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As an Estonian, anything below 80°C is considered a "kids sauna". 80°C - 90°C is a cold-but-workable sauna and proper sauna starts from 90+°C. I'd assume it's the same in Finland as we share a lot of the sauna culture.

This would be same in Germany and eastern european countries too. But it really depend on humidity. High humidity saunas don't have to be hot and get tough pretty quicky. 100c dry sauna is lot more manageable than 60c humid sauna (atleast to me).

Indeed, humidity matters a lot. Most our saunas here are löyly (in Finnish) saunas, so you get a rollercoaster of dry - humid - dry cycles. Once you get to 100+c and throw a good amount of water on the stones, it can get quite challenging to endure :)

Everybody has their personal preference of course. For me, the sweet spot seems to be a moderately humid sauna at 93c. At that point, the löyly is not too harsh yet but is still hot enough to make you feel alive :)


I also prefer around 90-100c with swings of humidity. I think it's most exciting exactly because you can make it temporarily more intensive with the "humid wave".

It's the most popular type of sauna - "the sauna" for a reason.


My steam room (at home) at 116F/47C is close to the upper limit of bearable for me. But that's a lot more humidity than even a humid sauna.

90+ sauna sounds painful. Are you actually throwing water? Because even with 80 the steam is pretty hot

Whether sauna is hot or not depends on whether you enjoy the cold water plunge afterwards :)

The typical preset on dry saunas in Bay Area is ~165 F (73 C). Which is cold. Waste of time and money :). Usually, by closing or pouring cold water on sensor, one can make it to 180-190 F (82-87 C) - this is where you start to feel like you are in sauna, though it takes prolong time to heat you up enough to enjoy the cold plunge. If you're lucky enough, you can get to 200, 210, 220 F (104 C) - this is where you start to feel relaxed like as if the heat is working inside you.

>Are you actually throwing water? Because even with 80 the steam is pretty hot

Of course those numbers would be impossible to enjoy in steam sauna. The only steam sauna that had a wall thermometer that i've visited in recent years was showing 55 C when it already felt pretty well and hot.

Note - steam sauna and "throwing water" are 2 different things. The steam sauna is a machine generating a lot of steam, so the room is close to 100% humidity.

The "throwing water" is like Russian "banya" - it is in-between of dry and steam, though frequently is more close to dry Finnish sauna - wooden walls, stove, etc. where in addition to the heated air, you'd throw a water on the heater/stones thus adding a hit of hot steam to that air (in some "banya" configurations if you happen to be close to and in the immediate path of that steam you can sometimes get light burns).


Just a clarification as it may not be clear from your message. A Finnish ("dry") sauna always includes throwing water on the stove, which is called "löyly".

People have different preferences for the warmth of the sauna -- as low as 65°C for some elderly folks, all the way up to 120°C for more hardcore people -- but water is always thrown on the stove. You won't get burns, but it can have a real sting. It's enjoyable, but may feel uncomfortable as a new experience.


When a swimhall has two saunas, a "hot" and a "hotter", I'd guess they are at about 70°C and 90°C.

70-90 seems reasonable, 90 is already over my comfort which is around 80, but the post talked about >90 degrees which just seems stupidly hot

I don't know anyone who wants sauna that hot - steam is involved. Numbers over 90 sound like dry heat only. My 0,02€.

Since when has Finnish sauna been dry? As a Finn I have never been in a dry sauna. We always throw water on the stones.

You don't need a service provider other than a "contact person".

The actual minimal cost of getting e-residency is a one time €150 state fee (I guess you have to renew the physical card every 5 years, which is €150 again?). If you also want to incorporate an Estonian company (which you probably do in this context here), then the registration for this is a €265 one time state fee.

There are no other mandatory fees, except you have to find a "contact person" who's responsible for receiving official government communication on behalf of your company (don't worry, I have never gotten any physical communication from any gov agencies during my 10 years of having a company here so this "contact person" won't actually be doing anything and is just a formality). After a 3 minute google search, this service can be had for €7 / month.

If you don't want to file taxes yourself then you'd also need to hire a local accounting firm. That'll start from somewhere around €50/month for a micro-SaaS. If you really want to, you can file taxes yourself for free but.. your call if your time spent learning the Estonian tax code is worth the saved money..


Sure, but wouldn't 35 hours do the same trick? Or 5 hours? Or 10 hours and 28 minutes? :)

The question is, why exactly 24 hours? The argument is that the time limit is set to protect the users and sacrifice usability to do so. So it would be prudent to set the time limit to the shortest amount that will protect the user -> and that shortest amount is apparently 24 hours, which is rather.. suspiciously long and round :)


You've got to pick some time value (if you choose this route at all), and if the goal is to prevent urgency-coercion it needs to be at least multiple hours. An extremely-common-for-humans one seems rather obvious compared to, like, 18.2 hours (65,536 seconds).

Unless you want to pick 1 week. But that's a lot more annoying.


Well, I guess 24 hours gives a good change to include at least one window where a vulnerable person might be able to speak with a trusted contact.

Someone who lives in another timezone or works weird hours etc. Our routines generally repeat on 24hour schedules, so likely to be one point of overlap.


I've only run into the codex $20 limit once with my hobby project. With my Claude ~$20 plan, I hit limits after about 3(!) rather trivial prompts to Opus :/


How limited? We packed booleans inside integers instead of allocating separate booleans :P


That's just good old fashioned hacking. Wasn't this more a reflection of the various platforms' limited memory resources, and not really anything to do with J2ME?


J2ME had much more trouble. Basically on every OS and variations of those for different phones your app could behave differently or not run at all.


Ha, nostalgic! Was part of a small 3 person team that built the Skype app for J2ME back in the day. Fun times.. :)


This article is fully written by an LLM, correct? It's just summarizes random forum threads and press releases. Or am I just paranoid?


I'm pretty sure you're right. Stinks of something.


> The rest of the world is on WhatsApp

That's not true at all. Random data point. Estonia. I have a _single_ contact that uses WhatsApp. Everybody else is reachable via FB Messenger/Discord/SMS/Signal/Google Chat/Instagram.


Last time I checked the usage percentage of whatsapp was extremely high in the whole world.

China is always an exception,but they are locked partially out of the whole internet


I have WeChat and WhatsApp. From a user perspective they do not differ much.

There is a rumor when both companies tried to enter the Indian market: Whatsapp won.

WeChat assumes there is good reception and fast data transfer anywhere so there is no need to compress pictures and videos.

Whatsapp could be passed as Android APK between phones. And it resizes and recompresses every picture you send.

So thats my guess why WhatsApp won 1/6 of the planets pooulation in India.


Can you not just sms your contacts? Why everything have to be an app?


<snark>

Pressing the "Submit" button on their "Google Antigravity for Organizations Interest Form" (https://antigravity.google/interest-form) doesn't actually do anything for me (tried Firefox and Chrome) -> their metrics will indicate that there's no interest from organizations -> the product will be killed in a year.

</snark>


That blog post really downplays the issue that people have with the verification requirement and is tone-deaf. The resistance to get Google's blessing for app distribution is definitely not limited to students and hobbyists - and I don't think that's even the biggest affected group.


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