Strength training is probably the number one predictor of long-term quality of life. I wish I could recall where I read it so I could offer more than anecdote, but essentially the ability to carry weight is a predictor of your ability to balance and not fall. Lifting weights also increases your bone density which lowers the risk of falls.
In many cases a bad fall precedes deteriorating health and lowered quality of life until the person is ultimately rendered unable to move on their own.
Life heavy things. Don’t overdo it. Try to life heavier things with time. The earlier you start, the better off you are.
I’d recommend StrongLifts 5x5 as a good starting point for anyone who, like me, procrastinates for years due to being totally overwhelmed by the sheer volume of conflicting advice on where to start. It focuses on the five major compound exercises, needs minimal equipment found at any gym (or cheaply secondhand) and is quick (30ish minutes 3x per week).
Absolutely. I just wanted to get the facts straight that VO2 max is absolutely the most important thing. No reason to not just do everything however. Reaching the point of diminishing returns for VO2 max and strength training is not that difficult and is even easier to maintain than it is to gain.
I have been incredibly out of shape and overweight most of my life. In the last year I've managed to lose a lot of weight and I started weight training about 8~ months ago. I saw my VO2 go from 33 to 39 (which is still quite low) at a very steady rate and then all of a sudden just plateau at 39. Was absolutely annoying because I thought I had only a month or two left before I hit that 50%/Absolute Average point for my age :(
Sadly (for me), I think this means I actually have to start doing cardio.
The point of diminishing returns for benefits to longevity is reached after exercising a couple hours a week for a few years consistently. Then you just need to maintain that. VO2 Max itself can still improve over time but the effect on longevity is not as significant.
Lol. Have you ever used their “IDE”? My guess is you haven’t based on the tone of your remark. Apple has been developer-hostile for years, and OP was just synthesizing their thoughts around this and TBH I found the conclusion to be fairly nuanced and apropos.
I've used every major ide since turbo Pascal in the 90`s and xcode is the less intuitive ever.
I'm not an Apple user and when I have to do anything I don't know on Mac, the way to find it is always with the question "what's the simplest way to do it".
Except xcode. I always have to google or gpt to find what I want.
xcode is indeed the worst coding software I ever used, it looks like some kind of 90s software which got left rot since.
The whole thing takes 13GB to download where resuming fails, has an undocumented config format which doesn't work with git properly and is more sluggish than an Electron app.
The app upload process itself is so broken that even Apple had to release a third party tool to bypass it.
I refuse to believe they are using this thing internally, they must have some kind of special internal process to make this mess sort of work.
I could say similar things about appstoreconnect where even reordering app images is broken with a race condition if you click too quickly and you have to reload the page.
When the stars align and the mighty gods bless me, I am lucky to have Xcode download only 15GB to update. Once, the update got borked and consumed all free space in my Macbook when I kept retrying and almost bricked the laptop
It is utterly insane to me that this is the only way to build and sign apps for Apple devices locally. At one point, I almost burst into tears cause I was excited that they finally added an update that highlighted the line the cursor was on
thats great (i use swift format plugin myself) but really apple should provide these features not 3rd parties and ideally format while typing not just save
I don't mean this as snark, I'm genuinely interested: do you have a phrase I can search for or a link to that? I don't think I've ever heard that before but I would love to start citing it
Lol. Have you ever used Android Studio IDE? The grass always looks greener on the other side but Xcode and iOS development is miles ahead of how slow and unhelpful Android Studio is the majority of the time. Don’t even get me started on opening up your app 6 months later to update the code and it’s a 99% chance some Android gradle build system or dependency has changed and broken the build…
I love how it has become a meme in Android developer circles that a "stable" Android Studio release always requires a fix release shortly thereafter.
Also Gradle breaking the DSL all the time has become such a pain, that eventually they had to create an upgrade wizard, as if debugging performance issues with the build wasn't fun enough.
Say what you want against Gradle, but that method of project/workspace configuration is miles, no, lightyears ahead of the dumpster fire that is the xcodeproj format, especially when working in a team.
I cannot disagree more on just about everything you wrote.
In my experience, Xcode has been terrible, sometimes borderline unusable. The horrible project format, merging pains when working in a team, interface builder being trash in general but completely unusable when you use a lot of custom components with @IBDesignable properties across multiple modules - in that scenario it sometimes rebuilds everything in an endless loop, and brings even the most powerful Mac machines to their knees.
In that state even changing a simple property on a view takes 15 seconds of 100% cpu time.
Sure nowadays there's SwiftUI but IMO it can't be considered as anything more than an alpha until they fix the horrible navigation woes. And even then it still uses UIKit under the hood and you can see countless internally used constraints breaking all the time in the logs. At least that's how it was when I tried it a year and a half ago.
And that's not even touching on the cruel joke that is the xcodeproj project format.
Apple didn't even provide a package manager until relatively recently for God's sake. It was left to the community (cocoapods) to fend for themselves in this regard.
