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Then it becomes really annoying when we're both in the car and I want to use my phone.

Nice! I guess they fixed it up

This review is for their 2021 model.

> Plus, while there is a climate button and fan speed button, as well as dials for the temperature settings, you still have to go through the screen to control whether the air conditioner is on or off, and also which ventilation is active. Odd.

https://www.carsguide.com.au/car-reviews/honda-cr-v-81488

And a demonstration, though it's for an even older model:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99WLw0pQc8w

When researching family cars recently, I literally avoided the Honda CR-V just because the AC was controlled via the touch screen.

There's a "Climate" button, which brings up a screen on the display where you can turn the aircon on/off, up/down, etc. It's just horrendous. Give me my dials.

My worst gripe - which all modern cars have - is the aggressive bluetooth auto-connect. If my wife takes the car, it will automatically connect to my phone in the house and start playing whatever was last playing. If I'm using headphones, it will just pinch the audio from them. I cannot disable this. Drives me absolutely nuts (no pun intended).

I'm genuinely worried about this.

DeepFakes are getting pretty good. The potential for revenge porn is super high.

And the rabbit-hole of dopamine chasing when you're able to generate custom porn is just frightening. Many young boys will figure out how to access that when they're 13 and won't know a life without it.

I'm terrified of the internet world my kids are going to be in.

Personally I never did audio cards (though I did a lot of listening and conversation outside of Anki) or reverse cards for Japanese. My vocab decks were J->E, and my Kanji decks were Kana->Kanji. I always practised writing my answers on the screen using the whiteboard feature.

I think you should strive to keep your decks under 15 minutes total. That means you can complete them in three 5-minute blocks a day. Any longer and I found I would A) miss a deck, meaning I had to catch up the next day; or B) try to rush through them.

I highly recommend trying to engage in conversation as much as possible. In my city (in Australia) I went to "conversation classes". Basically Japanese people wanting to improve their English would meet with Australians wanting to improve their Japanese. It went for an hour, half of which was spent talking in English, and half in Japanese. And if you can only speak a little bit of Japanese, it's totally fine, you can just speak in broken Japanese mixed with English. It was really fun! You'll find opportunities to use your new vocab, and it'll stick much better.

I absolutely love Anki.

A lot of software make empty promises around productivity improvements. Especially in education. Anki is one of those rare tools that genuinely 10x's you over your peers. I used it when studying Japanese and it was a massive help.

However, having used it for over 12 years to memorise many different things I have noticed one caveat.

If you're not also using what you're memorising outside of Anki, I feel like your ability to recall gets trapped within the context of using Anki.

For example, if you're learning Japanese vocab through Anki, and also trying out your new words via conversation and reading/writing, you'll rapidly learn new vocab AND be able to recall it anywhere.

However if you're learning Japanese on your own and not really conversing/writing, no matter how good your recall with Anki is, you'll struggle to recall those same words anywhere else.

The cool thing about Anki is you can also use pictures/audio. So if you're learning music theory you could memorise chord shapes/intervals. Or human anatomy.

Our little one is four and a half months old. The official advice is already to introduce foods that could cause allergies at six months [1]. So that's what we'll be doing.

[1] https://raisingchildren.net.au/babies/breastfeeding-bottle-f...

How have you found Shinobi versus Zoneminder? I've been using ZoneMinder for years. It's a bit clunky but once it's set up it works fairly well, but I'd be open to switching to something better.

> The root of it is the Transform function which takes an input signal, performs any kind of transformation, and returns an output. All input and output values should remain in the range [-1, 1] otherwise you'll produce some really gnarly popping and cracking.

So you have to make all your own effects in code? It would be cool if it connected to something like Guitarix (open source) so you could use existing guitar effects. (Disclaimer: I've never used Guitarix, so it might sound shit)

Btw, for anyone who doesn't play guitar, but is interested... Gone are the days of those huge pedal boards and having to buy 30 different pedals. Emulation is getting really really good. You can either buy a multi-effects pedal and use that onstage. Or if you're in the studio, NeuralDSP is software which can emulate basically any sound you're after. It's expensive though, but it sounds better than free alternatives like Amplitube.

