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kevas

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kevas··on Amazon can't yet completely delete Alexa voice transcriptions
You mean.... your phone, right?
kevas··on Refunds for 300M phone users sought in lawsuits over location-data sales
This is an interesting point. I haven't read the applicable wiretapping laws, but from my extremely limited understanding, they apply to the conversation and not the location. As one does not expect privacy when out in the public, how about when one is in the confines of one's own home? Can they legally track me in there since I'm not out in public? Do I have the right to privacy in my own home?
kevas··on Refunds for 300M phone users sought in lawsuits over location-data sales
Because they are a private citizens and not law enforcement.
kevas··on Fearing More Violence, Sri Lanka Silences Social Media
I’m not for what they did, but this comment is to expand your idea.

You forgot to think about the people they don’t know about right now. I’m presuming they’re freaking the F out right now and are worried about unknown cells and their communications.

So... in the moment, decision was to make unknown cells communications more difficult by disabling low hanging fruit.

kevas··on 5G Is Likely to Put Weather Forecasting at Risk
You say that it provides sub-millisecond latency.

-- Keep in mind that I know nothing of nothing.--

--- Is the sub-millisecond from repeater to repeater or from origin to final destination that's [n] repeaters away? Won't each repeater introduce its own latency?

What causes the 4G's >50ms response time?

kevas··on Ask HN: Most sustainable diet long term?
This is still my biggest problem. I'll still scarf down a 2LB steak and then regrets it.

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Can you please elaborate on different methods you've used in the past (current) to help slow down your eating habits, please.

kevas··on Ask HN: Most sustainable diet long term?
I don't know how you would replace ice cream. I still eat it--not too often, yet i still eat it.

Personally, I switched over to Voskos Greek Yogurt (Fig flavor [which they don't make anymore]). After getting used to that, I started eating other viscus yogurts and that helped me.

I'd suggest talking w/ a nutritionist if you're having difficulties finding substitutes to ice cream

kevas··on Ask HN: Most sustainable diet long term?
First: you can unless there's some medical reason you can't. However, I highly doubt that.

Second: I'm sure you're smart & I'm going to presume you know how to use google.

Last: I'm not a nutritionist, so I can and won't recommend foods to eat.

kevas··on Ask HN: Most sustainable diet long term?
What part? overall?
kevas··on Ask HN: Most sustainable diet long term?
--READ--

Reading all the comments on this thread is pretty funny.

I was a trainer for many years and the strategy (note that it’s a strategy rather than a diet) that was most successful takes years to complete with the goal of never doing too much at once.

Take the worst thing in your diet. Over the next few weeks, replace it with something slightly better. When your body starts accepting it, move on to the next worst food you consume on your list and repeat the process.

A year or two years down the road, you’ll notice that your entire diet has changed without much effort.

This process isn’t sexy and won’t solve any problems quickly. However, it is aimed at long term change.

As for working out...

To start off, just move around. it doesn't matter. After that starts becoming comfortable, use machines @ the gym that don't require any stabilization on your part--just push & pull. This is because you're not going to be strong. You should be focusing on major muscle groups and that's it when you start out--chest, back, legs. For a few months, just focus on getting your proper form down. Over these first three or so months of working out, even without putting on any further muscle mass, your strength will increase by 20%-30%.

Exercises to do: - Machine Chest Press: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlXTzUUR9AE

- Machine Pull Down: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwJeh3QyhVE

- Machine Row: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNUztYbC0G0

- Machine Leg Press: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2KtIZn2vOc

How do you select the weight to use? - Pick something that you can't do more than 20 times the first set.

How many sets: - 3 sets should be good starting off.

How many reps should you do each set? - Up to 20, yet if your form breaks down, stop that set. - Your form is the primary goal at this point.

kevas··on Hedge-fund billionaire Ray Dalio says capitalism is failing America
Are you sure about that? Well... for Dalio, he's an investor that is always looking both forward and backwards. He's looking backwards to see what's happend in the past and how economy/society has reacted. He's looking in the future to see how he could best take advantage of signals he sees.
kevas··on U.S. workers hate ‘open’ office spaces
Here's a fun fact... not everyone can get a job at a place of their choosing at a drop of the hat.
kevas··on The New iPad Mini
yup... have the iPad Pro 11 & an older mini (use that for the gym/cardio and when I don't want to lug something so big around)... I do not use FaceID at all. Tried it, yet went back to the Pin.
kevas··on New iPad Air and iPad Mini
Purchased a iPad Pro 11 a few months back & I love it—notes for meetings & personal are fantastic, reading, etc...

