dustinmr

If you’re going full Malthusian, why be so pessimistic?

Those are “positive checks” on population.

I’m referring to the arrow where I’m a goof and didn’t pay close enough attention to how I was using the app! :)

I’d have sworn when I hit the arrow the comment thread collapsed. But when I read your reply and went back in to try, you’re clearly correct.

Thanks for clarifying.

Generally, I like it.

One bit of feedback is that you’re using the same (or at least similar) arrow for upvoting as you are in other places to collapse a thread. And I found that confusing.

It seems a little redundant to include both the upvote arrow, and upvote by swipe.

But looks great.

Humans are good at being anxious due to the precariousness of life. Especially for things we don’t fully understand.

For example: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halley's_Comet#1910

Why is the environment any different?

Well...since you're breaking out the examples despite my being coy for the non-sailors.

Here's a video of the boats I was talking about. Trapeze sailing is really a blast and for the technically inclined, they are great boats: https://youtu.be/njSrgwlClNE

If those kinds of things grab your attention, foiling boats are a whole other level of tech and adrenaline. Since there's so many in the audience in the Bay Area, this is going on in SF next month and should be fabulous spectating. https://sailgp.com/races/san-francisco/

I expect the catamarans would fare worse than the 505s in a meet up with a whale.

I used this workout for a while. https://stronglifts.com/5x5/

Simple, fast, and basically any gym will have the necessary equipment.

If you don’t know the exercises, the videos are good. But getting someone to teach you how to properly squat, deadlift, and press is worth the trainer time. Or basically any friend who has spent anytime in a gym should know those exercises.

I race small sailboats, and there’s a group of them that actively race on Monterrey Bay. A couple of friends had a whale, rather larger that an orca, surface below them.

They’re pretty high tech boats. Carbon fiber, Kevlar, nomex sandwich. Ripped the back of the boat off from the rudder.

One of the two guys was hanging off the side of the boat at the time (sounds strange,but normal), and so he suddenly found himself lying on a whale. Thought they had capsized. He said his first coherent thought was, “that’s not water?” Then promptly realized the barnacles on the whale were cutting through his 4mm wetsuit!

The whale dove and disappeared, none the wiser apparently. They got towed in by one of the safety boats.

Agreed. My high school Econ teacher told me I was too young to be cynical after I told her I expected to pay into SS throughout my career, but I didn’t expect to receive it. This was early 90s.

I’ve never included it in my retirement planning.

I recently bought one of the Star Lites from these guys: https://starlabs.systems

Very nice machine so far. My only real complaint is the trackpad. Coming from years of Macs and a Pixelbook, it was a shock to the fingers.

The 13 inch machine has a glass touchpad, so presumably that’s not a complaint there.

Either way, reasonable price, works well, arrived very quickly.

My answer is I don’t. When I started paying closer attention to my diet, I realized that while cutting so many things out, I needed a mental release valve.

So ice cream gets a pass. I allow myself how ever much I want whenever I want.

So yeah, initially I found myself eating a pint occasionally. Or twice a day. But I also found myself feeling like crap afterwards. Since I’m paying more attention to my body’s signals, I noticed it where I wouldn’t have previously.

And magically, I eat less ice cream than I used to, in addition to all the other diet improvements I’ve made. Sure, I still throw back a big bowl occasionally when I feel the want, but usually not. And my other results have been good. Partly because i have this vice available. Which is, let’s face it, a pretty mild vice.

I was in Venice in May a couple of years ago. While the city was cool, and the typical attractions were fun to see, we were a bit underwhelmed.

We then hopped a RyanAir flight to Bari because that's where my wife's family emigrated from. Thought we'd rent a car, spend 4-5 hours hopping around Bari and then move on to Naples. We ended up spending 4 nights and completely loved the city and the whole of Puglia. It ended up being the best part of the trip.

Maybe it was just expectations were reversed, but we truly loved Bari, and could have just skipped Venice and Naples and spent more time there. Not that Venice and Naples were disappointing, but they didn't stand out at the end of the trip.

Italy as a whole was wonderful. Can't wait to go back.

Agreed. I’ve been using one for about a year. It’s my favorite machine since my first MacBook Air.

Good keyboard, decent screen, long battery life.

The only thing I’d have done differently would be to have gotten the i7 version.

Apple doesn’t do that?

You enjoy using iMessages on your android phone and Linux laptop do you?

Yeah, yeah, it’s different. Except that it’s the same in the areas in which each competes. There’s plenty of examples of Apple freezing out others from a market.

On a sailboat in the snow. You can watch how the sails and wind interact.

If you think the images are beautiful, find a way to spend time on a small boat offshore. You see many many things as beautiful. The photos make me miss my time offshore.

Among the best solutions for seasickness are to watch the horizon, steer the boat, remove as much clothing as comfort allows, make sure there’s fatty food in your stomach, and stand so that your body is oriented in the direction of the boat’s motion.

