because apparently we humans are all differently efficient in converting calories into watts.

We’re not that different though. It doesn’t vary that much between people. It’s pretty universally 20-25% of energy gets converted into mechanical energy, with the other 75-80% lost as heat.

What does differ is how mechanically efficient the bike is. A commercial gym stationary bike might only be 80% efficient at converting the energy put into the pedal down into the flywheel, and that is what gets read by the power meter. A high end race bike is above 95%.

Due to the roughly 25% efficiency, the math of kilojoules to calories burned is almost exactly 1:1.

Outside of a clinical lab where you get hooked up to a machine that reads the actual CO2 from your breath as you exercise, a power meter is the most accurate you’re going to get though.

I mean, you set it up like that lol. When you set up the activity, it specifically asks how active you are and then sets the default goal based on that. And you have to manually confirm the goal too on the slider.

To be fair, it wasn’t Callaway directly. It was Good Good Golf, a golf youtube channel, that aired the ad. Callaway had a partnership with them to cobrand the golf club, but dropped Good Good immediately after the ad and canceled the branded club.

Callaway still deserves the backlash from associating with them though and apparently someone giving the ok for the ad.

And remember… don’t be evil, and if you see something that you think isn’t right – speak up!

It’s still there.

Yeah, I hate people that make these kind of jokes.

A little boy in my son’s class was nonverbal autistic and an eloper. He ended up sneaking out, getting into the unlocked apartment pool, and drowning a few days after school ended this summer.

I feel so bad for his parents. They were always so exhausted trying to keep him safe because he was a little Houdini.

Same. It builds ansible playbooks for me pretty reliably. And saved me a fuck ton of time on the contract I’m on now converting our entire chef baseline into ansible.

Easily done, but doing it all by hand would have been a pain. Did it in a couple of days for the first draft, then manually tweaked it for the weird shit Claude hallucinated.

And North Korea is definitely a democratic republic 🙄🙄

Just like the dumbasses say “the Soviet Union wasn’t REAL communism”?

Except I’m correct. A government implementing protectionist policies to control economic sectors is not capitalist.

No this was capitalism in action. Capitalism bred the innovation in TRON.

Governments getting involved and putting their thumb on the scales to control the economy is the opposite of capitalism.

That has literally nothing to do with what they said….

Coffee grounds are readily compostable. And are one of the best things to compost. They bring a ton of nutrients.

A reusable metal mesh filter and then composting the grounds into plant food for a small garden is about as zero waste as you can get.

New to the restaurant. Classic in that it’s the traditional chicken sandwich. Fried chicken cutlet, pickles, bun.

As opposed to like a buffalo chicken sandwich, or a “deluxe” which gets lettuce, tomato, and mayo added.

The only valid date format is YYYY-MM-DD.

ISO-8601 baby!

Yeah that’s a big failing on the teachers, not explaining why you can’t cite Wikipedia. It’s not hard to explain “you can’t cite wikipedia directly because it isn’t a source. It’s just a collection of references, and you need to go cite the primary source, and here is where wikipedia lists their sources for each claim and how you can cite them”.

No encyclopedia is citable. They’re not primary or secondary sources.

You can’t use tertiary sources in academic research because they’re just aggregation of references. You need primary sources whenever possible, and secondary sources when primary sources are unavailable.

Which is where going down to the references and grabbing the primary sources there comes in handy, because you can cite those.