Suunto makes well-built gear. Good-old, honest, uncompromising Finnish tech.
I haven't actually used a Suunto myself, but I have only heard good things about them, apart from some of them being a bit on the big side for runners who tend to have small wrists. I'm a Polar guy myself (another good Finnish company), because they're easy to use, talk to most gym equipment and chest straps (which usually are Polar anyhow), and light weight and good ergonomics - apart from the biggest model, you don't notice that you wear them.
For other outdoor sports, many swear by Garmin Fenix watches. I have tried one, but found it too cumbersome to use. Having to use a phone to set up a training, and far too many button presses and menus made it just less easy to use, so I went back to Polar, which like Suunto is Scandinavian simplicity, where form follows function.
The old saying about an ounce of prevention being worth a pound of cure is very true, even to the point I would pay the (way too expensive) $10/month the US cell companies charge to connect an Apple Watch to the cell network (some countries the telcos only charge $5 which is I think a lot more reasonable).
But the Apple watch doesn't provide an ounce of prevention. It doesn't prevent anyone from falling. It will at best alert someone if (a) the wearer has fallen, (b) quickly enough to trigger the alert, (c) if they don't tap away the alert, (d) if they have (d1) remembered and (d2) bothered to charge it.
A walker is a better investment if prevention is your goal, and not dazzling them with something that they'll pretend to be thankful for.
Sorry. Nobody serious about fitness I know of actually uses these things for fitness.
A friend of mine bought the Nike branded Apple watch since he had an iPhone, with the intent to use it for exercise. And stopped using it after a month, buying a Suunto watch instead. Those are far more geared towards training, and less towards displaying text messages and streaming music.
Twice a day or more if you're an active person doing a lot of exercise. Plus charging your Apple phone, of course.
But even for elderly people who presumably exercise less, it's not a good choice - will they remember to always charge it? I'd think a safety alarm where the battery lasts for months is a much better choice there.
It's much more than $400. You need an Apple phone too. And a plan. For the $400 watch (with LTE), also a second plan with the same provider as your phone.
And a second watch for when it's on the charger, which will be quite often.
Insurance is really just legalized gambling. Much like the tracks, not all horses are a good return on investment. No one wants to bet on a loser and the only reason to do so is because the payout is so high.
While true, what the insurance companies do now is like increasing the betting cost on low ranked horses without increasing the payout. The end result is that no one will go the races any more.
The more you track the customers and better predict their future, the less incentive there is for those customers to buy insurance. If the premiums could reflect your risk with 100% accuracy, you'd lose no matter what. The closer they get to accurate and farther from chaos, the more certain a loss will be, and the less incentive there is to participate.
At least LOC gives us a rough estimate of how much work has been done writing source code.
Z factor is a better one - the size of the code after being fed through compression (like compress, giving.Z files). Large amounts of extra spacing or unnecessary line breaks won't be factored in, while code originality gives a higher score than copy/paste jobs.
Check right now. How goes GPU compositing work with your current setup? I bet it doesn't, honestly. So you'd still be stuck in the classic software rendering that you currently already have.
Yes, but at least it only sends over the rectangles that change, and doesn't redraw the entire window. While X is no longer as frugal as when it had the LBX extension, it still handles partial updates. If I understand this correctly, they want to do away with that entirely and always update the entire viewport.
This is why the browser renders so much faster. Instead of 200ms per paint of a small section of the screen, it renders the entire screen in 15ms. The rest of the time, your CPU/GPU sits idle. Also, Webrender does all rendering on the GPU instead of CPU, so it has better optimization for painting the scene (CPUs suck at this entirely)
How does this work when the browser and GPU are on diifferent machines? I run my browser in remote X. Will that be tonnes slower when it transfers entire renderings over the network?
(Never mind that "modern Xorg programmers" already killed LBX because they did not use it themselves so didn't see a need.)
Fuck that. 2000 calories of exercise/day? That's 5 fucking hours of straight running. Not quite a marathon, but well over half. I'd rather just give up food.
