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Re:AirPods Causing Tinnitus? on Saturday March 04, 2023 @11:53PM (#35027005)
I have had hearing tests done and never had tinnitus before. I also recently have got Airpods 2 for the last few months. Two weeks ago I started to get tinnitus. I thought it might be the sound canceling on the AP2 so I stopped using them. The tinnitus reduced.
Why did I imagine Bono taking a selfie with the spy ballon lmao
Re:PayPal Fees Are Insane on Friday February 24, 2023 @01:49PM (#34928281)
Okay thank you, @fwir, @asdajksah2123, @lathiat These points make much more sense however

If there is 1.75% of counterparty risk then why do bank transfers charge fixed rates of 0, 3 Euro and alike. If the underlying transfer is swift, sepa, wire then shouldn't this be the baseline?

That or give the option to accept the counter party risk for failure of transfers.

And there surely is signing methods that one could do as an escrow like service to mitigate most of the fee

Re:PayPal Fees Are Insane on Friday February 24, 2023 @07:09AM (#34923680)
I mean even stripe is just paypal isn't it

PayPal Fees Are Insane

So I have been doing personal transfers with cryptocurrency recently for large sums over 20K USD and more each time the fees are around 10 USD. The worse fee that I have had to pay was 100USD but that was during the NFT craze and it still was less then what paypal chargesI've just recently for the first time in ages used Paypal for invoicing and was charged about 5%.This is insane. I was...

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Re:Docusign Support Portal Sucks on Monday January 30, 2023 @07:28AM (#34578799)
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Docusign Support Portal Sucks

Recently lost access to my docusign account. I tried to reset the password but I can't as I don't know the security question. (I know that was dumb of me.)So I went on to look for support, going to docusigns support page. You can only raise a support ticket by logging in nice catch 22. They say there is a chat box but it's not appearing on (tested 3 different browsers...)I've resorted to just...

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Re:Ask HN: Where are all the mechanical engineers? on Thursday November 10, 2022 @04:42PM (#33553827)
Thats great to hear iancmceachern.

"I'm a mechanical engineer, I've designed a ton of cool things, I do it every day. I deeply love it, and get better at it every day because I want to."

is a perfect example to as why anyone should pursue mechanical engineering. It's because you love it and managed to be compensated well.

Re:Ask HN: Where are all the mechanical engineers? on Thursday November 10, 2022 @03:53PM (#33553180)
The question is in the title. I addressed the title, but what I said still applies. There are less Mech engineers to hang out online because they swap to other fields.

I understand what you are saying but this is also a comment. No one is obliged to answer someones prompt when commenting.

Also my comment was based on my own experiences and the experiences of my peers. Out of a cohort of 300 engineers by the end of the course 80 to 90% dropped. Now when ever I meet someone who wants to go into engineering I tell them to step back do your own research, consider the ROI and determine if you want to do it because you love engineering or if you just want to make money.

Re:Ask HN: Where are all the mechanical engineers? on Thursday November 10, 2022 @02:47PM (#33552081)
There are always newspaper titles saying "we need more engineers", "where are all the engineers" or something similar.

To answer that. It's simple. The pay is bad.

We study for 4-5 years to get an Mech engineering degree and are promised 80K AUD+ starting salary (by many Australian universities).

The truth is you end up in debt whilst being removed from the work force for 4-5 years while studying. And you end up earning 40K AUD a year maybe a random few might earn 80K a year.

You end up in a position where you are highly trained and educated just to do CAD file translations. Surrounded by people who are not trained or educated who earn just as much or more then you.

Most Mechanical engineers (if smart) leave engineering and go to finance/software. I'd agree that the world needs more engineers to build things and make things more efficient and automated but the world wants and rewards administration and bureaucracy.

AI ethics – Underlying compute power

Preamble:Yesterday I turned on my LG smart TV and to my surprise I found I couldn't continue using some/most of the features unless I agreed to the new T&Cs that had been rolled out overnight to my TV.For the first time in my life I read the T&Cs about privacy. In order to continue I needed to agree to my personal data being shared out side of the EU.My immediate thought was WOW my TV...

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Re:GraphQL kinda sucks on Saturday August 06, 2022 @05:25PM (#32371715)
Hey all, didn't think this would be anything more than 1 or 2 comments.

I appreciate everyones passion and level of thought going into the replies. I will try read most of them.

Please note that if you reading this.

My intention of this post was to get a little rant off my chest and find out about potential solutions and gotchas about using GraphQl. It's unproductive attacking me or anyone else for character like "clearly not a senior developer" or "clearly never used API's before" because if anything this is about trying to find a solution and to save each other time.

Re:GraphQL kinda sucks on Saturday August 06, 2022 @05:04PM (#32371573)
Hey thanks for taking the time to find the resource

I have used this before this works to get past the errors but doesn't actually solve the issue GraphQL tries to solve. This just hides it so you have to deal with it months later.

- The consumers don't know what the JSON looks like unless they test the query or get told what the query is explicitly. This means that the schema definitions don't capture the problem that the graphql try's to solve "describe your data that you want"

- also some of the other languages that aren't Javascript don't have GraphqlJsonScalar

I think that supporting dictionaries/maps/tables as apart of the Graphql language spec could of been possible as the key and value types are static. They are also iterable so it should be fairly straight forward for a consumer to deal with the data returned.

GraphQL kinda sucks

Graphql is great, but is totally over hyped. This is probably more of a rant or a frustrated dev outburst.but beginner to mid level developers are lead down the path of USE GRAPHQL especially on youtube... and this is just unfair and wrong.The good:- It makes working with describing the data you want easy- It can save you bandwidth. Get what you ask for and no more- It makes documentation for...

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