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Post by bodhi_mind »

nwiswell wrote: post #284

Powerlifting. Solitary and meditative if you want it to be; social and uplifting if you don't. It's healthy in a variety of ways (including bone density; physical activity; higher BMR and glucose metabolism; improved cardiovascular function). Also being strong is useful surprisingly often. Unlike many things in life, your progress is almost entirely dependent on your consistency and the effort invested, with the exce…

I just began the 5/3/1 strength training method. I’d like to use gymnastic rings for most of my accessory work to try and get a nice balance of strength and flexibility.

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Post by rustyboy »

solarpunk wrote: post #21

I am crazy about bare metal kubernetes clusters and gitops. I'm trying to document the process of setting one up in such a way that I can do a teach in for my friends at my local hackerspace. In the process I've determined I would like to write my own k8s enabled application (likely a daemonset for checking for a specific hardware device and configuration on each bare metal node, and storing that data in a way for k8…

do you have any reading material on that? I just finished a two month deep dive into kubernetes for work and i'm really curious on what's next.

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Post by candiddevmike »

nwiswell wrote: post #284

Powerlifting. Solitary and meditative if you want it to be; social and uplifting if you don't. It's healthy in a variety of ways (including bone density; physical activity; higher BMR and glucose metabolism; improved cardiovascular function). Also being strong is useful surprisingly often. Unlike many things in life, your progress is almost entirely dependent on your consistency and the effort invested, with the exce…

Powerlifting can be very dangerous. You can really, permanently, mess up your body, specifically your back and neck. What steps do you take to mitigate that risk?

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Post by nwiswell »

probablynish wrote: post #312
nwiswell wrote: post #284

Powerlifting. Solitary and meditative if you want it to be; social and uplifting if you don't. It's healthy in a variety of ways (including bone density; physical activity; higher BMR and glucose metabolism; improved cardiovascular function). Also being strong is useful surprisingly often. Unlike many things in life, your progress is almost entirely dependent on your consistency and the effort invested, with the exce…

> Unlike many things in life, your progress is almost entirely dependent on your consistency and the effort invested This really resonates with me. Not powerlifting myself, but I have a strength training routine at the gym with the goal of improving my right knee pain. I have to take things very slow (increase by 1 rep each session, up the weight every ~2 weeks by the smallest possible increment) but looking at my gr…

> This little corner of my life feels a lot more under my control than anything else right now

Yes that's exactly it! It's something of a refuge from whatever other chaos I'm dealing with. I get to feel good about trying and even better about succeeding.

The body is incredibly resilient, and given enough stimulus and patient consistency, it's pretty amazing how strong average people are capable of becoming.

I'm reminded of this quote from Socrates:

"No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeking the beauty and strength of which his body is capable."

I am not young anymore, but I'm not old, either, and I've come to the conclusion it's certainly better to start late than to never discover my limits at all.

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Post by unlikelytomato »

mortallywounded wrote: post #308

Three things at the moment: 1. Improving my health / fitness. 2. Learning Korean. 3. Financial freedom through my business (currently growth has flattened...).

What motivates you to learn Korean? I have been doing this recently too. I find it very slow to learn for me in my 30's

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Post by FFP999 »

Tao3300 wrote: post #290
lcall wrote: post #117

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> converting gendered restrooms to all-gender restrooms (with or without permission) I believe, for a long list of reasons, that families with stably married mother/father are the best way to preserve humanity and that they are most stable without wandering eyes. Avoiding having wandering eyes, or wandering loyalties, in turn, is helped when we make it easier for people to manage and direct sexual attraction to keep…

Mike Johnson is on HN?

What's he posting with, a quill?

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Post by zaptheimpaler »

Biology and bioinformatics. I've been reading about medicine and biology for a while now and want to get more serious. It's just such a huge fascinating field with a lot we don't know.

For now I completed one course on Coursera and am planning on finishing the specialization with 6-7 courses. Also trying to learn some statistics going through ISLR on the side.

I considered grad school as well but I don't have much of a shot. So I've been applying to software roles at biotech companies to break in that way. I'll make my own grad school with free online resources:)

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Post by FFP999 »

capableweb wrote: post #285
FFP999 wrote: post #106

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't know what "chaos for social good" is supposed to be, but I am intrigued. Would you care to expand on that?

Something I guess kind of fits with this is doing seed-bombs, we used to do that a bit when I was young. You basically forcefully plant colorful flowers in places that are not so colorful. Coolest thing we managed to get the flowers growing at was a roof where you could just barely see flowers on the top corner of the building.

I remember those! Maybe I'll start throwing some around in a few months when the time is ripe.

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Post by tommychillfiger »

appplication wrote: post #230

I just downloaded Ableton Live and it’s been a blast playing with it. Similarly, I finally understand how modular synths work and it’s basically just functional programming with sound. I haven’t bought any modulars yet but I’m really looking forward to getting into it in the new year. Music production is very cool and I can’t wait to learn more.

I did audio production for about 10 years before pivoting into tech, ha! Live sound for work, but I'm also a musician so I've spent my fair share of time with Logic Pro. It's funny because I also want to dig more into synths, I've always been a guitarist and have thus far only used soft synths mostly due to not having the money to play with nicer equipment. Now that I make good money, I haven't found time to circle back to it. Very high on my wish list is a nice analog synth and maybe a physical sequencer. I find that what happens to me is the futzing around with the DAW gets between my idea and getting it recorded - I've done some solid work at getting channel strip settings and templates built out to minimize this, but at the end of the day I need some more equipment. It really is a ton of fun, though. It's as broad and deep as you want to make it, not unlike software more generally.

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Post by robomartin »

Energy efficiency and optimization through out of the box technology, hardware and software solutions.

This is the focus of my latest venture. Market is global. Our first installation went online earlier this year. All self-funded so far. Working on raising a round to scale.

Fully deployed, in the US alone, we can free-up enough energy to support over 30 million electric vehicles without having to build a single new power plant of any kind.

Yes, applied to YC multiple times as we were developing the technology. Rejected every time. My guess is that the combination of an older solo founder and a complex hardware/software model just didn't pass the filters. I get it. Hardware is hard. We are past the YC level of startup funding at this stage (need ~$5MM), so that's no longer an option.

Still in stealth.

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