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by matwood 10mo ago
It's a damned if you don't, damned if you do. Apple could release a new system with zero UI updates and tons of internal improvements and people would call it 'old' and 'dated' and 'lack of innovation&#x27
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by matwood 10mo ago
> It blows peoples minds if you read a book. Where do you live that reading a book will blow people's minds? I've been in many places and see people reading books and newspapers regularly and no thinks anything of it.
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by matwood 10mo ago
It's also about building systems to help with self control. Turning alerts off would be one. Leaving the phone in another room for longer periods of time is another.
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by matwood 10mo ago
Same. I also lay my phone face down if it's out of my pocket.
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by matwood 10mo ago
I get so much work done on flights because I can't take meetings.
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by matwood 10mo ago
One of my favorite styles of weight training is volume based. The premise starts with something like I need 10 reps of a certain weight, but it doesn't matter how many sets it takes to get there. Each set ends if I cannot do another p
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by matwood 10mo ago
I love working out and have for over 25 years. You should never be in real pain or feel 'shitty'. It should be challenging of course and part of that challenge is being uncomfortable. Learning to embrace being uncomfortable, IMO,
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by matwood 10mo ago
Sun Tsu said you have to either give your opponent an out or completely destroy them. I’ve always said that you can only skin a sheep once but can shear them over and over. Or to be more blunt, it’s better to be effective than right. It’s a
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by matwood 10mo ago
He's a shorter guy, and if you notice is always wearing big baggy clothes. Look up pics with his shirt off and he looks like someone who could walk on stage at a body building contest for someone in his weight class. EDIT From his IG
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by matwood 10mo ago
Long ago at this point when my job required windows, the best experience for me was running it in a VM on a MBP. Actually worked quite well since it was easy stop/start windows and segmented work off on its own.
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by matwood 10mo ago
IDK. I'm living in Italy atm and I see a lot of people drink regular Coke presumably b/c they like it. What's different from the US is that's it's more of a single serving treat, instead of 2 gallons of free refills
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by matwood 10mo ago
Also, breakfast items are typically the "healthiest" fast food items. An Egg McMuffin for example has a fresh egg, piece of ham and an English muffin. Hardly a disaster meal diet wise.
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by matwood 10mo ago
> Are they truly happier, in the sense of being more content? The biggest thing anyone can do in their life is figure out exactly what makes them happy, and spend their money there. Don't let society tell you. People on this site
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by matwood 10mo ago
Great point. Personally I find lactic acid build up way more limiting for me than muscle fatigue. It's why I gravitated towards power lifting.
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by matwood 10mo ago
> People who had enough breath left in them to chat in the gym simply did not gain as much as people I saw as training hard. IDK. When I powerlifted the goal was to move the weight. I've almost passed out from heavy deadlifts, but w
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by matwood 10mo ago
> Consider that this paper looked specifically at hypertrophy (size), not strength. I'm not sure where this idea came from that people do one or the other. Except for the advanced lifter, both will happen from either program. Show m
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by matwood 10mo ago
It ends up being personal, but you want enough time to catch your breath and be “ready” to go again, but no more.
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by matwood 10mo ago
Don’t sell yourself short though. Those are very respectable numbers ahead of the vast majority of the population.
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by matwood 10mo ago
> Pretty much everyone would be able to achieve greater volume, on any exercise I’m not sure this is true and it might be the opposite. Lactic acid will build up with light weight while trying to hit a volume number that will make it har
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by matwood 10mo ago
This is key to recognize. Even when you don’t “feel” it you still go and do your program. But, when you do feel good, you go and push.
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by matwood 10mo ago
Same. Finding heavy lifting changed my life if I’m honest. The strength gains, body comp, and how I felt was amazing.
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by matwood 10mo ago
Yeah. When was powerlifting seriously I spent months with my deadlift stuck on 525 pounds. I would measure progress by how many times I could just get the weight off the floor, then how far off the floor, etc… The newbie gains were long gon
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by matwood 10mo ago
Or the airlines. Airlines have created a huge amount of economic value that has mostly been captured by other entities.
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by matwood 10mo ago
The problem with shorting is always timing. Additionally, with companies like TSLA or other large companies there's always the risk of a government bailout/backstop. The easiest way to predict the future is to look at incentives.
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by matwood 10mo ago
The adage I always tell people is that in any successful system, the data will far outlive the code. People throw away front ends and middle layers all the time. This becomes so much harder to do if the schema is defined across a sprawling
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by matwood 10mo ago
> A highly cited reason for using mongo is that people would rather not figure out a schema. Which is such a cop out, because there is always a schema. The only questions are whether it is designed, documented, and where it's impl
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by matwood 10mo ago
It’s not even a game. There just isn’t that much news to report on 24/7. And even when an event does happen, the early reports are often wrong. People crave an update when there is no update to give.
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by matwood 10mo ago
Agreed, and it's one of the reasons I'm anti-death penalty.
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The movie Heat addresses this scenario in the opening scene. A guard is shot 'accidentally' during a robbery even though they didn't intend to kill anyone. At that point they killed all the guards because 1 guard or 3 guards,
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by matwood 10mo ago
The movie Blow had a scene about the logistics dealing with tons of cash. Even before thinking about laundering, it’s a huge PITA.

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