I like the Sonos speaker. But the app is absolutely terrible and buggy. It takes quite literally a full minute to play a song initially and often times failed to load /play altogether. Oddly the app worked much better with my Apple Music subscription years ago and has been just getting progressively worse. Someone needs to provide a hack so I can just use Sonos like a regular dumb Bluetooth speaker tbh.
I'm in a similar boat... my speakers got so much worse after the app update. The old version was still buggy, but wasn't THIS bad.
Anyway, I think there might be some third-party firmware (or at least frontends) for Sonos speakers? I haven't tried them out yet (too lazy), but if you're the tinkering type, might be worth looking into? And if you find a good one, please do report back :)
Just a matter of time before anyone can buy ad placements like Google Adsense and a walled app garden allows a customer to price match their car insurance when they type in “how do I get cheap car insurance?” into ChatGPT and openAI takes 30%. The future is here! I guess?
I was an early adopter with the original PlayStation VR. The screen door effect was an issue but the biggest one is that I couldn’t last more than 30 minutes before getting nauseous. Granted I get seasick and likely susceptible more than most but I really hope Apple have solved it for people like me. Either way Im pre-ordering as well.
I don't get seasick at all, rough seas. If I try a roller coaster game, or even a game where you can walk forward VS teleport I'm close to vomiting. It's frustrating.
The PlayStation VR was not very good. Modern headsets, including the AVP, are much better at presenting a consistent low-persistence view - you should feel much better with it.
Try this as I am the same YMMV: get an eye mask and do 4-10 mins of deep “belly” breathing (5s inhale through the nose, 10s exhale through the mouth, though I prefer exhale through the nose.
Looking forward to the update. I have the quick launch on my Apple Watch face complication… where I usually use it after I had initially fined-tuned the exercises in the app. My only bit of feedback is after a session on the watch it doesn’t always consistently show the before/after HR which then doesn’t consequently update other health metrics like HRV etc.. otherwise love the app and the watch app!
Everyone is built different. 4 years ago my bloodwork came back with an extremely low level of Vit D (so low the dr. Said they’ve never seen it that low. I live in Canada and work in an office so not a big surprise. But the severity and frequency of flu/colds lead me to investigate further including doing a genetic test. Turns out I am genetically predisposed to low vit d absorption. With dr supervision I began megadosing 4-5000 IUs daily. As of my latest bloodwork which was 3 weeks ago my vit. D is still just below average. What I have noticed is that the severity and frequency of my cold/flu is much lower than what it was pre-dosing. I know this is not placebo because often in the past if I got the flu it would lead to pneumonia. Since dosing I have not had a single case of it. My 2 cents N=1.
When talking about placebo effect, it's the idea that the same thing could have happened taking a fake pill, just because the mind knows you are taking something that should have an effect.
Sure, the vitamin D in his blood may increase, but the anecdote of "it works" is about him getting sick less. And that could be a placebo effect and any sake pill would have had the same effect.
And the placebo effect can happen even when the person knows it's a fake pill.
You need about 1,000 IU per day to raise your serum levels by 25 nmol/L. The healthy level according to modern analysis is around 75-100 nmol/L.
What's important is that vitamin D is fat-soluble and will accumulate in your body. So if you do 5,000 IU/day for ever, your serum levels will likely just go up and up. 5,000 IU per day is not (as the other comments point out) anywhere a "megadose" — most people produce thousands of IU per hour when out in full sunlight — but it can eventually cause problems, including kidney stones and bone mineral density loss. (There's evidence that taking vitamin K2 together with the vitamin D helps maintain bone density.)
What's better is to do this for a while, then test your blood, then change the dose accordingly. Since the lag time is measured in weeks, it may take a while to find the right dose.
An interesting thing about the form from sunlight is that it can be stored at high doses safely and get converted into the active form as needed. And yes vitamin d supplements should be combined with vitamin K. D gets calcium into the blood, K gets it into your cells.
There is a form of vitamin d called 25 hydroxy that the body will immediately absorb. Some doctors used it during Covid because in 24 hours with iv treatment they could get a patient into the proper range.
