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ch00f,

Apple released a native x86 version of Tiger with their first Intel Macs.

ch00f,

I worked in wearable electronics back in 2013. At the time, everyone was trying to crack wristworn heart rate monitors. It’s a challenging problem to solve: having to detect a faint color change in human skin while ignoring the massive shifts in ambient light from sunlight to shade all while bouncing around on a wrist.

Different vendors had different solutions and couldn’t even agree on what color LED was best for illuminating the skin.

Anyway, when the next generation of Nike Fuelband came out and didn’t include heart rate monitoring, I’ll never forget one of the comments I saw on a review.

“Come on Nike, it’s not hard to add a heart rate monitor. Just use pulse tracking.”

ch00f,

A bit conceited to carve it into a human hand. I feel like a more appropriate tribute for the tree would have been to carve it into a tree.

ch00f, (edited )

While many athletes are millionaires, many others make a reasonable salary for the 5-10 years that their knees still work and then “retire” with no transferable skills, broken bodies, and scrambled eggs for brains.

ch00f,

Just adding more victims to the pile.

ch00f,

In most occupations, if you leave with major brain injury, you get some kind of compensation. In the NFL, that’s just how the game works.

So I’d say comparing it to entrepreneurship isn’t quite fair.

ch00f,

She’s a moron. Normally when you open the door, the windows will slide down a half inch so they can clear the weather stripping as the door opens.

The emergency release just opens the door so the window will kind of drag through the weather stripping. I guess if you do this enough, it could damage the rubber seal. The car will warn you about it if you open the door that way, but by no means is it worth sweating to death in a car to avoid.

ch00f,

Different design philosophies. Fewer moving parts, fewer things to break.

One thing I’ve heard is that Tesla has plans to detect oncoming hazards and not allow the door to open if, say, a car or bicycle is approaching nearby. More difficult if there’s always a physical link between the handle and door latch.

ch00f,

My 1998 Toyota Corolla where the inside and outside driver-side door handles broke begs to differ.

ch00f,

It broke in 2006

ch00f,

I think you’re talking about the Model S. The Model 3/Y don’t have motorized handles.

ch00f,

How does having a lever you pull to leave the car in an emergency make it a death trap?

ch00f, (edited )

Yeah. They cancelled it after they realized that people were buying consoles to build computing structures which went against Sony’s “sell the console at a loss and make it up in game sales” strategy.

Edit: on wait, that was PS3.

ch00f,

The total biomass on Earth is 550 billion tonnes which at some point would have just been CO2, so that’s got to count for something.

ch00f,

That’s a good point. My number is all of the current biomass (according to Wikipedia), but all the CO2 we’ve produced since the Industrial Revolution was also originally captured by living things. So add all the gas and coal that ever existed on earth to that number.

‘My whole library is wiped out’: what it means to own movies and TV in the age of streaming services (www.theguardian.com)

*What rights do you have to the digital movies, TV shows and music you buy online? That question was on the minds of Telstra TV Box Office customers this month after the company announced it would shut down the service in June. Customers were told that unless they moved over to another service, Fetch, they would no longer be...

ch00f,

What’s funny is that’s how it started. Apple sold movies as early as 2007 before Netflix or Amazon video or whatever and expected you to host the files locally either on your computer or your AppleTV (which had a hard disk drive at the time) and stream it locally over iTunes. If you lost the file, that was supposed to be it.

Of course, you still had to authenticate your files with the DRM service, and eventually they moved libraries online and gave you streaming access to any files you had purchased.

ch00f,

Should have been more precise. I have a funny situation. My house has had four major remodels performed over the past 80 years. One of them involved extending the roof and totally covering a chimney (there is another chimney elsewhere in the house). Rather than remove the chimney, they built around it including adding a closet on the middle floor. The closet is wider than the chimney, but the whole thing is framed out as a rectangle, so I have like 1x2’ of empty space leading from my attic to the basement ceiling.

So not need for liners.

I don’t really see why you would want to pull air from the attic, but you seem to feel you would need to.

I’m by no means an HVAC expert, but I was thinking that pulling hot air from the hottest point in the house (attic room ceiling) would provide the best circulation. Thinking more about it, I think I’d be better off having it be one-directional if only so I can install a filter to keep it from filling up with dust. I can convince myself that either direction is the better option. Maybe I’ll install the blower somewhere in the middle where it’s easy to access.

Thanks for the advice!

ch00f,

Do you think I could get away with some flexible ducting? Might be hard to navigate the rigid stuff into these spaces. Also, insulated ducting or no (thinking about condensation).

ch00f,

Oh neat! I knew I couldn’t be the only one.

ch00f,

Nope. Destroying currency in a manner that does not constitute fraud is not illegal in America.

ch00f,

That just means they could be selling the full range version cheaper.

No. The additional price of the full-range version is partially subsidizing the lower priced version. People are willing to pay the current price for the longer range version, why would they lower the price?

ch00f,

Why does that make it worse?

ch00f,

Because there is no inherent link between the cost of manufacturing a product and the price at which it’s sold.

If they can sell it cheaper then do so. If they can’t don’t.

So if Tesla develops new technology that allows them to produce cars cheaper, should they be required to lower the sale price of their vehicles?

ch00f,

They’re not destroying anything. The car can still be upgraded by either the current owner or the next one.

Ironically, you’re advocating for going through the effort of physically removing batteries to sell at a lower price. That’s closer to your headlight analogy. The car was designed to have a specific battery size, and the equipment is already built to make that size. It is not easy to physically alter the batteries at scale.

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