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paulmooreparks commented on Child prodigies rarely become elite performers economist.com/science-and... · Posted by u/i7l

thesz · 3 days ago

This is a story of how one became better golf player by increasing his strength: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sr2pgBTRpK4

One can enhance cognitive functions by strength training: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8534220/

Aside from time travel, the best way to improve in very important things is through strength training.

paulmooreparks · 3 days ago

The saying isn't "The only way..." but "The best way...". Of course one may improve with all the things you mention, and it's a tongue-in-cheek statement anyway, but there's a grain of truth to it. I saw it quoted by one of the greatest teachers in golf, Harvey Penick.

paulmooreparks commented on Child prodigies rarely become elite performers economist.com/science-and... · Posted by u/i7l

bsder · 4 days ago

In addition, there is a vast difference between say tennis, a sport, and chess, a purely mental activity.

A child prodigy in tennis may find that their body didn't grow in such a way to be a pro as an adult. If your opponents are taller, stronger, have better VO2Max, etc. than you as an adult, it doesn't matter how good you were as a child--they're going to beat you as an adult.

Chess, of course, now provides the stark reverse contrast. If you weren't a child prodigy in chess, you simply will not excel against the competition as an adult.

paulmooreparks · 4 days ago

There's a saying about golf that probably applies to chess: The best way to improve is to go back in time and learn it at an earlier age.

paulmooreparks commented on A macOS app that blurs your screen when you slouch github.com/tldev/posturr... · Posted by u/dnw

avalys · 14 days ago

You can measure my productivity by how slouched I am.

Sitting up straight at my desk, chair locked, perfect posture? I’m doing nothing, maybe looking through System Preferences to change the system highlight color.

Sliding down in my chair like jelly, with my shoulders where my butt should be and my head resting on the lumbar support? I’m building the next iPhone and it’ll be done by 2 AM.

paulmooreparks · 14 days ago

Exactly what I came here to say. I've been programming for 40 years, 35 professionally, and I didn't find my ergonomic, no-pain, no-RSI happy place until I stopped following advice to sit up straight. I set my chair with just enough resistance, set the head rest where it puts my eyeline directly on my monitors, which are set considerably higher than average and about a metre from my head. I can work for hours like this now, with no pain.

I could never use an app like this. Maybe I should write one that blurs the screen when I don't slouch.

paulmooreparks commented on I'm 34. Here's 34 things I wish I knew at 21 elliot.my/im-34-heres-34-... · Posted by u/clowes

fao_ · 17 days ago

> One day – probably somewhere between 28 and 38 – you'll wake up and just feel 'off'. A bit sore. A bit tired. That feeling will never leave you. Be grateful for your youth while you have it.

This happened when I was 20. I don't know what else to say other than, it fucking sucks.

paulmooreparks · 17 days ago

I can honestly say that this happened to me, but the feeling did leave me. It required a massive change of lifestyle and the habits that went with it.

paulmooreparks commented on I'm 34. Here's 34 things I wish I knew at 21 elliot.my/im-34-heres-34-... · Posted by u/clowes

paulmooreparks · 17 days ago

This is well done. I can't say I agree with all of them, but I agree with the fact that you sat down and thought about them, and that you wrote them down. Good job.

> Adults make a lot more sense when you realise they're just children in big bodies.

That one, I absolutely agree with.

I'm 55. I would have a hard time limiting myself to 55 things I wish I knew when I was 34. When I'm 105, I still will have too many for now. :)

paulmooreparks commented on Ask HN: Share your personal website · Posted by u/susam

paulmooreparks · 24 days ago

https://parkscomputing.com/

I wrote the engine for this so that I can just write bare HTML or Markdown files, put them into the content folder, update the index, and away we go. It also internally uses a JSON replacement I wrote, XferLang, so it's quite an experimental platform.

paulmooreparks commented on You need a kitchen slide rule entropicthoughts.com/kitc... · Posted by u/aebtebeten

gruez · 25 days ago

>The point of the article is that he can set the C and D scales to the proportion he needs, one time, and then just move the slider around for each ingredient, rather than doing a different calculation for each ingredient.

Is punching a number into a calculator and then multiplying by M (memory function, for the scale factor) really that much work than carefully sliding tithe slider into position and reading/eyeballing the output?

paulmooreparks · 25 days ago

Yeah. Heck, you can just prop the slide rule up somewhere and look at it without even moving the slider. No button punching required.

paulmooreparks commented on You need a kitchen slide rule entropicthoughts.com/kitc... · Posted by u/aebtebeten

Someone1234 · 25 days ago

> Kitchen work is all about proportions

Only in Imperial/United States customary units. They start with a few unconvincing metric examples, then throw away the pretence and jump right into cups, tbsp, etc.

If you'd stop using Imperial, and started using metric + scales, the entire problem domain no longer exists.

paulmooreparks · 25 days ago

Bases for cases. One of the advantages of Imperial measurements is that they are divisible by more factors than 2 and 5. This is where metric falls down for cooking. NB: I know the metric system and use it daily, but it's not perfect for every use case.

paulmooreparks commented on You need a kitchen slide rule entropicthoughts.com/kitc... · Posted by u/aebtebeten

calmbonsai · 25 days ago

This guy just really, really wants to use his slide rule. A cheap gram-accurate scale and an electronic calculator are a more...scalable kitchen solution.

Also, not all ingredients in a recipe scale linearly--most notably spices, tinctures, and any fermentation components.

paulmooreparks · 25 days ago

The point of the article is that he can set the C and D scales to the proportion he needs, one time, and then just move the slider around for each ingredient, rather than doing a different calculation for each ingredient. Knowing when to vary the proportion is just basic cooking knowledge which would have to be applied either way.

paulmooreparks commented on You need a kitchen slide rule entropicthoughts.com/kitc... · Posted by u/aebtebeten

paulmooreparks · 25 days ago

This is great! I actually just bought a slide rule a few weeks ago (a Pickett N902-ES), and I've been working through the original booklet. One reason I bought it was to get a different perspective on calculation, since I never used a slide rule in school. Case in point: I do a lot of cooking, and this use case never occurred to me.

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