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by samiv 10mo ago
False, failing to lift is not the same as lifting until failure. Consider, if I load up the bench press to 200kg I won't get a single rep. If I try to rep it I'll fail but I'm not lifting until failure. If I load it up to sm
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by samiv 10mo ago
Andre the Giant was also not particularly athletic or healthy. He was just a huge guy caused by disruption in the growth hormone at some point in his life and he died of alcoholism.
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by samiv 10mo ago
Relative to their size a lot of them are weak. Again despite size it's the body mechanics that determine most the physical lifting capability of any individual in any particular lift.
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by samiv 10mo ago
There's a difference between the guys who cycle Tour de France vs the ones who go around in the velodrome. The former group is endurance athletes with skinny legs and the latter group is more focused on maximum power. Similar to marath
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by samiv 10mo ago
Your point about the injury risk going up is valid. That being said going to failure and beyond is extremely effective way to train. As I mentioned in another comment a possibile way to mitigate the risks is to reduce the load and make the
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by samiv 10mo ago
False. Strength as measured by mostly powerlifting is impacted by a huge factor by the body mechanics, i.e the length of the various body parts, secondarily by tendon attachments and then finally by variations in tissues
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by samiv 10mo ago
If you were a newbie just getting started.. the ligaments and tendons take much longer to strengthen than the muscle. So the muscles getting stronger will outpace the connective tissue. Second potential issue is too much training vrt recove
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by samiv 10mo ago
Depending on the exercise you can also do this without a spotter. Either do cheat reps and focus on the negative (works with small exercise such as bicep curls) or drop set or super set. My personal fav is the cheat and negative and I do it
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by samiv 10mo ago
As a natty bodybuilder for over 30 years for anyone aspiring towards fitness and starting at the gym my most important advice is "Put the phone away and bust some ass" I see way too many people (the great majority) completely sabo
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by samiv 10mo ago
Early on in my career I couldn't understand why it was always the worst and most incompetent people who got promoted. Then I realized that it's not their incompetence that gets them promoted per se, it's that if they're
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by samiv 10mo ago
It's by design completely self serving. It's no longer a product for the users the users are the product. Unfortunately I think it can and it will get a LOT worse before the push back will make any difference. After all most users
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by samiv 10mo ago
I've been preaching this for a while but the era of PC as in "personal computing" is coming to an end and will slowly but surely be replaced with CC, Corporate Computing, where the corporations own everything, the hardware, t
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by samiv 10mo ago
The problem is that the non AI economy is already in the toilet. The consumer and commodities markets are all flashing red. Consumer debt is all time high. Inflation is still punishing the bottom end of workers severely and the ACA cuts wil
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by samiv 10mo ago
Heh...I've worked for 25 years and basically I'm yet to put code into production. Mostly projects that were cancelled or scrubbed either during development or shortly after or just downright never used since they were POC/pro
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by samiv 10mo ago
There's a saying "In a developing country nothing works but everything is possible. In a developed country everything works but nothing is possible" In Lord of the Rings, fellowship of the ring when Gandalf arrives in Shire a
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by samiv 10mo ago
Hello Yes sure I've heard that Qt6 improves the integration and type safety but I haven't tried that yet myself. Communicatingn with signals and slots and using Qt Property system is straightforward yes but even more straightforwa
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by samiv 10mo ago
I've worked with Qt about 15 years writing several applications both for work and for fun and overall I think it's a really powerful platform. Not without it's idiosyncrasies and quirks of course. That being said I find that
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by samiv 10mo ago
Can you elaborate on this?
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by samiv 10mo ago
I don't even think it's even that. These bugs seem like bog standard bugs related to correct sharing of graphics resources between processes and accessing with correct mutual exclusion.Blaming NV is likely just a convenient excuse
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by samiv 10mo ago
As a user...why would I care? If my Ferrari has an issue with the brakes and I go to my dealer I don't care if the brakes were by Brembo. Blaming the vendor and their drivers is just trying to shift the blame.
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by samiv 10mo ago
Wayland and its various implementations like KDE plasma are 90% ready. Now they just need the other 90% to move from alpha to product . I expect it'll take another decade or two.
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by samiv 10mo ago
Re X11 maintenance... I think it's mostly "done" and doesn't really need a lot of work. So not sure I see a problem there.
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by samiv 10mo ago
Shh...you're not supposed to mention these things alas you be down voted to death. I also have tremendous issues with Plasma. Things such as graphics glitching in the alt+tab task switcher or Firefox choking the whole system when openi
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by samiv 10mo ago
That's a very cynical take. Unfortunately likely correct. It's a fact that a publicly traded company is beholden to Wall Street and any time such a company would use their earnings for R&D the P/E and margins go down (i.e
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by samiv 11mo ago
Don't worry we (the people in the political west) are quickly reverting back to the historical norm that was also in effect during the Victorian era. Few rich people, minimal middle class and lots of poor working class people. After al
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by samiv 11mo ago
Because the wealth is not distributed evenly. You could ask the same question, why are the kings/emperors/despots and their rich oligarch friends of any given country XYZ wealthy and living luxurious lavish lives in palaces and pr
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by samiv 1y ago
That would seem odd.. the QSS is completely orthogonal to the code generated by the UI tool. I accept that sometimes you need to some tricks with it and sometimes the layout in the preview is not the same you get at runtime which is annoyin
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by samiv 1y ago
Yes and no. I just checked against Qt5 on ArchLinux. Core, GUI and Widget .so are all about 6mb each. I concede that it's closer to 20mb after all but at the same time it's not a fair apples to apples comparison because those libr
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by samiv 1y ago
Do these "modern" UI toolkits not have visual editors for knocking up the UI anymore? One of the strengths of Qt based UIs is that the framework has IDE like tools where creating UIs is just a matter of drag and dropping the UI wi
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by samiv 1y ago
For a startup good quality code will never make a difference if everything else is wrong, i.e. product market fit etc. But conversely poor quality code can destroy a startup (the product cannot pivot fast enough, feature development grinds

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