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excel2flow··on Tinnitus in relation to neck/head muscle tension
Thanks for tip - I'll ask my doctor about it.

Btw, I've already tried some noise generators for Android and I've observed strange effect - I have ringing only in the left ear so I used only one ear bud with the generator. Then when I turned it off, it induced noise in the other ear. It was like the brain was generating signal to compensate for the external noise in the left ear and when the noise generator was turned off, the spurious signal in the right ear became hearable. Fortunately this effect was only temporal.

excel2flow··on Tinnitus in relation to neck/head muscle tension
I have it 24/7, nothing seems to help. It can be only masked by external noise. Alcohol doesn't help me to get temporal relief - it's even worse, louder.

But by far the worst consequence of tinnitus and the real problem (at least for me) is disturbance of sleep. At first I couldn't fall asleep - because of the noise which manifests itself most strongly in silent environment. So I was lying in bed for a few hours before falling asleep (now I got accustomed so I can fall asleep faster). But even worse is that the noise wakes me up after like 4-5 hours. That means I'm completely exhausted all day, because I need 7-8 hours of sleep to feel refreshed. I tried Zolpidem, which can get me 6 hours of sleep, but its effect wears off rapidly if taken for a few consecutive nights. Now I take Mirtazapine, which works better. Also it helped me to take Magnesium supplements.

excel2flow··on Tinnitus in relation to neck/head muscle tension
My tinnitus started with local anesthesia given by dentist. It caused spasm in jaw muscle which I had for almost a month - and as a side effect there was a tinnitus in left ear. The spasm eventually disappeared, but tinnitus never did. It's been 2 years now and by now I've realized that I'll probably never ever enjoy silence again. So let it be a warning what banal anesthesia can cause…
excel2flow··on Our Brain Uses Statistics to Calculate Confidence, Make Decisions
Can prejudice be renamed to "statistical assessments"? :)
excel2flow··on Czech Republic, seeking a snappier name, considers a change
Yes, but that is denotation of inhabitants, the same way Pšonci is for Poles :)
excel2flow··on Formula E to feature autonomous car racing
There's barely anyone cheering even for "Lewiz Hamiltononbot". In current F1 the pilot is merely a ballast - the result is basically predetermined by technology.

Also there's no need to use "super fast human lap" - you can compute optimal lap, it's been done. The challenge will be to design AI to beat your opponents - then it gets interesting.

excel2flow··on Hydra can modify its genetic program
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_immortality
excel2flow··on Avast Antivirus: X.509 Error Rendering Command Execution
Please can someone elaborate on claim: "… is pretty simple to convert into remote code execution"? Especially the "pretty simple" bit.
excel2flow··on XLParser: A C# parser for Microsoft Excel formulas
Too bad I didn't have this year ago, it would have saved me some work with http://excel2flow.asp2.cz/
excel2flow··on Alda: A music programming language
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_audio_programming_lang...

What's the selling point of this one?

excel2flow··on Facebook and PGP
Also US medical data exchange is built on S/MIME: http://www.directtrust.org/
excel2flow··on Facebook and PGP
Yes, thanks for correction.
excel2flow··on Facebook and PGP
Btw, does PGP support triple wrapping to prevent surreptitious forwarding? (S/MIME does - https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2634.txt)

I really don't understand why it has been chosen over S/MIME. Maybe they gave the money to that german guy who wrote it and now they don't want them to be completely wasted :)

excel2flow··on Integer Overflow Bug in Boeing 787 Dreamliner
http://www.pipeline.com/~hbaker1/sigplannotices/gigo-1997-04...
excel2flow··on Integer Overflow Bug in Boeing 787 Dreamliner
Could have abstract interpretation (http://www.astree.ens.fr/) or some other formal method prevented it?
excel2flow··on How I got a valid SSL certificate for my ISP's main domain
Yeah, right. But any CRL smaller then 64 KB can be distributed this way. So it would be CA's responsibility to keep them small, otherwise they would pay for the full traffic.

"The RDATA field in the DNS protocol may only hold data of size 65535 octets (64kb) or less. This means that each CERT RR MUST NOT contain more than 64kb of payload, even if the corresponding certificate or certificate revocation list is larger. This document addresses this by defining "indirect" data types for each normal type."

excel2flow··on How I got a valid SSL certificate for my ISP's main domain
Btw, is there any reason why CRLs are not widely published via DNS (https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4398)? It would lower the costs associated with distribution of CRLs...
excel2flow··on Email Encryption Software Relies on One Guy, Who Is Going Broke
For that matter, I don't know what I would do without BouncyCastle: https://www.bouncycastle.org/donate/index.cgi

This article made me think about donating.

excel2flow··on Show HN: Instantly Understand Any Spreadsheet
Thanks for testing! ";" is delimiter for function arguments in czech version of Excel (because "," is decimal delimiter). Parser tries to guess if you're using czech or english version and it probably guessed wrong.

Anyway, I wrote the parser by hand so I cannot guarantee it will work on every valid Excel formula. But I'm working on improved version which will use formal grammar.

excel2flow··on Show HN: Instantly Understand Any Spreadsheet
I had some trouble reading nested IF functions, so I wrote a piece of code which translates them into flowcharts: http://excel2flow.asp2.cz/ (weekend project)