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agree with you on this.
you already see that playing out with Meta and a LOT of companies in China.
whatever happened to "never go full retard"?
talk about being out of touch.
I'm down to try and use AI to enhance processes and encourage people to do that, but making it part of performance reviews is just silly.
Very often, when I switch input keyboards between English/Mandarin, the popup that appears to indicate the selected language just won't go away automatically. I have to manually go and click somewhere to get rid of it. Also had loads of issues with notifications not rendering correctly.
When I talk to people it seems that they all have this concern, I doubt it's something that can be changed drastically in the short term.
But this is basically the same story everywhere. Living costs are really high. Add children to the mix and how do you manage?
If I put my pessimist hat on, it's just a matter of time till the same happens in Europe/US.
Heck, I already see friends in Ireland and UK struggling with that and they are all high earners.
> The 2024 figure is a 5 per cent drop from the previous year and the lowest since records began during Japan’s Meiji era in 1899.
But I am glad we now have more paid options available. Tooling is important and people that do good work should be able to charge for high quality tools.
I would be much happier in a world full of tools licensed like Sublime Text, where I can purchase a license and just run it without the need to constantly phone home though.
it's totally fair to charge for work you've done. the fact it's simple is irrelevant. what matters is the value it brings to the user.
That would have prevented a bad driver from taking down a device.
Even with a full-sized VR headset I'd be willing to spring for it.
Just schedule the work you need to do and have some standards for yourself and keep working on it.
If you feel tired after a while you can train yourself to push through it if you really want to. Anyone who's ever run, lifted weights, done martial arts, etc, will tell you your real limit is well beyond your feelings.
If you're still tired, take a break, get a tea or a coffee and just go back to work.
The secret to get work done is to just sit down and do the work. Get used to being bored.
That said, it’s freaking exhausting how these dumb actions keep being taken by governments all over the world.
It seems like every month there’s some new crap going on
Stripe, Square, Microsoft, Google, etc will all pay more in Ireland than they pay in any other EU country.
The problem with Ireland is that you will get no real benefit from the taxes you pay.
If you have family, you'll probably be better off moving to Germany or the Netherlands. There are some serious tax benefits for couples and parents. You will not get that in Ireland.
Specifically, someone close to me left Meta Dublin and moved to Google Berlin and had more money (post taxes) in Germany despite a significant TC cut.
If you don't care about EU, Switzerland. High cost of living but Meta, Google, and Nvidia will offer a salary comparable to the US and lower taxes than the rest of Europe.
# On rest intervals
His description is pretty spot on. The rest times mostly affect the amount of volume you can do (volume is generally defined as #reps x #sets, though I prefer #reps x #sets x weight).
That's actually something really useful to know because it allows you to get the required stimulus when you are in an inadequate situation.
For example, imagine someone generally trains their legs with barbell back squats and hacks squats. The weight would be fairly high for those lifts. But if you find yourself in a situation where you don't have access or can't use those lifts (injury), you can leverage the lower rest periods to hammer the shit out of your quads with leg extensions or lunges and get the stimulus you need.
It doesn't mean you should only do that though.
It's pretty well accepted that at some point movements become "stale": your body doesn't recover that well after performing the same movement for long periods (e.g. >6 months), so you need to rotate them out. Not because "the muscle got used to it", but because your joints are aching.
Again, understanding how to manipulate rest periods can aid in this rotation.
Another thing is time availability. Doing squats and resting 5 minutes might be fine for muscle growth, but you only have so much time you can spend at the gym. So you need to balance that out as well when you are training.
# On training frequency
Nothing to say there, targeting a muscle more than once a week is pretty much a given.
Even ignoring the need for frequent growth stimuli, you can reason about hitting the same body part multiple times a week this way: Say your chest max recoverable volume (MRV) is around 15 hard (0-3 reps from failure) sets a week.
If you only train chest once a week, how good can your chest session possibly be when you have to do so much work?
0-3 reps from failure is extremely hard. If you do 4 sets on the incline bench, 4 sets on the flat bench, you still got another 7 sets to go on other exercises. The accumulated fatigue throughout the session makes it highly unlikely you'll really be able to push your chest significantly for the remaining sets.
Why not split your training between 2 sessions? 8 sets on one day, and then another 7 sets later in the week.
You'll get much higher quality sessions like that because fatigue won't be crushing you.
# On training intensity / failure
Again, nothing revelatory there. It's well accepted that you want to train close to failure but not necessarily go to failure.
That's why auto-regulated training talks about 0-3 reps in reserve (RIR).
I've alluded to this in the previous section but I should make it clear: Every exercise you pick has a signal-to-fatigue ratio (referred to as SFR in the literature). Going to failure may be a good way to drive muscle growth, but it's extremely fatiguing. You can't possible survive a 5 week training block if you're going to failure in every single session and exercise.
Once you understand that and that multiple rep-ranges work, you can pair exercises that are high-signal and high-fatigue (e.g., barbell squats, deadlifts) with exercises that are high-signal and low fatigue (e.g., leg extensions, leg curls). If you're dieting down and are energy depleted, it would then make sense to avoid high-fatigue exercises like squats (or at least minimize the amount of volume dedicated to them).
A common approach is to increase closeness to failure as you progress through the training block, reserving failure or at least 0 reps in reserve to the last week of the cycle. After that you hop on a deload week and drop fatigue to start a new block.
You may also want to vary rep ranges and RIR targets because after a while training in the same ranges may get boring :)
# What I disagree with Menno
I don't agree with the part about getting a pump and soreness. I agree that their presence is NOT necessary to cause muscle growth, but in my experience (and other people in the industry like the folks at Revive Stronger and Renaissance periodization), pumps and soreness are good indicators that a training session was stimulative enough.
> Are immediate-mode GUIs up to the task?
Yes, there's no reason why imgui's can't do any of that.
> What is driving their authors to pursue this design?
To name a few: Ridiculous bloat and complicated development with things like Qt. No real GUI framework provided by Microsoft apart of their 4-5 half-abandoned offerings.
Also imgui is way simpler to wrap your head around. It's just straight up function calls with no complicated abstractions.
> Why aren't they choosing a declarative design?
Why should it be declarative though? imgui code looks fairly declarative when you read it and it's easy to understand what UI events cause changes