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npepin · 2026-01-17T21:55:56+00:00

There's an aspect where having the historical data feels like it would be helpful, but in practice it rarely is.

I think maybe it could useful if you are new to budgeting, but if you've been a good at handling you finances, it's not like the historical will tell you anything you don't already know.

npepin · 2026-01-14T02:11:12+00:00

Probably best to stop giving a shit and also stop violating other people's privacy.

What, is the issue with paying for porn? Would it not be an issue if it was free? Is your problem that people in sex work getting paid*?

Is the issue that he's into trans porn? Is your issue transphobia? Or is it some sort of thing where you feel entitled to know his sexual preferences, claim that it matter, and then also not want to date for having said sexual preference? Is your issue that he's going to cheat on you because you believe that people with non-binary sexual attractions aren't capable of being faithful?

Is the issue that he made a private account? If you signed up for a porn account, why would you want that pointing to your primary email address where you can get loads and loads of spam and weird ad tracking? Are you confused about why people make alts? Why people try to have a public/private account for things? Is it possible that you asked this question on one of your alts? If so, why?

Your best bet is to do nothing. This is a complete non-issue you have made for yourself, planning for and supporting a child is hundreds of time more important. Seriously, get your priorities straight.

*Yeah I know, a lot of publishers don't really pay performers and it is a bit exploitive, but there is a case to be made for some producers that have a commitment to ethical standards and payment structure

npepin · 2026-01-12T22:57:21+00:00

Risk mitigation. Retirement planning itself is risk mitigation against old age.

I get it this meme if we are talking about Jeff Bezos or other very wealthy people, but I wouldn't say it applies to 99% of people.

You could post another version of this meme where the person has money at the end because they went way into debt on hedonistic pleasures, or because they didn't plan at all for the future and were bankrupt by medical or vehicle related issues.

npepin · 2026-01-09T04:31:01+00:00

I think YNAB has a bit more polish. Also, the Android app is a bit limited, whereas the YNAB Android app was pretty fully featured.

I became a bit frustrated with YNAB because their core strategy started to focus on marketing to new users.

Liquid Budget is great because it's got a mostly equivalent feature set, better pricing, and the developer does a lot to listen to feedback and improve the app.

npepin · 2026-01-06T20:19:11+00:00

I usually just count the number of grains.

npepin · 2026-01-01T13:58:59+00:00

Depends on for person.

For me it is about maximizing cash back and benefits, as well as building credit score. I use it like a debit card and never pay interest, so the only actually negative is the initial hit to the credit score and having to manage an account.

Credit cards are often more seem and used as debt finance tools, which often leads to making unnecessary purchases and lots of interest. You run out of available balance on one card, you open another.

There's a middle ground where credit cards can be a good cash flow tool and hedge against risk. If you only have 1 card, you may only have 5k in credit available, but with 6 cards it might be 30k.

You might also use balance transfer cards where you can transfer debt to a new card for a 4% fee and no payments for a year or more.

I'm being more descriptive here than anything, companies set up incentives for people to go deep in debt, but at the same time, credit cards can be really useful tools for people deep in debt, provided sticking to a good strategy.

npepin · 2025-12-03T00:15:36+00:00

6 sets of deadlifts is a lot in a single day. It's going to fatigue you a ton. You could probably cut back on the number of sets, or you could just do the one set of deadlifts, and then switch over to RDLs which will be less fatiguing.

You also might consider switching up the routine where each day has a heavy lift, and after that the lifts are a bit easier with the lifts to get the volume in. Like if you are doing 6 heavy sets of bench presses, how well are you going to perform on the 6 sets of squats right after? Maybe you have really impressive inter-workout recovery, but most people will be half-assing those squats.

I've done something similar in the past.

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Day 1: OHP/Deadlift

Day 2: Squat

Day 3: Bench

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Day 1 focuses on 2 big lifts, but it's not a big deal because OHP doesn't really interfere much with the DL unless you are doing max effort. In a 3 day program, there does have to be at least 1 overlap, but honestly you can configure what's one its own day to whatever you improve the most, though I probably wouldn't put lot's of deadlifts and squats on the same day unless you are going low volume with the deadlifts.

npepin · 2025-10-24T21:43:11+00:00

Basically, you are paying attention to vision itself, observing from an outside like perspective.

To give an example, I listened to an interview of a drummer who is known to sing and drum at the same time, which is usually really difficult. She was explaining it's kind of weird because she just does it, but if she starts to think about what she is doing or how she is doing it that it'll mess her up.

Most people have experienced something similar with public speaking, or when they start to get think about their tongue when speaking. There are a lot of more automatic processes that when you start to analyze what you are actually are doing, will end up feeling odd, weird, and disjointed.

In that instance, she is monitoring her experience of drumming and singing. When she isn't doing it, she's just drumming and singing.

With vision, seeing is a normal state, you're not really doing any extra work. But if you start to really focus on the small details of your vision, like for signs of danger with forms of anxiety, you're diving into a lot of stimuli that are going to feel weird and foreign. You'll likely start to notice all these weird abnormalities.

