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to be fair, most smart rings (oura, samsung, even the cheap chinese ones on aliexpress) use ring sizing kits. it seems to be standard practice in this space.

Most of my driving is in and around the city I live in, so by now I've learned which spots it gets wrong, and where I can rely on it.

Knowing I can just keep my eyes on the road and have the car make the speed limit changes for me feels more relaxing and safer, exactly because it's easier to pay attention to traffic if I don't have to look at the dashboard as often.

I have a Volkswagen ID3, I love the adaptive cruise control. Yes, it gets it wrong in some spots (signage isn't great here in Asturias, Spain), and it gets it wrong in both directions (too slow at certain locations, too fast in others).

But I still appreciate the convenience of not having to keep an eye on the speed nor the distance between the my car and the vehicles in front of me when driving on the freeway, where it generally doesn't make mistakes.

I just tested. I'm 99wpm on a splitkb.com Kyria split ortho and 102wpm on the built-in keyboard of my macbook, doing a single run on each on monkeytype.com.

Switching layouts (e.g. qwerty to dvorak or colemak) takes a long time to get back to your normal speed, but ortho/columnar vs staggered in my experience is something you get used to very quickly.

But apparently there is a huge variance in how quickly folks adapt, so I may just be lucky or have enough past experience with different keyboard shapes that it happened to be easier for me.

I think https://oauch.io/ is quite useful to help you catch common implementation errors.

I think of stickers as partly a theft deterrence mechanism. I expect a thief is more likely to steal a laptop with no stickers, because naively I assume the resale value is higher (no idea if that's actually true).

Losing developer productivity for a few days because a new laptop has to be provisioned, shipped and set up is also not cheap, so I feel there is some value to your employer in you making it slightly less likely for your laptop to be stolen at a conference or coffee shop.

I installed some IKEA bulbs and switches with the IKEA dirigera hub, and had a terrible time. For example a LED strip lost connection a few times, and wouldn't connect on its own without unplugging/plugging.

I replaced the hub with a Home Assistant Green with ZHA, and I haven't had any issues since.

So in my experience each of the devices seem fine over Zigbee, but the hub doesn't seem verify good.

Looks like an attempt to make the main GitHub page (the part above the README) display something interesting. It is messed up now because of further commits, but you can see what it looked like at the time here:

https://github.com/attogram/bash-screensavers/tree/a7369a93c...

My understanding is that melatonin helps you fall asleep, but doesn't help you stay asleep.

In general, I have no trouble falling asleep, but I typically wake up once or twice at night and am usually unable to sleep more than 5.5 hours. I've tried 3mg Melatonin tablets in Ecuador, and I've tried a couple of different brands of 10mg time-release Melatonin gummies from the US. None of them had any noticeable effect on me.

The only thing that has worked so far, is physical activity. We just moved to Europe, and the first two weeks was a lot of buying and building furniture, slept great those two weeks. Now that I'm back to my normal office worker life, my sleep has also gone back to not being great.

(I track my sleep using the AutoSleep app on iOS, wearing an Apple Watch at night)

Google nowadays just seems afraid to store personal data. Google have moved your maps history/timeline to be on-device only, seemingly in response to geofence warrants. They're also deprecating health (Google Fit) APIs, and moving that data to be on-device.

So, removing POP (where they need to download emails to their servers), and only supporting IMAP (where emails stay on the third-party server) via their GMail app, that would be consistent with a policy to store as little personal data as possible. (it could also be completely unrelated :)

If having a CoC keeps folks like DHH and ESR out of a particular project, then I think the CoC is serving a valuable purpose.

I have a tiny HDMI screen which I can power from a USB port which I can plug into a computer if for some reason it is unreachable over the network. (this one: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B1L935ZT ), and a tiny keyboard with built-in track pad (something like https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00B9996LA ).

They're stored together in a small box with all needed cables, so they're easy to take with me to whichever computer is having issues. In practice I only use them a few times per year.

My experience is the same, git-annex just doesn't work well with lots of small files. With annexes on slow USB disks, connected to a Raspberry Pi 3 or 4, I'm already annoyed when working with my largest annex (in file count) of 25000 files.

However, I mostly use annex as a way to archive stuff and make sure I have enough copies in distinct physical locations. So for photos I now just tar them up with one .tar file per family member per year. This works fine for for me for any data I want to keep safe but don't need to access directly very often.

You don't need a max subscription to use Claude Code. By default it uses your API credits, and I guess I'm not a heavy AI user yet (for my hobby projects), but I haven't spent more than $5/month on Claude Code the past few months.

