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I'm digging deeper into the architecture of those open source tools—how they work under-the-hood—and not only at the superficial surface (deploying the stack and tune some parameters).
Waterfowl hunting and training my Labrador to hunt with me and retrieve my harvested game. The bond my pup and I have created in the past ~9mo training multiple times a day is incredible. I used to absolutely despise winters and now I can't wait for it to get cold, windy, and wet. I have been captivated by all aspects of waterfowl, dog training, being in nature, finding public lands accessible to me and preparing the…
Can you recommend any books or resources on training flushing? Seems a lot like herding, and it's an interest of mine.
Plenty of the techniques do bleed over (casting, retrieving commands) but I can't recommend any single program as I'm unfamiliar. What I can recommend through experience is that picking one program and sticking to it ended up helping me in the end. Studying multiple different retriever programs allowed me to try different techniques when I ran into speed bumps with my pup, but the programs will usually start doing minor things in the beginning that lead into advanced concepts in the end.
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The StrongLifts program, while still pretty good, is not for absolute beginners. The app and the website has videos and detailed instructions, but that doesn't replace a human coach being able to point out in real time mistakes in your form that you do not even realize. And if you are a beginner, any attempt to do these exercises will invariably contain so many mistakes that they are not worth doing any more. Just fi…
Sorry I don't mean to offend, but this comment rubs me entirely the wrong way. This attitude strikes me as gatekeeping and turning people away from barbell training. > mistakes in your form that you do not even realize. form is entirely overrated in lifting. There's little evidence that a particular way of moving in the gym is more or less injurious, even if it looks funny. Efficiency is another matter, but don't noc…
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…
For anyone looking to get started I highly recommend the StrongLifts program and the associated app, both free [1]. I neglected strength training for a long time because every time I tried to get started I would feel overwhelmed. Then I tried StrongLifts and loved the fact that it's just 5 exercises, but provides pretty much a full body strength workout. The guy who developed the program has put a ton of effort into…
your joints and tendons can't do their jobs properly yet and you have no feeling for your skeleton and the correct positions of shoulders, hips and spine. your nerves will get pinched and your muscles will push to grow into their genetically intended position while you will bring nerves and tendons in bad positions due to habit.
joint strength, posture, bodyweight core training, 200 bodyweight squats in two sets, 200 pushups in 4 - 6 sets, 2 - 3 min hang from bar or rope (holding it as tight as possible all the time) and be sure you can roll forward and backward and wrestle with a big dog or young and strong child for fun on the ground without hurting yourself. now you can start lifting low weights.
There is a new show on HBO called Scavengers Reign, and it's become my favorite scifi story ever. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt21056886/ It's kinda like watching Planet Earth about another ecosystem, with a strong focus on judgment-free ecology (ie there isn't good and evil, just different flora and fauna and otherwise interacting both with their normal food webs and with human outsiders). It really tickles the envir…
Having his art style come to life as animation is beyond delightful.
If you are enjoying this I also recommend Blue Eye Samurai. Both are amazing.
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Congratulations! I have about a year and a half sober. You should be proud of yourself.
Thanks :) I'm interested, do you find it a struggle as so many people do? Or did you have a similar experience to me were you aren't really that bothered about it anymore? I'm really hoping my desire to drink doesn't come back as easily as it went away.
learning to design and build mechanical joints and stuff.
will need to learn welding asap.
Print media -- seriously. There are vanishingly few types of paper-based products left besides mass-market paperbacks and a handful of soulless conglomerate-owned magazines that may disappear tomorrow. 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 newsle…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_literary_magazines http://www.erikakrousewriter.com/erika-krouses-ocd-ranking-o...
Obsessed with quite a few things right now: • diving into plant law; writing a series on plants and property • research clamping mechanisms and jigs for woodworking with handtools • sadly smitten with all the genai advancements • plotting multiple "chaos for social good" projects • trying to figure out therapists can be so attuned to feelings while staying neutral • promoting tiny blogs and the "small web": https://b…
Mental health. I recently passed out in public and had to finally admit to myself that I’m severely burnt out. I had ignored the signs and mentally written off the concept of burnout as a bit of a wishy-washy mostly “emotional” concept and not as the very real psychological AND physiological condition that doesn’t just go away if you get a good nights sleep and a day off. It was emotional to actually read up on it an…
Longhorn PHP in Austin, Texas wrapped up just a couple of days ago. One of the keynote talks was titled "Stronger Than Fear: Mental Health in the Developer Community" by Ed Finkler. It outlined why these things not only need to be talked about, but also taken seriously: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYPAGuh6Le8