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s/over 60/under 65/?
The correct answer (per the docs) is "over 65".
Right, I missed the "unless" in my replacement.
Bike crash left Spokane man unconscious, so his Apple Watch called 911
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Re: Bike crash left Spokane man unconscious, so his Apple Watch called 911
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If you're in the market for a smart watch, and you're a cyclist, I'd recommend checking out Garmin. They have a massive array of sensors and record very precise data that is aggregated on Garmin Connect. It's been invaluable to me for assessing training effectiveness over time. They make Apple watches look like toys. If you want the latest and greatest, the Forerunner 945 is probably what you're looking for, but the…
I think you are missing the point here completely and utterly. Compared to what the Apple Watch can do (as mention on the post and several comments) the garmin watch may be the real toy here.
Recent Garmin watches and cycling computers also have "incident detection" and can automatically send an alert to your emergency contact(s) after a fall. (I don't think any current Garmin models will directly dial 911, though.)
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> and it not really being designed for overnight wear (as I understand it) really hold it back. I have a first generation Apple Watch. This is one of the things that annoyed me after buying it: you aint sleeping with it on if you want it to running the next morning. I'm hopeful that batteries will get better and better, and eventually we'll be able to sleep with the watch on and have it track sleeping patterns, etc.
My series 0 is my “silent” alarm clock. I wear it every night and wake up with nearly 100% battery. Try shutting some of the extras off, and you’ll be surprised at how long it lasts. Also, your morning alarm won’t wake anybody else up!
Apple bricked my series 0 by requiring a software update to activate the watch, and by not providing any watchOS versions still compatible with the series 0.
Re: Bike crash left Spokane man unconscious, so his Apple Watch called 911
#354Apple watch seems to be a decent device but not supporting android means it's not an option for most of us.
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how does this happen :( so young...
I can't speak for all cases but there are often unknown medical conditions involved. My aunt got the flu one year and it weakened her heart so much that she required a transplant and while she lived for a while after that, she died at 27. Please vaccinate yourselves and loved ones even for the flu.
Unfortunately, flu vaccination has not proven to be much more effective than prayer.
Fortunately, it costs about the same! but still...
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I am not misrepresenting the paper: it attempts to explain why countries with mandatory helmet laws see _no_clearly_measurable_reduction in KSI (Killed, Seriously Injured) rates. More cyclists wear helmets in those jurisdictions (parts of Canada, all of Australia and N.Z.) and yet ecological studies fail to clearly demonstrate any benefit from helmets. If you sprayed a field with RoundUp and saw no difference in the…
> I am not misrepresenting the paper: it attempts to explain why countries with mandatory helmet laws see _no_clearly_measurable_reduction in KSI (Killed, Seriously Injured) rates. And in doing so, it goes to some effort to explain why you cannot, from that, conclude that helmets have no effect on individual accident outcomes, all other things being equal. (Mainly because all other things aren't equal, and it's very…
> it goes to some effort to explain why you cannot, from that, conclude that helmets have no effect on individual accident outcomes
Right. A friend who's an ER doctor once put it this way:
"I'm going to hit you in the head with a hammer; you can wear a bike helmet or not, your choice."
Statistics are all well and good, but it would take a rare allegiance to epidemiology to skip the helmet.
I've also heard it said that statistics look different when you are the statistic...
Re: Bike crash left Spokane man unconscious, so his Apple Watch called 911
#357After using my IPad's software quality, the killer lineup for Apple Arcade, and being impressed with Apple's commitment to privacy:
As a long time Apple hater, they are doing a great job of convincing me to spend the money on their products.
( MacBook Pro is still overpriced and kinda sad tho )
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#358Earlier quoted context omitted.
I can't speak for all cases but there are often unknown medical conditions involved. My aunt got the flu one year and it weakened her heart so much that she required a transplant and while she lived for a while after that, she died at 27. Please vaccinate yourselves and loved ones even for the flu.
A friend of mine runs a charity [1] that deals with providing AED (Automated External Defibrillator) devices to organisations. These things save lives. They can deliver shocks to the heart if necessary and can guide laypeople through giving CPR until help arrives (I think many models now actually tell you if you aren't giving strong enough compressions, for example). I would also highly recommend people go through th…
AEDs have to be found very quickly. Most networks seem to require installing an app. ️
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#359Earlier quoted context omitted.
I can't speak for all cases but there are often unknown medical conditions involved. My aunt got the flu one year and it weakened her heart so much that she required a transplant and while she lived for a while after that, she died at 27. Please vaccinate yourselves and loved ones even for the flu.
Unfortunately, flu vaccination has not proven to be much more effective than prayer. Fortunately, it costs about the same! but still...
"the overall estimated effectiveness of seasonal influenza vaccine for preventing medically attended, laboratory-confirmed influenza virus infection was 47%"
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/68/wr/mm6806a2.htm
Couldn't find the prayer stats.
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Imagine the panic some mother is going to have when her two teenage sons get in a car to go somewhere, safely get that somewhere and for whatever reason high-five each other as hard as they possibly can.
The Apple watch has a countdown and a sound alert before alerting anyone.
Garmins give you 30 seconds to cancel the alert too.