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> studies have shown that people who use e-bikes (pedal assist not throttle) tend to be more physically fit and active than ones who just use regular bikes.

I read the abstract of the study you linked, and it does not say that people who use e-bikes are more fit than people who use regular bikes.

It says that e-biker have slightly less "metabolic equivalent task" minutes per week compared to cyclists.

> weird, jealous hoarding mentality happening on the museums side

That's exactly it. I work on a website that makes ancient artefacts accessible. A lot of them are in museums. You wouldn't believe how many museums:

- don't want to show you their archive

- don't want to let you take pictures

- want you to share only low res pictures

- want you to get permission before you can "publish" their artefacts, etc.

It's extremely common for museums to have courtyards or basements with special "unpublished" pieces that they don't let anyone see. You have to be a special friend of the director or something to get to see them.

It's ridiculous. Fortunately, the people working on the website are relentless, and manage to eventually get collection after collection photographed and added mostly by being patient. For some collections it took 20 years before they got access -- but since everyone uses their website, and everyone apart from the local museum director wants the stuff to be in there, eventually they get access to most things.

(Museums in Italy are the worst, allegedly. They really think they own antiquity.)

I think so. The PostgreSQL logo is an elephant, and the community calls him "Slonik", probably derived from the Russian word for elephant. There is also a node.js driver that is called "slonik"

> 3. While upgrades aren't hard, they're not easy either

I guess it depends on scale? I was surprised how easy it was on Ubuntu. There was an automatic migration script, and it worked. Took less than 5 minutes to upgrade.

Sure, there was downtime, but I think most applications out there can live with scheduled downtime of a few minutes.

If you can't have downtime, then nothing is easy.

There is no way to square this circle. If you take payments from the vendors you recommend, you will never be fair. Either you take their payments and don't promote them, then they'll stop paying. Or you take their payments and promote them, then you'll end up doing paid promotion.

If you want to make a "fair" recommendation site, you need to find some other way to monetize. One possibility would be to charge potential customers. I believe there are people out there who want fair recommendations, I'm just have no idea how to get them to pay.

A few family members caught covid on a plane despite everyone needing a negative covid test before departure and wearing a FFP2 mask during the whole flight.

Put a lot of people in close proximity for a long time and it's going to be very hard to prevent transmission of airborne viruses...

Products with higher visibility will automatically get more upvotes, so even if you don't directly pay for upvotes, you indirectly do pay for upvotes.

If you let people pay to be featured, you'll always end up favouring those who pay. And if you didn't favour those who pay, why would people pay in the first place?

This is the big problem with all recommendation sites: The easiest way to monetize them is by charging vendors for visibility; so sooner or later all recommendation sites start recommending the most profitable products. High quality fair priced products don't have a chance, since they will always be outbid by someone who makes a cheaper product or charges more.

There is already a lot of research on the 3D reconstruction and camera movement part, for example this SIGGRAPH 2023 paper: https://research.nvidia.com/labs/nxp/lp3d/

In order for this to work for gaze correction, you'd probably need to take into consideration the location of the camera relative to the location of the eyes of the person on the screen, and then correct for how the other person is holding the phone, and it would probably only work for one-on-one calls. Probably need to know the geometry of the phone (camera parameters, screen size, position of camera relative to phone)

Would be amazing, not sure how realistic it is.

I'm also affected. I'm considering suing them, but I am unsure if that makes sense. The German entity probably has no assets. Lawsuit would probably cost thousands of euros in legal fees, take a year, and it is unlikely there are any assets left to recover by the time the lawsuit is over.

Children of Men (2006)

The mysterious story draws you in, and the epic takes make you forget that nothing makes sense.

> I think Portugal is fun, comfortable and safe.

Yeah, apart from the pickpockets in Lisboa. They are really the most brazen I have ever seen anywhere. They don't seem dangerous, but constantly having someone trying to pick a wallet from your bag is pretty annoying.

> when that's what most users want anyway

Not sure about that. A lot of people really couldn't care less if their search results came from Google, Bing, Duck Duck Go.

If you ask them, most of them would probably say Google since that's the only search engine they know.

But if you just replaced Google with Duck Duck Go, I'm sure most people wouldn't bother to switch it back.

Defaults are very powerful, otherwise Google wouldn't pay billions to keep them the default.

I thought the movements were off. The little girl on the beach moves like an adult, the painter looks like a puppet, and everything is in slow motion?

