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If Rick Rubin could take a tape to his car to listen to his mixes, your product people can try their websites on £20 phones from Tesco. They can ask to sit in on user tests with mi…

I'm the wrong kind of engineer to work it out, but I'd be interested to know what the implications for the strength of the cable and specifications for the winch would be for a hea…

The neat thing about Go is that, whilst the winning strategy is exactly to think ahead and enumerate all possible positions, to do so is impossible. (Even the superhuman AI fudge i…

Happiness as the default state has nothing to do with being happy all the time. Perhaps you need to refine your understanding of “default”.

I guess this is a similar idea to the Peterson Strobe tuner? I think they have a rotating object which presents dark and light regions at the chosen frequency, which is a similar i…

I see. Was there an example of that in the video? Perhaps I missed it. In what way does the visualisation vary when the note is not in tune? How does the visualisation indicate fla…

This is an interesting project. It isn’t immediately obvious to me how the visualisations aid the tuning process. Please can you say a little more about how you expect a user to in…

Glad to see someone else giving Socotra a shout. Fascinating place.

I think a company is small whilst all the employees could conceivably fit into a house party. That is perhaps a better metric here in the UK where there are fewer colossal houses. …

Some experiments by a colleague a few years ago indicated 700Hz might be the limit. Will take some verification, obvs.

Should "Relying" in the article be "Relaying"? Or is it "relying" on the external auth? If the latter, it's a form of English I've never seen before.

I do have big hands. And the 13 mini is the best phone for me. If I upgrade soon, it’s going to be a refurb 13 mini with more storage and (hopefully) a newer battery.

This is all I want from my next phone.

> I'm sure encouraging audio enthusiasts to improve their critical listening skills is in Harman's interest [...] I wonder if Harmon are so confident in their own products' superio…

Isn’t that what Minmus is made of?

My company had a similar policy. The rate of people leaving went up and up. Eventually a new senior leader go HR to do their maths properly, and the “ranges” for many salaries incr…

That was not how I interpreted the results. Nor the discussion elsewhere on this page where some people included skateboards and bicycles under "vehicle" and some did not.

Wasn't the point of the experiment not that you could come up with answers that seemed sensible to you, but that different people came up with different answers that seemed sensibl…

This is a definite enhancement over my existing “big pile o scripts” directory. I plan to dig in later and find out if different scripts can run in different pyenv virtualenvs.

Mine too! I was drawing the comparison between the two schools of thought using an example. I imagine, but don’t have any evidence, that the absolute scale dominates culturally in …

I mean, how else would you distinguish that restaurant from "Food was sublime, service ranged from movie-star charm to invisibly dealing with my every need, payment was waived in f…

The idea is somewhat persistent amongst beginners though, whether sources agree or not. I guess that’s a problem of community-lead learning, instead of instructor-lead.

In his books, Heisig recommends learning all the joyo kanji before anything else. It's what his books are for, so it isn't a surprise, but perhaps that's where the idea that it's u…

This non-digital game was designed for zoom play. It’s available on a “pay what you want” basis: https://susd.itch.io/rats

I LOVED Jet Grind Radio (Jet Set Radio here in the UK). That combo gameplay of doing cool tricks while completing the course was seriously addictive. Trickstyle did a vaguely simil…