Wong Kim Ark was itself a baffling decision imho. I read through it once. It seemed to me that it should have been 1 sentence, “Constitution says citizen, therefore he legally is one”. Instead it went through dozens of pages of nuanced and somewhat precarious reasoning to reach the same conclusion.
That the current SCOTUS took this case at all made it sound like they were inclined to overturn Wong Kim Ark, and decide that the Constitution really didn’t mean what it said.
The merits of lightsticks versus LED’s weren’t part of my question. I just wanted a measurement, not purchasing advice. The idea that a single measurement is uninformative and that I really need thousands of measurements is ridiculous. It seemed like something an AI would say, but ok I guess a human could say it carelessly. If I thought a single measurement was suspect, I’d go for maybe 3 measurements. People infer all the time from way less than thousands of observations.
As for fragility, one suggested way to use a light stick is to put it at the end of a few feet of cord and swing it around in a circle, for more visibility from a distance. Most people won’t want to do that with LED lights.
I’ve self-hosted Gogs which is a predecessor of Forgejo and it used very few resources. A tiny VPS is plenty. Fossil (fossil-scm.org) is even smaller, but it’s a DVCS that’s not directly compatible with Git.
For personal projects you don’t really need a “forge”. I just use self-hosted git directly, with no web UI. Just “git pull” and so on. That’s what the Linux kernel devs do, so it’s obviously workable even for huge projects. There’s actually a web interface (gitweb) that comes with git, but it’s mostly to let other users browse your repo.
If you’re doing something of public interest, savannah.gnu.org and savannah.nongnu.org might be worth looking into. They are curated, so you have to submit your project and they decide if they want host it. There’s lots of stuff there, it’s just not for random personal projects.
I don’t feel a need to use github. Github users can pull from non-github repos. If I’m not on github I don’t get to use their workflow but that’s ok. That’s a deficiency in github obviously, and it’s not my job to fix github.
I see, like putting the person on speaker phone. Not nice, but thanks!
I didn’t hear a mention of this watch being usable for phone calls but if that’s in the cards, then I guess that’s a legitimate application, though I don’t see how it would work. You hold your wrist up to your ear? Sounds painful. Is it somehow better than using an earbud? If you don’t want to walk around wearing an earbud like a Borg when you’re not on a call, maybe they could put an earbud holder onto the watchband. The watch could be shaped to accomodate the earbud and maybe even recharge it, if it’s shaped like an Airpod.
That looks like AI output and no there’s no need to test thousands. Testing just one that acted fairly typical would be good enough to get an indication. Testing a handful would show if there’s much variation. Folklore has always been n=30 is usually good enough to observe the normal distribution, though that’s not so reliable really.
https://statswithcats.net/2010/07/11/30-samples-standard-suggestion-or-superstition/
There’s a whole book about this, written (wow) all the way back in 1996. The Challenger Launch Decision, by Diane Vaughan. Technically a different incident, but it sounds like history repeats.
Yes and it’s a constant issue, and there is tons of security stuff in the phone to deal with the mic’s presence. I’ve elsewhere suggested making phones with no mics, so if you want to make a voice phone call you have to use an external mic. At least the phone has an important application that uses the mic.
The mic in this watch seems to have been added to the hardware just because they could. But as they say, just because you can doesn’t mean you should.
I would say the weakest part of this light is the swivel bracket, as the little detents and teeth are likely to wear down. If that happens with mine, I might try fixing it with a shim of masking tape or similar.
It’s definitely a cheap light and I’m less enamored of them now then when I first nabbed them, but I’m still glad they exist, as the usual cheap headlamp uses three AAA’s, and alkaleaks notoriously leak and destroy the light, as their name implies.
Lithium non-rechargeable batteries generally have very good storage life, so that yours works fine after 2 years is expected. The main thing that could interfere with that is if the light itself is draining power when turned off. I haven’t tried measuring that but I’d like to hope the manufacturer isn’t that clueless.
I may be able to get an NU05 for cheap so I’ll do a separate post about that if I get it. Another alternative used by some is a Nitecore Tube or Photon micro light tied to the side of your head with thin shock cord. I’d actually very much like to see more headlamps in something like the NU05 format. Nitecore has a few other ultralight headlamps but they try to do too much and suffer from lumenitis. A rechargeable or 1AAA version of the Mal-wart light with better quality would also be great.
The classic light in this format is the Petzl (https://www.petzl.com/INT/en/Sport/Headlamps/ePLUSLITE) that I mentioned, but it’s ridiculously expensive for its functionality unless you’re hell-bent on staying under 1 oz. There are tons of far more functional alternatives in the next higher weight class.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thucydides
By the way typing “Pelopenssian War” [sic] into a search engine immediately found the Wikipedia article about the war, which semi-immediately led to the answer you wanted.
This is about a watch, not a phone. It looks like they added the mic as an afterthought.
Interesting but no mention of Guix. I’m still on the fence.
The crappy old Casio that I use now has no microphone and no wireless comms. Just an LCD and some pushbuttons.
Ugh, it has a microphone. Eavesdropping malware incoming. And it’s another big clonky smartwatch.
It’s nice that it has a blood oxygen sensor I guess. And there’s a 6d accelerometer. I don’t see mention of a temperature sensor either, though with the wireless connectivity and presumed frequent recharging, I guess you can keep correcting the time.
I still like the Sensorwatch (sensorwatch.net) better. Much more modest, smaller, etc. Runs for a year on a coin cell, has a temperature sensor which can used to correct the oscillator and give timing accuracy to within a few seconds a year, and other cool stuff.
That Uniball looks like a fairly random generic ballpoint pen. I would say go to an office supply store where they have lots of pens on display. Try out a bunch of them and find a refillable one that you like.
I’ve never heard of a ballpoint pen that’s practical to re-ink. You will have to replace a cartridge every once in a while no matter which model you pick.
There are a bunch of fairly standard formats of ballpoint pen refills. Look at jetpens.com for probably more than you want to know.
It looks like there is a whole Uniball Jetstream series, some models refillable:
https://www.jetpens.com/Uni-Jetstream-Ballpoint-Pens/ct/354
On the other hand, the refills are almost as expensive by themselves as the non-refillable model you currently use.
What are you asking for? A pen that you can keep refilling with ink? Once you need refill cartridges it’s no longer BIFL and the pen is just a holder for the cartridge. So any refillable pen will do. jetpens.com has a huge selection. Pick what you like.
I know that some people are into fountain pens and they are cool as a fetish, but IMHO they are less practical than other types of pens.
It depends on you, of course. You won’t freeze though, especially if you are walking around.
Batman has to be free from the need for a real job, plus be able to run the Batcave research infrastructure that developed the Batmobile, the Batplane, and all that. Plus keep Alfred on staff and in on the secret, plus stay with his backstory of Thomas and Martha Wayne being murdered. Wayne Enterprises came much later. Bruce Wayne’s original guise was being an idle playboy in Wayne Manor.
Spider-man isn’t rich. If you want a non-rich superhero, you might check him him out.
Or heck, I’m old enough to remember Reid Fleming, the World’s Toughest Milkman.