Busy Simulator: Feign importance with repeating app sounds
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So this is what a career-ending catastrophic production failure sounds like.
I feel I should be responding to this like a horror movie with clowns in it.
"When I see something like 'Can I call you?', it implies to me that there's something really important you need to tell me, that's too important to send over text. I know you don't mean it that way, but it's very scary to me in the absence of more information. Can you please include a reason why you'd like to talk next time you text?"
Once my folks understood that they were putting across the subtext of a death in the family, they started adding why they wanted to call!
The next time it happened, I clued my folks in to the subtext of that message for people of my generation. They were horrified and apologized profusely. They've also never done it since.
I had to unPavlov myself when my phone rang during home office. As soon as it rang, I assumed it was trouble and wished it would go away. Now I just answer, and if it's trouble, at least it doesn't bother me more than it should.
Same goes with positive desires. I had to learn to enjoy working from home as long as possible, and not stressing because we would return to the office eventually. Home office has ended for me, but the last couple of months were less stressful because I stopped wishing for it to last more.
What distribution did you use for the gaps between sounds? Feels a bit too regular to me. May I suggest Poisson distributed intervals based on the slider?
lol, I love HN so much.
If you want the time between the last sound and the next sound to average T, schedule the next sound to begin at
next = last - T*Math.ln(Math.random())
To give a quick outline, if this were discrete timesteps then the answer would look like this: given that one event has a probability p of happening, then the probability it happens after exactly n tries is
(1–p)^{n–1} * p
Then coming from the other side, the probability of the given expression being between t and t+dt is the probability that Math.random() falls between A and B, which is just B–A. Some more calculus gives the exact same expression with k=1/T, bada bing bada boom.
let result = 0;
for (let i = 0; i < 6; i++) {
result += Math.random() - Math.random();
}
return result;
(It'll also never return anything more than 6 standard deviations away from the mean, but it's not like you actually want that in most applications.)
Would you consider adding Zulip?
Notification sound at https://github.com/zulip/zulip/blob/main/static/audio/zulip....
Logo at https://github.com/zulip/zulip/blob/main/static/images/logo/...
Also, the sliders don't render right in Firefox on Android.
But you did a great job overall, and the design is completely fitting.
That’s after several hours using GarageBand to create and export a custom ringtone. That was an utter nightmare because there’s just no easy way to get custom ringtones onto iOS unless you buy it from the AppStore.
What possible justification could Apple have for such a limitation? "Security" again?
Navigation voice is also off in my car ritually since it started talking too much and unnecessarily pointing out places of interest, I always miss turns but oh well. No big deal.
I still wonder if there is a Google assistant command to turn ringers on and off though, maybe one year I'll look it up. I have a feeling that one day soon we may not have a choice of turning notifications off because it gets in the way of fake manufacturer notifications though...
There's a bunch of evil ManuFacturers out there lately creating fake notifications.
I have never experienced this in Romania. But if the proprietary clouds give you trouble, try OsmAnd, which uses OpenStreetMap: https://osmand.net/
It is also available on F-Droid: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/net.osmand.plus/
Shush mode iirc. I've had it on for multiple versions and it survives updates.
Easily the best thing with their phones.
Which app is this? I am really concerned about this.
Is there any solution out there for Android to have the phone in silence, unless there is a call or message from specific contacts (whitelisting notifications for Android)?
Will this also work with messaging apps (e.g. Whatsapp) or only on the phone/sms app?
I silenced my phone while agencies called me for about three years. (Interestingly, that's the only thing they did - I never got a letter or an email or a text.)
The collections agencies went away, my credit was never dinged, and I learned that receiving on-demand phone calls are 100% unnecessary in my life.
Re: credit YMMV. I fully expected my credit to be impacted, as it well should have.
If I had to listen to all the beeping and noises that other people seem to, I would have thrown the phone out the window by now.
Honestly love this.
You may enjoy this:
That's XP! (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bliss_(image))
On the other hand. This page is kinda anxiety triggering https://www.tiktok.com/@ashleasexton/video/70000143018891543...
Man. These sounds are to my stress levels as a bell is to Pavlov’s dog’s drool.
We'd just put on https://nyan.cat and see how long they nyaned for until they realized their laptop was unlocked for.
Bonsai buddy left us too soon :(
https://f-droid.org/packages/com.github.ashutoshgngwr.noice/
iOS ringtones are pretty nice tbf (especially the alarm clock ones) but they are the same for years so, as nice as they are at start, you inevitably end hating them.
For the record, I randomly noticed that when enabling ringtone plus the vibrations, the Taptic Engine vibrates in sync with the ringtone in a subtle way that emphasizes the notes. I found it smart.
The ability be silent is an upside.
I have my phone on silent. I would still like to hear it vibrate when it's on a soft surface for example.
It'd be nice to make the notifications come even slower however ;-).
Yes this is great.
What a neat APP, thanks! Very cool!