I’ve wanted an app like this for ages. I’ve always suffered from analysis paralysis when trying to work out a good, short exercise routine. This looks like it will be the perfect solution — thank you!
I cycle between stronglifts.com (simple 5x5 program, but detailed if you want it) and "Convict Conditioning" calisthenics program. Weights vs body weight. Recommend either!
Thanks! Same, that's why I did this. Once I start exercising I tend to keep my streak. However If I don't start, I keep thinking that I'll find the perfect workout and start tomorrow.
Bin bag, bin lorry. I grew up saying dustbin but most people just call them bins these days.
I believe “dustbin” is from the Victorian era where what little rubbish people had was burnt in the fireplace. The “dustbin man” would come by and take away your fireplace ashes.
I’m not a doctor but perhaps try running with a smart watch that shows you your heart rate and put in an amount of effort that keeps your heart rate at about 60-70% of max. For now that may be a brisk walking pace not even a jog. As you get fitter your heart rate should come down for the equivalent speed. I also used to go for runs and hit max within a few minutes and stay there for the whole run but ultimately I think I was just pushing too hard.
That's what I do, zone 2 training. I use a chest strap monitor too. 30-45 min sessions, 2-3 days a week for months altogether, mixing it up with intervals some times. I've done this many times over in my life, never seeing any improvement. Even today, the smallest of jogs will take me to max HR within 10-15 min.
Assuming you've had yourself checked up, and do not have any medical conditions, then maybe you are just aerobically deficient (https://uphillathlete.com/aerobic-training/aerobic-deficienc...). Start slower, doesn't matter if you are walking. In fact, if you are doing 3x45 mins of zone 2 each week, start doing 2x45mins of brisk walking to keep your heart rate at zone 2. After about 4-6 weeks, you should find that you can start jogging again and hopefully (!) your heart rate doesn't peak so fast.
Is there any reason for such strictness with your heart rate? I never measured anything and always progress up to a nice speed, and then it's when it flattens. Mix up the trainings and leave the HR monitor at home. Do ones where you just sprint as often as you can and others where you go slow, if you see some stairs during your run just sprint over them, etc. Of course, only if you're a regular person without existing heart issues.
When will the movie industry learn from the success of services like Spotify or DRM free music services like Bandcamp? I want media I can own, or consume from a single subscription. I would happily pay a few quid for a movie if I could download a high quality DRM free file. Piracy is not only free but provides a better product, a file you can do whatever you want with and watch anywhere.
Personally I don’t pirate, I prefer getting second hand physical media (funnily enough the movie studios miss out on any money there as well).
from a consumer's perspective however, music streaming enjoys the relative lack of "exclusive" content that other media suffers from. so i personally have no issues with its current state.
Read the post. It said that people trade in the wrong direction the majority of the time. So played the game with the strategy that I’d go 50x leverage long or short in the opposite direction to my initial hunch upon reading the headlines.
Ended up with a 1000% return. Just need a time machine now.
I love how many neat and handy features are baked into the iOS accessibility settings. Apple should make more noise about these features. I recently discovered there’s a white noise generator baked in which meant I could get rid of the annoying white noise app I had been using to keep my napping baby asleep. Another recent discovery was the on screen anti-motion sickness things that move around with the accelerometer. I get terrible motion sickness and they make a massive difference.
They do mention them in their press releases, they’re featured during accessibility day and they’re occasionally in ads too. I’m not sure what more noise would be relevant for these features.
The "reduce white point" is a great hidden feature in Accessibility that dims your backlight even further for nighttime reading. You can even assign it to a triple-click or backtap (another great hidden feature).
Reminds me of a similar situation I experienced while working on a big project. I came down with the flu and woke up in a delirious, feverish state at 2am feeling like I was trapped in the codebase and I needed to make all the tests pass so I could escape. It almost felt like my conscious brain had somehow found its way into the unconscious part.
The first one was programming; I'd been working on a little image editing application, implementing anti-aliased gradient brushes (one colour in the centre and another at the edges, with a fast enough and close enough hack to deal with the jagged edges).
The fever had me hallucinating circles and how to render them for the entire (unbelievably tedious) night.
The other time I'd been playing RA95 for a few hours (I was addicted to that shit) and started feeling progressively worse over the space of a few minutes.
I called it an early night (it was about eight o'clock) and went to bed - then it got worse;
The fever, the headache, and an army of little men and tanks running all over the ceiling.
This is cool. It reminds me of a research team I worked in a few years back that had built something like this for mobile devices. It used a camera overhead to provide info about device positions, allowing all the devices to act as a single screen on a surface [0].
I actually find this acts as a useful heuristic to bound the complexity of a diagram appropriately. For example if I'm making a diagram with Mermaid and find the code is becoming unwieldy, I take that as an indicator that I'm trying to stuff too much info into one diagram and I should split it into separate diagrams or redo it at a higher level of abstraction.
