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grapheon My experiment in phonelessness was a failure, and it also changed my life

I've done grayscale but the truth is that I'd disable it with muscle memory over time. I got efficient.

At the end of the day I had no life and I didn't spend it on anything worthwhile so the phone it was. Once I did worthwhile things I naturally used my phone less. I'm glad you k kw your limits and it works for you, but beware your brains searches for efficiency!

grapheon Show HN: Daily price tracking for Trader Joe's

iPhones dropped in price as demand increased. Demand isn't as important as marketing, and this is probably supply limited rather than demand.

grapheon Show HN: Daily price tracking for Trader Joe's

https://docs.paperless-ngx.com

Nextcloud also has OCR. You can use a scanner with either.

Avoid touching the receipts. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5453537/

grapheon John Walker, founder of Autodesk, has died

> The problem is this type of diet has the greatest likelihood of failing. CICO is hard to maintain.

CICO is hard for people who are fat or who will become fat. It is not true it is hard. It is poor impulse control, not lack of willpower.

> There is scant to zero literature to suggest exercising raises metabolism. Recent research by Herman Pontzer shows the opposite, that calories burned with exercise are negated later through lowered BMR and NEAT. So if you do a 400-calorie run and then eat a 400 calorie cookie, you will still get a net 400 gain, or close to it.

Nonsense, this is a lie to make obese people not exercise. Anyone who has exercised knows this is fake news. By perpetrating fake "science" you are also a source of demotivating people to improve. It is disgusting to post this. Look at a runner, your fake "science" busted. The Hadza are as genetically removed from other humans as possible (including their distance from other African peoples).

grapheon Oslo acquires ChatGPT for 110k students and teachers

The Greeks feared the invention of writing would make memory less important.

grapheon Better Call GPT: Comparing large language models against lawyers [pdf]

Law is very specific. BERT was sufficient for law even before chatGPT. https://towardsdatascience.com/lawbert-towards-a-legal-domai...

https://huggingface.co/nlpaueb/legal-bert-base-uncased

grapheon New viruslike entities found in human gut microbes

We call self replicating programs viruses when they're unpleasant and quine as curiosities.

Is the game of life, life?

grapheon How much bigger could Earth be before rockets wouldn't work?

https://youtu.be/K0FLy2nI13E turbopump https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbopump

grapheon Juno – A YouTube Client for Vision Pro

Does scraping ever cause an app to stop working?

grapheon Juno – A YouTube Client for Vision Pro

They do. Death stranding only works on the newest iphone. You're free to buy a non functional app but it happens as for ipad only.

grapheon Juno – A YouTube Client for Vision Pro

Fetishes are sexually derrived or worship of an idol. Are you calling them losers for not scraping?

grapheon Juno – A YouTube Client for Vision Pro

With that logic every app that is free on an iPhone pro max must be unfair.

grapheon HP CEO Makes Up a Whole Lot of Bullshit to Defend Crippling Printers

RMS's start of open source came with his hatred of printers.

https://www.oreilly.com/openbook/freedom/ch01.html

> In true engineer-to-engineer fashion, the conversation was cordial but blunt. After briefly introducing himself as a visitor from MIT, Stallman requested a copy of the laser-printer source code so that he could port it to the PDP-11. To his surprise, the professor refused to grant his request.

>"He told me that he had promised not to give me a copy," Stallman says.

I don't get why people buy inkjets at all. You can get laser or CISS.

grapheon A company that sells lost airplane luggage

So you want to buy stuff that the landfill owner sells?

grapheon A company that sells lost airplane luggage

Like when high value items are "dumped" and when the "garbage" is stolen, or when landfill owners take a kickback?

grapheon A company that sells lost airplane luggage

What if they didn't want it back?

grapheon How we had our Nectar Points stolen, and this is how yours will be too

If you don't want to use the rewards at any supermarket you don't have to, so what's the problem?

If you're not a zealot that preference probably melts as soon as you need it fast, or an exclusive price or item. Just from my observations the best performing supermarkets are in low crime areas with an ethnic minority as a majority. Supermarkets that try these tracking techniques aren't doing well, and I don't blame them for trying to survive and bring fresh food.

grapheon How we had our Nectar Points stolen, and this is how yours will be too

Embarrassingly funny statement.

grapheon How we had our Nectar Points stolen, and this is how yours will be too

Corner stores are gone, supermarkets took over and you have even less variety, and you want to squeeze MORE fresh fruits and vegetables out of your neighborhood? Be my guest and eat only packaged foods so they do make those high margins, don't restock any fresh food and I hope you vote with your wallet to make these supermarkets go out of business. Then you can buy nothing but high margin foods at your gas station.

grapheon How we had our Nectar Points stolen, and this is how yours will be too

They operate at very low margins, 1-3% don't blame them.

grapheon How we had our Nectar Points stolen, and this is how yours will be too

Are the points worthless for them to have such a flippant view of security?

grapheon Fossil is quitting smartwatches

Not much, a calendar and some custom features that I haven't gotten into. I prefer the lite since it doesn't have the annoying GPS download.

grapheon Fossil is quitting smartwatches

I believe it does, I use another privacy based app that can use location and requires data to download the weather stats, but it's optional.

grapheon General purpose MCUs built in to LEDs emulate candle flicker

Mexican kids knock over the religious candles all the time. One tragic event happened when a friend's house was engulfed in flames after a candle was knocked into the curtains and she suffocated protecting her children from the smoke, I think one child had really bad breathing problems too.

grapheon General purpose MCUs built in to LEDs emulate candle flicker

I introduced a battery charger to a group of people that used disposable vapes and the knowhow to charge them. It changed the way they interacted with the vapes completely even saying funny high ideas like "we should patent this".

grapheon General purpose MCUs built in to LEDs emulate candle flicker

Those are the bad ones. If you get this one the only mode you'd get is a ramping effect by holding the button to make it go brighter or lower.

grapheon General purpose MCUs built in to LEDs emulate candle flicker

Two incidents, two families. Happens a lot with Mexican candles.

grapheon General purpose MCUs built in to LEDs emulate candle flicker

Why? Ive known several people that died from candles including the actions of other people's usage of candles.

grapheon General purpose MCUs built in to LEDs emulate candle flicker

If you'd like to see this and more in software for flashlights please visit toykeeper's projects!

https://github.com/ToyKeeper/anduril

https://toykeeper.net/

I loved this feature on my flashlight and used it exclusively on candle mode. There's a lot of thought that goes into it like PWM speed or direct drive for LEDs that may or may not cause flickering and a tradeoff between battery life and the electronics available.

grapheon General purpose MCUs built in to LEDs emulate candle flicker

I've collected a few of them and they are robust and rechargable batteries. A common battery is IP17350 1100mAh 4.07Wh (Date of manufacture the one I see on the one I'm holding is 20210613). Anyone got any idea to use them besides small flashlights? They also have a pressure sensor on the LED and a nice metal case pretty often.