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Ask HN: How are you holding up?
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Re: Ask HN: How are you holding up?
#392Would you please stop the karma-farming spam schemes? You're wasting your time. We ban such accounts and the sites that they try to promote here, and karma doesn't help. The comments in this thread are fine.
Sorry, if my post upsets you. And sorry i'm not a spammer. C
Re: Ask HN: How are you holding up?
#393Really badly, but could be worse. I am entirely sure that I have moderate-serious depression since the lock down started. I rely entirely on external structure and physical separation of spaces to keep myself sane. So WFH has been disastrous for me. I have been eating worse, not working out, stopped pursuing hobbies/side projects and have been incredibly unproductive at work. Thankfully, a year of good results prior…
We too in a bad situation right now and feel sorry for you. Stay strong man.
Re: Ask HN: How are you holding up?
#394Earlier quoted context omitted.
tell me more about your skipping-for-exercise routine
Buy a good skipping rope, should be heavy. Do maximum sets of skipping that you can. I started with 100. Because I used to do Yoga for 40min daoly, used to cycle 72km once a week, so I had built that stamina. You can start with sets. Sets of 10/30 whatever suits you. Weekly, either increase the set count or the speed of jumping For eg, I used to do 100 in 1min. Yesterday I did 100 in 29seconds! I am also doing skippi…
Thanks for the deets :)
I was under the impression you were using skipping-locomotion as exercise, rather than running or skipping rope. I was wondering if that was a thing... skipping for exercise.
Re: Ask HN: How are you holding up?
#395Earlier quoted context omitted.
Buy a good skipping rope, should be heavy. Do maximum sets of skipping that you can. I started with 100. Because I used to do Yoga for 40min daoly, used to cycle 72km once a week, so I had built that stamina. You can start with sets. Sets of 10/30 whatever suits you. Weekly, either increase the set count or the speed of jumping For eg, I used to do 100 in 1min. Yesterday I did 100 in 29seconds! I am also doing skippi…
Thanks for the deets :) I was under the impression you were using skipping-locomotion as exercise, rather than running or skipping rope. I was wondering if that was a thing... skipping for exercise.
Oh no. I didn't even know we could do that :D
Re: Ask HN: How are you holding up?
#396Earlier quoted context omitted.
Most surprising thing it: users on HN seem to love this "Facebook kinda content", counting the replies.
There's a bit of survivorship bias in there because a lot of such posts go nowhere. But the community does respond strongly to opportunities to personally share. The main reason it works, though, is that it's relatively uncommon. If it were a big slice of the pie people would get bored and complain.
> survivorship bias
Makes a lot of sense, thanks.
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#397Earlier quoted context omitted.
Are you me? Seriously hit all the nails on the head for me. Except my country is not yet currently at war. And I used to go out social dancing and that is basically dead until next year most likely. I ruined two coffees the other day. Put too much peppermint oil in and screwed it up. And then I let my coffee friend screw with my grinder/machine settings and it got hosed. ugh. I really recommend getting a workout budd…
Hey, quick question about your coffee – why do you add peppermint oil? And how much do you add? I'm always looking to improve my coffee routine or try new things out. Currently I'm on an iced cold-brew trend because the place I'm in has been in a 40+°C heatwave for the last 5ish days.
I don't have it down yet. I just switched to vanilla to try out. Roomate used to work at BlueBottle. Told me that you really want to stay away from extracts, theyd infuse their own simple syrups with vanilla beans.
I think peppermint oil should work. Would be better if I used peppermint simple syrup I think tho. just more surface area.
Iced coffee might not matter if you're doing a lot of milk tho!
Have you tried making your own overnight cold brews yet?
Re: Ask HN: How are you holding up?
#398Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hey, quick question about your coffee – why do you add peppermint oil? And how much do you add? I'm always looking to improve my coffee routine or try new things out. Currently I'm on an iced cold-brew trend because the place I'm in has been in a 40+°C heatwave for the last 5ish days.
I don't have it down yet. I just switched to vanilla to try out. Roomate used to work at BlueBottle. Told me that you really want to stay away from extracts, theyd infuse their own simple syrups with vanilla beans. I think peppermint oil should work. Would be better if I used peppermint simple syrup I think tho. just more surface area. Iced coffee might not matter if you're doing a lot of milk tho! Have you tried mak…
Yeah, I've been making my own! I just have it black, though – no milk or sugar. It's just something nice to sip on in the morning without having to wait for it to cool. I might try adding vanilla or something to it to switch things up a bit.