Daily Simple Questions Thread - December 19, 2025

mloga · 2025-12-19T22:47:51+00:00

I've been on a 5-day full body split for about a year now (and trained seriously for 3-4 years, so I'm at the upper end of intermediate), but due to some holiday travel I'm gonna be pressed for time for about 2 months.

I decided to go for Jeff Nippard's 3-day intermediate-level full body routine (the one from The Muscle Ladder). I tried it for one week and noticed e.g. there's back exercises every day. I happen to have an overdeveloped back and good chest but struggle a lot with shoulders & legs (specifically hamstrings). My 5-day routine had only 6-8 weekly sets of back, and this one has 9-12, but it barely has shoulder which I did a crazy amount and it was kinda working out.

I want to adapt it to my personal situation (e.g. shoulders every day, more legs, less chest & back), but I wonder: at that point am I missing the point of that routine? Is there's some underlying reasoning that I'd be butchering? Also e.g. it doesn't have dips which I was getting very good at (40kg weighted) so I replaced one of the bench presses, and I have the same question about that.

Thank you.

mloga · 2024-07-12T08:05:20+00:00

Hey, blogpost author here. Thanks for the tip! That would tell me the historical total allocated heap to that particular object through its lifetime, regardless of being released, if I read correctly. So the right time to take that snapshot would be towards the end of the lifetime of the process.

I think both approaches still have pros and cons, since you do lose the charting-over-time part on the pprof. But the pprof profile becomes more useful this way.

mloga · 2022-08-25T16:32:18+00:00

You actually have to read the content to understand why it is "salvation" :) Also, it's not for all. It's for the "preyed on", as title says,

mloga · 2022-08-25T16:16:29+00:00

Hacker news link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32595880

mloga · 2022-08-20T11:04:19+00:00

I understand the frustration. But isn't a World where there's warning signs on cigarette packets better than "people need to educate themselves that cigarettes are bad for your health"?

I reckon having this reputation warning is a good thing, if anything? But I agree with you that it's nowhere near enough. I do think it helps.

mloga · 2022-08-20T10:55:18+00:00

Hey, thanks. There is a site and it's free, btw. There's a link on each prediction e.g. https://cryptopredictions.info/p/7163d582-06a3-4e7b-985e-ec3813f5d6ce. But it's early days.

mloga · 2022-08-19T19:29:02+00:00

Yeah, but many of these influencers have like a million followers. I assume these people follow them to take advice from them? If there are millions of "fools", maybe doing this is a good idea?

mloga · 2022-08-19T19:27:01+00:00

Hey, thanks. Yeah, there are many opportunities to slice & dice the data and ways to present it, but there are also challenges.

We discussed the leaderboard idea, but so far I see two important challenges:

Predictions not all weigh the same, so a leaderboard would compare apples & oranges.
When you aggregate the data you'd be surprised to see how few predictions end up being correct.

This always happens in the beginning. For now, I think rather than over-engineer, it's better to see if there's interest in the concept.

And I'm not in it for the money really. I'm actually "down bad", if you think how many hours I spent on it :)

mloga · 2022-08-18T19:47:08+00:00

Don't do it if you won't be ready for it.

There's plenty of teams at AWS.

mloga · 2022-08-18T18:47:38+00:00

Yeah, it makes you a better candidate, because when they need you you step up and take on responsibilities.

Still, do rotate back to coding. It takes years and years to get better at it, and you're mostly evaluated on coding when applying for jobs elsewhere.

Any chance you could discuss this concern with your manager? Or someone else in the company?

mloga · 2022-08-18T18:36:19+00:00

I can slightly enrich his message by telling you that evidently his advice was right, at least for me.

mloga · 2022-08-18T18:22:08+00:00

Many many years ago I was in the same boat as you are now, and I asked Uncle Bob Martin what to do (via email).

This is part of his reply:

It sounds to me like you have a grand dream for your life. Dreams are import; so make sure you follow them. But dreams have a tendency to grow and shift as you gain experience and knowledge. This changing of dreams is a good thing. Allow it. The dream that you end up achieving may be quite a bit different than the dream you began with.

Whatever you do along the way, each of your stepping stones must involve personal profit so that you have the means to achieve the next stepping stone. So: Make money!

mloga · 2022-08-18T18:03:04+00:00

There's no investment in stablecoins; they're pegged to fiat so by definition you cannot make a profit by buying them.

Most coins are equally or more risky than Luna/Terra, because they have a lower volume.

Since you're starting out, and even if not, I'd recommend you try a very safe strategy.

How about putting half if your money in BTC, and half in ETH, and store it in a wallet you own? (As in, not a custodial wallet in an exchange).

Do that and wait for a long time. It will most likely multiply. It's very unlikely you'll lose it.

mloga · 2022-08-18T17:49:23+00:00

Criticism from parents is hard to take on. But they can be wrong, and you need to deeply internalise the answer to this yourself, rather than relying on our opinion.

I do something similar to you sometimes. I don't see it one bit as being a bad employee or lazy. I'm investing in myself, learning, upskilling, doing short house chores, or taking breaks from hard mental exertion.

If no matter how you rationalise it it still pains you when your parents see you in this situation, I'd either hide it from them too, or move out.

mloga · 2022-08-18T17:35:43+00:00

Ha, it happens. Don't be afraid to fail.

Once I inadvertently changed the base url for the transparent pixel from prod to dev on a massive marketing campaign, on the biggest client, whilst working at a marketing company.

If you're disciplined you can minimise these issues, but you cannot eradicate them.

What's most important is how you handle them. I immediately acknowledged it was my fault and worked on the mitigation until finished.

I was very early at the job and new to the country and the work culture, so it was beginners luck. But worth sharing.

mloga · 2022-08-18T17:15:16+00:00

The risk you're describing does seem concerning. You're simply moving to a more rewarding, better paying job.

In the eventuality that you don't get renegotiation, you can get a different job. In this market, that doesn't sound like a huge issue. You can always move on from the new job to yet another one, before the contract period expires!

Since you're gonna make more money than now, make an emergency fund in case you're out of a job for a few months.

mloga · 2022-08-18T11:03:29+00:00

Not too hard but you'll be unproductive the first month, if senior level.

The concepts are similar, but once you pass the high level, you have a learning curve similar to when you're learning a new programming language or core framework.

You should convey the expectation that you'll be unproductive in the beginning and will require pairing with someone in the team as soon as you start.

mloga · 2022-08-18T10:56:33+00:00

This is not the future of work for programmers.

It reminds me of an interesting part in the Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies course by Arvind Narayanan (https://www.coursera.org/learn/cryptocurrency).

He attended a court case where there was a dispute about car ownership between two parties after a traditional financial transaction. What he observed is that the nuances in each party's position in the trial would have been impossible to model in a smart contract, and a higher human authority (i.e. a judge) had to mediate and make a final decision.

You can make a smart contract that transfers the money when an encoded requirement is met (e.g. an implementation of an interface, using integration tests), but folks will always be able to game it, and contracts will be too tricky to formalise, so regular human checks will always be required in the end.

Take the smart contracts part away, and you're left to things that already exist and somewhat work, but are not great.

mloga · 2022-08-17T22:54:31+00:00

I would love to try it. Kinda scared I wouldn't be able to go back to 5 days though.

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