Wear OS Update H installed on my watch two days ago. There appears to be a problem recovering from the new “deep sleep” / suspend mode. At intermittent times the watch appears to be unresponsive, basically it looks as though it is frozen after I attempt to wake it by either moving my arm, tapping the screen or pressing the crown. Eventually it does come back/recover, which leads me to suspect the watch has gone in to suspend/deep sleep and takes a long time to resume. I appreciate the idea of saving battery life by going into such a state, but the watch needs to recover much faster as right now it is a horrible user experience. Is anyone else seeing this? Is this a known problem with a fix in progress, or is there a way to disable this “feature?”
I started to notice this behavior yesterday. I’ve restarted the watch in hopes that might resolve. My fear is that this is a processor issue causing this watch to not be able to resume from this form of suspend fast enough.
The American Economy Is Rigged
The single worse SCOTUS ruling of my life time is Citzens United. If Congress were serious about doing things that truly benefit us they would pass legislation aimed at correcting this wrong.
The Wear OS “H” update arrived on my Fossil Q Explorist yesterday. I am curious to see how much battery life improves. Apparently Google has added a deep sleep mode that kicks in after 30 minutes of no activity, but I am not sure how activity is defined.
And as for the outdatedness, the current Fortran standard is Fortran 2008. The next one is 2018 and it is expected to arrive anytime soon. Fortran is constantly being modernized one little step after another. The biggest holding factor here is its mission. It must remain simple for real engineers.
When I started college in 1984 Fortran was the language taught in the introductory programming class required by computer science and engineering students. Advanced computer science classes used Pascal. Java did not exist then.
Parachuting beavers into Idaho and air lifting moose into the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
The Fourth National Climate Change Assessment was published by the POTUS administration on Black Friday. Why they waited until then rather than on a day of an Apple announcement is beyond me. Go read it while it is still on the web and before POTUS has it taken down, because he doesn’t believe it.
Not having a good fantasy football day. To of my key key players, Brandon Cooks and Tyreek Hill, have a bye, so I was filling the gaps and hoping for the best. My decision to start Duke Johnson over Chris Carson has not been good. Worse, Leonard Fournette got ejected from the game, so I can’t count om him to expand his team leading points.
I received the Pixelbook on Friday and I have created a new page to document my experiences with it.
And yet, Michigan’s defensive backs and safeties can’t keep up with the Buckeye receivers. It’s Ohio State’s game to win or lose. 🏈
What a turn of events! Buckeyes in the Christmas spirit too soon and gift the Wolverines back in to the game with a muffed kickoff. 🏈
Today could be the beginning or the end of the Harbaugh era at Michigan. 🏈
Can Michigan go into Columbus and win a big game on the road? 🏈
I am watching the Washington vs. Washingston State football game (Apple Cup?) mostly because it is snowing there a lot, which adds an extra layer of intrigue to the game.
I’ve decided to buy the Google Pixelbook and I’ve updated the article I originally wrote about my plan with how I came to this decision. Consider this a long form version of narrating my work.
Exploding Stars Make Key Ingredient Found in Glass by NASA
We are all, quite literally, made of star dust. Many of the chemicals that compose our planet and our bodies were formed directly by stars.
FUN FACT: Wombats are the only known species “capable of producing cubes organically.”
Popular Mechanics has all the facts.
The worst part about having a cold is how it. just. lingers.
According to Nomorobo 92% of the calls to my mobile number are from robo calls.
Jordan Valinsky,
Black Friday started in the 1950s in Philadelphia.
Source: History of Black Friday - CNN
On my micro.blog wish list is the ability to embed images inline with text like Dave does on Scripting News. Perhaps there is a markdown way that I do not know of?