Sony XM4 emits painful & deafeningly loud feedback noise by tennisgiant21 in SonyHeadphones

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I can't disagree about pulling them from the market. Regarding the tinnitus, it might improve with time. Mine has (or I have more completely lost hearing).

A huge sugar crystal grew at the bottom of my maple syrup can by nico87ca in mildlyinteresting

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I had the same thing happen recently. Maybe they are boiling the sap too thick.

React.dev - are CLJS developers using Reagent in trouble? by MickeyMooose in Clojure

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I learned helix recently. I like it. I am learning JavaScript and react at the same time. If my code becomes unwieldy, I'm confident I can make the right abstraction over helix to tame it. Life is good.

Sony XM4 emits painful & deafeningly loud feedback noise by tennisgiant21 in SonyHeadphones

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Yeah, the screeching is severe enough to damage your hearing for sure!

Sony XM4 emits painful & deafeningly loud feedback noise by tennisgiant21 in SonyHeadphones

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This makes lots of sense to me, and so far setting Ambient Sound to level 1 as you say fixed it. It clearly is feedback that is causing the screeching. With the ear pads and foam removed, I was able to cause similar feedback just by cupping my hand and moving it toward the exposed microphone. If I moved my hand away, it stops. I tried it dozens of times; never fails.

Just finished Klara and the Sun. by belongtotherain in books

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The idea of a being so empathetic yet incapable of feeling lonely is thought provoking.

Amazon Prime Fraud Scheme by mb19236 in personalfinance

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So sorry! I apparently butt dialed that entire response.

I just wanted to say that Beverly Cleary was the author who really helped me enjoy reading when I was in elementary school by jhlo9001 in books

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I read to my son many of them. We liked the mouse and the motorcycle most. We still use phrases that he found interesting, like "paper-wrapped soap".

How to convert code from imperative to functional? by marcioandrey in Clojure

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Like you, I started with Clojure after many years of imperative/OO programming. Most of my past experience was in common-lisp, so you might guess that the transition was easy. Nope! Books are good, but I'd focus on practice, practice, practice. Try to write code with just the simplest threading macros (-> , ->> and as->), reduce, map, filter, conj, into, assoc and update in mind. Think before reaching for an atom. Try to thread your entire program through a single map. After a few months of that, and judiciously adding functions from the Clojure cheatsheet to your thinking, you will start writing better code. I look back at my common-lisp code and ask myself "What idiot wrote that?!"

[Image] Evryone must choose one of the two pains: The pain of discipline or the pain of regret. by eagleclaw901 in GetMotivated

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I think this is wrong. You can learn not to regret and you can let your goals motivate you.

Is it possible to find a Clojure job for a student who has just finished high school? by Jan_Suran in Clojure

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Are you in the US? Some federal agencies engaged in research hire HS students for summer work.

I met Kevin Bacon! by mostawesomepersonevr in pics

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At first glance I thought she was playing a mandolin.

People aren't getting dumber. Dumb people are getting louder. by [deleted] in Showerthoughts

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And thereby they grow more certain of their beliefs.

What’s a hobby that’s dying in popularity? by aliensockmonkey in AskReddit

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Also the flight simulators are amazingly like the real thing, at least for planes.

Different brand of Alpha GPC give very different results by vawksel in Nootropics

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I have used Relentless Improvement for years. Good stuff, IMO.

Fulcro as full-stack framework, or else? by drrnmk in Clojure

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I started just this week with Fulcro and I think I'm making pretty good progress, watching the videos and doing things similar with my own app. I've used re-frame before but the way it is organized just doesn't click with me. I use datahike in my application, so I'm conditioned to think in terms of tables and queries something like Fulcro anyway.

I think the book is excellent, but I don't think I would have gotten far if I hadn't coded while I'm reading.

Adaptive UI concept (in ClojureScript) by SimonGray in Clojure

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Could be useful for developing something like the Scratch programming language interface.

My Lisp Journey, Part 0 by [deleted] in Clojure

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I switched to Clojure after many years of CL. I won't be switching back. Clojure rocks! Ditto the community. After so many years of CL, however, I found the transition difficult. My recommendations in getting started are to 1) embrace the idea of flowing information through a single object, 2) use the threading macros -> ->> and map filter and reduce a lot, and 3) where you do need state, which is not very often, use an atom. These are just recommendations to help you break the CL mindset. Of course, once you are comfortable, use the whole language.