jonathanlb

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by jonathanlb 7d ago
My hope is that Apple getting in on this design will influence eBook makers to jump on the bandwagon.
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by jonathanlb 27d ago
I wear Phonak CI processors. It's not just you. I've also experienced the volume drop on a few sites and apps. The Amazon iOS app does this. Each time I leave the app, ambient audio returns to normal.
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by jonathanlb 2mo ago
I ran a similar personal project where weekly I scraped a country's news stories across curated sources using Brave News API and used an LLM to dedupe and cluster stories. This got expensive fast, so I'm wondering what your approa
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by jonathanlb 2mo ago
If you're on iOS, you're out of luck. FF extensions aren't supported.
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by jonathanlb 5mo ago
Thankfully, old.reddit.com as a default option still works. The kicker is that the text is so small and to make the site usable (and readable) you need to rotate your phone to landscape mode. This works well enough that I haven't downl
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by jonathanlb 6mo ago
> Any proposed link between any antichrists and the book of Revelation was created in the past few hundred years. Actually, the idea of an end times Antichrist has been around for much of Christianity's history. Irenaeus of Lyon syn
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by jonathanlb 9mo ago
> If Udemy's pitch were “Learn X as Taught by Notable People in the Field,” MasterClass already is like this, but the content doesn't go as deep as it could to really teach learners.
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by jonathanlb 9mo ago
> Most of my experience in a car is digital What do you mean? My experience in a budget car from the early 2010s is entirely the opposite, so I don't understand fully.
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by jonathanlb 10mo ago
Advanced Bionics used to provide backups, but appear to have scrapped that program in favor of an exchange. And don't get me wrong, I'm grateful for the technology. For example, I can now hear hummingbirds and squirrels chirping.
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by jonathanlb 10mo ago
> Have you tried the non-over-the-ear cochlear devices? No, I have not, but from what I've heard, the sound processing isn't as strong because with the BTE (Behind the ear) models, the microphone is unobstructed and can pick up
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by jonathanlb 10mo ago
> What model do you have? I have an Advanced Bionics Naida. Battery life has consistently been around 8h for a few years. Then recently, my batteries decided they wanted to work part-time. > Is there any way you can know about this, e
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by jonathanlb 10mo ago
I'll tell you what's not hot: cochlear implants. I wore hearing aids since the late '80s. I wear CIs as of about 5 years ago, and while my hearing is much better and stable than it used to be, I've found that UX for CIs
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by jonathanlb 10mo ago
As someone who is on the lookout for long-lasting durable products, what brand and model sneakers did you buy? How often do you wear these? I've heard that Common Projects are pretty good at a $400 retail price point, but it sounds lik
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by jonathanlb 1y ago
As a reader, the overuse of "not this, but that" in this article was particularly painful. Which is ironic in an article about a designer who deeply cared about aesthetics.
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by jonathanlb 1y ago
Spend time watching baseball games with someone who loves baseball and is willing to talk to you about it.
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by jonathanlb 1y ago
> Jamar Side note. Interesting typo. Both B and M are voiced bilabial consonants. Are you using a speech-to-text device by any chance?
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by jonathanlb 1y ago
> socialization, friends This still happen at daycare. If you have sent your kid to daycare/preschool, you'll know that kids become friends wit nother kids there, and parents can become friends withnother parents. A community f
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by jonathanlb 1y ago
A quick glance at https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/child-care-... It looks like it's 1:6 until kids are 27 months, at which point the ratio becomes 1:10. When kids are 3-4 the ratio is 1:12, and wh
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by jonathanlb 1y ago
Wasn't that just Windows 95 and 98? I think I remember XP having the Windows logo and the "It is now safe to turn off your computer" text in white.
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by jonathanlb 1y ago
It's a similar story to Madoff in that if you upset enough people with money, then you go to jail.
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by jonathanlb 1y ago
> Just because it uses the same rail gauge as intercity freight BART has a non-standard rail gauge size that precludes it from interoperability with other rail networks. https://www.bart.gov/news/articles/2022&#
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by jonathanlb 1y ago
I disagree with the binary (family/society) framing because the well-being of children has always depended on overlapping responsibilities between parents, communities, and society. Not only that, but that false dichotomy also ignores
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by jonathanlb 1y ago
> external factors (abuse, addiction, sickness, etc.). Beside factors that body's performance, also consider factors that impact well-meaning parent or caregivers' _presence_ in the home, such economic realities, e.g., parents
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by jonathanlb 1y ago
> beggar artist that is playing in the street They are called "buskers". I disagree that buskers are beggars given that they are trying to earn money by providing entertainment.
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by jonathanlb 1y ago
Alaska, Hawaii, Maine, and Vermont seem to think so. They outlawed billboards to maintain the natural beauty of their state. https://www.billboardsin.com/states-where-billboards-are-ban...
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by jonathanlb 1y ago
Given that this is in response to a ChatGPT user who killed his mother and then himself, I'm not sure that positioning your product as being more secure than ChatGPT is wise, because your marketing here suggests either: 1. Profound ton
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by jonathanlb 1y ago
> pseudo scientific Unless I'm missing something, this seems like a legitimate scientific paper.
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by jonathanlb 1y ago
> Thankfully, it's rare because people using ad blockers is apparently rare on the whole. I wish this were the case. There's quite a number of websites that use Admiral's services to detect adblockers. Admiral got 19m doll
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by jonathanlb 1y ago
If ICE, subcontractors, and the federal government and are doing nothing wrong, why do they need to hide?
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by jonathanlb 1y ago
I remember GetHuman being helpful in the past. Not sure how it performs now: https://gethuman.com/

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