developed innovative technology to passively monitor
    who’s in the room and whether they’re actually looking
    at what’s on the TV screen,
    while respecting viewer privacy.
Sure... the whole setup is very privacy respecting.

"Research" like this makes me wonder how the subject of economics ever entered the halls of academe. While writing this I'm wondering if the Frankfurt school of thought or Chomsky might have explained this actually already.

rawland··on A UX designer walks into a Tesla Bar
> Can you imagine, taking your Honda Accord in for an oil change, and you find out that dealer completely re-arranged your center console?

That got me laughing. :) I would be _convinced_ it's a joke and my friends are behind this and want to give me a treat in already sucking Covid-times..

rawland··on Guidance on Software Development and Open Source Software [pdf]
This makes total sense for any organization. I like the memo instead of usual slides. I wonder if they contribute back by fixing issues or rather fix them for themselves and try to 'use' them otherwise when found.
rawland··on Why is the Simula One so expensive?
What router do you use?
rawland··on Ask HN: What are the best-designed things you've ever used?
This toaster https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OfxlSG6q5Y

It's older than my partner and me together and still works like a charm.

rawland··on Google’s Messaging Mess: A Timeline
But what's the situation for most people? Many people's personal messaging eco-system looks like this:

  - Out of use: AIM
  - Out of use: IRQ
  - Out of use: IRC
  - Insert your old messanger: here
  - Privacy nerds: Signal
  - Feature fans: Telegram
  - Lonely people: Tinder
  - Parents-Generation: WhatsApp / FaceBook / deprecated
  - Brick phones (the real privacy nerds): SMS or E-Mail
  - Ahead of time people: delta.chat
  - Grandparents: E-Mail
Is this any better?

Let's have a different take on this: This company likes to experiment and innovate. :) Glad that this is still possible.

Having said that: Probably naming the messengers in a different manner could receive an overhaul to confuse less people. And: Wouldn't route my chat traffic neither over Apple, Google or any other FAANG+.

rawland··on Ask HN: Does anyone actually use the Pomodoro technique?
The 25/5-ratio is ridiculous.

At least for me. Using 50/10 meanwhile because when I used 25/5 I just closed the Pomodoro app to keep going instead of being reminded to make a pause again and again. It felt like snoozing away the wake up alarm all the time. But I didn't want to wake up!

50/10 mins with a warning at 40mins is way better. The 10 minutes usually are used to get something to drink/snack/coffee giving the ADD-shakes in my legs something else to do (walking).

It happens from time to time, when I'm really into something, that I just switch it off to stay zoned out for hours.

PS: Thanks for the link.

rawland··on Highest rates of teen bullying are between friends and friends-of-friends: study
What follows from the movie is that there are multi-professional teams at work.

That is, they don't have one teacher who decides about things and especially the fate of the individual pupil but teams containing, e.g., psychologists who decide about things in the regular day to day business.

Of course bullying is an issue there, too. It is pronounced wherever you have esp. social inequality, and minimizing only works approximately. However, they are thinking about this in a progressive and especially compile-ahead-of-time way. The first research on bullying emerged in the 1970ies from these countries actually. See: https://go.gale.com/ps/anonymous?id=GALE|A75022135

rawland··on Highest rates of teen bullying are between friends and friends-of-friends: study
Social darwinism is a culture, not a fact of nature.
rawland··on Highest rates of teen bullying are between friends and friends-of-friends: study
This movie captures it very well: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3215346/

Trailer [en]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_-KrJseVUo

It's very hard to describe shortly... maybe: They start with you as human being first. Abilities and talents to be discovered and developing a humane human who can face the world. They don't treat you like an animal in industrial livestock farming. It has many layers to it, e.g., regular teachers and kindergarden personnel have the social standing of a Professor in your country (assuming 1st world not scand). Teaching the young is understood (like REALLY understood) as one of the most important things a country can do for its future.

rawland··on A Dishonest, Indifferent, and Toxic Culture
My condolences to the family & friends.

Having read this article it made me sad. On a good note, ACM seems to have reacted in a proper way. Glad to see this. This student must have been very very alone and suffered immensely to take this decision. Sadly, I have witnessed this exact same thing at a very well known university in Germany. With great effort this was kept away from the public and blamed on the PhD student himself ('This guy had _other_ problems'). Even though he left a letter, which was also very explicit about his situation. This left me thinking, how often this actually happens but receives no publicity...

I believe most people, who enter the world of academe have good principles and ideals. In German pedagogy this is called "Humboldtsches Bildungsideal" which translates unfortunately into this [1]. Humboldt's model was very much based on many ideas of the enlightenment, esp. concerning one's pursuit of intellectual growth for its own sake and the world citizen.

Unfortunately the economic grip on the world of academe in many fields gets stronger and at one point in time ones sees these ideals destroyed.

It's best witnessed with what happened to the internet. Wonder how many can remember how it 'felt' in the beginning after CERN opened it to the world... and now, look at it.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humboldtian_model_of_higher_ed...

rawland··on Highest rates of teen bullying are between friends and friends-of-friends: study
Yepp, most western schools are more a social ladder creation apparatus than educational institutions. The scandinavian school system takes a very different approach. It's worth to have a look.
rawland··on Highest rates of teen bullying are between friends and friends-of-friends: study
"Social Ladder"

What is this exactly? Why does it exist? Which societies have such a property?

rawland··on Complexity Explained
Nice idea, however the readability/contrast...

Author, please read: https://contrastrebellion.com/

rawland··on The German government decided on a new, extremely strict copyright reform
This is so important... can't believe this almost flew under the news radar.

Orig (DE): https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/urheberrecht-gesetz-bundesr...

Translate (EN): https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https...

rawland··on Software Development Outsourcing: Our Story
"They were doing great work for us but eventually, there was a business event where they left."
rawland··on The Focus to Say No (2011)
Thanks. :)

    "You feel a sense of wonder. A sense of awe at the
    elegance of such an algorithm. It happens to not 
    actually by that useful or efficient as a matter of
    fact. But we still study it just as we like to read
    a work of fiction. It inspires us."
rawland··on The Focus to Say No (2011)
No.

To this article.

If we all weren't taught the skill 'focus' in our early toddler years we wouldn't be able to read or write a single sentence here.

No. To Jobs, the bullshitter.

And after this little break and business administration fans bullshit, let's get back to understanding why the FFT is so practical when multiplying polynomials. Still don't get it 100%... still looks like magic to me... :)

rawland··on Ask HN: What was your favorite website from the 1990s?
https://spacejam.com/
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