ccunix

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ccunix,

Would have said BMW until I bought one (don’t judge me, my wife has a neck problem and it has transformed her life).

Now I will say Peugeot because it has no redeeming feature, but is still not cheap. Clearly bought by someone with money, but who has no idea what they are doing.

ccunix,

That’s exactly what I am about to do in the house we’re signing for in few weeks (waiting for the attorney to give us an appointment).

When I saw the phone jack’s in every room, all terminating down in the garage, I just figured it would be rude not too. Seeing as we will have 2Gb fibre, it makes sense

ccunix,

Have to admit, I was gutted not to see Cav get the win there. I would love him to get 1 final win before he retires. Waiting for the last stage gives the best narrative though, so perhaps that’s the plan.

ccunix,

Been running one for 10 years, mostly as a NAS. Ran Openstack on it for a while, oVirt also. Currently just running KVM and an NFS server to keep it simple.

I do want to put one of the community firmwares on it. That way I can use an HDD in the optical bay in AHCI mode, but the tools only exist for Windows as far as I can tell.

ccunix,

That is probably the Garbage Collector running.

ccunix,

Thank you very much.

Do you work on Loci too?

ccunix,

It was mildly educated guess, I know very little about Rust.

ccunix,

I would do that to, but I work from home.

When you have to add the cost of a transatlantic flight it costs nearly as much as the inkjet we have at home.

ccunix,

You can get a little Brother laser with network and duplexing for the same price as a cheap inkjet. It will be much cheaper to run and the ink never dries out. We do that and have an HP Envy with the Instant Ink free tier (10 pages per month with no rollover).

ccunix,

An eye opener for me was when I was updating a type of ID card I have as an expat Brit in France. I knew I could do it very simply online, but could not remember the name of the platform I needed to look for. I phoned my local government office to ask, which should have taken 5 minutes.

An hour later the guy on the helpdesk was still trying to explain to me (and my wife who had joined in because she could not believe how long it was taking) how to open a web browser. I was lying on the floor crying with frustration while my wife desperately tried to get the nice man to just give us the URL we needed.

The guy was so used to people being so incredibly tech illiterate, he could not get his around someone who could actually use a computer.

ccunix,

Original on Cory Doctorow’s own site here

Anybody who gained muscle and lost weight, how did you do it?

Title says it all, i want to lose weight and also build some muscle, ive have been hitting the gym and cutting my calories by 500-900cal for the past two months, while i am seeing some muscle growth, its not very substantial or something people around me will notice, ive also lost about 2kgs which is not much so i am thinking of...

ccunix,

To grow muscle you need fuel. There is a reason Brian Shaw eats 10+k calories a day.

If you want to lose fat you need to burn calories faster than you eat them.

That is why people looking to “get shredded” will run a bulk then cut cycle. Eat and train like a madman to build them muscle, then go into a caloric deficit (eat less than you burn) and train as hard a your body will let you.

ccunix,

My point was that you need to be in a surplus to build muscle.

I agree, you do not need to be in an 8k calorie surplus to build muscle. That is excessive, but that is why he the most successful currently active strongman and we are not.

What keeps you going to the gym?

I've been weightlifting at the gym with my brother at least 2-3 days a week for the last 2 months. I recently noticed a week or so ago, after my workouts, the soreness has decreased in the days following, tremendously. No longer am I walking around with locked knees because my legs are going to give out, or with T-rex arms...

ccunix,

In terms of vanity, my wife likes the results and so do I. I also recently had a general checkup and the doctor found exactly nothing, which is pretty rare for a guy the wrong side of 40. As an aside, I am in better shape than when I was in my 20s which is pretty encouraging too.

I also give myself no excuses. I do not pay for a gym membership, I work from home and my squat rack is right next to my desk. If I have a “read-only” meeting I can bang a bunch of deadlifts while listening. I have an awesome employer who has no problem with me fielding meetings from my phone in the woods (as long as I am sensible, which I am) while running.

ccunix,

According to Urban Dictionary:

The Blackpill is basically the ultimative and hardest to swallow Redpill.

It is about realizing nothing matters and there is nothing you can do that will change anything, it depraves you of all positive thought and makes you want to get some sort of meaning out of this limited time we have.

Basically extreme nihilism. That’s why its not a called a red pill, since beyond that. “John took the blackpill recently. He is depressed since that…” “Tell him to just take the Bluepill then” “Impossible. once you go black you’ll never go back”

I reckon @SilentJohn realised they were not going to be Kaz, got depressed then put on (bad) weight.

ccunix,

Love is absolutely critical. Paul talks about it in detail of course:

If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, > but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing. Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonour others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known. And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

1 Corinthians 13:1‭-‬13 NIVUK bible.com/bible/113/1co.13.1-13.NIVUK

I do not even see how there can be a debate. Without love you are not Christian, plain and simple.

That does not necessarily mean that I have to be “nice” to everyone and/or rollover. Jesus did not leave us in our sin. The adulterous woman was, after all the people who could not stone her had left, was told not to sin again. Jesus did not “affirm” the money changers in the temple.

TL;DR: love is critical and above all else, but love is not necessarily what Hollywood tells us it is

ccunix,

What does the US government have to do with Christianity? I am sure some are sincer Christians, but most will be cultural Christians at best.

TIFU By telling my PT it was my birthday this week

I had just finished blasting a 06:15 gym class and was absolutely exhausted. For some reason, I thought its a good idea to mention it's my birthday this week and immediately my PT stops and he has a certain look on his face. My PT is a lovely guy, but he's up for a bit of banter. He asks me if I've ever heard of Birthday...

ccunix,

Challenge: reach 50 and be able to do birthday burpees with nothing more than a shrug :)

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