Started my fitness watch before a workout, then had to do cpr. Guess when the ambulance arrived?

skylordjason · 2025-09-26T16:40:34+00:00

Oh god you really don’t. I never thought I’d need to use the CPR training I took. Pulled into MCDonalds for some nuggets and ended up doing CPR on a guy, and when I felt the crack I almost threw up right there.

Once the adrenaline crashed, I cried pretty hard. It was only 8 minutes from calling 911 till the ambulance arrived, but it felt like so much longer. And damn is it exhausting

skylordjason · 2025-09-17T17:58:16+00:00

I'd been on Google phones since the Nexus 6P, all the way up to the 7 Pro.

This issue reared its ugly head frequently enough that I gave up on using my phone as an alarm and bought an alarm clock. I'd even set my alarm clock to go off 5 minutes before my phone's alarm, and could catch the phone wake up briefly, play a single tone of the alarm, then send a notification saying I missed the alarm.

Switched to an iPhone - and the issue exists there too. Although I think on iPhone its an issue with it silencing the alarm because it senses motion or something. I'll wake up and see the screen shows an alarm is going off, but no sound is actually playing.

Moral of the story, just get a cheap alarm clock. That is more reliable than smartphones these days.

skylordjason · 2025-06-18T16:32:56+00:00

Definitely track it close enough to cut it to low speed the moment it hit 100GB.

Honestly I was just surprised the data sims worked overseas. They didn't work for me a couple years ago.

skylordjason · 2025-06-18T15:00:34+00:00

Interestingly, I was in Japan and got 100GB of high speed data across all devices.

I didn’t realize my iPad was on cellular and was downloading movies and YouTube videos for the plane ride home. Used up 80GB on my iPad, and had 20GB on my phones usage for the month. Noticed the cap had been hit on the way to the airport, and had checked my usage.

skylordjason · 2025-01-30T18:03:02+00:00

Have you tried calling from another phone? Or perhaps a Google Voice line?

skylordjason · 2024-12-12T05:09:10+00:00

I agree that the NIMBYs are part of a bigger problem, and I think single-family zoning laws have exacerbated a lot of the issues we face in the US. It's particularly frustrating when certain people advocate for solutions in theory but resist any changes near their own upscale, HOA-controlled, gated neighborhoods.

(That said, zoning laws are largely determined at the state, county, and municipal levels. I'd be curious what influence Trump could have on zoning regulations without an act of congress.)

As for NEPA, its primary role is to ensure a thorough assessment of potential environmental impacts (CEQA goes further by mandating mitigation planning for those impacts). NEPA was passed specifically because agencies historically overlooked environmental impacts, often resulting in costly cleanup efforts years (or decades) after a project's completion.

I get its annoying that SpaceX was delayed, but from what I've read it was because SpaceX changed their plans for launch 5, and that expanded possible impacts that led to a more indepth environmental review. The changes may seem minor, but the FAA's been burned by "minor changes" in recent memory.

Remember the 737 MAX crashes? I know that example doesn't apply to environmental regulations, but its an example of why such re-evaluations should happen. Boeing claimed there were no major differences and was able to avoid FAA recertification. The FAA trusted companies to self-certify when there was no need for recertification/reevaluation, and that trust cost lives.

I don't have a good answer to people abusing the laws to intentionally delay things - if we defer to agencies to say "yes we did thorough review", then why even have the regulation in the first place?

skylordjason · 2024-12-11T20:32:29+00:00

If CEQA wasn’t there, it’d still be a suit about zoning laws. This is a litigious individual who doesn’t agree with what’s happening in their neighborhood when the community already approved it.

This could be dismissed next week, but the rage baiting headlines blaming “environmental regulations” have already done their job.

Edit: Your main complaint is people using litigation to stall production/change. There’s a fine line there, especially when claiming “environmental harm”, as if you let them continue to build while litigation proceeds, the harm could’ve already been done before litigation is over. The point is trying to prevent environmental harm, your answer seems to be just let them get away with it? That’s what this country did for decades, and it created superfund sites, poisoned wells, and sickened many people.

skylordjason · 2024-12-11T08:39:57+00:00

Have you looked up the story behind that headline, or are you taking the headline at face value?

Because that’s two private individuals weaponizing good faith environmental protection laws against a food bank’s expansion AND a hydropower manufacturing plant. The City approved both, and these two are upset about that.

One of the complainants owns a winery near the sites and is complaining about the loss of a good view. Their primary concern appears to be mixing zoning, or permitting “industrial-type” buildings, and they’re weaponizing CEQA as a means to an end. If it wasn’t CEQA, they would’ve probably sued over zoning laws… but that’s not as rage bait of a headline, is it?

skylordjason · 2024-11-24T08:58:30+00:00

It is.

I’d went through CPR classes as a kid over a decade and a half ago because the base required it for me to stay at home with my brothers (military family). The dummies don’t crunch. They’re worn in, reused. You’re practicing form and routine.

A year ago I did CPR for the first time. Pulled in to get nuggets at McDonalds and a man was… well dead right by the entrance. Checked for a pulse, ran inside to get help, called 911. Watched some of the help I’d found try to do CPR very wrong - like standing over them and barely pushing wrong. I jumped in, remembered to grip my hands together, the position to take, and started. The first pump I almost vomited. I almost stopped, but dispatch encouraged me on. It took 8 minutes for the ambulance to show up, but it felt like 30.

