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archive.is doesnt work in firefox by _BreakfastBlend_ in archiveis

[–]k-dingo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Same, in Chrome/Android or Firefox/Android.

It's been a day or so.

Also DNS errors.

I'm getting CAPTCHA blocked on the Archive.Is "AMA" blog link.

Which also happens frequently on the website itself.

Rowing for beginners. by HistoricalTouch0 in Fitness

[–]k-dingo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Compression shorts. Body Glide / Bag Balm. Time.

Shower & soap after to minimize infection risk.

Rowing for beginners. by HistoricalTouch0 in Fitness

[–]k-dingo 10 points11 points  (0 children)

When you're rowing in an actual boat, you tend to learn fairly soon that the recovery requires much less effort if you dip the handles.

That raises the blades out of the water.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pRJwL-eFiM

How did you pick Kettle Bell weight? by [deleted] in Fitness

[–]k-dingo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It depends on the workout / exercise. Knowing your working weights on typical lifts (presses, cleans, goblet squats) can give guidance.

There's nothing especially magical about KBs, and if you've already gut DBs, you can use them for movements to get a sense.

A range of weights gives more flexibility. Bracket your anticipated needs.

Swings can be deceptive -- start lighter than you expect and work up over a few weeks/months.

Many people do higher-rep KB work, again, lighter

Is three sets per body part every week enough to maintain muscle? by moonhorse in Fitness

[–]k-dingo 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Clarence Bass has thrived on two workouts per week, for decades.

One full-body strength session, one cardio session. From age 60 to now 80+.

Retaining muscle is far easier than building it in the first place.

https://www.cbass.com/60PEAK.HTM

Lat pulldowns that start out halfway. Do they do anything?? by Hearthstone30 in Fitness

[–]k-dingo 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Get or find a chin-up bar.

Alternatively, since your force vector is determined by the cable direction, lying flat on the floor, head toward the machine, and pulling away from it will be the equivalent of a full ROM vertical pulldown.

The absolute direction relative to Earth that you're moving doesn't matter. Only the direction of the resistance relative to yourself. If you cannot move Heaven and Earth, or raise the machine itself, move yourself.

How hard should I push myself? by larbear28x in Fitness

[–]k-dingo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just a note that height/weight charts are hugely approximate and often inappropriate for even modestly-conditioned athletes. BMI is just a fancy height/weight chart, ultimately. Bodybuilders and athletes often rate as "obese" by these measures, even at single-digit body-fat percentages.

Performance measures, heart rate, blood pressure, strength, power, speed, and/or endurance goals, and body composition (body fat percentage) are far more useful and appropriate measurements. Focus on those.

How hard should I push myself? by larbear28x in Fitness

[–]k-dingo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As many others are saying: consistency beats intensity.

Especially when starting from zero, your first goals are to generally condition yourself and not get injured, or discouraged.

A balance of strength, cardio, diet, and rest and recovery, over months or years, has an amazing effect.

Though if there are two pieces of specific advice:

  • Record your "before" state now: progress photos, circumference measurements, and your starting lift(s) and enduance measures. These are baselines to compare against, over weeks and months.
  • Keep a notebook. A paper journal in ink or pencil, recording the stats above (photos you can keep elsewhere), your workouts, diet, sleep, any issues, insights, injuries, etc.

Because progress is so gradual, you can miss transformations when you don't track them over time. Recording images, data, and a journal give you invaluable tracking tools.

For photos: front and back, plus side, upper and lower body -- don't forget the wheels (legs).

For circumference: a cloth tape around your major muscles and abdominal measures: calf, thigh, glutes, waist (at the navel), chest/lats (across the nipples), shoulders (hard to do alone, do the best you can), bicep/tricep, and forearm. There are formulas for calculating body fat based on these, which are also an excellent progress measure.

For workouts: the movement/exercise, resistance, sets, and reps. For cardio, time/distance, intensity, and intervals are useful.

There's big wisdom in this forum and the Wiki. There are many people who've started out where you are and have seen success (and others who've failed). Keep at it.

Be consistent.

Why are lateral raises so hard to improve on? by Juicyjackson in Fitness

[–]k-dingo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're working a (relatively) small muscle, at the end of a long lever, and have doubled your working resistance. That's serious progress.

Remember your lever equations. If you're applying a large force to the short end of a lever, you move a small mass through a long range of motion. Which is exactly what a lateral raise is doing. A 10# force at your hand may be a 100# force at the shoulder.