You should try to write an app for a GNU/Linux phone, to see how being free from a duopoly helps in real life. For that, you simply use all desktop tools (and the app will also run on desktop).
I was nodding along right until the rule… it allows for “entertainment” as part of your informational consumption. That’s a bit strange to me as I’d classify all of my “just in case” reading as entertainment.
You know, I'm not really sure that requiring IDs for access to porn / social media is a terrible idea. Sure it's been anonymous and free since the advent of the internet, but perhaps it's time to change that. After all, we don't allow a kid into a brothel or allow them to engage in prostitution (for good reasons), and porn is equally destructive.
But with the topic at hand being social media, I think a lot of the same issues and solutions apply. It's harmful to allow kids to interact with anyone and everyone at any given time. Boundaries are healthy.
Aaaaand, finally there's much less destruction of human livelihood by guns than both of the aforementioned topics if we measure "destruction" by "living a significantly impoverished life from the standard of emotional and mental wellbeing". I doubt we could even get hard numbers on the number of marriages destroyed by pornography, which yield broken households, which yield countless emotional and mental problems.
So, no, guns aren't something we should discuss first. Also, guns have utility including but not limited to defending yourself and your family. Porn has absolutely zero utility, and social media is pretty damn close, but not zero utility.
The biggest problem with this is how we would define "porn". Some states are currently redefining the existence of a transgender person in public as an inherently lewd act equivalent to indecent exposure.
I have no doubt that if your proposal were to pass that there would be significant efforts from extremist conservatives to censor LGBT+ communities online by labeling sex education or mere discussion of our lives as pornographic. How are LGBT+ people supposed to live if our very existence is considered impolite?
Nevermind the fact that the existence of a government database of all the (potentially weird) porn you look at is a gold mine for anyone who wants to blackmail or pressure you into silence.
The horrors and dangers of porn are squarely a domestic and family issue. The government does not need to come into my bedroom and look over my shoulder.
> The biggest problem with this is how we would define "porn". Some states are currently redefining the existence of a transgender person in public as an inherently lewd act equivalent to indecent exposure.
Agreed, it's just rhetoric. Same as all these claims of an ongoing 'trans genocide' in the USA. Absolute nonsense, but it gets the believers in this ideology all riled up, and so the purpose of this rhetoric is fulfilled.
> Nevermind the fact that the existence of a government database of all the (potentially weird) porn you look at is a gold mine for anyone who wants to blackmail or pressure you into silence.
If you don't want a record of you looking at it, then don't look at it. All you need to do is refrain from pornography consumption. It really is that easy and simple.
> The biggest problem with this is how we would define “porn”.
I wholeheartedly agree. And that’s a problem we should lean into and solve. Its difficulty doesn’t make it less worth of solving.
> The horrors and dangers of porn are squarely a domestic and family issue.
Therein lies the problem however. Every systemic issue in our world begins in a family or domestic situation of some form. While I am well aware and also concerned about the implications of government overreach here, I don’t think we can throw up our hands and say, “Meh”. At a minimum it can begin with education. We can teach people about the destructive nature of porn (and social media).
The fact that this impacts every family, domestic situation, and therefore indirectly or directly touches every single life in our society actually kinda makes it a great candidate for government oversight.
I also believe that this is a Big Deal™ that we need to take seriously as a nation. I have yet to see any HN commentator offer a robust pro-social media argument that carries any weight in my opinion. The most common "they'll be isolated from their peers" argument seems pretty superficial and can easily be worked around with even a tiny amount of efforts on the parents' part.
As an added bonus, this latest legislation removes the issue of "everyone is doing it". I mean, sure, a lot still will be—but then it's illegal and you get to have an entirely separate conversation with your kid. :)
> The most common "they'll be isolated from their peers" argument seems pretty superficial and can easily be worked around with even a tiny amount of efforts on the parents' part.
This is so incorrect it makes the flat earth theory look good.
I can’t speak to Rust, but these past 6 months I’ve had a very interesting adventure diving into Ruby on Rails. My background is full stack JS dev with Typescript. So I like my shit explicit written out, no magic. I like my shit strongly-typed. And I like my shit running primarily on the front-end.
Well I had several sour run-ins with Ruby on Rails and I had decided that it was the worst thing ever and I hated it. And I valiantly defended that position for many years. However, recently I’ve had several roles that required me to use Rails in various ways and I managed to find one or two things that I found… interesting… about it.
So I decided I was going to learn Ruby on Rails just so I could see what all the fuss was about and then I could _know_ I was right and throw it in all those smug Ruby-ist’s faces!
Long story short, I’ve learned a great deal and I’ve come to appreciate many of the design decisions that Rails has made over the years. It’s very opinionated which can go either way, but what it sets out to do, it does very well. I am actually building a Rails application using turbo and it’s been mind-expanding and a total joy to use.
