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I’m not the GP but in the UK “trumping” is what we call it (amongst other things, lots of fun words for body sounds).

This has broadly been my experience of secular meditation also, I haven’t explored any other schools.

What did help me though was a book called “Constructive Living” by David K Reynolds. It talks a lot about what you mention. The importance of “doing what needs to be done”.

I got quite into meditating, but I found it just made me go far too inside my own head. It’s easy to feel compassion inside your own house.

How long did the application take if you don’t mind me asking? (Foreign birth register + passport application)

I looked into it a few years ago but they had such a massive backlog to deal with I was told 24 months, so I put it off.

I would be very surprised at that! I have no time currently but I can put together a example for you to illustrate what I mean if you’d like.

> Another cool thing about LTI systems is that when you chain multiple of them together, the order does not matter. Reverb, delay, EQ, and wah are all LTI.

Delay and reverb may be LTI in your definition, but they very much do matter what order they are in, every time.

Delay before reverb is going to give a more staccato sound, whereas the reverb before delay is probably just going to wash the whole thing out if you’re not careful on your settings.

Great comment otherwise!

I forget where I’ve heard this so sorry in advance for the unsourced claim, but I think white noise is much better for humans to place in space. Higher frequency beeps can bounce around much more than a broad spectrum white noise blast.

Anecdotally they tend to travel much less, and generally be less annoying too. I can hear a beeping truck from ages away in my flat, but not once have I thought “god I wish that kssh kssh would stop”.

I think there’s some benefits to guided meditation in general. Different techniques (body scanning, breath counting, etc) aren’t necessarily obvious to people looking to meditate.

People also come to meditation for different reasons. Some want to chill out, others want to be more present in every day life.

I assume you’re well practiced so you’ll know that ultimately apps aren’t what you need for “real” meditation. I think they’re a good starting point for many though.

> All of this goes along with what I call the Elderly Tax. As a society, in many ways we punish people for living a long life.

Somewhat related: https://imdb.com/title/tt9270362/

An excellent film about how society simply isn’t built for older people, and the struggles that they go through on a daily basis. Very affecting.

If pictures of people you don’t want to see get selected, you can block them from being selected.

Select the person and it’s something like “Include this person less” that you’re after.

It’s not perfect, but it’ll allow you to keep the photos and not have them pop up in memories

Ofcom (the UK’s coms regulator) has just announced a review of net neutrality [1]. Which will have some big companies aiming to give themselves more “flexibility”.

Currently however, providers are bound by EU mandates to treat every packet the same (roughly speaking).

I hope it stays that way.

[1] - https://www.techradar.com/uk/news/ofcom-to-review-uks-net-ne...

Amazing link, would highly recommend to anyone reading this thread. Thanks again

Awesome, thanks for the info. Sent me down a rabbit hole for a little bit.

Tangent, but I’ve never really understood what the issue is with unicode support in various languages.

Does anyone have any idea why it’s such a contentious issue?

Sure, things have been bolted on top of Java to allow this to happen. People have made use of them.

Java now has built in support for these things, so no longer will developers rely on third-party solutions.

This is great for the Java world, and for any languages that are being built on top of the JVM by extension.

I would politely disagree with your characterisation of it being just academic, as an engineer I find it incredibly exciting. Admittedly, my bar is pretty low for excitement these days.

Keyword being “may”.

Guarantees are nice. Especially if objects are going to be passed around every which way from Sunday. It allows you to better reason about what could happen, and where.

Java has taken a while to get there, but I’m glad that they have finally.

I wonder whether it would be better to just go with the nuclear option and kill the C extension model as it currently stands.

It would take probably decades for libraries to catch up, and maybe kill the language, but if it survived, Python would be so much more attractive for many kinds of projects.

Conversely, Python has a lot of niches, and works well for them. Incremental improvements are probably fine, even with the dreaded GIL.

I’m just here for the phrase “Skullstripping”.

