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I believe the smaller wheels accelerate better because they are lighter, but corner worse. The smaller wheels also get better efficiency.

You're describing a siesta, which is from Southern Europe (among other places).

The US is generally much closer to the equator and warmer than Europe, hence air conditioning has been a requirement for much longer.

https://vividmaps.com/comparing-latitude-of-europe-and-ameri...

US states like Texas and Florida have no latitude equivalent in Europe. Los Angeles is farther south than all of Spain.

At the same time, the UK, much of Germany, and Poland are farther north than any state in the US lower 48.

There are many nuances and people seem bad at understanding those. Too many are getting their information from "health influencers" and 30 second videos, which is why we seem to bounce between the two extremes of "everyone should take Vitamin D!" and "Vitamin D is overrated!".

Australia has tried to explain sun safety here, taking into account that Vitamin D is best obtained from sunlight:

https://www.cancer.org.au/cancer-information/causes-and-prev...

Although confusingly, the battery/motor on a Hyundai EV is covered under a different 10-year/100K warranty which does transfer to used car buyers. Important because of their unfixed ICCU problems.

Pretty much any app that's been around a while will have all kinds of advanced features that the average user will never use, and eventually becomes detrimental. Hence there's always a group of users and product managers asking to rewrite the app to focus on "the basics".

There's all flavors of "lite" apps and Firefox started as a stripped down version of Netscape.

A lot of older email apps have a prominent "offline" mode that if you accidentally activate it, basically stops the app from sending or receiving any email. I guess a lot of executives demanded the feature because they were handling all their email while on a plane without connectivity.

I think Waymo was approved to operate in Walnut Creek and a lot of northern California in November 2025, but hasn't really expanded outside the peninsula.

Since then, Waymo has actually regressed and stopped driving on freeways, which is a big problem for suburbs. Distances are farther and parking is more available, which suggests people would be taking Waymo less than in more dense areas.

Yeah, probably could have phrased that better.

They are using completely different approaches. Apple seems to be mostly using the accelerometer, to draw dots and visualize inertia. The Android apps are using the gyroscope, to draw a horizon.

It's been rumored that Google would build it into Android for years:

https://www.androidauthority.com/google-motion-cues-pixels-n...

I've tried some of those Android equivalents and they seemed to work on any motion, not on acceleration like the Apple one.

One of the draws of mechanical watches compared to digital is that they, in theory, can always be repaired and will last a lifetime. In reality, not so much since the cost to do maintenance or repair is astronomical compared to buying a new watch, and one that does not have any surprise costs.

I had an automatic that was my "one and done" watch - a cheap Citizen diver - I wore it 24/7 until it started losing minutes per day. While looking into who or where I could fix it, I bought a G-Shock out of curiosity and never wore a mechanical watch again.

The governments of Germany and Japan were completely destroyed, their nations were then occupied and then rebuilt to be friendly to the US and other Western nations to fight against communism.

But here, Iran's government has not been overthrown nor their nation occupied.

Often the titles/headlines are not written by the article author. The disconnects between them seem to be getting worse.

Gas prices nationwide have been dropping for a month, despite no peace treaty being signed. I don't understand it.

This was reported in 2024:

https://apnews.com/article/gabbard-trump-putin-intelligence-...

Autosteer is disabled on all new vehicles too, part of forcing people to buy FSD.

Sunscreens that use zinc/titanium dioxide as active ingredients are often so unpleasant to use that people don't apply enough of them or refuse to use them. The "nicer" sunscreens that use these ingredients often sneak in SPF boosters which are actually derivatives of other chemical sunscreens but are treated differently on the ingredients label, pretty much cheating the system.

SPF boosters: https://labmuffin.com/100-mineral-sunscreens-using-unregulat...

The coral-safe sunscreen claims don't have a lot of evidence behind them:

https://labmuffin.com/is-your-sunscreen-killing-coral-the-sc...

There's an interesting trend of some cars having their daytime running lights and their low beams in completely separate positions, with the car design only emphasizing the former. This effectively reduces the height of the headlight even if the car is taller. Here's an example:

https://youtu.be/KGhycuensJw?si=ZCycH7l5hQDktqqK&t=54

Surprisingly the Cybertruck also has this layout.

AAA had car-sharing as a service nine years ago, but it and many of its competitors have closed:

https://oaklandside.org/2024/07/25/gig-will-shut-down-its-ca...

Startups don't have as rigidly defined team boundaries. It wouldn't be uncommon for people to take up tasks and responsibilities that would fall under some other team with a different manager.

In larger corporations, teams are insular - members aren't rewarded for doing work outside of their domain, and would be punished for letting another team do their job. Some members are so indoctrinated that they won't respond to any communication outside of their team, unless it's through their own manager.

I interpreted the comment as a general statement about risk, not about alcohol specifically. Always trying to reduce your risk from bad things to zero is not a great way to live.

Lots of things will increase your risk of cancer, like preserved meats, sitting in car traffic, and sunlight.

NIH would define this as "heavy alcohol use". According to their estimates, only 5.5% of adults did this in the past month:

https://www.niaaa.nih.gov/alcohols-effects-health/alcohol-to...

(Search for "Prevalence of Past-Month Heavy Alcohol Use")

Some interesting stats in there. Like only 85% of adults have drank ever in their lifetime.

Apple has updated the page to list the Series 9 as supporting WatchOS 27.

Have you tried the Accessibility setting "Reduce Transparency"? Apple tends to hide too many things there.

> When a customer orders the same suit in two or three sizes, “it’s a red flag,”

People have been doing this long before GLP-1s since clothes sizing is so opaque. Clothes drop-shipped from China often fit ludicrously small but American brands fit ludicrously large. Product reviews now have metadata for the fit: "True to size"/"Fits small"/"Fits large". And increasing tolerances for clothes, to achieve faster production, means that the same item in the same size can fit completely differently.

If I can try on and buy something in a store, I will do so.

Maybe clicking that button unlocks an even higher unc tier.

Other discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48409664 (128 comments)

Are there any numbers on addiction? That seems like a separate issue than its public visibility, which seems like it flouts the existing rules on both alcohol and cigarettes.

That's a lot of em dashes.

Reminds me of the Palm Companion from 2019, a tiny smartphone that worked alongside your normal phone.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/6/18212311/palm-phone-review...

Wasn't last year also when Microsoft was ending support of Windows 10 and people felt compelled to upgrade? They can't pull that lever this year.