Global warming may bring us more rain overall, but the current high pressure system (expected to end tonight?) has kept rain away from us for 2 months now, which wasn't helping anything.
The article doesn't mention that 700 full-time park workers were cut in Eric Adams' budget. 50 of those park workers were forestry specialists, who did things such as removing sick/dead trees, and clearing the sort of brush/debris that is easily ignitable.
We see this over and over again: whatever money you "save" by delaying or skipping maintenance, you end up having to spend when something actually breaks.
I had a 10 year old CPAP machine, Respironics SystemOne. I kept telling myself that I needed a new one and I should go and get a new one, but I never did because this one was plodding along "fine". Looks like I dodged a bullet by not getting an updated one, because they probably would've given me one of those Dreamstations!
Did a sleep apnea test last year, it came back negative, which was weird because I can't sleep right without a CPAP.
I redid the test a few months ago, which also came back negative, so I asked to look at the full results, not just the summary. The analysis said I didn't have sleep apnea because I was ONLY WAKING UP 10 TIMES AN HOUR.
I insisted on a new machine, they gave me a ResMed AirSense 11 (autopap) and I've been sleeping like a baby for the last 2 weeks. The technology has improved so much:
* No more SD card!
* Results show up in the phone app in < 24 hours. (Machine modem -> cell network -> provider -> app instead of machine -> app, which I think explains the delay)
* The device detects when you've put the mask on and turns itself on automatically.
* The masks themselves are so much better, so easy to put on and remove.
* The app shows if air is leaking so no more endless fiddling with the mask to ensure a good fit.
This is one of those cases where it really does feel like we're living in the future.
> * Results show up in the phone app in < 24 hours. (Machine modem -> cell network -> provider -> app instead of machine -> app, which I think explains the delay)
This seems like a huge downside. What data is being collected? Who else gets access to this data? What will these third parties use it for? How is it secured?
How much is a CPAP without insurance? Could you buy your own to get around this? Or is it some sort of prescription only situation.
Edit: I don't mean buying one without a sleep study etc. But if my doctor were to prescribe one that needed to tell my insurance my sleeping patterns or get taken back, could I just pay full price for a model I'd actually own?
If insurance companies are accessing this data are they selling it too?
I doubt they're selling the records directly, but if they use that data to learn things about you (your hours awake/asleep for example) they could sell that.
> * Results show up in the phone app in < 24 hours. (Machine modem -> cell network -> provider -> app instead of machine -> app, which I think explains the delay)
Unfortunately it doesn't work in Europe :(. I have a second CPAP (airsense) and I can't complete the app syncing/registration because I am not registered with any provider in the US.
edit: I looked at the airsense 11, not the same model so maybe that changed but I doubt it.
edit 2: data can be extracted though, either with official resmed Windows application or third party (see replies).
Sure, they probably enjoy closer ties to the US health care industry this way. https://careers.resmed.com/what-we-do/locations/ is a page listing offices including Atlanta, Halifax, India and China.
By far the best advance in the ResMed Autoset machines is how good the Auto part does. I don't know about your old Respironics device but I do know in the bad old days getting a CPAP set up was an arduous process of trial and error figuring out what static pressure would work best. The auto machines just detect when you're having trouble breathing and increase the pressure a bit. Works amazingly well.
BTW your AutoSet 11 should support an SD Card still where you can get a lot more data than ResMed's webapp will show you. OSCAR or SleepHQ can interpret the data.
You have Upper Airway Resistance Syndrome instead of Sleep Apnea now. That it didn't show up on your sleep studies means they didn't score it properly. It means your body is ("correctly") waking up out of airway collapse before any oxygen desaturation can occur, which regrettably destroys sleep quality as bad or often worse than apnea does. This is particularly common in women, younger peopoe in general, and non-obese individuals.
I have an Airsense 11. It is an amazing device. Been using it (and the 10 before getting the 11 beginning of this year) for 2 years. Huge improvement to my sleep.
Nope. I haven't really noticed a difference in sleep quality. I had an issue with my 10, which is why it was replaced. In fact, I think the 11 is slightly louder. The filter on the back is smaller and harder to get to. I like the 10 a little better.
How do you know? Someone else posited the theory that the frontpage service has to search for posts for too long due to the blackout. How do you prove this is not the case?
Another sibling comment was added 2 minutes ago, where Reddit themselves state that the blackout is the cause:
> According to Reddit, the blackout is responsible for the problems. “A significant number of subreddits shifting to private caused some expected stability issues, and we’ve been working on resolving the anticipated issue,” spokesperson Tim Rathschmidt tells The Verge.
Maybe you should think a bit harder about the difference between "this thing that is actively happening could be the cause" and "aliens could be the cause"?
> According to Reddit, the blackout is responsible for the problems. “A significant number of subreddits shifting to private caused some expected stability issues, and we’ve been working on resolving the anticipated issue,” spokesperson Tim Rathschmidt tells The Verge. https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/8/23754780/reddit-api-update...
EDIT: Reddit themselves confirmed that the outage was related to subs going private.
> “A significant number of subreddits shifting to private caused some expected stability issues, and we’ve been working on resolving the anticipated issue,” said Reddit spokesperson Tim Rathschmidt.
Is should also be noted that the Link kiosks they've been replacing them with have phone functionality ... it's free even. I've used them once when my cellphone died. They don't have handsets, so everyone around can hear both sides of the conversation, but in a pinch they're useful. And let's be honest, free > private in this situation. I don't know the last time I was walking around with enough quarters to use a payphone.
Now, the Link kiosks are 99.9% about advertising, with just enough of a public service to justify this base monetization of the commons. On the whole, I'm not a fan. I went to a tech talk at the company behind them (in a swanky new tower in the Hudson yards) and their sizzle/promo reel running on a loop really made me sick.
> They don't have handsets, so everyone around can hear both sides of the conversation
If you were in NYC in the early 2000s, you'd generally have one person on every train car on a nextel chirp phone having a conversation for everyone to enjoy.
Ah, iDEN has gone the way of floppy disks. My old Moto i955 for Boost Mobile (MVNO of Nextel, later carried along with Sprint on CDMA) is a quite heavy and rocky solid paperweight.
They were doing something similar in London for a while. They'd install a large advert screen with a phone attached and say it was a payphone because the local planning rules made it difficult to oppose installation of a payphone. The calls were actually free.
Well yeah, there are tons of empty "booths" just without phones. They're commonly used by drug dealers as stash points / occupied by homeless. Admittedly, while living in NYC I'd use them to duck out of the rain on occasion :)
I suggest Infinite Powers by Steven Strogatz. It doesn't matter if they already took a calculus course, I guarantee it's a much better way to make them appreciate the the subject than any textbook. And if they don't know calculus yet, that just makes it even better!
If I'd read this book as a teenager, maybe I would've passed Calc I on my first try as opposed to my third. With a C-.
