So glad I switched from Fitbit to Garmin. Google has done everything possible to lose me as a customer.

Speaking as a motorcycle rider, ebikes are dangerous. Not because of the bike but because of the riders. They often don't wear safety gear, they don't follow traffic laws, and many bikes top out at 70-80kph. It took considerable effort to get my Class M. A bike going that fast should require licensing and safety courses and helmet laws. Most people don't realize they can squid out on the road on an ebike just like you will on a motorcycle without proper gear.

I just installed Fedora 44 on my old Win10 laptop. Because Microsoft made sure this perfectly good laptop with 16gb RAM could not run Win11. And Affinity Suite runs great on wine now. And no obnoxious telemetry tracking. Oh yeah, for games: steam and lutris too.

Yeah yeah yeah, linux linux linux

still, Microsoft is in self-destruct mode.

s/was told me/was told/

My son (8) has a peanut allergy. I asked his allergist about the cause and was told me that there's no clear consensus. There is apparently lots of evidence pointing to environmental causes and also lots of evidence pointing to genetic causes, while the actual truth probably has elements of both. It's also possible that different people have different causes.

In a way he's lucky because he's repulsed by even the smell, and his reaction seems to be to vomit instead of going onto anaphylactic shock. I'm very aware though, that the next time could be much worse, so I do carry his epinephrine as a matter of routine. We also have taught (and continue to teach) him that he needs to be careful about what he eats (eg: ask the wait staff / cook, read the labels).

What is this huge sum to vaccinate for a disease that has less than half a dozen even alleged human infections? What is the money for really? Is a gain of function planned to insure the money looks reasonable? The people are not going to go through lockdowns and the rest like in 2020. We know where it leads and that it is completely unscientific. So what is really going on here?

Perhaps I was just a little too young to really get into Myst, but The 7th Guest really grabbed my attention! I never managed to beat the microscope puzzle, but it doesn't affect the story much to just skip it.

The song at the end (Skeletons in my Closet) is also excellent!

HP builds multi-function machines as well, the scanners SHOULD position them for doing well transitioning from a printed world to an exclusively digital one, but the software they provide for scanning is wholly inadequate. They don't even include OCR with their scanning software.

Hilarious claim considering regular fingerprint readers can't dependably read my print for more than a few weeks max. I believe this not at all.

Way back in the 90s a lot of people thought quite a bit about wearable computers and decent easy input to them. This is not that different from decent input to VR systems. Obviously Apple with its VR model and stupid floating keyboard doesn't have it right. Who cares if you finger flexes are mapped? You can do that just monitoring a few muscle twitches. You don't need to map neurons at all. Especially for things like typing what is wrong with the 3 joints per finger times 9 other fingertips per joint for 10x9 inputs letters/numbers? That is an idea fro the 90s.

So if you could read per neuron good luck training people to map intent to individual neurons. Biofeedback is simple in comparison. Why is Meta boring us with science fiction gobbledygook that isn't even as good as stuff that has been brainstormed for 30 years?

There is nothing in the source NYT article to indicate the Emirates who are hosting this one summit in a series of summits are "Leading" the summit.

Your headline is excessively clickbait-y.

I remember hearing about analog chips for applications like AI, where digital precision is unnecessary and analog uses orders of magnitude less power. Does anyone have any updates or insight into this?

If you want the developed world to stay solvent and one the developing world to develop then moves like this are crucial. Also ending anti-nuclear hysteria. Renewables? On the order of $6 trillion for just the renewable energy equipment and installation in the US without additional obvious costs. An estimate 10x that to do renewables worldwide. When the world is still not recovered from the disastrous COVID measures and is being further damaged by the Russia sanctions and ESG gone made when it comes to all important things like farming, energy, fertilizer we simply cannot afford the costs even if you believe it is necessary any time real soon (ti ISN'T). Net Zero 2030 is a very cynical and dangerous to human flourishing push.

There is no energy source that beats it in both density and portability today. This combination is especially important in many applications in the developed world and crucial to many more in the developing world. So for once I approve of something the World Bank did. Human flourishing is directly correlated with per capita energy use.

Oh, and after 30 years by themselves in a spaceship, once the "astronaut" gets there, they're probably INSANE.

From re-watching Friends and Seinfeld 2400 times.