I’m fortunate enough to have a an entire set from 1989 that my father bought for me and my older sister. I refuse to get rid of it. At the moment the set is in my old bedroom in my parents house but one day I intend to feature it prominently in my library.. it’s funny how one can get attached like that.
Would you be kind enough to check if that version contains anything on calculating the length of the perimeter of an ellipse. Backstory, I was living in London in 1990 and this guy was trying to sell me & girlfriend a set of the E.B. I asked him to show me the article on the length of the perimeter of an ellipse and he ... well, he didn't. Later I discovered that it is a very tricky matter. But I wonder if there is anything in that version that mentions the difficulty.
A lot of these problems in math with no exact solution could have an exact solution if we defined some new function. Another way, we wouldn't have exact solutions to the angles of a triangle from the length of the sides without the sine function. I wonder if any of these hypothetical functions have utility outside their specific problems.
For anyone confused: There is no exact equation for the perimiter of a circle either. It looks like there is because we use Pi - but Pi is not exact, you need an infinite series to calculate it, just like you need an infinite series for the perimeter of a ellipse.
Yes, but the point is the Pi is hiding an infinite series, just like the what you'd see for an ellipse length.
The more interesting point for me is to phrase it as: why can't we write the lenght of an ellipse as some function of pi, since you're able to do that for most trig functions.
Netflix originally had a very healthy and diverse social ecosystem of reviewers. For some reason they decided to remove all comments and lengthy reviews for the thumbs up/down. Maybe it was because they didn’t want to hire mods but honestly it was a huge opportunity for Netflix to create a very sticky social media network that would be impossible to replicate and disrupt. Maybe because of hubris they thought that the studios would never catch up with the tech. I mean look at blackberry and Nokia - they never caught up to Apple but when you think of it as hardware vs software especially commodity cdn software after a decade it really comes down to either the content or social network effect. They missed on both.
>>For some reason they decided to remove all comments and lengthy reviews for the thumbs up/down.
The reason was / is pretty widely known, their customer base did not reaction "properly" with the "correct" opinions to the shift in direction of neflix original programming and comedy specials, coming to head with the widely panned Amy Schumer Special which most netflix customers responded negatively to and brought an end to the review and rating system
I’m surprised this isn’t mentioned more. Removing ratings was a disaster, just personally as a consumer. You don’t feel engaged enough use their like/dislike system where as with a rating you got that feeling of contributing something and were contributing something. So, first you’ve removed engagement, that’s bad. And now we get these like 98% match type of rating systems, and every time you see a movie or show that is high match but you hate it makes you lose confidence in the whole system.
Speculation based on timing, public comments and coincidence...
If this was a trial it would be a circumstantial case, probably not enough to convict someone "beyond a reasonable doubt" but if it were I think there is "clear and convincing" circumstantial evidence to correlate the 2 events
> Amy Schumer Special which most netflix customers responded negatively to
Speculation. There was a big social media swarm very loudly upset about Schumer, even putting aside the claim that they were alt-right like someone else here mentioned, you cannot deny the bandwagoning. The bad star ratings simply could not be trusted after that.
> I think there is "clear and convincing" circumstantial evidence to correlate the 2 events
These sorts of changes can take years to pitch and refine, especially given existing data Netflix had. I'll accept that the ratings brigade may have been a "okay, we've seen enough" moment for Netflix, but the fact is Netflix had been publicly talking about redesigning the rating system for more than a year prior.
This is like saying Elon Musk made Twitter work on an edit button, turns out they had been hashing out the details for years and were forced to say something.
I invite you to go back and re-read my comment, because I never claimed that Schumer event was what caused them to start working on a new system to replace the star, I said "their customer base did not reaction "properly" with the "correct" opinions to the shift in direction of neflix original programming and comedy specials, coming to head with the widely panned Amy Schumer"
The "incorrect reviews" predated Schumer, but as you said Schumer was the "we have had enough with our customers giving us feedback we do not like" moment
It was clear for a LONG LONG time before Schumer that at least 50% of netflix customer base was not happy with the direction the content was going... The ever decreasing subscriber count is a reflection of this as well
As to the "everyone that disagrees with me is alt-right nazi trolls" charge that people like to bet around anytime a movie, TV Show, or comedy special etc is not approved of by the audience is frankly non-sense.
