Price is definitely important, but so is traction. If stopping distance increases because eco materials grip less, that would be a concern.

My criteria are performance results, wear rating, and price.

Can confirm. Neighbors house had an attic fire with knob & tube wiring.

… Just like the stuff still in my place today. Eek! Landlord won’t upgrade unless there is a problem. In my house, the breakers are all 20amp and that’s a lot to run on, best guess, 70 year old wires.

Oh, and do not assume anything is wired as expected. Test after. I’ve found a couple plugs “upgraded” to 3-prong by jumping the load and ground together. That made for a fun firework show when my metal fan touched something metal. Even the landlord was impressed by that stupidity.

A cheaper solution is to take a copper wire and connect the ground screw of the socket to a water pipe. It does the job and is better than nothing.

Preschool was on a hill next to a cemetery. (Really creepy now that I think about it) Elementary was next to orchards, middle school by a post office and community center, high school had more traffic nearby but still never a distraction.

I don’t live there anymore, more big city vibes, but it’s all background sound.

Of sounds that stand out right now, we have airplanes and sirens as the distractions. Car noise is insignificant.

Swing and a miss. No biggie.

Grew up off the beaten path with redwoods and a creek in the backyard.

As a seasoned sound engineer, yes.

But the scale is logarithmic so take “half of Barcelona’s population is exposed to noise levels of 65db”, subtract 3.5 from the chart above, and you get…

A conversation.

I did take precautions when I worked with a rock band monitoring the house. 25k watts can make a lot of sound pressure and 3db, along with exposure limits, were very important to keep an eye on.

Ahhh man, you guys are going to make me take a few hours to shred this article. Alrighty. cracks knuckles

This article uses 3 definitions of noise:

• Noise: general background sound measured in db. not necessarily bad.
• Noise pollution: Defined as unwanted (in this case all background noise) or disturbing sounds
• Noise fluctuations: Sudden sounds tied to distracted behavior. This is the big important one and least talked about.

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First of all, the link to “hurt children’s brains” as mentioned in the title is hyperbole; they are talking about distraction in the majority of the article. Yes, noise distracting. How much noise?

The World Health Organization recommends noise levels do not exceed 35 decibels in classrooms.

record scratch

35db?

Yeah, so basically everything. A distinguished fart for example.

Noise-induced hearing loss occurs after prolonged exposure to high levels of noise, exceeding 85 decibels.

The exposure time for hearing loss at 85db is 8 hours. That is a lot of continuous noise. I don’t record 85db INSIDE my old rickety car, let alone a classroom in residential zone 200’ away.

I think there is a dangerous disconnect between what this article calls cognitive harm and distraction. They are not interchangeable. It would make sense distracted children score lower on tests than non-distracted peers, but I wouldn’t call that harm. As someone with ADD, I take great offense in likening the two. In fact, if this article were rewritten as “traffic noise distraction for students” it would be MUCH more believable.

children between 5-11 years of age are especially vulnerable to noise if they have lower selective attention – meaning, the ability to maintain focus and block out unwanted distraction.

I was diagnosed when I kept looking at a air vent every time the building’s heater fan kicked in. Traffic was never a problem. Why? Because traffic sound becomes white noise. White noise actually helped me and many in my position focus. What did stand out were what the article calls “sudden fluctuations”

The researchers found that sudden fluctuations of noise […] were more likely to distract children, and cause them to miss important information, even at a lower than average noise level.

Congrats! You discovered ADD!

This article is filled with so many qualifiers “may”, “could”, “suggests”, “potentially” to vaguely link real science to assumptions. They want a connection that doesn’t exist; these words obfuscate libel. Ignore anything with any of these for it’s junk.

the Transit Authority installed rubber pads on the tracks to reduce noise, and the Board of Education equipped classrooms with sound-absorbing materials to create a better learning environment.

Sounds like these worked. The sound absorbing is probably a great way to go. Double pane windows help a ton too. Try noise canceling headphones as well!

noise exposure has also been associated with a greater diabetes risk

I actually found this sort of interesting and would like to know more about it, particularly a % increase, but it was paywalled. It could be minuscule for all I know.

The creation of the San Antoni superblock has lowered average daytime noise levels by 3.5 decibels

See decibel graphic above. Commence slow clap and thumbs up on their cough significance.

Haha thanks a lot! I’m going to stay up here with the ground, birds, and air ifyoudontmind.

Haha! That is adorable!

I, too, watch Always Sunny in Philadelphia.

Also grew up with a solid fear of drain pipes as a kid. That crab v pipe video ages ago… shudder

I use kimai.

It’s grown over the past few years and lots of bugs squished. Could use a little developer help regarding custom invoice templates, but I like the direction it’s headed.

There is a convenient app that works pretty well. I think it’s a couple bucks now, but nothing outrageous.

Why not dockerize Foundry and run all on the Synology?

Though I did convert my home assistant docker to HAOS on a Pi for extra features way back in the day. Not sure you have to now.

Naa, I’ll take my …

[$52M ÷ 30 Billion]

… $0.0017 check please. Don’t forget postage.

Kif! We have a conundrum!

Shhh! Nobody tell them about “inside out.”

Oh nice! I knew hot swapping was supported on many other devices but not PCIe itself. Feels wrong to rip a card out while the system is powered up.

Nope. I actually did that unintentionally on a PC I built. I only used one power wire when the GPU needed 2 so it couldn’t use all the power it needed when running 100%. My understanding was PCI doesn’t support disconnecting devices so the system expects all components it starts up with to be available all the time. Lose one and the system goes down.

Could easily be a “Oh shit! What have I done? Need to check vitals.” situation.

I think what he did was wrong too. But over here we have that pesky innocent until proven guilty thing and I’m not wasting mental load on a hypothetical “What if?” dredged up by an internet stranger.

Just pointing out rape was not mentioned whatsoever in either article nor a charge in court, as that would certainly be reported. You made that up.

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Had to hit the hardware store again due to a defect in product and I passed a bike. Wow! More news at 11!