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Before owning a Garmin watch (Epix Pro Gen 2 in my case) I had no idea just how useful always having a flashlight* with you is. I'd put this feature near all the health/digital fea…

According to Wikipedia [0] the headquarters of IERS (International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service) is in Frankfurt, Germany (contact information on their website [1] …

There's also Homerow [0] that adds Vimium-like features OS-wide on macOS. It does have some rough edges but overall I've been very happy with it. It usually works well even on apps…

There's also a level above that, where you're aware of what is aware. I find this mental state to be even more calming/grounding than being aware of breathing but I'm not always ab…

While this is true, but to my understanding this applies to women as well. Even one of these things has lots of benefits, but both are even better.

Magnesium Taurate is the form of magnesium I settled on. I take 1500mg of it (300mg elemental Mg) every evening before sleep, but I feel that even half of this dose has a noticeabl…

> If simpler packaging lowers costs and sales stay the same In reality packaging is a very big part of marketing. People are drawn by vivid and bright colors, which is especially r…

I wonder whether the mere-exposure effect [0] could also be at play here. For me, the first reaction to the Ferrari Luce was utter shock, but after looking at it again several hour…

When I installed very high quality (CRI 98, R9 94, virtually flicker free) light bulbs to one of my apartment rooms I had headaches and felt occasional confusion for about a week w…

I've played other instruments (not very professionally) for 10y when I was much younger but was often surrounded by sounds of violins and these don't sound realistic at all. My mai…

It's also worth keeping in mind that Anthropic's compute needs are nothing like those of a company like Shopify or Adobe, so revenue might not paint accurately enough the picture o…

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I'm curious whether Apple has addressed the tinnitus issue of its ANC technology (or some part of it). I couldn't use neither AirPods Max nor AirPods Pro (1st generation) because t…

In addition to uBlock Origin I'm also using AdGuard as my home WiFi DNS server and I'm seeing zero ads and no cookie notices in the linked article. For cookies I'm using uBlock Ori…

I'm pretty sure for me "mining.fyi" wouldn't have created any associations with landmines (although "mines.fyi" does seem to match the contents of the website closer). It'd be real…

This isn't exactly the same but I've been using git-recent [0] (with `gr` alias) for many years. It sorts branches based on checkout order (which is what I usually need when switch…

I use the Background Sounds feature (in Accessibility settings) on iOS with a Bluetooth speaker every night while I sleep. It's quite battery-friendly and has several sound options…

Limiting animal fats (which are mostly saturated fats) has a very noticeable and measurable effect on how I'm feeling and doing overall. Primarily using olive/avocado oil and nuts/…

I've been doing this for a very long time but I use rolled oats and plain water (I drain the water completely before eating). I eat soaked oats every day and always have a fresh bo…

> peanut butter While peanut butter does contain some useful nutrients, there are much better choices out there in case someone would like to further improve/optimize their nutriti…

I've developed a habit of holding my breath for a few seconds whenever a particularly smelly/polluting car drives by me while I'm walking on the street, so when I hear/see an EV ap…

> 4,000 tons I did some math out of curiosity to better visualize this amount in my head. If we assume that a typical serving of potatoes in a meal where potatoes are an important …

The Reuters article doesn't mention it, but apparently Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) [0] designed [1] this airport. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaha_Hadid_Architects [1] https:…