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[–] academician@lemm.ee 16 points 1 month ago

Oh, I see, you want to own robots...of color?

[–] academician@lemm.ee 4 points 5 months ago

And you don't seem to understand...a shame, you seemed an honest man.

[–] academician@lemm.ee 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Interestingly, this appears to only work when you're logged in. I was logged out and saw lots of horror games, and was confused.

[–] academician@lemm.ee 32 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'll admit I loved those books as a kid. I was obsessed for a while with getting a pith helmet so I could go on adventures like Babar.

As an adult...well, the colonialist and racist overtones are no longer lost on me, and my son doesn't own any of the books. But part of me misses my innocent wonder reading them.

 

...then after eating a few of the grapes he says he doesn't like the "inside part" of the grape, and just likes the juice. Now he wants grape juice.

I'm not proud to admit that I ended up blending grape jelly with apple juice for him, since we didn't have any grape juice. But he loved it, so... I'll take the win.

[–] academician@lemm.ee 3 points 6 months ago

If you can't add weight, keep adding reps. Studies show that rep ranges anywhere from 5 to 30 reps can be just as effective. And buy some smaller plates if it helps. Adding 5kg to an exercise like a bicep curl is a significant jump. I have 1kg and 0.5kg micro plates for that reason.

[–] academician@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

There is tension on the forearm muscles at the bottom of a preacher curl from the stretch, and an isometric contraction as you keep your hands fixed while curling the bar. If you're flexing your wrists during the curl you may even be doing a wrist curl inadvertently as well.

I can't say whether putting elbows out is unsafe or not, but if it's putting your biceps in a more advantageous position to lift more weight it's probably not worth it. Remember that your muscles only care about tension, not the actual weight you're using. There's no reason to adjust your positioning to lift more weight - use the weight and position that maximizes the stretch and tension on the muscle you're targeting for your set and rep targets. No reason to make it easier just to lift more weight if your goal is hypertrophy.

[–] academician@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago (6 children)

I don't love Facebook, but I'm not sure I understand the comparison. The objection here is that TikTok is operated by a Chinese company. Meta is a domestic company.

[–] academician@lemm.ee 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I was under the impression muscles grow more when pushed close to failure, so why wouldn't you want to do that in the low weight/high rep sets?

Responding to this specifically - this generally seems to be true according to research for hypertrophy, but it's worth noting that GZCLP is a powerlifting program, not a bodybuilding program, so the emphasis is on strength, not size. The T2s are there to support your strength on the T1 movements. If you want to build size too you can treat GZCLP like a "powerbuilding" program by pushing the T3 movements, which are more appropriate for hypertrophy work.

Also, if you haven't it's worth reading Cody's original posts on the GZCL method for more of the context. He even addresses your specific question, where he says AMRAPs are okay on T2s but to use caution:

Options to push T2 effort during the cycle would be to include AMRAP sets, as shown with the Week 4 example, or limit rest. Be aware that over use of T2 AMRAPS is likely to cause a decline in T1 ability later that week if recovery is an issue. This is especially true if the T1 is also utilizing AMRAP sets.

[–] academician@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The last time I wrote a web service in Rust, I used Axum - in part because it seemed to be the Rust community's consensus that it was generally the best all-around option (and I didn't have time to prototype with a bunch of other frameworks).

Poem looks really interesting, though! I know the batteries-included approach doesn't appeal to everyone, but it's nice to be able to get so much off the shelf. Does anyone have experience with it yet they'd like to share?

[–] academician@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Every country has had neo-Nazis in the last 20 years. Only one of Russia and Ukraine has acted, as a political entity, similar to the actual Third Reich. You are engaging in literally textbook whataboutism.

"Russia, run by a charismatic fascist leader who murders and imprisons his enemies and suppresses minorities, is acting like Nazi Germany by invading another country on thin, false pretenses, and engaging in genocide and other atrocities."

"Oh yeah? Well, some Nazis live in Ukraine."

[–] academician@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

You're getting downvoted, but I think there's truth in your comment. It's too late to put the genie back in the bottle. This set of new technologies we're calling "AI" is here to stay, and the Internet and its denizens are indeed going to have to adapt.

I'm not sure what "adapting" looks like yet, however. We haven't even seen all of the possible consequences yet. I think it's reasonable to be concerned or even frightened for the near future, where basically every industry is going to be affected.

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