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by jerlam 3mo ago
Oura Rings (I don't know about the Index) aren't just like other kinds of jewelry. There are protrusions inside the Ring, just like on other wearables like the Apple Watch, for optical sensors that change how it fits. And these sm
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by jerlam 3mo ago
Often, the homeless programs provide aid to the homeless with food and clothing and health care, not necessarily to make them not homeless. It is much harder and expensive for homeless programs to create shelters or homes. It is also diffic
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by jerlam 3mo ago
Garmin and Pebble also are the watches with custom watch faces. You can change them to serious or silly or incomprehensible. Whenever I look at my Apple Watch, it's a reminder that Apple owns it and requires it to look a certain way.
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by jerlam 3mo ago
I don't use it on my Garmin, because as you said it dramatically lowers battery life, and often shows up as life-threateningly low. It also doesn't do anything with the data, meaning I only see if it I go into the app and click on
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by jerlam 3mo ago
The Oura Ring costs $350 now and it has an optional $6/month subscription. Also, rechargeable does not mean it is infinitely rechargeable. After around four years, the Oura's battery will not hold a charge long enough to be useful
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by jerlam 3mo ago
The EU just backtracked on user replaceable batteries for wearables. https://appleinsider.com/articles/26/07/14/apple-watch-meta-...
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by jerlam 3mo ago
I don't know if I would count durability as one of Pebble's strengths. The Pebble 2's silicone buttons often failed, and the bezel of the Time scratched if you looked at it wrong. There's also the whole thing with the co
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by jerlam 3mo ago
There seem to be a lot of these "reporting irregularities" in the past year or so.
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by jerlam 3mo ago
I think the Dodge Charger EV has a lot of the fake engine noises, both inside and out. Sounds like it was a very important feature. https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a63141971/dodge-charger-da...
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by jerlam 3mo ago
Riding on a wheel you have built from parts is a joyous thing.
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by jerlam 3mo ago
I'd want to know how that 71% compares to other things; like housing, parks, prisons, or factories; to get a general floor of NIMBY-ness. But data centers are easy to hate on. They don't provide a lot of jobs, other than initial c
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by jerlam 3mo ago
SpaceX stock has also dropped below their IPO price. It doesn't change their current financials but it may make it more difficult to raise money in the future.
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by jerlam 3mo ago
Many of the mods make the car worse in everyday environments, outside of a pristine track. After I got into my friend's modded-out car, we had to slow to walking speeds to exit the parking lot because it would bottom out on the curb cu
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by jerlam 3mo ago
I don't know if they can have controls for "specific activity that changes their sleep schedule". In the past few years I went from having relaxed 11AM daily meetings to rigid 8AM meetings, and my sleep has suffered immensely
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by jerlam 3mo ago
> in my experience Americans are Nazis about littering and recycling. America is a really big place. My "progressive" American city has a lot of litter, because there is no money to clean it up or punish litterers. I've be
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by jerlam 3mo ago
Longer range (1000 miles) than a torpedo (50 miles). Much less visible than a cruise missile, the water hides it better than open air.
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by jerlam 3mo ago
Historical data: https://counterpointresearch.com/en/insights/global-smartpho... In general, it seems that Samsung beats Apple every single quarter other than Q4, which is when Apple releases their new phone. The
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by jerlam 3mo ago
Berry Amendment requires US military to buy items manufactured in the US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berry_Amendment
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by jerlam 3mo ago
Funny that you mention the military, as the US military is required by law to buy domestic to ensure some sort of domestic supply chains. Even for trivial things like t-shirts and gloves. Berry Amendment-compliant work gloves, cost more tha
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by jerlam 3mo ago
Social media is a skinner box for likes and reposts. You don't even want replies unless it's an opportunity to get more likes.
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by jerlam 3mo ago
Mirrored at https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/he-earns-33-an-hou...
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by jerlam 3mo ago
The article doesn't emphasize it, but Assisted Access also adds back the home/back button, like older iPhones and Androids. There is no more swipe-up motion that I see my parents struggle with because they did it too slow or start
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by jerlam 3mo ago
It's just a plan, it doesn't mean that Russia or China is able or willing to execute it. > The planned weapon architecture aims to engage targets operating in near space at altitudes up to 40 kilometers and maneuvering at later
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by jerlam 3mo ago
Wouldn't a fragmented, decentralized system also help make their supply chains more resilient? If they had a single large drone factory, it would be a sizable target.
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by jerlam 3mo ago
There are some side effects with blood transfusions that may be an experiment in itself. For example, blood bags can transfer plasticizers to the blood, which is a method to detect if athletes have been doping. https://www.wada-a
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by jerlam 3mo ago
I think that's a good case for shared notes, that all the participants can see and agree on. However the AI notes I've seen are compiled long after the meeting is done.
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by jerlam 3mo ago
It's not just the cost of the antennas. This device barely has a screen and has like four buttons total. How are you going to type in a wifi password?
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by jerlam 3mo ago
This is definitely a thing that's been studied in schools: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20268974 (2019, 238 comments) However, note taking in a business sense is usually different than note taking in an academi
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by jerlam 3mo ago
Older energy meters don't track the difference between incoming and outgoing energy, so backfeeding the grid just looks like more usage. I do doubt the importance of utilities paying people for generating power at peak solar generation
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by jerlam 3mo ago
Cars have a "make the air bad" button, the recirculation button. Some people always have it on. I wonder if it's a factor in road rage.

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