Mostly the biters, but also I got to a point where I was getting frustrated with the spaghetti I was creating.
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I'm familiar with it in the context of strength sports, where "tweaking" your back, knees, etc. is relatively common.
If you tweak something and immediately go "oh no no no I'm gonna be out for weeks now", it does happen. The pain only seems to get worse for days, you can't move, if it's your lower back sometimes you can barely get out of bed.
When you learn to distinguish between "I'm hurt" (something felt a little funny and it hurt a bit, but you're still functional) vs "I'm injured" (something actually went really wrong, like a major muscle strain, or blunt trauma), and learn to keep a positive attitude in the face of pain, you're back in a couple days.
There's a group called Barbell Medicine that completely changed my mindset when it comes to nocebo. They teach people to accept pain is part of life, and to assess it instead of immediately worrying or panicking about it and going into what they call "movement avoidance".
I think we'll eventually find out COVID-19 has been around way earlier in 2019 than we thought. I've seen both here on HN and elsewhere anecdotal reports of people having a "flu like nothing before" in late 2019 and early 2020 in the US. There's at least one report of Italian doctors seeing a "strange pneumonia" in November (https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3076334/coro...).
My own story is this. My wife went with her team to a Chinese karaoke bar here in Seattle, in International District, in mid-November. Everyone fell very, very sick (one person has a lingering dry cough to this day). Fever for days on end, cough, etc. It seemed like the flu, except my wife and others claim it just felt different from other times they had the flu.
I caught it from my wife, and it did feel different. I'd never had a fever run for so long, and the way it progressed was just different. And the most unusual thing was that it seemed to affect my heart. I take a beta blocker to control frequent PVCs. But on the days immediately following "recovery" (by which I mean no more fever), I just couldn't move around too much or my heart would start throwing PVCs like crazy, as if I hadn't taken my meds. I was also feeling very weak and faint, which never happened to me before (I'm usually able to exercise just fine right after recovering from illness).
To add to the anecdote, our daughter caught it too but she just seemed to have a mild cold, which also matches the majority of infant COVID-19 cases.
I hope serological tests become widely available, since I'm really curious to know if I actually had it back then. Obviously in the mean time I'm not assuming I did, and I'm staying home and avoiding all human contact I can.
I wonder how valid this bit still is:
> the discrepancy between the severity of cases observed in the Hubei province of China and those occurring elsewhere in the world
I think at this point we’ve already seen very severe cases in many other countries, no? I don’t have proper sources though, just thinking of misc news articles I’ve read.
Heard from him multiple times: "CrossFit is bullshit."
It's a very cultish activity. I'm an amateur weightlifter and lift at my coach's box, and I just find it bizarre and unnecessarily painful (judging by the bodies on the floor after a WOD).
That’s an extremely judgmental way of looking at people. Some people have long terms goals in life, they’re just not related to their jobs. They see their jobs as a means to an end, a way to make money to accomplish those other goals. And some of them are really, really, really good at what they do at work, but really they just want a paycheck in exchange for their skills.
The most fluent conversation I’ve ever had in German while still learning it happened when I got drunk with an Austrian friend of mine.
They provide aid to persecuted Christian minorities around the world. For example, they help rebuild villages, farms, etc. when they are raided and destroyed by radicals of other religions. They also help people (re)start their businesses after tragic life events (e.g. pastors’ wives widowed after extremist attacks).
They also work with politicians in the US to bring awareness to these issues and apply political pressure when and where possible.
Almost all the money goes toward their causes. Very little admin overhead.
Imagine the cost of setting all that up, and going through the process with each student to get their visas. Only to tell them on arrival they’ve been tricked.
What exactly were they trying to accomplish with that?
It manifested when you had a single static member of a specific generic type in a class. The program crashed complaining about invalid CLR instructions. If you added a second static member of the same type to the class, or changed the type of the generic parameter, it didn't reproduce.
Turns out it was related to how the compiler used AVX intrinsics on CPUs that supported those instructions.
Pretty fun but took some convincing for people to believe it was a compiler bug.
I also think that saying “Google shows you all these neonazi sites” (probably not an accurate quote, but he said something of that sort) demonstrates ignorance of what Google is supposed to be.
That, and the fact that it seems like you need to adopt about 100 completely heterogeneous tools to successfully manage a Kubernetes cluster.
Why can’t the world move in that direction, instead of the insane Kubernetes hype that’s prevalent these days?
I'm Brazilian, a country where the vast majority of people will have at least two last names (typically one maternal, one paternal, but not uncommonly multiple from either or both parents), separated by spaces.
I've immigrated to the US, where the standard is for people to have a single last name, or if they have multiple, they're separated by hyphens.
To make my situation a little worse, legally I have two first names i.e. the second one is not registered as a middle name in any official document I have.
I've dealt with systems that wouldn't accept my last names. I either had to join them together, or separate them by a hyphen.
Some systems don't accept my legal double first name. When I got my driver's license in WA, the system accepted it but later had trouble generating the license identifier, so they had to manually apply the system's logic and enter it by hand.
Some systems just ask you to enter your full legal name, and then try to be smart about figuring out what your first, middle, and last names are. So I end up with the first of my last names being registered as a middle name, and I can't edit it.
Fortunately I'm close to being able to apply for naturalization, and that'll give me the opportunity to change my name. I'll just drop part of my first name and one of my last names and finally make it simple.
Edit: another thing that's funny wrt names in my life is my family situation. My wife has her own two last names (it's not super common in Brazil for women to take their husband's last name), and she has a daughter from her first marriage. So we all have totally different last names, with only my wife and my stepdaughter sharing one of their last names. That caused us a little bit of trouble crossing the border to Canada once.
On the rudeness aspect though, I do find cyclists in general pretty rude. I've even seen cyclists that seem to outright seek confrontation by putting themselves in situations that are unfavorable to them. For example, the other day I observed a challenging traffic situation and a driver had to stop mid turn at a corner. A cyclist was coming and saw the whole thing happen, but they still positioned themselves such that a "hook" accident could occur once things started moving again. As soon as the car started moving to complete their turn, the cyclist also moved forward and started arguing with the driver. It looked pretty clearly premeditated.
I’m in Seattle, not NYC, but this is an almost daily nuisance for me, both as a driver and as a pedestrian. Cyclists in general seem to have an attitude like rules and laws don’t apply to them. I see them blowing red lights, disobeying all-way stops, and nearly running over people all the time.