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New comment by drewcon in "Tinnitus Neuromodulator"

drewcon — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 21:21:28 +0000

Same exact story for me.

Audiologist suggested treating it like a rock in your shoe. At the time seemed like impossible advice but now I just live with it and it’s 100% fine.

Also the idea that it is actually made worse by anxiety was a game changer for me. Literally, “don’t worry about it” is the exact right advice.

New comment by drewcon in "Pre-record your demos"

drewcon — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 23:33:42 +0000

Live is also a massive time waster/cost.

Apple can pull it off, but if you’re at a mid market tech company you just sunk like weeks people’s time into choreographing a live movie. Super stressful time sync.

New comment by drewcon in "What happens when housing prices go down?"

drewcon — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 13:31:19 +0000

Austin. They’ve built more and prices have declined.

New comment by drewcon in "The ‘white-collar bloodbath’ is all part of the AI hype machine"

drewcon — Sat, 31 May 2025 20:32:57 +0000

5 years ago commercial image gen produced hallucinatory dream like blobs.

2 years ago it was cool but unreliable.

Today I just did an entire “photo shoot” in Midjourney.

New comment by drewcon in "The ‘white-collar bloodbath’ is all part of the AI hype machine"

drewcon — Fri, 30 May 2025 15:24:37 +0000

Humans are not familiar with exponential change so they have almost no ability to manage through exponential change.

Its an apt comparison. The criticisms in the cnn article are already out date in many instances.

New comment by drewcon in "Issues with Color Spaces and Perceptual Brightness"

drewcon — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 11:58:21 +0000

Came here to say that. Seems to solve the problem around uniformity and also chroma is basically “gray” he’s talking about.

New comment by drewcon in "Lead drinking-water pipes must be replaced nationwide, EPA says"

drewcon — Tue, 08 Oct 2024 20:20:45 +0000

Yeah, I can't believe this has to be said.

New comment by drewcon in "Posts about Spartan Mosquito"

drewcon — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 11:19:47 +0000

This feels like a pretty solid Netflix limited series.

New comment by drewcon in "Thoughts on the New iOS Control Centre"

drewcon — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 04:18:28 +0000

I literally went through this exact thought process with new control center today. Absolute nightmare.

New comment by drewcon in "Some people with insomnia think they're awake when they're asleep"

drewcon — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 18:00:52 +0000

Sample size of 1.

A disc herniation caused me pain all night until it eventually destroyed my circadian rhythm. Even after it healed and the pain went away I had terrible sleep disruption. Up every 90 minutes, couldn't fall asleep until 4 am, waking up at 4 am. The works. Going on a few months.

Then I found sleep restriction.

First two weeks were brutal, but then biology takes over. And just like that, in a couple weeks, you rebuild you ability to fall asleep naturally and you're back to normal.

And in retrospect, this is exactly the approach we took to sleep training our young children. I swear by it.

New comment by drewcon in "The AI Revolution Is Already Losing Steam"

drewcon — Sat, 01 Jun 2024 11:54:13 +0000

This is such an important point.

Finance world looks at the consumer benefit as an interesting feature of the investment opportunity, while the technology world looks at the investment opportunity as an interesting feature of the technology change and consumer benefit.

The two communities will talk right past each other like they’re speaking different languages.

New comment by drewcon in "Nitrogen dioxide exposure due to gas and propane combustion by U.S. stoves"

drewcon — Sun, 19 May 2024 16:15:39 +0000

I couldn’t see I’d they reported cfm.

I have a 1200 cfm good and there is no chance anything below has any chance of escaping.

New comment by drewcon in "Almost a quarter of kids aged 5-7 have smartphones"

drewcon — Sat, 18 May 2024 20:02:36 +0000

Pretty sure we can do that right now.

New comment by drewcon in "Metabolism of autism reveals developmental origins"

drewcon — Sat, 11 May 2024 17:07:32 +0000

My only and immediate reaction as well.

New comment by drewcon in "New iPad Pro with M4 chip and Apple Pencil Pro"

drewcon — Tue, 07 May 2024 15:38:06 +0000

I would buy this JUST for the camera being in a place that makes face unlock not fail 99% of the time because I'm covering the camera with my thumb.

New comment by drewcon in "H5N1 prevalence in milk suggest US bird flu outbreak in cows is widespread"

drewcon — Sat, 27 Apr 2024 11:05:56 +0000

Ok now I’m sure.

No live virus.

https://www.fda.gov/food/alerts-advisories-safety-informatio...

New comment by drewcon in "H5N1 prevalence in milk suggest US bird flu outbreak in cows is widespread"

drewcon — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 17:00:50 +0000

Yes, but that's just an opportunistic infection of cow flavored H5N1. It's not a new strain that will transmit human to human.

With pigs...the risk is a mutation occurs within a pig that then transmits to humans that allows humans can transmit to other humans.

New comment by drewcon in "H5N1 prevalence in milk suggest US bird flu outbreak in cows is widespread"

drewcon — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 13:32:38 +0000

Yes.

New comment by drewcon in "H5N1 prevalence in milk suggest US bird flu outbreak in cows is widespread"

drewcon — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 12:32:32 +0000

Hear me out…

New comment by drewcon in "H5N1 prevalence in milk suggest US bird flu outbreak in cows is widespread"

drewcon — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 12:31:33 +0000

We saw this movie before in the 70s. “The population bomb” etc. All that Malthusian drivel assumed a static state when humanity is anything but.

You are discounting civilizations ability to adapt and invent by an absolutely incredible margin that is not supported by our own history of human events.