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I wonder whether there might be a bidirectional connection between the ear and the brain. For example, the brain creates some internal activity, which in turn stimulates the more outer components of the auditory system.

(Another potential buyer of this camera from outside the US)

By the way, some users might be unwilling to provide credit card details without knowing whether the product can be shipped to their country. Knowing that in advance IMHO is a much better UX.

In addition to Unhook, I also use SponsorBlock [1] and Return YouTube Dislike [2].

While SponsorBlock is something that some people might not want/need, I find Return YouTube Dislike to be particularly useful because the like/dislike ratio is a valuable data point for a video I'm about to watch even if it's just an approximate/predicted value.

[1] https://sponsor.ajay.app/

[2] https://returnyoutubedislike.com/

Perhaps a day will come when tools like Siri will ask for a confirmation whether you meant "fifteen" or "fifty" instead of making a guess when they aren't fully certain that they heard you correctly.

The next big breakthrough in the LLM space will be having a way to represent goals/intentions of the LLM and then execute them in the way that is the most appropriate/logical/efficient (I'm pretty sure some really smart people have been thinking about this for a while).

Perhaps at some point LLMs will start to evolve from the prompt->response model into something more asynchronous and with some activity happening in the background too.

I have never seen a solar eclipse in person, but I wonder whether this type of feeling has similarities with the overview effect [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overview_effect

> Hisense TV is probably maliciously changing their UUID so users cant block their telemetry, or their ads, etc.

I'm not defending Hisense and I'm not saying that this can't be the intention but it's a good idea to keep Hanlon's razor in mind in situations like this.

I'm used to situations when systems do all sorts of things to my last name, given that it contains a non-Latin letter.

So far I've encountered such scenarios:

- The system accepts my original last name just fine.

- It says that a last name can only contain Latin letters and thus refuses to accept it.

- It replaces the non-Latin letter with some gibberish.

- It drops the non-Latin letter altogether.

Especially the last two scenarios have lead to some confusing/frustrating situations in the past. For example, not being able to check-in to a flight with the same last name that I entered during the booking process (only using the "transformed" last name worked).

Credentials don't have to leave the car and they can still enhance security quite significantly.

For example Face ID in iPhones works pretty well, and your face data is stored on the phone only.

I'd think that the brain isn't the only part of the human body that needs sleep/rest. Becoming immobile for such a long amount of time must have a much larger systemic purpose given that this is how our bodies evolved.

I can't stop finding such intense competition between the world's top experts in a single area truly fascinating.

I wonder whether witnessing the space race felt similar. It's just that now we have more players and the effort is much more decentralized.

And maybe the amount of resources used is comparable too..

> Au Large

Does anyone have an idea what does "Au" stand for here? Translating "au" to French gives "at", but I'm not sure whether this is what it's supposed to mean.

And "Au" doesn't seem to be used anywhere else in the article.

The sad reality is that the humanity probably needs some type of big climate-related event that would act as a wake up call when it comes to the urgency of climate change. We need something that people can relate to with their senses or emotions. Data by itself can only get us so far.

I've never seen (M) in LMGTFY.

What does it mean?

> I also think that an average duck is happier than an average human.

Perhaps being able to think doesn't help much when it comes to happiness. Thinking is useful practically but it's as if you have to suppress it in order to experience happiness.

And this channel has been active for 16 years already (the first video was posted in Dec 2007).

> increase frequencies you don’t hear well

Wouldn't that make you less sensitive to those frequencies and thus speed up the worsening of the hearing issues?

In curlconverter.com clicking on "C" redirects you to the --libcurl option documentation page instead of generating a C snippet. Wouldn't a more user-friendly way be to still generate a C snippet, but to mention that it can be done with the --libcurl option too?

I'm curious what do you mean by "utopian" and could you give some examples?

Bose SoundLink Flex Bluetooth Speaker

I was blown away by the sound quality produced by this relatively small speaker. It has very rich bass and other frequencies sound very good too. I often carry it around my apartment and use for things like music, audiobooks, calls (unfortunately the built-in mic isn't that good), etc.

Although a bit above $200, but I own an Aranet4 CO2 monitor (it also measures humidity, air pressure, and temperature). It has a great app that allows you to see historical data too.

I've been using it for a while already and I'm really happy with it.

It turns out that when you Google "cicada", there's a speaker button near the Wikipedia card in the top right corner which allows you to play the sound of cicadas from within the search results page.

Lenovo ThinkBook Plus Twist[0] has been announced a while ago already. It should have a 12-inch color e-ink display in addition to a regular display.

It was supposed to become available in June 2023, but there's only silence.

[0]: https://news.lenovo.com/pressroom/press-releases/thinkbook-p...

Hm, I still couldn't find the price after signing up for the newsletter.

I wonder how is it possible to use less total energy? If you need to apply an amount of energy to travel a given distance, the amount can't be that different whether the energy comes from muscles or from an electric motor (or a combination of both). These are different sources of energy, but it's still energy.

I'd imagine the movement of the legs while pedalling would affect the aerodynamics, but is there something else happening?

> avoid thinking and effort and instead rely on an external brain

For me personally this was probably the biggest game changer because I'm now able to offload a lot of thinking to GPT-based tools and use my brain cycles for the less automatable activities.

Now instead of searching for something on Google and going through multiple pages before finding an answer, I can ask a precise question and get the answer right away. Especially when I know that the answer _is_ there somewhere, and all I need is to find it. If I'm not happy with the answer, I can continue the conversation until I get what I'm looking for.

I made Bing Chat, ChatGPT, and Warp AI (a feature of the Warp terminal that allows you to access GPT from within the terminal) a part of my daily life and I feel like I'm achieving much more with the time I have.

> did they talk about using it as a display for a Mac?

Actually the did:

> bring the powerful capabilities of their Mac into Vision Pro wirelessly, creating an enormous, private, and portable 4K display with incredibly crisp text

I wonder what the latency would be like though.

> I mostly sit with my noise cancelling headphones on, with no sound. And lately, I'm just moving towards not having them on at all when I'm not in meetings.

I find it very difficult to sit in complete silence. It's as if the silence exerts some pressure on me. But I've recently discovered brown noise and it works wonderfully well for me.

It has become my go to sound/noise whenever I'm doing something that requires thinking. This is my favorite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P48QELwruQs

Side question: are there any Discord channels in this area (learning new programming languages) worth attention?

Nowadays it's as if silence creates some type of mental pressure inside me.

I found this to work really well in many different situations: https://youtu.be/P48QELwruQs