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It's not always social status, especially for people who volunteer but don't tell anyone. It can often be ideology and principles, from people who want to pay a favour forward (e.g…

That's fair game to record the conversation too as an interviewee (most reporters wouldn't object). Most reporters by default also record the conversation directly (better for fact…

I have personal experience with transcription software (e.g. Otter.ai), and it's still not good enough. Even if you get 95% accuracy, which isn't a given if the audio is recorded o…

I actually experienced a similar issue between the jack and the cable with exposed wires. It didn't affect audio quality for me, so it was just cosmetic; I wrapped electrical tape …

It's common because it would be too resource-intensive to provide transcripts for every quote. Articles from high-circulation newspapers often have five or more interviewees per ar…

My perception of Bose, as a former regular audio forum reader, is that they are great for sport earphones (though this was before the Airpods were released, so this might be outdat…

I switched to Comply foam, then back to silicon for good. The dealbreaker for me was cleanliness. The downside you mentioned of squishing the foam was the biggest reason; I always …

If you haven't already tried it, a filter replacement with the tool and filters that come with the device could do the trick [0] (fixed a problem I experienced myself). Another com…

I had a similar problem, and the solution was to change out the filter in the non-functioning earpiece [0] with the tool and replacement filters that came with the device. I also b…

For a good historical example, see Linus Pauling’s notebooks (with page numbers and dates): http://scarc.library.oregonstate.edu/coll/pauling/rnb/ The blog by biologist Dr. Colin P…

Your advice on introspection is helpful, especially for people who find themselves repeating the same mistakes. However, I would like to add a caveat on introspection. For some peo…

A major technique mentioned by the author is omitted from the article’s headline: co-working. She writes about benefitting greatly from logging on to a muted Zoom room with hundred…

There can be positive effects of matching a story, but it depends on the journalists and the publication. Let's say The Wall Street Journal publishes a major investigative scoop, b…

There's a term for that in journalism: "matching" a story. This traditionally involves legwork, such as contacting the same sources quoted in the first article to verify that facts…

“Defective” could have been more precise, and would match the reporting (though I kept the title close to the source material’s to meet HN guidelines, truncating the start to meet …

The initial rollout is limited to the US, with no concrete plans reported yet on expansion. “The scheme will initially roll out only in the US. […] Apple’s neuralMatch algorithm wi…

I got mileage out of replacing habits of checking social media with reading longer-form articles. I picked up the idea from books on habits (Tiny Habits by BJ Fogg, Atomic Habits b…

For Toronto, Canada, Lenovo offers a support option where it can assign a repair technician to fix your computer at your office or residence (avoiding the potentially weeks-long wa…

In addition to replacing the thermal paste, I was able to lower the temperature of my X1 Extreme Gen 2 to about 40-60 degrees most of the day by: i) Undervolting by installing Thro…