Live in the past, is mine. I will listen to things over and over because some songs or even podcast episodes, rewind me back to times where I felt comfortable in. I do sometimes poke my head out to see where things are currently in the present, but nothing around really makes me gravitate to anything current-day. But, then I just go back to my hole in living in the past.
People used to tell old people to get over it about them remembering things as they were all of the time. I’m understanding why they do that. Sometimes the present really truly sucks.
A coffee and a crossword puzzle is really all it takes to make a great morning these days.
I’ve never had much of a taste for classical music. A year ago I started playing it in the background while doing other things. Some of it is truly amazing and I wish I had started listening to it years ago.
Yeah, classical music is cool, but have you ever heard mediaeval and renaissance music? It’s much simpler (sometimes) yet still right in the feels.
Thanks, will give it a listen.
That’s cool, what’s your favorite?
Tough to pick, but a few are Beethoven - Fur Elise, Ravel - Bolero, and Vivaldi - Four Seasons.
Fantastic music, the depth of emotion in classical music is hard to match with modern styles in my opinion.
I’d add Debussy - Clair de Lune to the list as well, always gets me. There is a fantastic episode of black mirror called Hotel Reverie that uses the song in a really beautiful way, if you are a fan of that type of show.
Nice! You might enjoy Alexis Ffrench - Bluebird. Another one of my favorites.
Going for a walk
If there is local news on and im at home its whats on tv.
Complain about my back. I thought if I kept healthy, ate well, and did some basic workouts I’d be fine. Boy did mother nature teach me
Tall guy, here. There are specific exercises you can do to strengthen and stabilize your back, and that might help. I’ve actually got fewer back troubles than I did when I was young and stupid, because I’m taking care of it.
Would love to be pointed in the right direction. I’ve had lower back issues since my early 20s.
McKenzie method for low back pain is a starting point. It’s stretching, maybe strengthening I can’t remember. Hip flexors, hamstrings, calves are usually tight and can cause back pain. The front and back of the legs have to be balanced or they’ll pull your pelvis out of neutral. Modern day sitting doesn’t do us any good, tightening all the posterior compartment muscles in the legs.
Core strengthening is important for good posture. Being aware of your overall posture is also really important too. Yoga is fantastic for stretching, posture, and strengthening.
Caveat: sometimes it’s structural and this stuff may only help somewhat but chronic pain is treated with multiple modalities. If this stuff doesn’t improve it significantly along with NSAIDs, follow up with your primary care doc.
How I know: I’m a physician who screwed up his back and had to figure all this out and now I teach my patients how to treat their back pain. I also use physical therapy liberally because it’s fucking awesome.
I was going to say all this, only worse and less detailed. Thanks to you, I don’t have to!
Also tall guy here. Realize that most back pain is actually inflammation. Yes, I have some blown discs in my lower back and I used to have to get shots in them to reduce the swelling. Manage your inflammation and you will have fewer troubles. Of course, you have to stop lifting those heavy things in a stupid way.
Some months ago walking got suddenly painful in the lower back. Walking down a stair was only possible at half the normal speed. I am fourty-something and this made me feel very old. I did more of my usual back-strengthening exercises, but it got worse. I thought surely something is broken. When I went to the doctor she told me that I just neglected stretching, mostly the hip flexor. It went away after doing that. Apparently very common when you sit a lot, and when you do lots of running. (And I did try more running to make it go away, without stretching afterwards, lol.)
It may seem odd, but doing crunches helps. A lot. Getting those abs in shape helps to pull the back together too!
I fall asleep at every holiday party. My grandpa used to do that shit. Now… I’m tired and I don’t want to deal with anyone’s bullshit. Wake me when it’s time to say goodbye.
I’m not quite old enough for that to be normalised, but I’m definitely in the “playing with the kids” age range.
That’s basically me. Wake me when it’s time to:
- Eat
- Hand out gifts
- Go home
Early to bed. I try to stay up until at least 9pm so I don’t wake up at 3am.
Try to identify birds and trees. How did I go through life not being able to identify my natural surroundings?
My wife and I will happily stare at birds in the trees and rabbits in the yard.
I started playing a game with myself during my freshman year of college: how many species can I identify? At first I could only easily distinguish between birds and mammals. Then I was like oh well maybe I should bay closer attention to plants, then I realized how do I tell the difference between trees? Ok leaves are easy enough things to spot but why are some plants woody and some are… Wait how do I describe that? (Word I was looking for was herbaceous).
I took a lot of shrooms during that time, realized Im not built for an office environment and decided to study horticulture and botany even though it wasn’t offered at my university. I decided that I’d become a horticulturist and everyone around me probably thought I was smoking too much weed.
They were probably right, but I stuck to the plan regardless.
