This one seems different from the (correct) ruling in favor in hiQ Labs, where the courts were quite clear that scraping the public Internet was completely legal.
This is a case of a company creating millions of fake user accounts, so they’re behind the login wall and not on the public side of the Internet anymore. At least, that’s how I’m reading this.
> but it hurts even more when exercising (back hurts, RSIs, etc)and so people don’t exercise and they protect their body like it is glass.
100% this. Whenever I've had longer breaks from strength training, clocking in the kind of hours I do in a desk chair eventually gets me to back pain, Aeron chair be damned.
The only thing that works for me then is to hit the weights; squats and deadlifts to be specific. Obviously not doing 1 rep max, relatively high rep range (8-12).
- Week 1: muscle soreness is horrible.
- Week 2: muscle soreness is quite OK and the regular back pain is all but gone.
What is preventing them from launching a 27" version?
I've been waiting to upgrade our 2017 model in the living room, was hoping the 27" was finally going to come now. Guess Mac Mini is the only route to go...
I had two shopping lists written down, one for Unifi, one for TP-link. It was a combination of a couple of factors. It was actually a really tough decision, because they both seemed very good value for money. I wasn't factoring in cameras, just controller + switch + APs.
It was a combination of a couple of factors (this was in 2022):
- UI and integration
- Number of reviews and write-ups
- What I could find in stock
If I were doing it again today, I couldn't guarantee that my decision would be the same. It'd be a tough one...yet again.
I was considering TP-Link at point of purchase, since there are some options there with more throughput. Like everything, it's a tradeoff calculation and this time I favored the convenience
I can throw in my vote for Unifi. Stuck the UDM and the rest of the gear in a rackmounted enclosure in my daughter's wardrobe and haven't needed to think about it even once in 2+ years. It just manages itself nicely.
How GM thinks removing CarPlay and Android Auto is a strategically beneficial move, is mind boggling. I literally can't imagine how the reasoning happened, except for some really strong-willed exec with a lot of political power pushed it through.
Can't wait for the post-mortem analysis in 10 years.
> where it falls down is really understanding natural language.
I would settle for Siri understanding simple commands. Natural language is something for Apple customers in the 2040s. I want to not have to use creative language skills to decipher things in Reminders. "Who is this Paul Cage I'm supposed to call? Oh, repairing the pool cage."
Forget LLM or natural language processing; Siri needs to catch up to 2018's Google Assistant
There used to be an ABX plugin for Foobar, where you could test yourself if you could make out the difference between an MP3 of your choice and a lossless one.
I think I scored worse than a coin flip when it came to 320 files
> (Side note: an external camera has the benefit of being able to point it on your cats. In long-running meetings, showing off your cats tends to be a great mood improver)
The rule is: if a pet makes it into the shot somehow, you HAVE to bring them up for a close-up
Time blocking with pen and paper. Simple, fast and has revision history built in.
- Start with your fixed time commitments: meetings, commute, lunch etc.
- Then it's a matter of balancing the quicker tasks with the "meatier" project work.
- I'll usually have two blocks for faster tasks, email backlogs etc.
- Then you look at your project list and allocate as much time as you can to these bigger things.
Once you've drawn up your day, you follow it like a calendar.
Things will inevitably change during the day: some things take longer than you planned, urgent things pop up. The beauty here is that you then have to redraw the rest of the day's blocks, so you're forced to make a conscious decision on what gets cut.
I got this from Cal Newport's book "Deep Work", which I highly recommend, but you can also read about the method in this short blog post he wrote
Forms that can only be filled out by hand are annoyingly common. Surprising amount of PDFs to fill out that are just a scan of a hardcopy, where they haven't bothered marking up the fields so that you can fill it out in a PDF viewer. It's essentially an image, so the infuriating process is Print --> Fill out with pen --> Scan --> Email
2. Documents I want to preserve
Financial, tax, medical, legal, school-related, receipts for major purchases etc. Trying to go paperless, so +80% of incoming paper gets thrown away. Remaining 20% gets scanned. After being scanned I shred or throw away the hardcopy. Only a tiny fraction of documents do I keep the hardcopy, where it would be important to show that you have the original (think certificates, notarized stuff etc).
Maybe it's the combination of living in the US + having kids, but I'm finding myself printing a LOT. Not a week goes by without a couple of forms to print, fill out by hand and (perversely) scan and email back.
Main culprits are schools, doctors, dentists and extracurricular activities.