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If I wasn't tied to Garmin for the fitness aspect I would be all over this. I really miss my original Pebble.

The Okinawa diet commonly touted for longevity was primarily sweet potato, and only 1% fish.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okinawa_diet

Yeah, I was really hoping it was going to be like the Bass Pro Shops pyramid

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

Unless it passes some unknown threshold where it suddenly becomes good enough to suddenly be really popular, they’re still trying to prove relevance.

Depends on what you mean by relevance, 20 million Quest units have been sold which is more than Wii U lifetime sales (13.5 million), and about equals lifetime Gamecube sales and current Xbox Series S/X sales.

I'm sure it's not meeting expectations given how much they have subsidized them and how much they've spent on the metaverse, but I'm not sure I'd say the Quest itself is irrelevant. There's clearly an appetite for it.

The time notification reminds me of a screenless "watch" 10 years ago. It would buzz every 5 minutes as a supposed aid in perceiving the passage of time for various tasks.

https://www.theverge.com/2014/1/30/5361210/skrekkogle-durr-t...

Pizza Hut apparently still runs the Book It program, where students earn a free personal pan pizza for meeting a reading goal[1]. There's a lot of nostalgia I have for 90's Pizza Hut in part because of that program. That and the PS1 demo disc they gave out once.

[1] https://www.bookitprogram.com/faqs

In addition to the typical forms, there's also the synthetic analog idebenone. Obtaining it these days in an oral form is a bit harder though.

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

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7913973/

I remember this as well from the mid-late 2000s, it was like drawing on the bathroom wall but for the internet.

There's an updated post from an hour ago which should probably be the OP

https://blockfi.com/november-14-2022-blockfi-update

Doesn't look like anything new. AFAIK erythritol is the best of the sugar alcohols and potentially the safest of the sugar substitutes.

Another option that needs to be studied a bit more but seems safe so far is allulose, which is nice for baking since it will actually brown and doesn't have the cooling effect erythritol has.

Garmin Fenix/Forerunner/Instinct meets all of these, though at a significantly higher cost than the pebble. It's worth it for me because I'm into the fitness tracking but hard to justify otherwise.

It's not necessarily rewriting the constitution, and could take decades, but ensuring liberal judges get a majority on the supreme court is all it really takes in order to reverse the 5-4 D.C. v. Heller (2008) decision that first affirmed the 2nd amendment grants individuals the right to handguns for private use outside a militia. It's congressional legislation from there. Roe v. Wade already showed it's possible to overturn an opinion that grants individual rights.

Google does an okay job and certainly is the best option for searching Reddit that I'm aware of, but there are many cases where Google breaks (largely due to Reddit's site). It's common to get results that don't match anything in the content itself, but matches a title in the "more from this subreddit" section at the time Google scraped it. Dates are often wrong so adding date filters often doesn't work as expected.

Even old Reddit has the "more from this subreddit" type links now so I imagine it breaks even if you scope your query to the old domain. I noticed most of this appeared after they launched the new Reddit UI, I don't remember having this problem in the past. Note that these are problems they could likely fix so I agree, but any platform can likely build a more context aware search as well.

Disclaimer: I work at Google but don't work on search, opinions are my own, blah blah

The UI doesn't work in private browsing but you can autofill through the right click menu assuming the vault is unlocked already. Though sometimes it's a bit flaky and takes three attempts before it works.

Also curious what issues you've had with syncing, mine definitely sync at points and only occasionally require me to do a manual sync. Usually it's only an issue if I just added an entry on another device and want to immediately use it on another.

Very neat! An idea that often came up amongst coworkers while walking to a lunch spot during the hot summers was being able to get walking directions that preferred routes in shadow. We had our own routes we came up with that didn't add much time to the total trip but had a massive increase in shade versus almost none on the fastest route.

This reminds me a lot of that, though you would need good data on building heights and shapes as well as which side of the sidewalk you would walk on (if walking on both is even possible). Would love to see that get created some day.

Key management is definitely difficult and is full of tradeoffs depending on the risks you want to protect against. There are some nice guides out there that go into some of the details[1][2] as well as inheritance plans, and it typically involves multisig wallets (2 of 3, 3 of 5, etc) with some of the keys stored with a lawyer or other trusted party. Some commercial solutions exist like Casa which can make it seemingly easier, but has increased risk as a result. If you don't plan ahead, it's likely gone, but the setup time/cost of these solutions really only makes sense for large amounts.

I recall reading at one point about future support for time locked multisig in Bitcoin that could maybe help with that but don't know the status of that capability or how it works, or how difficult it is to set up.

[1] https://github.com/fresheneesz/TordlWalletProtocols

[2] https://glacierprotocol.org/docs/overview/

It can be used in smart contracts, DeFi (such as a decentralized crypto exchange or earning interest), and can be used for very fast transfers between centralized exchanges/services that might not allow actual USD deposits/withdrawals or that require waiting for an ACH transfer to go through. Several cryptocurrencies are good for transferring between centralized services, but USDC will be price stable in comparison. Fees can be a problem though.

