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I have metronet and it load in a seconds for me, tbf, I came across this thread post HNhug of death, so...

I have the Amazfit watch as well, and one of the best things about them is that you can use GadgetBridge (Opensource app for Android) in case you don't want to get entrenched in their ecosystem.

You can update the firmware, install watchfaces and have nearly 100% functionality.

I get it! I haven't used Macs much, mostly windows and linux, suspend/resume is really funky on windows for me. Linux was pretty much instantaneous when resuming on my ThinkPad.

I also didn't lose much battery life, probably 5% overnight-midday.

I moved from a ThinkPad T450s upgraded with RAM, SSD and a battery to an AMD Advantage Edition laptop from Asus last year.

Key takeaways for me were:

1. Increased display resolution and display rate

2. Better battery life (99whr battery). I get about 10hrs just browsing and around 7-8 if I watch a movie

3. Better thermals, rarely notice the fan kick in

4. Nice coterie of ports: I get 1 HDMI, 1 USB-C, 3 USB-A, 1 3.5mm, LAN port

5. Good GPU (6800M) for occasional gaming and messing around with plaid-ml

6. I really love the processor, everything screams on it!

7. Mood based lighting (haven't tinkered around with it much, but my infant loves it)

8. I love whatever Asus has done with its 2 way Noise Suppression AI. I have my infant screaming and neighbors dog barking, but the person on the other end generally gets a very crisp voice. My boss has a few dogs barking all the time and I won't generally be able to notice them in meetings.

9. Upgradable dual RAM slots and SSD. The first I didn't find on a lot of laptops for some reason.

The only cons that I have are:

1. Lack of a webcam. I do have an external USB Lenovo 300FHD cam that I adore for it's privacy cover. I also tend to unplug its USB cord when I'm done with the meetings as well

2. Noise suppression thing seems to work on windows only

My mom tbh is really content with HDD on her laptop that I got her a few years ago. The only reason I upgraded it with an SSD is because windows 10 would randomly start utilizing 100% of the HDD and it would take nothing short of a hard shutdown to stop that. But on even a really cheap SSD, it was at 10% utilization.

Another anecdata as well!

I used to swim/gym around 3 years ago everyday for about 2 years. I used to sleep from 9.30pm to 7.30am because I used to be tired. Sleep used to help me recover a lot! And because I used to be asleep for such a long time, I never had time to binge watch or eat. I lost about 40kgs because of exercise, diet and mostly sleep.

Fast forward to now, I'm working in the night to match my colleagues schedule till my wife's and infant's visa arrive and I can travel to the university, this is about a timezone difference of 9.30 hours. I've never been more bloated, tired and depressed. I've also have gotten more ill, and have had a plethora or gastric issues.

No, your parent poster says that after Aqui-hire he might get pivoted away from it and hopefully the UX might improve.

It's not easy to do gene therapy? All the editing systems, have off targets that are yet to be studied.

Even then, let's say that they work, what about cases like gestational diabetes? Are you going to do gene therapy on a pregnant person to resolve diabetes that tends to normally vanish off once the baby is born? What about the impact on the baby?

Yeah, I didn't get the critique either.

People are like we listen to music, have a few docker instances running and we use VScode, we need 32 gb Ram or more.

Why do you need a text editor/ide which consumes so much ram? Is this the reason that apps have gotten more bloated and slow on older devices?

Idk, I'm not a programmer.

I think the price is fair enough, and if the ram isn't soldered (one would be and the other would be upgradable probably)

Had it launched a few months ago, I'd have probably picked it up. Because AFAIK, this seems to be a fairly decent laptop.

Not sure where they got the number from, but every year the climates have become a tad more warmer with summer temperatures routinely being closer to 50C in India.

I've been hearing nearly all my life that coastal areas like Bangladesh, Mumbai, Kolkata, orissa etc are at a severe risk of drowning due to rising sea levels.

I've experienced first hand water scarcity in many parts of the country, but more prominently near the Deccan plateau due to rainfall failures and lakes, rivers drying up as a consequence of exploitation leading to crop failures.

Their 1 billion number doesn't seem too far off though if we take into account not many hospitable places have measures controlling resource usage and exploitation.

I have a desert cooler that runs probably > 8hrs a day. I live in an area that's relatively not humid. My family is kinda lucky that we have a lawn surrounding the house and that's full of trees, so that cools the house a bunch as well.

Sometimes we do hang a bunch of palm mats on the windows and spray it with water, for evaporat-ive cooling.

Other than this, we also have lots of juices during the summer, and have diluted buttermilk to drink!

Most of us wear clothes that are loose around the groin and areas where sweat production/accumulation occurs the most.

Just curious, why does Google meet support blurring whereas zoom doesn't on linux?

This is on the same ThinkPad with 2 cores (broadwell era).

I tried Zoom's Blur function on an old as hell Dell Inspiron, probably the first generation i5 on windows and it works well there!

I'm not sure why this line of research is not being done more to be really honest. We are in Dire need of new antibiotics and updated books/documentation/procedures that don't use antibiotics willy nilly.

I'm saying this as a biologist and a bioinformatician. Hyper-effective antibiotics like Linezolids and Vancomycin are really one of the last bastions of safety. And hospitals are probably one of the easiest ways to spread R-Strains (resistant strains).

My infant who just a month and a half old was admitted back to the hospital after he stopped moving his right shoulder. We just got discharged a few days back.

