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Where exactly does Apple’s Health app fall short?

I know it’s not directly measuring TAS, which would involve plumbing into the pitot-static system, but pretty sure most will at least display a calculated TAS. Even my relatively ancient 496 will do that if I input some data. Not a substitute for true TAS, but handy for confirming cruise...

Coincidentally, not too long ago we bought a Goal Zero Yeti 1000 Core, for temp fridge backup and for extended boondocking in our travel trailer. With our home fridge plugged in, it was saying about 14 hours to empty. I then bought a 200 a/h Power Queen LiFeP0 battery. The Yeti requires 14-50v...

CANOPY - Closed and latched.

That was my thought exactly.

Don’t know the brand, but this little guy is sitting just off the road between our N GA and E TN homes: I may stop next time and try to ascertain the brand. Anyone care to guess?

You may remember I adopted a wonderful dog, Jake, back in 2005. He’s of course no longer with us, and we’re down to one little white dog, Halo. I guess it’s natural to want to “duplicate” a favorite dog. Jake was clearly not a Shiba Inu, too large for one, but had a lot of the...

Bit of a “mea culpa”*… In normal driving, one very rarely needs to use the brake pedal at all. I think one may develop an aversion to actually using the brake pedal to stop. At least I have. In our hit-and-run from a couple years ago posted previously, I think that aversion led to me allowing...

Tesla provides an option to automatically apply the brakes if regen is not fully available. That can happen with a fully charged battery. But it’s still far short of “the full range of braking”, in that it just mimics max regen. If I understand what you mean by “the full range of braking” is...

An important concept is Heart Rate Reserve. That’s the difference between resting HR and maximum HR. It’s to that number that a percentage should be applied. It’s applied using the Karvonen formula. Example: Resting heartrate 70 bpm. Maximum 160 bpm. Heart Rate Reserve: 160-70=90 bpm So in the...

You may have nailed it.

Back when I was a runner, I had an EKG that said “Abnormal - Marked Sinus Bradycardia”. I was concerned until my doctor said a slower than average heartrate (60 bpm) was normal for athletes*, and mine was in the 50’s. But 35 bpm is worth investigating regardless. The 220 minus your age for...

Why "while descending"? Once the runway was made, I think I'd level off until the proper final approach speed, and only then continue with a normal final approach and landing.

I think predicting the next word is essentially the idea behind the Large Language Models that ChatGPT and its ilk build upon to produce human-like responses to queries. I think all my example were examples of A.I., albeit crude ones.

I think A.I.will creep into our lives in ways we hardly notice. One somewhat trivial example is the way Safari suggests the next word I’m likely to type, like in this post right… Or the way sometimes our Tesla’s navigation will automatically fill in the destination that’s in my calendar for...

I still recall an article I saw in Popular Science or Popular Mechanics back in the 1950’s. Virtually no cars had seat belts, and the article was about a pilot who had the revolutionary idea of putting a seatbelt in his car, complete with photo! I don’t think anyone could have foreseen nearly...

Ditto with my 15XL’s. Eventually upgraded to Sierras for the longest time, and not too long ago splurged on Zulu 3’s. For me, their customer service has been exemplary, and their periodic trade-in offers really bring the price down.

Planes don’t come much simpler than my Sky Arrow, but that’s one of 3 items on my “Before Landing” checklist: Especially important in any plane with a free castoring nose gear.

I must lead a sheltered life. What’s the particular beef with Zuckerman, who I’ve never heard of.

Basic “traditional morals” predate the Bible. Many my friends are atheists or agnostics, and they seem to have personal moral codes that equal or exceed many Christian’s. And their “public respect in discourse”, specifically, does not seem to correlate with their lack of belief in any...