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“There’s this thing called the stack, a request response cycle fits inside it and actually http is stateless probably due to contemporary stack limits”
Stretching/yoga constantly. Keep the mat unrolled and while something builds, stretch.
Walking. A lot. As I’ve not been able to dance all night since COVID, I’ve started “dance walking” . It looks pretty ridiculous and keeps people guessing.
I wouldn’t discount alternative environments for stimulating latent or dorment parts of a person, but you certainly have a good point about the perennial capacity for self transformation
Nice article and all, especially the cute drawings. I don’t agree with their conclusions.
It’s pretty hard to become a surf champion if you grow up in Minnesota and stay there.
Each new “reality bubble” or “box” I created in response to different circumstances in a different environment. I changed, or rather, different sides of my personality had to develop to adapt to a different environment.
I’m not speaking as a vacationing cubicle worker, but as someone who completely reinvented himself after age 30, learned a half dozen languages, visited 50 countries usually on local peoples sofas, and then finally changed countries of habitation several times and am now a dual national and feeling both mental boxes quite strongly attempting to box me in.
The part where I agree with the author is that part in which our reality is limited by our own mental box of perception and acculturation.
Our choices and responses to external stimuli determine if we fold or adapt to new opportunities.
Will we hide in our shell or will we come out and be molded by new experiences?
Please note, the instagram vacation model is accurate and hollow as outlined by the author, I just think that they copped out with their lame trite conclusion that I have personally found to be untrue.
You would make an EXCELLENT moderator or facilitator. You gave fair shrift and explanation to the various perspectives anc concerns this thread is full of. I will happily vote for you if you ever run for public office.
Downtown Saint Paul Minnesota has the “skyway system” but I’m not sure it provides any lateral stiffening, rather more movement between buildings above street level in inclement weather
That looks a lot like what I'm thinking of, only that I imagined this at least at the tenth or twentieth floor. That combined with having businesses in floors others than the ground floor, like you more commonly find in Japan.
Skyscrapers are disproportionately tall for their width. This leads to the mentioned lateral movement issues discussed. The great pyramid of Giza does not have such issues due to its literal pyramidic shape with its wide base.
It would seem to me, purely based on common sense, that skyscrapers are unnecessarily tippy and flexy due to the bizarre interest in making a thin needle-like building with a small base section.
Why would we not consider simply making tall buildings proportionally wide instead of this obviously flawed tippy needle thingy?
Problems with tippy needles include: foundations and their connections to bedrock, simple physical fulcrum principles, and the obvious inability to spread forces over a larger area. It’s a bit like trying to hold a large Christmas tree up with a small stand with low mass… doomed to problems
You should look at the works of Paolo Soleri, an architect who designed buildings to accommodate the living needs of up to hundreds of thousands of people. Despite their size, they have light and air throughout. Pretty remarkable.
They are making a slight comeback but as more of a leisure thing I think - somewhere nice/novel to go for a stroll on a sunny day, rather than when doing your morning power-walk from the tube/bus station to your office etc (e.g. New York high line type thing)
There was a study awhile back that showed people were a bit more agitated / negative-feeling when walking past a very wide building vs narrow buildings in NYC. (I happened to live near and frequently pass that wide building, and like the study participants didn't like it.)
There are also downsides to deep buildings for residential use: they make reasonable apartment layouts hard because the windows are too far apart. Old deep warehouse buildings often get converted to over-sized loft apartment when converted. While living in a loft is sometimes romanticized for luxury living, the lack of windows and (thus) interior walls makes them a poor fit for families, and the large size makes them expensive for singles and couples.
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I agree, and found the article funny.