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New comment by iamatworknow in "The new science of meditation"

iamatworknow — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 18:34:24 +0000

Yeah, that totally makes sense to me.

New comment by iamatworknow in "The new science of meditation"

iamatworknow — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 17:27:29 +0000

I did the same as a kid. Like if I was in a classroom with noisy classmates ("study hall") I'd shut my eyes and actively try to not hear them and embrace the nothingness "around" the voices. Kinda interesting that I have distinct memories of doing this _years_ before I was ever exposed to "meditation".

New comment by iamatworknow in "Tell HN: I think I found Toyota's battery"

iamatworknow — Thu, 03 Aug 2023 19:04:18 +0000

Yeah...I messed up. Damn window size and two different drivetrains for the Ioniq. Side note, web design sucks.

New comment by iamatworknow in "Tell HN: I think I found Toyota's battery"

iamatworknow — Thu, 03 Aug 2023 19:03:14 +0000

Yeah, I missed that there were the two lines for the Ioniq 5 weight based on the drivetrain, and a column that was not obviously hidden with my window size, my bad.

New comment by iamatworknow in "Tell HN: I think I found Toyota's battery"

iamatworknow — Thu, 03 Aug 2023 18:55:48 +0000

To me it all still comes down to charging infrastructure. The current state of batteries is good enough for me, but I live in an apartment and can't charge at home, and the availability/reliability local charging stations are a crap shoot, nevermind charging on a road trip.

But when (if?) I own my own house and can charge at home, I'll be in even with the current state of batteries.

New comment by iamatworknow in "Tell HN: I think I found Toyota's battery"

iamatworknow — Thu, 03 Aug 2023 18:46:43 +0000

I always bought into this "meme", in part because just about every EV review I've seen mentions having to compensate for the extra weight which makes those cars less performant at times, so decided to look it up based on your quoted vehicles here, and figured I'd save anyone else the same search:

A 2023 Rav 4 has a curb weight of between 3615 and 3775 lb [1]

A 2023 Ioniq 5 has a curb weight of between 3968 and 4663 lb [2]

So a difference of between 193 and 1048 pounds between the two. That's actually a lot less than I expected, at least on the low end. 193 pounds is basically equivalent to just having one extra person in the car.

As noted in replies, though, these _do_ take into account different drive trains, so the comparison is not not great from the start.

[1] https://www.toyota.com/rav4/2023/features/mpg_other_price/44...

[2] https://www.hyundaiusa.com/us/en/vehicles/ioniq-5/compare-sp...

New comment by iamatworknow in "Bitsummit 2023: Steam Decks everywhere, no VR, and impressive indie games"

iamatworknow — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 20:04:34 +0000

Look into autocross, if you haven't before. It's probably the most accessible way to get a taste of time-trial racing in real life, and events are held all over the place -- basically anywhere there's a community and a free, empty parking lot. You just need a car (any car as long as it runs and is safe), a helmet (probably the most annoying part), and usually less than $100 for admission.

New comment by iamatworknow in "40 years ago yesterday Air Canada Flight 143 ran out of fuel mid-flight"

iamatworknow — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 14:20:27 +0000

Yeah, that's a fair point. But if things are flowing I regularly see 80+ (which probably lends itself to eventual 20 MPH when someone wrecks and causes awful traffic).

Definitely don't mind those late night drives, as long as you keep an eye out for people not signaling or not having their lights on.

It'd be awesome if we could invest in actual public transport instead of more lanes but...

New comment by iamatworknow in "Death Metal English (2013)"

iamatworknow — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 20:39:16 +0000

A culturally relevant favorite of mine:

  The lives of all they occupy, their eyes in dismal gloom
  The all-piercing, dead oculi, mirrors of our doom
  Oblivious to the trespass as you gaze into the black
  The demon of surveillance insultingly staring back
  Into you
  Into you

https://genius.com/Meshuggah-the-demons-name-is-surveillance...

New comment by iamatworknow in "40 years ago yesterday Air Canada Flight 143 ran out of fuel mid-flight"

iamatworknow — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 19:53:22 +0000

73 MPH? Must be a leisurely Sunday church drive (at least here in the Atlanta metro, where cars engulfed in flame on the side of the interstate are not as rare as they should be).

