He’s a cycling journalist (specialized in tech), not a shop owner.

Just to add some context: e-bike commuters in a hilly city would go through the stock organic brake pads in <500 km sometimes. Could be as little as 6 weeks. The shop I worked at (back in the day) would replace them with longer wearing third-party pads.

Yeah, I suspect “Melissa” fed Lowe’s article to an LLM to get a quick article that’s sure to get views.

In 2015? 2 years before "Attention Is All You Need"?

Ah, I miss the days when this sort of soft plagiarism required a minimal level of effort and even some genuine research. It might even rise to the level of "acceptable" if she cited her sources more thoroughly. Sadly, as presented, her choice of both anecdotes and example materials makes it pretty clear that the author is mostly just rearranging Lowe's and Clark's words.

Good point! I’ll be more careful before quick posting.

Oh but no worries, FSD is a “solved problem” and should be done in 18 months or so…

Oh dear, your timeline casts doubts on the ability for a Tesla to self-drive from LA to New York before the end of 2017

In fact, he didn’t use FSD.

Not one the other car either but that one have not failed.

Remember, you gotta break some eggs to make an omelette; every time something crashes, explodes, or kills – that's a good thing! /s

They didn’t offer free repairs, but they also didn’t limit it to five countries.

Not an applicant, but thanks for your app!

I enjoy using both, but you’re leaving out microphonics (especially on zippers), cable tangle and getting frayed/damaged/caught on clothing, just to name a few.

Lack of microphonics is the killer feature of wireless for me, I avoided earbuds for my entire life because of how grating I find them.

He did mention tangling

I’m on Garmin watches as well but this line of thinking is getting old. Partner has an Apple Watch and they charge it while in the shower/getting dressed and occasionally 10-15 minutes in the evening to make sure it gets through the night. Charger is in a convenient location and it’s dead easy to drop the watch on it. If you’re running ultras, then by all means stay on Garmin. But honestly for the day to day I’ve rarely seen it be an issue.

ETA: there’s plenty of valid reasons to prefer other watches (ANT+ compatibility being one of mine) but honestly the battery life thing is really not that bad for most users.

The battery life is what got me off. I don't have good charging habits, and nothing was worse than not being able to use your activity tracker for your workout because you forgot to charge it. I got a Garmin and I hardly ever have to think about it now.

Having to plan your day around when to charge your Apple Watch doesn't sound like a good experience to me.

Same ish pattern for me on my Pixel Watch (2 mabye?) unless I forget there's plenty of time to keep it topped up for a day and change of use with just a quick charge in the mornings. There's plenty of time I don't need a watch on to give it a quick top up.

I guess creativity and technical advancements take longer than the yearly upgrade cycle required by marketing.

I had heard that in the context of absurdly high hematocrit, where they would get their heart rate up to move the (very viscous) blood around their body. No source, but doesn’t sound impossible when everyone was on EPO.