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Senior Android Engineer at Reddit, former Tweep, Google Developer Expert for Android
For the longest time the Android community was super close-knit where people talked about this stuff online and in person constantly, and OP was a pretty active contributor.
Unfortunately Twitter pre-acquisition was probably the focal point and since then, I don't think the community has been the same.
An interesting feature of ribbon mics - because the ribbon is open at the front and the back, they reject sound from the side (and top/bottom) almost perfectly. You can arrange these cleverly in live or studio settings to amplify one thing while rejecting another completely.
A typical usecase for this is a singer with an acoustic guitar - one mic can pick up the guitar and almost fully reject the vocals, and vice-versa. Pretty cool.
Generally these are only used in test methods, which is fine. I've never seen anyone use them outside that.
One thing that I found super interesting when I studied audio engineering is that our ears are very good at determining direction left/right, but absolutely hopeless at working out if a sound is up or down.
This makes their hypothesis a lot more believable to me; I can understand others incredulity.
Someone failed highschool chemistry. More gas can dissolve in cold water vs hot. The opposite of solids.
Yeah this is standard practise in the UK armed forces/EOD teams. Source: spent time with No. 5131 Squadron in Akrotiri.
I can’t think of any other place where people’s sense of net worth is as tied up with their house price as it is in the UK, while at the same time the increase in house price that people have been conditioned to believe is the norm over the last decade is wholly unsustainable given the stagnant wages.
Canada.
Regularly donating blood or plasma can reduce PFAS concentrations in the body, I believe the effect is the same on microplastics https://theconversation.com/new-evidence-shows-blood-or-plas...
You can set a custom filter in uBlock Origin to do this for you - here's an example filtering out Pinterest garbage:
google.##.g:has(a[href=".pinterest."]) google.##a[href=".pinterest."]:nth-ancestor(1)
During the outbreak of the Ukraine war, this role was taken up by Twitter Spaces.
Location: Ontario, Canada
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Android, Kotlin
Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adam-bennett-4784b327/
Email: info@adambennett.dev
GitHub: https://github.com/ditn/
Looking for new challenges and a chance to grow - I'm at my best when under some pressure and surrounded by smart people.
Then why were they reviewing unrelated codebases? iOS, Android? This doesn't hold up
They use git.
"No true blockchain"
60% _marginal_ tax, not everall.
For those reading this with incredulity I believe the above commenter made a typo - the average depth is 3688m, or 12,100ft.
Mostly Android + Kotlin with a recent foray into interviewing, and I'd like to write about leadership/culture a bit more. I've gotten out of the habit of writing recently due to burnout but I'm starting to feel that motivation again.
It's a Hugo static site ontop of Firebase Hosting, and I just commit to GitHub and Actions builds and deploys the site for me. I recently started using http://forestry.io/ which is a nice GUI over the top for content management.
It's not, it's a runtime service locator. In my experience it doesn't scale terribly well.
That's an event I'd like to see!
It's a hard limit due needing fuel to maintain its orbit. It's in a lagrange point (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrange_point) which requires occasional orbital corrections.
That sounds brilliant. I've signed up for access and will wait patiently.
This is very very cool and I'm excited to eventually get access to it. I'd love to see a Crashlytics integration so that we can also use Runway to monitor post-release health in one place - looks like maybe you thought about this as I can see Firebase support is coming.
Anyway good luck with this and I look forward to giving it a spin.
You might like this then - turns out the QR codes are a cluster https://www.revk.uk/2020/09/how-not-to-qr-nhs-c19-app.html
When I was a teenager I was in the Air Training Corps, and I was lucky enough to be selected for a "camp" at RAF Akrotiri.
Several U2 spyplanes are stationed there (along with the Red Arrows during off-season), and we were treated to watching them come and go to operations presumably in the middle-east. Watching them land was incredible as they appear to move incredibly slowly and touch down very gently. They're also amongst the noisiest aircraft I've ever been around.
One of the commanding officers organised a camp photo infront of one of the U2s - we were shuttled outside a hangar with this enormous plane behind us. We were told we were strictly not allowed on the other side of the aircraft that they had "sanitised" for us as not to reveal any state secrets, somehow.
I still have that photo, it's a great one, but it's also technically OFFICIAL-SENSITIVE and we're not allowed to show it to anyone. Our "official" camp photo was infront of the Red Arrows, which would have been cool enough - but our secret photo was cooler.
This seems like a pretty straight clone of https://carbon.now.sh/
Location: London, UK Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Android, Kotlin, RxJava, Gradle, AndroidX, Retrofit, OkHttp, Dagger2, Koin, security/encryption, cryptocurrency
Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adam-bennett-4784b327/
Website: https://adambennett.dev
Email: info@adambennett.dev
Worked in early-stage fintech startups for a number of years now, looking to move to something slightly more established unless it's a great fit or an interesting problem.
Passionate about Android, experienced in launching products from scratch and re-architecting legacy codebases, security, OSS. Capable team lead or individual contributor.
Remember this is the same FCC that couldn't detect millions of fake anti-net neutrality comments.
Not couldn't - didn't want to.
There's actually the opposite evidence; it's worse to be in a vehicle than walk or cycle, and there's a few studies that say that the benefits of cycling outweigh the pollution exposure.
http://www.breathelondon.org/south-east/project/modes-transp...
It's better to write about stuff that you've just learnt. Fixed a tricky bug, learnt about a new API, found a useful library? Write about it.
It'll cement the knowledge in your mind, and perhaps you'll have insights that others haven't had. If you're aiming to write about stuff no-one's ever written before, you'll never get around to actually writing anything.
Key technologies include a compact pre-cooler heat-exchanger that can take an incoming airstream of over 1,000C and cool it to -150C in less than 1/100th of a second.
That seems incredible. I'd love to see in greater detail how the system works.