aesclepius (u/aesclepius)

aesclepius commented on If we want a shift to walking we need to prioritize dignity streets.mn/2023/07/19/if-... · Posted by u/PaulHoule

sershe · 3 years ago

Subjectively worse, not objectively worse. I think driving is much more convenient and nice for most things I like to do. The only exceptions I can think of are if I were a kid in a car-centric area (strangely, the thinking in the US is usually reversed, kids supposedly need to be in the burbs), or if I was drunk. I don't often get drunk, so I'd prefer to drive for everything from minor groceries to outdoor activities ~100% of the time.

aesclepius · 3 years ago

Jesus it's objectively worse. NY/Chicago/London/Paris/Tokyo you can conceivably and easily nip out to a grocer's, bodega, cafe or pub within 10 minutes of where you are. LA? Outside of certain certain pockets like DTLA, KTown, WeHo or similar walking is tough and if your friend is across town you're SoL without a car.

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dhr · 3 years ago

I'm planning out a home/garage gym now. Is there any equipment you recommend? Or ones that people should stay away from?

aesclepius · 3 years ago

Rogue is the gold standard but I honestly haven't seen any deficiencies with other smaller brands like Rep or Titan Fitness. I don't know your fitness level, but if you have the space I always recommend the basics: squat rack if you have the time (can also function as pull-up and bench), dumbbells, curl bar if possible, and free weights. I'd keep an eye on used/craigslist listings as well, with the pandemic lifting, a lot of people who spent a lot of money on excess equipment will be looking to unload extra equipment.

aesclepius commented on What if regular exercise is the best cognitive exercise? blog.vslira.net/2022/11/w... · Posted by u/vslira

b33j0r · 3 years ago

I believe most of this, except that no one I know who works out a lot is calm.

If anything, I’m always looking around for empty syringes. They act like they are gonna climb a mountain then come back and try to make me do Beachbody and chalean extreme, then yell at me about what I eat ;)

Not saying exercise is bad, but I do not associate it with calmness. (I’m a healthy dude, you are not hearing this from someone 50 lbs overweight)

aesclepius · 3 years ago

You're conflating two issues. One, the benefit of exercise on mental health, and two, the side effects of the gym lifestyle and culture.

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westoncb · 4 years ago

I've experimented with this a fair bit, but my experience so far is: when I ramp up activity I see improvement in sleep, but once it becomes normal it doesn't help much. I also occasionally run into really annoying situations where I'll do some pretty heavy lifting during the day, then go to sleep knowing how important it will be for me to get rest that night—which creates the kind of self-awareness trap described above and I lay there for hours super tired but also kind of wired, tossing and turning.

Most of my experience with this has been relatively high intensity over ~1.5hrs though, not full days of physical activity (like I had with jobs in the past, landscaping or stocking groceries etc.)—but I don't have that much time to dedicate to it with the desk work I'm doing now.

aesclepius · 4 years ago

Anecdotally, I find even dedicated heavy lifting (1-1.5 hours) does not improve my sleep but similar durations of high-intensity cardio (45 minutes+) heavily improve my sleep even comparing for differing work-related stress baselines. I alternate lifts/HIIT,Tabata and do this regularly (2+ years of 5-6/week workouts) and still have reduced sleep latency times compared to before dedicated regular work-outs. My job is 100% sedentary desk job as well. Dunno if that helps.

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rupi · 4 years ago

USA here - ordered a Tesla Model Y in July 2021. Estimated delivery was October 2021. A couple of weeks ago, that date changed to April 2022.

aesclepius · 4 years ago

Man, that's crazy how sudden this car demand surge happened. I was in the market for a Model Y in February 2021 and got mine in March.

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scrose · 5 years ago

If you’re interested, you should check out ‘Ortho Bionomy - A path to self care’ by Luann Overmyer. She touches a lot on what you were just saying.

Often, people expect to do whatever they want and then go to doctors to ‘fix’ them. It’s good for doctors, but not so great for you.

I just started getting into some of the self-care routines she lists in her book after breaking my foot and having multiple doctors recommend surgery to ‘fix’ things. Instead of going down that route, I asked an Ortho-bionomist I know personally to help me. In a single session, most of the swelling and limp in my foot ‘disappeared’. After sticking to the very simple routines he suggested and that I read in the book(none involving pills or icing it), my foot healed more in a week than it did in the 2 months I sat around taking Tylenol and just ‘waiting’ for someone to fix me.

aesclepius · 5 years ago

> Often, people expect to do whatever they want and then go to doctors to ‘fix’ them. It’s good for doctors, but not so great for you.