Jokes aside, I think niche software like this is everything HN is about (at least to me). I have no knowledge of MRIs, beyond getting on last year, but seeing this had made me start to research how I would get my brain data back from the NHS to play around with it and see what idiocy I can get up to.

> Restated: it makes no sense to have private businesses running the entire electricity generation and delivery network. Yet here we are.

I suppose this was a restatement to point out a flaw in my previous point, but I do agree with the notion that critical national infrastructure should not involve private businesses.

Just because “here we are”, doesn’t mean it’s where we should be. There are different points of view on this so I don’t expect everyone to agree with this (market efficiencies, etc etc), but I just see it as a solution looking for a problem in many cases.

Downsizing the USPS, putting increasingly more onerous rules on it, then turning around and saying “well look, the private market is already doing so much, let’s just go with that”, seems shortsighted to me.

Even if everyone went fully digital, and letters became a thing of the past, you would still need a functional postal service.

Packages obviously will still be sent for one, but also from a national security perspective it makes no sense to have private businesses running the entire delivery logistics network.

Lastly, if you see the government as enabling an economy for free markets, a state run postal service is a great backbone for that.

I moved to Reaper after Logic X was released. I know it’s a dead meme to decry the X version of an Apple software product (looking at you Final Cut), but in their desire to reduce complexity in the UI, they made what were previously common tasks for advanced user, incredibly difficult to perform.

Since moving to Reaper I’ve feel like I’ve been in a dream land. Things work in their own way, and I can customise it to my hearts content. Programmable too!

Very happy camper over here.

Whether or not you agree with the notion of intellectual property. It isn’t a postmodern concept.

https://txpatentattorney.com/blog/the-history-of-intellectua...

Then I suppose the EU will be punished for this in the global markets. I’m not interested in reading grand motives into these things. It’s easily done the other way around, and doesn’t add much to a discussion.

The man on the clapham omnibus might not care about these laws, but if that was the standard for every bit of legislation, we’d have a very different set of laws in our respective nations.

I guess it depends on how you do things. For me, I use Pocket to save links to things I want to read, 1Password for my passwords.

Moving browser involves me opening my phone and typing a few login details in some sites (Google, actually that’s about it).

Worst case, I have to download some new extensions (Firefox Containers, UBlock Origin).

All done in about 2 minutes.

Not hating on the idea, but the notion that everyone is so reliant on browser-sync I think is being overstated here. Although I would be very interested to see some hard data on the topic!

The EU as a bloc will presumably have a less dynamic AI sector as a result I suppose. I’m fine with that personally, but perhaps I’m a bit of a luddite on this issue. I just believe we should cast a very close watch on any algorithm that could make decisions about citizens. If anything, the current laws do not go far enough in my opinion, but that’s another conversation entirely.

As I said, these systems should be met with skepticism. I would rather someone write a draft law that starts a conversation, rather than just let these systems run amok.

Pointing out what you see as bad regulation, doesn’t imply that all regulation is inherently bad, or that less regulation is inherently good.

I won’t argue about the merits of each of the above cases you’ve cited (Berlin rents & GDPR), as I think they’re quite complex conversations to have and they could both take hours.

As it relates to the linked article, “AI” will continue to have an impact on our lives, more so than it does today. Whether or not this legislation is good or not, doesn’t preclude the idea that this space will require guards to ensure that citizens are being treated fairly.

Black boxes are not a good way to run a free and fair society, and any being introduced should be met with deep care and skepticism.

Whether the EU will do a “good” law on this is yet to be seen, but frankly I’d much rather it get looked into during the relatively nascent stages, rather than letting these systems loose on everything and then cleaning up the mess afterwards.

I would imagine they follow a similar school of thought to the “Moral Hazard” crowd, by the sounds of things.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/m/moralhazard.asp

I doubt the $3 weather sensor has been tested / rated / secured in the same way that sensors for a motorway would be.

There isn’t, you’re right. I was more future proofing my answer :)

Imprecise language on my part. I meant that’s the final version that they’re ever going to support (if you can call the current state “support”), but yeah you’re 100% correct.