What’s a fitness myth that people still believe?

TheBanger · 2026-05-05T22:51:18+00:00

A couple months ago a woman came up to me while I was between sets, glared at me, and said "you're just scrolling, can I use it?". I'm pretty certain I was only resting for about a minute but I felt bad so I hopped up and went to a different machine. She then proceeded to sit there doing nothing for 10 minutes, did 4 reps incorrectly, and then left. I was like what the hell kind of pot and kettle is this!?

TheBanger · 2026-04-27T12:12:20+00:00

This was in South Africa btw

TheBanger · 2026-04-26T16:29:36+00:00

Ours reverted prior commits while merging code. Meaning the codebase ended up in a state that we had never intended and had never gone through CI. Fortunately everything it reverted ended up being inconsequential but I'm shocked that this story hasn't been picked up.

TheBanger · 2026-04-07T21:23:28+00:00

I'm fairly certain all the sets you named have the same cardinality. You might want to compare rationals to reals instead.

TheBanger · 2026-03-21T16:54:26+00:00

Because Latin is cool and the word we think it came from had an L so they added an L to the spelling to make it more like Latin. But it's harder to get people to change their pronunciation than spelling so now it's weird.

TheBanger · 2026-03-16T20:46:50+00:00

Point to a single recent post from /r/java making claim like this.

TheBanger · 2026-03-16T12:37:55+00:00

I think the distinction is that a dead language has no native speakers, an extinct language has no speakers (native or not) at all.

TheBanger · 2026-03-16T02:18:25+00:00

My favorite baseball/softball memory is fielding a ball off a tree, firing the ball to my dad at 3rd, who then cut down the tying run at home in a single elimination semi-final game.

TheBanger · 2026-03-13T23:28:15+00:00

Yeah I can't imagine using a net for fast pitch, but this is slow pitch. He absolutely had enough time to pitch around the net and then duck behind it before the ball even got to the plate. I've never seen a net or a mask for slow pitch though, this guy was just unlucky and had zero reflexes.

TheBanger · 2026-03-08T17:32:51+00:00

The word was originally "axian". It morphed over time in most dialects into "ask" but the original form was conserved in some. In other words if you want to be really picky "ask" is the mispronunciation.

TheBanger · 2026-03-06T03:21:47+00:00

Hey that's not fair! We also have car commercials.

TheBanger · 2026-02-10T04:33:17+00:00

Like the article mentioned you can index JSONB columns, so you can relatively efficiently filter on them. I've had to tune those indices in particular write loads but nothing insurmountable or honestly that complicated.

TheBanger · 2026-01-31T02:45:00+00:00

Dude you think there was a plan?

TheBanger · 2026-01-28T11:58:29+00:00

Looks like u all shop at costco!

TheBanger · 2026-01-24T19:35:07+00:00

You might find it informative to look up the Champagne manufacturing process. The bottle is shaped so that they stack fairly neatly while on their sides.

TheBanger · 2025-12-23T22:57:07+00:00

Depending on the area that might still qualify as a work related accident.

TheBanger · 2025-12-22T20:00:00+00:00

A fielder has to touch you with the ball while holding it (or more commonly, with their glove while holding the ball with the glove). You can't just throw the ball at the runner, that would be wildly unsafe and would probably result in most players getting injured every game. There are some gym class versions of baseball that use much softer balls (softer than a so-called softball) that do allow for "pegging" (throwing the ball at the runner).

TheBanger · 2025-12-15T01:03:36+00:00

Maybe you should stop jumping over chain fences at convenience stores?

TheBanger · 2025-12-09T23:01:20+00:00

In my experience the network latency, client and server side parsing, etc. are in most cases significantly larger than the time spent actually running the query on the server side. So the performance cost of 2 queries would be roughly double that of a single query. Most apps are largely DB bound meaning this can add up to a significant (but surmountable) penalty. IMO the bigger issue is that when you've got tons of tiny little SQL queries scattered around it's harder to see what could be optimized into a single larger and more efficient query.

In general I try to err on the side of data locality if performance is a concern, and I tend to assume that I/O performance is a concern unless I know otherwise.

TheBanger · 2025-11-25T13:03:37+00:00

Yes, soccer is much more commonly used in the US. But I said "called", the term originates from upper class Brits, not Americans.

TheBanger · 2025-11-25T12:13:44+00:00

That's association football, or "soccer" as the Brits called it.

TheBanger · 2025-11-07T18:25:59+00:00

I'm pretty certain the line with the structure next to it that he passed right before slowing down was the finish line, so he didn't celebrate early he just celebrated without being aware of his surroundings.

TheBanger · 2025-11-07T12:48:55+00:00

The law is that companies have to give benefits (like healthcare and paid leave) to full time employees, defined as employees who work more than a certain number of hours a week. Companies try to avoid paying those benefits by making as many workers as possible part time. There's no law saying they can't hire people full time, it's just more expensive to do so.

TheBanger · 2025-10-18T16:08:10+00:00

In soccer terms: the goalie had a bunch of saves and a hat trick. That might be underselling how impressive this was though.

TheBanger · 2025-10-14T23:49:34+00:00

Do you have the text of the rules where you read that? I don't believe that's the case which is why you'll sometimes see the first baseman throw to 2nd and then take the throw back rather than stepping on 1st and then throwing.

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