I would have returned that thing in an instant if apple came out with a Mini Pro. I also have a mini that I’ve had for years. It’s the perfect size. Don’t feel inconvenienced when carrying.

Damn damn damn.... maybe another year.

kevas··on China denies two million people detained in Xinjiang concentration camps
Speaking of Robert Moses, a really good book about him & his doings: Power Broker by Robert Caro.
kevas··on Mark Zuckerberg Promised a Clear History Tool Almost a Year Ago
Think Kazaa(?) days
kevas··on Ask HN: Favorite teachers on YouTube?
I don't believe that was shampoo, rather bleach for hair.
kevas··on Ask HN: 2018 Summer Reading List?
For me...

1. Technical Analysis of the Financial Markets by John Murphy

2. Options as a Strategic Investment by Lawrence G. McMillan

3. [just finished] The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right By Atul Gawande

4. [finished last week] Dealers of Lightning by Michael A. Hiltzik

5. [currently working on] Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software By GOF

6. [currently working on] Dan Appleman's Visual Basic Programmer's Guide to the Win32 API by Dan Appleman

7. [next on the list] Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed by Ben Rich, Leo Janos

kevas··on Ask HN: Recommendations on books and documentaries on tech companies/people?
Based on your listings, you may also enjoy When Genius Failed, which is based on LTCM and their downfall.

Link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0375758259/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_j0...

kevas··on Young Chinese are sick of working long hours
Serious question: why do you think you're underpaid? Why do you feel you should be making more. The market has said that you're currently worth/getting paid X. So... why think you're Y?
kevas··on How to break a smart home, again
Link: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/04/06/stop_us_if_youve_he...

Just because your big, doesn't mean you get it right.

kevas··on US Senator demands review of loot box policies, citing potential harm
Does that mean you're also in favor of ending state sponsored lottories, raffles, etc...?
kevas··on Just what does “code as data” mean anyway? (2014)
Can you please elaborate a bit more on what was such a nuisance when working with this method. I'm currently building something out that is using this technique to (hopefully) save lines in code, dynamic user form generation based on with permissions, etc...
kevas··on Show HN: Airmash – Multiplayer Missile Warfare HTML5 Game
This is what gets me... here's a dependency to reduce the size of your dependencies. I understand that it's useful, but at what point enough?
kevas··on Twitter’s multi-million dollar US election pitch to RT
I think a savory commission check to a sales team was more of a factor than who would win the elections.
kevas··on Ask HN: What costly inefficiency do you see at work?
Our department gets a few thousand projects a year (work in large format printing). The amount of repetitive steps that each project share is simply mind boggling. By writing 10 or so scripts, was able to shave department labor hours down by 14%.

Excel... how people use excel and the amount of waste that happens just because they don't properly know how to use 'vlookup' or 'if' simply just boils my blood.

kevas··on Redesigning the airport boarding pass (2010)
To add on to what you said, I believe the designer forgot one more thing. From what I remember (haven't looked in awhile), these companies are on paper thin margins. They try to shave every last cent they can. By switching to the visuals that the designers came up with, it would add to an increased ink cost.

This calculation won't even try to be accurate, but rather for argument purposes. The design that has the large black rectangle of black could add an extra 8in^2 of black printable ink. okay... I'm too lazy to look this up, but let's say they print 20m of these a year, the ink cost would add up for that redesign.

kevas··on Ask HN: Share Your Raspberry Pi Project
Just finished setting up openVPN on a RPi3b so my salesperson and I can access the CRM from outside my network.
kevas··on Show HN: Design, data-structure, algorithm problems and their solutions
I don't know if this has HIPAA compliant schema among their collection ~1,500 or so models.

http://www.databaseanswers.org/data_models/

kevas··on Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?
At the beginning of the year, I started at a large print shop where numerous types of projects came through our doors. There's this one client of ours who's project would take ~13 hours to complete--and that's just in our department which was file prepping.

I did this project by hand one or two times and then asked the manager to let me research the possibility of automating it. After a week or so of fiddling around, I was able to bring it down to 2h10m. Just in the past week, I was able to bring it down to 15m and reduce the number of steps where a human is needed.

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