To that end, I can only recommend going in to “prove yourself right” and you may find that you prove yourself wrong.
I still hate Ruby as a duck-typed, dynamic language. I will jump ship at the first full stack web framework that is as comprehensive as Rails but has full-stack, native Typescript runtime. (Hoping for some deno project to fill that void!)
But until then, I’ve come to appreciate and even enjoy Rails.
Dad, professional (and freelance) developer, training jiu jitsu 3-4 times per week, and strength training. (Trying to get hella yolked).
It’s takes processes, systemization and at the end of the day: discipline. Someone else said it here, but I fully agree, you have to be willing to sacrifice other things.
I don’t watch TV, ever.
I don’t stay up past 9pm (except veeery rarely)
I wake up early and get my most important stuff done before noon.
Oh and I just fail a lot. But that’s part of the process. I try to build consistency and just like we do with software I try to figure out why something failed and I make adjustments. Like my own little mini-postmortems.
If you really want tactical advice, I write notes daily. I use reflect.app and I have an end of day ritual where I write down anything that sticks out as unique or interesting about my day. Then I write about 3 things I’m actively trying to accomplish and what I’ll do to make those happen tomorrow. Then I’ll write 3 things I’m grateful for. Last I’ll write one thing that’s stressing me and out then I’ll reframe it in a positive light and finally I’ll write down how my best version of myself would handle that particular issue.
Writing really helps me slow down and make sure I’m doing the right things and helps me recognize when to stop doing the wrong things.
What's the ICJ's actual ability to enforce this? "Orders" sounds like they have some sort of weight to throw around if Israel doesn't comply, but I'm not familiar with the ICJ or what possible consequences could arise if Israel simply decided it was going to do what it wanted.
In theory i think they are supposed to ask the security council to step in if the order is ignored. Which would be unlikely to do anything, so nothing.
I think its likely israel will comply. The order is pretty weak and mostly stuff israel already claims to be doing. It wouldn't be worth the PR hassle to ignore it.
Comply with "Don't genocide"? At best, they'll argue semantics while they keep doing what they've always done.
Nevermind. I read the article:
> Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the fact that the court was willing to discuss the genocide charges was a “mark of shame that will not be erased for generations.” He vowed to press ahead with the war.
Well yes. They claim they are not genociding and that they have no intention to genocide, so they aren't going to change that.
Its also not like this is a totally unreasonable conclusion either. Lots of international law scholars think israel is likely to win the case overall unless some bombshell happens.
Israel's government doesn't care about PR hassle from the usual suspect. We may notice that they've had plenty of that lately and it did not stop them at all.
Even if doing what the ICJ wants is easy, there's a strong reason not to (from their perspective) - it implies the ICJ should be obeyed and legitimizes them. But why should Israel do that? It's just another leftie NGO from Netenyahu's perspective. Start following what those guys want and soon they will have to do nothing even as Hamas attacks again and again.
Considering how reliant Netenyahu's political career was/is on Hamas continuing to exist it's likely that's going to happen anyway. An actual long-term solution would be a huge blow to all of the right.
Israel is going to balance the pr risk vs other risks and goals. They might care about pr less than other countries, but they aren't going to take a PR loss if there is no corresponding benefit.
If israel wanted to deligetimize the ICJ they wouldn't have participated in the case in the first place. Now that they have sent lawyers, appointed an ad hoc judge, its too late tobpretend they think it is illigetiment.
> What's the ICJ's actual ability to enforce this?
Zero, the same as most courts.
Enforcement is a matter for (ordinarily) the Security Council, or, in the case of deadlock, potentially the GA acting under Uniting for Peace. Well, decisions on enforcement; actual enforcement is left to individual UN members, acting on direction of those UN bodies.
Note that enforcement in practice is often a problem, as with the provisional measures adopted against Russia in the Ukraine v. Russia genocide case.
Well, Israel is a treaty signatory. That means an ICJ ruling is executable under Israeli law.
That means jack shit right now. But every action taken hereonforth, by leadership or command or individual soldiers, carries with it the burden of future prosecution.
> Am I to understand then that a member of the UN could decide that intervene?
Unilateral intervention against genocide is possible and arguably legal even without an ICJ ruling, but ordinarily the preferred method would be sanction from the UN via a Security Council resolution, or by a General Assembly resolution from an emergency special session called to address a Security Council deadlock.
If you think commit messages are useless, you're almost certainly using them wrong. The examples provided are fairly contrived. Yeah, so your local commits may not have a _ton_ of meaning, but you should write a meaningful PR description and (many times) if you do that part well, you can just re-use that for your commit message with minor tweaking.
Combine the flexibility of the shell and git aliasing, and I just don't understand how they could possibly be complaining about this.
In many cases a bad fall precedes deteriorating health and lowered quality of life until the person is ultimately rendered unable to move on their own.
Life heavy things. Don’t overdo it. Try to life heavier things with time. The earlier you start, the better off you are.