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The Bangle.js 2 is an excellent watch.[1] As a former Pebble user, this is the first device that I consider an adequate replacement for my Pebble (which by now has a diminished battery life and corroded charging contacts).

Here is my impression of the Bangle.js 2:

- Battery: Lasts about 3 weeks on a charge, constantly connected to my phone, when the watch is used for notifications and alarms. This is a major advantage over Apple Watches and Android/Wear OS watches. I don't want to charge my watch every day.

- Display and buttons: The 1.3" 8-color transflective display is comparable to the Pebble Time series' 64-color transflective display. The display is always on, and the backlight activation is highly configurable. The Bangle.js 2 has a touchscreen and 1 button, while Pebble watches have no touchscreen and 3 buttons.

- Software: Runs on the completely free and open source Espruino JavaScript interpreter,[2] which was my main motivation for purchasing this device. There are currently 336 apps in the web-based Bangle.js app loader (app store), including utilites and clocks (watch faces), all of which are FOSS. The bootloader and firmware can be updated directly from the app loader. On Android, there is a distribution of Gadgetbridge (built from the same code base as Gadgetbridge) with internet access enabled that integrates the Bangle.js app loader into Gadgetbridge, which makes it very easy to use the watch.[3] I haven't built any apps for the watch yet, but Espruino has a web-based IDE.[4]

- Build: Built on the same device body as the SMA Q3.[5] The casing is plastic, and the watch is compatible with standard 20 mm watch straps. The IP67 water/dust resistance makes the watch usable for sports.

Overall, I highly recommend the Bangle.js 2 watch, which is the best FOSS-focused watch I have found to date. I hope this project catches on and continues to succeed.

[1] Bangle.js 2: https://banglejs.com/

[2] Espruino JavaScript interpreter: https://github.com/espruino/Espruino

[3] Bangle.js Gadgetbridge (distribution): https://www.espruino.com/Gadgetbridge

[4] Espruino Web IDE: https://www.espruino.com/ide/

[5] SMA Q3: https://www.smawatch.com/details?product_id=130
Most recent IPOs are down 70%. CEO biting someone has nothing to do with food popularity. Beyond sells very well in grocery stores, Impossible is still stocked and selling at BK (especially Whopper Wednesday when it is sold nearly below cost), and Panda Express just launched Beyond chick'n.
Trader Joe's sells Impossible as well as house brand versions.

The only thing slowing down mock meat, which is selling in many varieties by many companies, is the extreme price.

Guardian is not a quality news source.
I bought an M1 Pro a month ago. While I kinda miss linux, I do not miss x86 at all.

Seriously, going back from a performant arm64 to x86 feels like going back to the POWER architecture all over again. Big bloated chips where every little computation generates a lot of heat and you need big fans to dissipate all of it.

I wish I could do the same, although in the lower end, with my Raspberry Pi 4. Sadly, those laptop cases for the RPi are too expensive, if you include shipping, to justify them.
Well, you can always draw a distinction because every case is arguably unique.

But there is research that indicate wrongful or negligent death is one of the leading causes of death in the US, up there with heart disease or cancer (now covid probably). And that's just related to medical treatment, not the auto companies, drug companies, and every other business or corporation.

Is this case worse than average? Sure, that seems very plausible. Should the damages be higher than average, sure, why not.

But large businesses face hundreds of lawsuits at any given moment. People die every day because of negligence and don't get a dime, and it seems extreme and unjustifiable that the difference between them and this case is literally infinity to one.

The edge, if you perceive one, in my words (and I think there is) is coming from the sense that propaganda about plaintiff's lawyers has convinced the public most lawsuits are frivolous, versus my knowledge of the "part of the iceberg below the waterline", the sheer volume of serious (but insignificant to large companies in terms of financial liability) lawsuits that you don't know about unless you have some experience (not necessarily as a lawyer) in corporate litigation support.

Also this is reinforced by my life outside of work, where family members and acquaintances have had serious harm done to them via prescribed drugs and medical care, and you know, they didn't get a billion dollars. Did any of them or their families deserve a cool billion? Eh...maybe not, but one should have the grace to justify why their lives weren't worth even a dollar.