The "media" coverage around the "review bombing" provided not actual evidence of such a thing happening, and unlike sites like Rotten Tomatoes, one had to be an actual customer of Netflix to review it so their is less opportunity for that than say a rotten Tomatoes which I personally think the "problem" is over stated even for those sites,
Instead it is gate keepers being out of touch with the consumers but they refuse to admit that so it is not them that is out of touch no it has to be "bots and trolls" or "alt-right" or some thing other than the actual fans, consumers, etc rejecting their project
Misinformation alert! I tried to track down an article substantiating the comment above, and what I found was news outlets reporting that alt-right trolls organized to artificially spam 1-star reviews of her special.
And why shouldn't the customer be able to review product for any reason?
Why is that fascist totalitarians on left want to ban freedom of the speech and always resort calling anyone who in most slightest and mildest degree disagree them as alt-right.
Coordinated inauthentic behavior to artificially tank reviews is not a representative sample of actual audience sentiment and shouldn't be represented as such.
And again, this isn't a case of "calling anyone" alt-right, it's not speculation, it's a report about stuff that happened in specific reddit threads.
Daily Dot is not a place I would cite for a "fact check"
Also pretty common, a meme for the most part now, for media outlets to proclaim all negative criticism is "alt-right trolls", these accusations are often given with out any real evidence backing the claim
Daily Dot is not the original source, they are one of numerous independent publications raising the same point. So that is irrelevent here, and they appear to be citing specific threads and not just engaging in open-ended speculation, and the phenomenon of organized alt-right trolling is real, so your comment is inaccurate at every level.
A goodreads for movies? I'd be interested in that.. But, Netflix was getting more barren. People would notice the reviews they wrote were disappearing, because the content itself got pulled (not-renewed) from Netflix. That's worse than one-time plug-pull, so Netflix didn't really have the choice.
Letterboxd wants to be that, pretty much, without tying it to one specific catalogue of titles available to stream.
I think Mubi still has a lot of reviews, regardless if movies are available there or not. There it works, I think, because their offering always was understood to be much more niche than Netflix's.
These days I just go to /r/MovieSuggestions. Nearly everything I've watched since pandemic has come from suggestions there and they are quite good. The sub probably has a year of life left before it gets overrun, so enjoy while it lasts :)
IPhone 7 Plus user here. Have swapped the battery twice (the last time I did it myself). Still don’t feel the urge to buy the latest. I’m probably going to keep going with it until Apple stops supporting updates for it.
I’ve had a genetic test done, after being told that I have significantly lower than average vitamin d levels it turned out I’m genetically predisposed to low vitamin d and b12 absorption. So I have to supplement significantly more than what is normal.
After doing so, my colds have been far less severe then in the past. What made me go to such lengths testing myself was that I thought I was doing everything right and yet got pneumonia two years in a row.
So aside from testing your blood serum levels you should consider a genetic test to see how well you absorb vitamin d. You may benefit from above average dosage (consult your dr. Ymmv)
> So aside from testing your blood serum levels you should consider a genetic test to see how well you absorb vitamin d. You may benefit from above average dosage (consult your dr. Ymmv)
The only thing that matters is the serum level. Testing your blood levels is like closing the feedback loop. Levels too low? Increase dose. Too high? Back off.
Genetic testing isn’t necessary or even really helpful. Just get the basic serum levels tested and adjust accordingly. It really doesn’t have to be complicated.
first of all, low/high levels have a cause. if it's nutrition, yeah, you're right, just measure and correct.
but you come to the conclusion that's nutrition with zero evidence supporting it, and that's annoying as hell, because it's basically shunning the door for people with real conditions that could live 10x times better if only someone would have used a more rigorous method of inquiry instead of 'just nutrition lol'
it doesn't have to be complicated, but it still have to be rigorous.
Measuring serum levels is sufficient to detect and work around genetic absorption defects. No one needs to get separate genetic testing if their serum levels are within range.
