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The Animal Is Tired

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Re: The Animal Is Tired

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Post by ChrisMarshallNY »

yamrzou wrote: post #66
Swizec wrote: post #32

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> My animal is only 33 and is very tired In life satisfaction surveys, your 30’s are the most miserable stressful part of life. Highest amount of responsibilities, lowest amount of consistent reward, and it keeps getting worse until your 40’s Apparently it gets better again in your late 40’s and early 50’s. By 60 you’re as happy as you were at 20. https://www.inc.com/jeff-haden/scientists-just-discovered-mi... (am 33…

Thanks, that's a bit relieving.

I'm 59, and pretty darn happy.

I get aches and pains from everything, though. My back is still aching from weeding a week and a half ago.

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Post by dilippkumar »

autarch wrote: post #33

Robin Hobb is one of my favorite authors. Her masterwork is a series of series (four trilogies and a quadrology) known as The Realm of the Elderlings. She published the first trilogy, which begins with Assassin's Apprentice, starting in 1995. I saw the books when they first came out and I assumed from the title and the cover that it would be a cheesy fantasy by the numbers, so I never bought it. But I kept hearing ab…

> While this is epic fantasy, it's _not_ at all grimdark. Bad things definitely happen, but it's more hopeful and humane than something like Malazan or Song of Ice and Fire.

I will always read anything recommend by a person who uses Malazan as a benchmark.

Purchasing this book right now.

Re: The Animal Is Tired

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Post by ryantgtg »

autarch wrote: post #33

Robin Hobb is one of my favorite authors. Her masterwork is a series of series (four trilogies and a quadrology) known as The Realm of the Elderlings. She published the first trilogy, which begins with Assassin's Apprentice, starting in 1995. I saw the books when they first came out and I assumed from the title and the cover that it would be a cheesy fantasy by the numbers, so I never bought it. But I kept hearing ab…

The link isn’t loading for me right now, so I’ll just add to the appreciation for Hobb. I’m currently reading book 13 (4th in the Rain Wild Chronicles). They’re all great!

I picked up The Assassin’s Apprentice while looking for something to fill the Rothfuss void. I was instantly hooked. The tone and the pace was just right for me. I really like that they are so character-driven, deeply exploring the characters’ emotions, history, flaws, etc. And she’s great at having the plot build and build until basically everything is going wrong, and then she delivers a super satisfying ending.

I usually take a short break between each tril, but I might just go straight into her last batch after I finish this book.

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Post by ketzo »

im3w1l wrote: post #60
nradov wrote: post #43

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The actual studies show there is a J-shaped curve relationship between endurance sports training and long term health. Most people in affluent societies are way over on the left side of the curve and could improve long term functioning through more exercise. The risks for chronic problems like heart scarring, arterial calcification, and musculoskeletal injuries only start to increase once you get over about 20 hours…

Why don't they last long after becoming bedridden?

Your body really isn't meant to stay horizontal 23+ hours/day, and that's what many elderly people are reduced to after a bad fall.

Bed sores develop very quickly, and an elderly immune system often simply isn't equipped to fight them. Gangrene and amputations are extremely common in end-of-life care.

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Post by CryptoPunk »

Humanity needs to put a few hundred billion dollars a year into basic medical research, and in particular, in anti-aging research.

It could lead to advances that save orders of magnitude more lives, and add orders of magnitude more disability-free life years, than everything that is achieved by all the spending on healthcare taking place right now worldwide.

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Post by notacoward »

bgdkbtv wrote: post #18
Jyaif wrote: post #9

> unable to find a comfortable position for sleep Could this problem be solved with an advanced motorized bed that allows you to configure the surface on which you rest?

I think it is just to do with restlessness, and not the bed. When you are proper tired you can fall asleep anywhere in any position.

Only if you're using "proper tired" to mean exhausted. Restlessness does not only come from not being tired yet. It's entirely possible to be very very tired and yet restless. It happens to toddlers, it happens to older people, it happens to people with all sorts of medical conditions. Trying to keep going until exhaustion outweighs all those other issues is really hard on the body and mind. Waking up with tingling extremities, stressed muscles and joints, or even permanent nerve damage because you slept in a bad position isn't so great either.

Maybe tiredness, relaxation, and ability to sleep are all in sync for you. Good for you. I remember when I could have said the same, but I never made the mistake of assuming that my experience was everyone else's.

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Post by TedDoesntTalk »

rubicon33 wrote: post #55
maxqin1 wrote: post #25

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> good food Everyone thinks they eat good food. Food is the number one physical measurable input into our bodies. So it boggles my mind that nutrition isn't the most studied subject, alongside maybe the study of living a fulfilling life. Changing my eating habits has changed my life for the better. It took kidney stones (not recommended) to get me here. But even my most obese and unhealthy friends like to proudly tel…

> Everyone thinks they eat good food. Yes, probably including you. I am very aware of things like cooked spinach v.s. non cooked spinach. I pay close attention to what I eat, and make an effort not to fall into the traps of fad diets. I eat a whole foods based, well rounded diet, that avoids known "gotchas" like aforementioned raw spinach. Oxalate are found in many of other "healthy" foods. I'm also very lean, but st…

> that avoids known "gotchas" like aforementioned raw spinach

Serious question: what is wrong with raw spinach because I eat it all the time

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Post by Nition »

Stratoscope wrote: post #67
clcaev wrote: post #24

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I just plead to my fellow developers to stay well under 80 columns... my largest monitor in a readable font can fit 77 characters wide.

Word wrap and proportional fonts are your friend. Contrary to what many developers believe, coding in a proportional font can be quite practical and enjoyable. And it fits a lot more horizontal text on the screen for the same visual font size. There are some exceptions, of course, such as code dealing with bit patterns or matrices where you want things to align vertically. But for most of the code most of us read and…

I kinda wish there was a version of Fira Sans with the ligatures from Fira Code.

I code with a monospaced front right now, but I agree with you that there's rarely a serious need for it, and proportional can be easier to read.

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Post by algorias »

kjsthree wrote: post #58
rubicon33 wrote: post #55

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> Everyone thinks they eat good food. Yes, probably including you. I am very aware of things like cooked spinach v.s. non cooked spinach. I pay close attention to what I eat, and make an effort not to fall into the traps of fad diets. I eat a whole foods based, well rounded diet, that avoids known "gotchas" like aforementioned raw spinach. Oxalate are found in many of other "healthy" foods. I'm also very lean, but st…

Wait, what’s this about raw spinach?

Spinach famously contains iron, but less famously also contains a substance that inhibits iron absorption. So IIRC, it actually lowers your iron, unless you blanch it and throw away the water.

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Post by rubicon33 »

kjsthree wrote: post #58
rubicon33 wrote: post #55

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> Everyone thinks they eat good food. Yes, probably including you. I am very aware of things like cooked spinach v.s. non cooked spinach. I pay close attention to what I eat, and make an effort not to fall into the traps of fad diets. I eat a whole foods based, well rounded diet, that avoids known "gotchas" like aforementioned raw spinach. Oxalate are found in many of other "healthy" foods. I'm also very lean, but st…

Wait, what’s this about raw spinach?

Raw spinach, some nuts like cashews, and other raw health foods can be high in oxalic acid. This is something of an anti-nutrient, which at best tends to reduce absorption of nutrients and at worst can build up in the kidneys and cause kidney stones.

As with all diet data though, YMMV. Some people eat loads of yaw spinach and never develop kidney stones.

Certainly if you have a familiar history of them, you should avoid raw spinach. Cooking it reduces the oxalates.

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