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admiral33··on DALL·E 3
We'll still have theater.
admiral33··on Show HN: Workout.lol – a web app to easily create a workout routine
I agree.

OP made a nice site for exploring different types of movements for a muscle group. That being said the simplicity seems geared towards those just starting out with training but the site surfaces too many (in my experience) accessory exercises and movements I wouldn't try without a PT guiding me.

If you are a true beginner and you are drawn to a site like OP's you're probably looking for a training program. You can find many comprehensive programs online [1] but when you're starting out the information is overwhelming. Whichever routine you choose keep in the back of your mind that the CDC recommends that you engage all major muscle groups in a muscle strengthening activity at least twice a week[2].

Targeting every muscle group individually takes too much time, this is why most resistance training programs include a handful of exercises that train many muscles at once. Those are called compound exercises. Look up each exercise listed in your program and determine if it is a compound exercise. Those are the foundation of your program.

You will probably fail your commitment to whatever program you've chosen in the next 2 weeks. Some days you will need to shorten your resistance workout for whatever reason. The compound exercises are the ones that you should still complete on those days. Some days you will skip the workout entirely. Still try to meet the CDC recommendation for the week by adapting your program and then recommit the following week.

Diet is a tangetial topic, but you will need adequate protein in order to progress your training.

Eventually you will notice a difference between the person you are when you're consistent with it and the person you are when you're not. At that point there's no going back. The workouts get more challenging, but regularly challenging yourself is something you look forward to.

[1]: https://thefitness.wiki/routines/strength-training-muscle-bu...

[2]: https://www.cdc.gov/physicalactivity/basics/adults/index.htm

admiral33··on Improving Students’ Learning with Effective Learning Techniques
Yeah my comment wasn't clear. Creating the flashcards is a slow process but supposedly imparts 'deeper' knowledge for the creator. That is the claim I'm curious about. Anki has shared decks that anyone can download and study [1]. Say someone has an exam coming up that they need to prepare for. They have two choices: study flashcards given to them, or make and study their own flashcards. For the sake of this example the deck that would be given to them and the one they'd make are identical and contain sufficient information to achieve a perfect score. 3 hypothetical scenarios:

- A short length study period where a large proportion of time is used to create the cards allowing less time to 'test' their knowledge compared to if they had started reviewing right away.

- A medium length study period where the creation period is now a smaller proportion of the total time. Because they created the deck their self testing performance increases at a greater rate compared to testing with a deck given to them.

- A longer length study period where the creation period is now a negligible proportion of the total study time. The benefits of being the one who created the flashcards fade. Whether they created the flashcards or not matters less as knowledge of the deck is complete either way and studying the deck is done only for maintenence.

Either way this is just a question about the most effective way to 'download' knowledge. I'd always choose to make my own cards because I'd be able to make a more targeted deck and know how to use plugins to make the cards more interactive.

1: https://ankiweb.net/shared/decks/

admiral33··on Improving Students’ Learning with Effective Learning Techniques
I've made plenty of flashcards during undergrad and creation can definitely be both high effort and low effort. Low effort copy and paste from textbook, high effort when using a plugin for anki can mean obfuscating multiple parts of an algorithm/tree. I'm proud of my best flashcards - but is there any evidence that creation + studying is more effective than studying alone over the same timeframe? Anki suggests that on their site but I haven't seen much evidence for it.

Study -> create -> study -> create is effective for us programmers using google but is study -> create -> study -> study ... more effective than study -> study... ?

admiral33··on Poll: Are startup founders a minority on HN?
Founders are a small percentage of the population in general. Seeing as this is a public forum I'd expect to see a similar percentage (a bit larger) represented on HN.
admiral33··on Lesser known Apple Watch workouts
Does strong give you programs?
admiral33··on Lesser known Apple Watch workouts
Tangential but does HN have a favorite workout app / training program?
admiral33··on Work is work, in which returns diminish (2020)
This is the first time I'm seeing it. If resubmissions were forbidden I wouldn't have ever known of its existence. I'm not sure what the solution is, but I'd like to think removing it from my cognitive landscape for the sake of a forum host (a stranger) isn't it.
admiral33··on Reducing methane is the fastest strategy available to reduce warming
Reducing global average warming is not the same as reducing global average temperature, although that can be the result over time if the rate of warming is reduced below 0. 'X will reduce warming' is describing a reduction to the positive rate of change.

It's also true that increasing global average warming can result in reduced warming and temperatures in some geographic areas so it is important to be specific with terminology depending on which aspect of the climate change debate we're talking about. You are right that the title is unintentionally misleading in this regard.

admiral33··on MIT engineers fly first-ever plane with no moving parts (2018)
I agree - network effects predate the internet after all. As long as good universities keep producing talented graduates it will be hard to undermine their reputation. And I don't think ambitious people being driven towards certain universities for clout is a negative. I say this as someone who went to an increasingly recognized yet still underdog state school. Maybe instead of discarding MIT's reputation a nudge in the direction of increasing editorial oversight can suffice. Though sensationalism seems to be a prerequisite for visibility these days
admiral33··on Snapchat’s product is booming
> For example, there may be individuals who have unauthorized or multiple Snapchat accounts, even though we forbid that in our Terms of Service and implement measures to detect and suppress that behavior.

Weird. If a person is not a bot, you'd expect that when they are making an nth account they are attempting to apply another use case for the service in their life. More time in app.

