How is location history collected or input?
Author here - I've used Foursquare's Swarm over the last 11 years, as well as manual End-Of-Day location input through the Telegram bot the most recent 3 years
I put my whole life into a single database
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#162This is super cool. In case you don't make it through to the project's webpage howisfelix.today, and read through to the end, here is the creator's conclusion: Overall, having spent a significant amount of time building this project, scaling it up to the size it’s at now, as well as analysing the data, the main conclusion is that it is not worth building your own solution, and investing this much time. When I first s…
I think it's fascinating - and horrifying - that he tracks everything except his environmental impact on the planet. He has to be in the top 1% of polluters, given his obsessive flying and consumption of technology. Dozens if not hundreds of charts, depicting every single thing except the thing that is destroying our world. I filed an issue on his github.
Fun fact: British Petroleum coined the term “carbon footprint”. It had gotten to the point where it couldn’t deny climate change. So it was time to get well-meaning middle class folks to blame each other instead of the petroleum industry. (See also in recent years the obsession with plastic straws and plastic bags.)
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#163Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why get frustrated over something like this? You’re seeing one data point on how the author lives their life. I see these kinds of comments more and more and can’t understand the need to judge someone else, without full information, based on your own personal standards.
You're right, there could be many reasons. But given the time we live in know it seems like something you don't want to wear with pride or without a disclaimer. It's a fine balance between caring about stuff and wanting to raise awareness while also seeing other human beings for who they are, assuming good intent.
> You're right, there could be many reasons. But given the time we live in know it seems like something you don't want to wear with pride or without a disclaimer.
In other words: I am not saying that he should be ashamed of being a pollutant. But I am wondering why he isn’t ashamed of it.
Re: I put my whole life into a single database
#164My version of this: Human Programming Interface https://github.com/karlicoss/HPI It's a bit heavier on the automatic data aggregation side, but has some manual inputs as data sources too. I'm hoping to make it easier to interface with existing tools for data analysis, dashboards, notebooks etc.
https://beepb00p.xyz/myinfra.html is, to me, the definitive go to "look how ultra we could be" site of yours, @karlicoss. i show this off to people on the regular, it's so impressive. i feel like there's such a gap, that it takes such dedicatiom & effort to have the digital world we interact with report back & give us the facts of whats occured. i dont know what futures this obstructs but it's a drain on general huma…
your comments are always such an inspiration to read :) thank you!
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#165Only mildly related, but is a "sleeping HR" of around 60-61 normal for someone who's really fit and active like this guy? I do not engage in organised exercise (gym visits "0% of days"!) and my HR during sleep tends to be ~48. I have a regular medical and was told this is fine though.
Author here - Yes, my resting heart rate is quite high for the level of fitness investment. I believe this is due to a few factors (not a doctor), one being my height (6'4), the other one being the lack of cardio exercises, I only do weight lifting.
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#166Slightly Off Topic: I recently began having the urge to measure and record everything that is measurable in my day to day life. I do not know why it started, but if I stop doing it, I feel guilty. Maybe this kind of behaviour has (or needs) a name?
People associate OCD with what actually is OCPD https://www.msdmanuals.com/professional/psychiatric-disorder...
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#167Felix, working on similar activity. Would like to connect. If others have interest in such an activity, feel free to reach out. Looking to put together a team, currently RoR based, well into MVP already.
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#168Earlier quoted context omitted.
https://beepb00p.xyz/myinfra.html is, to me, the definitive go to "look how ultra we could be" site of yours, @karlicoss. i show this off to people on the regular, it's so impressive. i feel like there's such a gap, that it takes such dedicatiom & effort to have the digital world we interact with report back & give us the facts of whats occured. i dont know what futures this obstructs but it's a drain on general huma…
your comments are always such an inspiration to read :) thank you!
merely trying to give the rest of the universe a little better chance at connecting & attaining excellence. it's you, @karlicoss, advancing us all, if any of us are at all hip to listen & recognize. my sincere thanks, you are an inspiration.
Re: I put my whole life into a single database
#169This is super cool. In case you don't make it through to the project's webpage howisfelix.today, and read through to the end, here is the creator's conclusion: Overall, having spent a significant amount of time building this project, scaling it up to the size it’s at now, as well as analysing the data, the main conclusion is that it is not worth building your own solution, and investing this much time. When I first s…
I think it's fascinating - and horrifying - that he tracks everything except his environmental impact on the planet. He has to be in the top 1% of polluters, given his obsessive flying and consumption of technology. Dozens if not hundreds of charts, depicting every single thing except the thing that is destroying our world. I filed an issue on his github.
Agreed, the metrics he uses for CO2 consumption via flying are misleading: he compares the flying against total average CO2 production per US Citizen per year. Clearly, he's doing more than just flying in his life, so the comparison is meaningless.
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#170Earlier quoted context omitted.
You're right, there could be many reasons. But given the time we live in know it seems like something you don't want to wear with pride or without a disclaimer. It's a fine balance between caring about stuff and wanting to raise awareness while also seeing other human beings for who they are, assuming good intent.
>> But given the time we live in know it seems like something you don't want to wear with pride or without a disclaimer I disagree (although 'I fly lots' would be a strange thing to ever be 'proud' of imo, regardless of the climate issues). While we should all be mindful of our individual impact, asking people to restrict themselves personally (or shaming them) on such an important and positive freedom as being able…
Is it possible that this bothers you personally? Flying really is one of the most negatively impactful things that an individual can do. Shifting the focus to government or business may be 'also correct', but you could also call it whataboutism.