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tommi | 1 year ago | on: Apple Watch sleep apnea detection gets FDA approval

The 36 hour battery life also isn't a best-case scenario. According to apple.com

"All-day battery life is based on the following use: 90 time checks, 90 notifications, 45 minutes of app use, and a 60-minute workout with music playback from Apple Watch via Bluetooth, over the course of 18 hours;"

tommi | 1 year ago | on: Kim Dotcom's extradition to the U.S. given green light by New Zealand

It can be that while US is playing world police, characterising Dotcom's MegaUpload and Mega as a fight against it not a fitting description of them.

International crime can be a tough problem to solve. Who gets to decide what is a crime, how it should be judged and punished?

tommi | 1 year ago | on: How much faster are the Gnome 46 terminals?

Well written article and interesting results, thank you.

I'm surprised that there has been input latency of tens of milliseconds with the said setup. How much are typical input latencies in comparable Windows laptops and Macs?

tommi | 2 years ago | on: Sumario now Open Source and runs on Fly.io

Thanks, this simple sentence told me more than all of the texts on the site combined. I tend to skip introduction videos, so all my questions might have been answered there.

The site mentions "Create a Relay in the Sumario dashboard". This raises couple of questions for me:

- What is a relay? Is it just configuration?

- What is Sumario dashboard? Is this something I host as Sumario is open source or is it hosted?

Also since there's "It's free to get started. No credit card required." then what's the pricing? I'm not going to create an account if you are not open about the costs.

With little tweaks I think the site would be more appealing.

tommi | 3 years ago | on: The 0.5 MB of nothing in all Apple Music files (2020)

It's all about how you value your time. These kind of quests are usually very valuable learning tool and fun. I have learned a lot with hobby projects which didn't create any value as end products but were valuable to me.

tommi | 4 years ago | on: IBM Plex Typeface (2018)

As this seems to be old news, was there a reason why you posted it?

Edit: (2018) in the title would be in order.

tommi | 4 years ago | on: Apple Watch Series 7

45 minutes can be a lot if you keep it in hand over night for sleep tracking. You'd then need a to find a 45 minute slot every day to charge it and be consistent with it. With one day battery life you can't forget to charge it every morning for example. Or what if you didn't bring a charger with you for an overnight trip? Anything less than a full two day battery life is a deal breaker for me.

tommi | 4 years ago | on: Why Teslas Keep Striking Parked Firetrucks and Police Cars

While it might be interesting to know what it does in such cases, it shouldn't matter. You as a human should always take full control when encountering unusual activity on road. Relying on currently available driving aid systems to handle edge cases is just begging for trouble.

tommi | 4 years ago | on: Electric aircraft set to take flight by 2026 under new agreements

Well said though to clarify the reason why you wait 40 minutes at the gate is probably because you have to calculate some extra per each step leading to it. You can't be sure you'll make it in 5 minutes per check in, security and walk to the gate. Also, the added cost in time and money of missing a plane is quite high compared to missing a train e.g. in Europe, so that further increases the buffer you add to the process.

tommi | 8 years ago | on: Introducing the Keybase filesystem

Keybase has created an inbox in your name which in turn creates a social contract on your behalf to check it. Existing users signed up for something different, so no wonder some of them want to disable that feature.

tommi | 8 years ago | on: Screen sharing comes to Slack video calls

I like Slack but I'm bit hesitant to have it the ability to control my mouse and keyboard all the time. Slack is so popular that there are certainly lot attacks against it and that could be one of the biggest exploits. I really hope operating system side sandboxing features mature and I'm able to control if and when software has access to such features.

tommi | 11 years ago | on: AeroFS is now free up to 30 users

I think it's the opposite: to me you sound like an IT guy since you know about cifs and file servers and you have hard time understanding the value because you are looking from a technical instead of user perspective.

tommi | 11 years ago | on: Ask HN: Working through burnout?

Take at least one hour consecutive walk every day without any gadgets. It'll give your brain time to recover and your body exercise to releave stress.

tommi | 11 years ago | on: Firefox to get a “walled garden” for extensions, Mozilla to be sole arbiter

"That makes it vaguely more egalitarian than a complex and bureaucratic mechanism that tends to favour bigger, more established software makers, who themselves have the staff and bureaucracy to match."

This is FUD. Even Apple's App Store doesn't require huge amount of bureaucracy let alone what they seem to be talking about.

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