When cutting I don’t factor in burned calories as extra calories I can eat.
When doing heavy lifting trying to build muscle and bulk up I’ll add some extra calories. I don’t do this often anymore.
My normal is more of a leangains style where on high activity days I’ll eat at 10% deficit up to maintenance, and on low activity days I’ll eat a 20% deficit.
If you’re doing a recomposition (burn fat and build muscle) then yeah, you are losing fat but gaining muscle so the scale can be misleading. Body fat % or pant size become better indicators. You may see what is referred to as a “whoosh” where every few weeks you seem to drop a few Kg over night (water weight).
When I am doing a recomp I tend to do weigh-ins every 2-4 weeks. When cutting I’ll do it weekly.
I’m sure that I’m in a caloric deficit. Eating more raw fruits and fibrous food like beans, more fish and less meat and fats.
Have you done any tracking? It is a pain to do all the time but worth maybe doing it for a week just to be sure. I struggle with knowing when I am full and can easily put myself over on something high calorie like nuts.
If no progress for a few months, lab testing may be worth it. Thyroid issues can impact weight gain and loss.
Finally there are medications like GLP-1 (expensive in some areas) that mess with insulin production and the hunger signals in your brain that have been known to be effective.
BSP Tree (with custom nodes).
With a vanilla BSP-tree you can accomplish your diagram. Simply reordering your splits can do it by making the footer and main content areas first. Better approach is to support splits on non-leaf nodes. In the example below just split the root where all its children go to the new top node and a new bottom bar leaf node is created.
Root (split: vertical, ratio: 0.6)
├── Left child (Window A)
└── Right child (split: horizontal, ratio: 0.5)
├── Top child (Window B)
└── Bottom child (Window C)
To access neighbors you’ll need your nodes to track their parents (double linked). Then you can traverse until all edges are found. Worst case its O(height+num neighbors that exist) if I am remembering.
Depending on how efficient you want it to be, there are speed ups. It has been awhile, but I do remember keeping the tree as balanced as possible makes the search around log(n). Each split node keeping an index of all children in its sub-tree also reduces how much traversing is needed when you need all children after a split.
Can get a little complicated but it is doable. That said, how many splits will a TUI have? This may be preemptive to do.
Custom nodes is where you support some patterns that could use further optimizations. Tables that will always be a grid. Tab bars that are a 1xn grid could be a further specialized node.
This is all about layout. Fixed/Dynamic width/height windows, padding and margins, borders, are all render processing and don’t effect the layout (unless you want reactivity). By that I mean you have windows that will split differently when the viewport is portrait or landscape and it dynamically adjusts to the window size. Sometimes with different “steps” like a square viewport may be different from both portrait or landscape or 4:3 could be treated different from 16:9.
TUIs are not my day job but I’ve made a few in my day. Above are just my opinions from experiences. There is no “right” answer but hopefully some of this helps your journey.
TypeScript is my day job and using a custom JSX Factory makes it pretty easy to define HTML-like interfaces for devs that can support mixing layout, render attributes, content, and app logic.
Explicit BSP splits:
<Split type="vertical" ratio={0.6}>
<WidgetA />
<Split type="horizontal" ratio={0.5}>
<WidgetB />
<WidgetC />
</Split>
</Split>
Custom nodes:
<Container>
<TabBar>
<Tab>Tab 1</Tab>
<Tab>Tab 2</Tab>
</TabBar>
<StatusBar />
</Container>
Not sure your stack but throwing it out there as something I’ve used successfully.
https://www.zimaspace.com/ - Low end Zimaboard is $90.
https://www.hardkernel.com/shop/odroid-h4/ - Cheapest seems to be H4 at $99.
These are from the last time I researched as I was in the same boat.
I had specific PCI requirements, so there may be cheaper.
Soma. Its like sleepytime ecstasy that lasts 20-30min.
high levels of serotonin in the body - agitation, hallucinations, fever, sweating, shivering, fast heart rate, muscle stiffness, twitching, loss of coordination, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea.
100% the same boat when I started! I actually deleted a paragraph that said when I was young I wanted to learn how to do things the right way. You eventually learn there is no right way us devs will agree upon. You won’t have opinions on the better way until you’ve done it an objectively bad way.
Reading code helps with this. I’m always looking at my library’s and framework’s implementations. Half my dependencies I swear I patch to make them “better” (subjectively).
If you knew how to start, you wouldn’t be learning anything. So, you are learning. What do you want to learn about as you learn how to architect and develop some software? Web, databases, 3d rendering, gaming, etc.
Chances are you are going to need a framework, library, or many of both. You’ll be learning those too.
