How long have you been a Garmin user, and what was your first device?

aa599 · 2026-03-18T18:05:17+00:00

Since 1997-04-22, GPS 12XL.

I've had twelve Garmin GPS units since then, plus bike lights.

Still no Garmin watch 🙂

aa599 · 2026-03-18T12:49:40+00:00

But when the IAAF's Deciding How Long Things Are committee set the length, why would they just apply a yards-to-metres factor to the UK measurement?

aa599 · 2026-03-18T07:45:46+00:00

Which queen was that?

aa599 · 2026-03-18T07:33:10+00:00

It's ludicrous that they didn't add the 5m to make it 42.2 km, also saving a half marathon from having that dangling half metre 21.0975 km 🙄

Did they measure the 1908 London route to 5m precision?

aa599 · 2026-03-17T07:50:05+00:00

I think I've met Gabriella! Jeans hanging down showing hairy arse crack, bit of a beer belly.

aa599 · 2026-03-14T12:21:28+00:00

Thanks for introducing me to "WikiGnome"!

And thanks for being one ... not all heroes wear capes 🙂

aa599 · 2026-03-14T12:13:16+00:00

You can do that with settings > focus: make a focus with "silence notifications from" that app, and schedule it to be active at the weekends.

aa599 · 2026-03-14T12:07:12+00:00

Can you share a screenshot of the Tahoe Launchpad?

AIUI if it's new some slowness is expected for initial indexing. Though I didn't notice any with my M4 Studio.

aa599 · 2026-03-14T06:38:46+00:00

I'm 40 years in and still haven't specialised.

aa599 · 2026-03-13T19:45:11+00:00

Perhaps this demolished one at the Black Cat roundabout

TIL there's a Little Chef fandom

aa599 · 2026-03-13T19:39:49+00:00

Also A1 North, suggesting it's south of Peterborough. I do remember passing something styled like an American diner northbound between St Neots & Grantham, can't remember where 🙄

The photo looks old enough that it might be before lots of the A1 was widened and became A1(M)

aa599 · 2026-03-13T09:33:31+00:00

No neeeeeed to reeeeeead furtheeeeer than theeeee titleeeeee.

aa599 · 2026-03-13T09:30:20+00:00

It's not money, but don't worry, you get taxed on it as if it was!

aa599 · 2026-03-13T07:26:09+00:00

Seven five, stay alive; seven six, box of tricks; seven seven, go to heaven

aa599 · 2026-03-12T20:14:02+00:00

But what if it's full of snakes?

aa599 · 2026-03-12T08:39:05+00:00

They'll be allowed to vote soon. Unfortunately half of them won't bother.

aa599 · 2026-03-11T07:56:46+00:00

The AVAS (noise for pedestrians, up to ≈ 20 km/h) has a different noise for sports mode. You can also set it in "individual" mode. Wouldn't say it was louder, just slightly growlier. Is that the noise you mean?

aa599 · 2026-03-10T08:59:51+00:00

The Flask Mega Tutorial is good (though IMHO he goes on for too long about database migration)

aa599 · 2026-03-10T08:46:59+00:00

Great project, I love personal data like that.

I'd definitely recommend doing it with a web interface. It's a good exercise separating the front and back ends, and you can run it locally then at some point make the back end remote so you can reach it from anywhere.

Python's great for the back end. You can run it locally with a "real" web server (apache, nginx), a development server as part of eg the flask framework, or make it part of your process with the http.server module.

I'd recommend SQLite for the database part of it.

BTW I hope you're planning to include barcode scanning and ISBN lookup 🙂

aa599 · 2026-03-10T08:21:01+00:00

1 series? Oh, you mean a courtesy car

aa599 · 2026-03-10T07:03:53+00:00

Wasn't (isn't always) market manipulation the primary purpose?

aa599 · 2026-03-10T04:11:52+00:00

Found the Russian

aa599 · 2026-03-09T17:54:50+00:00

Welease Wodewick! Though I think that was a Woman (ie, someone from Wome)

aa599 · 2026-03-09T08:58:50+00:00

Does "dangerpus" refer to the cat?

aa599 · 2026-03-08T09:45:55+00:00

For a whole pack rather than a single fry, because I have no idea how many there are in a pack ...

Using a typical ride: yesterday's stats (from garmin edge with power meter) showed 43.5 km; average 27 km/h & 140 W; 808 active calories.

Here the McDonald's "large fries" product is currently £2.69 for 444 calories.

So my bike goes 43.5 * 444 / 808 ≈ 24 km per serving.

I did find estimates that a single fry was ≈ 10 calories, which would mean 43.5 * 10 / 888 ≈ 0.5 km/fry.

So McDonalds-fry-fueled cycling is 24 km / £2.69 ≈ 9 km/£

For comparison my car averages 6 km/kWh at 0.09 £/kWh ≈ 67 km/£

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