People suffering from tinnitus constantly hear high-pitched sounds. For a minority of them the sound is really present (produced e.g. by the blood in the vessels near the ear), but for most of them it is an illusion produced by their brain. The latter category have no means to prove someone else they are really hearing the sound.
Ok, but the phrasing "If someone says they can hear a high-pitched noise that you can't" really doesn't sound like the OP is referring to (constant) tinnitus, instead of an ability.
This is horrible. As someone who started using a PC in the early nineties, GMail's Basic HTML view was the only way to get a decent information density without wasting 75% of the screen real estate with whitespace. But I was expecting this move sooner or later -- time to return to an external application as if it were year 2000, I suppose.
Could "t", "up", "up" be a workaround? Syria (the name in between) is not the stablest state in the world but its name is more than 2000 years old so it shouldn't change anytime soon.
The quote seems the dark version of the ending of the novel “The Difference Engine” by Gibson and Sterling, where the Engine, after gaining sentience, goes on repeating variations of “I am!”.
In Germany any website is required to have a contact e-mail with a human at the other side.
I used to see this as an example of German overregulation, but I changed my mind when I could use it to recover my account at a big social network. In any other nation I would have lost my account for good.
Probably a fake. I visit MarketWatch a couple of times a week and they always feature on the front page a letter of someone in a unusual financial situation who has taken, or is planning, questionable decisions about their money. The ghost writer behind this is quite good, I have to admit.
This reads/feels like an AITA thread on reddit. I used to enjoy the MarketWatch questions until I reached a tipping point where I believed they were all fake. Sigh.
The list cannot obviously contain everything, yet I think the switch from CRTs to LCD monitors should have been mentioned.
My eyes used to itch when I watched a CRT for more than a couple of hours, if better technologies didn't become available I would have probably not chosen a career in IT.
Magnus Carlsen, the most dominating chess player since Kasparov, has many times sabotaged the post-game interviews. The latest incident occurred just this week
It should however be added that Carlsen is aware that a leading sportsman should also be a showman, and he started many initiatives to contribute to popularity and diffusion of the game.
Bach's music greatly appeals to me as a mathematician because of the sense of universal harmony it irradiates. Many of JSB's compositions are based on precise constraints (symmetries, translations). I think many technical people can somehow perceive the schemes underlying the music, even if they are not musically trained enough to identify them consciously. This is at least how I explain my love for Baroque music.
I found it surprising nobody yet mentioned the “Gödel, Escher, Bach” book by Douglas Hofstadter. Not sure how popular the work is today, but some years ago it was really famous.
Yeah, thanks for mentioning GEB, it was really the original inspiration for my previous question.
I read the book years ago, and loved it. Learning about Gödel's incompleteness theorems had already my blown my mind; Escher already was, and still is, my favorite visual artist. I remember well, at a general level, the book's explanations of counterpoint, constraints, and logic in Bach's compositions. In stark contrast to the rest of the book's content, that was all somewhat academic since the book didn't play any music.
Ever since reading the book, it has greatly saddened me to think about how much enjoyment I get from the work of Gödel and Escher, and that I'm missing out on the third component of Hofstadter's holy trinity of self-reference.
