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AFAIK hidden hearing loss is due to synaptopathy (see Liberman's work). This work helps regrow hair cells, though. Does your Pure Tone Audiometry show any losses at all on your audiogram? It woul…

Is there a way to tell what was generated vs edited post generation?

> i.e. Do I only ask questions I already know the answer to and not questions I don't know the answer to? I've been advocating for a "coding interview" where both the interviewe…

> If you model a back-of-the-envelope sustainable civilisation, you'll find we're nowhere near any sort of fundamental population limit. How did you model it? I'm curious about the a…

Remember that death isn't the only bad outcome: just because you survive doesn't mean you're out of the woods, unfortunately. I'm afraid "Long COVID" is a thing, for adul…

Do you need a PayPal account or is there a "take my credit card and check out as guest" option somewhere?

There are trade-offs. Behind the ear is great when you still have reasonable hearing in a good chunk of the spectrum, so the dome from the BTE provides the boost that is additive to the natural signal…

> People who are actually bad at what they do rarely realize it Apparently, they may often think that they are good at it! See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning–Kruger_effe…

Where did you go specifically?

> App stores don’t currently build their apps. On iOS (not sure about macOS apps), when you submit an app, it is submitted as "bitcode" (note, this is not "bytecode" - it's…

> And recharging is still relatively slow. I know not all EVs are Tesla, but it's interesting to see where charging is going (others will follow suit). Supercharging v3 gives you 1,000 miles o…

Confirmed. Once I switched to Chrome, I could see the 4K quality option.

MacBookPro with Safari.

In my youtube quality menu, it only goes up to 1080p. Is this really 4K?

What do you mean? I've done this not so long ago on my pool. https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/530968/adding-disks... …

What makes VRBO more ethical/sustainable than AirBNB?

> For many, many repairs the Genius bar just tells you that it is not repairable even though it is. A 2000$ device that you just bought a couple of months ago. If you bought your device a couple of…

Can you elaborate?

> A month or two later I tried to withdraw some cash and was told I had no money. My full $100.00 had been consumed by insufficient balance fees. Is that an exaggeration? It amounts to $100 or $50 …

Aren't they going to do that even if it's not open source? (I mean, patch the binary)

> If their tenant goes out of business, they're not getting the back rent and now they'll have a vacancy in a time they're unlikely to find another tenant quickly. In some cases (I h…

Numbers (on Mac) has smooth scrolling.

You can select "Amazon Day" delivery to accomplish that (kind of).

> I've seriously considered declining invitations before because I don't want to be in a house with all that crap in it. Why did you end up not declining them after all? (if I understan…

Like many other conditions, severity matters. Mild tinnitus is very common and generally not an issue. Severe cases are a very different beast and can easily lead to suicide. See https://jo…

There are therapies in the works that attempt at reversing this maladaptive plasticity (and reach the holy grail of silence). The most promising one (and unfortunately, the only one too) uses bi-modal…

It depends. Tinnitus is believed to be, in many cases, due to the maladaptive plasticity that happens in response to hearing loss. The brain doesn't hear some frequencies so it "reconfigur…