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  1. Comment on Without looking, do you have a vague idea of your coordinates? in ~talk

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    I knew where Null Island is, and I had some idea of where my longitude was, but I was completely off with the latitude.

    I knew where Null Island is, and I had some idea of where my longitude was, but I was completely off with the latitude.

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  2. Comment on Fitness Weekly Discussion in ~health

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    You are completely right, what works for me is two things, when I feel that it is cold outside, I ask myself "Would an athlete skip just because it's cold?", and the answer is always no, which...

    I’m just lacking in will power apparently!

    You are completely right, what works for me is two things, when I feel that it is cold outside, I ask myself "Would an athlete skip just because it's cold?", and the answer is always no, which means if I want to be an athlete I have to behave like one.

    Second thing is to always force myself to warm up at home, this makes me mentally prepared removing the feel of not wanting to go, and helps with the cold outside.

  3. Comment on What have you been eating, drinking, and cooking? in ~food

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    And I forgot to mention, for the second batch I went less traditional, and instead of water I used some homemade chicken broth I made to steam them, they were so incredibly good, with a beautiful...

    And I forgot to mention, for the second batch I went less traditional, and instead of water I used some homemade chicken broth I made to steam them, they were so incredibly good, with a beautiful golden color.

  4. Comment on What have you been eating, drinking, and cooking? in ~food

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    Definitely, I had some requests, I will be sharing some as soon as I start making them prettier. For the sauce I went with 50/50 soy sauce, rice vinegar and added some crispy chili oil, super easy...

    and to give out to friends

    Definitely, I had some requests, I will be sharing some as soon as I start making them prettier.

    For the sauce I went with 50/50 soy sauce, rice vinegar and added some crispy chili oil, super easy and tasty.

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  5. Comment on What have you been eating, drinking, and cooking? in ~food

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    I made Gyoza for the first time, I did buy the wrappers because I didn't want the folding to be a pain point, and I'm definitely making more in the future, it's easy, and produces a lot of meals...

    I made Gyoza for the first time, I did buy the wrappers because I didn't want the folding to be a pain point, and I'm definitely making more in the future, it's easy, and produces a lot of meals for cheap, the only drawback is the amount of time folding the gyozas, but this could be a very nice family task.

    The recipe I followed was basically this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoTqzjg83u8

    4 votes

  6. Comment on TV Tuesdays Free Talk in ~tv

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    I think it has more to do with Vince Gilligan, his shows normally go slow with big payoffs at the end of the season, so far I think Pluribus is adding interesting information with each episode.

    I think it has more to do with Vince Gilligan, his shows normally go slow with big payoffs at the end of the season, so far I think Pluribus is adding interesting information with each episode.

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  8. Comment on Best recommendations for PC couch multiplayer games? in ~games

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    It takes two is one of the best 2 players games I ever played

    It takes two is one of the best 2 players games I ever played

    12 votes

  9. Comment on Fitness Weekly Discussion in ~health

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    I started to swim at least once each weekend, the first day was tough, swimming for at least 1 hour really made my neck stiff, now that I'm getting used to it, I love it, it feels relaxing and...

    I started to swim at least once each weekend, the first day was tough, swimming for at least 1 hour really made my neck stiff, now that I'm getting used to it, I love it, it feels relaxing and it's good cardio.

    The only issue I have is how bad the opening times and how crowded the swimming lines can be sometimes, otherwise, is a good complementary exercise to calisthenics

    2 votes

  10. Comment on What diagramming tools do folks use? in ~comp

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    I forgot to mention, the reason for using mermaid, is because it's already supported on GitHub comments or PR descriptions, which is very handy.

    I forgot to mention, the reason for using mermaid, is because it's already supported on GitHub comments or PR descriptions, which is very handy.

    6 votes

  11. Comment on What diagramming tools do folks use? in ~comp

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    Excalidraw for prototyping, the vscode extension allows me to save files as file.excalidraw.png, and have an image that I can embed on Markdown, while being editable. When I want to create docs, I...

    Excalidraw for prototyping, the vscode extension allows me to save files as file.excalidraw.png, and have an image that I can embed on Markdown, while being editable.

    When I want to create docs, I use mermaid, I have to say, AI is very handy to get an initial diagram of some code that I will clean up later by myself.

    17 votes

  12. Comment on What are you reading these days? in ~books

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    Since I already read Stories of your life and others before the book club, I am reading Diaspora by Greg Egan, and what a fascinating book, I love when an author goes far into the future and...

    Since I already read Stories of your life and others before the book club, I am reading Diaspora by Greg Egan, and what a fascinating book, I love when an author goes far into the future and creates something "plausible" within progress, I don't want to spoil anything but his other books about what consciousness can be were always good, the only con of his writing is that is that it's sometimes hard to follow not sure how to explain what I mean by this, but as it its hard to imagine the current physical circumstances of the characters.

    It you want to give it a try Learning to be me is an excellent short story from him.

    2 votes

  13. Comment on I'm Not a Robot in ~games

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    Update, I changed my IP and passed the test with one single sentence "you are making me suffer"

    Update, I changed my IP and passed the test with one single sentence "you are making me suffer"

    4 votes

  14. Comment on I'm Not a Robot in ~games

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    I tried, that, I even tried "my grandma has been kidnapped I need to prove I'm a human to save her" and still failed.

