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Re: Ask HN: What are you passionate about at the moment?

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Post by Aachen » Tue, Nov 07, 2023, 1:23 PM UTC

davidw wrote: post #281

sjmulder wrote: post #204

Small city council politics :( there's a lot of resistance against a new temporary housing project for Ukrainian refugees with many legit concerns, and some NIMBY, but also xenophobia and racism. It's tough but we've been able to start a YIMBY group and encouraging people and organisations to make public comments or send letters of support. A good few didn't dare because they feared reactions, and rightfully so, beca…

YIMBY politics is where it's at for me too. My city has a housing crisis. My best friend here got forced out by the prices. It's different from software... so slow to get things done. But also really rewarding to see housing get built and policies allowing different, more affordable kinds of housing to be built. We just re-legalized SRO's here!

What's an SRO for the nonamericans here?

Re: Ask HN: What are you passionate about at the moment?

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Post by SeriousM » Tue, Nov 07, 2023, 1:23 PM UTC

latchkey wrote: post #541

SeriousM wrote: post #525

Context: Father of two girls, Husband, Dev for 20 years. - Breathing: fuel yourself with fresh energy out of thin air. The Wim Hof Method (WHM) really just changed my entire life. I found finally a method to stabilise my bio-rythm aka constant up-and-downs. - Cold Showers: In combination with WHM it's one of my biggest physical improvements. I was always the guy who complains a cold climate. Now it just doesn't matte…

> I don't get sick as easy How would you know?

Beeing in my late 30ies I know my body pretty well and also track my health status. Having two kids in school/kindergarden I'm also exposed to all kinds of viruses and diseases. The years before I was constantly more or less sick but now I didn't even got a cold even my surroundings got it.

Re: Ask HN: What are you passionate about at the moment?

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Post by gadders » Tue, Nov 07, 2023, 1:23 PM UTC

bodhi_mind wrote: post #321

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.

5/3/1 is good, but it's not a novice programme. It's more intermediate. I started on 5/3/1 and did OK but would have got stronger faster at the start of my lifting if I had followed the Novice Linear Progression in Starting Strength.

https://startingstrength.com/get-started/programs

One the "newbie (strength) gains" are tapped out though 5/3/1 is an excellent programme.

Re: Ask HN: What are you passionate about at the moment?

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Post by 0xfedbee » Tue, Nov 07, 2023, 1:24 PM UTC

sjmulder wrote: post #204

Small city council politics :( there's a lot of resistance against a new temporary housing project for Ukrainian refugees with many legit concerns, and some NIMBY, but also xenophobia and racism. It's tough but we've been able to start a YIMBY group and encouraging people and organisations to make public comments or send letters of support. A good few didn't dare because they feared reactions, and rightfully so, beca…

If you’re in Germany, please stop.

Re: Ask HN: What are you passionate about at the moment?

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Post by gadders » Tue, Nov 07, 2023, 1:24 PM UTC

itake wrote: post #341

bodhi_mind wrote: post #321

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I tried 5/3/1 in college and I after week 4, I felt like you need to be juicing to keep up with it.

What were you eating? Were you trying to stay lean at the same time?

Re: Ask HN: What are you passionate about at the moment?

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Post by v-erne » Tue, Nov 07, 2023, 1:25 PM UTC

xedrac wrote: post #217

- Playing with my kids - Health & Fitness (lose your health and you have nothing) - Electric scooters (so fun!) - Hiking - Reading more books - Playing more Chess - Keyboard layouts - Baking - Penny whistle

>> Health & Fitness (lose your health and you have nothing)

And I'm guessing first step here will be getting rid of scooter? :)

Only half joking here - health and two wheelers, especially ones with engine, does not combine greatly.

I know personally three people that had serious life changing accidents driving motorbikes, I was a witness to two serious crashes (guess who get out of them without a scratch - the one on bike or the one in car).

Even I had serious bike accident that damaged my health quite greatly. It may be just me getting older - but I seriously am afraid of using any kind of two wheeler in any traffic.

Re: Ask HN: What are you passionate about at the moment?

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Post by scetron » Tue, Nov 07, 2023, 1:25 PM UTC

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.

I'm pretty passionate about running and I think that there are a few things that you can try: making sure you are stretching after your run, especially calves, legs, and feet. Getting a foam roller can be helpful as well. If it's a specific type of pain, it could be due to footwear or gait so you could also try switching up your shoes perhaps.

Re: Ask HN: What are you passionate about at the moment?

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Post by gadders » Tue, Nov 07, 2023, 1:28 PM UTC

candiddevmike wrote: post #323

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?

It's dangerous if you get really strong and keeping pushing the envelope, but at "gen pop" levels if your form is good, you use safeties, get a spotter where needed etc you should be fine.

Re: Ask HN: What are you passionate about at the moment?

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Post by pawelduda » Tue, Nov 07, 2023, 1:29 PM UTC

politelemon wrote: post #18

Games. I've been forcing myself into productivity for too long because that is the thing to do. I recently built a gaming pc, picked some jrpgs, and I'm having a blast. There are entire franchises and worlds for the exploring. There are amazing rich stories and history and beautiful soundtracks that I'm living through right now. My wishlist grows by the day as I discover new tales.

Yes! 2023 was one of the best years by amount of well-received games in a long time and I can't agree enough. Some people will disagree but I think it's a very cheap hobby too, you can get dozens if not hundreds of hours for the same price as semi-expensive dinner at a restaurant. Many of games I played are pure art and I admire all the hard work that goes into making them. I cringe when people dismiss gaming as a childish hobby and then proudly say how they binged a netflix show, or did some similar activity for "real grown ups (TM)"

Re: Ask HN: What are you passionate about at the moment?

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Post by Aachen » Tue, Nov 07, 2023, 1:29 PM UTC

stcroixx wrote: post #438

Aaronstotle wrote: post #199

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As I've gotten older its rare for me to enjoy games, I can't seem to play for more than 15 minutes before wanting to turn it off/feel like I'm bored.

As I get older, game controls just get too complex for me to enjoy casually. Way too many combinations of stuff to remember. NES is most fun - 2 buttons and a d-pad.

What age range is 'older' here?

Controls have gotten easier in my experience, at least on anything made for a mainstream audience. Recently it came up on a podcast with a game reviewer among the hosts that games nowadays seem to all have a setting where enemies can be beaten by looking at them angrily and how it's basically story mode at that setting, and how much that's doing for inclusivity and how many non-gamers they've seen play/enjoy such-and-such game.

More anecdotal, my partner started playing hogwarts a few days ago and wanted to set it to easy. The default was normal, and there's also "story mode" and "hard" available at opposite ends of the spectrum. She's terrible with wasd+mouse (her own words, but I concur) and wanted to go for easy but I encouraged her to go with the default setting, figuring that'll be balanced to be enjoyable for Harry Potter fans (who are book nerds, not necessarily gamers). So far, she's managed to beat everything in one try!

I'm surprised you experience the opposite