My son's audiologist is (of course) quite bearish on this whole prospect. Her response was to ask who is going to do the audiogram programming for the airpods.
I imagine this is probably something that could be automated away, though.
I feel like that's letting perfect be in the way of better.
Are airpods the best hearing aid? no, but they cost 1/5 the cost from what I'm seeing for 'cheap' professionally fit & programmed hearing aids which opens it up to a lot of people who otherwise might be struggling to interact with the world.
Yep. They're also a hearing aid that isn't conspicuously a hearing aid (i.e. "I'm not hard of hearing, I was just listening to some music earlier and haven't taken them out"). For younger users who might feel self-conscious about using a hearing aid, that's a big plus.
> I imagine this is probably something that could be automated away, though.
Even if it isn't, the audio programming capability can likely be added to the software completely eliminating hardware costs for anyone who already owns Airpods.
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he already said they use 3p services "like these" now it's just a matter of playing with words so they decide how much of your data and meta data is fair game
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My VoIP provider supports SMS, and exposes an API. The community-made app wasn't performant enough, so I cobbled together my own interface in a couple evenings. Then one day some dependencies shifted and it wouldn't start on the latest Node :\ Oh well.
That's a little weird for a bag designed to hold biodegradable products... have you tried other brands?
I buy mine from Costco and they easily last 2-3 days (the amount of time it usually takes for the pail inside my house to fill up). I take care not to dump wet items in, though not exhaustively so, e.g. coffee grounds are OK, sauce and liquids go down the drain.
At least this is done under the guise of improving mental health for children (or at the very least aiming towards easing the financial burden of dealing with the aftermath of such).
There's a lot more to be pissed off about, like the OTPP pissing away $95MM on FTX.
> "Just take the phones away," said Gillian Henderson.
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>"I don't think we need to sue anybody, that seems like a long, expensive process. Just take away their phones in class and give them back to them when they need them."
Tried, and failed. Even before these social media apps, school boards back in ~2006 (!!) already attempted to enact these bans.
They failed. Teachers don't want an additional item to enforce, and students are FANTASTIC at hiding them. Ask any millennial what it was like typing T9. We can probably still do it without looking.
Yes, the problem is the lack of willingness on the part of school districts to enforce discipline (perhaps compounded by the fact that public schools are often hamstrung by policy in this way), and likely a similar failure on the part of parents.
Troublesome behavior in schoolchildren follow the power law strongly, where a single-digit percentage of kids are responsible for >90% of classroom disruptions. School districts should be empowered to ensure that the kids who are there to learn are able to do so.
A fair number of parents throw a HUGE fit over phone confiscation, no matter how it’s communicated. And count of parents concerned by a policy doesn’t always determine whose voices are heard in school districts—free time is a factor. These sorts always seem to have lots of free time…
Squeaky wheel gets the grease. Parents who get nasty enough eventually break down the level of caring by the administrators… it weight of cost of pursuing an action. Not dissimilar to working the refs.
I see, I remember that being a similar situation in my school. But in my experience it was good enough for 90% of the kids to stop using their phones. Cause most ppl’s parents were too busy working or sided with the school at the time
Most public school teachers I've interacted with are apathetic powerless bureaucrats. My experience in private school is different. We had corporal punishment and other severe punishments there, and teachers actually had control of their classrooms and could teach effectively.
My point isn't that teachers are to blame. I understand that the issue is systemic and requires support of the school, parents, and teachers. I just disagree that controlling the classroom is "yet another thing" for a teacher to worry about, when it is literally priority #1.
This may be an unpopular opinion in today's world, but if you can't effectively apply and enforce reasonable guardrails for the safety of the generation of kids you are helping to raise, then you are the problem. Who are the adults here, the corporations?
> This may be an unpopular opinion in today's world
Kids were swapping porn mags, smoking cigarettes and pot in the 70s and drinking underage back in the 30s. What "yesterday's world" are you talking about here?
The history of discipline in public education shows that the engagement of parents of teachers has changed drastically over time. Some kids doing bad things sometimes throughout history doesn't indicate otherwise.
Honestly i feel like those (except cigs) might be more healthy than phones. Those infractions you are talking about weren't happening 24/7 but in rare circumstances. All of them are forms of addiction.
So you manually search for and download videos, manually curate your collection (including somewhat frequently clearing out space for new things), and manually keep track of what episode you're on in what show? That really does not work just as well.
I imagine this is probably something that could be automated away, though.
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