#1876: When Control Takes A Toll – A Back To School Special
Wednesday • August 28th 2024 • 9:59:50 pm • 3KB
I briefly spoke to a High School teacher who explained, that when asked to enter their email address. Some students need to be reminded, to enter their whole e-mail address. After two days of searching, I finally came up with a name for it. I will share...
#1875: Fitness Is Sacred, Fitness Is Life
Tuesday • August 27th 2024 • 11:30:38 pm • 5KB
The modern gym is pretty amazing, captious, clean, somewhat inexpensive. In my gym there is a little room, that blinks a street light telling people to switch machines. A nearby gym has an area where parents, can have their kids babysat while they workout....
#1874: Listen To Philosophy Books And Practice Programming
Tuesday • August 27th 2024 • 12:03:22 am • 3KB
The cleanest trick played on us, is indoctrination into mediocrity. You are taught useless facts, and given good grades for regurgitating them. You are told to earn good grades, or threatened with ruining your own future. And your parent’s couldn't be...
#1873: So You Have Learned Programming... What Do?
Sunday • August 25th 2024 • 11:50:12 pm • 4KB
At this moment your platform of choice should be Electron, a stripped down web browser. When you build an an electron project, it just opens a window. That shows HTML text, on a web page. This is a desktop application, so you only host downloads. You don...
#1872: Learn Programming First! Don’t Let Ghouls And Ineffective Education Trick You Out Of Your Future
Saturday • August 24th 2024 • 11:39:01 pm • 2KB
Don’t listen to uneducated ghouls lying that, AI will replace programmers. They talk like this because they fear you, they fear competition, and brilliance and dreamers. They fear more innovation, that will out compete and out think them. You are the...
#1871: Gentile Dedys
Saturday • August 24th 2024 • 12:31:53 am • 6KB
The one thing that you won’t be able to do, is become a great being in the last moment. Geniuses are the same way, you can’t become a genius at the last minute. Ladies and Gentlemen, again, same way, A king could declare a Nobleman, but never make, a...
#1870: Fitness Above All; Before You Take Care Of Others, You Must Take Care Of Yourself
Friday • August 23rd 2024 • 12:43:46 am • 3KB
The hardest thing, is breaking with unhealthy ways. That, and nothing else, is really the problem, with establishing a new routine. It is why we must choose long adventure trails, over just signing up for the gym. Gym is a difficult place, and adventure...
#1869: Don't Lift Heavy At The Gym: Scientific Evidence For High-Intensity, Multi-Hour Training With Low Weights
Wednesday • August 21st 2024 • 9:27:34 pm • 7KB
Studies have shown that muscle hypertrophy (growth) can occur with lower weights if the training volume is high enough. A landmark study by Schoenfeld et al. (2016) demonstrated that both high-load (heavy weights) and low-load (light weights) training can...
#1868: Gym Advice: Lifting Heavy Is A Mistake That Can Only Slow You Down
Tuesday • August 20th 2024 • 9:39:01 pm • 5KB
You have to lift what you can almost non-stop, for as long as you are willing to be at the gym. Duration of your exercise, elimination of rest, and that your exercise engages many muscles throughout. Is far more important, than the weight that you are...
#1867: The Seagull Diet; Or, What Really Happened On The Day I Learned To Love The Michigan Seagull
Monday • August 19th 2024 • 9:03:58 pm • 5KB
I first closely examined Michigan when I was ten or so, I was throwing darts at a map, in hopes of predicting my future. The dart hit just west of Detroit, so I studied it pondering if they had real Robot Cops. I did notice the lakes, but as a boy growing...
#1866: Codename Mephistopheles; Or, How Computer Programming Changes Everything
Sunday • August 18th 2024 • 8:54:54 pm • 6KB
Preface The text that follows, is a snippet out of the life of a programmer. It has been captured in hopes of showing you, that programming can be understood. It is not even that intimidating, and even programmers are often discover new words. Towards the...
#1865: How I Completely Ruined My Quest To Become Thin And Skinny
Sunday • August 18th 2024 • 12:59:10 am • 5KB
My idea was to lift light dumbbells, basically re-creating the 1980’s workouts. I just wanted to start somewhere sturdy, get some results and see where to go next. It just seemed like all the skinny people, were always dancing. I had some experience, from...