I've been curious about this as well and decided to look it up; there's a nice video that shows it off fairly well[1]. The sunshield is perpendicular to the light coming from the sun, as is the view from the telescope, though the sunshield is large enough that it can be off several degrees and still keep the telescope in shadow. You can rotate the telescope about that axis and remain perpendicular to the sun allowing a 360 degree view forming a plane. As it orbits around the sun that plane is hitting a different slice of the sky so over the course of 6 months you can view everything.

[1] https://webbtelescope.org/contents/media/videos/1157-Video

Can definitely second kava. I went to a kava bar several times a few months ago and found it to be a great alcohol alternative. It also filled the niche of being a place where the atmosphere was more similar to a cafe so I could read a book or work on something in isolation, but without the downside of caffeine where you can't do that in the evening without ruining sleep quality. The social effects were definitely there.

Like you said, the crowd was largely people trying to quit or who had quit alcohol or benzos along with a fair amount of neurodivergent people. Being able to set aside some of my social anxiety and talk with them is part of what led to me getting assessed and diagnosed for autism recently.

The grandparent comment also mentioned phenibut which I find even more enjoyable, but like they said it can be habit forming and has a tolerance build up that limits safe use to once or twice a week.

[0] Even more controversial opinion: Sonic '06 is also better than Sonic Adventure 2.

Having never played either but having watched gameplay of both, I'm very interested in your thoughts on that.

I also agree that Sonic Adventure 1 holds up surprisingly well despite the jank. A lot of Dreamcast era games have a certain aesthetic to them that feels distinctly different from other games. Sega really had some wild ideas and while they didn't always hit they were still exciting because of how fresh and unique they felt. The lack of polish adds to that aesthetic; the games weren't following a cookie cutter formula like lots of modern open world games, they were spending their time really experimenting because designing for 3D and internet connectivity was still so new.

If tracking the vehicle to the destination is the goal it's fairly likely someone with an iPhone will pass by the vehicle at some point. Especially in an apartment complex or public shared parking.

Have you given kava a try? I reduced my alcohol consumption significantly to only rare occasions, and have recently found that kava serves as a nice substitute. The effects aren't as pronounced and you don't get the impaired judgement/reduced cognition, but I consider that a plus.

Showing two codes would definitely be a nice opt-in feature. Servers generally will compute codes within a sliding window to account for time sync discrepancies so there wouldn't be much harm. I could see how it may be confusing to some end users though.

Even some consumer products do this, OkCupid charges you less for a premium subscription if your profile states you are a woman.

To expand on that, Higan[1] is a super accurate SNES emulator that requires a decent CPU to run at full speed due to all of the weird quirks and on-cartridge chips[2]. For the popular games, typical emulators are probably good enough, but for true accuracy of all the quirks and special chips you need quite a bit of compute power. In the case of Speedy Gonzales, at least for a time (not sure if it's still the case) the only emulator you could actually beat the game on was Higan.

By comparison, Analogue sells the Super NT which is their own FPGA SNES that uses micro USB for power and probably requires about as much power as a Pi, but is comparable to Higan in terms of accuracy. Their implementation still uses physical carts though, so they skipped on implementing the special chips that were contained in the cartridge of various games. For _that_, there is the SD2SNES flash cart which runs its own FPGA for most of the chips (SA-1 support in beta).

[1] https://byuu.org/emulation/higan/ [2] https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2011/08/accuracy-takes-power-...

FWIW, I successfully used my unofficially supported Galaxy S9 in India. I did hit one snag, which is that I had bought the phone prior to going on the trip and hadn't installed the Project Fi app yet which meant I couldn't connect to any network after landing. Once I got on wifi and installed the app, I had 4G during my entire stay even in the most rural areas on overnight trains and no issues.

Though had I bothered to go through the whole passport photo/scan 24hr submission process for Airtel it would have been way cheaper.

How did I miss this a week ago? Looks great!

I recently whipped up a quick hobby project where I'm displaying a map on an old kindle by running wkhtmltoimage on a server and displaying the png. It's got a giant delay in responding with a lot of it due to Mapbox initialization time.

In addition to Clojure for the Brave and True that others have recommended, http://www.4clojure.com is a collection of bite sized problems where you fill in the blank to solve the problem. After solving a problem, go look at a few top users and compare against their solution.

When I was first getting into lisp/functional programming a few years ago I would find that after writing a 6-8+ line solution on some of the tougher problems, the top users would have a way of doing it in 1-2 either due to a standard library function I didn't know about or they just took a better approach overall.

I came across a use case for sqlite recently for storing some data I was scraping, and went through hell with the sqlite3 package due to the seemingly unnecessary async calls for everything. I've heard better-sqlite3[1] solves a lot of the problems since it is synchronous, and ends up having better performance as a result.

That said, the sqlite3 package soured me on it so much I ended up rewriting my script in clojure instead which came with the benefits of being able to use other jdbc libraries like honeysql.

[1] https://github.com/JoshuaWise/better-sqlite3

Blendle is somewhat similar to what you're talking about, though it's pay per article as opposed to per day.

https://blendle.com/

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