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Also a greater proportion of introverts and misanthropes.

The definitions seem kind of arbitrary, online friend seems to mean either:

1. friend who you primarily communicate online

2. friend where initial contact was made online

Option 1 seems odd, especially for friends who have moved. Are they reclassified as "online friend"? Option 2 represents only a single moment in time and seems to have little bearing on everything past that initial contact.

Also some people seem to classify "real friend" as "friend that I physically see on a regular basis".

Invalid url, should be https://www.digitaldigging.org/p/how-to-plant-a-nuclear-plan...

I recently got a new car, and my last one was 24 years old. It had a tape deck.

All these "convenience" features are annoying as hell. It reminds me of the old days of pop-up ads and no ad-blockers. There's random beeping and a dialog box pops up to distract me from the road, filled with indecipherable text and abbreviations. Even when you turn off the car it makes a bunch of random noise, either about "safe exit assist disabled" or "rear seat reminder".

Once in a Tesla, I clicked on one of the pop up dialogs. After five seconds of loading, it opened up the user manual, blocking out the entire navigation pane.

Even when you know exactly how the safety features work, they block your UI with a dialog that says "be careful" every time you enable them.

I spent the first month turning on and off various settings to get the car to actually help me instead of distract me.

I will say I think adaptive cruise control is great and CarPlay is preferable to a small phone screen that tempts you to review your notifications.

Wine also seems like it's one of the hardest alcoholic items to sell.

There's lots of it but people who don't know wine struggle to learn and understand the differences. There are tons of indistinguishable brands. Wine is associated with fancy dining instead of fun and parties.

Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49027039 (34 comments)

I assume you meant the fourth amendment, which is the search and seizure one.

UV umbrellas should be woven tighter to block out more sunlight, but even a non-UV umbrella will block a significant amount of sunlight.

I bought one of those UV-C detection cards that also detect UV-A and UV-B. Both a UV umbrella and a non-UV umbrella blunted the midday sun down from very high levels to low/medium levels.

I also bought a Japanese umbrella (brand Wpc) that is rated for UV and it blocks the UV levels down to zero.

Trader Joe's sells a dupe of the Supergoop sunscreen for much cheaper:

https://www.cheapism.com/trader-joes-supergoop-sunscreen-dup...

This is also how run clubs, church groups, dinner parties, and a lot of other activities actually work. The specified activity is followed by unstructured hanging out where you're expected to be open and present.

But a lot of people view these activities as the objective itself (like work) and leave immediately, losing out on the social activity.

I don't think judges and warrants are involved in these swatting incidents.

The whole point of swatting is to make up a dangerous scenario where the threat to life is so high and immediate that the police are allowed to forgo many procedures and processes that would prevent accidental injury or death.

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

It's even worse now as restaurants have been adding random fees and surcharges (not taxes) instead of increasing their menu prices.

I linked to the archive page since the original page has lost its images. It's available at

https://nycdatascience.com/blog/student-works/are-yelp-revie...

It depends on the type of establishment.

A full service restaurant where you are directed to a table, someone takes your order, then brings food to you, and then you pay would require a tip, because that is considered service.

A counter service restaurant or cafe where you walk up to a counter, give your order, pay, then pick up your food and find your own table would not require a tip.

A seam ripper will "de-compile" any garment you like.

That file appears to be either copied from a completely unrelated repo or vibe-coded.

> This repository is a lightweight analysis and report-generation workspace.

And "please contribute to our blank open-source project" can be taken with a grain of salt.

This would be more exciting if Keychron had mice of more interesting / experimental form factors and functionality. Just like their keyboards, their mice are mostly differentiated by obscure technical features (polling rates!).

I'm a bit worried that a decent, modern replacement for the extremely obsolete multi-button mouse I have now (Logitech G602) will never be available.

I would think that data centers would be using as much prefab / modular construction as possible and on-site work would be as limited as possible.

Those prefab factories may not exist though, and companies want to build out now before the market is mature, instead of a long-term play.

You can plug in a Garmin to a computer with a cable and pull the files off the watch, as it acts like a USB drive. No app required.

This "app" just seems to catch four things, which are listed here and you should know before you go on a trip:

https://leeaky.vercel.app/app/checklist

Logging them afterwards doesn't save you any money.

There are zero spare parts available on their website.

If repairability is one of their selling points, not having spare parts immediately available is a big misstep.

Garmin doesn't really upgrade the firmware after the next model release.

But you'd be a fool to believe a hardware startup would do so anyway.

Visible has a family/friends plan - called "Inner Circle" - that comes with a $5/month discount on the Visible+ or Pro plans, and allows one account to pay for all the others.

Any "open ecosystem" product needs to be a competitive product out of the box, otherwise it's just a development toy. Developers aren't going to enhance your product to fill in all the gaps unless there are customers, and preferably paying ones.

One of the tiles on the buy page says "HR BAND SUPPORT Connect compatible BLE chest straps". But one single connection type doesn't compare to Garmin's list of supported ANT and BLE accessories.

You are assuming that with or without bike infrastructure, there is a fixed number of cyclists.

Many drivers either believe there are no cyclists; or that the number of cyclists should be reduced to zero, and they should drive instead, like normal people.

Also, everything is zero-sum, so any money spent on bike infrastructure is less money spent to widen the freeways or subsidize parking.

Maybe if they pay the driver, but it seems like they'll be paying BMW instead.

NYC is so different than any other US city that it defies comparison. It has no equals in terms of population, population density, and public transit. Its population exceeds most entire US states.

The definition of big cities is also pretty arbitrary. The first city mentioned, El Paso in Texas, has a lower density than the suburb I grew up in, but it's classified as a "big city" because its borders are simply larger. The suburb I grew up in is adjacent to multiple other suburbs, and if you add them all up it meets the article's definition of "big city" - 500k people. There are various definitions of urban area (CSA, MSA, etc) which are the correct methods of comparison.

They've been rolling a lot of these theft prevention measures back here, because people aren't going to wait 5 minutes for someone (if they come at all) to unlock the toothpaste case.

Is this after Meta failed to convert Instagram into TikTok?