Trivial discovery of the day: “calorie” data in Garmin data exports is actually joules
Garmin data exports measure activity energy in joules but label it as calories. 1 calorie == 4.184 joules.
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Do you burn more calories running than walking?
If your exercise is time-constrained, you’ll (obviously) burn more calories the faster you go whether you run or walk. If your exercise is distance-constrained, you’ll burn slightly more calories running than walking.
Do you burn more calories if you walk faster?
If your walk is time-constrained, walking faster burns more calories. If your walk is distance-constrained, walking faster makes no difference.
My recent job search by the numbers
Applied to 115, rejected by 52, interviewed by 8, hired by 1. LinkedIn was my job-search HQ. Going to work for the U.S. Digital Service.
Hack of the day: keep the Emacs server running in the active login session
Prereqs for this hack being useful to you: (1) you use GNU Emacs; (2) you keep a single Emacs running in your session and use emacsclient to open files for editing in it; (3) you have Linux computers that use systemd on which you keep multiple concurrent login sessions open; and (4) you want emacsclient… Read More »
How to access your encrypted Linux system from the Ubuntu installer when your system won’t boot
I had to figure out the steps for myself by assembling pieces of it from many different web pages, so I’ve collected them all here for my benefit and yours.
“Break of Day” added to comics aggregator
A new strip from Comics Kingdom, drawn by Nate Fakes.
“Comiclicious” added to comics aggregator
A new strip from Comics Kingdom, drawn by Olivera Vukovic.
“God’s Hands” and “The Planet Syndicate” added to comics aggregator, “Mara Llave” removed
A new strip from Comics Kingdom.
“Willy Black” added to comics aggregator
A new strip from Comics Kingdom.