I had two popups visiting that medium link with uBlock Origin. Perhaps it is possible to get zero with UBO, but default settings don't seem to be enough.

I used to think less about people who check out at 5pm - how can you just leave and not give a shit that the code is a mess?

As someone who checks out at 5pm, I think you're looking at it from the wrong POV.

The main thing that drives me is the projects I work on in my spare time. I care that _that_ code is a mess. So, I might do a bit of work on that in the morning, but then start my actual paying job at e.g. 8am.

So how can I just leave my hobby project and not give a shit that the code is a mess? Because I get paid to do so, I have to work on whatever my boss wants me to work on because that's my job -- but as soon as 5pm hits I get to think about the stuff I really care about again.

You physically go to the bank.

The electricity company has their own employees to deliver paper monthly statements to all their customers, they can attach other communications if needed.

My bank has a connection to the electricity company, and can look up in realtime what my open balance is, which you can view and pay in the banking app. You can also pay it in cash at various offices (e.g. Western Union) around the city.

You can also just give the electricity company permission to automatically take it out of your account every month (ppl don't trust the electricity company to get the amount correct, so folks don't usually do this. I do this for the water bill though).

(this is my experience living in Ecuador for 10 years, I'm from the Netherlands, most of this is weird to me :)

A subsequent study has not found any link between the ADRB1/DEC2/other gene mutations and various sleep conditions:

- https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9499244/

I am incapable of sleeping more than about 5.5 hours (unless I'm severely sleep deprived). So to me it seems likely that FNSS (familial natural short sleep) is a thing, but more research is needed I guess.

I almost always have two side-by-side windows (C-x 3), usually when I'm writing a function I'll have the function on one side, and the other side is where I'm calling the function. So both windows change buffer constantly as I navigate a codebase.

Many countries in latin america still subsidize gasoline, so EVs just aren't as viable here compared to e.g. Europe where gas is taxed significantly.

(anecdotally, Chinese cars are pretty popular here in Ecuador, but they're fossil fuel cars, not EVs)

IIRC caBLE ("cloud assisted bluetooth low energy") sidesteps the usual bluetooth pairing process by using out-of-band channels (QR codes, NFC) to exchange initial pairing information.

As a contractor being paid through deel, I don't have any issues, and it's much more convenient for me than what my employer used before. Useful features have been added over the past few years, though I don't like the most recent UI refresh.

I can have multiple accounts in different countries, and configure percentages to be paid out automatically to each of my bank accounts. European tranfers typically arrive almost instantly, to Ecuador typically arrive the next day, sometimes the same day. It's all fairly convenient.

The flux keyboard seems to be a modern attempt at the same concept. They're taking pre-orders, I don't know if they've shipped any yet or how close they are to shipping.

https://fluxkeyboard.com/

100%, I was using husky because we were using it at work. But it turns out for my use-case all I needed was this in my package.json:

    "scripts": {
        "postinstall": "git config --local core.hooksPath etc/hooks"
    },

There are now three distinct methods to measure visual imagery objectively, without relying on someone's description of the vividness.

Here is a video in which prof Joel Pearson describes them: https://youtu.be/tA_4HNaKsS0 , IIRC Joel Pearson was involved in developing each of the methods, so I'm sure you can find his publications on the subject as well.

I'm using the Hey approach in Fastmail, so my main folders are Inbox and Screener, with a filter like this:

Matches NOT fromin:contacts -> Move to Screener

I'll check the Screener less frequently, and whenever I feel like it I'll take a message from it and use Actions -> Add rule from message.. and send messages from that sender to a Newsletter folder.

I still get lots of crap in the Screener, but then again I don't really use e-mail to communicate with humans, so in a sense all e-mail is automated nonsense from systems where I have some kind of user account.

Prof Joel Pearson has developed three distinct objective tests to measure aphantasia. Here is a talk about it: https://youtu.be/tA_4HNaKsS0

At least one community fork (redict) has already been announced:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39789986

I hope the community doesn't fracture too much and that at least one of possibly many forks gets enough momentum to be long-term sustainable.

Yes, Richard Fontana is Red Hat's open source lawyer.

Also the UI around managing resident keys is not great and uncoupled from where they are typically used (the browser).

Chrome allows you to see stored resident keys and delete individual resident keys on any hardware token which supports CTAP 2.1. (to be fair, it is a bit hidden: Settings -> Privacy and security -> Security -> Manage security keys -> Sign-in data).