adisinom

6 ms·

1.
by adisinom 7y ago
Part of it is how we scope law enforcement's job. Thanks to technology there's tremendous growth in the amount of information about people. Traditionally law enforcement needs to find evidence that a person may have committed a cr
2.
by adisinom 7y ago
Sandboxie is a free option that usually works: https://www.sandboxie.com/
3.
by adisinom 7y ago
One other distinction to make is that auto-update typically runs the same code on a lot of computers, rather than a RAT which is good at running code on a specific computer. There's still room for problems... the auto-update could deli
4.
by adisinom 7y ago
There's a lot of good advice here for dealing with constructive code reviews. They provide valuable learning opportunities. Also be aware that not all code reviews are good. Engineers have opinions and may wield code reviews as a tool
5.
by adisinom 7y ago
If we're talking about damage to the cochlea: - We don't really care if we further damage the hair cells that don't work. - Outer hair cells amplify sounds. If they don't work, well, gotta amplify them some other way. -
6.
by adisinom 7y ago
"You would expect that if we were getting it wrong, we would be getting it wrong the other way, delivering early." How likely is it that a surprise works in your favor? In my experience what you don't know rarely does. So my
7.
by adisinom 7y ago
It's easy to use a TUI remotely over SSH.
8.
by adisinom 7y ago
It's hypothetical, but other code may expect a bigger buffer than was actually allocated. Suppose we're on a 32 bit platform and num is 0xF0000001. When multiplied by 64 (0x40), we'll end up allocating a 64 (0x40) byte buffer
9.
by adisinom 7y ago
- If someone else bought an audio book, I would like to be able to access it. I can't if it's audio-only. - If I want to buy and listen to an audio book, I wouldn't be able to understand the speech without seeing the text. Th
10.
by adisinom 7y ago
At least according to the article it was a keyword ban, not keyword suggestions. To my reading the intent of the ban is to (1) avoid the appearance of carrying advertisements of sex with children and (2) discourage such advertisements. The
11.
by adisinom 7y ago
Self-programming is a viable option. In the past HA companies had a problem: audiologists weren't technical and didn't know how to program the increasingly sophisticated hearing aids. So the fitting software (1) automatically prod
12.
by adisinom 8y ago
I'd encourage HNers to try self-programming. I have Phonak HAs so I can buy the programmer (iCube) and software (Target) off ebay for $450 and a pair of hearing aids two generations old for $500-$1000. And if they break or I lose them,
13.
by adisinom 8y ago
As a deaf person, hailing a ride by phone is much better than a taxi. But I also have friends who use wheelchairs frustrated by Uber's unresponsiveness to addressing accessibility; Uber just claims the drivers are independent contracto
14.
by adisinom 9y ago
In lieu of shelling out $25, I took the engine for a spin to get an idea of the layout model. For others that might be interested: https://paul.bluereboot.net/subform/ Reminds me of HTML tables and GroupLayout. Wasn&#x
15.
by adisinom 9y ago
They're actuated by piezoelectric strips. The PZT ceramic is low power and robust, but heavy-ish (lead), large-ish, and shockingly expensive. History: https://nfb.org/images/nfb/publications/bm/bm00&
16.
by adisinom 10y ago
The definition suggests we should focus on the context that disables people -- the mismatch between abilities and affordances, because as you point out, disability being part of humanity isn't a useful result. For example, until the mi
17.
by adisinom 10y ago
In some sense, yes. But more importantly, the problem with designing for a typical human is that they don't exist. So I see accessible design as robust designs -- ones that can handle variation in abilities as easily as we handle varia