pedalpete

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by pedalpete 7d ago
An interesting thought experiment, but I'm not sure I follow the reasoning of these two statements, which is the crux of why open software fits this mold. 1. Reproducible, meaning executable, as well as modifiable, and 2. Reliable, mea
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by pedalpete 8d ago
I was hoping to see something like this, though I didn't know what form it would take. A few months ago I was at a demo night in SF and 4 people demo'd essentially the same tool for managing PRs. At the time my thought was "a
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by pedalpete 8d ago
Part of the question may be how do you change the users expectations. If you are building a product the user already knows, that might not be difficult. We work in the sleep space, where everyone expects a hypnogram and a sleep score. Even
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by pedalpete 8d ago
The better way is to never have those features in your pipeline already.
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by pedalpete 17d ago
Are you sure this is a bandwidth issue? I always assumed it was more about the position and size of the microphone.
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by pedalpete 17d ago
I think this is a direction as well, though I'm also conscious that it may be something else we're mostly unaware that we do.
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by pedalpete 18d ago
This is mostly seems to be looking at the past to define the future, as if we are going to go back to a similar way of living and that the current "work" was a fever-dream which captured the entire population. But I see the past a
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by pedalpete 18d ago
As a Canadian, I agree this is ridiculous. Having worked in the mapping sector for a bit, it makes sense. Google/Apple are not deciding what the lake is called. They are pulling data from the GNIS. This way people in a region will see
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by pedalpete 23d ago
I think of this every time I see something/someone advertising electrolytes!
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by pedalpete 1mo ago
I recently built our knowledge management system based (loosely) on the Karpathy LLM-Wiki model. I'm not sure I understand why it is so important to be multi-agent, or for each agent to define who they are and what changes they made. O
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by pedalpete 2mo ago
I'm amazed how many people I see taking photos of their coffee. Like "this is the one I want to remember". It's like the joy of novelty has been replaced by the potential and short-lived dopamine of a social like.
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by pedalpete 2mo ago
We wrote about the "why" on our blog a few months ago [1], but the short version Sleep is a complex interplay of multiple systems within the body. A consistent/regular schedule means the brain/body is not guessing what y
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by pedalpete 3mo ago
I always come at this angle. If you had the data, what would you do to change it? Would you recommend everyone go outside? You can do that without the data. Would you wear your own oxygenated supply of air? You can do that without the data.
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by pedalpete 3mo ago
Based on the current status of my shadowbanned account (I suspect a competitor in our space retaliating), it looks like `banall` only flags posts from the last 6 years. Of course, nobody can view my profile anymore anyway (I'm waiting
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by pedalpete 3mo ago
It doesn't work until it does. The same thing has been said about robotics, AI, space travel, etc. etc. I'm not saying this is the way, and I have significant questions of understanding thought based on reading brain activity, but
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by pedalpete 3mo ago
Aren't most of the health benefits they list in the article the benefits (or reversing the impacts) of a healthier metabolic system? Apnea, fatty liver, and cancer risk are all linked to obesity. I know there are other positive side-ef
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by pedalpete 4mo ago
What many people may not realize is that loneliness is a significant contributor to some of these scams. The fraudsters seek out people who just want to talk and be heard, who don't have someone else to call on. It is somewhat surprisi
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by pedalpete 4mo ago
I've used react native a bunch. When you've got custom elements it isn't always the cross-platform write once you think it is. I've always had custom components across iOS and Android. The big complaint is that the amoun
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by pedalpete 4mo ago
Thanks for the info. We're using https://buttplug.io/ currently. After reviewing a bunch of packages, one of our devs decided this was probably the best available. I'll mention the new Nordic, as we are based on n
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by pedalpete 4mo ago
So creatine adds the phosphates back to the adenosine? However, it's a good reason to exercise. Burn the phosphates from ATP and be left with adenosine, which as you say promotes sleep. However, I don't think it is so much of a si
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by pedalpete 4mo ago
So a bit different from the other comments. We're a wearable company which of course pairs with an app. We built iOS first because that's what most of our users have, though the team is mostly on Android. We built our logic in Rus
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by pedalpete 4mo ago
We're not shipping globally to start. Australia (where we're based) and US only. When we look at our user groups, they are almost entirely iPhone.
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by pedalpete 4mo ago
We're reviewing this, but don't have an update just yet. Most of our team are daily Android users, including me, but we need to serve the larger customer base.
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by pedalpete 4mo ago
An upstream metric that can be measured daily is sleep slow-wave activity or delta power. This is the synchronous firing of neurons which define restorative deep sleep, and one of the primary patterns which we describe as the Neural Functio
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by pedalpete 5mo ago
We have have iPhone dev phones, I just mean that for our daily use we don't use iOS. When I'm travelling I use iOS as my 2nd phone as well. So we dogfood it, but it's more like a snack specifically just for our app. The struc
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by pedalpete 5mo ago
I have a brand new Microsoft Band still in the box! When I ordered one, Microsoft sent me two and refused to refund me and take the 2nd one back :) I still look at that device fondly. What makes you think an EEG headband is not just a smart
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by pedalpete 5mo ago
Yeah, my co-founder and I were discussing this yesterday. It was always in the plans, we're all actually on Android, but we wanted to get the user experience right on one platform and not spread ourselves too thin, but we're think
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by pedalpete 5mo ago
The back-end costs aren't high. We decided to go with a low device cost and subscription to make it cost effective to purchase when finances allow us to get to a monthly instead of yearly subscription.
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by pedalpete 5mo ago
I think it should. Our system is closed-loop and we monitor the real-time change in brain-wave activity. The process is very precise, and must be (80ms window for a 50ms pulse). When we first started, many in the sleep community were agains
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by pedalpete 5mo ago
Fair criticisms. However, there are FDA limitations on what you can say regarding devices that both measure and affect biomarkers and neuromarkers while the user is unconscious. This is why we describe the neural function of sleep, but can

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