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Comment · 10 years ago
Thanks for tip - I'll ask my doctor about it.

Btw, I've already tried some noise generators for Android and I've observed strange effect - I have ringing only in the left ear so I used only one ear bud with the generator. Then when I turned it off, it induced noise in the other ear. It was like the brain was generating signal to compensate for the external noise in the left ear and when the noise generator was turned off, the spurious signal in the right ear became hearable. Fortunately this effect was only temporal.

Comment · 10 years ago
I have it 24/7, nothing seems to help. It can be only masked by external noise. Alcohol doesn't help me to get temporal relief - it's even worse, louder.

But by far the worst consequence of tinnitus and the real problem (at least for me) is disturbance of sleep. At first I couldn't fall asleep - because of the noise which manifests itself most strongly in silent environment. So I was lying in bed for a few hours before falling asleep (now I got accustomed so I can fall asleep faster). But even worse is that the noise wakes me up after like 4-5 hours. That means I'm completely exhausted all day, because I need 7-8 hours of sleep to feel refreshed. I tried Zolpidem, which can get me 6 hours of sleep, but its effect wears off rapidly if taken for a few consecutive nights. Now I take Mirtazapine, which works better. Also it helped me to take Magnesium supplements.

Comment · 10 years ago
My tinnitus started with local anesthesia given by dentist. It caused spasm in jaw muscle which I had for almost a month - and as a side effect there was a tinnitus in left ear. The spasm eventually disappeared, but tinnitus never did. It's been 2 years now and by now I've realized that I'll probably never ever enjoy silence again. So let it be a warning what banal anesthesia can cause…
Comment · 10 years ago
Can prejudice be renamed to "statistical assessments"? :)
Comment · 10 years ago
Yes, but that is denotation of inhabitants, the same way Pšonci is for Poles :)
Comment · 11 years ago
There's barely anyone cheering even for "Lewiz Hamiltononbot". In current F1 the pilot is merely a ballast - the result is basically predetermined by technology.

Also there's no need to use "super fast human lap" - you can compute optimal lap, it's been done. The challenge will be to design AI to beat your opponents - then it gets interesting.

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Please can someone elaborate on claim: "… is pretty simple to convert into remote code execution"? Especially the "pretty simple" bit.
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Yes, thanks for correction.
Comment · 11 years ago
Btw, does PGP support triple wrapping to prevent surreptitious forwarding? (S/MIME does - https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2634.txt)

I really don't understand why it has been chosen over S/MIME. Maybe they gave the money to that german guy who wrote it and now they don't want them to be completely wasted :)

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Could have abstract interpretation (http://www.astree.ens.fr/) or some other formal method prevented it?

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