I tried many Fitbits and Samsung watches before discovering the ScanWatch. I briefly get excited when a new Pixel or Samsung watch is announced, and then I remember I have no interest in charging it every night, or every week.
I keep an eye on the market of small SaaS businesses for sale. Lately a majority are something like "A simple tool that uses AI to X". I immediately skip past any company like that because that tells me that
1. the company is very young and doesn't have enough history show clear revenue trends, and
2. the product is probably a thin wrapper over ChatGPT and has no moat among a dozen other tools that do the same thing.
I recently stumbled upon a bunch of repos which were clearly copied from popular projects but then renamed with a random Latin name and published to npm.
I reported some of them as spam, but there were hundreds of them. I couldn't figure out why somebody would waste the time to do that, but now it makes sense.
Apparently the Pizza index was very high on Friday-Sat. This tries to imply that we are close to war when a lot of pizza is ordered on a weekend and bars are empty in the DC area.
I used a similar scanner from Amazon for some 8mm. It mostly worked, but I ultimately decided it was a better use of my time to have the film professionally digitized.
I would still love to figure out a good process to clean and upscale the video. I tried Topaz a while back, but it didn't seem suited for some of the artifacts in old, jittery film.
Do you have a service or an individual you’d recommend? My fiancé’s mom has some old film from their childhood that is meaningful to them, and we’re considering gifting them some digitization services if we can find someone to help.
It was costly (but the price per roll went down if you have a number of rolls) but the mailer they sent was high quality. I never had any worries about my film being damaged in transit.
I've heard before that there's no such thing as a sugar rush. I've been careful to observe my own children's reactions to sugar.
My conclusion is that it doesn't affect their behavior much during the day. However, if they have sugar closer to bedtime, it seems to inhibit their desire to go to bed. They start acting like overtired children which can look similar to a sugar rush.
We also don't make it a habit of giving our kids sugar close to bedtime, so there could still be bias because I'm observing situations the kids are staying up late and consuming sugar.
To be fair, they're using it to build Super Duty trucks, which are big trucks typically used for actual work with no suitable EV alternative. So it seems more a case of using their manufacturing capacities efficiently rather than them saying "screw EVs, we'll build bigger ICE vehicles instead".
> Thursday, the auto maker announced a third North American assembly plant to meet commercial demand for F-series Super Duty trucks.
> It’s another sign that Ford’s commercial business is healthy. Pro is Ford’s star business segment, earning $3 billion in operating profit in the first quarter, while the traditional car business saw a $900 million profit, and the Model e electric-vehicle business lost $1.3 billion.
It is Ford's commercial segment that is really driving their success in selling these vehicles.
I think parent wanted a citation that Super Duty trucks are typically used for work, and not for Brodozer hooning and yelling "yew" out of the window in a sleeveless shirt and with a plug of skoal. :)
I can easily believe that they are sold as business vehicles, what I doubt is that they are mostly being used as such.
For example if the owner of a construction company and his son have a Super Duty truck each that is mostly used to commute I would not consider them to be used as business vehicles.
For example in my country the stereotipycal vehicle for construction workers and farmers looks like [0] and exists in dozens of variations with all kinds of specialized attachments like
Yes, these are trucks mainly used for the North American market. They are ubiquitous as the default "company work truck" in the US. They're all over US roads with the names of utilities, construction, and light industrial businesses on them.
While you can purchase a superduty in a non-fleet configuration through non-fleet retail channels, the article I posted above is speaking specifically about fleet sales.
I always come back to this review of Paul Fussell's "Class: A Guide Through The American Status System" when I'm trying to make sense of wealth. I don't know how well it really holds up, but it did get me thinking about the difference between wealth and class. Birkin bags sound like an upper-middle-class phenomenon. The effort involved in trying to obtain a Birkin would go against the spirit of the upper class.
I have some farm land that I lease out to a farmer for hay. Part of me imagines retiring early and living on the land. However, I checked up on it recently while the farmer was out there baling hay. It was 95 degrees and dusty. He told me he was pretty bummed because it was too hot and dry to fertilize earlier this year and his yield wasn't going to be as good as he wanted. Then in the short time I was there, the wheel bearing started acting up on his tractor and he got a flat tire on his rake after the valve stem fell out.
It would take a better person than me to make a living at it.
I too had one in college, but I mostly used it to play Sim City. I did have a laptop, but it was clunky and had terrible battery life, so I was much happier with the Psion.
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