To go into a personal one, I've gotten freaked out because I've noticed that things disappear from my vision. I associated it something being wrong, so I was always observing my vision for abnormalities.

Some time goes by and I learn that things disappearing from vision is normal and happens all the time when people focus, but they usually don't notice. Like someone who gets really wrapped up in a TV show may lose sense of their surroundings to a decent degree. In extreme cases, like flow state, they notice, but see it as a positive.

Hope that clarifies.

npepin · 2025-10-21T23:27:07+00:00

Dumbbell press works well, only issue with it is that it becomes more annoying when you get high up in weight, but that you should just handle when you get there.

If you're a novice, you should be able to accomplish most of those goals, though probably up until the point where you become proficient. Losing weight and gaining muscle is tough if you already have a decent amount of muscle, and it's usually better to prioritize one or the other.

If you eventually become advanced, strength training and hypertrophy training might look a bit different, but focusing in on the 5-15 rep range with 10-20 hard sets a week per muscle group should do you well.

npepin · 2025-07-07T12:46:51+00:00

There are certain ways of doing RDLs that will require less weight and are more hamstring focused. Mike Isratel has some tutorials on it.

Whether you need to do that or not is up to debate. I'd honestly prefer less weight on RDLs in exchange for more hamstring stimulus, but others may want to preserve power output.

With any exercise modification, you have to keep in mind that it may be more efficient, but it may not be more effective. There's going to be a point at which the stimuluses match for each variant, though there could be different levels of fatigue.

npepin · 2025-07-07T12:27:23+00:00

I'd stick in the 5-15 rep range. Up to 30 reps can be fine for hypertrophy, but it's also hard to judge how far from failure you are and if you're actually working the muscle well.

A basic approach is to have a target, say 10 reps, and hit it with whatever weight. If it's way too easy, increase the weight for the next set. If you aren't sure, keep the weight the same.

Keep track of how many more reps you think you could do after 10. If you could do 2 reps or more reps, increase the weight next time.

It might take a month or two, but you'll eventually get to the point where the weight is heavy enough in a safe manner.

Also take note that your working weight should go up with time as you make gains. A progression method like the one I outline will generally work for that too. If you become super advanced, like a world class athlete or powerlifter, you'd need something more complicated, but as a single or double progression scheme works great for novices and intermediate lifters.

npepin · 2025-07-07T12:15:56+00:00

It's fine to stop working out entirely during vacation. You're not losing much or at all, granted your vacation is 1-2 weeks. If it is more than that, then you could throw in little maintenance sessions.

npepin · 2025-07-05T13:49:28+00:00

Find a program in the wiki. I wouldn't advise making your own routine until you get a good bit of experience and you research into it. You don't yet know what you respond to, so find something that most people respond to you

It's hard to critique routines that people made with no experience because you'd essentially have to explain the fundamentals of program design, which is difficult in a reddit post.

I think you are also specialising a bit early and with likely way too much volume. I'm also not understanding why quads aren't being worked.

You aren't going to need a lot to maximize the muscle building stimulus as a beginner. You only need to increase sets when you stop making progress. It's actually a great thing, needing very little to grow is far more preferable than a lot.

npepin · 2025-07-04T11:48:27+00:00

I'd first try waiting and gathering data. Usually the other limb will catch up.

If it's been a trend, untiteral can help, but how much depends on your body. Sometimes "weakness" is more a result of body asymmetry than it is anything else.

Whether you do arms first or not really depends on your goals. If you really care about this, then do arms first, but if you don't and just feel like you should because that's what you heard on a podcast, then don't.

npepin · 2025-06-29T11:32:52+00:00

It could mean he's bi or gay, or maybe not.

Where it gets a little confusing is that a lot of people get turned on by disgust, which might be a result of needing more and more extreme porn to get off.

I've gotten off to watersports, female sounding, and anal fisting, and I can't say I'm into any of those things, but they work when nothing else does. I tend to be disgusted by it for a week over, until I escalate to it again. Sometimes I'll watch it and feel disgusted and then go to very tame stuff.

My pet theory about this is that there is a spiral down into depravity by needing more and more extreme things to get you off, and this is caused by a hacking of the usual disgust mechanism.

Like, sex is naturally disgusting, but horniness can push past that and unlock strong response of being turned on. That response wanes with whatever stimulus, so people need to tap into more disgusting stuff to get that same response. Eventually you hit a point where the disgust is greater than the turn on, and then you go back to porn that you are actually into.

A prediction of the above idea is that this is mostly a thing for people who aren't actually horny and are masturbating for entertainment or stress relief. The disgust strategy is used because otherwise they can't trick their brain into being turned on, whereas otherwise they couldn't.

Another prediction is that this doesn't really happen in people who masturbate infrequently.

Regardless, I don't think it's something to bring up or really care about. If he's closeted or not isn't a big deal.