I'm assuming that the Web UI is just for changing settings.

The low latency would refer to the latency of the audio input (guitar) being processed and producing a sound. Ideally you want no discernible delay between when you hit a string and when a sound is produced.

As for how much delay is considered "acceptable", I'm not going to open that can of worms...

I didn't even know it was the Matterhorn. It's a mountain which looks like every other mountain. It looks almost identical to Mount Assiniboine. And there's a polar bear in the logo - do they even have polar bears in Switzerland?

I don't suppose they could just move around a few lines and say it's some other mountain?

Edit - Now that I think about it, I don't think it's a polar bear. It's just a bear. Apparently brown bears were active in the Swiss alps until 1904, when the last of them were killed by hunters. But recently they've started showing up again, traveling over the border from Italy. You can read more here https://wwf.panda.org/wwf_news/?50840/Beware-of-bear-Return-...

I think OP is just highlighting that yes, they indeed bought a 30 year-old sound card only few months ago, and that they did not mean to write "many years ago", or "a few months later" instead.

It's not just muscle mass. Men have thicker bones and in general are obviously larger. Lia Thomas is 6'1".

Laurel Hubbard (MtF) was on New Zealand's Olympic weightlifting team. An Indigenous Maori girl missed out because of that.

There's countless examples of athletes who were totally uncompetitive as males, suddenly becoming elite-level after transitioning. If that doesn't say male advantage I don't know what does.

But it's not just the competitive aspect. It may be offensive to say, I know, but some women actually feel uncomfortable in a change room with large 6'1" men and their penises.

> For my partner's entire pregnancy, our providers only referred to "birthing people"

Calling my wife a "birthing person" just made her feel like some gross vessel for having a baby. We purposefully chose providers that didn't use that language.

"Chestfeeding" is another one that's cropping up and makes zero sense. Men have breasts, so breastfeeding is already gender-neutral. But it's seen as female-centric so out the door it goes.

There seems to be this weird erasure of women taking place at the moment. To the extent that it's now controversial to ask "what is a woman?"

Good on you!

I drove the same car from age 18-29. It was 26 years-old when I sold it. Never once took it to a mechanic.

Most routine services at a mechanic are just basic oil change, checking fluids, checking tyre pressure, checking brakes. The mechanics my wife takes her car to are so lazy, they didn't bother to check her drum brakes (despite ticking it off. drum brakes are more annoying to check than disc brakes). They were nearly metal-on-metal and I just changed them myself.

You can absolutely service your car yourself. And because it's so much cheaper, you can buy the best brakes (most important), the best tyres (just as important), the best parts.

There's plenty of guides online that will tell you what to check. Keep a log book, and you can start replacing things on schedule (eg changing the belt every 50,000km) before they break.

You can still take it to a mechanic for non-trivial stuff. But once you start doing minor things, you end up doing it all :)

I used Vimperator on Firefox about 10 years ago. Back then it was fantastic, but I think the add-on environment has changed in FF (WebExtensions) since then and add-ons aren't as powerful.

I've used Vimium on Chrome. Every few years I get excited, install it, feel 10x more productive, and then a few days later uninstall it.

As I recall, it doesn't work on the New Tab page. It doesn't work if the address bar is in focus. I believe you have to wait for the page to fully load before you can use it.

Most annoyingly, a lot of websites have custom keyboard shortcuts, so you have to blacklist them in the Vimium config. Eg Gmail, Miro. Then you need to remember you can't use Vimium on them.

None of this is their fault in any way, of course. But it does make Vimium a bit annoying to use for me anyway.

I recently wanted to use a program for a short amount of time for personal use, but the trial period was only 7 days.

I used strace to find that it kept the timestamp of its first run in a text file, and would read that on startup. Deleting that completely reset the trial period.

I was pretty amazed - I know most people aren't computer savvy to bypass trial periods, but I figured there'd be third-party libraries a developer could use to effortlessly guard against this sort of thing?

