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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.

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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.

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il y a 2 ansdiscuss

Generally these are only used in test methods, which is fine. I've never seen anyone use them outside that.

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il y a 2 ansdiscuss

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.

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il y a 2 ansdiscuss

Someone failed highschool chemistry. More gas can dissolve in cold water vs hot. The opposite of solids.

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il y a 3 ansdiscuss

Yeah this is standard practise in the UK armed forces/EOD teams. Source: spent time with No. 5131 Squadron in Akrotiri.

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il y a 3 ansdiscuss

> 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.

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il y a 3 ansdiscuss

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...

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il y a 3 ansdiscuss

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)

https://awesometoast.com/argh-stop-the-pinterest-results/

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il y a 3 ansdiscuss

During the outbreak of the Ukraine war, this role was taken up by Twitter Spaces.

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il y a 3 ansdiscuss

  Location: Ontario, Canada
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: Android, Kotlin
  Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adam-bennett-4784b327/
  Email: [email protected]
  GitHub: https://github.com/ditn/

Android Engineer looking for a Staff or Lead role, ideally at a more established company but it depends on the problem space. I've worked and lead teams at fintech startups and most recently at Twitter 1.0, and I'm recognised as a Google Developer Expert in the industry.

Looking for new challenges and a chance to grow - I'm at my best when under some pressure and surrounded by smart people.

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