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Ask HN: What Are You Learning?
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#183To sleep on my back. Being a life-long side sleeper has caused a lot of shoulder and upper back problems that sometimes make it hard for me to reach out and type. I wish I'd done this ages ago. It's one of the hardest things I've had to learn.
I had to go the other way, learn to sleep on the side because of a spinal fracture since anything else was too painful. Never went back.
Shoulders are very flexible but also extremely weak and sensitive, they should rarely be used out of neutral position. I've taught martial arts for a long time and most issues I see with people's shoulders is due to (improper) overuse.
My point is that maybe the cause of the problem isn't in bed at all. My experience says that sleeping on the side makes everything easier, from breathing to offloading the spine.
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#184To sleep on my back. Being a life-long side sleeper has caused a lot of shoulder and upper back problems that sometimes make it hard for me to reach out and type. I wish I'd done this ages ago. It's one of the hardest things I've had to learn.
I am having frozen shoulder issues for 2 months after heavy bowling. Sleeping on right shoulder gives pain. I'd like to know how are you practicing it and is there any side effect of it?
Most likely you have a jammed nerve in there somewhere, switching sleeping position isn't going to solve the problem.
I would suggest finding a good chiropractor and describing the problem.
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#185Gamedev! Last year I tried Godot and really liked what I was learning but felt like something was missing from the community or product, I wasn't really sure what. I tried Game Maker Studio 2 this year and was fascinated with how easier it was to create a prototype real quick. So I might stick with GMS2 for now.
I hope that I can meet an artist some day and participate in a game jam.
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#186Roku, and their strange world of SceneGraph and BrightScript!
It's actually quite similar to React meets Ruby or something, but without the nested dependency breakages you get with node in React. Anyway, client wanted so client gets.
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#187Antifragile by Nassim Taleb. Good stuff about randomness and how to benefit from it.
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#188Brazilian Jiu Jitsu aka BJJ. Physical problem solving under pressure.
Came here to say this. I trained for about 7 months before Covid shut everything down. I figured maybe I would just focus on lifting from here on out.
Then, 6 weeks ago someone stole my laptop from me while sitting in a cafe in San Francisco. Without thinking, I chased him down and was able to wrestle my laptop back from him. Without the BJJ, I probably would have just yelled at him. Anyway, I'm back at the BJJ studio!
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#189Lately, I have been catching up with the latest web dev tools: Wasm, React, Redux, NextJS and Serverless.
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#190I've been a private pilot for about 5 years and a couple of weeks ago I was out in crappy weather. I knew the weather would be awful and had the foresight to bring my instructor friend with me. We ended up in cloud, I handed over control to my instructor and spent the next 10 minutes wondering what I would have done if he wasn't with me (hint: not good). So I slept on it, text my instructor a couple of days later and…
And at night? Or is that another certification?
It seems like an IFR cert would be really good to have if you were up longer than intended and had to land at night.