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"Vocal fry", aka "creaky voice". It's stereotypically associated with irritating young women.

I like me a good rabbit hole that's interesting and also digs into stereotypes.

Turns out, like many memes, it's not just that. It's (also?) a normal speech pattern, used by different genders, ages, and social groups, in many languages.

This doesn't mean that vocal fry isn't used as social signaling. But complaining about it, well, isn't that social signalling too?

Geoff Lindsey - Vocal Fry: what it is, who does it, and why people hate it! - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0yL2GezneU

My LG does just that.

The tv remote sensor stopped working (and broke again after servicing), so now the only way to use the TV is by the LG app on my phone.. which asks for permissions to Nearby Devices, Location, Camera, Microphone, Notifications, Phone, Music&Audio...

Not sure if it adds anything, but a factoid I know is that CD timing is expressed in minutes, seconds, and frames, where each frame is 1/75th of a second.

I'm not sure but I think this is also the smallest time resolution.

Then each frame is composed of samples, but they seem to be counted in groups of 1/75th os a second anyway.

for me 16gig is definitely not enough.

I'm on a 36gb M3 and I have to reboot it every three to five days to have it behave again.

I have normal dev apps open: a browser with jira, another with testing, another with documentation, an ide, teams, calendar, zoom.. it adds up very, very quickly. 16gigs are gone in the blink of an eye

From Hackathon to YC 11 months ago

adults passengers can adapt the conversation to your needs, keeping quiet and even helping with decisions. screens, kids, dogs, people on the phone, etc can't do that

Most times the idea is implied. I'm trying to solve a problem with some tools, and there are better tools or even better approaches.

ChatGPT (and copilot and gemini) instead all tell me "Love the intent here — this will definitely help. Let's flesh out your implementation"...

It's very hard to have ChatGPT et al tell me that an idea I had isn't good.

I have to tailor my prompts to curb the bias, adding a strong sense of doubt on my every idea, to see if the thing stops being so condescending.

My YT mobile pet peeve is that when you toggle the captions, an useless "Subtitles/CC Turned ON" is shown for 5 seconds.. OVER THE CAPTIONS!

Most useless message ever, placed exactly where you do not want it to be.

Bolsonaro termed "far right" seems to be on the mark though. The guy praises military dictatorship, with many military figures in his government. He targeted the press and judiciary as enemies of the nation, and so on.

Lula hasn't nationalized industries, hasn't seized wealth, or even tried to, so "far left" doesn't seem to be as fitting. Where are the burnt churches?

Now, about corruption, I'm pretty sure neither shine, but that's Brazil for you. Wasn't the Bolsonaro family found to have bought around 50 properties in cash? Smells about as corrupt as the other side, sadly.

Agree. TypeScript is primarily a programming language. Did they make the language faster? No. Hence, the title is misleading.

DNA analysis can be used to profile you. Health risks, ancestry, genetic conditions. This could be used to deny insurance coverages and employment opportunities due to perceived health risks.

DNA analysis is rapidly evolving to extract more information than you might initially assume. We don't know how much or how accurately DNA can be used do infer your preferences, moral instincts, aggressive tendencies, intelligence, propensity to fall victim of a scam, to become addicted, to act violently, etc.

DNA also provides insights into the genetic makeup of family members, which can face the same problems.

Overlapping markup 4 years ago

Maybe it leverages the "form" optional attribute that can specify the form the <input> element belongs to.

How fateful? 4 years ago

Could it be perhaps because you are a white male, and look fit and straight? Just hypothesizing.

The Price of Wheat 4 years ago

Percent math doesn't work that way. Every country should produce an additional 1% of the whole world total. Very different from 1% of what they usually do, which is a fragment of the total.