thanks! I definitely hesitated sharing for a while due to that failure. Glad to hear you found it interesting.
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I have a pretty decked out space in my basement now, but I started small with a pair of adjustable dumbbells and a bench at the end of 2020. I challenged myself to max out on those dumbbells (50lbs) before investing further in things like a barbell, squat rack, etc.
Personally, I find it hard to come up with routines on my own. I used a personal trainer for a few years pre-COVID as a means of forcing accountability. Personal training can also help teach you / get you used to weightlifting, especially with the more advanced compound lifts.
Now I use an app that generates routines called Fitbod, but there are many other apps like this that will take the guesswork out of things. You can tailor the routines to your desired equipment / duration.
The trick for me was to start small, and focus on consistency. Whether that is one day a week or five, the key is to regularly come back to the practice. Eventually, it got easier to just “show up” and push myself further.
Hope this helps!
It really feels like the Overton window on disability rights has shifted in the wrong direction.
Just because it’s free, the university has certain obligations from taking federal funding. These laws have been put into place in order to ensure disabled people have equal access to these educational systems.
One way to solve this would have been for Berkeley to charge a nominal fee (perhaps for a limited time as “early access” or similar) that could then be used to pay people that can transcribe the audio.
Instead, a lack of imagination and a lack of empathy leads to these resources being removed, a net loss for everyone.
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But over time that difficulty lessened. I found the connections I made outside of Facebook were longer lasting and more meaningful, because there was actually some onus on me to try and stay engaged. And people do respond well when you demonstrate you care to engage in a deeper fashion. It feels like relationship building / maintenance in today's age is something of a lost art, because it's become so easy to superficially connect without putting in a bunch of work.
The big social platforms make you want to believe there's a monopoly on societal participation. Pushing back against that energy is such a powerful thing, even if it's somewhat isolating in the short-term.
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Technologies: Typescript, React, Go, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, Terraform (among others)
Software engineering generalist with strong product sensibilities. I've worked as a PM, front-end engineer, and most recently as a back-end engineer building features for a distributed tracing product. Technology agnostic. I am mostly interested in engineering lead or product management roles.
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Technologies: Typescript, React, Go, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, Terraform (among others)
Software engineering generalist with strong product sensibilities. I've worked as a PM, front-end engineer, and most recently as a back-end engineer building features for a distributed tracing product. Technology agnostic. I am mostly interested in engineering lead or product management roles.
My question: what is stopping us from demanding a legislative solution that requires Apple to open up the iOS platform to allow installation of apps outside its sanctioned ecosystem?
With ARM Macs now on the market, the hardware architecture / software differences between their mobile and desktop platforms is becoming smaller and smaller. The argument that mobile devices should be treated differently from any other general computing device has always been weird. But now the disparity is now ever more glaring given how similar iPhones, iPads, and Macs have become. We should be demanding openness and the right to modify software as the end user sees fit. This does not preclude users looking for a more secure experience to continue exclusively loading apps from the App Store.
There is nothing preventing your parents from continuing to use Apple’s sanctioned distribution system even if side-loading were allowed.
Why don’t we flip this question? As a savvy software engineer, I want to use my phone in whatever way I see fit and accept the risk of using unverified software. Why am I not allowed to? Oh right, bc Apple wants a cut of any profits that app developer may receive. The iPhone at this stage is a full blown computer and should expose capabilities as such.
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Should we blame those that fall prey to predatory loan practices? Especially at 18, most are not fully equipped to evaluate the debt they are signing up for and its implications.
It seems a better approach would be to look at the root of the problem, which is that easy credit for education has incentivized bad apples to exploit vulnerable people. Just because you were smart enough to not be exploited does not mean others should suffer.
As with most electrochemical sensing studies, this is much closer to proof of concept than manufacturable product. Measuring things on skin in sweat is hard work.
That being said, I’d love a patch to measure my stress levels and hope some day the tech exists to do so.
People you perceive as “successful” may themselves be facing internal hardships. Placing self-worth in externally-controlled goals sets you up to feel bad about your place in life.
I used to beat myself up about my current progress and constantly comparing myself to others. Once I stopped doing that and instead focused on making small incremental goals, I started to feel much happier. It seems counterintuitive, but once I stopped focusing on “success”, I became much more successful in what I actually wanted to accomplish.
Instead of doing all the coding yourself, leave it up to them by getting rid of some of what you build and hand it to them as isolated exercises. This will allow you to test their abilities incrementally and also give them a boost in motivation to see something working.
Teaching others how to code is another skill to build just like programming. You will learn through practice and get better at explaining abstract concepts with clarity after explaining things clumsily the first time. Just keep at it.
Human connection keeps us sane, and it's so easy to use social networks in an attempt to remain connected. But in the process, the actual connection is missed, instead giving rise to feelings such as shame, anger, and fear. I believe in the case of mental health, social networking actually amplifies internal problems because of how one-dimensional the view of others is.
How many people do you know that would post when they are feeling depressed, or anxious about their life? Maybe if we saw a more holistic view of people on our networks, they wouldn't have such a detrimental impact on mental health.