I have the Amazfit watch as well, and one of the best things about them is that you can use GadgetBridge (Opensource app for Android) in case you don't want to get entrenched in their ecosystem.
You can update the firmware, install watchfaces and have nearly 100% functionality.
I get it! I haven't used Macs much, mostly windows and linux, suspend/resume is really funky on windows for me. Linux was pretty much instantaneous when resuming on my ThinkPad.
I also didn't lose much battery life, probably 5% overnight-midday.
I moved from a ThinkPad T450s upgraded with RAM, SSD and a battery to an AMD Advantage Edition laptop from Asus last year.
Key takeaways for me were:
1. Increased display resolution and display rate
2. Better battery life (99whr battery). I get about 10hrs just browsing and around 7-8 if I watch a movie
3. Better thermals, rarely notice the fan kick in
4. Nice coterie of ports: I get 1 HDMI, 1 USB-C, 3 USB-A, 1 3.5mm, LAN port
5. Good GPU (6800M) for occasional gaming and messing around with plaid-ml
6. I really love the processor, everything screams on it!
7. Mood based lighting (haven't tinkered around with it much, but my infant loves it)
8. I love whatever Asus has done with its 2 way Noise Suppression AI. I have my infant screaming and neighbors dog barking, but the person on the other end generally gets a very crisp voice. My boss has a few dogs barking all the time and I won't generally be able to notice them in meetings.
9. Upgradable dual RAM slots and SSD. The first I didn't find on a lot of laptops for some reason.
The only cons that I have are:
1. Lack of a webcam. I do have an external USB Lenovo 300FHD cam that I adore for it's privacy cover. I also tend to unplug its USB cord when I'm done with the meetings as well
2. Noise suppression thing seems to work on windows only
My mom tbh is really content with HDD on her laptop that I got her a few years ago. The only reason I upgraded it with an SSD is because windows 10 would randomly start utilizing 100% of the HDD and it would take nothing short of a hard shutdown to stop that. But on even a really cheap SSD, it was at 10% utilization.
I used to swim/gym around 3 years ago everyday for about 2 years. I used to sleep from 9.30pm to 7.30am because I used to be tired. Sleep used to help me recover a lot! And because I used to be asleep for such a long time, I never had time to binge watch or eat. I lost about 40kgs because of exercise, diet and mostly sleep.
Fast forward to now, I'm working in the night to match my colleagues schedule till my wife's and infant's visa arrive and I can travel to the university, this is about a timezone difference of 9.30 hours. I've never been more bloated, tired and depressed. I've also have gotten more ill, and have had a plethora or gastric issues.
It's not easy to do gene therapy? All the editing systems, have off targets that are yet to be studied.
Even then, let's say that they work, what about cases like gestational diabetes? Are you going to do gene therapy on a pregnant person to resolve diabetes that tends to normally vanish off once the baby is born? What about the impact on the baby?
Not sure where they got the number from, but every year the climates have become a tad more warmer with summer temperatures routinely being closer to 50C in India.
I've been hearing nearly all my life that coastal areas like Bangladesh, Mumbai, Kolkata, orissa etc are at a severe risk of drowning due to rising sea levels.
I've experienced first hand water scarcity in many parts of the country, but more prominently near the Deccan plateau due to rainfall failures and lakes, rivers drying up as a consequence of exploitation leading to crop failures.
Their 1 billion number doesn't seem too far off though if we take into account not many hospitable places have measures controlling resource usage and exploitation.
I have a desert cooler that runs probably > 8hrs a day. I live in an area that's relatively not humid. My family is kinda lucky that we have a lawn surrounding the house and that's full of trees, so that cools the house a bunch as well.
Sometimes we do hang a bunch of palm mats on the windows and spray it with water, for evaporat-ive cooling.
Other than this, we also have lots of juices during the summer, and have diluted buttermilk to drink!
Most of us wear clothes that are loose around the groin and areas where sweat production/accumulation occurs the most.
I'm not sure why this line of research is not being done more to be really honest. We are in Dire need of new antibiotics and updated books/documentation/procedures that don't use antibiotics willy nilly.
I'm saying this as a biologist and a bioinformatician. Hyper-effective antibiotics like Linezolids and Vancomycin are really one of the last bastions of safety. And hospitals are probably one of the easiest ways to spread R-Strains (resistant strains).
My infant who just a month and a half old was admitted back to the hospital after he stopped moving his right shoulder. We just got discharged a few days back.
Pus, blood cultures and tens of tests later we found it was MRSA, or Methicillin resistant staph aureus. We narrowly escaped complete sepsis after multiple invasive drainage procedures and being constantly monitored in Nicu with multiple antibiotics.
Pretty sure that it was a hospital infection considering the incubation period of the bacteria is around 10-14 days and we were back admitted at his 14th day of life.
Antibiotic resistance is also a big issue with cattle and lifestock, along with effluence in the drainage near pharma industries as well.
I rue the day that we cease finding effective antibiotics, because hell will break loose definitely then.
One of the few issues that I've faced is pagination of the comments and occasionally "dang" might pop up to paginate the comments on heavily trending/debated topics.
My 2 cents would be to enable pagination after a set number of comments, so that it doesn't go on and on, on mobiles.
BTW, I really like this kind of website design as its minimal enough to load on terrible connections and easily viewable.