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by an_d_rew 1mo ago
A quick web search brought me to this: a Claude skill for all the ISO 24495 “writing styles”... https://github.com/GaZmagik/iso-24495
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by an_d_rew 3mo ago
Thank you for sharing. Stories like yours remind us that there is good in the world, and even if it isn’t everywhere, it is still worth cultivating. I’m a software engineer née scientist, but my spouse is a therapist who specializes in addi
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by an_d_rew 3mo ago
Very nice writeup, thank you for the time and effort!
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by an_d_rew 4mo ago
I haven’t used Android or Windows in any meaningful way for years, so I cannot comment on them. I can tell you that the hearing accommodations on the AirPod Pro 2/3 headphones brought literal tears to my eyes because of how fabulous it
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by an_d_rew 4mo ago
As someone slowly and idiopathically losing their hearing, and as someone just... getting older and losing visual acuity... Thank you, Apple, for taking accessibility seriously and dedicating resources towards it. I very much appreciate it
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by an_d_rew 8mo ago
OP Thank you for taking the time to write and post this! It was an interesting take on a very difficult problem. FWIW, I have been reading policy documents for a long time and I thought you sounded rather human and natural… Just very prof
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by an_d_rew 1y ago
1Password integrates with all pass keys on my iPhone, my Mac, and my Linux box. By a far and away WORTH the subscription, for me!
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by an_d_rew 2y ago
Very nice, thank you!
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by an_d_rew 2y ago
True... but whether the ability to so is a superpowers strength or a debilitating weakness depends on both your values and point of view!
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Burned out: Rockchip's best Linux distro goes AWOL(youtube.com)
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by an_d_rew 2y ago
Huh. That may explain why google search has, in the past couple of months, become so unusable for me that I switched (happily) to kagi.
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by an_d_rew 2y ago
I have worked at multiple companies that vilified open source anything, while building their entire businesses on Linux, Java, Debian, and thousands of other "OSI Approved" software. It's because, in my experience, the majori
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by an_d_rew 2y ago
Hearing loss is one of the very few proven and CAUSAL mechanisms behind cognitive degeneration as we age. They even know the mechanism: the slow imperceptible year by year withdrawal from rich communication patterns with our environment. I
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by an_d_rew 2y ago
Exactly! Although I try not to think about that too hard because... well it's kind of depressing. But it's the exact reason that hearing aids are so difficult to design. For example if you were to naïvely try to just "add bac
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by an_d_rew 2y ago
I understand your point and in someway do agree that it is marketing and it is a way of differentiating themselves. But inly to justify a higher price tag? Yes it is true they are premium products, but I don't think it's true that
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by an_d_rew 2y ago
Oof! How unintentionally North-American-centric of me - apologies! But regardless of where you or anyone else is, hearing aids are eye-wateringly expensive :-( and often for rather understandable reasons.
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by an_d_rew 2y ago
Totally agree but there's a small caveat... Everybody has vastly different sensitivities to sound exposure. Even identical twins with identical sound exposures can have drastically different hearing profiles especially as they age. I a
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by an_d_rew 2y ago
Actually you have been able to import your audiogram for at least the last two versions of iOS (16+), no third-party app required. But it was simply called "an accommodation". Can't call it a hearing aid until you were approv
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by an_d_rew 2y ago
Yes the problem with severe hearing loss is that hearing aids simply cannot compensate for what is no longer there. Hearing aids are actually a a lot more complicated than just boosting frequencies. At the very simplest, these days they are
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by an_d_rew 2y ago
My experience is that they serve different purposes. I have a very nice and expensive set of ReSound hearing aids and they're fabulous at what they do, which is focus on speech and kind of on music if I set them for that. They're
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by an_d_rew 2y ago
As a mid-50 year old who discovered two years ago that he has moderate hearing loss (50-55 dB HL), I will be forever grateful to Apple for doing this. If anybody from the accessibility teams is reading this, please know that it is difficult
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by an_d_rew 2y ago
Dated?! DATED?! BLASPHEMY! ;-)
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by an_d_rew 2y ago
If you're a child of the 80's in North America it does! (Do a google search on the number, without the 0x0 prefix...)
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by an_d_rew 2y ago
Alastair Reid has also done quite a bit with formal verification and specification of the ARM instruction set: See https://alastairreid.github.io/using-asli/ and cross-references there in
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by an_d_rew 3y ago
Oh no! I had no idea! I met Higham at a conference many years ago, and the lecture he gave was inspiring! From https://ilasic.org/ilas-net-archive-2024/ 2024 January 22 ILAS-NET Message no. 2515 CONTRIBUTED ANN
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by an_d_rew 3y ago
The problem here is that the underlying and unknown correlations in the sample (aka people) is that they are NOT independent. The larger sample sizes are a ... sort-of "proxy" ... to overwhelm underlying latent correlations. The w
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by an_d_rew 3y ago
> different observers with different priors can come to radically different conclusions One may view this as a feature, not a bug! :-) To quote Jaynes, "there is no unique notion of ignorance". And to further quote Carl Sagan,
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by an_d_rew 3y ago
Globbing means that the directory has to be scanned on every build Once you start getting to multiple directories and recursive scans, the build time begins to grow enormously and usually unexpectedly. Not a problem at all for small or even
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by an_d_rew 3y ago
> Does anyone actually make these arguments? Yes. I’ve heard them, from “experienced” devs and managers… and may additional zingers, too!
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by an_d_rew 3y ago
When I try to get this point across about techniques like the PCA, I like to show that the measurement units strongly affect the inference. Really, if your conclusions change depending on whether you measure in inches or centimeters, there’

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