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I've had tinnitus that acts like that for 20+ years. Maybe you're really lucky and it is your WiFi, but that all sounds like a coincidence rather than a cause. It probably just made you notice it. Were you in a band or anything? Listen to loud music on headphones when you were younger?

I'm really sorry to tell you this, but you've got two choices:

- accept it, you can't fix it

- try and fix it, fail, accept it, you can't fix it

There is no cure for tinnitus. The quicker you get to accepting it, the better your life will be.

Therapy and CBT can help.

Carry on trying to fix it for a few months by.all means, but I'd advise you give yourself a deadline to switch from 'fix it' mode to 'learn to live with it' mode.

By complete coincidence, yesterday my tinnitus went so quiet I thought it had gone. I have a new type of glasses that don't hook behind your ears. "Oh my god, was it my glasses all along?", I thought immediately.

My tinnitus is loud today.

Even after 20 years there's part of me looking for a fix. But it's about how you deal with it, this morning I had a little chuckle at myself, put all thoughts about my tinnitus aside, picked up a book to read and moved on with my life.


This advice is unfortunately spot on. I've tried my fair share. Found a well researched piece on acupuncture. Didn't work. But, they did stick needles in my head which was an experience in itself.

From my several visits to the audiologist, it still seems noise therapy is the most highly regarded therapy.

Get a white noise machine for sleeping. Hands down the best thing for me until I just got used to it always being there.


I absolutely love going to the beach. White noise masks the tinnitus so well I can't even hear it when I self-test. It's the only time I truly get a break from the sizzling and squealing.

True, it isn't likely going to go away. My hearing aids help immensely, but mostly with tolerance, and not occurrence. It is pretty much background noise to me nowadays, although some things can really set it off. It doesn't drive me batty anymore, at least!


I don't really agree. The author cites studies. Some of the problems they talk about they don't need proof as they're obvious, like people writing huge documents where previously they'd create a paragraph.

So far, when Claude pops out a schema it's pretty spot on, iff you've described the problem correctly.

What the article's author seems to be hinting at is that the problem was described incorrectly from day one, and the LLM picked the wrong schema from day one. Because the person making it is not technically literate enough to describe the problem in a way an LLM interpreted correctly.

The hidden BA work a developer usually does was missing from the process.


We don't have dealerships in the UK like the US has.

A true blessing. Ironically the US dealership scheme was hatched as a way to protect consumers...

How does the UK do car sales?

We have a lot of big dealer groups who are not tied to a specific manufacturer. Independent franchisees tied to a single manufacturer are uncommon I believe.

Even within each sub-brand of the group, they often work with different manufacturers.

Though Sytner (the biggest) tend to have single-manufacturer dealerships.

Probably a mix of both on both sides of the pond I imagine?

And there's less rigmarole during the process. Less aggressive sales tactics I believe


In the US the standard thing is to have a car lot that's just a single manufacturer. In a given town there will be a Ford dealer, a Chevy dealer, a Subaru dealer, a Kia dealer, etc.

Often there will be multiple dealers on adjoining lots, owned by the same conglomerate- but they'll maintain some illusion of independence.

I bought a Hyundai recently and the Hyundai dealer was right next to a Volvo dealer and a VW dealer. They're all part of "Sheppard Auto Group" and they share a parking lot, but the buildings are completely disconnected. However when it came time to actually sign the paperwork they led me from the Hyundai dealer to an office in the VW building, because that's where the sales manager who was working that day was. They also share a service department.

However, if I'd wanted to buy a VW though and I went in to the Hyundai building I suspect they would've made me walk over to the VW building and talk to those salespeople, and all my paperwork has the name of the Hyundai dealer on it. The point is you'd never go to "Sam's Car Dealership" and find a Ford parked next to a Honda parked next to a Chevrolet.

Independent used car lots are a free-for-all though.


Yeah, they should be testing for that, right? I think there's a lot of people reading comments like yours and thinking, is this person a paid shill or what?

The earn bucket loads of money, they should be planning for exactly that. And testing for it via load testing every day.

Perhaps you've forgotten the days of GitHub presenting themselves of software engineering thought leaders.


I’ve worked at some very well-endowed organizations. Having money is no guarantee of a particular outcome. There is a lot of money chasing a limited supply of talent. Moreover, distributed systems that were built long ago with certain assumptions can’t be refactored as quickly as the HN populace might believe. The Mythical Man-Month is a popular book for a reason.

> Perhaps you've forgotten the days of GitHub presenting themselves of software engineering thought leaders

Genuinely could use a refresher here.


I am, although I have used nix occasionally.

In Europe C# fills the role of Java.

You're just in an American echo chamber.

Now the number of senior C# engineers in Europe who couldn't fix a broken deploy on IIS or SSL cert problem on a windows server? That is rather high in the windows field too.


Take this with a pinch of slat, but look at the subreddits:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/ 1m Weekly visitors, 19K Weekly contributions

https://www.reddit.com/r/codex/ 372K Weekly visitors, 11K Weekly contributions

Looks like it's 2nd place, but still popular.


It seems to me that you're the one confused?

The mathematical symbol is just a representation of a concept, it's not infinity itself, you've got it backwards.


Why are you writing a vpn multiplexer written in a language you don't use?

You can't review it.

Are you relying on your colleagues to do that, or is this riddled with bugs? Or is it code you're producing for personal use only so it's not worth mentioning as it's not sped your work up, it's just let you write a little play program.


No no no it's speed at all costs. Sure. I'm writing junk but the speed of what I'm doing is *impressive* You don't understand.

the opinions in question are that bash should be enabled by default with no restrictions, that the agent should have access to every file on your machine from the start, and that npm is the only package manager worth supporting. Bold choices.

To save others a click, though the article is worth reading.

He also mentions no subagents by default in pi as well.


oh-my-pi harness fixes many of these, like subagents


It seems to, but then also throws in the kitchen sink and a custom bath.


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