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Post by enjeyw »

theryan wrote: post #351
hahahacorn wrote: post #344

Running. I got the bug about 12 weeks ago. I had never ran longer than 1.5 miles continuously 12 weeks ago. Now I’m planning my next Sundays long run. 12.5ish miles. Im a heavy guy. My heaviest was 270, but I’m down to 220 now. I hated running my entire life. But I finally figured out how to run pain free and now it’s the thing I look forward to everyday. It’s also tremendously rewarding to see such rapid improvement…

Any tips for running pain free? I used to run pretty often (3-5 times per week) for 5+ miles. Longest was 11. However, my feet started hurting while running -- never while walking even long distances.

Personally, I intersperse my running with Interval Training on an exercise bike: 2 minutes out of the saddle with the resistance turned up a bit, pushing as high as you can go, 1 minute of easy riding in the saddle with low resistance. Repeat 7 times.

I think it provides a few advantages to your running:

- it’s excellent cardio, so it’ll improve your VO2 max, which is hugely helpful for both running and living longer

- it’s low impact, so it gives your joints time to recover. Recovery is critical for an impact sport like running!

- the resistance builds leg strength, so it makes you more resilient on longer runs

Oh, and get a decent pair of running shoes, ideally from a store that knows what they’re talking about. Note that the best shoe for you won’t necessarily be the most expensive one - things like whether your over pronate or not are critical, so don’t go out and buy the latest carbon sole foodad just because that’s what the pro’s have.

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Post by iodbh »

monstertank wrote: post #498

I know it's a bit weird...but I'm really getting into creating my own religious style structure around modern AI programs. Originally I was interested as a concept for a story, but as an atheist who was a very devout Christian for a long time I really wondered if there is some modern twist on the structure of organised religion and replacing a traditional meta-physical source of knowledge for a real world one (or gro…

You might be interested in “chaos magic”. Writings on the topic can be out there and often heavily metaphorical, but the core idea is that one designs not only their own rituals, but also the belief systems the rituals are based upon, often per-ritual. It doesn’t take suspension or reason or “belief in magic” - ritual magic - like religion - can be viewed as the combination of a symbolic model of the world and self-conditioning through that model. It’s a subject I find fascinating and want to write about at some point.

Anyway, I’m curious about your approach and always interested in discussion about these topic, drop me a line if you’d like to discuss ! Email is my username @ my username .net

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Post by dendrite9 »

vivekd wrote: post #354

This post caught my attention because recently I met a woman I really admire. She dropped out of her computer engineering class, took a vow of celibacy and poverty and became a missionary with a Catholic sect. The reason I admire her isn't that. What caught my attention about her is that she has a sense of purpose. She has a purpose in life and has devoted her life to it. I used to have one. My goal was to make the l…

Not that I find this person's path admirable, although I don't know enough about his personal life to feel comfortable saying much more than that. But you might be interested in reading about this one time wold class climber who left his life to join a monastery and become a priest. And then left that and returned to climbing recently. His story doesn't resonate with me, but there might be something to it that grasps you. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/crack-of-des...

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Post by vaylian »

mikewarot wrote: post #530

I push capability based security relentlessly, because I see its absence as the root cause of a bunch of waste, and the cause of the loss of the war on general purpose computing. The world could be so much better if we could trust our computers. I'm scratching an itch, hoping to get a chip made to implement the biggest waste of transistors ever, per George Gilder's call. (A cartesian grid of LUTs, clocked as to avoid…

That sounds interesting. If you want to share more about the project: Is there some writeup about it?

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Post by tetris11 »

Ilasky wrote: post #371

Violin for me! Been going at it for a bit more than 3 years and have just started learning one of the Bach Sonatas. It feels great to have a direct output from effort put in. The combination of physical and concentrated mental effort leaves me feeling refreshed after a good practice.

As a child violinist, the act of approaching the violin, rosining up, and putting it under my chin fills me with dread. Too many forced practice sessions.

My siblings were raised the same way, but somehow my older sibling devised her own passion from it, independent of parental pressure and she played it much longer than I or my younger sibling did.

It's a great skill to have, and sometimes I find myself whistling old orchestra tunes that have no searchable lyrics (bzw. John Playwright's Newcastle lived in my head for 15 years before I found its name via a music contour search).

One day I will pick it up again. Without the fear or the dread, and just play for happiness.

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Post by shyn3 »

vivekd wrote: post #354

This post caught my attention because recently I met a woman I really admire. She dropped out of her computer engineering class, took a vow of celibacy and poverty and became a missionary with a Catholic sect. The reason I admire her isn't that. What caught my attention about her is that she has a sense of purpose. She has a purpose in life and has devoted her life to it. I used to have one. My goal was to make the l…

Don't be too dismayed. They get a credit card with an unlimited spending account.

Also, see my post history about acts. It may help you see the trees instead of the forest.

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Post by dendrite9 »

rchaud wrote: post #443
andremendes wrote: post #69

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>Just like there are small farming collectives out there, I'd love for there to be micro-magazines and short stories on paper, made cheaply and distributed to small mailing lists with a single stamp (not an email newsletter!). PDF versions available for long-distance readers. You seem to be describing what I've known (since forever) by "Zine"[¹] [¹]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zine

Yeah that's what I was thinking of. Are there semi-professional zine publications out there? I checked out Etsy but the stuff there was not really to my taste.

Do you have any decent local bookstores nearby? You might be surprised at the variety of magazines they have once you skim past the usual options. I've seen all sorts of niche publications, including zines. Most are not for me, but that isn't a problem since there is usually something that catches my eye.

You might find something that grabs you from the list of exhibitors here: https://www.seattleartbookfair.org/Exhibitors Or look for similar events and check out who attends.

I like reading about food, so places like Omnivore books have specialty books or magazines that are not just recipe books. Though I do like cookbooks. https://omnivorebooks.myshopify.com/

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Post by edanm »

nevster wrote: post #364

I created a booktube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@NevsBookChannel I'd been writing reviews on Goodreads for years so it was kind of a logical next step. Also have found it interesting to learn how to edit videos and improve my confidence in speaking. PS there is a review of Gerald Weinberg's "Are Your Lights On?" in there, so it's tangentially related to coding. Currently reading Code Complete.

Oh awesome, subscribed and will be watching some videos from the backlog :)

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Post by seige »

Solving men's issues, particularly friendship for middle aged men, developing hobbies outside the purview of providership, infrastructure and tools for fighting addiction of all kinds and mental fitness. I think a lot about what a modern day men's magazine would look like, and what sort of platforms or tools could exist in service of men's emotional well being.

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Post by latchkey »

beachy wrote: post #374
winrid wrote: post #362

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your site flashes and loads content for like 10 seconds for me. the content just keeps moving up and down...

Is it possible you have first party cookies disabled? On your first visit we need to run some JS (apparently the only way to get the user timezone). We store that in your session and then redirect you so we can show availability in your timezone. If first party cookies are disabled then there will be no session and the page will loop. (Open to suggestions on better TZ handling - other than rewriting as an SPA :)

When you loop at least set a query string counter and stop after 3 times. You can then display a note to the user that they need to enable first party cookies.
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