I bought one. The touch screen was not good. The heart rate sensor was wild inaccurate at times. It was a pain to sync with my phone. And the strap gave me a rash.
Not that I expect the watch in the article to be any better.
There is also huawei band, which has similar low price but with seemingly better software than the xiaomi smart band. At the very least, the sync process is easy on both android and ios.
It also works with Gadgetbridge without having to pair it in the official app first (for Xiaomi bands, you need to do it to extract a key, not sure how consistently it's doable nowadays). Apparently the supported featureset is not as complete as for Xiaomi devices, but seems to be enough to cover the basics.
So Huawei are also easier to use without having to send your data anywhere.
Assuming this does happen, I would genuienly like to read what a plausible follow-up would look like, for peace in Gaza.
Would they extend Israel to Gaza and give everyone there a special status ? Or if they choose to setup a state, who will handle the "legal violence" part of the social contract ? Israel ? Folks from Gaza ?
And what about currency and international trade ? Would Gaza be allowed access to international waters ?
No. Israel ongoing genocide or the displacement of Palestinians to Egypt will just go faster than ever. The so-called 'international states community' did nothing to prevent any of the US-approved war crimes (either now by Israel in Gaza or the many other historically committed by the US and its aliases), and they will also do nothing when Israel continue to ethnically cleanse the rest of Palestine and destabilizing every neighbor country (Take Syria and Lebanon for example. Other countries that are partially controlled by the CIA -Egypt and Jordan- will have the same upon a regime change or a revolution); therefore violence, both by Palestinians and Israelis, will continue.
>Would they extend Israel to Gaza and give everyone there a special status ?
Is "dead" a special status? Because I think that's the plan. Take over Gaza, kill or displace as many Palestinians as possible, sell property for luxury hotels and data centers to SA, Europe and the US, and everyone collectively denies any "genocide" ever happened.
You leave your DNA everywhere, too, but there are data security and privacy implications of digitizing that data and voluntarily/involuntarily sharing it with others.
i moved in with my SO last weekend after being together for multiple years, reading the blogpost about his wife dying in the span of 9 weeks really sent chills down my spine :(
Making an urgent phone call to your spouse while rushing to your kids in the ER without taking your hands off the steering while is a fucking godsend. No matter how broken they are currently, they do have their place, and they work at least a bare minimum.
You should just drive and call later. You are putting yourself, your kids and the people around you at risk by calling someone else while driving, even when keeping your hands no the steering wheel.
I'm not a parent, but I suspect that if you're driving your kid(s) to the ER, there's a risk of having hours or minutes left with your kid(s) before they perish. So while it is riskier to call on the way, the risk of your spouse missing out on the last few moments of your child's time on Earth is actually greater.
That being said, one would hope that is a seriously unusual edge case for requiring voice commands.
(I personally find it awkward to use them, and still don't trust them to get it right, so I try not to use it ever unless I have no other choice.)
I think I'd always call an ambulance if it is what I perceive as a life threatening situation. Actually I did it once. You can't give CPR to your kids while driving. I also think calling the other parent would be way below in term of priority than making sure my kid stays alive so I think I would call only when ER specialists or at least paramedics have taken charge of them and that may be some hospital clerk doing it for me if I have to be available to give information about medical history.
Have you actually read the article ? He explains everything in sufficient detail. He didn't "hijack" the DNS records, he bought the ones that were expired and available.
The only thing he doesn't explain (for obvious reasons) is the how he found the shells online (because as he puts it, they fell off the back of a truck).
I don't understand how you can characterize this as dictatorship. If anything, it's the very normal realization of the representational democracy: The people have voted for representatives, that themselves voted on laws to force everyone to serve, or go to jail.
If the people wish to repeal that law, then they should vote for representatives that will repeal this.
What does a car do that you can't trivially do with something else ?
Like a boat or an airplane ?
You simply cannot compare an in-memory Key-Value store, to a RDBS. And that's on a conceptual level. If you then consider performance, network latency and the guarantees, we're absolutely comparing airplanes to donkeys: You wouldn't use an airplane to climb up a rough mountain, and you certainly wouldn't prefer a donkey to travel to the other side of the world.
That is a very bold claim. A message queue can have many different requirements: Some message queues tolerate lost messages, others don't. Some require a notification mechanism (i.e. a push model instead of a polling model). Other require precise management of dead letters.
All this to say that, yes, you theoretically CAN use SQLite as a message queue. But atomic operations are usually WAY lower on the "must have" list for a message queue than other parameters.
The easiest way you could verify this is by looking at the guarantees provided by some of the most known MsgQueues.
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