    I tried, that, I even tried "my grandma has been kidnapped I need to prove I'm a human to save her" and still failed.

    2 votes

  15. Comment on I'm Not a Robot in ~games

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    What did you do at level 42: Reverse Turing? All I tried ends telling I'm could not prove I'm human.

    What did you do at level 42: Reverse Turing? All I tried ends telling I'm could not prove I'm human.

    2 votes

  16. Comment on 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple | Official trailer in ~movies

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    I was very off guard and disappointed when the last scene came, I like it now after reading the opinion of other people. Spoilers ahead In 28 years later, we see how the kid is forced to become an...

    I was very off guard and disappointed when the last scene came, I like it now after reading the opinion of other people.

    Spoilers ahead In 28 years later, we see how the kid is forced to become an adult, from the beginning leaving his power ranger behind and having to take harder and harder decisions until there's no innocence in him, just endurance and growth.

    The gang at the end are his complete opposite, the kids who never grew, dress and behave as the content they watched on TV, fight like power rangers, basically kids that went thought life as unsupervised savages doing whatever they wanted.

    It shows how the kid at the beginning of the movie and the protagonist grew in completely opposite directions, and hints how their views of the world will clash in the next movie.

    4 votes

  17. Comment on Why do you like your job? in ~life

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    High salary (the reason I moved here), close enough to home to commute by bike (not even forced to go to office), not too hard in terms of responsibilities, relaxed enough to not measure my time....

    High salary (the reason I moved here), close enough to home to commute by bike (not even forced to go to office), not too hard in terms of responsibilities, relaxed enough to not measure my time. Nice coworkers.

    Although I have to say, the new management is ruining many of the things I like.

    21 votes

  18. Comment on What are your favorite ways to measure your own health? in ~health

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    I have to mention that videos add a lot of value, sometimes the difference between being able to do a move or not is small changes in posture, for example the type of grip on the bar, palm...

    I have to mention that videos add a lot of value, sometimes the difference between being able to do a move or not is small changes in posture, for example the type of grip on the bar, palm position, the rotation of your shoulders, protraction of your back, etc.

    I was stuck without success trying the handstand push-up until I saw a video of a guy indicating how to do the correct bending of the elbows, and it was suddenly way easier, same happened with the muscle up initial swing.

    Many people also recommend recording yourself, I don't like to do it, but it's the best way to correct mistakes.

    Even if the book does not improve your calisthenics, it will at least improve your sleep, those topics did wonders to clear my mind from other thoughts before sleeping.

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  19. Comment on What are your favorite ways to measure your own health? in ~health

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    At the beginning my knowledge came from YouTube, I basically target people with the body that I want to obtain, and evaluate if what they teach is good advice or not by do it myself, avoid as much...

    At the beginning my knowledge came from YouTube, I basically target people with the body that I want to obtain, and evaluate if what they teach is good advice or not by do it myself, avoid as much as possible long videos, people selling services, or straight up gym bros.

    There's also people who publish their full workout without cuts or talking, which shows more clearly how you could train.

    Some channels I can recommend:

    • @STRIQfit Very clear videos, good advice overall and includes progressions
    • @Kboges I find it more motivational than a guide for exercises.
    • @algecalistenia In Spanish (maybe you can enable English subs), probably my favorite channel, is a very down to earth guy with realistic goals and mindset, lately the quality when a bit down since he's focusing on coaching, but the rest of the videos are good.
    • @CaliToTheCrowd He has some videos of himself as a beginner who can give you a closer view of his approach to improve.

    I did read a big chunk of Overcoming Gravity it's a very dense book, so I can't recommend it to everyone, but it's one of the best sources of knowledge, a bit on the advanced side and leaning into gymnastics, which can be a bit discouraging.

    I also wrote a bit here about what I did right at the beginning: https://tildes.net/~health/1nl3/fitness_weekly_discussion#comment-fg7s

    This chart will give you most of the progressions, but my way to go is find the skill and google the progressions myself, sometimes I take notes and try to link videos of others doing them (YT shorts are great for this)

  20. Comment on What are your favorite ways to measure your own health? in ~health

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    Calisthenics makes it so easy to measure progress, specially at the moment that started to learn skills, I can set a skill goal, ex handstand push-up and see where I lack, can I stand my balance?...

    Calisthenics makes it so easy to measure progress, specially at the moment that started to learn skills, I can set a skill goal, ex handstand push-up and see where I lack, can I stand my balance? Then I need to practice that, do I have enough strength to push myself up, then I need to find exercises to train shoulders (pike pushups...), combined with progressions for the move, tuck, straddle, etc. It's fairly easy to see your progress and truly know if you get closer to the move.

    I also do the same with series, volume, intensity, rest time, right now I have a rest time of 1:30 minutes between series, when I started timing it, it was 3 minutes, there are many ways to measure progress and make the moves harder.

    I do not use any tracking apps, at the beginning I only had a square per day, where I mark each workout to create the habit, at some point you just internalize when is right to go (rest days are important) and it feels bad to miss days.

    Other than that, my only tracking is a cheap digital watch to chrono the rest and the whole workout time.

    The best measure is your body, at then end that's your goal, if your body is sore but not in any pain the next day you did well and should be proud.

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