Readit NewsSince I was a kid, I've thought I was "prone to migraines", and ascribed various triggers to them - sun exposure, heat, physical exertion, mental exertion, etc. I'd get a migraine sometimes after a long hike on a weekend - and also a long business meeting entirely indoors in an air-conditioned space.
Only when I was around 35, did I figure something out. All these situations lead to me getting dehydrated without any obvious accompanying feeling of thirst. Hiking all day will do it - walking around an outdoor shopping mall on a hot afternoon - or sitting in an all-day business meeting focused on the work at hand and forgetting to drink. And all these situations lead to a migraine - my only "migraine" trigger is simple dehydration, nothing more complicated.
The weird thing is, it took me a long time (decades) to put this together, because I just figured that I couldn't be dehydrated if I wasn't thirsty, and I had no association between "feeling thirsty" and getting a migraine.
I get what I consider normally thirsty in other circumstances, but somehow there's a failure mode where my body doesn't warn me. So now I just remember to chug lots of water (and electrolytes) if I'm exerting myself even if I don't really feel thirsty, and I can systematically avoid triggering migraines.
Now that I understand it the association is quite clear and obvious in retrospect.
This is what I learned, but from others online. I also learned that sometimes our body/mind may mistake thirst for hunger and we may end up eating some food instead of just drinking water (this is generalizing things a bit). This made me a little more aware of what I think of as hunger signals and I started tracking water intake (other than from food) everyday.
BTW, a tiny nitpick: it’s “led”, not “lead”, when you talking about the past.
This is what I’d worry about too. Apart from this, I don’t know how the chats will be used, who else might have some kind of access to those (IT, HR), etc. The pervasive monitoring of all network traffic makes it all seem like always being under the view of a panopticon.
I love working remote and don’t really want to go to the office (a tiring commute is one of the reasons; not having as much flexibility is another). But I’d be wary of off topic channels on Slack or Teams or any company owned/managed platform.
Of course I don't actually think there is a religion on how to do these things, but I've never seen any particular quality added by people doing quarterly releases from a feature branch. For the most part I think this part at the very beginning of the article explains a lot of the reason as to why that is:
> When we do trunk-based development, the WIP we commit gets used, before any actual user sees it, by our whole team.
In my eyes all of it comes down to management much more than deployment strategies. The disadvantage of feature branching is that it's very easy for management to cut costs on testing. The disadvantage of trunk-based development is that it requires functional teams of people who can actually work together and accept the "norms".
Have to agree with this. In a large (lower than 2/3rd in the Fortune 500 list) company with cost cutting as a constant mantra, our ever shrinking team hasn’t had a testing/QA team for several years. We never got to automating a lot of tests either. The developers create something and test it manually as per their limited knowledge. Then it’s the end users who do the bulk of the testing.
• Infuse, from Firecore (probably the best video player on Apple TV, iOS, iPadOS and macOS — you can throw almost any format at it)
• Owl, by Beonex (it’s a Mozilla Thunderbird extension that connects to MS Exchange and costs $10 a year)
• Bvckup 2 (Windows backup software) — this gets cheaper on renewals
On services:
• Apple Fitness+ (annual subscription is a lot cheaper than monthly), one of the best things that keeps me working out regularly
• Posteo.de for emails
1. Time Period — not sure what this refers to. Why is the maximum only 30 days or one month? I think some text to explain that screen would help.
2. Resting Heart Rate — I don’t know what to choose and there is no information or link to sources that could help decide.
3. Metrics and Goals — what time period are those goals over? Is that related to the Time Period setting? Or is it weekly? Why are there goals and toggles for “Vigorous Exercise” and “Moderate Exercise” in addition to the zone wise toggles? How do these overlap with the zones? Again, reducing the goals and toggles and/or adding text and/or reorganizing this may help (for example, “Vigorous Exercise” could just be a heading for zone 5 and zone 4, “Moderate Exercise” could just be a heading for zone 3 and zone 2 — I don’t know if this even makes sense).
As someone else said, an onboarding flow with explanations and choices for settings could really help (and the user could be instructed that if needed, they can change these in settings later).
Looking at my “Vigorous Exercise” number on the main screen, I don’t know if I should aim to increase it or not. Some guidance on what goals to aim for, with the caveat that the user should consult a medical professional to decide on exercises appropriate for them, would also be useful.
Edit: I see that there’s some information in the Help & FAQ and About pages linked from the i (information) button, but it doesn’t cover everything from my feedback above. I still think these should be in the onboarding flow and easily accessible again within the app (without opening a web page).
> The paper’s authors suggested the lower scores, seen mostly in those 65 and older, might have reflected malnutrition, muscle atrophy or inactivity.
> “B.M.I. cannot distinguish body fat from muscle mass,” Wenquan Niu, who works at the Center for Evidence-Based Medicine at the Capital Institute of Pediatrics in Beijing and was a senior author of the paper, wrote in an email. “For any given B.M.I., fat distribution and body composition can vary dramatically.”
So, if I understand it right, BMI cannot distinguish body fat from muscle mass and BRI can’t distinguish malnutrition or inactivity. This would mean that whichever metric you choose, you should look at it as well as beyond it.
On the same topic, the formula for BMI is a simple one (weight in kilograms divided by height in meters squared) that you could calculate it on a simple calculator.
The formula for BRI is more complex: [1]
> BRI was calculated as 364.2 − 365.5 × √(1 − [waist circumference in centimeters / 2π]² / [0.5 × height in centimeters]²), according to the formula developed by Thomas et al.
[1]: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle...
What’s important is figuring out what kind of activities you may like or manage to get into (going to the gym, running, group fitness, video based classes, etc.).
I’ve never been able to follow a routine by myself. What works for me are video based workouts where I don’t feel as if I’m doing it alone and I also get a good variety.
Another thing that helped me a lot is getting an Apple Watch and closing the rings everyday honestly. There are three activity rings to close each day — one for activity, one for exercise minutes and one for standing and moving a bit each hour. You can set each ring to whatever levels you’re comfortable with (increasing or decreasing or keeping it the same). You don’t need to keep going up or competing with others. The longer you keep your “streak”, the more motivating it is to keep it going.
If you like video workouts, check out the free Nike Training Club app. There are various other apps with free workouts.
If you get a new Apple Watch, you would also get a free trial of Apple’s Fitness+ service.
Apart from this, in the past I’ve also very much enjoyed game based workouts like Wii Fit Plus, Ring Fit Adventure for Nintendo Switch, etc.
A good starting target is getting moderate to intense exercise for about 30 minutes a day.
Could it be that it’s just pretty difficult to improve VO2Max in general? Some people’s hearts have to beat harder or they breathe in less than fitter people?
The description in the Health App under Cardio Fitness (the one that shows VO2 Max) says that it measure it only for outdoor walks, hikes and runs. If you don’t do these outdoor activities, it won’t measure or record VO2 Max. I’ve seen this reflected in my measurements. I do HIIT and cardio workouts at home, and it certainly doesn’t measure or record VO2 Max.