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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • This already exists if you know what to look for, and are willing to dive into a technical solution.

    The bleep tone is usually a 1kHz sine wave (according to wikipedia). We can simply create a band pass filter that removes all 1kHz tones from the audio output of windows.

    This does have side effects. Most notably that human speach, especially some female voices, are around this 1kHz frequency too. Since the tone was designed to mask voices, this makes sense. So I’m not sure if the side effects are worth it, but you can certainly try.

    Creating such a filter on live audio can be done with something like this: https://github.com/AndreasArvidsson/WinDSP

    Never tried it before myself, but the description matches exactly what you would need. You will want a PEQ filter with a high Q and significant negative gain around the 1000Hz frequency. I’m not an audio engineer, so I have no idea what values would work well. But if you want to play with those: a higher Q creates a narrower band around the 1000 to filter out.




  • I call this effect borrowing energy from the future.

    I used to drink around 3 big mugs of coffee a day. Then I just stopped, cold turkey. Took a few months to get adjusted. But what surprised me, is that ALL tolerance to caffeine is gone. If I drink a cup of black tea, I will feel more focussed for a few hours, and less focussed a day or two afterwards.

    I now only drink caffeine strategically. If I think todays problems are more important than the next two days problems, I drink some black tea or a cup of coffee. Otherwise I stick to decaf coffee, which fills the habit of drinking coffee perfectly.