clumsysmurf

Android doesn't use JDBC.

DuckDB has experimental builds for Android ... I'm wondering how much work it would take to implement a Java API for it similar to sqlite (Cursor, etc).

Yes, I noticed this too. I ran a lot in high school / university, and for some reason we mostly ran on the roads. In my late 20s a doctor told me my knees sounded like they were "65".

I read a book my Michael Colgan at the time, and he mentioned training athletes on the trails as much as possible to reduce injury, so I gave it a try ...

That was 25+ years ago. At first people looked at me strange, like I was running from an animal. But its common now, and I'm still running on the trail, and knees seem OK.

Yes of course, you can still trip, step on a snake, etc, but its a different kind of injury. You are adapting gait and balance constantly which is nice too.

Running on the trail is much more interesting, with constant change, ups, downs, variations. Whereas running on grass / asphalt I can go into autopilot mentally and start ruminating, this is harder on the trail and I am more in a state of "here and now".

I'm ignorant of mesh technologies, but can somebody explain to me why they are using MQTT in their stack? Topics and pub-sub over TCP doesn't sound like a mesh-y kind of thing. Does it work well in this context?

The Vitamin E / NAC relationship are interesting. As far as I understand, there needs to be a balance of anti-oxidants (C, E, Selenium, etc). To make it worse there are so many formulations of Vitamin E you can buy (tocopherols, tocotrienols, etc). Sometimes its hard to tell from the studies what forms exactly were being used.

You may also find this interesting:

"NRF2 activation is a predictor of poor clinical outcomes in lung cancer. Given the widespread use of NRF2-inducing compounds such as resveratrol and sulforaphane, these findings raise important concerns about their safety in individuals at risk for or living with cancer."

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11357-025-01736-0

Many people eat high-sulforaphane containing foods for health benefits.

And finally from last week https://newatlas.com/diet-nutrition/vitamin-c-air-pollution-...

This was about 1000mg / day for humans.

I agree wholeheartedly. The app is unusable and unstable. I had to delete collections from the web because they were getting corrupted in the app.

One thing I notice is that it simply does not render many code snippets well, especially when using the "page" (vs "continuous" scrolling). I don't get the impression they are doing QA on rendering quality. Not only external publishers, but O'Reilly books themselves! I also had a lot of problems reading Manning books in their app.

Rendering e-books properly is a pretty big table-stake thing.

Some context:

"Affinity Partners, the private equity firm led by Jared Kushner, is part of Paramount's hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros Discovery, according to a regulatory filing."

https://www.axios.com/2025/12/08/jared-kushner-paramount-war...

From the GUI perspective, I hope Halloy correctly supports proportional fonts soon. They kinda work but not everything is aligned correctly.

"The Biden-era immigration surge delivered millions of new arrivals seeking work; foreign-owned fleets recruited aggressively—higher pay than at home, no experience needed, free “housing” in the sleeper berth."

I was talking to a retired trucker recently. They described a situation where one driver would get the CDL, but shared the cab with 2-3 others (no CDL, maybe family or friends). They would all rotate driving, so at any given time there was a chance the driver actually had no CDL.

For the first time ever, since I got my first mac in 2009, I have not updated to the latest OS when I had the choice, because of this. I'm hoping the next major OS version rectifies the situation.

I would definitely try this if the vehicles in Phoenix ran cleaner. The old ones have such bad smelling exhaust and you are always breathing it because of the semi-open cab.

Thanks, that's one of the masks I use! Unlike the GVS SPM587 it has a quick release thing so you can get to your hydration for water and microplastics :/

I look at the PM2.5 data for my city every day, and at this point (Nov) in the winter season, the only acceptable time to exercise is between 2PM-4PM after vertical mixing kicked in. Outside that duration, particulates are elevated after morning rush our, after evening rush hour, or during overnight inversion trapping evening rush hour + wood burning smoke until the next morning rush hour.

This is one the main reasons why I would prefer working remote, it is hard to utilize this time well (for exercise) if you are in the office.

At least with PM you can wear a mask, although I am still searching for the best one that works during intense exercise.

