#DailyBloggingChallenge (47/50)

What weight should one start #rucking?

Depending on one’s weight and body shape, most can handle 10-20 lbs dry weight which is approximately 5-9 kg in the beginning. It is better to start lighter and increase as needed.

Ruck weight is typically measured in pounds and notated with the # symbol.

In general it is recommended to stay below 33% of one’s bodyweight, since that is the threshold where health damage exponentially increases.

#hiking #backpacking #walking

#DailyBloggingChallenge (46/50)

Weight is categorized into two: “wet weight” and “dry weight”.

Dry weight is defined as the actual weight of the object(s) that have no other purpose than being heavy.

Wet weight is defined as the complete backpack weight.

In regards to #rucking the backpack is called a “rucksack” or short “ruck”.

#hiking #walking

#DailyBloggingChallenge (45/50)

What is #rucking?

Rucking is walking with a weighted backpack.

Technically speaking, there are no backpacks that weigh nothing, thus carrying any backpack is considered as rucking.

In the community one considers acceptable weight as weight that doesn’t have any other purpose than being heavy.

#hiking #walking

#DailyBloggingChallenge (44/50)

Mortar and pestle is just one option of reducing the material, another option is to use a coffee mill. The benefit of the mill, especially if it is electric is that one has less physical labor.

Though are some downsides like the material might get hot, it can be quite loud, it can dull and potentially break the blade, or there is the cost of electricity.

#DailyBloggingChallenge (43/50)

When practicing #wildcrafting a mortar and pestle are intrinsically not needed, though they ease up certain conditions. For example if one wants to get into the capsule making business.

The drying of herbs takes time and are used mainly in three areas: infusions like herbal teas, tinctures like oils, or internally like with capsules.

Thus if one wants to make capsules, one should have a capsule machine with its accordingly capsule shells and the size is usually 00, a mortar and pestle, and the ingredients.

#herbalism #tea

#DailyBloggingChallenge (42/50)

Do you take supplements and are annoyed that some are not in gel capsules. Then just convert the tablets into capsules.

The safe way would be just to put the tablet into a capsule, especially if the dosage is in concern.

#DailyBloggingChallenge (39/50)

Goldenrod (Q212939) is currently in bloom and is ready for foraging. This is one of the key herbs to help combat the upcoming flu season.

Best to find the plants at least 50m away from any roadways. And cut them just below the last stems holding the flowers.

After the initial cut it is best to remove any extra foliage before laying out the flowers on sheets for drying. This is easier while the plant matter is still wet over later when it is dry.

Use screens or cardboard over metal sheets and have a breeze cycle frequently over it to reduce the chance of spoilage. This can also be done manually a couple times a day. Let them dry in a shaded area over direct sunlight.

#foraging #wildcrafting #goldenrod #herbalism

#DailyBloggingChallenge (38/50)

One of the trickiest quests in #StreetComplete is the distinction between an apartment building or semidetached house or detached building.

If you are able to walk in front of each structure then it becomes almost trivial, though this luxury doesn’t always exist, because the access can be gated. Thus one needs a clear telltale sign.

Does the building only have one doorbell and one mailbox, then it is a detached building.

Does the building have multiple entrances and each only have one doorbell and one mailbox, then it is a semidetached building. It can be that units of the semidetached building were mapped separately, then each unit is a house building.

Does the building entrance have more than one doorbell or more than one mailbox then it is an apartment building.

One thing that can speed up the process is getting familiar with the various doorbell and mailbox models.

Some doorbells might have two buttons, but one of them is just the light. Or it could be that one is a local business bell.

Some mailboxes might have an extra slot for newspapers or a local business.

An advanced additional info is counting the amount of street cabinets with the service being trash. This will have local discrepancies and should only be taken into consideration when the telltale signs failed.

#OpenStreetMap #tutorial

#DailyBloggingChallenge (37/50)

When programming with #R one thing that I am missing from #JavaScript in back tick notation. E.g.

const hello = 'Hello'const world = 'World'const helloWorld = `${hello}, ${world}!`

And by R with paste0

hello <- "Hello"world <- "World"helloWorld <- paste0(hello, ", ", world, "!")

#coding #programming

#DailyBloggingChallenge (37/50)

When programming with #R one thing that I am missing from #JavaScript in back tick notation.

As far as I see in R paste0 does the trick.

#DailyBloggingChallenge (36/50)

#TIL that parsing #RegEx via sed and pattern matching two different syntax variants are in use. The former requires a lot of escape character where as the latter doesn’t.

Take for example

\([0-9]\{2\}\-\)\+\([0-9]\{2\}\)

which is the correct syntax when using sed, where as it won’t work with pattern matching over =~. In such a case it would be

([0-9]{2}-)+([0-9]{2})

This cost me so much debugging fun.

#bash

#DailyBloggingChallenge (34/50)

#ginger is a known remedy for an upset stomach as well as #peppermint. One can combine both a them in a #HerbalTea:

1. Grab a pint glass and make some boiling water to fill it.
2. Take a bulb of ginger and slice it up in small sticks and add it to the glass.
3. Add about 200ml of water to the glass and let it seep for 5min. Optionally add sweeteners at this stage like honey.
4. Next fill the rest of the glass and finally add the peppermint tea bag. Seep it to your desired strength.
5. Optionally add some lemon juice after taking out the tea bag.

The nice thing is that one gets to eat the ginger sticks while drinking the #tea.

#DailyBloggingChallenge (33/50)

One inconvenience of the summer heat is that foods and used tea spoils within a day. This means if one buys any fresh produce either one should have the fridge space to store it or eat it up latest by the next morning.