No, it isn't. He has a BMI of bloody 35, which means he's carrying a lot of weight, and is almost certainly seriously out of shape. Two hours of medium speed walking will likely be 2000 calories with that BMI. Say four half-hour walks, morning, lunch, dinner and before going to bed.
I wish i could quit sugar as easily as I quit coke, since that's going to cause plenty of problems itself, probably soon now, since I'm 35 in both years and BMI now.
Oh, don't worry. That problem will sort itself out, and you'll die a few years from now, with high blood pressure, high cholesterol and diabetes, popping pills and more pills against the pills, feeling miserable. The problem isn't you being addicted to sugar, but you being too weak willed to burn the sugars that you eat. Add a thousand calories or two worth of exercise a day. Work with your body, and stop blaming it for you being lazy.
Why is it that people believe taxing tobacco reduces people's desire for smoking, but that taxing income doesn't reduce people's desire to work?
That's a false comparison. To make the comparison valid, you'd have to either change the first part to "Why is it that people believe taxing tobacco reduces farmer's desire to grow tobacco" or the second to "but that taxing income doesn't reduce companies desire to hire people".
Not only will it only collect up to 68 tons a year, but it will also use quite a few tons of fuel doing that, causing pollution. Plus the pollution cost of making and one day scrapping the thing. Is this really a good trade-off, or a feel-good measure?
No. I don't. Screw self-awareness. Go for sisu. It's better to stumble across the finish line than not reach it because you're too busy worrying about how to place your feet.
Ah, much as like religion makes sense if you practice the religion, then. Not at all from an objective perspective, because it must be a subjective experience. In other words: BS
No, but it lets you get your shit together and move on with your life. And I say this as someone who walloped in self-pity and pain medication for a while until I realized that the pain wasn't going anywhere, and the best thing to do was to man up, grin and bear it, and get on with my life. I still wake up half a dozen times a night from terrible pain, but guess what? It's just fucking pain. Pain is a warning, not the actual disaster itself. If you can't deal with pain, you'll lose.
Mindfulness in this context is simply a conscious awareness of your own bodily and mental processes.
Very few have that. The awareness of how biological processes work is rather low, and what they (and presumably you) mean certainly has nothing to do with understanding oligodentrycytes, but is wishy-washy mumbo-jumbo language like when new age followers talk about "energy".
No, they're not. They're both highly subjective and open to interpretations.
Q. I sense my body, whether eating, cooking, cleaning or talking. Q. I am able to appreciate myself. Q. I pay attention to whatâ(TM)s behind my actions. Q. I am friendly to myself when things go wrong. Q. I am impatient with myself and with others.
How do you define "sense my body"? Any part of it, or all parts of it? Consciously or just an awareness? How do you define "pay attention" and "behind"? What is meant by "friendly to myself"? And "things go wrong"? What is meant by "impatient with myself and with others"?
This is mumbo-jumbo questions. There's no way to measure the objectivity of the answers, nor even define what they bloody mean. If they measure something, it's not defined what they measure. My guess would be they measure playing-along-ness.
the Freiburg Mindfulness Inventory, a reliable clinical measurement of mindfulness
Reliable according to...? Oh, the people behind the study... Color me somewhat skeptical.
And "clinical" means something different in this context, apparently, because it's based on self-reporting. That's not what we normally call "clinical".
Yeah, this was a scam back then, and there's little reason to believe it's not a scam now.
Are they looking for investors? Are they hinting at extremely large returns? Would it be a monumental feat?
Two out of three should be enough to make you walk away. Three out of three, well, let's just say that those who lose money on this will pay the stupidity tax.
You're applying a 3rd world solution (labor) to a 1st world manufacturing problem. In USA you should be building with robots not laborers, and robots don't ask for wages.
No, but the people who program the robots ask for salaries, and the ones servicing them ask for contracts.
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Suunto makes well-built gear. Good-old, honest, uncompromising Finnish tech.
I haven't actually used a Suunto myself, but I have only heard good things about them, apart from some of them being a bit on the big side for runners who tend to have small wrists.
I'm a Polar guy myself (another good Finnish company), because they're easy to use, talk to most gym equipment and chest straps (which usually are Polar anyhow), and light weight and good ergonomics - apart from the biggest model, you don't notice that you wear them.