>That’s _the point_ of punitive damages.

The point of punitive damages is that they put people out of business? How much do you think it happens? I predict that Charter will not be destroyed by this (assuming it's upheld) and that other companies that might be deterred or destroyed by such an award will continue to (usually) not get anything similar.

It's possible there should be a criminal case - I am vaguely wondering, not being a lawyer, if you could make a case for felony murder.

So I'm not of the view that a billion dollars is too harsh.
> But you've not sent money to yourself, you've sent Eth to yourself, and you still need a forex transaction on each end?

True -- it cuts down on middle men though!

Also, there's the very very theoretical case of buying things in ETH/USDC/whatever else. While buying things in BTC and ETH may be a pipedream (I don't think so in the ETH case but I won't try to defend it), stable coins are quite alluring as essentially proto-FEDCoin.

There is no reason every nation won't have a coin, and they'll be traded that way. There are a lot of negative effects to more heavily digitizing the money system, but that's another discussion -- crypto is just serving as an emotionless, politics-free money transferer (of course, it is enveloped in politics still), with a different fee structure (vs. Western Union, for example).

I said this elsewhere but basically it gives us a chance to rebuild the money system. Even if what we build is bad it's not like we're being forced into it -- but if it's even a little better, the value is infinite (given infinite time).

> I've thought of crypto as "hawala banking for geeks" for a while now, but if it's banned by the government then inserting extra steps does not fix that and if you become big enough they will come after you for money laundering.
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> Why do you want to trade shares via a blockchain rather than a perfectly normal broker?

I'm not sure the government will ever actually ban it at this point. Especially with the relatively "blessed" nature of USDC and size Coinbase has grown to (and it's market leader position). I think at this point bitcoin exists as a political tool and prepping mechanism for the complete digitization of currency. FedNOW is the first step in that direction, maybe we'll get FEDCoin later.

Brokers charge fees, and are protected by capital requirements and regulation (which also protects consumers of course!). I think a rebuild of the system gives us a chance to meaningfully improve on the system of legislation and regulation we have so far -- the second build of finance, let's say.

For example, it's unnecessarily hard to set up an ETF -- I think the middlemen, gatekeepers, and fees there could be reduced to near zero there.
Weird, I installed Asahi on my M1 Pro and while the two finger scroll isn't butty smooth as MacOS, it works well enough and already better than in any Thinkpad touchpad.
I don't think they did, but celebrities are nothing if not PR machines, so I'm sure it was simpler to get this signed.
> i suspect a lot of the bad press they get comes from the fact that there's a lot of very sharp eyes making use of their gear and that similar issues happen in other lines but just go unnoticed.

No, it's really just them. They worked hard to earn that bad press. It's not even that they keep pre-installing malware, but how they've handled it when they're caught speaks volumes.

When the truth about superfish came out first they fiercely denied there was any security risk to anyone ("we have thoroughly investigated this technology and do not find any evidence to substantiate security concerns”), then eventually they admitted it was a problem and said they'd stop shipping devices infected by it, but continued to anyway more than a month later (https://arstechnica.netblogpro.com/information-technology/20...) and the instructions they gave users for removing the offending software still left systems vulnerable while giving people a false sense of security. When they were caught doing that they issued new instructions and those still left users vulnerable!! (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/feb/20/lenovo-ap...)
Since the new Star Wars movies aren't canon, it's clear they'll to have to revisit older stories. Especially between Episode 3 and 4. So it's good insurance to get the voice, since Star Wars is and always has been a story about Anakin Skywalker.

When they take a stab at Episodes 7 - 9 again in a few years, they'll probably incorporate Anakin's force ghost more too. Although I suppose they don't need the voice. Might need it for flashback though.
I personally have to take care to eat extra protein. I didn't really when I still ate neat.
I think modem transformers might have a similar problem of limited bandwidth--they may be rated from 300 Hz, but they are also rated to 3.4 kHz or something similar. Modems were mass-manufactured, and transformers tend to be expensive, so you would expect any expensive part in a mass-manufactured product to be engineered to within a hair's breadth of the specification for modems, which have something like 300 Hz - 3.4 kHz frequency range.