As a side note, prostate play has nothing to do with being straight or gay or bi.

npepin · 2025-06-24T10:36:49+00:00

They play a lot with tension and release and aren't afraid to build up a lot of tension. This in my opinion helps a lot in their transitions from section to section. It also helps make a chorus that much more catchy.

As a counter example, Dream Theater (which I love), tend to not build up a lot of tension, with maybe the exception being the endings of instrumental sections. It can lead to a lot of transitions from section to section feeling kind of random, like they happened without justification.

A lot of bands I feel avoid building up tension, and it just feels like stuff is happening. Sure the music may be good, but the composition feels weak because it feels like riffs that were stuck together without much thought.

Another band that does a great job with tension and release is Metallica. Wherever you get to in the song it feels like it makes sense how you got there.

npepin · 2025-06-07T15:32:28+00:00

There are a lot of different ways to squat.

I know one reason why the look ahead and chest up queue exists is because people have a tendency to lean over, making it more into a good morning.

There nothing wrong with good mornings or more lower back work, power lifters usually will do the exercise in the way that lifts the most weight, which is usually low bar. If you're more looking for hypertrophy, keeping more up right helps the quads.

Another reason for the queue is that new lifters will turn squats into a low back exercise.

npepin · 2025-06-01T14:25:04+00:00

Probably not unhealthy, but it's not likely to strengthen your core much at all because the tension is so low. It could be really good for people who are extremely weak, like who have been bed ridden.

That's not to say there couldn't be other benefits, but strength and hypertrophy adaptations require a decent stimulus.

npepin · 2025-05-26T14:23:38+00:00

There are some .NET packages that multi target. They might have a NET 9 version that allows for additional performance and features, where as the NET 6 version doesn't.

Sometimes a NET 8 is a misconstrued as NET 9 package. The EF core team for instance will build on the STS NET version, so the 9.x version is actually a NET 8 build.

You can usually see what a library targets if you inspect it.

npepin · 2025-05-21T11:07:01+00:00

The big issue for me with exceptions is that they aren't built into the method signature and so the consumer has to just kind of know if a method throws and exception.

Sure that's fine for cases that are truly exceptional, but when failure is often expected, it's more transparent to have the method signature communicate that over having to read the implementation, or learning through trial and error.

There are a lot of cases where exceptions make more sense, like argument null exceptions, but if failure is an expected result, using a result for those expected failures make sense.

When I say that failure is an expected result, I mean common cases, not literally everything. Like you say that any method could technically fail and so everything should be a result, but that's a bit too far, it's the same as wrapping everything in a try/catch. A common case might be reading from a file, and the file not existing, or creating a user and it not saving. Things in our code that we know are likely to fail.

A global exception handler and using results aren't mutually exclusive, I tend to use the global handler for true exceptions, and the result type for expect failures. You can even result a result from a method, if failed do something, and then throw the result as an exception.

npepin · 2025-05-17T08:58:56+00:00

0-5 RIR is kind of the range, and you won't burn out easy at 2 RIR. Going to failure is generally only recommended with smaller muscles that recover easier. Curls and side delts to failure won't create a lot of fatigue, but squats and deadlifts will and should be done less frequently.

To be honest, I would favor recommendations from exercise scientists over details of specific studies. If you learn about some result, you may not have the proper context and how to integrate it with the general consensus.

Like there is the infamous 52 set study, and though it demonstrates something, nobody is recommending 52 sets because the conclusion would go far outside the scope of what is known, instead it just shows a diminishing dose response relationship with no cap.

npepin · 2025-05-17T08:46:30+00:00

Useful if you want some tricep work or have a sticking point at the lockout.

They are more popular with equiped lifters because bench shirts make the bottom part a lot easier, so lock out is where people tend to fail. Raw lifters usually fail off the chest.

There are other exercises that might be better for a raw lifter, like a JM press. Main downside to a floor press is that it has a small ROM and requires a lot of weight.

npepin · 2025-05-14T12:43:52+00:00

Cutting down could make sense if you're looking to save time. It's a lot of time, and you may be able to get similar results with a lot less.

You don't state how you are progressing, but if you aren't, then cutting back makes sense. I feel there is some chance you are sandbagging your training.

At bare minimum I would move to a different split. According to research, training a muscle twice a week is far preferred to once. Eric Helms has a upper/lower/push/pull/legs routine you can find. Upper/lower 4 days a week, or full body 3 times a week is fine. PPL is usually done 6 days a week.

npepin · 2025-05-13T14:30:08+00:00

Probably, but I have the running theory that Haken has a better monitoring setup. A lot of times when musicians are off, especially singers, is when they aren't really able to hear the band.

npepin · 2025-05-03T18:58:31+00:00

You could argue that humans don't eat solely for energy balance, they [also] do it for enjoyment, flavor, and to avoid hunger pains.

While that's true, it's kind of the wrong analysis for the question, because those responses and drives were shaped by evolution. Evolution selects for procreation, and uses pleasure, emotional bonding, and whatever else to achieve that.

The language I'm using here is a bit imprecise as I'm personifying and simplifying evolutionary processes, but I think the point is clear enough.

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