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by lstamour 3y ago
Even bigger, fatter wheels might help, like car tires or some e-bikes. But honestly if we are blue sky dreaming for a second - I wonder if there will come a time when a two wheel kick scooter can self-balance, such as by using more wheels i
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by lstamour 3y ago
Maybe it’s a sales tool for business adoption of Bing, that they’re applying to consumers? And they need the traffic and usage numbers, if they get those their advertising business can sit on top of it and profit.
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by lstamour 3y ago
Similarly, I used to see these a lot last year, but I've only seen one person near me riding a one-wheel recently. Sadly, he was riding it with what looked like his 3 year old daughter holding on to his knees for dear life. I wanted to
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by lstamour 3y ago
As a counterpoint, every 1500kms I've had a fall, though usually from bad road, not knowing where the curb cut was, inattentiveness and asphalt bumps, and once, the scooter's folding latch was too loose and the scooter folded whil
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by lstamour 3y ago
Sure, they probably enjoy closer ties to the US health care industry this way. https://careers.resmed.com/what-we-do/locations/ is a page listing offices including Atlanta, Halifax, India and China.
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by lstamour 3y ago
A doctor can use a portal to see if it’s working and if further patient instructions are needed or to adjust airflow pressure.
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by lstamour 3y ago
Actually ResMed is Australian: https://www.resmed.com.au/about-us/the-resmed-story
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by lstamour 3y ago
> We had people driving around with our phones logging to a laptop. They basically drove all over the country, trying to cover as much land as possible, and the phone(s) would then attempt to connect to different base stations. Sounds li
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by lstamour 3y ago
It has been found: https://x.com/TeamCharleston/status/1703898175138894214?s=20
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by lstamour 3y ago
When you submit the documentation via Apple, also submitting it to the government is not necessary: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/security/complying... Essentially Apple built a system so you have to a
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by lstamour 3y ago
If one forwards traffic through iCloud+ proxy to mask IP address, I wonder if it’s still possible to tell a VPN, from, say, a perfectly legitimate SpaceX satellite signal received on a boat… ;-)
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Interpretation and analysis of songs written or performed by Pet Shop Boys(geowayne.com)
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by lstamour 3y ago
> And discovery in these trials is performed via keyword matching Don’t worry, soon it’ll get done by AI instead and it’ll match on “acceptable” language too.
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by lstamour 3y ago
It feels like this is something the browser can solve by working towards these edge cases as bugs to fix. Especially saving the webpage with lazy loading. I've encountered similar issues when using iOS Share menu to convert a webpage t
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by lstamour 3y ago
I dunno, a number of apps I use on the subway are designed for such uses, including audiobook apps, podcast apps and many news apps (e.g. The Economist). But yes, other apps that could be designed that way may not work as well as they shoul
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by lstamour 3y ago
If you have a web browser and Linux, you can often install a .deb just by opening it in Software Centre or other graphical utilities to install apps. The comparison might be someone on windows trusting a random .msi or installer .exe or som
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by lstamour 3y ago
Even if the system behaved like PRISM such that chat apps and network operators used the client-side apps to scan for keywords on specific accounts and reported back, similar to how child porn filters might work today, which would be an end
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by lstamour 3y ago
I’m aware. But it wasn’t because people are tripping over scooters like they do in cities without parking spaces. In many Canadian cities, accessibility groups are fighting rental scooters because of a perceived risk of tripping hazards whe
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by lstamour 3y ago
Part of this is the companies themselves to blame: Scooter and bike share companies routinely parked (and still park) bikes and scooters directly in the path of pedestrians because they know that the more visible their devices are, the more
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by lstamour 3y ago
You’re making the original point - you can have encryption that can include the NSA, but it would also end up including other spies too, as secrets tend to leak the more important and widely used they are. The original point was not that yo
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by lstamour 3y ago
Thank you for doing that :) Yeah, I’m pretty sure I typed it that way more than once. Especially if all you remembered was “FF”.
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by lstamour 3y ago
Wait… based on my previous lookups, I think it was SpreadFirefox.com or something related to that. https://web.archive.org/web/20040929012122/http://www.spread... I think the idea started as a quick webp
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by lstamour 3y ago
You might be right. I remember a domain handover, but maybe it was firefox.com rather than getfirefox.com … I vaguely recall the opposite though, that somebody ended up redirecting to the Mozilla site pre-acquisition as a way of promoting F
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by lstamour 3y ago
You mentioned getfirefox.com and while that was and is the official site, I remember a time (maybe?) when that was registered to a third-party fan of Firefox to promote it who handed it over to Mozilla. That said… I cannot find any evidence
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by lstamour 3y ago
I doubt I can train myself to do better than ChatGPT can, this late in the game. When I last needed to communicate in Chinese, which I often have to for products I’ve ordered or other mishaps, all I did was use ChatGPT and compare the resul
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by lstamour 3y ago
Honestly tho, as long as the street signs have English characters on them and I can find them and I can match them to Google Maps, I’m good. Compare with the UK where all the street signs are in English but I can never find them! (They’re o
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by lstamour 3y ago
Straws might be preferred for social convenience so you can focus more on the person sitting next to you than on drinking the drink in front of you. Straws can be less messy and avoid the risk of spilling a drink. There are also accessibili
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by lstamour 3y ago
We’re getting there but it takes time to agree on what the best implementation of a reinvented wheel looks like? A good example is OpenTelemetry, which is an obvious idea in hindsight but looks like it will take about a decade to ship. Or h
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by lstamour 3y ago
I’d heard this one before. And yep, sure enough, it was sourced from a video from 2011. Definitely one of my favourites tho. It was also previously discussed in 2022 at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31027104 and in 2
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by lstamour 3y ago
Yep, that’s the route I took. Bought cheapest steamdeck model on sale, took the chance on a 2TB stick from aliexpress and have been very satisfied so far. Link to the 2TB I bought, which is now roughly 15% off: WD SN740 2TB https:/&#x

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