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The demo doesn't work in safari on my mac. It sometimes gets to 2, but on refresh goes back to 1. Actually, got it up to 4 one time. Seems like the claims of "Works in any browser and any server" are overstated.


same. I got it up to 8 by clicking into the address bar and hitting enter. However, doing a refresh instead caused it to reset (the browser didn't send the if-modified-since header so the server didn't do it's little trick and instead started over)


I'm confused. I also "still didn't know it was illegal" after reading the article. What was the crime? Were my parents guilty of this every time I road my bike around the neighborhood as a child? In the street, no less.


does the mic still pick up literally everything though?


That's what I'm wondering. It's impossible to do anything while on a call without the other side complaining that it sounds like I'm banging cutlery on my pots.


That sounds like every vocal-tuned mic ever. Someone's kids could be two rooms away and barely audible to them, but over the mic they are amplified screams. Kitchen stuff, forget about it.


I don't know much about it so let me ask: is this primarily a software or hardware "issue"? I feel like it wasn't really an issue before the Pro's, and I've been using AirPods since 2016. I may just be misremembering things though.

I totally get it, too. When I'm on call with someone and they do kitchen stuff or whatever, I quite literally feel an erratic rage building up and just want to hang up immediately. It sounds so infuriatingly loud, even though the other side may have only put down a glass on the counter or something. It's really bad imo. If this somehow gets fixed, I'll buy a pair at an instant.


It’s a software issue.


If that's your main issue with headphones the pixel buds pro noise cancellation for mic and headphones are both insane. Examples from stress test here

https://www.theverge.com/2022/8/17/23309582/wireless-buds-st...


On the iPhone I turn on voice isolation and 99% of the problem goes away. Have you tried that?


Where is that? I don’t see anything about voice isolation.


It's a setting that AFAICT only shows up in facetime. When I'm in a facetime call, in the control center there's a new "mic mode" tile (next to the also-facetime-only "video effects" tile that toggles portrait mode). In the mic mode panel there's three options "Standard", "Voice Isolation", and "Wide Spectrum".

I use the voice isolation one and people I've talked to say that it's drastically improved the call quality, particularly while I'm walking next to a busy street.

edit: you can see the setting without actually starting a call, just go into the facetime app and hit "New FaceTime". It will show you a blurred front view camera and let you pick a contact to call, but at that moment you can drag the control center down and they'll be there.


It shows up when you’re on most voice calls - I just tested it in Google Meet, and it works in zoom too from past experience.


Yeah so when I start a call, I swipe down from the top right and there's a tile that lets you select the mic mode.

This tile shows up when any calling app is active. So it works for FaceTime or even third party apps like Google Meet. Good luck!


Wow, thanks a ton for this! My friends have been complaining the last few weeks about background noise, hope it gets better now.


It's one of those things hidden in the menu you get when you drag down from the upper right (during a call). I think. I found it once on a video call to my mom, but like the lost city of Atlantis, it seems to have disappeared for me again now that I'm trying to find it again. I hate the iPhone UI, but they work so well most of the time...


It shows up when you’re actively in a voice call, and disappears all other times.


So if I find a WebKit bug in the latest iOS beta, file it with both Apple and WebKit, and get ignored, I should just fuck off? I can't fork it (Apple won't use my fork) and it's unlikely my fix would be complete and accepted for upcoming releases, so I guess you're right. "Fuck off" and let iOS devices crash is my only option.

This is purely hypothetical (e_e)


It would be interesting to see how Covid impacted this.


I really like "Eat This Much". My partner and I have also been trying "Meal Prep Pro" which is a little prettier, a bit more expensive, and mobile only. The "Eat This Much" learning curve is a bit steeper, and it requires configuration, but it meets the "pantry leftovers" functionality you're looking for.

I have no association with "Eat This Much" other than being a customer and a fan.


I switched to Carbon Collective recently. Very happy with their approach and their transparency. A lot of ESGs are greenwashed, so it's nice putting my money somewhere I can actually feel OK about.


TBF, that'd still be a win if it worked for all variants of the flu.


I'm friends with quite a few nurses, primarily travel nurses, and not a single one is considering a change in career that I am aware of. Simply an anecdotal counterpoint and nothing more.


Travel nurses are compensated quite a bit more in my understanding. And the travel aspect means they can leave the more toxic locations more easily.


They're paid a shit ton more. And because of that, more nurses are quitting to do the travel thing, which worsens the shortage and increases demand for travel nurses ;-) never seen an industry fuck itself over so bad. That's really the issue - healthcare has become an industry, not a profession.


It's really amazing to see travel nurses come back to work at a place they just left. They are now doing the same job as before, are getting paid almost twice as much with better schedules and are working next to people that they know and are friends with.

It's honestly surprising that more haven't taken the jump and is really shocking that hospitals aren't doing more to retain critical staff.


Its hilarious that nursing shares this problem with the tech industry and probably with most other industries. Every company is extremely allergic to giving raises and is happy to let their workforce churn constantly. You would think they believe that experience has no value.

But on the hiring side, experience is one of the most widely accepted signals of value.


The hospitals have been asking Biden to put a stop to it: https://www.npr.org/2022/02/02/1077710203/hospitals-ask-bide...


I can only react with this face: https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/112/480/Opo...

Help me understand this. Make it make sense...

1. Hospitals pay their nurses $X, which is way too low

2. Nurses quit because they're underpaid and overworked

3. Hospitals have a nurse staffing crisis and so pay travel nurses 2 * $X (or more!)

4. Hospitals are in a panic over the cost of travel nurses, yet instead of paying their nurses more to keep them around and eliminate the need for travel nurses, they ask the government to cap the cost of travel nurses

My mind is exploding over the ridiculousness of it.


