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Re:Creating a Garmin "MCP" on Thursday October 15, 2026 @06:04AM (#50101506)
Which "Using an unofficial Garmin MCP" were you using? and which problems you encountered that made you move on?

I've been using taxuspt/garmin_mcp[0] via claude desktop and recommend it. It reads my data and it is able to create and schedule workouts. I've decided to fork it because it was not able to create the type of workouts that i wanted (swim, bike, run and gym) and it also pushes into my garmin calendar which syncs directly to the watch/gps unit).

Claude's official strava connector[1] is able to read the data (garmin -> strava -> claude), yes. But my point of view for strava is that it's not really meant to be for workouts - it's a social media to give/receive kudos and see what your friends and 'influencers' are doing (i'm not really interested). All the metrics of cadence/vertical oscilation/sleep, for example, are not synced to strava and therefore not accessible.

[0]: https://github.com/taxuspt/garmin_mcp [1]: https://claude.com/marketplace/connectors/strava

Re:The health benefits of better air on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @07:31AM (#26968176)
interesting analysis and good discussion. but did everyone succeeded on the 'not dying' thing?
Interesting and very frustrating that these kinds of studies and analysis do not reach any decision-making outcomes.

Unfortunately not only Ivermectin became politicized, but the whole Brazilian health situation. For example, 4 health ministers since the beginning of the pandemic (a military general amongst them) and an early investment in hydroxychloroquine without solid scientific proofs (while at the same time refusing to buy Pfizer vaccines).

Re:Time to regulate AI that interprets human emotions? on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @09:41AM (#26724769)
have you considered that perhaps companies and governments are together on this?ok, governments do slow down things and come up with regulations here and there (if they decide to). Imo, at the end of the day, they both play on the same team...
> He seems to have only complaints, not solutions.

I don't see his documentaries as 'his complaints', but more like a view from the current general situation we're in. I see the point of the 'no solutions', but even so, isn't it relevant to discuss and think about the problems?

> I was hoping for something meaty and meaningful to add to my existing set of ideas and tools

maybe someone else is able to come up with meaty part. Not always the problem must have the answer/alternative/solution together with it (math is like that as well, some mathematical problems stayed without solutions for decades, until someone else comes up with a clever/smarter solution to it).

that's a very nice tool... would it be possible to provide details how you did this tool? (i'd like to implement the same to my country)
was the other project also using github actions?
Re:Ask HN: Can you discuss CS in your native language? on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @08:39AM (#23390332)
ahhahahahah perfect definition :) my native language is portuguese, but i'm working in english on the German speaking part of Switzerland (where they speak swiss german). Trying to learn german and distinguish when use the english words within a German sentence is like a lottery :D
Re:Ask HN: Can you discuss CS in your native language? on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @08:34AM (#23390291)
brazilian here, we also do that in portuguese, for example, "I debugged" becomes "eu debuguei"...