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If you are only talking on the phone or streaming music to it... maybe. It all depends on the loss. I would need to raise the highs quite a bit without blowing my brains (what is left) out with the lows. If high frequency loss is bad enough, HA's do frequency lowering (some have fancy names for it) to cope. I use my phone app, to select from 4 built in programs (HA programs) and 4 that I created (just mods of the built ins). I can also adjust noise canceling, wind noise, and other stuff. If I need GPS while driving, my phone streams to the aids, helping comprehension greatly.
HA's are getting smarter with, Ta-Da, AI. I think there are a couple that will phone home if you fall down.
HA's are like using your favorite Javascript framework, or Marc's arm floaties. They assist, they don't fix
Edit: I feel no stigma with hearing aids, most people don't even notice them.
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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So the hearing aids act, more or less, like smart earbuds, with dedicated phone software?
It's nice to see smartphone tech being used for more useful than just facebook and twitter.
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>>more or less
About $5K more.
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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You should move to a country where reasonable health is a right, not a reason to mortgage your house.
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I ain't touching that one!!! Whatever happened to that other place?
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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Merlin Mann says people took his idea far too literally. More like Inbox 0 +/- n
Where 'n' is whatever you want or need it to be.
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I thought I knew nothing about inbox zero, so therefore I knew everything about it?
I don't know about that.
One thing that I do know I know (or, at least, I think so) is that I'm not interested in yet another blob of faddish cr@p, so my inbox-interaction-processes will remain unchanged until something actually useful comes along to replace them.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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As a previous Exchange server admin I can assure you that zero inbox is a myth.
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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I use Inbox Ignore. Works perfectly for me.
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Over the past few years, as work/life balance has become more of a priority for developers, the notion of a “crunch culture” has been the subject of much discussion. But it is a good chocolate bar
Which I guess could also destroy development teams.
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What, working up to 20 hours a day, seven days a week, on a job that requires intense mental application isn't very good for your social life?
How ridiculous is that idea, eh?
Pack of idiots.
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But wait! I thought giving names to crap I've been doing for 40 years was gonna fix the software life cycle problems and make it possible to deliver software bug-free, on time, and at/below budget, thus eliminating the "crunch culture".
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010 ----- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010 ----- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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The Trump administration is proposing new rules to guide future federal regulation of artificial intelligence used in medicine, transportation and other industries. Because if you want something done right - you go to the experts!
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Well, it's the easiest thing in the world to get an AI to provide false or distorted information, so we need the biggest experts making policy for it.
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As with ISO9001, you may define useless processes, or useful processes. It really depends on the people implementing the rules in their development/production process.
Oh sanctissimi Wilhelmus, Theodorus, et Fredericus!
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If you’re reading this, you probably know how to upgrade one version of Windows to another. Or just type the commands in manually, if the script seems a bit of overkill
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I think there's merit to his thinking.
I mean, if you want a functional, efficient GUI, you don't want windows 10, so making the the installer more functional and efficient should balance things out a little -- yin & yang, y'know?
Or "yin and wtf has this cr@p done to my computer?!?!", maybe.
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Behold: the world's first known chosen-prefix collision of widely used hash function. Hopefully affecting no one (as everyone has moved off of SHA1, right? /sigh)
Yeesh - Y2K, SHA1... 2020 is sounding more like 2000 all over again.
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In worse news, I hear Enigma encryption has been cracked!
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Whaaaaa? Now the Nazis will win!
TTFN - Kent
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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) finalized a settlement with a Utah-based tech company that got hacked and had the personal info of over a million clients stolen following a series of more than 20 undetected network intrusions. Oh, *that's* why no one fixes anything
"As part of the proposed settlement with the FTC, InfoTrax and Rawlins are prohibited from collecting, selling, sharing, or storing personal information unless they implement an information security program that would address the security failures identified in the complaint."
"Each violation of such an order may result in a civil penalty of up to $42,530." Oh, that's going to hurt.
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Why did the word "dominatrix" pop into my head, on reading the title of this thread?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Parking meters, cash registers and a professional wrestling video game have fallen foul of a computer glitch related to the Y2K bug. The gift that keeps on giving
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Devs: Solution A will take a month, cost $X and will break in 2020. Solution B will take a year, cost 100 times as much, but will be good forever.
Management: Do A
2020 rolls around
Management: Stupid Devs
(To be fair, a lot of management probably told their customers that everything would break in 2020 and customers said they didn't need their stinking ripoff alternative and are now whining.)
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they should have replace age old systems ....
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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