Back to architecture. Once you have an idea of what you want to build, we want to get something running fast. Because whats going to happen is you are going to make bad decisions. Lot’s of them and that’s good! You want to fail so many times you learn what not to do, how to debug to keep things moving forward, etc.
So start with a hello world. Serve a webpage. Connect to a database. Draw a square. Then add another and another.
There is some quote out there that the difference between a beginner and master is the master spent X,000 hours failing. At the end of the day its just time spent learning.
You may start over. You may switch tech stacks. You maybe give up when something more interesting comes along.
90% of my personal projects never get completed. I’m usually learning a tool. If I’m reasonably able to use a new tool I’ve learned something. Become really good at learning. Learn to read code. Learn to read type signatures. Learn how the tools you learn work. Learn how to make them do things they were not meant to do. Learn your build system. Learn to setup linting, document your project, setup CI/CD, and so on.
For reference I’m in my 40s. Started coding at 13. Work R&D and greenfield projects for the same fortune 100 for almost 2 decades. Done everything from web, data pipelines, network code, integrated firmware, etc. As you skill up it gets easier. My team usually picks up a new stack every project as I level them up just to expose them to different things.
If you’re not paying for the product, you are the product.
Been using Nix for just over a year.
Seconding to go with flakes. No idea wtf channels are or whatever the previous system was.
Documentation can be confusing due to changes in paradigms. The bare “nix <scope>” seems to be the most modern oppose to “nix-<scope>” (e.g., nix store vs nix-store). That said, not every feature can be found in the newer variants.
This can make following tutorials difficult if they aren’t using the same paradigm.
Getting comfortable with the nix language will be helpful. Its a functional programming language, which is very different than languages like bash.
Not everything has to be done the nix-way. My nvim files are in the same repo, but I just outOfStoreSymlink them instead of wrapping them in a derivation.
Some useful packages I like not already shared.
Disk partitioning: https://github.com/nix-community/disko
Immutable: https://github.com/nix-community/impermanence - Pretty much resets the system to a new install every boot. Discourages manual tweaks via sudo as they get wiped out. You can still mark certain directories to be persistent (logs, personal documents, steam games, etc.).
Nvfetcher: https://github.com/berberman/nvfetcher - Nix has a concept of overlays. You can pretty much override anything with .override (module args or inputs) and .overrideAttrs (module attribute set or outputs). Nvfetcher helps with checking different sources so you can override a packages src attribute. Why is this useful? So you can install any version you want and are not bound to nixpkgs. That doesn’t mean the install script in nixpkgs will always work on newer versions, but those can be overridden as well if needed.
Note that disko, impermanence, and nvfetcher all have a flake.nix in the root of the repo. Those provide ready to go overlays so you don’t have to deal with writing your own which is really nice if you want to latest version without much work when available.
The cremlings emerge.
Toooo real. Its like companies have taken the worst of everything and just call it agile. List out every task and estimate them so we have timelines, but don’t actually architect anything as that’s waterfall. Fake waterfall, with fake dates, but fingers will be pointed like they were real commitments, and spend a month doing it for this executive power point instead of fucking off so devs can build the damn thing.
https://x.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1142157838153895941?mx=2
They were setting the stage for this in his first term.
I assume you mean Keyboard Video Mouse (KVM) Switch and not Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM)?
I just use SSH…
Our sysadmin swears by Dell’s iDRAC, which I don’t think is technically a KVM and may only work for Dell PowerEdge Servers. I think I used it once to get into the BIOS remotely.
Most data centers I’ve been in have a floating monitor and peripherals.
I’ve used Tripp-Lite terminal servers, who sells KVMs, but I cannot comment if they are any good.
As a final thought, why is protection from malicious apps from the play store being performed on the phone instead of in the store?
In addition, why is known spyware on the top of the recommended list if I were to open the play store: temu, snapchat.
Or getting pissy if I use an ad blocker when their platform has served malicious ads.
Was my first thought. “Hetero-flexible” if you will.
Object Orientated Programming Structured query language (OOPS-ql).
For non-techies, SQL (Structured Query Language) is used to interact with databases and is often pronounced as sequel.
Was the first thing that came to mind looking at this.
I ended up just building a box after looking for the perfect NAS and finding it didn’t exist. The software is usually just crap or the hardware is underwhelming. Got a Node 804 case to slap in plenty of HDD space. Running NixOS so I’m in control of the software. In retrospect I wish I had gotten a rackmount type case. Tossed in an Arc GPU for better transcoding shortly after the initial setup.
So, I don’t use OpenWRT (for main router), but generally in each vlan you will need: