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Were you referring to people like Andy Hug of Kyokushinkai?

I believe he suffered from an illness, but in general I suppose having a full-contact punching and kicking bouts with gigantic men isn't very good for your long-term health anyway. Especially in Kyokushin where they have (had?) no weight classes.

Do you think one can lift heavy but with machines, and get the same risk/reward ratio as bodybuilders?

In other words, train for power (rather than hypertrophy), but instead of using barbells, use dumbbells or machines, to minimize the risk of injury?

How was it able to run the code directly for you? For me it said it didn't have access to external libraries.

That's very interesting. Somehow, not in an unkindly sense, I can't help but feel it's a bit like "prompt engineering". Thank you for sharing your experience.

Thank you for this, yes the church helps quite a bit here, with the community and the activities for the elderly. Appreciate you sharing the advice and experience.

Thank you for taking the time to share this with me. I really appreciate it. All good and important pieces of advice.

"You are definitely not alone" -- that gives me comfort, thank you for this.

I have not actually looked for such an association. I'll do so.

I'll give it a watch! Thank you

Thank you for this. I did try to look for some psychiatric help, but it wasn't easy. Many of them are younger than me so they don't understand and/or cannot empathize.

It is a long road indeed. Physically my mother seems extraordinarily healthy for her age. Inputs like yours do help in finding my way.

That's very kind of you, thank you again for this. I wish you the very best as well.

Thank you for sharing, I appreciate it. I do need to grow thicker skin. I'm taking these hallucinations too personally I guess.

I reject your reality and substitute my own. <-- I love this quote!

I appreciate this, thank you for sharing. I spend so much time at work being logical and "fixing/troubleshooting" people's wrong thinking, that I often forget to flip the mode.

On the memory care, I agree I think it would be best, but I come from an Asian culture where this will be viewed as a great transgression of how a child should take care of his/her parents -- so not an option I'm exploring at the moment. (I don't care about what other people think, but I do care about what my mother thinks, I don't want her to think I'm abandoning her, even if it's for her own good actually.)

I hope Threads won't exhibit the same hostility towards the users as IG does.

(What's up with IG and its hostile UX? Videos can't be fast forwarded or tracked at all, profile pictures can't be zoomed, clicking on it brings you to stories, images can't be copied easily, etc.)

I love these books! I re-do them every few years (well close to 10 years after I've read my copy for the first time). Great great fun.

This is exactly my sentiment as well. I'm still deeply in the Java ecosystem. It was stagnant for a while, especially between Java 5 and 8 (which spanned multiple years).

But now that it's modern, and it's moving quickly... I see less and less need to use these "better Java" languages.

With the faster pace for Java now, I wonder if I'm the only one feeling lesser need / lesser incremental benefit of moving to Kotlin.

Yes, some of my fellow engineers like it for the language itself, but I feel these days it's getting harder to argue that "the team using Kotlin is so much more productive than the team using Java".

Curious what HN thinks about this.

Of all these, the one that confused me the most when I encountered them was surely "pull request".

My sympathies for the gentleman -- but out of curiosity: for cases like this, what "time duration" would be "not surprising"? Even if he had stayed on for one more month, that would have been as shocking as well. Two months? Three?

My suspicion is that there's no time duration within which this wouldn't be an upsetting experience. Perhaps unless we're talking about like a year, which no company would do anyway.

My father passing away. Not because of COVID, it happened in 2019.

Somehow it triggered my awareness and focus on taking care of myself better. It made "death" very real for me, to the degree that it had never been up to that point.

I have been able to work out a lot more regularly motivated by "how to live longer and healthier", vs. "I want to have a jacked body to attract women".

I like this AI more than hotornot. The AI gave me 7.2 score, while at hotornot (this was... 20 years ago, at this point?) I don't think I ever even got a 6...

I got early heads up for this. Did a back-of-envelope calculations to compare the price of books I'm reading at O'Reilly and the USD399 price.

It turned out all the books I'm currently reading at O'Reilly for real (i.e.: I'm making meaningful progress) cost less than USD399, certainly less than USD399 per year.

Modern Java in Action is a fantastic book. It goes into Streams, Optionals, new Date Time API, basically the "big features".

More recent changes are relatively smaller and probably don't need a full book to cover.

Would recommend it after Effective Java (3rd edition).

Using the criterion at the bottom of the page: "a specific book I would tell myself to read at the beginning of my career as a developer", the closest for me is probably The Pragmatic Programmer.

Not The Tao Te Ching (huh?), not Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (really now?), not Advanced Windows (that I did read near the beginning of my career as a Windows C++ programmer), not any of The Little/Seasoned/Reasoned Schemer (all of which I read and I had tremendous fun with).

IMHO, this sounds more like a "I'm a programmer and this is a book I remember fondly" kind of list.

That was exactly my point. Perhaps a clearer, if much more verbose phrasing, would be: "If you've used org-roam before and then moved to Obsidian, what are the benefits you realize only after moving to Obsidian?"

I don't know these because I haven't tried Obsidian myself and I suspect if there are benefits they won't be immediately obvious without some sustained use.

Exactly this. I have a hard time using Roam Research now that I'm on org-roam, but org-roam DOES feel slower and have more friction. One of those cumulation of little things that make it so, I suppose.

Any org-roam users here? I started with Roam Research (one of the believers, even), but then moved to org-roam to keep the files under my control.

Is Obsidian worth trying if one's already using org-roam and is reasonably familiar with Emacs?

I stopped a while back when I read that it reduces testosterone level significantly: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5296448/#:~:tex....

Do you notice anything to support this?

> I cannot install emacs on my mac. (I probably could, but how hard am I going to struggle?)

Eh? It's as simple as

$ brew install emacs

for me. I haven't come across any Emacs struggles that are Mac-specific?

For the first few days of unfollowing everyone and putting them into my private lists, I'd wondered why the use of lists wasn't much more widespread.

After about a week, I realized something else: with lists only, Twitter is a lot less addictive. The contents are still interesting and useful, but the rage-building contents ("That's outrageous! I have to find out more!") that I'd get from the "normal" Twitter flow are gone.

I ended up checking Twitter multiple times a day to once every few days. I think I'm better off now, but I can't help but feel something is missing--and I do realize it's probably withdrawal symptoms.

I understand why lists aren't more widespread: it's way worse at feeding your outrage addiction.

Would you mind sharing other tech books you've read cover-to-cover more than once?