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tdicola··on Where Is Nokia Now?
Just use a Google Sheets or other online doc and a normal scale. It's so much faster in my experience to use a normal scale, read the number, then pop open the sheet (it can be a direct link on your homescreen) and type in the weight on a new line vs. fumbling with bluetooth connections, horrible apps, etc. Your data is never locked in to a service and you can graph, chart, analyze, etc. as much as you want too.
tdicola··on Area 120 – A workshop for Google's experimental products
Can someone at Area 120 make bringing back Google Reader a thing?

I'm serious.

tdicola··on The Holder Report on Uber
From what I saw it's part of the company culture. Managers were there late so of course their subordinates didn't want to leave and be seen as not working as hard.

Also there's no concept of overtime with salaried fulltime employees. You might work 100 hours in a week and you're still taking home the same paycheck as if you worked 40 hours. That's just the way corporate America works.

tdicola··on The Holder Report on Uber
Your interpretation is wrong, I've been to Uber's office in SF and its dinners are big trays of catered food brought in late in the evening. They're dumped in the kitchens and employees who are still working can come by to get whatever they want.
tdicola··on RISC-V Foundation
The Arduino Cinque board was just announced and has a RISC-V chip along with an ESP32 and STM32: http://hackaday.com/2017/05/20/arduino-cinque-the-risc-v-esp...
tdicola··on Please Make Google AMP Optional
Nitpick but your request is most likely not going to space. You're going to a cell tower that's at most a mile away from you, and that tower is probably linked with fiber and copper to all the routers on the net. Even if for some reason you go through a satellite link it's in earth orbit and not technically 'outer space'. It's still pretty magical but at the end of the day it's just a fancier wireless telegraph.
tdicola··on Be Careful with UUID or GUID as Primary Keys
That's why you typically add caching (like cookies) that store the UUID with some user context so it can be provided directly in queries.
tdicola··on Uber Fires More Than 20 Employees in Harassment Probe
That's why you list references from your last job and people call them to see what kind of person you were while there.
tdicola··on Ask HN: Ex-Founder. Should I take lowball buyout offer?
Not in San Francisco or the Silicon Valley area. Median home prices are well over $1m. That's not even enough for 20% down on a mortgage.
tdicola··on Ask HN: What does your diet look like?
For 16:8 fasting it's just water (I like using a sodastream to make seltzer water) and black coffee. Maybe a tea if I want to mix something up. Never any sugar, cream or other things added to coffee/tea. For the 72 hour fasts it's the same but I have a couple cups of bone broth during the day. It's a minimal amount of calories (~100-200 cals) but more importantly helps get more electrolytes, which I've noticed can be trickier to manage while fasting.
tdicola··on Ask HN: What does your diet look like?
Yeah some studies show exercise in a fasted state increases adrenaline and human growth hormone production, so it's kind of like getting natural steroids. :) It also helps train your muscles to burn fat for energy which is great for endurance (you have far more fat in your body vs. sugar for energy). Great info here: https://intensivedietarymanagement.com/fasting-and-exercise-... and http://leangains.com/
tdicola··on Ask HN: What does your diet look like?
Avocado, fatty cuts of meat (bacon, beef, etc.).
tdicola··on Ask HN: What does your diet look like?
Yeah it's wild, here's a before and after: http://imgur.com/hHtyMPF Training to climb Mt. Rainier later this summer--something I could never have imagined being possible 2 years ago.
tdicola··on Ask HN: What does your diet look like?
> I have to say that this is not working very well for me, and I'm gaining weight.

Try ditching the grains and sugar, they're doing nothing but adding weight. Eat foods that have low glycemic loads to keep from spiking blood sugar and causing sugar to be stored as fat: http://burnfatnotsugar.com/diet-2.0-explained.html

tdicola··on Ask HN: What does your diet look like?
I do daily 16:8 fasting (only eat from noon-8pm) and keep things paleo/low carb when eating. Recently I've tried some extended 72-hour fasts and really like them too. The big thing for me is that I love exercising in a fasted state--I'll do 30 mins. of cardio and about 10 mins of bodyweight strength training each day in the most fasted state (right before noon when I break the fast). The combo of eating low carb, intermittent fasting, and fasted exercise is pretty incredible--I'm in the best shape of my life and still getting better. Two years ago I was 300+ lbs and now I'm a lean 155 lbs. and running half marathons--it's wild.

