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Apple Watches and iPhones measure stability when walking. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212503

Flat surfaces and shoes, IMHO, reduce the amount of work it takes to stay balanced and thus makes it easier to fall. If you’re walking on uneven ground and need to be careful where and how you step your balance and the amount of attention you pay to it improve quickly.


I’ve never heard of it. Can you provide some details on what it’s about? Why you chose it.. and so on?


Alpine? It's tiny


I’m impressed. I’ve been going about it backwards. Thanks!


No technical details are discussed. Barely any details on how the system came to be.. anyone know better sources for this topic?


I’ve been very happy with Hover.com.

… and I’ve seen the same issue happen with many many domains registered with GoDaddy and NetWork Solutions. Avoid them. Either NAmeServers get reset or DNS entries vanish even though they are all there when you login to fix it.


After some searching, I found https://linksquare.io/

Look up handheld or portable spectrometer. There are a lot of them that are more lab / industrial focused (and priced!).

Really what we want is a tricorder. :-)


Oh this looks great! Basically that’s the landing page I would have written for what I was searching. Now I just hope it also does what they say it does.

Tricorder would be even better, of course! :-)


Excellent article! Thank you. I’ve been consulting for a long time.. and this piece covered all the things that matter.



Looks like the only downloadable on that mirror is the manual.


Are Help Vampires related to Attention Vampires? Those folks who message you in chat, “Hi”.

I always wonder how many people they ‘Hi’ at once.


I hate that so very much. There's no problem starting with a salutation, but just hit alt-enter or else I have to wait 5 minutes for you to finish typing out the entirety of "Moby Dick" in chat.


Why wait? Just keep doing your stuff.


Because the people that do that the most need tend to need something urgently that will make me stop what I'm doing and handle their problem anyway. I'd rather just be interrupted all at once than in dribs and drabs.


Share this site with them: https://nohello.net


I like that content but I wish they would update their site so that if one has javascript disabled it either server-side redirects based on accept-language or just defaults to https://nohello.net/en/


I typically just ignore if for 30 minutes. It seems that they do learn eventually!


I usually don’t even reply to those. When I do, it’s simply “Hi” back.


I keep a snippet for that.. (something like) “if you would be so kind as to provide some details? What are you trying to accomplish? What have you tried? What problems have you encountered? Help me help you.“


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