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> As I'm typing this I wonder what we would use for shock absorbant things like phone cases or water proof seals like cv boots on car suspensions.

Respectfully, CV boots on car suspensions have a lifespan of several years, same with phone cases potentially.

As a first step I'm more interested in replacing the things that hundreds of millions of people discard multiple times a day. Starting off by thinking about CV boots and phone cases strikes me as being precipitously close to the "we can't replace everything so lets replace nothing" path.

I've found the shows on HGTV to be so universally shallow that I think their role is to entirely anchor artificially inflated costs in the citizenry minds so that any simple bathroom reno reflexively needs a $25k budget at minimum.

I take it you haven't read her fictional work. Exploring this dualism is one of the main plot and emotional devices for several trilogies.

> The animal separation part is confusing to me.

Have you read her fiction, particularly the Farseer and Tawny Man trilogies? Her fantasy universe, and the main characters, involve bonding with an animal so completely that you are essentially one combined being that inhabits both bodies. An emotional peak of the series involve the slow process of aging, and eventual passing of one of the main characters, who happens to be a wolf that is bonded.

Her phrasing here isn't just whimsical musings, but a bit of creative writing that combines her reflections on aging with an homage to her fictional work and style. Her words and message here will connect deeply with those familiar with her work, or at least it did with me.

yes, but it means that everything around us - the sun, the solar system, the Galaxy are also "hypervelocity" relative to any such object, thus making our own "hypervelocity" label not that special.

I went about once a week for about 4 months

Just through a quick google search and chose one that happened to be near the route I drove between work and my sons daycare. Her website was pretty generic and minimal, so I didn't have high hopes going in, but feel I lucked out as she had an undergrad degree in Kinesiology (or similar), and was a semi-professional cyclist, and had a lot of applied knowledge on anatomy, health, wellness, performance.

The keywords I would recommend looking for when looking for a masseuse would be myofascial release, trigger-point therapy, and active release therapy, though, your mileage may vary of course. I found the 30-45 minute appointments too short, and the 1.5 hour too long, but an hour was just right.

At first we just focused on the shoulders and back, but as I learned and researched more, as well as trying to find problem spots myself, we did a couple sessions on calves, buttocks (mainly piriformis), hands, neck/scalenes, forearms/elbow.

A few other things I didn't add in my first comment:

- I now always use a heating pad under my keyboard. The office spaces I've been working in the last decade are cold, industrial spaces, and the desk surface and hence my keyboard are always frigidly cold. I was developing arthritis-like symptoms (joint stiffness, I could feel the tendon 'clicking' in my pinky finger). I now use a generic heating pad under my keyboard and couldn't go back to not using it.

- Really paying attention to my wrist/arm posture when I sleep. I was a side sleeper and would flex my wrist under my chin when I slept which was putting additional stress on my wrist/forearm, I now really try to focus on relaxing my hands/arms when I sleep. This took some time, but I think it's one of those little things that paid off in the long run.

- I also have a Dr. Ho's Tens electro stimulation unit which I will use on my elbow, forearm, shoulders and back as needed. I find it helps. For the cost of ~1 massage appointment it seems worth while, even though reception/reviews/clinical proof of it's effectiveness is mixed.

I've got nearly identical symptoms, and while it does come back now and then, I feel like I'm finally on top of it. I spent about a year trying various things, including exercise ( which actually only seemed to aggravate the symptoms rather than helping), various targeted stretches, physiotherapy, rest, ice, compression, wrist support braces, various ergonomic keyboards

What ultimately worked for me was a combination of massage therapy and self-massage.

I found that I had a large number of muscle knots/myofascial trigger points in my hands, forearms, tricep/biceps, shoulder, and back. Working with the massage therapist we slowly worked them out. In particular I found targeting the teres minor, which is a small muscle below the shoulder almost in the armpit, to be one of the breakthrough moments. Normally I have no back or shoulder pain, but when you find these knots and you start poking at them it can be incredibly painful.

I now have a home self-massage routine that I do regularly, especially if the tingling or any pain comes back, and it really helps. I use a combination of tools, including a lacrosse ball which I use against a wall on my forearms, back, and shoulders, and teres minor area, a Theracane massage stick, and a forearm massage tool from Armaid.com. The combination of the Armaid and Lacrosse ball really helped work the knots out of my forearms, and I highly recommend both of them.

A book I found useful was "The Trigger Point Therapy Workbook" by Claire Davies. I coupled this with a muscle anatomy book to help name/identify muscles to search in the Trigger Point book. The location of trigger points and symptoms as described in the Trigger Point book were uncannily accurate, it was literally spot on.

