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Is some sort of volume "equalisation" or compression being applied maybe? Could also be reacting to the change in ambient volume conditions otherwise.

That's surprising to me, almost everyone I know will leave voicemail. Recruiters especially, which tends to be myst of my legitimate phone calls TBH! Though with people of my age "…

Honestly pre-COVID I got spam calls maybe once a quarter. After giving out my number every second time I left the house, that number is more like a few times a week. I would say I …

YouTube ads have no ability to interrupt my day-to-day life out of the blue, and also don't poison a legitimately useful communication medium for personal relationships. Phone spam…

Who would bear that cost though? My prediction would be the customers again, because they would make the phone support harder to reach than it already is as a "solution" to the inc…

Oh nice, the more you know! Kvira probably refers to the same word meaning "week", but seems like there's theories it could derive from Greek mythology as well. Lots of influence f…

Similar for Georgian, Monday through to Thursday are named roughly "two-Sabbath" to "five-Sabbath", with Saturday being Sabbath of course. Not sure why those numbers, but I assumed…

C# does not transpile to C++, so no. You are still left with the .net runtime, garbage collection, etc.

(On average), for a walk to the stop of 100-200 feet the bus would need to stop every 200-400 feet. 300 ft seems to be roughly 100m, which is probably much too short a distance sti…

I wish :) I feel like I use BitBucket more than they do; JIRA has dark mode while BB doesn't...

It's about as common here (AU) as referring to dates as sprints since epoch. So not very.

Sure. FB could set the baseline visibility level of each post and comment to 0, and selectively boost specific ones to be seen by people other than the poster. Not boosting, is not…

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html > Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills.

Most CXOs have extensive experience in their relevant fields. Your retort seems needlessly defensive.

FYI the edit might have made it more confusing, since there's a double negative now. "don't believe you can't actually own code" reads as "believe you can actually own code", which…

See my other comment for a more expanded take, but let's go with Intel for example. If they had to do all work out in the open, and share all progress they make, all they could com…

I was responding to an obvious exaggeration in kind, which was a bad move on my part. Yes people can and will still continue to do stuff for the sake of it. Some of it will be amaz…

I would contribute to a lot of open source projects if it took a few minutes at a time. Working full-time hours over many years is a different question however.

With no copyright and intellectual property knowledge wouldn't be free, it simply would cease to be generated. If you can't profit (at least modestly) from your work, there's no in…

What's the questionable supplements allowed? Herbal stuff like ashwagandha or whatever, or not-technically-steroids-but-close-enough substances like SARMs?

To put it in programming terms, you're likely to improve more with the slow grind of an hour or so an evening side-project, rather than competing in a hackathon every 3 months. One…

Have you heard of Goal-Oriented Action Planning (GOAP)? I've tried implementing it from scratch and it's really easy to get interesting, emergent behaviour. It can also be difficul…

I guess there is no "strict separation" in C++, since that mechanism is, I believe, optional. Adding implementations to your header files might never pass PRs, but still. It does e…

So it's intuitive because you are familiar with those concepts. I don't see how that goes against what I said.

Goroutines and channels aren't intuitive either. You learn them and become familiar with them over time, at which point they become intuitive __for you__.