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That's called "residual inhibition".

Note that I would be careful about using pure tones for too long. Pure tones end up focusing the energy in your cochlea towards a small area of hair cells. Since these cells don't regenerate, it may be wise to avoid overstressing them.


Thanks! I didn't know it was a known phenomenon. Now I know what to google.

My tinnitus is fortunately not super loud; it's only noticeable when it's relatively quiet, or I'm blocking sounds (with ear plugs, or noise cancelling headphones without input, etc.). So it's not like I habitually blast my ears with loud sine waves out of desperation. But I can imagine it may be different for other readers, so that's a good caveat.


They can't do that either with Wallet items. That's kind of the point: you can hand over your phone with a wallet item "unlocked" and visible on the screen, and that's all they'll have access to.


Sure but then you've already given them your phone after which you don't know what happens. Plus it's a lot of leverage for them to have it, e.g. "unlock or you won't get it back".


Until they covertly plug it in to the Cellebrite unit back in the patrol car.


You can find Maelstrom here: https://www.libsdl.org/projects/Maelstrom/


Which country is that?


Dominican Republic


Doesn't Dominican Republic have like a 50% higher homicide rate than the US? Or do you mean it's just not localized in the spots you'd expect it to be?


Normalize it by region, maybe. Mexico has much higher homicide rate, for example.


The DR has a homicide rate similar to the worst 20% of US states, but much lower than the most murdery ones.


Yea that's why I was wondering if GGP was talking about specific areas. There's certainly cities in the US with eyewatering violent crime rates (St Louis, Baltimore, etc). Not sure if OP was specifically talking about a similar localization within the Dominican Republic.


Idk. IMHO the crime exposure here is pretty insignificant if you aren’t going to the tourist hotspots. At the touristy places it’s about like NYC risk wise.


It’s not high for a developing nation. since 2015 the average is about 13/100k. By comparison, Louisiana is 19, New Mexico is 14, Missouri is 13, Maryland is 11, Alaska is 10.


>dominicans

>no homeless

bro if everyone is homeless than nobody is


? Not sure what this is supposed to mean. I’ve lived here for over a decade and have seen very few people that don’t have a home of some kind. Family connections obviously play a large role.


There are various explanations about the genesis of the sound for T sufferers, and it obviously depends on the kind of T that one has (this chart [1] helps navigate the variants).

But if you are one of the "common kind", which is typically an insult to your hearing apparatus that damaged your cochlea, then the work from Susan Shore [2] is a reasonable explanation of what could actually be going on (genesis by the fusiform cells of the dorsal cochlear nucleus). You may be interested in checking out her publications listed in the wikipedia article quoted.

[1] https://www.tinnitusresearch.net/index.php/for-clinicians/di... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Shore


> I remember reading this story about some woman in a scandinavian country who chose medical-assisted suicide because hers was so bad.

I think you are thinking of Gaby Olthuis. Her story is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzQ6kSqBOao


That is a reasonable strategy, but I need to figure out a way to delete SPAM emails only.

I still need transactional emails to go through, unless I change pharmacies, which isn't impossible to do, but has downsides that may be more painful than having to "Mark As Spam" a couple of times a week.


With the right filter, you could have the best of both worlds. Assuming that the company spamming you has a set format or some standard text in their spam that isn't in their other emails, you could filter based on that.


Yes, I have to figure out the right pattern and block that.


My SSDs show SMART attributes, which can be used as a rough indicator of health, but really the only strategy I've found to work well for my peace of mind is to use redundancy.

Concretely, I use ZFS with a zpool with 2 SSDs in a mirror configuration. When one dies, even if it's sudden, I can just swap it out for another one and that's it.

My vulnerability window starts when the first SSD fails and closes when the mirror is rebuilt. If something bad happens to the other SSD during that time, I'm toast and I have to start restoring from backup.


Did you stagger the power-on times? Otherwise you could get tightly correlated failures.


They are about 25 hours apart, which isn't very large I'll admit.

Thankfully, the serial numbers aren't too close to each other, so I'm hoping they aren't part of the same batch.


In my experience with enterprise SSDs (which yeah aren't the same but that's what I have to offer), SSDs with sequential serial numbers and identical on-times, in the same RAID array, can have wildly different actual endurance. Some storage servers I used to admin had SSDs lasting longer than 2 neighbor replacements from the same original box, and this happened at least twice.

I stopped being worried about on-times after that for SSDs. HDDs are still quite correlated (on the order of months) but if you're building the server you have to put the disks in it at some point.


I take advantage of paperless options everywhere and got burned by the "Paperless DMV Vehicle Renewal Notice" going to SPAM. I had to pay pretty hefty late fee (a few hundred dollars).

Since that event, I've flipped the switch back to "snail mail" and will resist the constant nagging until they implement a paper fallback (i.e. notify by email first and if it's not paid within X weeks of deadline, fire off a paper notification).


Tell your government to create an electronic mail service that you log into using your ID for all your government communication. Spam doesn't exist there.


They have this in Netherlands: https://mijn.overheid.nl/about-mijnoverheid/


The federal government doesn’t administer state and local taxes and doesn’t care.


I had a similar situation with property taxes. But somehow that “paperless” box keeps getting checked despite me being very careful not to use it.


Why would you filter any sender with a ".gov" domain (in the US, at least) to spam.

Also, don't you check your spam folder? Or, do you just straight up delete everything once the "pile" gets too big?

Sounds like a "you" problem, not a delivery problem.


I don't think so. That is the main reason I'm keeping Blue Iris going.

My wife can use the BI app (even though it uses an outdated UI design). I haven't found any Frigate-based UX that would meet that bar (and that bar is not even particularly high with the BI app).

Would love to know if I'm missing a Frigate UX option that is "family friendly".


I mean alerts can go out to home assistant or any mqtt it looks like, so for assists that seems like the easiest option MQTT or the HA app


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