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Re:We're bringing Pebble back on Wednesday January 29, 2025 @02:31PM (#42869945)
I'm hoping that you can revive some of the fitness tracking features of the Basis B1/Peak smart watches. I especially loved the galvanic skin response and skin temperature monitoring with the air temperature sensing. It was amazing to be able to identify stress by comparing these values.

I could literally identify when I was in an job interview or going dancing without just relying on my heart rate. My heart rate during the interview was relatively flat but elevated; however, my galvanic skin response spiked hard (sweating) and my skin temperature dipped without a similar air temperature change. On the other hand while dancing, I had reactive heart rate, varying galvanic, and rising skin/air temperature (lots of warm bodies).

Except we did still have asbestos factories around until recently. This ruling is in line with the previous asbestos one, so just 30 more years until PFOA, etc. will be properly banned.

https://www.epa.gov/asbestos/asbestos-ban-and-phase-out-fede...

Re:Why Software Engineers like Woodworking (2021) on Monday February 12, 2024 @01:12AM (#39341995)
Jonathan Katz Moses, Stumpy Nubs, and The Wood Whisperer all have different videos like that. And then there's all kinds of channels that do pro, journeyman, novice builds of the same idea, sometimes as competition.
Her Kickstarter does have tiers with brackets/shelves, so yeah, that's already there too.
Too much trial and error and throwing everything they know at it until it gets close enough to the desired look. I have one co-worker that has taken off after I showed him how to use dev tools and another that's still trying to guess their way through the problem after showing them how to use dev tools.
It's common enough that you recognize that you need to use a chromium browser, that's entirely too common. As a recent example, UPS tracking was/is broken on Firefox.
Re:Why is Apple's M1 chip so fast? on Monday November 30, 2020 @11:22PM (#25262274)
18W CPU peak power, 10W is their power efficiency comparison point.
Re:1% of farms operate 70% of world's farmland on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @02:35PM (#25213310)
For reference, 50 hectares (123 acres) is a small farm for an ag community/family. It's not the least bit surprising that they are low profit. Several members of my extended family farm at and above that acreage and a majority of my grandfather's farmland is leased out to a larger family operation since he's retired. Those family members mostly have regular 40/week jobs, since they're just hobby farms.
Re:U.S. sues Visa to block its acquisition of Plaid on Thursday November 05, 2020 @01:09PM (#25000463)
> In a true capitalistic society government should not be involved in transactions or take important decisions about this.

Even under a purely capitalist system, if there is a suspicion of malfeasance in such a transaction, it is reasonable for the government or others to ask for more clarity. Blackmail, bribery, embezzlement, or other bad faith agreements can introduce legal proceedings, none of those things are permissible under capitalism.

Re:Firefox 81.0 on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @02:09PM (#24557906)
He linked the android version, if you click the warning it goes to the normal desktop page.
Is there any study data comparing these kinds of thermometer boxes? They look like mini hotboxes that can heat up like a car left in the sun.

edit: someone posted a wiki link for Stevenson screen below just after I asked.

A 75% or compact format is more inline with how I think I want to use something like this. Then this would be an easy upgrade from my WASD.
It seems very similar to McCarthyism and the anti-communist messages from the late '40s and early '50s like the "loyalty review boards", just with wider media available in the modern world. McCarthyism also adopted similar conspiracy theories concerning vaccinations, mental health care, and fluoridation.
A dialect of Chinese, probably an old spelling.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taishanese

Someone else has to do the vacationer's job while they're gone, so the substitute may discover that something has been done improperly.
Re:Apple’s “monopsony” power, and the woman who named it on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @01:52PM (#22057165)
You can use the same (oil) with your (Bugatti), y'know, and they aren't any more a modification of the (Bugatti) than they are of the Accord. You can also (put on racing tires) that are effectively indistinguishable from an (all seasons) in terms of (legal speed limit).