On the low end, you have core saturation. On the high end, you have parasitic inductance and capacitance, as well as loss from hysteresis and eddy currents. Solving these problems basically means making the transformer larger and more expensive.

I did a quick search on Mouser, and found wideband (20 Hz - 20 kHz) audio transformers at around $6 in small quantities. Let's say that you get it for $3 in bulk. At that point, you're adding something like $20 or $30 to the retail cost of whatever it is you're selling.

If you're okay with the telephone-quality of the simple modem transformers, then you might as well use the optoisolator--neither option sounds good, but the optoisolator is cheaper. You know, as long as you have a power supply on both sides--which is not a given.
The title is meant to evoke an image, rather than be taken literally.

That said, it is a weak article. It is more of a nostalgia trip that says very little about learning from our past.
What is Game b? I looked it up and I'm both fascinated and confused. I wondered if you could tell me more about it.
Old laptops & desktops too have been left in the dust for some time now.

Decades ago one of the most important benchmarks of Linux distributions was they were all higher performance using less resources than the original Windows that came with the PC.

If you have a PC with only 1GB of memory which still works fine with XP or W7, most distros are now unusable.
Sexual System
DSLs have their place. Twig for example is/was a nice templating lib for PHP. (Smarty is of course completely cursed.)

There's value in separating the presentation layer from the other parts. There are nice things in Twig that are not in PHP. (Pipes, for-else, etc.)

Of course PHP was (is?) far from a general purpose language, but a templating lib allows PHP core devs to focus less on "templating".

And it's just reality that fixing/improving/iterating/evolving a library is much easier than the host language. Updating a lib version is easier than updating language version. Similarly it's a real constraint that not every company/team/engineer will be able to "just hire competent designers".

React is also suffering from this. (Due to its popularity, hence it's the victim of its own success. Or looking at the big picture it's the normal part of the hype cycle.) The article mentions that every React repo/project is different and full of their own conventions. (And implies that they are broken too.) Oh, who would have guessed? After all it's just a view layer and people will put a myriad things on top of whatever the current "create react app" spits out.
This puts me in the mood for a Diet Shasta.
Read everything by Deborah Tannen https://www.amazon.com/s?k=deborah+tannen+books&crid=ESQNSXT...
Comes with “vpro corporate.”
When the software to build the web pages is finished, and I can create the markup to marry commentary with the code in the Git repository for the Linux kernel. This is a work in progress, not a finished product.
I don’t understand why you would want a Tesla etf. Seems like a path for unsophisticated investors to loose money in ways they don’t understand
My favorite example of the technical failings of HTML: https://research.securitum.com/mutation-xss-via-mathml-mutat... is a HTML sanitizing vulnerability that came about because some HTML not only doesn't survive a parse-stringify cycle, but the generated DOM tree does not survive a stringify-parse cycle!
Airplanes, helicopters ... they seem to fight gravity, somehow not meant to fly, but succeeding nonetheless by overwhelming gravity almost violently with sheer horsepower.

Hot air balloons, gliders, airships seem much more casual. Not so much fighting with gravity as making a kind of gentleman's agreement with it.

I think that's why we might romanticize them. It is certainly a big reason I do.
This is a thing now. Instead of modern humans putting in an effort to learn hard won knowledge their predecessors tried to communicate to them, we have know-nothing reporters incentivised to manufacture drivel for their corporate masters selling ads.

And old men yelling at clouds.
What makes a farm humane? I think a lot of people would consider butchering animals inhumane, regardless of how nice you treat them prior to doing so.
The SPR wasn't unloaded to China. But somehow, I think you already know that.
I'm with you on the last one, and I sometimes wonder whether religious people still have that sense of fascination with the unknown, or with what is possible.

I would like to have that again, if only for a few moments.
Haha, yeah, we should definitely put a little bit more efforts into SEO :) Everyone is so focused on the hard-core engineering at the moment. I think Matthew from the community is actually working on a new comprehensive benchmark for us at the moment, which I hope will be published soon.
Just like everywhere else, silliness in the audio world is Pareto distributed.

