> That (urban-legend-coded, totally-trippy-if-you're-fifteen-years-old) app introduced me to "Binaural Beats" - where you play two different tones in each of a person's ears, and the brain scrambles the different frequencies into a single frequency. As I understand it, this is meant to induce specific brainwaves in the listener, which replicate states like "deep focus" or "half-asleep" or "meditating". I've not decided personally if this is real science, or new-age pseudoscientific nonsense. It's probably somewhere between the two.
HN posts often include some niche topic. That's kind of why I come here, to see what people are nerding out on. Easy enough to google what it is.
_Binaural beats are auditory illusions created by playing two slightly different frequencies in each ear, which your brain perceives as a single, pulsating third tone. They are popular tools for potentially altering brainwave activity - like promoting focus, deep relaxation, or sleep_
Imagine for a second if that were actually the case. Most rules are determined by physics, science, data, or something tangible. Food safety, aviation, electrical codes, even sports rules are based on math and statistics.
It’s bad because it’s subjective. It’s a liability to host anything there now - their opinion of your product category could shift tomorrow… oh wait that already happened
If you've never seen neon up close, plasma is such an incredible light source. It's like the light is just floating being emitted from empty space. I took a neon workshop a few years ago, and it became clear why people are still willing to painstakingly make these signs - there is really nothing comparable to them, they're like magic
Yeah I know. I misunderstood the 12-15hr battery life comment. They're saying the battery lasts for 12-15hrs *of recording*. Very different statements.
It feels as if you're attempting to correct something I said without saying it. Whether we're discussing 1000x continuous recordings or 1000x individual recordings, it's still off by three orders of magnitude