Readit NewsAll I know about it is that people make fun of it. And they do weird pull-ups that I don't want to do. But I am attracted to the community aspect because I've also heard about that.
Like most things, "dont knock it till you have tried it". You never have to do something you are either uncomfortable doing or are unable to do; and there always progressions for movements that might be difficult for you. For example, many overhead movements are difficult for me but the coaches will always work with you to find something you can do that will still be challenging and achieve the goal of the workout.
I workout with Police officers, Lawyers, Doctors, Dentists, Stay at home moms, Accountants, Students, other tech folks, etc, you name it they're all there.
There's something about "shared misery" that brings people together and builds a comrade. That turns into a community where you start to hang out with them out of the gym/etc.
This happens at any group fitness place where the same people show up at the same time to do the same thing. It's natural, organic and freeing.
I've moved across the country 3 times now and this is how I integrated into each area I moved into.
Turns out just because you are a good software engineer, it doesnt mean you will be a good firefighter, and I need to dedicate a huge amount of time learning the job because software is a creativity focued job and Fire/EMS is a memory based one, and i have a bad memory.
The sleep is terrible, im an introvert and have a hard time getting along with others at the firehouse, but will say without a doubt it was absolute best decision ive ever made in my life. You will never see the facial expressions behind a computer you see in this job.
Im doing creative data analytics for fire depts to see how to save more lives, and thinking about making the swap to law enforcement just because i think my past as a software engineer can save more lives there. One example of my analytics is posting cops in areas where statistically it isnt likely for fire/EMS to show up in time, if the cop gets on sceane sooner, they can begin patient care sooner, and unltimaly increase rosc rare. You gotta be the change you want to see in the world you know?
The great examples of this are 'A from-scratch tour of Bitcoin in Python' https://karpathy.github.io/2021/06/21/blockchain/ and 'Let's build GPT: from scratch, in code, spelled out' https://youtu.be/kCc8FmEb1nY from Andrej Karpathy
I wonder if anybody tried to collect all such projects together and built his own 'Internet in just 100 lines of code'
My son has put his airpods through the wash at least 3 times and they continue to function!
as was the speed of Turbo Pascal compilation and the elegance of their text mode windowing object system.
I remember scouring all the possible BBS dialup file servers to find a compiler for my first 8086 machine .. I knew there had to be something better than GW Basic .. I could not find a compiler for free, but did happen up on A86 assembler, so got an intro to how the machine really worked.
Was so happy when I could afford Turbo Pascal back in the day. best product ever.
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