For other outdoor sports, many swear by Garmin Fenix watches. I have tried one, but found it too cumbersome to use. Having to use a phone to set up a training, and far too many button presses and menus made it just less easy to use, so I went back to Polar, which like Suunto is Scandinavian simplicity, where form follows function.
Watches are useful to tell the time, also when your hands are full or busy. Real watches, that is.
The old saying about an ounce of prevention being worth a pound of cure is very true, even to the point I would pay the (way too expensive) $10/month the US cell companies charge to connect an Apple Watch to the cell network (some countries the telcos only charge $5 which is I think a lot more reasonable).
But the Apple watch doesn't provide an ounce of prevention. It doesn't prevent anyone from falling. It will at best alert someone if (a) the wearer has fallen, (b) quickly enough to trigger the alert, (c) if they don't tap away the alert, (d) if they have (d1) remembered and (d2) bothered to charge it.
A walker is a better investment if prevention is your goal, and not dazzling them with something that they'll pretend to be thankful for.
Sorry. Nobody serious about fitness I know of actually uses these things for fitness.
A friend of mine bought the Nike branded Apple watch since he had an iPhone, with the intent to use it for exercise. And stopped using it after a month, buying a Suunto watch instead. Those are far more geared towards training, and less towards displaying text messages and streaming music.
Twice a day or more if you're an active person doing a lot of exercise. Plus charging your Apple phone, of course.
But even for elderly people who presumably exercise less, it's not a good choice - will they remember to always charge it? I'd think a safety alarm where the battery lasts for months is a much better choice there.
It's much more than $400. You need an Apple phone too. And a plan. For the $400 watch (with LTE), also a second plan with the same provider as your phone.
And a second watch for when it's on the charger, which will be quite often.
Insurance is really just legalized gambling. Much like the tracks, not all horses are a good return on investment. No one wants to bet on a loser and the only reason to do so is because the payout is so high.
While true, what the insurance companies do now is like increasing the betting cost on low ranked horses without increasing the payout. The end result is that no one will go the races any more.
The more you track the customers and better predict their future, the less incentive there is for those customers to buy insurance. If the premiums could reflect your risk with 100% accuracy, you'd lose no matter what. The closer they get to accurate and farther from chaos, the more certain a loss will be, and the less incentive there is to participate.
What's a good alternative? Serious answer.
Function points?
At least LOC gives us a rough estimate of how much work has been done writing source code.
Z factor is a better one - the size of the code after being fed through compression (like compress, giving .Z files). Large amounts of extra spacing or unnecessary line breaks won't be factored in, while code originality gives a higher score than copy/paste jobs.
Check right now. How goes GPU compositing work with your current setup? I bet it doesn't, honestly. So you'd still be stuck in the classic software rendering that you currently already have.
Yes, but at least it only sends over the rectangles that change, and doesn't redraw the entire window. While X is no longer as frugal as when it had the LBX extension, it still handles partial updates. If I understand this correctly, they want to do away with that entirely and always update the entire viewport.
Don't get me wrong, he is doing amazing stuff
By "amazing stuff", do you mean cocaine?
Some of his engineers do amazing stuff. Musk is just a figurehead.
Nah, the first passenger is going to be Vernon Unsworth.
This is why the browser renders so much faster. Instead of 200ms per paint of a small section of the screen, it renders the entire screen in 15ms. The rest of the time, your CPU/GPU sits idle. Also, Webrender does all rendering on the GPU instead of CPU, so it has better optimization for painting the scene (CPUs suck at this entirely)
How does this work when the browser and GPU are on diifferent machines? I run my browser in remote X. Will that be tonnes slower when it transfers entire renderings over the network?
(Never mind that "modern Xorg programmers" already killed LBX because they did not use it themselves so didn't see a need.)
Fuck that. 2000 calories of exercise/day? That's 5 fucking hours of straight running. Not quite a marathon, but well over half. I'd rather just give up food.
