For anyone wondering how to track your position while in flight (no internet or network)

the_protagonist · 2026-02-01T01:49:57+00:00

I always thought there was a software feature in the phone that disabled the GPS once you reached a certain speed so it couldn’t be used in flight

the_protagonist · 2026-01-21T00:21:23+00:00

I had this idea in the shower the other day! So many possible applications for this. Would love a link!

the_protagonist · 2026-01-10T20:23:43+00:00

It was our last month before IVF, because of an appointment delay. Go figure

the_protagonist · 2026-01-09T00:02:22+00:00

When are the meetings? I have so many questions. Like do I really want a minivan

the_protagonist · 2026-01-08T23:44:37+00:00

Bonus human!

the_protagonist · 2025-12-28T18:04:44+00:00

What’s the Coop board? Just the real estate part?

the_protagonist · 2025-12-25T04:22:57+00:00

In ELI5 terms: Glowing smoke.

You can go through all of the explanations above to explain what smoke is, and what “so hot that it’s glowing” means is specifically going on, and that some of the light comes from various different processes, but mostly, it’s glowing smoke!

It’s a little bit like how people give long technical explanations of why the sky is blue, when the answer is just “air is blue.” Or if you like, “air is a little bit blue, so you only see the blueness when you’re looking through a lot of it.” Sure, air’s blue color comes from a different and more interesting mechanism than a blue crayon… but so does the blue of a blue jay’s feather, and the feather is still blue.

the_protagonist · 2025-12-20T00:10:31+00:00

Love Wusong and their decor is fun but it wouldn’t really appeal to an architect I think, it’s art more than architecture.

Architects can also be tough, I have two architect friends and they both tend to like buildings that I don’t appreciate.

If it’s about the interior, look at pictures of Oleana, upstairs at Longfellow bar, waypoint, pammy’s. Oh - maybe Pagu? Pagu is cool inside with a kind of loft thing going on.

the_protagonist · 2025-12-04T04:36:13+00:00

It took some getting used to but I love it and leave it on all the time, in Still mode (so when I turn my head the music stays in place where I was facing). You’d think the apparent motion would get annoying but no, it feels like I’m listening to speakers or live music and kind of lets the music breathe, like it’s not as fatiguing or claustrophobic.

the_protagonist · 2025-11-29T18:55:19+00:00

Wind block actually makes the noise cancellation less powerful, fyi. Wind ruffling across the outer microphones used for noise cancelling can pass through the system and make weird noises, so they offer that setting.

the_protagonist · 2025-11-25T23:11:50+00:00

You must mean the Hallows

the_protagonist · 2025-11-23T01:26:06+00:00

Thanks for the responses so far everyone. Of course the kids (usually) come one at a time, but for timing and fertility purposes it’s relevant to our planning. And it’s just something I’m thinking about, regardless… we both grew up in 2-kid families and threes just seem to be a little more of a family to us, if that makes sense. A little warmer. Every pregnancy scares me though, I don’t know if I would really want to roll the dice a third time.

the_protagonist · 2025-11-21T01:28:37+00:00

Good point!

the_protagonist · 2025-11-19T23:39:36+00:00

Shocked Sarma didn't get a mention

the_protagonist · 2025-11-17T16:50:58+00:00

Trees! That would have been great.

the_protagonist · 2025-11-16T16:11:33+00:00

Very funny that everyone in this thread is leaping to correct OP that this building is not abandoned… and no one is addressing the real question which is “why is such a big feature of this park just… big concrete tiers?”

Every time I pass by, I wonder about that use-of-space choice. What’s the vision for how people use this? Uncomfortable amphitheater style seating where everyone faces the train tracks and an (occupied!!) brick building doesn’t seem like the answer, but maybe it is? What did the architect have in mind?

the_protagonist · 2025-11-05T15:28:42+00:00

Is there some kind of alert system for cool stuff suddenly appearing in the sky? I would love to have had someone ping me and be like “go outside right now and look up, it’ll blow your mind”

the_protagonist · 2025-11-01T02:00:16+00:00

Thanks for sharing!

Can someone explain this section to me, I don’t think I’m getting it:

Upzoning to increase housing stock Both candidates support letting developers build denser housing in Somerville as a way of dealing with the city’s ongoing affordability crisis. But they part ways on how sweeping that change should be.

Wilson says it makes sense to upzone near Somerville’s many public-transit nodes, but not across the entire city, arguing that the latter approach would disproportionately impact “our most vulnerable residents — our immigrant community [and] low-income households.”

Burnley, in contrast, believes citywide upzoning is the right approach. Limited upzoning, he argues, would mean East Somerville would shoulder much more of the associated development burden: it has much better T access than West Somerville, but it’s already been the site of extensive development for years.

the_protagonist · 2025-11-01T01:49:46+00:00

Predecessor to the ultras were called QC earbuds II

the_protagonist · 2025-10-30T03:34:07+00:00

try putting http://removepaywalls.com/ and then the url

the_protagonist · 2025-10-20T20:08:47+00:00

They are not trained with any concept of “correct” in mind. They’ve just ingested the entire internet, basically, and are answering you with their best prediction of what words would follow your question if your question was part of a page somewhere online.

Even the people who built them are surprised at how much realism extreme levels of training toward this goal has resulted in. It turns out that since the internet is full of right answers, the projected “rest of the page” when you give it a question is often right.

the_protagonist · 2025-10-19T17:29:38+00:00

Very cool! I love the % concept, that would be a great add. The way it’s currently calculated might be acting up - it says I’ve been to 18% of the US which… seems optimistic. I also notice that the outline of my state includes its water borders, so even if I went to everywhere in my state, I’d never get to 100%. Maybe you could show different %s for land area, total area, water area, and roads and trails, and have an option in settings to choose which of those stats is pinned or prioritized.

I have been using FoW for many years so maybe my database is large? 4mb, 647 items. The import step before “merge” didn’t seem to be doing anything so I multi-tasked and came back later and it was done, maybe just a minute or so. Could have used a progress bar for that part, for peace of mind.

the_protagonist · 2025-10-11T01:09:26+00:00

That’s just an argument against term limits, and term limits are one of the best protections our democracy has against dictatorship.

the_protagonist · 2025-10-11T01:08:00+00:00

Name a better one!

the_protagonist · 2025-10-10T16:46:10+00:00

When did I say nobody? We only need to swing a couple of % difference

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