Vercel is a platform that, simplified, sells compute by time and by query.

Static optimized sites take very little compute, and little queries.

Since they have the most used framework (nextjs), they made it more server-heavy and changed the paradigm to one where a single page is built up using multiple queries for even just the html.

They then made sure that self hosting that monstrosity is terribly complex for anything serious, and incompatible with the "serverless environment" of their own platform, unless you have devops maintaining it.

And then they severely overhauled the pricing and gimped the included limits. (We were on <1% usage before. And now at 95%< while changing nothing...)

It could of course be a coincidence, but if that were the case, they would be very bad, yet lucky, business people.

100% will never put anything new on vercel and have been avoiding nextjs like the plague.

My garmin watch measures blood oxygen, heart-rare, breathing patterns, sleep patterns, stress-levels, etc

Usefull? It is if you use it. I do triathlons and knowing exactly where my blood-sugar level is at would allow me to focus better on the type of nutrition and the impact of it while working out. It would also tell me if i was a bit down before a race, so i can take some food.

Basically: this is a game-changer for amateur athletes, which would create a tremendous market for it. People i know already use the patches to measure as well, or lactate measurements, ketone measurements, etc. and that's just at the casual amateur level.

Another application that springs to mind is knowing when to eat instead of just having lunch and sugar-crashing 2 hours later in the office.

I also wonder if monitoring your blood sugar is a potential way to avoid becoming a Type 2 diabetic.

That's what HelloLingo is selling. A wearable blood glucose monitor for 2 weeks, like diabetics wear, so non-diabetics can get a better feel for their blood sugar level and how what they do affects it. https://www.hellolingo.com

Hasn't that been the case for thousands of years? It's not like they can't see each other after school hours... I know i used to. And i still see my friends after my workday. I have much deeper connections with the 20 people i see in real life than the 1000 people on my linkedin profile.

Do people thrive more in their mental health when they are supposedly 24/7 accessible? Is it necessary? Is it wanted?

> It's not like they can't see each other after school hours... I know i used to.

Things have gotten much worse since then. These days children get reported if they're out and about unsupervised.

I absolutely love this idea. What a great, easy to understand, way for building 3d scenes.

The taxi community has done such a poor job explaining to the car industry why using their cars without paying for them is necessary. It's unrealistic to expect that a starting driver could pay for a drivers license, a car and a taxi-license. The only alternative would be...

...loans or investment. It would be loans or investments. Like any other business.

You can't just steal cars either just to kickstart your taxi business...

This has a striking similarity to the classic, "You Wouldn't Steal a Car" PSA. https://youtu.be/HmZm8vNHBSU

Great reply!

It's either so close that you're overpaying for the 100kWH, or it's not very close in which case you're overpaying for the 50kWH.

Either way: the 50kWH is hit: carrying dead weight on a smaller capacity. A not insignificant weight.

Yes, yes i do. It gives me some time to physically and mentally detach from work when going home, and it gives me time to read up on news, catch up with friends, family, etc.

"But you could do that from home": yes, but i wouldn't.

This will be great when both my partner and i use the same browser but different ... Different what exactly? Ah.. accounts!

"This allows them to detect the actual device"... As if that isn't a solved space already?

It ends DDOS's as much as putting basic-auth in front of it. If that were the case: SSL should already prevent it as well.

Even less so since this is a proposal for a javascript api.

If thay were true, you could also buy a 500€ beater car if you can afford your own car... But i don't see that happening either.

Living in the next town over from amsterdam: many people use ebikes for a 20km journey between towns, both ways.

Alternatives? - Cycling 3 hours a day on your 100€ used rusty bike - tucking your two year old in your backpack while bringing it to the daycare (we put them on purpose-built kids seats byt that connector is stuck on the vanMoof) - +-200€ a month of public transport cost (excl kids) - 7,50 a day on top of public transport for a bike ticket (if i also need my bike in the other town and don't have 3 hours a day extra to cycle) (oh and you're not allowed during rush hour)

If i would depend on a bike, it would be a massive inconvenience to not have it at best, and would be crippling for my day to day at worst.

Or take the bus. the public transport is really not too bad in Amsterdam.

Owning and operating a car and a bicycle are vastly different things. You are exaggerating the similarities