yrotslluf (u/yrotslluf)

yrotslluf commented on Ask HN: How to be alone? · Posted by u/sillysaurusx

rfc3092 · 6 days ago

To get things out of the way: yes it is hard being alone. But it is also hard to be with someone and is very hard to take care of kids and family and such. And it is waaay harder to be with wrong person. There are no easy roads in life and being single is one of the easiest.

Now I’ll focus on practical advise:

- gym every day. No excuses. If you don’t know what to do or lack motivation- get a personal trainer.

- besides gym pick an active “hobby”. Cycling, rollerblading, running, skiing, surfing etc. You need self-supporting way to spend time outdoors. Again: do seek instruction.

- learn to play music. It is very healing and rewarding. Also frustrating and hard. Guess what? Take classes. Joining (community) school is great. Getting into local band is amazing. Most importantly here: you do not need to talk to these people. Same goes for drawing studio.

- professional education. Maybe you always wanted to be CPA?

- deep and challenging activities: sailing, diving, flying, mountaineering etc

- checklist reading, movie watching

- study textbooks

- systematic traveling

- volunteer

- build things with your hands and give them away

- learn to recognize your emotional state and how it changes.

My “qualifications”: I was single for ~10+10 years.

yrotslluf · 6 days ago

Despite the comments bickering about how often to hit the gym or what types of activities overlap -- this comment is right: hit the gym.

Get a personal trainer or try signing up with a CrossFit gym or another gym that has coached classes. You need form instruction, and you need to take it slow.

For me, my mental health and physical health are tied directly to each other and this was the single best thing I did for myself in my late 30s.

yrotslluf commented on Show HN: I was reintroduced to computers: Raspberry Pi airoboticist.blog/2025/12... · Posted by u/observer2022

yrotslluf · 3 months ago

Thinking through the stated use case makes me think a small drone that would undock, scan your house, send you the video, and redock on request would be a useful project/product. Great peace of mind without a full stationary security camera system.

yrotslluf commented on Beej's Guide to Git beej.us/guide/bggit/... · Posted by u/mixto

beej71 · a year ago

Hey all--if you find things wrong, post 'em. I'll clean 'em up. :)

Love, Beej

yrotslluf · a year ago

Not wrong of course — thank you for your amazing guides! But feedback re: "15.7 Multiple Conflicts in the Rebase":

There are two things I suggest as workflows for people when I teach them about rebase workflows.

> Since rebase “replays” your commits onto the new base one at a time, each replay is a merge conflict opportunity. This means that as you rebase, you might have to resolve multiple conflicts one after another. ... This is why you can conclude a merge with a simple commit, but ...

For multiple conflicts on several commits being replayed, if it's _not_ useful to go through them all one at a time, I suggest that people do a squash first rebase from the fork point (which by definition can not have conflicts) to collapse their commits into a single commit first, and then rebase again from the branch.

For instance, if forked from main:

    git rebase -i `git merge-base main --fork-point`

Squash all of those, and then as usual:

    git rebase -i main

Second, when rebasing repeatedly onto an evolving branch over time, you'll often find yourself resolving the same merge conflicts over and over again.

"rerere" (https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Tools-Rerere) will allow git to "reuse recorded resolution" so that you don't have to do them manually each time.

My gitconfig for these:

    [alias]
     forked = "!f() { git merge-base $1 --fork-point; }; f"
     squash-first = "!f() { git rebase -i `git merge-base $1 --fork-point`; }; f"
    [rerere]
     enabled = true