Books are not going away. My kids devour books just like I did when I was a kid. Books can be lent, gifted, borrowed. Books can be discovered in physical places, in the school library, the public library, in a bookstore.

Ebooks just aren't the same.

Yeah. People are forgetting what the old internet looked like. Literally every search result used to contain porn.

I'm glad that content filters are now good enough to filter porn reliably. If I don't look for it, I rarely find porn nowadays.

It's the same thing with Apple App Store.

And with 3rd party merchants like Fastspring, Mycommerce, Paddle, Paypro, etc.

It's not just the EU, the US money laundering KYC rules are also pretty annoying.

They have a single speed bike, which is a lot cheaper and not what most people mean when they want to buy "a bike". Adding gears will add at least 100€ to the price, for entry level components.

They also said they replaced the tires with gatorskins, which are 40€ a piece.

I guess this shows how different skillsets are. Debugging gifs also sounds a lot easier to me than setting up a remote controlled doom and screencapturing it, but I guess it all depends on your prior experience.

Most people in Europe don't rely on credit card debt. We buy stuff only if we have the money in our bank account. And if we don't, we just overdraft our accounts.

20 years ago, credit cards were a thing that mostly people who travelled a lot had. Then people got credit cards so they could buy stuff online, but a few years ago debit mastercard / visa replaced maestro, and we no longer need credit cards for online shopping.

So people stopped getting credit cards.

The latency of Airpods is barely noticable because Apple devices are really good at syncing video to the audio latency, so it seems like there is no latency.

I tried using a rythm composer app with the original Airpods a few years ago, and that was unusable, because the delay between tapping screen and hearing the instrument was too high. Not sure if it was just the app or if latency got better in the mean time.

> AI could already do their jobs better than them

If AI could already do jobs better than a human, then people would just use AIs instead of hiring people. It looks like we are getting there, slowly, but right now there are very few jobs that could be done by AIs.

I can't think of a single person that I know that has a job that could be replaced by an AI today.

I think they want to leave some space so that the battery can expand. Easiest way to do that is to glue it on one side and leave a bit of space on the other side.

I've been running my business on VPS from Linode and Hetzner for the last 13 years and have never had an issue with DoS.

I think the benefits of Cloudflares DoS protection are vastly oversold and absolutely unnecessary for 99% of businesses.

(I think the false positives where some users randomly get captchas are actually bad for business)

I had a similar issue with Hetzner. I host my downloads on a Hetzner cloud machine, and one of my customers reported that they couldn't download updates. Turns out their company used some enterprise security product named "Zscaler" that mis-identified the IP of my Hetzner VM as Iranian and blocked it.

My customer contacted Zscaler, and after a few days they unblocked it.

I was more thinking of smaller teams or individual developers that are Apple only.

If you have a bigger team, then it doesn't matter as much, because you have different people who do the iOS app, people who do the website, people who do the back end etc.

Swift on the server doesn't have to go mainstream to be useful. If you just need some basic web service that syncs highscores or verifies in-app purchases then it would be neat if you could write that in the same language as the app itself.

Apple Intelligence is a bunch of new tech they haven't really released yet. In typical Apple fashion, they start slow, and will improve it year over year.

Apple rarely backports new tech to older devices. It probably could run on the older chips, but it doesn't look like Apple isn't going for the widest possible rollout. They are launching it for the newest chips only, and are not wasting time porting it to old chips, when they don't even know yet how it's going to scale. So right now they are focussing on English speaking markets and newest devices only.

They are skating to where the puck is going to be, and in a few years no-one will care if their tech runs on the A16 or not. Right now they are focussing on getting this thing launched, and backward compatibility would only slow them down.

And its a selling point to get people to buy new iPhones, so it's win/win for Apple.

The catch is that it's a mobile processor with very limited cooling so it's only good for bursty loads. Which happens to be a good fit for the kind of stuff people do on phones.

If you're in Lightroom all day, or compiling code all day, the Intel chip is probably faster.

Shady shit? Not every network request is a call to an HTTP REST API.

Blocking socket APIs would break every app that supports other protocols. Goodbye file transfer apps, VPN apps, file sync apps, database tools, SSH clients, remote desktop clients, audio and video conferencing apps, etc.

Apple removed support for kernel extensions, and instead added a bunch of APIs that allow to do network filtering etc in user space. Unfortunately, some of their networking code just bypasses those network filter extensions (probably because of bugs) -- this is not the first time the developers of Little Snitch publicized a bug like this.

getaddrinfo() is not a legacy API, it's a standard cross platform API for doing DNS lookups.