For tea the easiest work-a-round for lazy people is to use self filling tea bags over tea balls. Since when drinking the beverage from pint glasses, the annoyance of drinking with the tea bag still seeping (don’t follow the practice of “steep for x minutes”) will eventually make one remove it. And one removes the extra step of cleaning up the contents like one has will tea balls.

#tea #lazycooking #summer #spoil #lifeprotip

#DailyBloggingChallenge (32/50)

When comparing a standard text editor and #Vim in most simple day-to-day tasks, the standard text editor suffices. Though the main scenario where Vim shines is if one frequently needs to copy line-wise data.

It it so much faster to use the Vim command "+yy over selecting the whole line either HOME to SHIFT+END or END to SHIFT+HOME and then CTRL+C to get it to the clipboard.

For multi-line selection, both software complete the task similarly fast, unless one knows how many lines one will be selecting, then Vim wins again.

#NeoVim

#DailyBloggingChallenge (31/50)

I have been using #chatgpt for a couple months as a developers’ tool. Although originally against the concept of such tools, I quickly realized that it will become an integral part of developing in the future.

The good thing about the tool is that it saves a lot of internetting though only if you already know what you are looking for. (As a beginner, video tutorials are still the better option.)

I have built a static website that was 80% generated from the tool, or compute data via #R in no time, or write #bash as if I was a pro.

Though on the flip side, I didn’t learn much. I made one key mistake and that is that I #copypasta the code. If you are an expert in a field, then this is fine, but being a novice, this removes a concrete learning route. (This also falls inline with the reasoning behind this challenge).

Another downside is that the tool is many times quite dumb. You ask it to change one thing and all it does is change the intro but spit out the same result again.

Another factor is how up-to-date is the tool. While using ChatGPTv3 one quickly learns its barriers when asking about the latest versions of libraries, which don’t exist in its dataset.

In the end, AI is here to stay, either you can learn how to use the technology or not.

#developer #coding #programming #learning

#DailyBloggingChallenge (30/50)

The “convenience factor” is how convenient is the task at hand that one will do it. This plays a major role when trying to start new habits and stop old habits.

If one wants to start a new habit, then one should try to make it as convenient as possible that it becomes a no brainer to continue with the change at hand. Whereas on the flip side, one would want to make it as inconvenient as possible to stop the old habit by putting many obstacles in the way that each further crossing is so much more painstaking than stopping there.

Social media is a typical habit that many want to reduce and lots just don’t understand how. There are many apps out there that can give the social media app a limited period of time. Though quicker than not, one just uses the master password and continues on the addiction.

One step further would be to create a secondary account where the social media apps live. This is harder to circumvent, though once in this garden of entertainment it is hard to get back out.

Then one could try to put the social media apps on a completely different device. This like the last barrier will not alleviate the haven of entertainment. Though it will reduce the chance of getting there unless one is willing to constantly carry around two devices.

These are some examples of putting potential obstacles in the way without completely cutting off the source of enjoyment.

#habits #productivity

#DailyBloggingChallenge (29/50)

One of the biggest goldmines as a mapper is if a location has a brochure. As long as the license permits it, one could just use their map (if in existent) to add onto #OpenStreetMap. Though other attributes are also valuable that comes with, like the contact information. This saves the time at location to fill in all this data.

Brochures from malls are quite practical when indoor mapping. Though usually such malls also have a website. At that point it is questionable which one is more favorable.

#DailyBloggingChallenge (28/50)

What is the difference between daily mapping and daily uploading on #OpenStreetMap ?

When looking at the site how did you contribute the only thing that counts are your daily uploads.

This sucks if you have mapped something and either were not able to upload due to lack of internet connection or blankly just forgot. Or if you don’t have the cut off point in mind which is UTC+0. This makes it difficult to map when far away from this fix point as when a couple time zones away.

On the flip side, one can map a set of changes and upload a subset daily.

Looking at both of these scenarios, which is more true to the statement of daily mapping?

#DailyBloggingChallenge (27/50)

Everyone has an ideal chronotype (the state where one’s sleep wake cycle is aligned with one’s biology). The trickiness lies in following this ideal state while tending to other priorities in life.

The best analogy for sleep schedule quality is L-bar metal. This distinct form is hard to mold into shape from a piece of wavey sheet metal. Though once in form it can withstand a lot of external force until the structure has collapsed.

Moving from one sleep schedule to another can be done systematically by slowly flattening out each L arm and then reshaping as desired. Or one can implode the structure creating a havoc mess, slowly trying remold it, but constantly being thrown into an uneven mess.

An interesting example is the jet lag weekend. During the workweek one follows one sleep schedule and as soon as Friday pulls up, one feels like one should treat oneself with longer wake hours and thereby indirectly giving oneself the permission to sleep in. This in return can create jet lag as soon as Monday pulls up and thereby putting the body in a state of stress for the next upcoming days.

A more permissive way to keep the treat behavior is to supplement the waking hours’ tiredness with either power naps or a full sleep cycle. This in return only works if one has the discipline to stop at the set time markers, otherwise one will be in a nice state of dismay.

On a personal example, I typically live on a circadian squared cycle, meaning every 3-4 weeks I naturally switch between a night owl to an early bird and vice versa.

#sleep #circadianrhythm #chronotypes #nightowl #earlybird #jetlag

#DailyBloggingChallenge (26/50)

The conclusion after the first 25 days:

• The initial rule with the slumber comes quite beneficial when staying awake across multiple days.
• Started implementing some backlog writing, though none became fruitful enough to publish.
• The one long article per month was not able to upheld, though can first conclude it as a failed experiment at the end of this year.
• The goal of writing in the first four hours of the day, backfired more often than actually being helpful, since it prolonged the time to be more productive in other areas of life.
• The main goal for the next 25 days is to get at least one long article out.