Ha. The two words I distinctly remembered learning while going on this journey are “forb” and “sedge”. The former being “I need nonwoody nongrass plants for my garden, what is the word for those plants?.” And the latter “how is this weed not considered a grass? It’s a sedge? What is that?”
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Thinking a lot of new technologies are stupid and unnecessary. Of course, at least in big tech, lot of them objectively are.
Yeah, this is me too. Although, to be fair to my younger self, back then a lot of new technologies actually were notable improvements over the previous tech, and older people were missing out by not trying them. I’m talking about going from cassette tapes to CDs, things like that.
Nowadays the new thing really is just worse than the old thing. E.g. going from a desktop environment to “the metaverse.” Those of us who didn’t embrace the metaverse were not just sticking to our old cassette tapes; the metaverse really was stupid as hell.
The meta verse has 500 users, total, worldwide. Out of 8 billion people. It’s not exactly a popular new tech.
AI on the other hand, fits the description much better. It is very useful, and people who reject it out of spite are missing out. Sure, it’s being shoved down our throats in literally every product, whether it makes sense or not, I get the sentiment. But rejecting it completely makes you miss it’s useful applications.
What’s your use case thst you find it useful?
Boilerplate code, translation, text grammar correction, taking and summarizing meeting notes, debugging of network issues, interview role play…
I have some experience but my attempts at using it for network debugging have been less than iimpressive. It’s able to give a great history/summary of the issue but when it comes to generating troubleshooting steps or an actual resolution it just spits out a one-size fits all generic answer.
Our attempts at using it for summarizing meetings haven’t been particularly great either but that may just be very boring, repetitive meetings lol.
What about kids who edit videos on a phone. Laptops exist too you know, and the editing process would be a lot more enjoyable.
GenX and Millenials are the only two generations who are technically literate to know that. Your average GenZ or Alpha or whatever never learned to use a computer so it’s less scary to do it on a phone.
And then there’s also the extra friction. You would need to transfer the video files to the computer before you can even start. If you edit on the phone, all the files are already there, which is nice.
You could wait a few hours for the cloud to finally sync, or you could just go through all the USB-C cables that don’t support reasonable data transfer rates… either way, there are some serious bottlenecks in the process. Once you get past those, it gets better, but I guess all of that is enough to deter many people from trying.
My favorite example: Copilot to read your emails for you and send responses automatically. Get two people with Copilot sending each other emails with neither person actually involved. Efficient!
Maybe this is why I constantly feel like no one is reading my emails at work anymore. I can put multiple points of information into an email and only get a response that acknowledges the first one.
That’s almost unequivocal proof that a human did it. AI will restate each point and provide an answer, no matter how correct or useful. A human will get distracted, or omit or ignore points that they think are obvious or too difficult.
People have been doing that long before LLMs, so i wouldn’t be too sure haha
That sounds to me like human behaviour, an AI would probably respond to each element separately. A lot of people when faced with multiple pieces of information or questions will usually respond to at most half, and often only one thing, in my experience.
Worked in a lot of service desks where I asked multiple troubleshooting related questions, getting a reply to only one of them is really common, the norm even I would say.
I think it’s more “Copilot can steal the contents of your emails to train its LLM.” (and maybe leak it when someone write a suitably crafted prompt.)
Or sold to advertisers…
Or your insurance company…
Or law enforcement…
Today I learned how much I haven’t matured in 30 years.
If anything I’ve gone backwards the last couple of years in maturity since turning 40. Probably mid life crisis coming on strong.
Not want to leave the house after 9-10 PM
Eat better
Prefer getting my clothes from Costco
Get excited about new appliances okay nevermind I actually got a blender as a teenager and loved it that doesn’t count.
But still it’s funny how much of a stereotype we all become in some small ways.
I’ve stopped buying clothes. I’ll live with what I have as long as I can.
Everything is so thin and cheap looking. I’m defo old.
I’ve been somewhat surprised with some band merch lately. The brand comfy colors’ heavy weight t shirts actually feel like they aren’t going to disintegrate in the wash.
Theres a local group that makes clothes. Its so much better than store bought clothes. And they are repairable!
Looking at young people and having sad thoughts about their future - feeling we owe them something I can’t give them.
A good Saturday afternoon for me is driving to a nearby beach via a chippy, and just sitting in the car watching the world go by, and remarking with my partner on all the Very Good Dogs we see while we eat chips.
It’s pretty much one of my favourite things to do.
Waking up early on weekends. I gotta be up early for work on weekdays and its easier to stick to a consistent schedule.
And staying up late one night can wreck your sleep pattern for days afterwards. “Why are you tired today?” “Because I stayed up late three days ago!” Lol, ugh.
I get up at 5:30 for work, so I consider 8:00 a luxurious lie in these days.
Was trying to get hold of my kid yesterday, who didn’t wake up until 2pm because he’d been on the town the night before.