(If I ever need it again I will buy it. I just literally needed it a couple of times for something personal and will likely never need it again)

> It runs Android 12 and will be supported for three years of monthly security updates and two major Android version upgrades.

They couldn't get Android 13 in time? Seeing as it's already a major version behind, and 14 will be released in August 2023, you're really only getting another six months of software support (plus security fixes).

I'm not an Android dev but my understanding is that a lot of work has been put into making Android easier to upgrade major versions (eg, core functionality being split out into separate services). It doesn't look like that is translating into longer upgrade support, which is a shame. But I suppose that's why we're getting 5 years of security updates? (which is probably most important)

And if you change jobs and start working with a totally different tech stack you get to set it up all over again!

(I still love it though)

What's mental is that people buying $1m houses aren't anywhere near rich. That's just how much houses cost now. You spend years saving, and then the Government pinches most of your deposit!

You're correct.

Most people have variable-rate home loans. In the past few years, fixed five-year loans have become more common. Basically you're on a fixed rate for the first five years, and then after that you're onto a normal variable rate.

Most economists here predict house prices will fall further as people sell due to mortgage stress. At the moment it looks like most people are hanging on. Historically speaking, interest rates are still pretty low. And I think people are reluctant to sell due to fear they won't get a decent price, and that if they wait a few years house prices will be back up.

This is pretty much the same in Australia.

And if you're a buyer, it's even harder because nobody wants to sell right now, particularly established homes. It's mostly just new (and tiny) units/townhouses/apartments.

Is this just a recent thing? I've had an SO account for years. Have only asked a handful of questions but they've never been closed.

What I found annoying was that a lot of the time I never got a helpful answer, and ended up solving it myself a few days later. I then went back and answered my own question (which ended up being helpful for a bunch of people and it got a lot of points).

What about the rest of Stack Exchange? I once asked for help identifying an insect and got pretty helpful answers there (bit of a segue - I ended up breeding a colony of those insects and still have them to this day).

Julian O'Shea has a great video on this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4BtdFgVGjc

(His channel is great btw, interesting videos on cities, weird designs, etc).

"Expert C Programming: Deep C Secrets" is a really good book to learn a lot of C tricks and quirks, plus some history. I read it a few years ago and loved it.

I was a grad when I read it and remember annoying my older coworkers for a few weeks with little gotchas I picked up. "hey what do you think THIS example prints?" "Stop sending me these!"

The Mx Master has a middle click

I think the MX Anywhere 3 might have a middle click, but the 2S (which I had) didn't.

https://www.reddit.com/r/MouseReview/comments/ew9hik/still_n...

I'm surprised how few people seem to use the wheel as a middle-click button (eg, to open new tabs).

When I switched to a Logitech MX Anywhere it had no middle wheel click. I thought this was an absolute scandal - wasn't everyone using this!? Apparently not.

Amazing how some things we think are the status quo turn out not to be.

> So, musicians of HN, what resources have you or yours used to learn how to play a new instrument or style?

For guitar, the single best online resource is justinguitar.com. The dude is a legend. He has made hundreds of free lessons providing a comprehensive education in guitar.

A lot of people also swear by Yousician for guitar/piano/ukulele.

I've used the video game Rocksmith, which claims to be able to teach you guitar or bass. It's OK - more a bit of fun than a learning tool.

For more specific instruments - like clawhammer banjo and the dobro (which looks like a resonator guitar played lap-style), I think YouTube might be your best bet.

If you guys already know some music theory, you'll probably pick things up pretty well and have a lot of fun just through YouTube.

If this is your wife's first instrument, might I suggest something a bit more common? It makes a big difference, as there's so many more online resources for, say, piano/guitar, and a lot more answers when you get stuck.

Ha. Fair enough. For some people that's the case but OP seems not to have started any hence the (admittedly naive) suggestion.

I bet you have fun though!!

For those (like me) who are wondering:

> In artificial intelligence, a hallucination or artificial hallucination is a confident response by an artificial intelligence that does not seem to be justified by its training data when the model has a tendency of "hallucinating" deceptive data.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallucination_(artificial_inte...