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by mtalantikite 1y ago
Same. Just looking at my last 8k run from the other day I was in Zone 5 for 22 minutes and Zone 4 for 16. I run very infrequently, but I find it very difficult to just do steady state Zone 2 runs, it feels like going for a walk. I prefer to
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by mtalantikite 1y ago
Maybe I'm doing it wrong, but for me there certainly was (is) a mental hurdle to get over. When I first seriously started exercising I think it probably took 6 or so months of 3-4x per week before I began looking forward to it. Even af
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by mtalantikite 1y ago
Of the people in power, not the people. Most certainly the people who were enslaved didn't believe it was moral or ok. Similarly for women's rights, LGBTQ+, etc etc. So again, laws and morality are different things and should be t
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by mtalantikite 1y ago
It was legal to own humans. Don't conflate laws and morality, they're completely different.
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by mtalantikite 1y ago
I think a lot of families are also optimizing for university admissions. Strong athletes often have an easier time with admissions (assuming they're also good academically). I remember having an interview with an engineering professor
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by mtalantikite 1y ago
Well, the loneliness coming through on those posts might just be from the fact that the people that are posting on social media like that are, in fact, lonely and looking for connection. I have a pretty extensive morning routine of practici
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by mtalantikite 1y ago
When I was in high school in the late 90s/early 2000s, we'd go hang out somewhere with each other IRL and then when it got late and we got home we'd meet up in some online game (usually Starcraft or Diablo). So we'd stil
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by mtalantikite 1y ago
You know, I can't totally remember how my first teacher taught it (I was 7), but I do know that a lot of the fingering was outlined by CPE Bach back in the 18th century [1]. Just glancing on the Internet (and quickly playing through my
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by mtalantikite 1y ago
I'm appreciative of people attempting to help others learn music, so first of all thanks! I'd suggest people really focus on their ear training though over visual feedback. Just play your scales through the circle of fifths -- set
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by mtalantikite 1y ago
This looks great, congrats! As someone that has gone through Assimil courses and done lots of comprehensible input for various languages, language production is typically the weak point that isn't covered well. I've done plenty of
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by mtalantikite 1y ago
As a remote worker since 2008, I agree, I don't want someone telling me I have to live in a place I wouldn't want to live for a job. But also, they're already dictating that people have to live in the DC area, which probably
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by mtalantikite 1y ago
Years ago I read about how Norway was redistributing agencies out of Oslo and into other cities across the country. This felt like it made intuitive sense, as you'd maybe get to distribute jobs to other localities and break up the conc
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by mtalantikite 1y ago
Absolutely. And whenever you bring up wanting to build cities more like NYC the discussion inevitably devolves into people clutching their cars and complaining it would be tyrannical to make people walk and take public transit. It'd be
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by mtalantikite 1y ago
> I suppose, religion aside, that that feeling is wonder. That is not a feeling I often feel running errands and going out in America. But it’s a feeling that the Japanese business landscape and built environment is able to spark frequen
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by mtalantikite 1y ago
They're a visual artist that is often lugging around hundreds of pounds of supplies/fabricated materials/finished pieces/etc. If they just needed a laptop bag or something that'd be a different story, public transit
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by mtalantikite 1y ago
I'm not saying it's not a fair price -- I think largely it's a positive to discourage people from deciding to commute into Manhattan by car. I'm in my 40s and only recently got my license, so I'm certainly on team p
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by mtalantikite 1y ago
Yeah, this is the only disagreement I have with congestion pricing too. I have a friend that lives in Tribeca (in the place he grew up in in the 80s) and needs a car to drive to his art studio in New Jersey. I feel like they should get an e
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by mtalantikite 1y ago
I think the environmental impact arguments are valid, but also it seems silly that they have us arguing about light bulbs when every single car on the road in the US is now some giant SUV and our built environment is actively hostile toward
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by mtalantikite 1y ago
Well, no one is forcing you to buy incandescents, but I certainly would be happy to buy them if they're available. However, I think I'm probably out of luck -- LEDs are cheaper and they likely don't break as much in shipping.
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by mtalantikite 1y ago
Personally, I'd pay a lot more in electricity costs to have light that has full spectrum output. The Waveform lights I bought are about $40/bulb, and they're nicer than the Philips I tried, but they're still not as nice
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by mtalantikite 1y ago
I mean I hate to be like "vibes", but, kinda vibes. There's just something about the light coming out of the Waveform LED I have in one lamp in my living room versus the incandescent I have on the other side of the room. Defi
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by mtalantikite 1y ago
For sure, they're definitely way more efficient. They just unfortunately give me migraines. I'd be open to trying some that have a filter network or some other smoothing on the flicker. But I've also never lived in a house th
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by mtalantikite 1y ago
These LED light flickers actually trigger ocular migraines for me. I had tried to put in LEDs when the incandescent ban hit the US, and ended up with a Philips Hue system. I had 4 migraines in 3 days and had to send them back. I purchased a
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by mtalantikite 1y ago
I had Claude Code deep inside a change it was trying to make, struggling with a test that kept failing, and then decided to delete the test to make the test suite pass. We've all been there! I generally treat all my sessions with it as
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by mtalantikite 1y ago
I think this is geared more towards people doing bodybuilding splits, rather than fitness in general. Personally, as someone that exercises but not for aesthetics, I think of strength training in terms of movements not muscles worked. So I&
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by mtalantikite 1y ago
I'm here for even more extreme cleaning techniques to appease my OCD. Thanks! Definitely cheaper than carrying around a TOTO portable bidet: https://www.totousa.com/travel-washlet
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by mtalantikite 1y ago
Oh, of course it's not -- I was just playing around -- but cleanliness is something that is really emphasized in Muslim communities [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritual_purity_in_Islam#Hygieni...
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by mtalantikite 1y ago
I mean hey, if you want to walk around like that by all means. Maybe it's my ancestral Muslim side coming out, but I just feel dirty without cleaning myself afterwards. Also, the water isn't that cold, even in the dead of winter h
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by mtalantikite 1y ago
Not always — I was pretty surprised they didn’t have them in every bathroom when visiting Morocco. My family is Algerian and they’re standard there, and I always assumed it would be common in other Muslim countries considering how much emph
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by mtalantikite 1y ago
> … but the functionality is quite difficult for a person who's not used to this whatsoever. I guess for some definition of difficult? Honestly it takes about 5 seconds to get used to and then you can never go back to using just toi

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