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#852Preserving family moments with a 35mm film camera and the attachment an analog photograph engenders vs. digital. After seeing a friend with young kids post candid photos of his family for the last few years, I decided to give it a try. Purchased a Retina IIIc rangefinder camera (from the 1950s, preceded SLRs) and it's one of the most amazing purely mechanical, consumer-focused engineered products I've held in my hand…
Me too! I started shooting with a Canon AE-1 and am absolutely loving it so far.
It’s definitely an expensive hobby considering the price of film, processing and high quality scanning - but still I love the process. Maybe since it is slow and you can still easily make mistakes shooting film. Makes me think a lot more about them somehow, very wholesome hobby to have.
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Have a look at recover athletics [1], recently bought by Strava, which allows you to specify where the pain is and they give you strength exercises to help strength surrounding areas which will put a stop to the pain. You get pain through muscle overuse and the best way to fix it is to strengthen up. Running is pretty tough on your muscles and tendons, especially if you are not used to it, you ramp up volume too quic…
Do you have any good strength exercises for anterior pelvic tilt? I have to and I’d like to correct it as I am also a heavy guy who recently started running.
Sure. The anterior tilt is typically caused by short hip flexors and weak glutes/hamstrings to pull the pelvis back into a level position. I'd suggest:
1. Loosening up the hip flexors. There are quite a few good stretches you can do for this. Try these first: https://recoverathletics.com/best_exercises_for_tight_hip_fl...
2. Strengthen up the glutes. Try these: https://recoverathletics.com/the-best-exercises-to-strengthe... and https://strengthrunning.com/2019/04/glute-strengthening-for-...
Before you run, try some "glute activation" exercises to get them fired up and working properly before you begin your session. Doing a few single leg glute bridges is probably enough to get them going. Single leg dead lifts are also good, I find.
When you are running, try to focus on keeping the glutes engaged as this will keep the hips from tilting forward. You can feel when you hips are level because your body will feel much more stable - especially when running over rough ground - and you'll feel the power coming from the glutes much more.
Best of luck!
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#854Running. 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…
I went through a similar transformation, being overweight and not being able to run a mile without losing my breath. I broke through the really steep climb by applying BJ Fogg's Tiny Habits method to my daily runs, celebrating small wins with visualization. Within 3 years, I successfully finished the Lake Placid marathon, then the year after I completed the Philadelphia marathon. I was still overweight when I ran these. My goal was to complete 26.2, and I did, yet my finish time was 5hr+. In hindsight, I would have been stronger had I gotten the weight down to an ideal level before race day. Finishing the race, even if you walk-run the last couple of miles, is still a major achievement. Don't downplay your achievement based on finish time. If anything, a 5hr+ is even harder because you've run for a longer time while carrying a heavier body.
I don't have time in my life for taking long runs on weekends but enjoy thinking about when I did. The entire day revolves around the morning long run and then basically being unproductive for the rest of the day, and that's a luxury I can't afford. I began running regularly in 2009 and continue to this day, although I've had some setbacks due to running-related injury. I've run through Summer thunderstorms and winter snow. I love being outside in nature.
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strength training helps a lot in preventing injuries. I've been through years of achilles tendonitis and finally got rid of it mostly by doing leg/calf strength exercises. Fwiw, here's some example exercises for Achilles: https://routineshub.com/public/1faae50e-8d36-4eec-84ee-ae3ef...
thank you for this. I've been dealing with plantar fasciitis for a year+, finally got it to go away ~5 months ago and got back into running, and just in the last 2 weeks have noticed gradually increasing pain in my achilles and I'm absolutely devastated at the thought of battling another chronic injury.
custom orthotics from a podiatrist may help address plantar fascitis
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I'd be surprised if you hadn't already read it, but just in case, this audio version of Mere Christianity is my absolute favorite: https://www.audible.com/pd/Mere-Christianity-Audiobook/B00JP... I also really enjoyed One Year Bible with Bill Creasy. It doesn't get too academic, which may be a downside if that's what you're looking for, but I found him to be very engaging: https://www.audible.com/pd/One-Year-Bible-Aud…
Mere Christianity is trash. Couldn't even get through the first chapter because he calls out atheism almost immediately and basically says it's not even worth discussing because it's stupid and not an actual philosophy, which just strikes me as pure intellectual laziness, especially in a book about religion. Avoid, especially if you're an atheist trying to approach religion.
I don't remember it, though I think it's a stretch to say that Lewis of all people was lazy or incurious about atheism.
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What model did you end up using? And what system did you do it in? My immediate guess on how to model it would be to create reified constraints for the wordlists of different lengths (the constraints in chapter 22 of https://www.gecode.org/doc-latest/MPG.pdf ). For each square, use standard logical constraints to check if it is the start of a word (previous square a black one, this square not a black one), and how lo…
The problem mentioned in the Gecode documentation example is different than the one I solve. In their case, they start with a WxH grid with known black square positions, and their model essentially answers the following question: "Given a crossword grid template and word list, does there exist a feasible assignment of words for the template?" I my case, the black square positions are unknown, so the question instead…
Just saw that it looks like an upcoming release of OR-Tools might include reified tables: https://github.com/google/or-tools/commit/94f3d9b46870e7ea04...
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#858Earlier quoted context omitted.
Mere Christianity is trash. Couldn't even get through the first chapter because he calls out atheism almost immediately and basically says it's not even worth discussing because it's stupid and not an actual philosophy, which just strikes me as pure intellectual laziness, especially in a book about religion. Avoid, especially if you're an atheist trying to approach religion.
I don't remember it, though I think it's a stretch to say that Lewis of all people was lazy or incurious about atheism.
It's the very beginning of "Book Two" of Mere Christianity. Not only were his direct quotes about atheism just generally terrible, his logical argument about atheism was equally terrible. I'm genuinely surprised he's hailed as this great theologian or philosopher when he can't piece together a simple argument about theism vs. atheism. Like truly, these arguments in Book Two sound like some teenager in a youth group wrote them.
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#859I 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.
nothing worth sharing yet, just got things up and running last week after much analysis paralysis.
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#860The following open research problem. Given an undirected graph G with two vertices s and t, the task is to determine whether there is an undirected path connecting s and t which is simple (no repeated vertices) and has length divisible by 3. It is not known whether this problem is NP-hard, or whether it can be solved in polynomial time; apparently the question is open since the early 90s. (The problem is also open fo…
done: https://chat.openai.com/share/c8bc7305-6c75-4194-8753-b319d6...
Yes, ChatGPT is really bad at those things...