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Re: STFU

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Post by fc417fc802 »

m463 wrote: post #228
mlfreeman wrote: post #141

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In potentially-dangerous-animal country (e.g. grizzly bears, mountain lions, etc), it could be a safety mechanism...I was told repeatedly you need to make some kind of distinctive noise regularly so they won't get startled by you rounding a bend.

lol. that's like harley riders with unmuffled motors "for safety". On the other hand, I remember being in japan and watching some construction vehicles in tokyo. They were surprisingly quiet. After a while I realized what it was - in the united states all construction vehicles have these annoying "beep-beep-beep" sounds while they're working (for safety). I wonder if one day they can play those only when someone walk…

> while they're working (for safety).

Should only be while they're backing up. It signals to anyone around that the vehicle is in reverse. At least the ones I'm familiar with.

Re: STFU

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Post by nerdsniper »

acomjean wrote: post #413
inlined wrote: post #405

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There was a coffee shop ages ago in SF that would every few hours play a cacophony (e.g. multiple songs at once). I assume it was to drive away people camping on their laptops to rotate tables. Understand but super annoying to people like me who had a timer to but food or drink no less than hourly to be a good citizen

We had a friend who would play Metal when the ice cream store he worked at was closed but the customers were lingering too long. It generally worked, as he was immune.

We did this where I bartended as well. Generally 15-20 minutes after serving the last drink of the night.

The goal wasn’t to offend or clear out 100% of the customers - just make a large enough portion decide that outside might be more comfortable/conducive than inside. The 20 or so customers who were fine with the cacophony were easy enough to wrangle manually, and also generally either people we knew well .

Re: STFU

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Post by baby »

connorgurney wrote: post #31

I might be in a minority saying this - and particularly so here on HN - but I struggle to understand why you'd be willing to use a tool like this, as OP did, but not to politely ask someone to keep it down?

This. People are scared of human interactions more and more. It's all about being passive agressive or avoiding the good ol' conformism through connection.

On the other hand if you can force people to behave through machine processes it's much more effective than human processes

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Post by ssl-3 »

mordechai9000 wrote: post #399
carlosjobim wrote: post #389

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To be contrarian: If people are comfortable they stick around and keep ordering more stuff.

If people are uncomfortable, they can predict how often they can turn the table over and get another party in there.

If I'm uncomfortable, I can predict how seldom I will be coming back.

Re: STFU

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Post by vrighter »

fragmede wrote: post #456
reincarnate0x14 wrote: post #421

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I introduced my local restaurant owner to Mongolian Techno and the late night bar flies and some of the kitchen staff have never forgiven me. He won't admit if he plays it for himself, or because of them :)

eg https://youtu.be/9uMtnH7cABg for the curious.

this is awesome!

Re: STFU

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Post by reincarnate0x14 »

fragmede wrote: post #456
reincarnate0x14 wrote: post #421

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I introduced my local restaurant owner to Mongolian Techno and the late night bar flies and some of the kitchen staff have never forgiven me. He won't admit if he plays it for himself, or because of them :)

eg https://youtu.be/9uMtnH7cABg for the curious.

It's 3am and we're arguing some insipid minutae over technically illegal tequila shots while one drunk girl is breaking it down on the tiny dance floor :)

Re: STFU

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Post by ssl-3 »

zdragnar wrote: post #151
ecshafer wrote: post #84

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> I'm loving the fact that battery technology will eventually eliminate weed wackers. I've moved to all electric lawn equipment. Snow blower, lawn mower, weed wacker, leaf blower. They all work great, are quieter, and I don't have to deal with carburetors and oil ever again.

I only moved halfway. I had some electronic failure in one of my more expensive battery powered purchases, and the thing was just dead. There's no servicing it for any reasonable cost. For more important things, I'd rather have a two stroke engine I can work on myself. For everything else, battery operated is the way to go.

My battery-powered lawnmower died once.

After I took the handle apart and undid some connections, I diagnosed it as a bad switch.

I fixed it by making a small hole in the switch body with a hand-held drill bit, shaking some water out of it, spraying in some Corrosion-X, and exercising it while watching its performance improve on my meter.

In terms of cost: It took about 40 minutes to get from "WTF?" to "Fixed!", along with maybe 3 cents of the magic spray stuff and some tools I already owned.

Re: STFU

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Post by mitthrowaway2 »

indrora wrote: post #385
athenot wrote: post #143

This is a fun app. One way I deal with people talking on speakerphone, is inviting myself into their conversation and making comments as if I were an active participant. That usually earns me a weird look, and then they go off speaker so I can't hear what's been said. Success. Similar with folks watching reels on speaker, I fake a laugh or make comments about the content. It's awkward enough that they usually stop be…

A friend of mine works AV at shows that have rotating DJs and one of the things she has on her mixer board is "The Suck Button." It causes a mic at the other end of the room to get cut into the DJ's live feed monitor with a semitone shift down and some reverb. This causes all sorts of inner-ear chaos and usually clears a DJ off the stage when they're over time within a few minutes at most -- usually under 30 seconds.…

That reminds me of the "speech jammer", which won an Ignobel Prize last decade. It's an acoustic gun that combines a directional microphone and speaker array with a delay, tripping up the speaker.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/shut-up-speech-jammer-among-201...

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