As someone who loves good sound reproduction, it's tiresome to have people endlessly start talking about magic rocks or whatever whenever the topic of audio quality or audio electronics is brought up online. What's sad to me is that a lot of this cynicism seems to come from people who haven't even heard a really good pair of speakers or headphones, and it drives people away from having potentially beautiful experiences. Go visit your local high end audio shop and ask for a demo. They will probably be glad to have you. Listnening to well-recorded music through great transducers and electronics in a well-treated room is a mind blowing experience if you haven't tried it.
White Glove Service
That's the difference between science and engineering. Engineering only needs to be good enough to achieve the desired results. If a simplified model gets you there then something more accurate isn't worth the bother.
A few operating systems, mostly UNIX clones, did exist that specifically took advantage of 286 protected mode. The 286 has user and supervisor modes, and could address up to 16 MB of physical memory. In protected mode it still used 8086 style segmented addressing, but the segments were virtual.
1B+ MAU along with the fact that people spend more time on TikTok than all streaming services combined. Its quite stunning how quickly TikTok is growing, and given the new ways in which they plan to monetize their user base, this ain't gonna stop any time soon.

Sidenote - Only a few years ago, I thought it'd be damn near impossible to compete with FB + IG in the social media space OR with Google + FB in the digital ads industry. On both counts though, I've had to rethink my position given the rise of TikTok, Amazon[1] and Apple[2].

[1] - https://www.statista.com/statistics/1305698/amazon-advertisi...
[2] - https://www.statista.com/statistics/1330127/apple-ad-revenue...
Does it? I was under the impression that microwaving food is actually one of the best ways to keep nutrients, compared to most other cooking methods.
Expressing yourself doesn’t require an audience does it?
After checking their github repos I’m only seeing a web mail client with metamask for auth instead of user password. It’s using a normal graphql api. Very decentral. I guess web3.0 only requires a „login with metamask“-button now.

Oh, and about the cool, very decentral drive on IPFS thing: the drive is still only on a single server, pinned by a single server. That’s how IPFS works. It it would work otherwise and they didn’t have to actually pay their storage bills, they wouldn’t limit the storage to a mediocre 10GB less-than-gdrive shit tier.
"They"

Seek help.
Did you consider adopting the OpenAPI standard for specifying the mock endpoints and their responses?
What's needed is for Facebook and Google to gin up a replacement!
The good ones got looted and sold to the USA decades ago. The shit ones probably got officially destroyed but instead got substituted for the ones sold off.
My iPhone 14 Fell Off My Motorcycle and Told My Family I Crashed
(n.b. that I am not the author, the "I" in the title is Douglas Sonders, not me)
Certificates is paperwork BS. Just look at ISO 9001. What a joke. You can be ISO 9001 “quality” certified and deliver absolute crap.
Weird the images worked for me... Maybe try reader mode if you're using FF?

Re-uploaded just in case it doesn't work:

https://imgur.com/a/QSF2mnh
Fixed-point check failed on chrome 104.0.5112.101
Visualizing 140 Years of Global Surface Temperatures
Diffuse assets like reputation don't appear on the quarterly asset sheet. So the first time such a company has a bad quarter they'll be forced to pawn them off for cents on the dollar in the name of 'efficiency' ortheir funders will have a tantrum and coup the management.

The vc funding model is fundamentally incapable of respecting anything that isn't 'more control for investors and make line go up now'
I'm not an accounting expert by any means but I've been around long enough to see far too many examples of single entry accounting systems that have gone completely off the rails and nobody knows why because meaningful data (i.e. "$M moved from X to Y on date Z by process P") is not captured and difficult or impossible to recreate.

Sure, computers can do basic math and ACID usually works out but that doesn't account for human-level errors. Subtle things like getting an idempotence check wrong can lead to cascading errors that are really hard to see and fix when you just have one view into the numbers.
Path dependence. SCOTUS decisions slowly but surely led to this. Most people don't care. Those who do are overwhelmingly "tough on crime" and "think of the children" and "drugs are bad" and so on idiots. And so the "average citizen" (median voter) cheered for these decisions, and so here is the result.
Perhaps a more intuitive name would be "round-trip serialization HTML". That is, if you use the browser to parse and print some HTML, it matches the source code.

