An interesting point to note is that one of the world's strongest climbers, who recently put up the hardest problem in Fontainebleau, is Charles Albert, who spends most of his time climbing barefoot: https://www.planetmountain.com/en/news/climbing/charles-albe...
Readit Newsnatejenkins commented on Rock climbing and the economics of innovation softmachines.org/wordpres... · Posted by u/evilsimon
I had IT band and hamstring attachment tendinitis. I went to the best orthopedic doctor in the city. I explained my symptoms very clearly. He did identify the IT band tendinitis and walked out of the room. I had to catch him "after the appointment" to ask him why the back of my knee hurts then. He THEN did additional tests and identified the other source of the problem.
This is my experience, always. At best, the doctor confirms the problem if I prod them toward it.
I have some pain on the top of my feet now that I am running pretty fast. I am almost sure when I go to the doc they will give me a bs answer.
Shit, last time I had a pulled muscle in my back some doctor wrote "damaged disk" because he needed to put something on the paper to send me to his friend's physical therapy place. I then had to go to another doctor and get an MRI to prove that I don't, in fact, have disk damage, which would otherwise mess up my insurance rates.
I know I sound very bitter, but I find doctors literally worse than useless in most cases.
Did you manage to heal the IT band tendinitis and if so, what did you do?
natejenkins commented on Show HN: ViewDom.js, graphical tree view of rich html editors natejenkins.ch/view-dom... · Posted by u/natejenkins
Author here. I often find when working on rich editors that I want to see a graphical representation of the editor dom with the current selection and any hidden or hard-to-see characters. That's what ViewDom does. Unfortunately it still needs some work on mobile devices but I already find it useful.
natejenkins commented on Show HN: Xkcd mario-ish: a playable xkcd mario level natejenkins.ch/xkcd-mario... · Posted by u/natejenkins
Pretty cool, but very annoying when the back button doesn't work on samsung/android devices.
Ok, I re-enabled the back button.
natejenkins commented on Show HN: Xkcd mario-ish: a playable xkcd mario level natejenkins.ch/xkcd-mario... · Posted by u/natejenkins
Author here. I started this when the original comic was released in 2012 but it fell by the wayside. Recently I decided to pick up where I left off. It was interesting to take my own legacy coffeescript code from a time in which I didn't really know what I was doing and try to make it into something fun.
Code is here:
https://github.com/natejenkins/xkcd-mario
Thanks for any feedback!
natejenkins commented on Show HN: Xkcd mario-ish: a playable xkcd mario level natejenkins.ch/xkcd-mario... · Posted by u/natejenkins
Doesn't work on desktop either
it should work on desktop, does anything render or do you get a blank screen?
natejenkins commented on Show HN: Xkcd mario-ish: a playable xkcd mario level natejenkins.ch/xkcd-mario... · Posted by u/natejenkins
Pretty cool, but very annoying when the back button doesn't work on samsung/android devices.
sorry about that, I disabled it since I was accidentally hitting it on my phone but I agree it is annoying.
natejenkins commented on Dogs rush to help when owners cry, study suggests www-m.cnn.com/2018/07/24/... · Posted by u/shawndumas
I often tell people that I love my dog more than any human has ever loved a child, but I don't love this study.
The result is fairly obvious to any dog owner, but the study is representative of the type of "pop" science that appears so often in the news but carries little actual significance. 34 dogs total, 17 in each group (humming vs crying), 9 of which respond to humming and 7 of which respond to crying, albeit the latter much faster than the former. Of those 34 dogs, 16 were therapy dogs. While the time difference is large, more dogs respond to humming than crying.
So we have a very small sample size which is biased towards therapy dogs. It is also very susceptible to p-hacking. Why "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star"? Was this the song that produced the largest effect out of 20 different songs? Why do more dogs respond to the humming than crying but the dogs that do respond to crying act so quickly? Were the crying sounds much louder than the humming? Why not crying vs yelling, both of which are likely of similar volume? And so on.