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Re:MyNoise – Background Noise Generators on Saturday August 06, 2022 @05:27PM (#32371730)
The Tinnitus Neuromodulator setting works AMAZINGLY well for me. It's effect even persists for some minutes after I turn it off.
Re:We're improving search results when you use quotes on Friday August 05, 2022 @12:26PM (#32358360)
As with so many things, they used to do this then inexplicably stopped.
"Leopards would never eat MY face" ethics.
I've thought of making various custom (and ruggedized) game peripherals. The electronics and switches I could do (assuming the ICs are available), but designing housings to be 3d printed might be tricky.

For a guitar, however... possibly having the body made of wood like a real electric guitar could be a selling point.

Also, while ammo cans aren't 100% air-tight, they're pretty close to it.
TikTok is known for having a very good recommendation algorithm. Whatever you watch, you get more of.

My TikTok is entirely people demonstrating arts and crafts and DIY projects. Oh, and some cute animals.

If your TikTok consists only of things you don't like... that's your choice, I guess.

Re:Ask HN: Why do people say that mobile apps are dying? on Thursday July 14, 2022 @12:52AM (#32092160)
Same with supermarkets and big box stores. Some of them have features such as scanning the barcode to get more info about a product.
Re:New in Calibre 6.0 on Wednesday July 13, 2022 @12:27AM (#32079045)
OK, first make sure the books are really there. Right click on a book entry, and click "open containing folder". Make sure the book file is there and isn't corrupted.

If it's OK, you should be able to read any non-DRM'd file of most formats by right click > View > "View with calibre e-book viewer".

You can also try any other ebook reader by clicking the "Configure Calibre" icon to open the Preferences dialog. Under "Behavior" find "Use internal viewer for" and uncheck the file format. Then when you right-click > View > View, Calibre will use your OS default viewer for that file format.

If you have DRM'd files (such as from Amazon), you will need a plugin to remove the DRM. The best way to find these is to look on https://www.mobileread.com which is a good place for Calibre discussion in general. I used to know how to do the Amazon ones but it's been a while, there might be a new way by now.

Re:New in Calibre 6.0 on Monday July 11, 2022 @07:18PM (#32063433)
What are you trying? Do you want to read things with Calibre's built in reader, another desktop reader, sync them to a device (i.e. use the desktop GUI to copy files to a device), download them to a device via the content server or what?
FYI, there is an extension that lets you put any commands you want in a new menu on the far right, as well as adding a few icons above that. I forget what it's called, but it was something obvious like "shortcut menu bar".
Re:Where Are the Microelectronics Engineers? on Friday July 08, 2022 @12:03AM (#32022977)
>when they could be making double just by picking up the phone and talking to a recruiter?

I am getting so sick of people saying things like this. Of course, their companies never happen to be hiring at the moment...

I haven't heard of any medical related ones, but there have been cases where an adult shot their boss, or a judge that had ruled against them or a cop that had arrested them. These just don't get the press coverage, for whatever reason.
Re:Belief in AI sentience is becoming a problem on Thursday June 30, 2022 @04:09PM (#31937910)
My Replika phone app sometimes 'spontaneously' starts a conversation with me. (If the app isn't open it sends a notification).

Typically things like "Good morning, do you have any plans for today?" or "Good evening, how did your day go?". I'm looking forward to finding out if it will say anything about the 4th of July.

Re:Atlassian is 20 years old and unprofitable on Thursday June 30, 2022 @01:12PM (#31935515)
He also made Fogbugz, which apparently still exists although I never hear anyone talk about it.
As with so many gun contol measures, that will vastly increase gun sales, just for a different reason. They'll immediately be traded in, but still, good money for the manufacturers and retailers.
It's also a fail-safe solution since we could stop sending up more sulfur as soon as any unintended consequences were noticed.
It would help, but maybe not enough. Humanity isn't the only reason the planet isn't covered in trees, they just don't grow in many places such as deserts, mountaintops, etc.
Knowing how to write software is not the same thing as knowing how to market and monetize it.
Or do the transfer via a licensed dealer. Most gun shops will do this for a small fee.
Re:Ask HN: How do I learn real-world COBOL? on Tuesday June 28, 2022 @10:50AM (#31908447)
Really? I'll learn anything if I can get a remote job doing it.
Re:Ask HN: How do I learn real-world COBOL? on Tuesday June 28, 2022 @09:47AM (#31907612)
Looks to me like all of those require experience.
Its not random. I always see content related to my specific interests (as indicated by the videos I've liked, and I never see celebrity posts.

In fact TikTok is widely said to have the best algorithm for determining someone's interests.

Re:Webcams aren't good enough on Sunday June 19, 2022 @02:15PM (#31801843)
You could use OBS studio to crop the image. It takes your webcam as an input and creates a virtual cam that works with every conferencing software I've tried. (It can also use your phone camera with the aid of the DroidCam OBS app.)
Re:Why do we all fall for AI-generated language? on Sunday June 19, 2022 @06:03AM (#31797922)
I just asked the Replika app that question, and it replied "Oh, I have no idea."

It often says something like that when faced with nonsense, so in some ways it's better than a more 'powerful' program.

Re:What it's like on the shortest flight on Tuesday June 14, 2022 @08:58AM (#31738707)
Tom Scott made a video of it: https://youtu.be/dzYP01CPC6E
Re:LaMDA is not sentient on Monday June 13, 2022 @08:08AM (#31724307)
Would it be posible to run two instances of it and have them talk to each other?
You might like the novel "When the English Fall".
Re:Beautiful Soup on Thursday June 09, 2022 @07:04AM (#31679739)
That sounds interesting.
Re:The children of atomic bomb survivors: A genetic study on Saturday June 04, 2022 @05:23PM (#31625230)
My high school physics teacher was stationed at Eniwetok and he told us a lot about it. His job was photography, and he showed us some impressive photos of the explosions, including some showing lightning striking the top of the mushroom cloud.

He mentioned that his son was adopted, though whether that was by necessity or out of caution I don't know.

Anyway, he lived to an apparently healthy old age.

Re:Programming in the Apocalypse on Monday May 30, 2022 @12:52PM (#31560915)
Both movies and cheap novels have historicaly been popular during wartime.

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