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- Comment on How can I improve my handwriting? 6 days ago:
My handwriting isn’t very good, and I recently finished university. I avoided handwriting any time I could by typing things out and printing them off as needed, pretty much the only time I had to submit handwritten work was on exams, and for those I mostly just wrote a little slower than I usually would to make it a little neater (enough to be legible by others if they make some effort).
I never experienced exams I did at the university I went to (in the US) being marked off because they couldn’t read it, and I think the TAs that did most of the grading (students from higher years or graduate students) probably aren’t mean enough to take off points from a fellow student just for “bad handwriting.” Whoever was grading my exams was probably annoyed at having to read my writing, but I didn’t really encounter any big problems.
- Comment on What is the absolute max level of ear protection you can get? 3 weeks ago:
It’s because active noise cancelling is bad at cancelling sudden sounds, so many types of noise people want to protect against (gunshots, metal clanging at a construction site) would be poorly attenuated by current active noise cancellation technology. This is a not really a physics issue, just an active noise cancellation technology issue. Fundamentally active noise cancellation can and does reduce sound pressure, because the speaker basically “pushes against” the incoming pressure waves to flatten them out.
- Comment on What is the absolute max level of ear protection you can get? 3 weeks ago:
Do you know what the rated NRR is?
- Comment on What is the absolute max level of ear protection you can get? 3 weeks ago:
Active noise cancelling does reduce the actual sound pressure (that’s the only way volume can be reduced). See for example: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hearing_protection_device#E….
- Comment on What is the absolute max level of ear protection you can get? 3 weeks ago:
I was actually wondering about this recently and I started thinking about how loud of sounds people working on the deck of an aircraft carrier would be exposed to. I found this interesting article about improving the hearing protection for them, because it turns out even for people who actually use both forms like they are supposed to (most of the people in the jobs exposed to the loudest sounds do, it would likely still be at the pain level for them if they only wore one so they have good motivation) it still isn’t enough for a full workday of exposure.
Here’s the link: apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA455113.pdf. The exposure is something like 145-155 dB. They say a final checker will get to the safe limit in only a few takeoffs, and that assumes that they can recover in a below 84 dB environment when they aren’t working, which apparently also doesn’t happen. It seems like it isn’t really a solved problem of how to protect people being exposed to this kind of sound level.
- Comment on What is the Anti Commercial-Al license and why do people keep adding it to their comments? 1 month ago:
Yes but the default state is that you have copyright over your posts/comments, and by sending them to your Lemmy server you are giving them some license to at least distribute the content to others (most services specify what license you are giving them in the ToS, which is where they would say that you are licensing them to sell you shit to AI companies). In theory by specifying the CC-SA-NC license or whatever that should be the license unless your Lemmy instance has some ToS terms that specifically say you’re granting additional privileges to someone by posting.
Whether AI companies actually care (they don’t) is a different story, but if eventually they actually have to follow copyright laws like everyone else then it could matter.
- Comment on What is the Anti Commercial-Al license and why do people keep adding it to their comments? 1 month ago:
What is the website ToS for different Lemmy instances, and does it really permit commercial use in AI?
- Comment on If presidential immunity is absolute.. 1 month ago:
NSA is civilian, they work closely with CSS which is the military side. The determining factor for civilian vs military is whether the people working there are enlisted soldiers/commissioned officers or civilians who just get hired like other jobs.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
You can also order the forms (they come with instructions) to be sent to you by mail from the IRS for free. See www.irs.gov/…/forms-and-publications-by-us-mail.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
That would be a state of rampant inflation, so the fed would hike interest rates to slow it down.
That would discourage people from spending money (harder to borrow and the interest encourages people to leave their money in savings), which decreases demand and thus prices (loosely speaking).
- Comment on Toyota agrees to biggest wage hike in 25 years in sign of Japan Inc's big pay bump 3 months ago:
“Japan Inc”? Is this just a collective term for Japanese industry?