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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 sci…

Very nice writeup, thank you for the time and effort!

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 brou…

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…

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 th…

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!

Very nice, thank you!

True... but whether the ability to so is a superpowers strength or a debilitating weakness depends on both your values and point of view!

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.

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" softwar…

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 withdraw…

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 exampl…

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 …

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…

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…

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'…

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 boo…

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…

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 accessibi…

Dated?! DATED?! BLASPHEMY! ;-)

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...)

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 t…

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 Me…