Also wanted to point out "Trump EPA moves to abandon rule that sets tough standards for deadly soot pollution"

https://apnews.com/article/epa-soot-air-pollution-trump-zeld...

2.5V is the absolute minimum typically mentioned in spec sheets, 2.8V and above is perfectly fine.

With respect to the supplement industry, it could be improved quite a lot if there was large scale testing of purity and potency, by the government presumably. There should be fines if whats in the bottle is not what the label says.

I subscribe to Consumer Labs but they simply don't have the resources to even scratch the surface. The chocolate I eat was approved by CL in 2019, I doubt the results are even valid.

But I doubt RFK would be interested in any of this.

The problem with dark chocolate, is getting the flavanols without consuming a bunch of heavy metals.

The other problem with supplementing with too much choline may be elevated TMAO:

"Dietary Choline Supplements, but Not Eggs, Raise Fasting TMAO Levels in Participants with Normal Renal Function: A Randomized Clinical Trial"

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8410632/

Some of us started long long ago, Android 1.0 time, when Google seemed like a different company. Their first blogs didn't mention splitting your personal google account from your developer account. I never heard of anyone getting banned. Oh boy, things have changed!

Has anyone seen Andy Rubin publicly comment on Google's stewardship of Android? I wonder what he thinks about his creation and the way its evolving.

Even though I don't use Gemini, I have a permanent Gemini 'FAB' located above the 'Start Chat' FAB in Android / Google Messages and I can't seem to get rid of it.

Material 3 guidelines say "Don't display multiple FABs on a single screen":

https://m3.material.io/components/floating-action-button/gui...

I have the same problem with O'Reilly / Safari ... I don't enjoy using the apps and find they get in the way of the reading experience, plus it's a very expensive subscription. Initially, its hard to tell if rendering problems are just a bad conversion or if the text rendering engine is just buggy / borked.

But there were plenty of other bugs like bookshelf management getting corrupted.

Not only bailouts, but GOP aligned farmers voted for Trump to remove 2024 H-2A visa reforms that addressed abuse of the system (seizing passports, etc).

They didn't want to pay for the H-2A paperwork, but didn't like that undocumented laborers would move from farm to farm depending on conditions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdWrHb8b-c0

Did we forget about WEI already? I'm sure Google is waiting for the right time to try it again.

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

Vapcell is very popular in the flashlight community for providing unusual sizes like 16340, 18350, 18500, 26800, etc.

They re-wrap other manufacturer's cells (but don't disclose who). I dislike this practice because, along with not knowing who makes the cell, you lose the original mfg batch codes, etc.

Sometimes they will simply rewrap something like a Samsung 50S. Those will be fine. But others ... who knows.

Gradle keeps on improving. I use it for Android, and even though it is complex, and then add the Android Gradle Plugin complexity on top of that, I would not trade it for the iOS build system.

One of my complaints with Gradle is that if you write a plugin (Java) it shares the classpath with other plugins. You might find some other plugin depending on some old version of a transitive dependency.

I have the same dilemma: a strongly typed / modern language with good tooling / library support. I'm also considering Kotlin / Gleam. With Kotlin, practically speaking, we're talking JVM again, along with its resource requirements.

Wouldn't "spicy pillow" be the main problem with old iPads? My iPad Air 4th gen doesn't have an option to limit charging to 80% etc.

The thing that annoys me the most about this device, if true, is their handling of the Pixel 10 battery. They keep cutting corners. After my 4a and 6a batteries got nerfed, you would think Google might have learned something.

https://www.androidauthority.com/google-pixel-10-battery-hea...

I like the swipe at "post truth cameras" and would prefer AI be limited to suggestions, etc, not so baked into the processing pipeline.

They still haven't gotten correct fullscreen behavior on macOS and thats ~15 years ago.

Indeed,

"Nineteen states have laws or regulations that only let pharmacists administer vaccines recommended by ACIP, according to the American Pharmacists Association.

In those states, pharmacies may not be able to dole out shots even for people who fit the FDA’s narrowed range until the committee makes its recommendation."

https://apnews.com/article/covid-19-vaccine-insurance-covera...