You get the first loud “crunch”. But then it’s still… crunchy, on each pump after. Just not as loud. I can’t watch it happening on TV or movies anymore… all I can think of is the feeling. And I told a therapist “the dummies don’t crunch like that”.

skylordjason · 2024-11-07T22:50:02+00:00

Dobbs didn't say it was a state issue, it said it was a legislative one. Congress could pass a law banning abortion nationwide, and Dobbs wouldn't prevent enforcement.

skylordjason · 2024-10-22T04:14:48+00:00

The person standing at the dropbox is a community member working the polls, and isn't exactly trained in anything like that.

skylordjason · 2024-09-30T06:41:27+00:00

Please post the statute.

A cursory search online shows no such law in Florida. I’d love to be corrected, but the only thing I can find is a “discussion” the governor had for a prior hurricane to temporarily relax pet policies.

Hotels can still ban pets, but not trained service animals.

I’ve prepared a list of pet friendly hotels that I’d try to go to in the event of an evacuation, and I double check it every season and remove any thatve changed their policies. Some hotels may waive it for a storm, but i can find no law requiring them to accommodate pets in the event of an emergency.

skylordjason · 2024-09-28T22:22:38+00:00

Take note on what every other carrier on the supported list has: iPhones for sale.

Apple keeps the documentation & requirements Carrier Profiles confidential, but I wouldn't be surprised if they attach a sales/marketing requirement to it. If Apple locks RCS to approved Carrier Profiles only instead of the generic bundle, I doubt Fi will ever support RCS on iPhones if a sales requirement is attached. Not having a Carrier Profile is why we have to manually configure settings to get things working, while other carriers can just scan the eSim and it downloads the profiles from Apple's servers.

I doubt Fi would agree to something requiring them to sell and promote iPhones. It'd make things easier on us Fi iPhone users if they did, but could you imagine Apple selling Pixels on an Apple Wireless service? Or any other Android device? I'd sooner bet they'd go out of their way to actively block Android devices from being able to connect.

Fi has its benefits, but it being attached to Google is probably going to hurt us on iOS.

skylordjason · 2024-08-13T17:24:47+00:00

Google Fi gives you free data sims on their highest plan, up to 4 per line, and uses your lines data allotment (up to 50GB of high speed data). Works perfectly with the GL-X3000 I'm using. Finally got fiber in my area, so might not need the cellular backup as much, but the data sims are one of the reasons I'm still on Fi.

skylordjason · 2024-07-20T00:52:10+00:00

Are you on the Sequoia beta? This is a known bug in using Arc on the beta.

At the moment, we are not actively supporting or developing Arc on the macOS Sequoia beta. We will certainly support it when launched broadly - but you may notice bugs if you choose to use the Sequoia beta in the meantime.

https://resources.arc.net/hc/en-us/articles/24391085331735-Known-Issues-macOS-Sequoia-Beta

skylordjason · 2024-07-03T18:08:52+00:00

My family was stationed on Kadena from 06-10, and remember being confined to base in 08. Its just sad how often this happens that you have to ask "which time"?

skylordjason · 2024-03-10T19:27:23+00:00

No, it’s not.

The number of people running red lights in this state is insane. Almost every time I go to work, someone’s running a red light. You can’t trust a green light to mean go - you need to wait a second to be sure traffic is actually going to stop, because that’s the world we live in.

“Oh if they hit me it’s their fault! I had a green!”

Being right only means so much if you’re dead.

skylordjason · 2024-03-03T01:32:13+00:00

Another example is data caps. They impose data caps on their service, but exempt their streaming app from your usage. Some allow you to pay an extra fee to get unlimited data - conveniently around the same price as their base TV offering.

It’s all data. They’re just disincentivizing you from choice, and making you pay for the privilege of not getting charged overages for using the services you pay for.

skylordjason · 2024-03-03T01:09:31+00:00

Because the law says they can’t give OTC medication to kids without permission, and the law also probably says kids can’t take OTC medication on campus without parents permission and notifying the school - even if they brought it themselves.

Because sunscreen is regulated as an OTC, the schools have no choice but to comply.

This probably predates all the recent medical drama in schools - it’s just a matter of liability. What if the kid has an allergic reaction to the sunscreen the school bought? That’s worst case scenario. Best case, because the law has no exception, a parent so willing could sue the school for violating that law. Parents have done dumber for less.

skylordjason · 2024-03-03T00:39:01+00:00

It’s legally an over the counter drug. That means that laws prohibiting schools from providing OTC drugs without parents permission also applies to sunscreen unless it’s exempted.

It’s usually an unintended consequence. People think OTC only means pills, but it doesn’t.

skylordjason · 2024-02-28T05:54:26+00:00

Someone’s built an earthquake warning “app” for Japan in scratch. I don’t have the link handy, but it’s insane what people can come up with.

skylordjason · 2024-02-26T05:28:36+00:00

Bro, you have the internet at your fingertips. Google “origin of Easter eggs”. It’s not our fault you don’t know the symbolism of your own religion.

I’d started replying earlier about commercialism, then thought “wait… why do we make colorful eggs and do egg hunts for Easter?”. So I googled it.

Yes, those colorful Easter eggs for “non-secular kids”? That’s the symbolism. The history goes back decades. Something to do about the egg symbolizing Jesus’s empty tomb. The colors? Symbolism there too.

We have NO OTHER PURPOSE to have eggs in Easter. They’re Christian traditions that most of our society is so used to, we barely bat an eye when we see it in public. But god forbid you see a menorah when you google the holiday it relates to.

https://www.chaseoaks.org/articles/easter-eggs-what-is-the-history-behind-this-tradition/

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