Just a multivitamin and magnesium supplement are all I take.

tdicola··on How Much Does it Cost to Climb Mount Everest?
Rainier is awesome and a worthy endeavor for anyone but it's 14k feet vs. 28k feet and a whole other ballgame. To put it in perspective base camp for Everest is at 17k feet--well above the whole summit of Rainier. Or another way to think of it, when you get to the summit of Rainier imagine that as just the halfway point for an Everest climb.
tdicola··on How Much Does it Cost to Climb Mount Everest?
Into Thin Air by John Krakauer, although maybe you don't want to read it until after the attempt. :)
tdicola··on Carbonated beverages induce increased food consumption in rats
People have been drinking carbonated water for over a hundred years now (maybe even two hundred years actually). If there was a strong link between carbonation and damage to your body we would have seen it by now.
tdicola··on Using Google Assistant with AutoPi to enable voice control of a car
Actually OBD on moderns cars is pretty much useless, it only reports the basic federally mandated emissions info for e-checks and that's it. All the fun stuff is on CAN and other often proprietary buses.
tdicola··on U.S. Census director resigns amid turmoil over funding of 2020 count
By 2020 President Zuckerberg will mandate all citizens have Facebook accounts.
tdicola··on Aspirin May Prevent Cancer from Spreading, New Research Shows
Eat low carb when you're feasting. I.e. stop eating sugar and grains that make your body crave and depend on them for energy all the time. Get off the insulin rush rollercoaster.
tdicola··on Aspirin May Prevent Cancer from Spreading, New Research Shows
Train while fasted, you'll feel amazing trust me. I do a 16:8 daily fast too and do regular HIIT and strength training while fasted (in the morning). In the fasted state your body is producing more adrenaline and HGH which helps with performance and gains. It also trains your muscles to burn fat instead of sugar (since there's none available), which is incredible for endurance (run a half marathon or more on just water? no problem).
tdicola··on Something is wrong when the ‘telephone app’ on your phone becomes 3rd party
Looking at my cell phone bill I use far more data than I do actual voice a month. It's kind of an anachronism to call it a phone anymore. It's a pocket computer.
tdicola··on Windows 10 S won't let you change the default browser or switch to Google search
It's Gentoo, but that doesn't really matter--it's built to only expose a browser, not to be a general purpose computer.
tdicola··on Windows 10 S won't let you change the default browser or switch to Google search
That's like asking does Chrome browser allow you to run Safari or Edge.
tdicola··on Introducing Surface Laptop
Let's be honest though, no one is going through the trouble to port their app to Windows 10 only HTML and JS. I don't think MS has even talked about that stack at their recent developer conferences.
tdicola··on Introducing Surface Laptop
This seems like a couple years too late. Just from specs alone there are better laptops coming out of China today from Xiamo, Chuwi, etc. Stuff like the Xiaomi Mi book (https://www.engadget.com/2016/07/27/xiaomi-mi-notebook-air-l...) or Chuwi Lapbook (http://www.zdnet.com/article/windows-10-laptops-chuwi-prices...) that are thinner, lighter, have high resolution displays, etc. and that cost significantly less than $999. This just looks like something forgettable that will be lost in a sea of middling Windows ultrabooks.
tdicola··on Chromebooks winning in schools, Windows and Apple fight back
As counterpoint, that same $500 will get you a Chromebook that's exceptionally thin and light (0.5" thick, 2.3 lbs), has a high resolution retina display (12", 2400x1600 pixels), 10+ hours battery life, and touchscreen with pen input and Android app compatibility: http://www.samsung.com/us/computing/chromebooks/12-14/xe513c... Compared to a giant 15" clunky, hot, loud, low resolution display Windows laptop it's a night and day difference.
tdicola··on Chromebooks winning in schools, Windows and Apple fight back
You also get worse battery life, constant updates at the most inopportune times (that you can't even control anymore), advertisements in your OS, and very sketchy security/privacy.
tdicola··on If you opened your PayPal account before you were 18, close it
Cash, check, wire, etc.. you know how we've been banking for hundreds of years.
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