You and I both get excited about many things in our lives that are totally useless, or even activey detrimental to our goals. The watch probably makes your sleep worse in and of itself, for starters. And I’ve never seen anything helpful on the exercise tracking side, what do you use it for?
Hey if you simply enjoy it that’s awesome. My main problem is really just the marketing angle where people end up believing the watch has unlocked the ability for them to go for a walk around their neighborhood
That’s awesome, genuinely. I’m glad things worked out well in the end
But did they require that information to come from a $500 smart watch? Simply heart rate monitors can be had for $20. For sitting/walking/standing you can check your own pulse for free in a few seconds with a timer or any clock that has a seconds display
I’ve never seen anyone come up with anything even slightly useful for any smart watch.
$500 bucks to learn that your heart rate goes up when you exercise and to start each day being told your sleep wasn’t perfect. Wow what awesome actionable information thanks
Oh you paid a thousand bucks for the one with the built in altimeter that gives you the exact same information printed on the trail map? So cool, wow so we really did go up the mountain and then back down, who could have known. Oh my god it even remembers where we parked the car?
Traditionally the drug is sold to you on perforated paper, which you plop in your mouth for a while before discarding. It comes in “sheets” of a 100 doses, “strips” of ten, and “tabs” of one single dose. You can pretty easily cut a tab in half with scissors to take a half dose if desired.
The actual amount per tab depends on the person who made it and the conditions it has been in since. The “standard” is 100 micrograms, in practice you could see anything from like 50-120.
“Recommend” is a strong word, as much as people love it it’s irresponsible to “recommend”. But usually if you get a new strip (or if it’s literally your first time) it’s wise to try half a dose first. Make sure your set and setting are on point at any dose. If you have a great experience and want to try larger doses it’s wise to try gradual increases rather than take huge jumps. Lots of people decide that first half tab is absolutely perfect and never feel the need to go higher
Never tried the European one but the one here tastes like a manufacturing precursor to battery acid
Sadly this splits the timeline, so this version of us will remain trapped here with the cats
I rarely see terms this clean
Yes the number is large, but you must weigh the environmental cost against the many benefits we as a society have gained from teaching computers how to incorrectly summarize emails and somehow even simple excel spreadsheets
Yeah but how would you motivate people to keep their abusive underpaying jobs without the implicit threat of homelessness?
Reading around a bit now, I guess officially he denies steroid use during season 1 and says he only began using before season 2 after the season 1 push “wrecked his body” and he got some scary bloodwork relating to suppressed testosterone levels
So if we take that at face value, it seems like he was having health issues at one point which steroids then fixed lol.
Random side note, but I went looking around his socials to see if he was shilling anything and he appears to have a freaky ai generated image of him one arm deadlifting 3 plates while chilling on a wooden deck and talking on the phone. Featured prominently on his personal website
Edit: I found it so unsettling that I looked it up. It’s from a men’s health photoshoot. Article is “Jack Reacher Goes Big”. It also has a video of him bicep curling it (let the introductory video play). Not AI, just badly made prop weights. He cropped the image and is using it to promote himself without context on his personal website which is why it looks so out of place
Thank you for stimulating the economy!
Well according to a couple random sources he’s actually around 235 in this photo.
At 6’3, that would imply that he has an elevated risk of high blood pressure. Sometimes people who are engaged in consistent vigorous exercise can maintain normal blood pressure at that weight, but it’s fairly likely he’s abusing steroids for the role, which are strongly correlated with high blood pressure.
So most likely not great
can almost any track be basically looped in this way?
So, if you were to drop any audio recording into an editor, you’ll see what’s called a waveform. The waveform is very simply a graph of how your speaker cones actually move. Time on the X axis, amplitude on the Y (in the positive direction the speaker is moving towards you from its resting place in the middle, and in the negative it is moving away you) (put another way, the waveform is the groove that would be cut into a record. The movement of the needle up and down as it follows that groove is then amplified and mimicked on the speakers)
In order for a loop to be “perfect”, you need to create a continuous waveform. You can technically attempt to draw one with harsh breaks, but your speakers are made of physical material that cannot teleport or otherwise experience instantaneous changes in acceleration.
So, in attempting to follow such a messy signal, your speakers will try to move to the right position as fast as possible, creating an unpleasant popping sound.
So in essence, you need to find a moment near the end of a track that is identical to a moment near the beginning. Otherwise the sudden change will create an audible “seam” in the loop that may disturb listeners
Older game sound tracks have the distinct advantage of being synthesized or using samples. They are also often intentionally designed to be looped, since they loop while you are playing. So there are many, many points to choose from where the waveforms are the same.
For other music, the more “organic” it is the harder the task will be. One great place to try is moments of complete silence, if even for a fraction of a second, since the speaker will be at rest in both places. Another strategy is to try the opposite, and disguise the “seam” under a loud noise where it won’t be detectible. There are lots of other ways to create “imperfect” loops like that, by editing the adjoining ends with any method you can think of until it sounds good
Thank you for making me more appealing to sponsors!
I also imagine this guy’s kids’ crafts
So why not read the minds of scientists to see if the vaccines are legit or not?
Truly all cum posters are living in Violet’s shadow
Yayyyy :3
There are tons of stories from people who report the sleep tracking causes them unneeded stress and worsens their sleep. That’s if they realize it’s happening. Plenty more never make the connection.
Your $1 casio also has the ability to set an alarm
Anxiety based marketing. Yes, if you were previously not mindful of your health and the watch was the catylist that got you to seek treatment, that’s genuinely great.
Everyone should however be familiarizing themselves with the symptoms of common preventible illnesses, including the vast majority of which the watch doesn’t track and has no way of alerting you to. Typically you want to pursue medical assistance when you encounter some type of problem, and not just spend oodles on consumer tech because a mega corporation realized they can rake in cash by larping as a preventative diagnostic.
Correct. “Heart rate zone” is a fundamentally worthless metric. It was contrived as an excuse to sell trackers. Even if it were 100% accurate there is literally no benefit to knowing or considering that information during or after your workout. I mention accuracy because there are plenty of examples of people wearing two different brands during the exact same workout and getting wildly different results, just so you know.
If you want to monitor your exertion you just use your breathing. Forced to slow down due to breathing = max, breathing challenged but sustanable (barely possible, but possible, to have a conversation) = mid, sustainable breathing and could easily have a conversation = min. Totally free and you can even do interval training with that same casio if you so desired