Hackernews doesn't realize they are the 0.000001% of patients we see. I'd love for all my patients to make the lifestyle, diet and habit changes I recommend in addition to the medications I prescribe. The reality is that users here do not recognize the privilege they have in terms of money, agency and knowledge. The vast majority of people I see are barely scraping by and have very little time/effort/privilege to make the changes I would like them to undergo.

aesclepius commented on Googling Strangers: One Professor's Lesson on Privacy in Public Spaces (2019) npr.org/2019/03/10/702028... · Posted by u/ddtaylor

sodality2 · 5 years ago

I found it scarily easy to find info on some people. I was talking to my friend about it, so I tested it out on them (with their permission).

With just their public facing instagram account handle, I:

Found full name from family members in following list -> email, phone #, etc from full name

Found email + phone of most of the close family

Found address, PO box, and usernames from their past accounts

Found their (current!) password for email, social media, etc (but not bank) from a breach from 2016 (!!!)

Found their old wattpad account (!!!!!!)

Found out that their instagram had no 2fa and "hijacked it" with them next to me, changed email and password (not sure if they could have recovered it afterwards). Notifications did come through but given their email, I used an email newsletter spammer I made and a text spammer to blow up their phone to hopefully distract for the few minutes it took, to simulate a real attack.

Needless to say, it was bad news all around. (I already knew some of the info I found, but my search consisted of me pretending I didn't)

Edit: the irony of me posting about data security when I just divulged where I grew up & school district less than 2 weeks ago :'( (though I bet I'm fine given I have no other accounts with this username)

aesclepius · 5 years ago

I've got another anecdote about exposed information. Saw a car's 'Instagram handle' while next to them (was passenger) and got curious. Sure enough, their car's Instagram handle was public-facing and had links to the presumable owner's instagram handle (public facing) and his wife's handle (also public). Within five minutes of horrified clicking, I found both parents' birthdays, occupations (and photos of locations where they worked at) full legal names and birthdays of their parents, sisters, brothers (they had posted birthday celebrations and funeral announcements with names and dates), their wedding date (and all subsequent vacations they took), residence (posted about buying a new house), their children's full legal names and where they went to school (posted dropping them off at school), and the makes and models of all their cars (posted about buying new cars) over the last 5-6 years. It was a little scary to see how open they were.

aesclepius commented on Ask HN: How can I use my phone to create things rather than consume them? · Posted by u/peterlk

peterlk · 5 years ago

Yes! This is the kind of stuff I'm looking for. There appear to be some interesting fractal apps as well. Any other suggestions?

aesclepius · 5 years ago

Heavypaint is a fantastic abstract drawing tool that's fun to do while you're killing time. Here's a great example of how easy it is to get into: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yL3ho4Vc7Ng)

aesclepius commented on Ask HN: How can I use my phone to create things rather than consume them? · Posted by u/peterlk

michaericalribo · 5 years ago

This is a great question! I think other commenters miss the basic point that mobile is frictionless and can be used anywhere.

I think OP is thinking along the following lines: I’m on the bus / in the loo / waiting for my lunch to heat in the microwave. How can I use these moments to produce creatively? I already have a great tool that I know can deliver content efficiently and accessibly to me in these situations—I use my phone here already. But are there any ways to change my behavior to not flick through another feed, but actually advance my own creative goals?

Successfully being a creative person isn’t a matter of ‘tear it all down and start from scratch.’ It’s important to use the resources that are already available to us!

For my part, I wish it was easier to write long form quickly. Writing this on an iPad keyboard just now sucked—light years less efficient than on my computer keyboard. And my phone is even worse! But I often want to journal in bed or write fiction away from my desk. Are there better ways to input lots of text quickly?

aesclepius · 5 years ago

> Writing this on an iPad keyboard just now sucked—light years less efficient than on my computer keyboard. And my phone is even worse! But I often want to journal in bed or write fiction away from my desk. Are there better ways to input lots of text quickly?

I hate to suggest you buy things to improve your experience, but I had the same issue earlier this year. The Magic Keyboard really is just that, delivers a 95% equivalent of a computer keyboard that allows me to enter long-form text comfortably on an iPad Pro. My n of 1 and all that but I've found it to be a suitable quick-boot alternative when I just want to write a couple paragraphs down instantly.