Or in other words, it's formatted the same way that the browser would do it. So, you use the browser to pretty-print the HTML page, and save the code as the source. It's not hard at all and could be done automatically.

Round-trip tests are often used to check that a deserialization routine outputs data that can be serialized again and no data is lost. It even lets you change the serialization format, provided that you change the parser and printer to match.

I expect that these sort of tests are a lot more useful with fuzzing, though. Finding one example that works mostly just tells you that the browser's HTML printing code isn't completely broken. A single test of that sort is only useful for catching stupid bugs quickly.
Putin scrambles for high-tech parts as his arsenal goes up in smoke
Do you trust humans to do data entry properly?
Most gas furnaces and water heaters won’t work unless they have electricity anyways
Funny enough, before I posted the question I thought to myself "I wonder how this would be received"?
Garmin fucked up with the GPS week rollover just like the rest of them.
Yes, for the same reasons.
Oh, okay... https://lnav.org is a log file viewer for the terminal that integrates with SQLite so you can use SQL to query your log files.

No benchmarks, though.
Performance is terrible though.
I have a friend who was a flight attendant for the oldest Mexican airline, and she indeed told me how sometimes, when there's a critical system malfunction before a flight, often managers call the pilots privately and offer a bribe to fly the plane with that malfunction. The pilot can refuse the offer without any problems or losing the job, but it's a bit scary to think that's there's corruption at that level.

Fortunately, planes are extremely robust and somehow Mexican airlines have an excellent safety record.
Yup same exact problems you get with a double entry system just with twice the effort.
Police wouldn’t want that. They want to get every chance they can get to add an arrest to their resume. It’s helps with promotion and pay. It doesn’t seem to matter if the arrest is later determined to be incorrect.
Sensor could be optical. Gas sensor using fiber to carry the signal. But probably this is almost paranoia, electrical sensors would trip much earlier than a critical concentration would form. Also possible to design a very well encapsulated electrical sensor.
The preprocessor would likely have to be a separate ad-hoc step, but it is possible that langcc could be used to generate a full C frontend if one is willing to run two passes (needed to deal with ambiguous cases such as "x * y", which can be either a multiplication expression or a variable declaration, depending on the contents of the symbol table).
My impressions of the Bangle.js 2 are here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32968185

The Bangle.js 2 is equipped with a GPS and has a decent selection of location tacking apps,[1] though I've never used this feature. There are currently no Bangle.js apps that support streaming audio to Bluetooth, since it only has 8 MB of flash memory, but if you're comfortable with this limitation, you're certainly free to develop this feature and get it supported on the device and on Gadgetbridge.

The battery lasts about 3 weeks on a charge when used for notifications and alarms. GPS use would drain the battery heavily, but I'm not sure how quickly.

Because it runs on the FOSS Espruino JavaScript interpreter, the Bangle.js 2 is the most hackable watch I've found to date. Espruino has a web-based IDE,[2] and the Bangle.js app loader currently shows 336 apps available, all FOSS.[3]

[1] Outdoor apps for Bangle.js: https://banglejs.com/apps/?c=outdoors

[2] Espruino Web IDE: https://www.espruino.com/ide/

[3] Bangle.js app loader: https://banglejs.com/apps/
I wonder if you can make a heat pump water heater that can plug into a regular 20amp circuit as a simple retrofit. Performance will be poor/slow but landlords don’t care
Nope. User error or spyware.
>If it is just a false rumor

Maybe I'm missing the context, but what exactly is "it". The OP doesn't say and neither does this.
It's because you have an ad-blocker of some sort enabled. They inject stuff into pages.
It may have been better from a sysadmins view, but user wise I loved Unix immediately. Whereas VMS? Meh.

I think this same system oriented view (as distinct from user) is what sunk DEC, HP and Sun.