Pus, blood cultures and tens of tests later we found it was MRSA, or Methicillin resistant staph aureus. We narrowly escaped complete sepsis after multiple invasive drainage procedures and being constantly monitored in Nicu with multiple antibiotics.

Pretty sure that it was a hospital infection considering the incubation period of the bacteria is around 10-14 days and we were back admitted at his 14th day of life.

Antibiotic resistance is also a big issue with cattle and lifestock, along with effluence in the drainage near pharma industries as well.

I rue the day that we cease finding effective antibiotics, because hell will break loose definitely then.

Probably not Framework or Apple? Haven't experienced these two yet, but don't almost all windows laptops come with McAfee? Removing it is a pain.

Isnt there a movie called Exam that does nearly the same thing?

If you're doing this, why not use barrier or something like that? Iirc, it does have audio forwarding as well?

How's FreeBsd on your hardware? I've been itching to try it on my ThinkPad, but with an infant and work, I'm not able to find the time to do so!

Not sure where I read this, but there are few features that are undocumented on the website probably! But some of them are mentioned here: https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented

One of the few issues that I've faced is pagination of the comments and occasionally "dang" might pop up to paginate the comments on heavily trending/debated topics.

My 2 cents would be to enable pagination after a set number of comments, so that it doesn't go on and on, on mobiles.

BTW, I really like this kind of website design as its minimal enough to load on terrible connections and easily viewable.

My recent gripe is a ach and every app seemingly wants to have location access, and just bluntly refuses to function without it.

My insurance providers app is really on the nose for it though! They want to monitor my movements to suggest a better fitness regimen.

It really is a terrible state of affairs, that you can't really survive these days without a smartphone, but you also get exploited a bunch.

For eg, in India, they made covid vaccine registrations via their app and more or less you couldn't get the vaccine by walking-in.

Given the abysmal existence of personal space and privacy in India, I'm not sure when my data has been breached.

This is awesome! I also do this for a living, tending more towards oncogenic side, but what you said is perfectly fine!

I'd also love to help OP :)

Probably a single user business that's has unlimited storage. I think the plan is for $12?

Calendar breaks because dependency for checking leap year is also somehow tied to is-odd/is-even

My first smart phone was a Windows phone. I loved the OS's responsiveness and the feel of the Lumias.

Years later, nothing still comes close.

I was more or less unemployed during the last financial year due to a variety of reason including burnout.

I work in computational biology and mostly self-learned at that, so I've been trying to brush up on programming and such.

One of the "memorable" interviews that I had included:

1. HR Round over phone

2. Programming test: I'm mostly an R guy, but the test involved python a ton. So had to learn that

3. Meeting with a Team-manager

4. Meeting with the Team

5. Live programming test

6. Diversity meet

7. Another HR meet

8. Interview with their Tech. officer etc

A total of 4 days, between the assignments and such stuff. Of course I'd openly told that I was under-qualified for the round 5 and I'd already expended 3 days for the interview.

Still had to proceed with round 5 and I just laughed at their faces when they couldn't understand why my domain knowledge didn't give what they wanted. Or why I didn't care to learn XYZ when I never heard/use it before.

Not everyone needs a CS guy and at the end of the day, nobody's reinventing the wheel over and over again that justifies interviews being 10s of hours long.

Probably the best interviews that I've given are just face to face and doesn't waste too much time for all the people involved. My current job had just two meetings, one with the team-manager and the other one was to introduce the person that I'd be working with.

No pair-programming, no fluff. Got the offer within the month and its probably the least stressful job with ample time to work on my hobbies and spend time with others.

Also, a few things that I've noticed/done since then:

1. Use linkedin/indeed or job listings as exactly that. Just notify if the jobs are available. I tend to contact the people hiring directly and explain what I do in an email. This surprisingly works a lot of time.

2. For cold-calls/spam-calls etc, I ask them to check my CV and decide if I'm a fit worth pursuing. I'm not going to spend more than a set number of hours depending on the position the interview is for.

3. Yes, this results in a lower number of interviews. But the ones that I got were significantly of a better quality, both in terms of money, projects and respect.

4. Regarding not everyone needs a CS guy: Most of my field is built by these folks, no disrespect. I'd rather interface with them and get things worked on or make things easier for me than to rub my 2 brain cells that decide when to use a for loop or lapply.

5. Follow-up for the pointer 4 above: I hate programming, but I love documenting stuff. My current job allows me to do that, I'd rather leave programming things to professionals, and rather explain my issues, nuances or thought-processes to them and get things sorted out.

I didn't understand your comment, which is probably my fault.

But you can absolutely install many bioconductor packages from conda.

I love using conda as my environment manager rather than compiling and installing 1000p different libraries and tools.

Also, I install mamba for drastically faster resolution of the dependencies.

My FIL does TV debates in India, and his setup is to skyoe/zoom/meet into their station.

He's using an iPad mini to run all the apps tbh, and it works fine more or less.

Can you share the link?

Agreed. For some reason many youtubers completely miss the vegetarian segment of the population because there's so many varieties of meats to focus on.

But a few popular ones that I follow are:

Vegan black metal chef Peaceful cuisine Hot for food

While I'm pretty sure that they might have meat based foods in their video lists, but they do have a really healthy collection of vegetarian foods as well.

What other places are better to live in?

My country is starting to look like a fascist authoritative regime run by a megalomaniac.

Sure, but as long as the phone works productively, I'm able to send messages or browse the internet in a pinch, that's all I need.

Fwiw, I still use my old Honor 8 and my wife her Redmi note 5 as a daily driver.