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In Switzerland, which is quite densely populated, they even have a pilot project with putting solar panels between rail road tracks:

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/emissions-reduction/solar-energ...


Of all the ideas ever tried, this one seems to be the worst

Why?

Yeah, feels worse that solar roadways.

Agree, I personally also think dark mode never goes well with a map-based app...


Especially with this sort of map regarding this specific city. For example, Beverly Hills is a separate municipality contained entirely within the borders of Los Angeles. It appears here like an empty black space no different from the ocean, lakes, mountains, and parks also scattered around the city. The styling of this map makes it impossible to tell if an area is truly undeveloped and if so, why. Throw in the way there appears to be arbitrary selection criteria for some buildings outside city limits that make them appear as lone buildings in undeveloped space, and I think it adds up to potentially give people a wrong picture of the area.


Yes, good point. The LA City data was rich, but the other communities have data in other places. I will see what I can do.


Great, I'm sure getting more data for a complete picture of the area is a huge undertaking, but simply switching to the light map that shows the geography more clearly is a big improvement.


Use Claude Code with Chrome MCP / Claude in Chrome and it'll happily do it for you, 100%


I think it's an efficiency thing. And at scale, efficiency matters. Whether this is the right implementation idk, but when I see Claude Code use Chrome via MCP, it's incredible to see just how inefficient the status quo is.


I guess it's a more complicated thing to implement (!= low hanging fruit), but I'd be more interested in sleep tracking than step tracking.


Sure, but we can't do sleep tracking well. Todays devices mostly guess and map to typical patterns. Might, might not, work reasonably for you. But chances are that if you want to track your sleep because you suspect irregularities then they are about as useful as a potato.


The Apple Watch is quite accurate (according to Apple's own research, at least), and it doesn't guess or map to typical patterns: https://www.apple.com/health/pdf/Estimating_Sleep_Stages_fro...


From other anectdata the apple watch seems to just as bad as everything else.

We just don't seem to have any idea how to track sleep quality even with better devices than just a watch/whatever. Even a binary, is the person I'm attached to sleeping, is hit and miss. And with that in mind you can be pretty sure that the sleep stages etc is even worse.


The problem with sleep tracking watches is that simply wearing them alters your sleep patterns/quality.


YOU ARE CORRECT.

We should start looking at biochemicals soon - melatonin and cortisol release


To sync activity tracking data with your phone


Nice move! I wish it would support even more activity / health features in the future like GPS tracking, sleep tracking, etc. As a full package in the classic design it would make a great alternative to Garmin / Polar / Whoop / Oura etc.


> most of the feed is filled with useless posts

I, unsurprisingly, am making the same observations. Sometimes I do think about shipping a slim Chrome extension (~Ad Blocker) to classify and filter out useless content. Could make it a bit more bearable and useful.


I use LinkOff https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/linkoff-filter-and-...

It has a 'gentle mode' so you see what gets blocked.

I think it's thanks to it that I don't feel animosity towards LinkedIn anymore.


I just unfollow everyone on LinkedIn


Me too. Linkedin helpfully keeps finding new people for me to follow and automatically follows them.


Hmm that doesn’t happen to me. But it does suggest content from users I don’t follow


Also been observing "productivity loss" by working on multiple Claude Code sessions in parallel (~5-7) and having to context switch between them multiple times during the day. Sometimes I literally have to ask "My brain is fried, can you catch me up? Keep it concise ..." Other times I force myself to not open another session and rather wait for a few minutes for an ongoing session to finish. Otherwise there's the built-in "recap" summary at the end of each chat, but for whatever reason I rarely read them (maybe I should).


Cloud business is making big dollar I suppose


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