#1864: All Too Human
Friday • August 16th 2024 • 10:38:13 pm • 7KB
The experiment of life runs in parallel across the entire vastness of space, you emerged in one of the lucky patches where everything went mostly right. You are a product of a lot of time, a lot of space, and a lot of chaos, a lucky permutation of...
#1863: Bad Grades; Or, You Were Never Dumb
Thursday • August 15th 2024 • 11:45:03 pm • 4KB
Preface All you need to do to see the bad, is ask about effective and real results, ask about coherent education, tolerance of cramming, and kindling of creativity. Authentic education results in new capabilities daily, as each new lesson strongly...
#1862: Why Is Learning Programming So Unfriendly?
Wednesday • August 14th 2024 • 11:52:48 pm • 7KB
Because you are not yet angry enough, to write the software everybody needs. There are online code bins like codepen and jsbin, and p5.js editor which comes with great tutorial series. And they are good for learning, and back of the envelope experiments....
#1861: Get Serious About Growing Up
Tuesday • August 13th 2024 • 11:39:33 pm • 3KB
Your engineering degree or medical license, is too far in the future. And that future, is too expensive, and fetuses too much overwork, and up-front fees. You are thinking about dropping a fortune, on a school, that will not refund your money… If your...
#1860: The Rise Of The Couch Potato; Or, If It Is Too Hard, Then You Are Doing It Wrong
Monday • August 12th 2024 • 11:25:40 pm • 5KB
Fitness is all about, gradual adaptation. If you push your body too hard, it will stop the exercise. And there will be no adaption, because the exercise was too short. Without a long, sustained exercise, there will be minimal adaptation. People who choose...
#1859: The Golden Books
Sunday • August 11th 2024 • 1:01:16 pm • 4KB
Preface We need guidance at a young age, and terachers are not nearly enough. The notion of using grades, to encourage students to learn is cruel. Students tend to measure themsleves, with what teachers use as a trick Parents arent enough, they are made...
#1858: Are Programmers Scientists Or Just Really Weird Wizards?
Saturday • August 10th 2024 • 11:33:40 pm • 5KB
I was once tricked into going to swag plundering event, opening of a carpet store or some such. Where they gave away free pens, and staplers, or coasters, and other useless junk. I don’t know what this company was thinking, I didn’t know people kept track...
#1857: The Gym Problem; Or, The Lift Heavy For Big Muscle Myth
Friday • August 9th 2024 • 10:43:22 pm • 5KB
Dumbbells at the gym are for the body, the way narrated books at the library are for the mind. And both places are equally special, and must be viewed with great respect. Unlike some other institutions, neither the gym, not the library, has ever aimed to...
#1856: Svelte, Vue, React, Angular Considered Evil: Just Loop Over Signals With A Signal Loop Web Component
Thursday • August 8th 2024 • 10:22:28 pm • 3KB
I am not entirely serious, but I am not half joking, listen to the following with a sprinkle of salt. Nor do I seek to start flame wars, don’t hate, learn, build the next svelte or react in a 100 lines of code. I too have once looked at C, Perl, Jscript,...
#1855: Burn Fat, But Get Serious, And Protect Yourself From Giving Up
Wednesday • August 7th 2024 • 11:16:01 pm • 4KB
You must start by walking and hiking, and only gradually increase intensity of your workout. Just signing up for gym, and trying to lift like everyone else, will only increase your chances of giving up on weight loss. Lifting similar weights but with less...
#1854: Multiversal Travel; Or, Life After A Neat Nap
Tuesday • August 6th 2024 • 8:54:28 pm • 5KB
Buckle up buckaroos, another programming adventure, to doubt the strangest poem this side of missis-hippie. When I came to America, all the TV shows, were talking about getting in touch with your inner child. But none warned children, not to do that. That...
#1853: Towards A Flourishing Humanity
Monday • August 5th 2024 • 11:46:03 pm • 4KB
Some say that there is no morality without commandments, but that is a result of trickery, of being tricked out of wisdom. Others say that humanity’s aim is enlightenment, which tricks them into thinking that it can be reaches through multiple cultures....