I know those work anecdotally (for me and others with whom I’ve been on boats). They were explained to me by an ENT dr during a sailboat race to Bermuda about 20 years ago. His explanation was that it was about aligning the different signals the brain gets during motion.

The headband sounds interesting. There’s few things I’ve experienced that are more miserable than extended motion sickness.

As we’re layering on praise, I’d like to pile on.

I’m a partner in a company in Puerto Rico. Last year immediately after Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico, I wrote all of our off-island service providers asking for any help they could provide. DO was one of the most generous responses. They donated 3 months of services based on our average billing.

We greatly appreciated it, and the nice note they sent me showed they’re not only great at providing a good product, but they’re eminently human as well.

Congrats on the launch to them.

I’ve had good luck using https://github.com/jay0lee/got-your-back to backup gmail.

Thanks. Just tried it. Pretty awesome.

This was pretty much our slogan in Puerto Rico last year in my company.

Someone would ask, "How's it going?" and I'd reply, "Today is better than yesterday, so we can't complain. We just have to keep making it better than yesterday."

Touching the Void. Based on a book by Joe Simpson

Amazing story and perspective.

Been playing with this on a Pixel C. Can't see a way to collapse threads?

Really like the tabbed interface though.

I happen to have been looking around at this earlier today.

I found an open source project named Firefly III[1], that uses an API called Spectre[2]. Same deal, free for a certain number of bank accounts, but looks like you need to contact them to set up your API access. Incidentally, I recently saw an iOS app that had been using the Spectre API as well.

[1] https://firefly-iii.org/ [2] https://www.saltedge.com/products/spectre

I played with an Asus 302 flip for about a month, which convinced me to by an i5 Pixelbook last December. Both showed no signs of being sluggish or laggy while having as many tabs as I can throw at it open, xfce running in a crouton chroot, and a shell open with ssh into a remote box. That includes having a number of Google Sheets open at once, as well as two email tabs, and general browsing in addition to the Linux GUI app I run and ssh sessions.

So maybe its the processor,not the OS?

To make a comparison, my 2016 15" Touchbar Macbook Pro is a constantly, spinning beachball machine above all else. It gathers dust in the corner while these machines that are 1/5 and 1/3 the price are an actual joy to use.

I've played with the Linux install on the Pixelbook, but haven't yet taken the time to move over completely from Crouton, which works fine for me.

There's a few funky things. For example, it becomes easiest just to store all your files in the Downloads folder as that's the only folder the chroot can access. But it seems like they're ironing those things out.

I've been a happy Mac user since 2006. I'm suddenly a huge Chromebook advocate. Both of these machines are the best experience I've gotten from a new machine since I got my first Macbook Air.

It’s fun to think about how related that is to maritime navigation and in particular Dead Reckoning.

The same thing has been taught for hundreds of years in that realm. Her you take it 3D.

Not sure if you envision getting down to a consumer level in some way, but I race sailboats. There's plenty of people who use forecasting services to get a forecast tailored to a very small area for their race course or route (think 10 sq miles).

I'd presume that mountain bikers, kayakers, climbers, and really anyone else who is into sports that are dependent on weather may be interested in similar information.

Delivering the information to a community like that seems like it would be too niche for your service, but for the people that already offer services to those people, perhaps there'd be interest.

Your argument is based on intent. YouTube shows their intent to not infringe by the effort they put into removing infringing content.

But the GP discards intent as a relevant point and says if you host it, you should be thrown in jail, regardless of intent.

Likely, somewhere in the middle is more reasonable. But the parent is correct in that the volume of infringing content on YouTube appears to be significantly larger than just about anywhere else, and no one is raiding their offices. No one is going to jail.

So the asymmetry is striking. If it were all purely civil rather than criminal, I'd get it.

If that includes 19% taxes, than its a €30 or 4% difference on the pretax pricing. Not very big really. Especially, if there's other fees they pay to sell the product in your territory.

I race sailboats competitively, and obviously wind direction and speed affects the outcome even more.

Electronically, in most classes of boats you're allowed to get any information that's available to anyone (i.e. you can hit any public website, but you can't call your local weatherman to ask his opinion). But really, there's not that much information available for day races (long distance races are a different animal)

One of the things that's become common over the last 10 years or so it to use a forecasting service. Basically you talk with a meterologist each morning or perhaps a few days in advance and they let you know what they expect to happen. You end up with statements like, "If you see big puffy clouds coming in, you should expect the wind to shift to the right of about 30 degrees shortly. But if the clouds don't come in, or you see flat ones, you won't get the shift until the puffy clouds fill in."

They're pretty good at forecasting what will happen over a large area or a day, but for really small areas (a few square miles) or really short periods, they can't be that accurate because the movement of the systems varies in speed and direction too much over short periods.

But try a forecasting service, it really can be helpful to know what's happening around you. Around $100 a day is reasonable last time I did this.

It would also be great if a list of their customers could be found/generated/etc. That is, if they have any yet.

Seems like one to add to the hosts file forever.

Would love to read the study if you can find it.