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As in the blog post: a campaign of targeted harassment.


Having run communities myself, I would: take it seriously—immediately—let the community know that harassment is unacceptable, support the person who reported it, investigate privately, remain neutral to all parties. Based on the result of the investigation: enforce consequences or changes—nothing, warning, timeout, ban—introduce or amend policy to help prevent it happening again, support healing of the victim and the community. These are all quite possible in private/managed communities. Not a panacea by any means, but worth doing.


Gravity strength varies all over Earth so there are areas with slightly higher than normal gravity. eg. Dartmoor. I wonder if people who live there have higher bone density? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_anomalies_of_Britain_a...

I’d assume any such signal will be buried in the noise. The difference is very small.

You might be interested to know that the difference is quite noticeable! At least on Dartmoor. Walking feels very different.

How does Google Lens compare?

I tried it but as far as I can tell Google Lens doesn't give you a location - it just describes generally what you're looking at.

I had cause to try Google Lens today and found the location to exact address thanks to a veterinary clinic which was in the background of an image. ChatGPT got the country but wrong city.

YOYOZO, my game that received a "Best Games of 2023" accolade, was also written in Lua. It is only 39KB despite containing two music tracks, physics and particle systems, online high score board, dynamic sounds, two fonts, a tutorial and more. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38372936

On macOS you can see both if you do Get Info on a file

I'm guessing they still look like a normal laptop, which is why there's no photo of such a "Frankenstein" laptop?

The price and capability is really surprising. But the most surprising and welcome thing for me is the long battery life.

I don't love having to link it with an app to start using it, especially when that app keeps trying to grab my pasteboard without any sensible excuse.

This comment was much more favorable before that started happening. Oh well, what self-respecting mobile dev doesn't have a pile of crappy phones with nothing on them of import?


I hear you. Once the device set up you can unlink the app but I'm not sure what happens to your data at that point. But the app is quite useful as it allows you to view data in different ways than Health. Also, like you, I disable pasteboard requests apps that have no need for it.

I overreacted slightly because it happened to be my TOTP app that had most recently written there, and I don't suppose I feel too bad about being a little gun-shy in the direction of excessive security.

The app is really quite nice, and the hardware itself seems so far quite beyond reproach. I think I'm really going to enjoy these as a way of easing back into programming during this sabbatical, and the T-rex 3 is a handsome little accessory; thank you, I'm really glad you posted about these!


Not that you need to hear more from me on this, but this really is the exact kind of accessory I needed. Programmable, powerful enough to be fun, not obtrusive enough to get in the way, lots of stylish colorful and businessy metallic bands I can swap out and accessorize for my day - and paying ~5% state of charge per day for an always-on display in "night" or single-color mode, it also manages to match in simple utility a simple quartz watch of the type my last-but-one partner favored. It's clever, unusual, understated, but for those who bother noticing such things it does make a nuanced statement. It's me.

I've spent ca $500 now on a range from Band 7 through Balance to T-rex 3, just so I'll have something to suit all styles and occasions. That may sound like a lot of money, but it really isn't; due to some events last year far too tedious to discuss, I lately find I'm read as homeless a little (...a lot...) too easily for comfort, and accessorizing this way allows me to show the ignorant wealthy something they think they recognize enough not to feel threatened by, without my having to compromise on any characteristics I actually care about in a personal device.

When the bad read is from a 20-year-old college kid bartender who has the job precisely because the place is too empty that time of day for even a Labrador to screw anything up too badly, I don't especially care. But this is Baltimore, and while the BPD has made enormous strides in the last decade and especially under Mayor Scott, times are scary. If the bad read is a keyed-up 22-year-old cop with a hand already near his weapon, that really could turn out to be the last bad day we ever have.

Oh sure, that poor cop would regret it and never forgive himself starting one second after the shot, but what good would that do him or me? Everybody goes out some kind of way, but I would rather for the sake of all involved this not be mine, and the upgrade to my style materially reduces the chance of that happening and makes me happy all kinds of other ways too.

So thanks again, most earnestly! Whether or not you meant to do me such a favor, you did; if you're ever in town and want to hit me up, feel free to collect on that very nice meal that I owe you.


I'm so happy for you! Keep on truckin'. Thanks for writing about your experience.

I actually preferred my Amazfit over my Apple Watch for several largely surface reasons:

1. The battery life is absurdly good compared to an Apple Watch. I don't understand why Apple Watches continue to have less than a day of battery life this many years into development; it's just not ok.

2. I absolutely LOVED that my notifications would go to my watch AND my phone simultaneously. With an Apple Watch you get one or the other and the Apple Watch doesn't mirror special notification sounds made on the phone for certain contacts/applications so I lose that functionality which is infuriating for me.

3. The only reason I kept the Apple Watch is because it is FAR SUPERIOR for three primary use cases:

- Swimming: the Apple Watch seems to know what strokes I'm doing 90% of the time whereas the Amazfit watch I had did not even track swimming at all, let alone be correct in its assessment of stroke and distance covered.

- Sleep tracking: the Amazfit watch was hours high on sleep and did not at all track sleep quality in line with my experience; the Apple Watch is far closer to my reality.

- Heart rate monitoring: the Amazfit was WAY low on heart rate when compared to an actual monitor whereas the Apple Watch is within miniscule difference. Amazfit was telling me my resting heart rate was in the low 30s when, in reality, it's closer to the low 70s; this just isn't just wrong, it's dangerously wrong.


All good to know, I appreciate it! The HR and O2 sat on this Band 7 line up pretty well with my old finger clip thing, but I haven't really benchmarked it more than that. I do now also have a T-Rex 3 en route, and for an order of magnitude higher cost, I expect to see it perform at least as well.

I wasn't really in the market for a smartwatch, if I'm honest; I haven't bothered with one in at least a decade. But a wearable I can program to this extent, with this interface and sensor suite, as cheaply as these things sell for? Unless they develop a habit of exploding on my wrist or I decide I really do hate bracelets after all, I genuinely can't imagine finding an enormous amount not to like.


Self-replying to note with the T-Rex 3 at least, the HR sensor is extremely sensitive to pressure, in that it easily reads 10bpm high if the watch is tight enough not to slip easily on the wrist. I like a watch this size and weight a little loose so that's OK, but the Band 7 seems to read most accurately when it's tighter. Either way, I doubt I'd rely on these for more than general trend and variation, a finger clip pulse ox is probably a lot more reliable.

I'm sure the Apple Watch is more accurate, but I find it hard to believe that to be that more accurate drops the battery to by a factor of 20. My hunch, as somebody who used to work at Apple, is that the watchOS is no different than any other software and is very far from being optimal.

I didn’t intend to imply the increased accuracy was the reason for the battery life drop; they were just statements about my experience with both and my ultimate choice to stick with the Apple Watch because of the accuracy and more advanced abilities, even with the significant pain in the ass of having to charge the watch every 18h or so.

You still need to generate images for use in that tool.

Do they have a watch face section in their official app? Just yesterday the watch face in my post was added to the official Amazfit watch face store in their Zepp app. Perhaps Xiomi have something similar.

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