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jrace··on The Evolution of THC Vape Cartridges
That is correct, according to the article.

Not sure if that is an actual concern, or even an actual warning, but that is what the article states.

jrace··on The Evolution of THC Vape Cartridges
> Even though the intended use for these devices is a 2-5 second draw at no more than 2 draws before the device must be rested so as to not overheat, not every consumer uses the devices in this way or knows this technique.

> users should not be taking more than three draws per hour on average

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Even in fully legal store (up in canada) I have never seen either of those warnings.

jrace··on How to stop junk mail
For us Canadians you can “opt-out” by just putting a note in/on your mailbox. The carriers will/should honor that.
jrace··on Ask HN: What to do when the company is stretched thin?
Thats where i find myself today, everything in on fire and we have no time to reflect on what we did and reinforce the learning.

Fortunately many opportunities are popping up… i am unsure if it really is better elsewhere though

jrace··on Microsoft Dev Box
The easy way is the to take a azure vm, get it exactly how you want it, and take a snapshot.

Now when you want a new dev vm just build it from the snapshot.

Not the best way, but one of the easier ways

jrace··on Tinnitus Seems Linked with Sleep
Kind of, Tinnitus refers to the symptom not the cause.
jrace··on The Godfather almost never happened
Watch 1 and 2, But under no circumstances watch 3, jut pretend it was never made
jrace··on Volcanoes, plague, famine and endless winter: Welcome to 536
The worst year...so far

Makes me wonder, would society today fare better than society then to the same hardship?

jrace··on Show HN: I made a little math game named Summle
I am enjoying this, thank you!
jrace··on Ask HN: Do you also only read HN headlines and user comments?
That is exactly what I do!

The headline is enough to spark interest in the article, but often what I am interested in is the discussion and insights from other HN users.

Interesting to read that I am not alone.

jrace··on Show HN: WallSmash – An Infinite Brick Breaker Game
I love it!

No BS, Click the link...and get smashing!

Controls and rules easy to figure out after a few plays, and just addictive enough.

Thank!

jrace··on Show HN: P2P remote desktop – an alternative to TeamViewer / AnyDesk
That has not been my experience, I regularly RDP to a workstation and code from there.

We even ran our Dev machines in Azure over RDP/WAN. Only those on <30Mbps connections had noticable issues

jrace··on Movie dialogue has gotten more difficult to understand
I recommend using the chrome plugin https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/audio-channel/hafd...

to apply your own compression to the audio signal for chrome-based playback.

jrace··on Movie dialogue has gotten more difficult to understand
And the headline states

  (And Three Ways To Fix It)
Which it does not deliver any fixes for the listener.

The only real fix is to use a dynamic compression algorithm. Most AVRs (home theater receivers) have this, and I now always use the chrome plugin AudioChannel for playback to devices that do not have that feature.

jrace··on Movie dialogue has gotten more difficult to understand
Part of what made Momento great was discovering that the timeline was backwards, you were just as confused as the main character...that was the point.
jrace··on Movie dialogue has gotten more difficult to understand
This is the part that bothers me:

  "I think in the case of Mr. Nolan, with ["Tenet"], the characters have a mask, and he wants to keep the original sound because I think for him it's more real," he says. Presumably, that mentality also extends to "The Dark Knight Rises," in which Bane's mask muffled a significant percentage of that character's lines.
Read More: https://www.slashfilm.com/673162/heres-why-movie-dialogue-ha...

---If that is the case, that the director does not want us to understand the dialogue then why make it so important to the story? Why make it so dialogue heavy then?

jrace··on There is currently no way to drive between Vancouver and the rest of Canada
Except we are starting the winter season here, which will cause serious havoc with rebuild efforts.
jrace··on There is currently no way to drive between Vancouver and the rest of Canada
So you can either go to an island (few hour trip) or to the north (many hours) And then once there another half day to get down to the interior, which when the roads were open was just a 4-5hr trip.

So even the ferry ride out would take very long time to get to the next major city.

jrace··on There is currently no way to drive between Vancouver and the rest of Canada
Only when you are going far east, but almost never going from Vancouver to other parts of BC and Alberta.
jrace··on There is currently no way to drive between Vancouver and the rest of Canada
I live inthe interior, about 5hrs from Vancouver, and we are only cut off from Vancouver and Calgary...but our grocery stores are now out\very low on vegetable and dairy.

I suspect some panic buying, but very sobering to see how fragile our food delivery system is.

jrace··on Things to say when you're losing a technical argument (2001)
Perfect.

Its not a bluff, it is a way of weeding out the non-serious requests.

If you take the time then so will I.

jrace··on Things to say when you're losing a technical argument (2001)

    I like your idea. Why don't you write up a white paper and we'll review it at the next staff meeting?

That is a sure-fire way to stop most people.
jrace··on Toxoplasmosis associated with entrepreneurial initiation and performance (2020)
Considering that it is believed infected mice tend to go towards cats instead of away.

Toxo seems to be pretty darn clever

jrace··on All Atari Games
WOW...great job!
jrace··on The FDA wants you to be able to buy a hearing aid without a prescription
Part of snoring is low frequency sounds, which even with fully plugged ears, transmits through bone conduction.

also long term use of ear plugs with sleeping can cause unwanted side-effects.

When we sleep our hearing system does not turn off (safety), and when you wear ear plugs while sleeping you run the risk of making your hearing work harder - and then if you have no plugs in your hearing system is now (hopefully temporarily) more sensitive than before.

jrace··on The FDA wants you to be able to buy a hearing aid without a prescription
If all you need is to amplify everything, they work fine.
jrace··on The FDA wants you to be able to buy a hearing aid without a prescription
They are excellent compared to standard ear-plugs.

Not as much reduction in harmful sounds (do not use with heavy equipment for example) but do a great job of equally attenuating a wide freq band.

jrace··on The FDA wants you to be able to buy a hearing aid without a prescription
Noise reduction only works so good...but when the "noise" you do not want to hear is speech, they have a much harder time.
jrace··on The FDA wants you to be able to buy a hearing aid without a prescription
Starkey used to be an industry leader. Sadly, not for a few decades.

Watch Oticon, and Sonova (Phonak/Unitron).

jrace··on The FDA wants you to be able to buy a hearing aid without a prescription
A hearing test is done to compare your thresholds to what is considered "normal".

Without controlled test environment you cannot compare as your test environment will change your thresholds, and therefore make the test invalid.

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