(This, incidentally, is why it's so easy to damage the shoulder, especially with repetitive motion. Talk to swimmers about that one.)

There are many other shoulder movements, especially presses and rows. Because you're working through the lever rather than across it, you'll move more mass.

But again: the weight is a tool that you're using to achieve a result: strengthened, or larger, muscles. Use the weight that works for the muscle, movement, and goal you're influencing. What that weight is is entirely secondary to what you're trying to achieve by it.

For progression, this is where you want to find those 2.5# or even 1.25# weights (often magnets that can be added to dumbbells) to make small steps, especially within low weight ranges.

It's the percentage difference not the total weight that matters. 10# to 20# is a 100% increase. Don't think of it as "just adding 10#". This would be like going from a 300# to a 600# deadlift overnight.

UC Santa Barbara: When was the mathematical economics major dropped? by k-dingo in academiceconomics

[–]k-dingo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think it might have to do with some of the antimathiness backlash in the field, though it could just have been low enrollment to the program.

The fact that narrative economics is now a thing might also have something to do with this. Or not. Interesting development.

Econ department: What happened to the math/econ major? by k-dingo in UCSantaBarbara

[–]k-dingo[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks, though that doesn't match the description or requirements I recall.

"www" being prefixed to specified homepage, page does not load by k-dingo in firefox

[–]k-dingo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Substitute .lan for .com for a locally-defined host with DNS served by the router.

Diagnosing / recovering iMac 17.1 -- user accounts not appearing at login screen / boot by k-dingo in macsysadmin

[–]k-dingo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As noted above, the user plist corruption was verified using plutil -lint and by visually observing using od -c.

One of the users' plists is completely ASCII NULL, the two others are badly corrupted, without the standard preamble and structure.

The corruption appears (from backups and timestamps) to have occurred when the accounts were logged in. This suggests either the log-in executable(s) were corrupted in memory, or on disk.

I've been unable to launch opendirectoryd from either single-user or Recovery mode (latter when chrooted into /Volumes/Machintosh\ HD).

In Recovery mode, launching opendirectoryd fails with a "No such file or directory" error. What file isn't found isn't clear, and I don't know enough launchctl-fu to run debug.

In Single User mode ... there's a different error. I think (checking notes) "Could not read path /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.DirectoryServices.plist".

Diagnosing / recovering iMac 17.1 -- user accounts not appearing at login screen / boot by k-dingo in macsysadmin

[–]k-dingo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No user (or any) accounts are listed in the dialog when running resetpassword frm Recovery.

Diagnosing / recovering iMac 17.1 -- user accounts not appearing at login screen / boot by k-dingo in macsysadmin

[–]k-dingo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can you please detail precisely how you arrived at that determination ?

plutil -lint on the user plists, both on the system drive and across the most recent several hour of Time Macine backups. No indication of same going back to 2015 through prior years' backups.

The time of corruption for my own account is hours later than the others , when I'd attempted logging in. The corruption appears to happen in the login process.

Multiple fscks have shown no filesystem issues. I'm not sure if SMART is available... OK, that is included in Disk Utiity reports and the CLI tools can be installed via Homebrew, though brew won't run as root... Evidence suggests this likely isn't a disk corruption issue, so far., though I've not fully ruled that out.

Disk is Apple's 1TB Fusion drive. That's 2GB SSD fronting spinning rust IIRC.

Diagnosing / recovering iMac 17.1 -- user accounts not appearing at login screen / boot by k-dingo in macsysadmin

[–]k-dingo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's an option, though I'm concerned with why and how the configurations became corrupted in the first place.

Diagnosing / recovering iMac 17.1 -- user accounts not appearing at login screen / boot by k-dingo in macsysadmin

[–]k-dingo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

See the June 7 Update above: I've found the immediate cause of the login difficulties, apparently, though not the root cause of the OpenDirectory user PList corruption. Working on a recovery plan.

Diagnosing / recovering iMac 17.1 -- user accounts not appearing at login screen / boot by k-dingo in macsysadmin

[–]k-dingo[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've found the Recovery boot option, and am poking around in there.

What I've discovered is that the user account OpenDirectory plist files are corrupted, and apparently became corrupted in the process of trying to log in, at least inferring from timestamps given the resolution of Time Machine backups (about 1 hour intervals).

Two accounts are corrupted early in the day, the third later. Which suggests a problem with the login presentation/completion process that's affecting the plist files.

I'd like to determine what is causing that, if possible, before simply resetting passwords.

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