SpaceX had a very similar failure during a static fire test in 2016 that destroyed the rocket, payload, and a few key parts of SLC-40 that took them over a year to repair and return to service (September 2016 -> December 2017). The concrete flume trenches were literally melted.
That was a full size rocket on a real mission with the $200M payload on board during the static fire, which is ostensibly worse. The payload was not integrated yet in Blue Origin’s case.
Well, the messages are not syncing from phone to desktop. They're syncing from the server to desktop. Need proof? Turn your phone off any access signal desktop.
The messages exist in separate "mailboxes" on the server, one per linked device, and deliver independently. The timeout is 60 days if I recall correctly, for messages to be deleted from the server if they were not delivered to the client.
Can't find the better source I know exists at this moment, see here for now: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15596980
I will be trying this out later! One of the first thoughts I had was creating a middle tier, you have a big gap between what the free tier and $8 tier offers. Assuming it works well for me, I could see myself going for something in the $1.99-$3.99 range that offers 5-10 newspapers, 1 delivery per day, 10-20 articles/delivery, etc. Congrats on receiving the HN hug of death!
Smart watches are not a niche product in 2020. Apple shipped 31 million smart watches in 2019, more than the entire Swiss watch market combined (according to The Verge). Samsung and Garmin sell millions of watches too, and almost every serious outdoorsy type person wears at least one of these brands as a fitness tracker.
That's where you're missing the point. Smart watches have become popular because of the fitness component, and have also shown great versatility beyond that, including invoking a voice assistant and screening notifications.
I haven't taken my phone off silent in years, I will only have my watch on vibrate and a select few apps filtered to send notifications to my phone. The rest are not of immediate consequence, so I don't get them "in real time". Plus, if the watch is off my wrist, it vibrates my desk just like a phone. Notifications are dismissed automatically after a timeout, or a button to dismiss.
I find my glasses come off for far more serious activities than my watch. I never intended for my watch to be a phone replacement where I can respond to messages, but it's sure good at letting me know a message needs my attention.
A few things a watch offers you while lifting, specifically:
- rep counting
- heart rate monitoring
- music, without a phone, by pairing a BT headset directly to the watch
A few more things smart watches are great at:
- forget your wallet in the car? Contactless payments. Or, buy a bottle of water in the middle of a run or bike.
- sleep tracking
- leave your phone in your pocket more and enjoy life
- don't even bring your phone on a run, built in GPS tracks for you
- don't even bring your phone on a bike, same reason
- built in topo maps for hiking
When you think about it, smart watches are /far/ more useful than they seem because of all the tech and sensors packed into a device that (potentially) lasts days at a time. And I think most people get that, which is why smart watches are already a huge industry.
I do this the other way around, Ubuntu host and a KVM virtual machine controlled by virt-manager with PCIe passthrough for its own GPU and NVMe boot drive. I enjoy Linux too much for daily use (and rely on it for bulk storage with internal drives mergerfs fused together and backed up with snapraid), but I do a lot of photography and media work so I also rely on Windows. This way, I can use a KVM frame relay like looking-glass to get a latency free almost native performance windows VM inside a Ubuntu host, without the need to dual boot (but since the NVMe drive is just windows, I can always boot into windows if I please)
Here is my version of this game I made in early high school a couple years back. So, please forgive the crudeness... https://jondolan.io/fives/
I did not know of this game at the time, but I did hear from people that it was basically Mastermind with words (although I have not played that). The inspiration was a teacher of mine who used to work as a nuclear technician and when he had the graveyard shift, he would play the game with the other technician on duty over the phone.
https://spaceflightnow.com/2016/09/01/spacex-rocket-and-isra...
That was a full size rocket on a real mission with the $200M payload on board during the static fire, which is ostensibly worse. The payload was not integrated yet in Blue Origin’s case.