I'd also expect there are fewer incentives for creating bots on snap versus other platforms. Its a messaging app, people only use it with people they know.

admiral33··on U.S. eliminates human controls requirement for fully automated vehicles
Jaguar experimented with putting eyes on the vehicle itself:

https://www.businessinsider.com/jaguar-land-rover-eyes-on-ca...

admiral33··on The Hacker's Diet
This is an area with so much noise that doing nothing can be immediately preferable to doing anything because that 'anything' might be suboptimal.

But something must be done - especially in a cognitively strenuous field. Exercise, nutrition, and 8 hours of sleep are the only consistent 'free-lunch' brain supplements a person can take outside of medication for disabilities and maybe the occasional sideways oriented substance depending on the person.

Most people want to be hot and feel good. A minority of people know how to make that happen safely. I think this is where software can really shine - by telling people exactly what to do, how often, and adjusting based on results. This site touches on the wide context of health in an 'easy to understand' yet shallow way. It leaves a lot to be desired (for example strength training) and will leave people better off but still deep in that sea of noise. Have any HNers had success with any apps or programs that they would recommend?

admiral33··on 43 km line of sight with USB WiFi stick (2005)
What an incredible project. Does anyone know of any good interviews or written content from the engineers?
admiral33··on Show HN: CodeCaptcha - Hide web links behind coding challenges
So, developer.
admiral33··on Show HN: CodeCaptcha - Hide web links behind coding challenges
Maybe the interview question should be 'How is the question 'reverse this string' a bad interview question'
admiral33··on CDC reports increase in human rabies cases linked to bats in the U.S.
Why can't we just get the vaccine before exposure? I'm sure there's a good reason just curious
admiral33··on Motorists have been stranded on a major interstate in Virginia since last night
Hey doordash here is your marketing opportunity. Bring them food, water, handwarmers, etc on a bunch of snow mobiles. Some people get helped and you get a super bowl ad
admiral33··on Music is a negative superstimulus for speech (2020)
Have a group individually describe a series of simple images under a time constraint. Set a threshold for frequency changes in each description to determine 'more musical' or 'less musical' entries (voice to MIDI?). Shuffle the descriptions, have a second group individually listen to one description for each image and draw a picture under time constraint. Shuffle the drawings, display 2 at a time and the original image and have a third group individually vote for which comes closer to the source image. I've never designed an academic study just contributing - I'd assume drawing ability is a big weak point.

Or maybe show the original image in addition to similar images (with one key element different in each one) and have the second group select the image that most closely resembles the description.

admiral33··on [dead]
Tagging on because I'm shopping today - dumb TV and dumb monitor recommendations? Doesn't have to be on sale though that is always a plus.
admiral33··on How spies are caught (2001)
Clandestine agents with umbrellas is a common TV/movie trope
admiral33··on How spies are caught (2001)
A rare triple pun. Well played.
admiral33··on Slow Down, Finish Faster
2000m is the standard for benchmarking yourself. Legs/back/arms are three distinct movements - when you are done pushing with your legs and they are fully extended you should still be upright, then lean back, then arms. The arms should just be dead weight used as a hook for the oar up until the last part of the drive. Engaging them throughout will tire you faster. Reverse the order on the way back to the catch.

If you're feeling particularly motivated - bring a bucket ;)

admiral33··on Things I’ve learned in my 20 years as a software engineer
> They argued amongst themselves on the pettiest of things that had no impact on the business.
admiral33··on Intermediate Algebra
Before College all math courses in the US 'build up' to Calculus 1 & 2 [1,2] presumably to prepare motivated students for engineering. Calculus 2 is the highest you can go in a public High School before a student will start thinking about starting their college career early or doing an independent study. This one track path is not without its side effects. As you can see by skimming this textbook the information on linear systems is lacking - something that might be more interesting to those who want to study CS.

[1]: https://www.khanacademy.org/math/calculus-1

[2]: https://www.khanacademy.org/math/calculus-2

admiral33··on Moderna Is About to Begin Trials for HIV Vaccine
> probably anybody sexually active should get it.

Agree - if we can get rid of HIV we should. I looked at the exclusion criteria in the trial and it didn't mention use of a prophylactic. Widely available prophylactics have been a huge success with preventing HIV, I wonder how that will impact the trial.

https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT05001373

admiral33··on Microsoft exec: “Summary of meeting with Steve Jobs"
"All the work that I have done in my life will be obsolete by the time I'm 50, Apple II is obsolete now, Apple Is were obsolete many years ago. The Macintosh is on the verge of becoming obsolete in the next few years.

This is a field where one does not write a Principia which holds up for 200 years. This is not a field where one paints a painting that will be looked at for centuries or builds a church that will be admired and looked at in astonishment for centuries. No, this is a field where one does one's work and in 10 years it's obsolete and really will not be usable in 10 or 20 years. It's sort of like sediment of rocks. ... You're building up a mountain and you get to contribute your little layer of sedimentary rock to make the mountain that much higher, but no one on the surface, unless they have X-ray vision, will see your sediment. They'll stand on it, it'll be appreciated by that rare geologist, but no, it's not like the Renaissance at all. It's very different ..."

admiral33··on Netflix will start publishing video games, has hired former EA exec
Worth a watch?
admiral33··on FAA warns Musk that he is building Super Heavy launch tower without permission
At the very least it's good for show.
admiral33··on Norman doors are everywhere (2016) [video]
If you're entering or going deeper into a building: pull. They're designed in this direction for fires so that if one breaks out all doors are push to open. This rule doesn't apply to a private residence.
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