New comment by iamatworknow in "To save money on insurance, drivers agree to intrusive monitoring technology"

iamatworknow — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 19:25:30 +0000

I don't know what you expect this comment to do, lol.

New comment by iamatworknow in "To save money on insurance, drivers agree to intrusive monitoring technology"

iamatworknow — Thu, 29 Jun 2023 15:53:23 +0000

Maybe they do, or did in this case, but I wouldn't expect them to keep me informed on what happened.

New comment by iamatworknow in "To save money on insurance, drivers agree to intrusive monitoring technology"

iamatworknow — Thu, 29 Jun 2023 14:54:54 +0000

I had a situation a few years ago driving down a highway at night when all of a sudden I noticed a weird "thing" in the sky in front of me. It got closer and I swerved, but not enough to avoid it hitting the side of my car, taking off the side mirror and gouging up the front half of the drivers' side. Then I realized it was the plastic bed liner of the pickup truck in front of me that became unattached at highway speeds and flew into the air like a kite. My car was still operable, and I had a (poor quality, especially at night, but operable) dash cam, and the truck ahead of me didn't stop, so I sped closer to close the distance to the truck and for assurance, read out the license plate number aloud so the dash cam's microphone could pick it up before pulling over.

Contacted the police, took them about an hour to respond, and the officer gave me his email so I could send him the video. It was hard to make out but you could definitely see the object leave the truck, and a few seconds later appearing in my view, and me swerving.

Contacted insurance, they arranged the repairs, and I was out the deductible. About a week later I got a call from the police saying they looked up the plate and lo and behold, it wasn't even registered to a white pickup truck, but a blue sedan, so the plate was either stolen or swapped from another vehicle, at which point there really was no recourse.

Long story short, even if you have a dash cam, sometimes you're SOL. I _did_ use that as an excuse to upgrade my dash cam to one with better quality and night vision, but yeah, shit happens, and if nobody got hurt sometimes you gotta just accept it.

New comment by iamatworknow in "Casio adds fitness features to original G-Shock digital watch"

iamatworknow — Mon, 08 May 2023 20:30:29 +0000

I'll second this but add _without a subscription_. I like the idea of Oura or Whoop but I don't want want the monthly fee, and just want the minimal amount of data (acceleration, heart rate, maybe temperature), in something I can wear along side a legit mechanical watch.

New comment by iamatworknow in "Staples Center to be renamed Crypto.com Arena as part of 20yr naming rights deal"

iamatworknow — Wed, 17 Nov 2021 16:29:21 +0000

The Lakers roster has the highest average age in the whole NBA by like 2 years.

https://basketball.realgm.com/nba/transactions/composition_s...

New comment by iamatworknow in "Staples Center to be renamed Crypto.com Arena as part of 20yr naming rights deal"

iamatworknow — Wed, 17 Nov 2021 16:23:31 +0000

My favorite is (or, was) "Sleep Train Arena" in Sacramento. Sounds so exciting!

New comment by iamatworknow in "Microsoft buys Nuance for nearly $20B"

iamatworknow — Mon, 12 Apr 2021 14:47:04 +0000

Same here. I replaced the few Alexa devices in my house with Homepods over the last year and have notice no difference in how well they work because I don't use them for anything particularly complicated, and I don't _want_ to use them for any more than that. The only thing Siri seems to mess up for my usage is not interpreting things I put on my shopping list correctly, but usually in a way that's still recognizable (like "milk this'll").

New comment by iamatworknow in "Gallup: U.S. church membership dips below 50% for first time"

iamatworknow — Mon, 29 Mar 2021 17:51:18 +0000

I mean no offense by this, but this opinion seems to be colored by your direct experience. There's is still A LOT of intolerance to these things to be found in the world. You're just not being exposed to it, most likely.

New comment by iamatworknow in "A new moralism is gripping the literary world"

iamatworknow — Fri, 19 Mar 2021 15:52:27 +0000

>And maybe it's right that stories like that should be written by people who're closer to them?

Both books should be able to exist simultaneously.

New comment by iamatworknow in "A new moralism is gripping the literary world"

iamatworknow — Fri, 19 Mar 2021 15:30:12 +0000

I'm guessing the post you're replying to is sarcasm, or trolling, because it seems too perfectly absurd.