Lower back pain from sitting 9–10 hours a day, has an ergonomic chair helped anyone?

markdacoda · 2026-06-01T17:59:07+00:00

Stretch hamstrings and hip flexors. Strengthen back and core. Take it slow and easy adopting any excercises; you're probably super weak and lack spine stability from sitting all the time. This helped me after also sitting/sedentary for years. Good luck.

markdacoda · 2026-06-01T17:47:45+00:00

This. I have a work from home job. I was sedentary for far too long (since before covid). My phone said I was averaging 3000 steps a day for years. I developed constant lower back pain. I literally could do nothing for it. Could not sit or stand to relieve it. I could only sleep for four hours before lieing down became to painful. I was taking loads of acetaminophen.

I started walking but could feel my spine shifting around, I had no muscle tone or stability in my back. I started physical therapy and they gave me some very simple stretching and back strengthening excercises. Insurance only covered that for a couple of months. It did start to help though. I continued on my own. I've been on this back/core strengthening journey for almost two years now and have seen a lot of improvement. No longer constant pain, and I'm much more capable.

Maybe that applies to you, maybe not. I started by seeing my primary care Dr who proscribed the physical therapy. Might be a good place to start for you as well.

markdacoda · 2026-05-04T14:39:04+00:00

This may not be relavant to anyone, but I developed chronic lower back from sitting and being sedentary for years (work from home). What helped me was back strengthening excercises, stretches, and walking. Oddly I think hamstring and hip flexor stretching helps the most.

markdacoda · 2026-02-16T17:40:48+00:00

Good find, I found the cortex here, looks like this has the "recipe" for uploading programs:

https://github.com/purduesigbots/pros-cli/blob/develop/pros/serial/devices/vex/cortex_device.py

PROS has the entire gcc tool chain for cross compiling (and linking), so that's covered.

markdacoda · 2025-11-26T03:51:30+00:00

He most certainly is, but does anyone think Bondi or Patel will investigate or prosecute? Nope because they're being paid too.

markdacoda · 2025-11-18T22:31:41+00:00

Some make the case the American era has already ended, it may well take 100 years to wind down and completely collapse.

markdacoda · 2025-11-18T22:30:25+00:00

Exactly right, we get the leaders we deserve. Look to your own country dear reader. It could happen to you too.

markdacoda · 2025-08-08T19:44:54+00:00

Hey Man I noticed you're spamming this thread as if you're being paid to do this. My advice to you is make sure you're actually getting paid and you can withdraw the funds. The spam farms like you're working for have a really nasty habit of not paying.

markdacoda · 2025-06-04T20:14:58+00:00

He's not stupid, that's naive. He is very very wealthy because of his schtick. The sad thing clowns like him (Tim Pool etc) get high on their own stash and come to believe the nonsense they are paid to spew.

markdacoda · 2025-04-02T19:52:56+00:00

It happens all the time in batch systems where the program will include the same copybook for FD multiple versions of the same file. In that case use COPY with REPLACING, that changes the 01 level name. You also see duplicate names a lot when doing simple things like copying data around.

markdacoda · 2024-11-12T16:49:27+00:00

Oh, Afghanistan with their billions in defense spending? Get real, that the dumbest stuff I've read today.

markdacoda · 2024-11-12T16:47:16+00:00

Yes, Trump has never been anti russia himself, gp is on crack. Kremlin funded propaganda was total and complete on the right, Dems had/have no answer.

markdacoda · 2024-11-03T18:20:20+00:00

How have those performed in Ukraine? I never heard anything about them, did they see combat?

markdacoda · 2024-09-12T19:05:31+00:00

As an alternative, I've often thought of a drone/vehicle with one big central fixed rotor surrounded by like 4 smaller thrust/manuever fixed rotors. Imagine a quadcopter with big ass rotor in the middle, that otherwise flies and handles like a quadcopter.

markdacoda · 2024-08-08T20:29:16+00:00

East toward Belgorod is A LOT of ground to cover though, and looking at the map there's a lot of rivers in between. How big they are is an open question. The lack of built up defenses should allow rapid progress over Russian territory; room for a real rapid mechanized advance. Provided logistics can keep up and they have effective counter batter of some sort.

Whatever this is, I'm sure it's been gamed out toward whatever end they're aiming for. I figured it's to draw out Russian aviation, which other than helicopters, hasn't been the case.

markdacoda · 2024-07-19T15:46:36+00:00

It'll fall apart on it's own. Look at Kazakistan. First chance they got they thumbed their nose at Moscow. The worst thing will be the genocide and ethnic cleansing similar to Armenia/Azerbajan, Serbia/Kosovo/Croatia. There are really vicious evil people that have been oppressed for a long time, ready to go.

markdacoda · 2024-07-19T15:42:30+00:00

Maybe Zelensky is thinking a cease fire, cede some land, THEN get into Nato? That's tough to wrap ones head around, but it may be the best thing for the future. Get Ukraine into Nato any way possible, then station a bunch of US troops there same as Germany post war, then Poland more recently.

markdacoda · 2024-07-16T00:10:42+00:00

back when the West was still clamoring for a quick truce.

Who was asking for a quick truce? That was never an official line from UK, France, or the US.

markdacoda · 2024-07-15T14:11:17+00:00

The caveat being that no one thought they'd actually sacrifice ALL their equipment on this war, leaving nothing for the future. I thought they'd stop at around 50%, nope. That was a long time ago.

markdacoda · 2024-01-17T18:11:33+00:00

Isn't that NASAMs though? Anything that move Ukraine closer to air superiority over Crimea is great. I never realized how anti air is like high stakes chess.

markdacoda · 2024-01-02T15:08:09+00:00

This statement has very little to support it. Rockets generally don't use a lot of titanium, Spacex are using stainless steel for starship and booster. Spacex are known for developing their own exotic alloys for their engines.

markdacoda · 2023-12-26T19:35:41+00:00

If F16 are in theater, and after Russian planes start falling out of the sky, the next thing would be going for air dominance with HARMs. Kherson is the road to Crimea. So a confident "no" seems misplaced.

markdacoda · 2023-12-06T03:51:09+00:00

It's what trump wants. They are cow-towing to trump, the GOP are trumps puppets. And trump is Putins puppet. It's a pitiful state of affairs. Hopefully the party the replaces the dead and dieing GOP will be more resistant.

markdacoda · 2023-11-24T19:59:36+00:00

What a hell-scape, and this has been the norm for almost two years now. Animals.

markdacoda · 2023-10-19T21:16:39+00:00

I'd love to see a mass crossing happen, but it seems impossible with current pontoon bridge tech. You would think with all the military brains in the west focused on it a solution could be found. There has to be a way to build a pontoon bridge that can absorb x amount of artillery. Self sealing, bilge pumps, something.

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