There are some good youtube videos, blogs, and websites of course. A few I found particularly helpful were the "Doug and Brad physiotherapy channel" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzVO9DU-bog), and the Painotopia youtube channel and corresponding website: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCwTpwn8lWZQ_lXfUPL1JZg/fea... https://www.muscle-joint-pain.com/ the Painotopia website is full of info, but I did find that I had to search around to find a bit.

Anyway, that's what worked and is working for me. I believe that stress, posture, and computer use, all contributed to developing these muscle knots, many of them near the ulnar nerve.

Everyone's pain, symptoms, and causes are different. Good luck! If you have any questions or want more info send a comment and you can drop me an email: my HN username @ gmail.com

I live in Canada, and live a 5 minute drive from a municipality of 160,000 people. I got Starlink a month ago and even with a few disconnects and occasional lag Starlink is a quantum leap improvement of internet connection. Going from 0.5-3 Mbps down with a 100GB bandwidth cap to a 80-250 Mbps link with unlimited bandwidth is literally life changing.

I work from home as a developer and no longer have to drive into town to install windows updates and compilers.

Your comment resonates with me. From our rural house in Ontario there are no other APs visible. None, but our own. I've even started disabling encryption just because I can. But we struggle to get even basic internet connectivity. Interesting that on both ends of the spectrum there are issues.

The average human has one breast and one testicle.

> but there is no reason debian packages could not be subject to the same supply chain "evil maid" or upstream "evil new maintainer"

I'm always suspicious of the number of blogspam generic linux help advice sites that get you to install some random ppa complete with a nifty little code snippet that automatically installs certs and updates your sources.list! How handy!

speedtest.net consistently shows pings in the 38-45 ms range for me with starlink, with 150 Mbps down, 20 Mbps up. I've been able to video chat and game without any issues. My previous satellite connection was nearly the same price as starlink, for only 100GB, pings of 600-800ms and only 1-5 Mbps up/down. For those of us poorly served Starlink is an absolute quantum leap.

No, likely an inert steel round used in training

Wait... whats this?

That's because I use round(age) when referring to their floating point age in conversation like any sane person.

> And for those claiming the world is 1-based, they're full of it.

I just did an N=1 experiment with my two children, aged 4 and 6. I held up a single apple in my hand, and asked them how many apples I was holding.

They said 1.

I live in a rural area in North America, a stones throw away from a municipality of 160,000 people, and our internet is marginal. The constant push for https everywhere is making the web almost unusable for us. Https is being used to deliver fonts, javascript libraries, and images also over https from multiple domains all requiring multiple ssl negotiations. Usually one of these fonts/js/images times out, and as a result the entire page doesn't load.

Keep in mind that most of the details you mentioned are for the developer of the library, not the end user/consumer of the library.

Ultimately most consumers of the library care if they can call std::sort(YourSpecialContainer.begin(), YourSpecialContainer.end()); in a consistent manner with some semblance that the use of templates and interfaces result in nearly zero overhead of the abstraction.

I live in a rural area with bad internet, and the trend to load all of these external fonts, images and javascript externally over https basically makes the web unusable for us. The overhead of the handshakes required by the https connection greatly increased the page load time, and there is about a 1-in-4 chance of one of them timing out and not loading, so as a result the page doesn't load properly or pauses and stops loading.

So, in the context of the discussion, you're arguing that instead of deploying drones (Turkish TB2 ~$5 million USD flyaway) as they did, Azerbajan should have purchased a squadron of Apache Helicopters (~$40 million USD flyaway) along with the support, training and maintenance infrastructure it would take to properly field them, in an effort to save money?

There is a series on youtube by VoidRealms that walks you through using the basics of C++ Qt/QWidgets that I found helpful when I was learning Qt.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KtOzh0StTc&list=PL2D1942A46...

I was trying to learn Qt, and it just wasn't clicking, but watching these videos and suddenly Qt just made sense. This was nearly 10 years ago, and note that some of the syntax has changed, particularly Signals/Slots.

It's non-unique - there are an infinite number of configurations of mass that could have cause that single object to move in exactly the way it was measured.

Try deploying python apps in corporate environments with fairly locked down machines to non-programmers and get them to perform simple operations, and then compare that with just emailing someone an excel spreadsheet.

I'm an avid flight simulator enthusiast with marginal internet and I think this is a great gesture by Microsoft.

I live in "rural" Canada, approximately 10 kilometers (6 miles) from a municipality of 160,000 people, and internet access for me is a mix of LTE and Satellite, and unlikely to improve (maybe Starlink!). Even limiting myself to focusing on a single flight simulator platform, Digital Combat Simulator, downloading and keeping the simulator updated requires planning and timing to work around my bandwidth cap.

I've been following the development of Microsoft's new Flight simulator, but as soon as the download size was announced it seemed like a non-starter for me. But the announcement of a physical DVD changes this, and I'm now quite interested in their simulator.