Went to my para system "0 - Inbox".

I had him be a Dungeon Master and start taking me through an adventure. Was very impressive and convincing (for the two minutes I was conversing), and the latency was really good. Felt very natural.

Hah- this is a great hackathon idea. I tried this concept just now and asked it (him?) to give a joke at the end. "What do you call an orc with two brain cells?... pregnant". Lol

Thanks for that. We used Tomcat as our app server at my last company from 2008 until I left in 2019. I'm guessing it's still be used....

why do you need a phone number for a google account?

Because Google asks for it to let you register.

Really? Wow. I have like 20 gmail accounts. I guess I got them before they started requiring phone numbers.

Do you use all 20 regularly? Because if you don’t, there’s a chance that next time you try to login to one of them on the web they’ll ask you to add a phone number and not let you continue until you do. But if you have them setup in an email client, it should still work.

i heard this is how it's working for a Rolex now, too, unless you go to secondary market and pay a big premium.

This is always how Rolex has worked. Supply is limited, and prices are fixed, so they have to pick and choose who gets the rarer and more desirable watches, and who better to offer them to than the people who are your best customers (or have enough clout to be free advertising?).

Ferrari works the same way.

Definitely not always how Rolex worked. Just 10-15 years ago you could walk in and purchase a stainless steel sport Rolex watch for a good discount brand new at authorized distributors.

I loved my old 11" MB Air. That was the perfect form factor for my lighter workloads, and was perfect for manager life.

I have a friend still using his 9 years later.

He is non-technical and it took some bullying to get him to max out the ram and cpu but he never imagined an 11" wouldn't be availbale in the future and assumed he'd upgrade.

The 11" was excellent. If there was a newer version, the bezels would be much smaller, and maybe a different kind of 12" could fit in it.

There is not much that is interesting after so many new devices, but an 11" or 12" would be something I'd want quickly enough to line up for it.

me, too. the Toddy brewer 30 years ago, even spoke of this. It was a way to premake your coffee concentrate, and then mix with water and microwave to heat up....

This was the first cold-brewing device I ever encountered....as a guest at someone else's house. Didn't know it had a name. Thanks!

That's exactly the one I started with, and used for years until the plastic got brittle and cracked.

ditto

I'm a big fan of PARA method, but I only use it in my note-taking app. I tried to apply it to filesystem, but it didn't work for me. So I went with his philosophy of keeping it simple and what works for you.

If i'm using ridewithgps, how do I contribute? is there an easy tool, or maybe it's something these tools could integrate? I know I ride trails thatdon't always show up on OSM views.

Contributing is simple:

1. When you see a trail or any other feature that doesn't appear on the map, take a picture.

2. When you get home, visit https://www.openstreetmap.org and start drawing.

The website has satellite images overlayed wirh map data, so it's easy to see what you are doing.

You can look at your pictures to remind yourself of what was missing.

If you have recorded your ride,you can also upload your GPX trace to OpenStreetMap to make it easier to trace features that don't show up clearly on satellite images.

Don't be afraid of making mistakes. Look around and start small. Good luck!

This. I have added trails, removed trails, added water fountains, etc... from all my bike rides trying to contribute where I can.

I think it's a good sign that OpenStreetMap has gotten so complete, at least in most USA cities, that we're starting to scrape the bottom of the barrel for things that can be added/edited. Water fountains?!?! Wow. I know that for every place where I've physically lived (and have local knowledge of the streets), OSM's roads are basically perfect, and there's no need anymore to edit them. Sometimes, I'll drive past a new suburban neighborhood being developed and they are spreading the asphalt for new streets, and I think to myself "AHA! Now is my chance to finally add a road to OSM!" I race back to my computer and lo and behold the new streets have already been added some time ago.

I don't know the app, but a generic way to do it would be to import your GPX trace on osm.org and add paths that are missing.

Cool, that sounds easy enough. I was thinking it'd be great if the app itself I used supported a feature to make it easy to add trails.

StreetComplete is really nice