I had a disc injury about two years ago, so this is fresh for me. I've always been pretty active and consider myself to be in really good shape, but I started running longer distances leading up to a marathon and bad things happened. I think my hamstrings tightened up, which pulled on other things, and it all came to a head during a golf swing where I could hear an audible crack. Pain was 9/10 and I couldn't stand up straight for a solid month.
After 12 months of trying many things, including 6 months of PT, I believe the following things to be true:
- Walking is better than sitting because it gets things moving
- Ice as soon as possible if you have a flare-up
- Strength core/training is essential. I have always been in good shape from a cardio perspective, but never lifted weights. Now I have 12 weight-lifting exercises that I do 2 sets of 20 at the gym twice per week. Also, I do 40 lunges on a Roman chair at home every day, which my physical therapist told me is the single most important exercise.
It's a lot of work and it takes a lot of time, but I seem to recover faster if I have a flare-up, and they're not as severe. Also, I feel like I'm in better shape overall. It's nice to have some muscle instead of being a noodly-ass dude who can run a long way.
I use it only for cooking, but for cooking I absolutely love it. It generates surprisingly good recipes, and I don't have to read a 5000 word story on how someone found and fell in love with the turnip to get them.
Looks like the study was performed on a liquid, so I guess definitely don't microwave soup. Wonder if the effect is the same with a food that doesn't have as much contact with the container. Anyway, like many commenting here, microwaving food with plastic fallen in the "it just seems wrong" category for me, so it's business as usual.
Absolutely! I have a Litespeed T1SL, and I'm very happy with it. I've heard great things about Moots bikes as well, but they're about twice the price and they don't make a rim brake model. The main reasons I went with the Litespeed were the rim brakes (I can fix mechanical components myself), and the fact that you can peel off the decals, so the bike looks like fairly generic, minus a badge behind the seatpost and one on the stem tube.
I ride a titanium bike with rim brakes. It was custom made, and relatively expensive ($5,000 USD), but it is the only bike I ride, and it will last my entire lifetime, and more (it will require occasional component upgrades, just like any other bike). Plus, the ride quality is superb. I've found that, as with most things, investing in quality over quantity is the way to go. My bike may have been slightly 'less green' to manufacture, but I only need one, ever.
That's a shame. I've landed two jobs on SO jobs and in my opinion it was extra motivation for maintaining a SO profile and being active in the community - a real one-stop-shop. Sad to see it go. It was the first place I looked when thinking about changing jobs. I particularly liked the 'remote' checkbox, and the fact that you could filter by salary range.
There has only been one UI change since Snow Leopard that I would consider to be an improvement, and that is the option to enable dark mode. Big Sur reminds me of Duplo Legos.
I did this with a ~2011 MacBook Air that came with a 60G hard drive. A couple of years ago I went to upgrade OSX and it turned out I didn't have enough disk space, even with minimal apps installed, so I wiped it, installed Ubuntu and ended up having 45G left over. It was a great way to extend the life of that hardware and I haven't had many issues. The only apps I'm using are terminal and a browser, though.
I don't understand how that's 'ethnically' wrong. Yes, all of FAANG companies are like this. In order to work for these companies you have to become comfortable with the idea of being paid more to do less.
My advice to you would be to pick up a more rewarding side-project, or to use the in-between hours to do something that you enjoy. Ride a bike or something. Think of your main gig as a function to make money. If it's working, and working efficiently, then you have a good function. If you have extra time as a result, use it wisely. Time is your most precious resource, and it is finite.
I spent the first few years of my career as a developer working for startups, and the break-neck pace is thrilling, but the stakes are low - you might break things for a few thousand people, none of whom expect perfection from your application. Think about how many people are potentially affected by a change to (for example) the F codebase. That's why it takes so long to release a one-liner, and justifiably so. For a FAANG company, prudence > professional development. Take the money and run; enjoy your free time and use it wisely.
I've learned that small businesses generally have high expectations for relatively small amounts of money. As a result, I stopped doing freelance work unless there is a lot of money involved.
Whether or not programming salaries will go up or down in the next x years is anyone's guess. Everyone should plan for lower pay, regardless of what their profession is.
If you get used to living on 1/2 of what you make, or 1/4 of what you make with a partner, you'll pretty much always be fine. Not having kids also helps.
Set the bar low, and plan for the worst. Planning for the worst is also a good practice in programming. :)
Personally,PostgreSQL. Both have their advantages and disadvantages, but my standard arguments in favor of Postgres are that it:
1. Enforces data types natively. I've shot myself in the foot before with MySQL and 'polluting' data.
2. JSONB support makes it easy to use a 'hybrid' schema if you want NoSQL-like behavior or a junk drawer to shove JSON into.
Regarding your conversion questions, it's common to have an app that communicates with several databases, but I don't know of any architecture that would allow ACID transactions in two engines simultaneously.
As far as converting data, it all depends on what your development preferences are. I work mostly in the Ruby ecosystem, and I can tell you that I've used ActiveRecord to a Postgres database, and exported the results into a SQLite file. I'm sure it would be possible to use an XML parser like Nokogiri to convert XML into a SQLite file as well. If you prefer another major programming language, the tools likely exist to accomplish the same thing.
After 12 months of trying many things, including 6 months of PT, I believe the following things to be true: - Walking is better than sitting because it gets things moving - Ice as soon as possible if you have a flare-up - Strength core/training is essential. I have always been in good shape from a cardio perspective, but never lifted weights. Now I have 12 weight-lifting exercises that I do 2 sets of 20 at the gym twice per week. Also, I do 40 lunges on a Roman chair at home every day, which my physical therapist told me is the single most important exercise.
It's a lot of work and it takes a lot of time, but I seem to recover faster if I have a flare-up, and they're not as severe. Also, I feel like I'm in better shape overall. It's nice to have some muscle instead of being a noodly-ass dude who can run a long way.