One thing I've really noticed, lately, is the importance of a strong grip. Holding bars or pulling on handles or lifting blocks or bells doesn't seem to develop the muscles in the hands and arms anywhere near as efficiently, as realwork. Especially because realwork tends to constantly switch between different activities, and fine/coarse movements.

It's like the difference between typing and writing with an ink pen.

It's like the finer development of each particular muscle can create excess lift. Perhaps it's a question of muscular control or application. Or, I suspect, heavier bones. All of the strong men I know have very strong bones. That's why you can't easily tell how strong they are, by appearance alone. It's things like tendons and calcification, gracefulness, or the coordination between mind and body. Simply often knowing _how_ to do the thing most neatly and efficiently.

One thing I've really noticed, lately, is the importance of a strong grip. Holding bars or pulling on handles or lifting blocks or bells doesn't seem to develop the muscles in the hands and arms anywhere near as efficiently, as realwork. Especially because realwork tends to constantly switch between different activities, and fine/coarse movements.

It's like the difference between typing and writing with an ink pen.

It's like the finer development of each particular muscle can create excess lift. Perhaps it's a question of muscular control or application. Or, I suspect, heavier bones. All of the strong men I know have very strong bones. That's why you can't easily tell how strong they are, by appearance alone. It's things like tendons and calcification, gracefulness, or the coordination between mind and body. Simply often knowing _how_ to do the thing most neatly and efficiently.

Woodworkers know the pain when this happens.

Lmao I always wondered how endgrain would behave in a thicknesser.. Good to know that it fucking explodes 😂👀

ATM these are my thicknessers, I'm in the market for a nice planer, but I don't wanna spend a fortune

I've made $0.05 cuck bucks in sats just saying good morning, AMA

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If you feel the urge to go to the gym, every day, have you considered transitioning to some other, more productive, form of physical labour, instead?

Why is this not a thing?

AI hype is bringing out all of the misanthropes.

make software fast again

More and more people are eating extremely strict diets to distract themselves from the craziness in the world.

Food OCD.

Damn I thought I came up with it. I probably saw this XKCD years ago and forgot.

I found a problem with the Monty Hall problem.

It starts out with 3 doors on 3 stages. Behind 1 door I am told there is a brand new car. And behind the other two doors is a goat. But they won't tell me which door is which.

They tell me that I can choose any door and I will win whatever is behind that door.

I choose door number one.

Then Monty Hall says "Show him what was behind door number 2!" and door number 2 opens and there is a goat!

Then Monty Hall says "Now... do you want to stick with your choice, or switch doors?"

And I say "Yes, I want to switch. I want to switch to the goat that you have shown me behind door number 2."

Or they just don't want kids. Children aren't robots you can program.

I've never met a man who wanted a full-time housewife, in perpetuity. I think they're an Internet myth.

What do we spend the money on, once nobody works?

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The basics are easy to understand, but what is tricky is interpreting what the compiler is actually saying. The basics are just that if you borrow something, you must ensure that the owning variable stays alive during the entire lifetime of the borrow.... otherwise it will be freed and the borrowing reference will point at memory that isn't safe anymore. But the details about how to do this, and what the fuck the compiler just said, that is where the nightmare arises.

I have to admit I've avoided using Rc and RefCell and gone straight to Arc and RwLock instead because those work in more cases and I can't be bothered with the single thread cases anymore.

And I usually only have to reference lifetimes if a structure has borrowed data. Borrowed parameters in functions giving borrowed return values don't need explicit lifetimes anymore.

I use macros where typing it all out would be crazy. But the macro language isn't super easy to read.

If rust devs didn't care about the usually *tiny* cost of copying things, they wouldn't use lifetimes. But they want perfection. I'm sick in the head that way myself. Lucky for us newer compilers are much more able to figure out the lifetimes and we can elide them.

JavaScript is an ok language to write code in. But it is a terrible language to read. Languages need variable locality so you can comprehend what you are reading. If a language requires an IDE to compile the language in order to resolve variable bindings, that is bad. I remember spending most of my time trying to track where variables were being declared and set when referenced in completely different places and contexts. Drove me nuts, turned me off big time.

I also don't like "magic" shortcuts. Python django uses a lot of magic shortcuts. They go so far as to put meaning into variable names (double underscore things)!! The problem is while it makes code smaller and easier to write, without deep knowledge of the framework it is impossible to read.

And far too few people read code. The ratio of code readers to code writers needs to go up. We think open source is safe because somebody *could* read it and verify it is good.... but nobody actually does.

Code should be readable and comprehendable by someone who doesn't even know the language. It should be self describing enough for that.

Rust breaks this rule too, but only because it had to define a brand new concept of lifetimes.

Id share more, but I don't need the public/governments knowing my network setup XD They need to guess a little.

Yeah it's older now, and it wasn't cheap. Everything else was though. Network cards were luck on marketplace, someone sold me machines with them in it, i yanked them out and resold the gear. I found a few dozen LC fiber cables at a thrift store, and a friend sold me a couple sfp ethernet adapters cheap. I'm mostly fiber though.