But if upgradeability and replaceable parts are your #1 concern, then...yeah, you're not in the target market for a (Bugatti). So that means that it's unlikely you'd ever have been looking at having a (Bugatti) be your (daily driver) in the first place—if you needed one to (race), it would be a secondary machine, where you'd probably set up your (race specs), (tune the engine), (lower the suspension), and test it, then go back to the (car) you actually enjoy using for the rest. Maybe look into a (Maserati)?

Re:Worker-Owned Apps Are Trying to Fix the Gig Economy on Monday November 25, 2019 @05:15PM (#21633396)
That's ignoring the problem that outside of the greater Austin area, population 2.2 million, RideAustin is useless and suffers a bit from an advertising/discovery perspective for visitors. Both of those problems could have been solved by creating some kind of greater cooperative with other locale-driven rideshares, like say a RideHouston or RideDallas.
Re:Tesla Cybertruck on Friday November 22, 2019 @11:26AM (#21607042)
Until you try to pack your camping gear between the bikes and you end up with a cargo rack or cargo hitch.
> Brands are required to put Transparency codes on every unit for every SKU that’s enrolled, whether it’s sold on Amazon or through another channel.

Nike would have to use a separate SKU for Amazon.

Re:America’s largest milk producer files for bankruptcy on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @09:52AM (#21524735)
Is that a translation preference or is the word for milk used specifically?

That excerpt is talking about deceiving someone with dilute pounded rice served as milk.

Re:FCC approves T-Mobile and Sprint merger on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @09:26AM (#21462861)
AT&T owns DirecTV not Dish.

edit: I've always avoided AT&T because they're always the highest priced offering even after bonuses.

Re:Undercover reporter reveals life in a Polish troll farm on Monday November 04, 2019 @04:01PM (#21446470)
I think it's more akin to "the solution to gambling is to understand that you won't win". On one level you have a small group of people who know precisely how gambling works and can exploit it in limited circumstances, but on the standard level, you have the general population that's just playing games with a chance of winning money.
Improve it how?

The tax filing co isn't the one going to congress, they hire some PR company that does lobbying to talk to congressmen about tax law. Of course, that PR company just so happens to hire people from tax filing co because they know the industry. With OTA, the PR company goes to OTA to talk about tax law, it's just adding a different step to the process.

Re:Apple Removes HKmap.live from the App Store on Thursday October 10, 2019 @12:11PM (#21216185)
Not quite all of it, just the mobile manufacturing with a statement about losing local market share. They still have 2 semiconductor plants in China[0].

[0] https://www.samsung.com/semiconductor/about-us/location/manu...

Re:The grandmaster diet: How to lose weight while barely moving on Friday September 13, 2019 @02:38PM (#20965037)
In any case where someone is mentioning CICO seriously, it's meant in the sense of a regular human diet (not necessarily balanced and healthy). Making a point from a fallacious example is a waste of time.
Re:Punpedia – The Online Encyclopedia of Puns on Monday August 05, 2019 @01:47PM (#20616346)
What if their services were offered at pi-rates?
Looks like Tesla is sitting just under 1% currently YTD.

Edit: and 1.1% for 2018.

http://www.goodcarbadcar.net/u-s-auto-sales-figures-by-brand...

> In deciding against Rawls, the court of appeals found that the constitutional rights against being compelled to testify against oneself were not being breached. That's because the appeals court, like the police, agreed that the presence of XXXXXXXXXX on his drives was a "foregone conclusion." The Fifth Amendment, at its most basic level, protects suspects from being forced to disclose incriminating evidence. In this instance, however, the authorities said they already know there's XXXXXXXXXX on the drives, so Rawls' constitutional rights aren't compromised.

> ""Forensic examination also disclosed that Doe [Rawls] had downloaded thousands of files known by their "hash" values to be XXXXXXXXXX. The files, however, were not on the Mac Pro, but instead had been stored on the encrypted external hard drives. Accordingly, the files themselves could not be accessed.""

A good guess can figure out what I've redacted.

That corn was also grown for that purpose. It was never meant for human consumption.

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