It sounds nurses just need to be paid more, or travel nurses need to be paid less. Equilibrium is probably somewhere between the two extremes.

Apropos of nothing but why is the knee jerk reaction "we need executive action to fix this staffing problem?"


Why would travel nurses need to be paid less?


If wages equalized, it's unlikely they would all equalize to the top of the range. It's more likely to be somewhere in the top quartile or quintile.


Why would they equalize? I assume there is a premium required for not going back to one’s own home everyday.


As you noted at the beginning of your comment, the issue is the pay to quality of life at work ratio being too low.


AT some point you hit diminishing returns on the pay/QAL ratio.

IF the tradeoff is bad at 200k/yr, it wont be better at 225k/yr or 250k/yr


Then increase the pay even more or increase the quality of life at work.

Instead of $250k, halve the work load somehow and make it two $125k.

If there is no number, then society cannot afford it.

But this is nursing, not trying to find ways around the 2nd law of thermodynamics. If nurses received $300k/year income, then there probably would not be a shortage since the barrier to entry is not that high.

If we really want to get down to the nitty gritty of it, most people cannot afford quality nurse care (or doctors or hospitals). So the question really comes down to how much wealth is society willing to redistribute to those who need it in the form of healthcare?


Totally agree. With lowering wages and cranking out more nurses. I think this is a more sustainable solution.


Sure, but nurses are more like 30-40k/yr. Plenty of room for improvement.


> Sure, but nurses are more like 30-40k/yr. Plenty of room for improvement.

“Nurses” can be used to mean many things (CNAs, LVNs/LPNs, RNs) but this is specifically RNs, who, make much more than that, generally (median $77.6k/yr) https://www.bls.gov/ooh/healthcare/mobile/registered-nurses....


> median $77.6k/yr

Given the amount of school a nurse must have, that’s low.


2 years of school to be an RN, 4 for BSN - it's not a lot of school, it's an average amount of school at most.


The point is that I know nurses that make 200k a year and still complain about the workload. More nurses and better hours is the solution. Meanwhile the trend is to make it more and more difficult to become a nurse and higher and higher for hospitals to have nurses


>>Sure, but nurses are more like 30-40k/yr.

Not even close if you are talking about the USA (and actual nurses, not CNA's or MAs) - starting pay for 2 year RN degrees near me are about 55-65K, and you easily go over 100K in a few years.


The market... finds a way.


While technically true, what we're trying to avoid is forcing the market to find a way that may include an interim period of extremely bad outcomes before correcting itself


A travel nurse means you just have to work across town you dont have to travel out of state, out of country, or to middle of nowhere. And these people are bringing in 5k a week currently. None of them are leaving.


Funny you should mention that… reading all of this, I was thinking of a podcast interview with a nurse who was retiring from hospital work. His primary reason for leaving was being tired of fighting with hospital ownership and administration, and was planning on switching to travel nursing which appears to be more of a "gig" space.

He did consider that a career change, I think in the same sort of way that a computer programmer like (presumably) most of us would consider quitting Google to work on an indie app or videogame development would be a career change.

The larger point is, medical professionals are bailing from the hospital system, which looks pretty busted.


A lot of nurses are becoming travel nurses because they will get paid market rate


I can add another data point. One of my mother's friends works as a travel nurse. I don't envy her lifestyle, but she seems to find that the compensation makes it worth her time.


The other responder said the same thing, but to add, a traveling nurse I’m friends with , in Texas, gets paid 5k a week if he chooses to work and chooses where he wants to work. So again, this is like making a judgment about software development working conditions by using people rest and vesting at FAANG as an example.


The travel nurse market is growing due to supply and demand problems.

The demand for nurses is increasing as people are leaving and there are more from the boomer generation hitting an age where they need more care.

The supply has stayed the same. Schools local to me have not increased output for various reasons (lack of instructors, lack of space in local hospitals where nurses train, etc). The supply is too low.

So, we have a supply and demand problem. Travel nurses get paid a lot more because of this.

The solution is to produce more nurses. Something few are talking about.

One of the local schools, to me, turned away half of applicants because the program isn't increasing capacity.


No, the solution is to pay nurses better. There are already tons of high quality nurses who don’t want to do it anymore because of poor pay in the face of demanding hospitals and patients.


Poor pay? Judging by the nurses I have talked too in big proper hospitals stress and scheduling are their main concerns, not pay.

Obviously higher pay would increase their abuse tolerance, but I think it is only part of the problem and a short term solution since no amount of pay will offset stress problems.

County level nurses seem to have much better work conditions than hospital nurses.


Nurses in outpatient offices haven't seen many of the pay perks related to covid that hospital staff get, even though they are still facing risk.


Strong disagree.

Nurses are generally payed very well. This is a supply problem driven by increasing restrictions on nursing degrees and insurance.

Not enough nurses and high cost leaves hospitals understaffed and nurses overworked, leading to a feedback cycle.


Travel nurses are paid well. Full-time nurses are not, considering the amount of education they need, and the difficulty of their work.


Pay is a problem. I don't disagree with that.

But, before COVID there was already a supply problem. The supply problem has been slowly getting worse for years and then COVID accelerated it. If every nurse came back to working as a nurse who wanted to work there would still be a supply problem.

Supply has not been growing to meet the demand growth for years.


pay, benefits, and hours

I suppose you could just pay people more money to make it worth it but the long hours take a toll in other ways as well and contribute to burnout no matter how much you get paid.


Travel nurses make six figures and get to sample choice cuts from the local Tinder menu every time they take on a new job.


"Stop Venting" doesn't just "work" either. Processing your emotions and letting go of them does. David Hawkins' book, aptly named 'Letting Go,' covers this in detail.


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