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New comment by iamatworknow in "What is going on with ceiling fans"

iamatworknow — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 15:35:03 +0000

What about the latent heat of vaporization?

New comment by iamatworknow in "Giving up on smart rings"

iamatworknow — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 16:35:18 +0000

You're just never going to get a smart ring with a battery that lasts longer than a year or two until different/better battery technology becomes commonplace.

I've had a RingConn ring since December 2024, and I went with them primarily because they don't charge a monthly fee like Oura. But at this point the battery that originally lasted 2 weeks lasts only about 2 days. It's about the best you can expect from a ~30mAh lithium cell. Once it finally dies completely I won't be replacing it.

New comment by iamatworknow in "iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27"

iamatworknow — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 14:59:12 +0000

On that same note I'm still upset Apple acquired Dark Sky. Apple's own weather app got _a little_ better after that, but they've never gotten close to the the accuracy and reliability that Dark Sky had for everything local climate/weather related.

New comment by iamatworknow in "Gmail to end support for "Send as" for third-party addresses, such as @yahoo.com"

iamatworknow — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 17:05:01 +0000

I was totally unaware of this. I haven't quite been ready to pull the trigger on something like FastMail or ProtonMail, but I have a few domains kicking around and figure it's worth a shot to try it out. Thanks!

New comment by iamatworknow in "Judge rules Trump administration’s blacklisting of Anthropic was illegal"

iamatworknow — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 17:18:43 +0000

If only it were that simple.

Recall the "Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act". The legislature _did_ pass a law banning software then and the executive just ignored it.

New comment by iamatworknow in "Judge rules Trump administration’s blacklisting of Anthropic was illegal"

iamatworknow — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 17:05:43 +0000

While we're at it, term limits for everyone. All levels of the judiciary and legislature.

New comment by iamatworknow in "Microsoft Azure Outage 7/23/2026"

iamatworknow — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 15:34:04 +0000

Can confirm many of our West US resources have been out for like 40 minutes.

New comment by iamatworknow in "Arduino Launches Plug-and-Play Modules for Long-Range Sensor Projects"

iamatworknow — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 17:29:19 +0000

Why are you responding as if that was an attack? Not everyone needs to know every intricate detail of a system to use it. Nor should they.

That type of thinking is like saying unless you can cook a gourmet restaurant quality meal you don't deserve to eat at a gourmet restaurant. Absurd.

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.