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dgarrett commented on The science of "Zoom fatigue"   bigthink.com/business/not... · Posted by u/PaulHoule
giraffe_lady · 10 months ago
A couple jobs ago (pre-pandemic) I was at a remote company that put some effort into 1 & 2 that I've become big proponents of.

Allocate $300 per person to get everyone a podcaster mic and a pair of open backed headphones to plug into it as a monitor so you hear your own voice through your headphones. It removes the feeling that you need to speak loudly to be heard, which is a lot of the fatigue.

And if both parties are using this setup, it greatly reduces the "only one person can speak at a time" feeling, allowing you to use more natural vocal interactions without feeling like you're interrupting.

Together it makes a huge difference. I have audio processing and sensory problems and used to be so drained after a 40 minute zoom meeting. With this setup I can spend 4 hours a day pair programming and be appropriately tired but not exhausted.

Your 3-4 and large meetings with executives screaming into their laptops from coworking spaces I have no solutions for however.

dgarrett · 10 months ago
I know it's not exactly the point, but would you mind sharing what specific mic and headphones you went with for this? It can help to get a sense of what to look for to create a similar setup.
dgarrett commented on Apple Watch sleep apnea detection gets FDA approval   techcrunch.com/2024/09/16... · Posted by u/brandonb
swyx · a year ago
> The feature, announced at last week’s iPhone 16 event, will arrive as part of the imminent watchOS 11 release.

how exactly was Apple able to preannounce approval for this before the, yknow, approval?

like exactly no other agencies work this way, precommiting them to a decision they havent formally taken, even if informally it was already taken they would frown very strongly on leaking their stuff

dgarrett · a year ago
The announcement said that the feature was pending FDA approval.
dgarrett commented on From RSS to My Kindle   olano.dev/blog/from-rss-t... · Posted by u/alastairr
sriacha · a year ago
I'm using Singlefile firefox extension on computer and phone to save article to html. Then it gets synced to kobo via syncthing (through koreader). Works pretty well.
dgarrett · a year ago
Interesting, I've never thought of running syncthing behind koreader. Do you use any particular plugin like [this](https://github.com/jasonchoimtt/koreader-syncthing)?

How do you configure wifi connectivity in koreader to make this useful? koreader seems to prefer keeping wifi off unless you do an action that needs the internet. Do you leave wifi on, or just periodically turn it on manually to sync?

dgarrett commented on How to Insure Your Money When You’re Banking over $250K (2022)   nerdwallet.com/article/ba... · Posted by u/O__________O
baq · 2 years ago
If you’re a startup founder working on your tech 120h/week you don’t want to think about your money if you already have it.

I see this event as a black swan for startups: some will be wiped out like dinosaurs 65M years ago with their only fault being not aware of the meteor risk. Deal templates will get amended and the next batches will go on as before.

Besides I’ll be very surprised if SVB isn’t called JPM by 9 am Monday.

dgarrett · 2 years ago
> Besides I’ll be very surprised if SVB isn’t called JPM by 9 am Monday.

It will be called the Deposit Insurance National Bank of Santa Clara (DINB) on Monday. https://www.fdic.gov/resources/resolutions/bank-failures/fai...

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dgarrett commented on Tech stocks wipeout: Engineer's $400K comp is now $180K   twitter.com/Noahpinion/st... · Posted by u/donsupreme
Khelavaster · 3 years ago
Aren't most stock compensations for tech workers done in dollar-valued equivalent at the time of vestment?
dgarrett · 3 years ago
Nope, the valuation happens at the time of grant.

So you are granted a number of shares valued at $X. Then you can’t sell those shares until they vest, by which time they may have gained or lost value.

dgarrett commented on EpubPress, turn web content into ebooks   epub.press... · Posted by u/Dangeranger
blondin · 3 years ago
this looks useful! will definitely give it a try.

for those who made that decision recently, what ebook reader did you get? i am quite torn between: kindle, i-pad, and e-ink devices (remarkable 2, boox note air 2, kobo elipsa, quaderno.)

i heard e-inks are good on your eyes, which is always good. kindles would not support uploading your own PDFs or taking notes on them. the quaderno looks fantastic but quite big (i like a book-sized device). the remarkable 2 wants you to subscribe to services...

so, have you got one of these recently? which one?

dgarrett · 3 years ago
If you're the kind of person who likes the ability to tweak your environment and get things set up just right for you, I'd recommend getting a Kobo and putting KOReader[1] on it. It has the classic OSS problem of bad defaults, but it's very flexible and can be a uniquely nice experience once you get it configured in a way you like. It's mostly written in Lua and has responsive maintainers, so if you're a developer you can extend it even further.

It has great PDF support, including good reflow and note taking support (highlights and text notes). And export support to text/json/html/Readwise.io for those notes.

It also has the best UI I've seen to visualize the structure of a book you're reading.[2]

The biggest downside is that you have to do more file management of your ebooks, since it isn't hooked into a nice cloud like Kindle. I use Calibre for this, and set up an OPDS server for some basic cloud downloading.

[1] https://koreader.rocks/

[2] Book Map and Page Browser: https://github.com/koreader/koreader/releases/tag/v2022.01

dgarrett commented on Taking Flight Without a Smart Phone   devtails.xyz/taking-fligh... · Posted by u/devtailz
Wowfunhappy · 3 years ago
A half-measure I've considered is dropping my iPhone in favor of (only) a cellular Apple Watch. This would allow me to call Uber, check my email, and do most of the other things expected by modern society, but harder to loose hours to the device.
dgarrett · 3 years ago
Unfortunately Uber recently dropped support for their Apple Watch app.
dgarrett commented on AMD Zen microarchitecture and Intel's Ocean Cove patent   twitter.com/Underfox3/sta... · Posted by u/Parseus
xpuente · 3 years ago
dgarrett · 3 years ago
That’s pretty standard text in tech patent.

What exactly would it mean to file a patent “as a joke?”

u/dgarrett

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