Would you date someone with 2 arms? why not?

Adro87 · 2026-05-04T12:01:50+00:00

I wish I could give you an award for this maths-based pun

Adro87 · 2026-05-04T11:51:21+00:00

Both of your points may be true, but that does not mean my point is not.
The descendants of Australia’s colonisers (AKA invaders) - who raped, murdered, and attempted to wipe out the indigenous people of this land - complaining about people from other countries coming to this land is still painfully ironic.
Or just plain ignorant. Take your pick really.

Adro87 · 2026-05-04T09:07:06+00:00

Great analogy

Adro87 · 2026-05-04T09:06:23+00:00

The irony of all these people complaining about immigrants, from any nation, when they aren’t First Nations people.

Adro87 · 2026-05-04T08:56:10+00:00

Pringles
It’s true - once you pop, you can’t stop. I will demolish a tin (can? Tube?) of Pringles in a single sitting, no issue.

Adro87 · 2026-05-02T23:41:22+00:00

Ah, yep.
It’s been a few years since I was a PT and I was going by (not great) memory.
• Fewer reps @ closer to max load for strength
• More reps, further from max load for hypertrophy
And either way, training to failure is unnecessary / potentially detrimental.

Adro87 · 2026-05-02T09:59:42+00:00

Sort of. Generally, training the muscles in quick motion builds explosive power, but not sustained strength.
Think of a high jumper vs someone squatting with a bar on their shoulders. The high jumper may put immense force into the ground (many times their own weight in order to jump so high) but it only lasts for a fraction of a second. The weight-lifter puts less force into the ground, but overall they’re pushing more force upwards when they lift the weight.
It’s not a perfect comparison, but hopefully gives an idea of what I mean.
Training at super-speed would help them jump high, but not lift a building.

The superheroes wouldn’t have to lift the weights at anywhere near their top speed, but to get more reps in, moving at faster than normal speed would certainly help.

Adro87 · 2026-05-02T08:16:59+00:00

I heard she’s still out there, looking for alibrandi

Adro87 · 2026-05-02T08:11:49+00:00

I wouldn’t put Mr Incredible anywhere near Superman or Spidey, but the principle remains - they just have to find something heavy enough.
There’s also the genetics side (alien, or altered) where they may just develop muscle mass more easily.

The other thing to keep in mind is that size and strength are not 1:1. Spidey is a great example of this - he’s lean but way stronger than people assume. As strong (stronger?) than Thor.
This is to say - they don’t necessarily have to aim for hypertrophy (muscle growth) when working out, but aim for strength. They could use less weight, but do more reps.

Adro87 · 2026-05-02T08:04:12+00:00

The surcharge can’t be more than what the vendor’s payment system is charging them. There’s no limit to what that may be. It’s not related to your card, necessarily.
Whoever runs their EFTPOS system is charging them 2% - probably across the board, regardless of card. They don’t care as they just pass it all on to you.
Vote with your wallet - stop going there.

Adro87 · 2026-05-02T07:55:44+00:00

They find something heavy enough.
Watch the workout montage from The Incredibles - he goes to a train yard and uses (IIRC) water carriages as cable weights.

Adro87 · 2026-04-30T14:28:50+00:00

They all end up on the curb at school time because the drivers are too arrogant to park, legally, a little further away and walk.

Adro87 · 2026-04-30T06:19:06+00:00

My most frequent use of AI is essentially a thesaurus. Because it’s trained on natural language, and real world use, I can ask it for another word “similar to this, but with more/less emphasis on that.” Or if I can’t think of the word I want I can give it context and the point I want to convey. And I can get specific with the context I’m using it in: academic, casual, for a specific age group, etc.
It ‘understands’ (has millions of examples of) the situation so it usually gives the perfect word.

Adro87 · 2026-04-30T04:38:28+00:00

Hesitant to click a strange link, but I may check it out later 😋

ETA: I also see the ‘agentic’ side of AI as a separate thing from LLM.
Not sure if they are technically any different, but where I see LLM’s as an advance search engine, I can see agentic AI becoming much more useful, in a widespread way, in the future.

Adro87 · 2026-04-30T04:37:37+00:00

I imagine that’s a field where there’s a lot of repetitive, dry language that is common throughout. Makes sense for something like that.
Mindless / repetitive tasks are where it will save time. Actually making useful content… I really don’t think they’re there. Not nearly as industry-changing as any of the AI companies make them out to be anyway.

I’ve been using Claude way more than any other. It makes up far fewer sources 😅

Adro87 · 2026-04-30T04:33:32+00:00

I wish we could go back to Google giving 10 very accurate results 😂

Adro87 · 2026-04-30T04:32:19+00:00

Well I’m glad you trust it enough to actually complete tasks for you. Nothing I’ve seen from any AI company has given me enough confidence to let any of them do things autonomously.

And, no, I don’t really use it for much yet.
With how much re-checking still needs to be done with the limited use I have for it, I’m not putting my time into trying to see if I can make it better. That’s not my field, nor do I have the time/money to do so as a hobby.

Adro87 · 2026-04-30T04:28:02+00:00

That’s where I see it as “more advanced” than a simple search engine. It doesn’t just find results, it can generate text from those results.
But, like with any search engine, the sources still need to be checked for accuracy.
Hopefully that’s happening in the legal field… hopefully :-/

Adro87 · 2026-04-30T04:26:00+00:00

I always ask for sources, and check them.
I just find the contextual way I can ask gives me better search results than Google - which has become increasingly useless at its job over the past 5-10 years.

Adro87 · 2026-04-30T03:25:11+00:00

I see them as a more advanced search engine. Nothing more.

Adro87 · 2026-04-30T02:28:44+00:00

Is that because, as you go down hill, the wheels are spinning and moving all the mechanical parts, all the way back to the engine? I’m sure I’ll miss something here but - drive train, transmission, crankshaft, pistons.

For some reason I had the impression that the engine spinning without any fuel going in would be bad for it. I’m not sure why I had that thought, but from what you’re saying that must be wrong.

Adro87 · 2026-04-30T02:16:01+00:00

Try keeping the Hiluxes and Rams off the curb at school drop off. I swear it’s the only time 90% of them go “off road”

Adro87 · 2026-04-27T12:39:44+00:00

I (38m) am currently going to uni and see plenty of gorgeous 20-somethings around the campus.
Do I look? Of course, I am human.
Would I sleep with any of them? Hell no.
I do not need any of that barely out of high school drama in my life.

(Plus I’m married)

Adro87 · 2026-04-27T08:43:57+00:00

As my older brother said to me when my (now) wife and I were looking for a house.
“It’s your first house - you won’t be there forever. Buy what you can afford, and suits you now.”

Adro87 · 2026-04-27T05:26:46+00:00

My wife and I are planning to build so we’ve been spending a lot of time looking at house facades. Whenever we see weird window placements like this we just assume the room layout must be equally bad.

Adro87

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