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It also sounds like it would make me less active... One of the things in my life that brings me the most fulfillment and joy. The company is incentivized to keep your brain glued to their systems (and diverted from the real world) for as long as possible to increase earnings. I already feel that I am some animal product being held ever more tightly in my digital stall by my own human weaknesses.
I don't doubt that the tech will survive in some form. It will be cool and useful someday. I'm glad that Meta is martyring itself to push things forward. But delivered by Meta, it sounds to me like an extension of the dystopian nightmare of algorithmically delivered UGC that's fraying the fabric of society in uncomfortable new ways and lowering our collective aptitude for the things that really matter.
Or, asked more simply: Will I actually use the internet for what it's good for, or just keep browsing Hacker News?
https://github.com/pnovotnak/ohm
It was inspired by the HN anti-procrastination feature.
The English TTS is not great compared with anything else I've tried, but it's serviceable
With OSMAnd you have to make a significant investment in UI customization. It won't really get prettier but it will start to fit you better than anything else.
I started using it because it allows you to download huge areas as vector maps for offline use. But I find myself slowly using it more and more. The only things missing that keep me using gmaps are search, reviews / places, and directions that factor traffic (not a biggie tbh). However, I've been playing with mapbox and, without any prior experience whatsoever got a traffic overlay working within a few hours with a free account. I believe they provide the other parts (search, routing & places) too, I just need to figure out how to plumb them in.
I have tried a ton of map apps and IMO OSMAnd has all the pieces to be a serious competitior, at least for technical folks, with just a little bit of commercialization... The gmaps moat is not as deep or as wide as it seems.
If you are an OSMAnd dev reading this, I will happily pay a monthly fee for this stuff if provided as a cost plus package... I get a ton of value out of the app already, already pay for it and hate Google maps more with every passing day.
I personally hope ebikes come to fill a space between cars and bikes. My dream ebike does 35mph+ for 40mi+ with 50-100w of human input and has some cargo capacity and probably an extra seat. My household has a car (prius-c) and a converted van for longer trips / cargo moving. For me, this would allow me to ditch my car which is primarily used in the city. Though a bike like this would be pretty competent on surface streets mixing with automotive traffic, I would still probably need _some_ infrastructure to make it work well. Secured ground-level storage & parking near stores and points of interest, and streets with appropriate speed limits (<45mph).
The climate where I live is mild costal, but I believe this is possible even in more extreme continental climates with spikes, etc. Clothing tech has made staying dry & warm not too hard.
I have looked at the Twike but it's just an impractical device. Way too expensive & trying too hard to be a car.
Some corrections: - Freewheels don't preclude regen - You'll always need brakes - Some folks need better than 15-20mph ;-)
Also let us know how things go
I've had lots of ideas about alarms and how they could be better after that break in.
I have a fence electrifier that I'd love to get set up but I don't want to fry anything inside the van.
Another idea is something that sets off something _extremely_ loud inside, like a firework.
Sadly the off the shelf part does the job well enough that I will probably never invest much time tinkering. I've asked the vendor about public APIs but they are not interested.
If someone builds a simple car alarm kit with cell connectivity I will gleefully rip out the old system.
There is definitely an opportunity here to make something that doesn't suck. If you added a couple of cameras and used ML I think you could build a much better product.
They could have taken my registration papers or the cheap / second hand cookware, stove etc. Which would have been a pain and cost not a lot, but some money to replace. I don't have room in my apartment for all of these items, so I rely on the alarm to keep my things safe. Especially when I am out of town without my van.
The article does mention valuables as a special case, but I would like to highlight this case and argue that these "valuables" are part and parcel to the function of this vehicle and that it's not practical for me to remove them, making the alarm essential to the vehicle's operation.
However, I do agree with the sentiment that most shock/vibration/etc. Sensors should not trigger an audible alarm. The only really useful trigger is a door opening. I'm not sure this is necessarily true, but is definitely true of the aftermarket alarm options on the market when I wash shopping for an alarm.
I'll also add as a final note that the police (both in Vancouver and where I live) will simply not help you recover stolen property and are 100% useless as far as property crime goes. They are either too busy or too apathetic. For items like what I have in my van it is of course not really worth their time, but I've also had a motorcycle stolen _which was driving around with my plates for over a year before it was *crashed*_. As a citizen I am definitely on my own with this stuff which is a good lesson to learn while you have insurance.
> By 4am the D to R ratio was all thrown out of whack. That is because these ballots were not sampled from the real Wisconsin voter population, and they were not randomized in the mail sorting system with the other ballots. They inherently have a different D to R signature...
Anyone who knows anything knows Milwaukee (not just as a city but as Wisconsin's largest city) votes blue. So as soon as those votes start getting counted the votes will shift blue. You _should_ see this bimodal distribution in vote counts.
15 years ago doing this stuff well took at least 10x the engineers it does today and you would have had to cut yourself on every sharp corner that these tools make smooth.
At my last company (a startup) I (1 person) bootstrapped infra for a continuously deployed web app that distributed scientific workloads across 10k+ cores of compute in 6 months with no prior experience running large clusters. 15 years ago that would have been impossible. Frankly it wasn't really difficult enough to be fun with these tools.
For handwriting... Not so much. Can only write with one hand in one orientation.
New split screen mode is pretty tantalizing. I could be persuaded to upgrade if this model has a better stylus situation--I could stop carrying a notebook altogether most days.
P.S. To the sony employees out thre: A graphing app would be amazing