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I experienced acute lower back pain after walking for 30+ minutes. I searched the whole internet to find a solution but only found advice saying, "if you have back pain, walk!" which was ironic since my pain occurred while walking. Then it dawned on me: I sit most of the day, cycle a lot, and drive my car, but I wasn't walking regularly. Now, I walk the dog for 40 minutes a few days a week, and the pain has disappeared!

windguru which is in part or fully based on crowd-sourced weather stations is already surprisingly accurate few days in advance, in many regions I tried. For a few hours forecast nothing beats the rain radar. I wonder if they have already or will put some AI in their models.

In my previous service company, we aimed for 10%, which was considered the norm. However, we were particularly bad at achieving this, with only 8-9%, though we did have a good atmosphere and happy employees

When I began building bikes 10 years ago, Sheldon's site was already like an old book in the library.

It was a reference for older topics, such as recently when I needed to understand the internal workings of a Sturmey Archer hub to fix one.

However, it hasn't been of much help for the new developments from the past 15 years since his passing.

While less organized and sometimes messy, YouTube and many other sites can answer any bike mechanic question. Even ChatGPT generally provides good answers

If you like to tinker, buy a frame from Decathlon. Install a Bafang motor. Get Onirii MT4 brakes. Both are available on AliExpress. Use a 200mm front disc and 180 rear disc. Get a wheelset with a Sturmey-Archer hub, or normal wheels with a robust Shimano 9-speed transmission. And you have a very decent e-bike for around 1600€

The 2013 Macbook pro 13" has been my longest running laptop for work, and swapped it for the M1 two years ago because of the reviews. One of my kids is still using it for school.

I never had a laptop for that long before. And just had to replace the battery once, by an after market one. The keys on the keyboard disappearing is the only notable aging symptom.

Maybe an outlier, but based on that, I'm confident the M1 may last long too.

Red Sea Dam 3 years ago

This would solve all Europe's energy problems. We "just" have to convince and compensate less than 1% of the European population.

Each time I see this story pops up, I think how it could be great, and impossible at the same time.

Porsche is part of the VW group, and while you could expect something better for the price paid, the UI is even worse in their EV Taycan. With poor touch screen feel and frequent crashes too.

Luckily they integrate, when it works, with CarPlay and Android Auto that provides a 2023 like interface.

The last year drama firing the CEO for many reasons, one being poor software results, doesn't bring hope for a fresh update any time soon.

I feel the same after programming for about 25+ years. Now I get an idea, ask GPT how to do it, or if there are other options, choose and adapt to my use case.

[edit] after reading the article... Why Priya couldn't use GPT and do the job much faster?

I was about to say get a Bafang too. Put it on a normal, better old, bike. They are indestructible. And all other parts are standard and cheap. You need some bike mechanics skills, and a little understanding in connecting electric components. But all is well documented on the web.

In Belgium, we had Dutroux a serial rapist and child kidnapper that traumatised the country ~30 years ago. As a kid I remember living like you describe in Norway. Not anymore. Parents are still to this day worried letting their kids go outside.

Fast forward to spring 2020. The country is locked down. The weather is surprisingly excellent. It took me a lot of effort to leave my 8y old girl go play with her friend to the small wood nearby. Initially I even asked her to go with the dog. I could see the disapprovals of other parents I was talking to about this. But little by little other kids joined.

They had a blast. No school for months. Living in the sunny woods all day, just coming back to eat and sleep.

She's 10 now and as you can imagine a very independent girl.

This blog post from the BMJ wasn't particularly comforting when published in the middle of covid: https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2021/07/05/time-to-assume-that-hea...

Richard Smith was the editor of The BMJ until 2004.

Competing interest: RS was a cofounder of the Committee on Medical Ethics (COPE), for many years the chair of the Cochrane Library Oversight Committee, and a member of the board of the UK Research Integrity Office.

The subjectivity of truth is very hard to be trained to, and it is probably biased by the content it has read. But what if AI would come with unexpected answers to problems we humans represent? Guiding us for future improvements.

We do not have a good track record historically on many painful subjects.

Particularly saddened they didn't chose web components.

After 25+ years of HTML, JS, CSS, the switch to TS, WebComponent(lit) and Tailwind in Vite is like sci-fi for me.

But let's discuss this again when escapy.js the library, that does not exist yet, will replace svelte in 5 years