No, it isn't. He has a BMI of bloody 35, which means he's carrying a lot of weight, and is almost certainly seriously out of shape. Two hours of medium speed walking will likely be 2000 calories with that BMI. Say four half-hour walks, morning, lunch, dinner and before going to bed.
I wish i could quit sugar as easily as I quit coke, since that's going to cause plenty of problems itself, probably soon now, since I'm 35 in both years and BMI now.
Oh, don't worry. That problem will sort itself out, and you'll die a few years from now, with high blood pressure, high cholesterol and diabetes, popping pills and more pills against the pills, feeling miserable.
The problem isn't you being addicted to sugar, but you being too weak willed to burn the sugars that you eat. Add a thousand calories or two worth of exercise a day. Work with your body, and stop blaming it for you being lazy.
Why is it that people believe taxing tobacco reduces people's desire for smoking, but that taxing income doesn't reduce people's desire to work?
That's a false comparison. To make the comparison valid, you'd have to either change the first part to "Why is it that people believe taxing tobacco reduces farmer's desire to grow tobacco" or the second to "but that taxing income doesn't reduce companies desire to hire people".
Not only will it only collect up to 68 tons a year, but it will also use quite a few tons of fuel doing that, causing pollution. Plus the pollution cost of making and one day scrapping the thing. Is this really a good trade-off, or a feel-good measure?
No, it's actually a smart plan. Start with biggest polluters that can be removed for the smallest cost.
That's linear thinking. Measures can be done in parallel; there's no need to not do A because B is more important.
No. I don't. Screw self-awareness. Go for sisu. It's better to stumble across the finish line than not reach it because you're too busy worrying about how to place your feet.
They make sense if you practise mindfullness.
Ah, much as like religion makes sense if you practice the religion, then. Not at all from an objective perspective, because it must be a subjective experience. In other words: BS
Coping with pain isnt macho, heroic or sexy.
No, but it lets you get your shit together and move on with your life.
And I say this as someone who walloped in self-pity and pain medication for a while until I realized that the pain wasn't going anywhere, and the best thing to do was to man up, grin and bear it, and get on with my life. I still wake up half a dozen times a night from terrible pain, but guess what? It's just fucking pain. Pain is a warning, not the actual disaster itself. If you can't deal with pain, you'll lose.
Mindfulness in this context is simply a conscious awareness of your own bodily and mental processes.
Very few have that. The awareness of how biological processes work is rather low, and what they (and presumably you) mean certainly has nothing to do with understanding oligodentrycytes, but is wishy-washy mumbo-jumbo language like when new age followers talk about "energy".
The questions are practical, so
No, they're not. They're both highly subjective and open to interpretations.
Q. I sense my body, whether eating, cooking, cleaning or talking.
Q. I am able to appreciate myself.
Q. I pay attention to whatâ(TM)s behind my actions.
Q. I am friendly to myself when things go wrong.
Q. I am impatient with myself and with others.
How do you define "sense my body"? Any part of it, or all parts of it? Consciously or just an awareness?
How do you define "pay attention" and "behind"?
What is meant by "friendly to myself"? And "things go wrong"?
What is meant by "impatient with myself and with others"?
This is mumbo-jumbo questions. There's no way to measure the objectivity of the answers, nor even define what they bloody mean.
If they measure something, it's not defined what they measure. My guess would be they measure playing-along-ness.
To quote the summary:
the Freiburg Mindfulness Inventory, a reliable clinical measurement of mindfulness
Reliable according to...? Oh, the people behind the study...
Color me somewhat skeptical.
And "clinical" means something different in this context, apparently, because it's based on self-reporting. That's not what we normally call "clinical".
Yeah, this was a scam back then, and there's little reason to believe it's not a scam now.
Are they looking for investors?
Are they hinting at extremely large returns?
Would it be a monumental feat?
Two out of three should be enough to make you walk away. Three out of three, well, let's just say that those who lose money on this will pay the stupidity tax.
You're applying a 3rd world solution (labor) to a 1st world manufacturing problem. In USA you should be building with robots not laborers, and robots don't ask for wages.
No, but the people who program the robots ask for salaries, and the ones servicing them ask for contracts.