In hammers, hickory is the best.
A Vaughn ( spelling? ) California Framer, with hickory handle, is THE framing hammer, and I never want to hear about Estwing steel-shaft hammers again.
The shock-absorption in the hickory is wonderful.
( I’ve never worked as a framer, but I have worked a few years as the grunt-guy on construction sites, and have tried many different tools, trying to find the ones that work properly for years )
The only question is whether the springiness of hickory would make it prone to falling-off the file quicker than rock-maple would…
Mind you, humidity expansion/contraction would probably be a factor in that, so maybe sealing the stuff, soaking it in varnish or something?
Anyways, it’s an experiment I’d do, and if the hickory doesn’t work-out, then try rock maple, see?
There is a “convenient” presumption in the article, and in what I’m replying-to:
That audio is uploaded to big-tech, after someone speaks near their phone…
Why TF would they need to do that, if they can cram a “hey google” audio-to-logic routine into mere kilobytes, within their neuro-DSP??
The Active Listening system mentioned in the article needs to:
have the onboard ai listen for voices,
differentiate significant items ( for whatever values of “significance” they want to manipulate )
upload … what, a YAML file, … of spoken keywords, & maybe an identification of if it was the owner or not who spoke them?
Something like that…
The “we aren’t seeing audio being uploaded” is a fucking red-herring, & any competent geek nowadays, who understands that the neuro-DSP chips in our phones can accomplish stupidly capable term-recognition on near-zero code, when in active-sleep ( or whatever that energy-state is called, screen off, but things still running in the background ), and that’s all they need.
You know how in Google AdWords you pay for specific keywords?
Guess what: the same system could easily be implimented within that subsystem which says “Sorry, the microphone is turned off”, when you say “Hey Google” after turning off the mic…
it’s ALWAYS listening, it uses tiny power, & when it matches, then it activates other subsystems…
Selling that ads can be show on phones/tablets that someone recently spoke a keyword for, would be idiot-simple for Google or Apple to impliment, & profitable-as-hell to boot.
IF the “Hey Google” audio prompt can work in a specific energy-configuration of a device, THEN this could too, as it’s the same subsystem.
https://github.com/KoljaB/RealtimeSTT
as an example of something related to what I’m talking about, but not identical…