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Re:Gene Therapy Allows an 11-Year-Old Boy to Hear by doublerabbit on Tuesday January 23, 2024 @05:15PM (#39110710)
> After age 5, the window for learning spoken language is permanently shut.

It's fascinating how our brains are wired in such a way to enable read-only mode at an certain age in development.

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Re:Gene Therapy Allows an 11-Year-Old Boy to Hear by s1artibartfast on Tuesday January 23, 2024 @05:39PM (#39110970)
I think it is more like telling the marketing team that you can't add an HDMI port to the computuer because it has already finished the production run.

That is to say, it is as much of a hardware issue as a software issue.

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Re:Gene Therapy Allows an 11-Year-Old Boy to Hear by shermantanktop on Tuesday January 23, 2024 @05:45PM (#39111031)
Get ready to repeat yourself, because the marketing team really wants that port. The CMO just said "We should really add an HDMI port in a code patch because it would help OEM sales a lot." A sales engineer has agreed and is scheduling a brainstorm session.
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Re:Gene Therapy Allows an 11-Year-Old Boy to Hear by SnazzyJeff on Tuesday January 23, 2024 @11:56PM (#39113798)
> It's fascinating how our brains are wired in such a way to enable read-only mode at an certain age in development.

You're responding to a quote that is trivially false with a quick google. Ok.

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