Nathan McCarthy-Gilmore

Devoted Husband & Father | IT Director | Hobby Game Dev | Learning Fitness | Learning Woodworking | Good at home improvement | Space Nerd | Kindness, Not Hate

[Nathan McCarthy-Gilmore @softbinary_ng]

@Hybridathlete 3x per week, heavy lifts, 80-95 minutes each usually. 8-10k steps per day.
Rest is just be active and move, park farther away, get on the floor with your kids, make 5x trips in with groceries instead of million bags 3x.
Recovery is everything at 46, it is my limiter.

[Nathan McCarthy-Gilmore @softbinary_ng]

@homegymcoop @Mr_davisj Add another membership for my wife and child, the money does not make sense for a membership not even close

[BowTiedYukon @BowTiedYukon]

22 year old fitness influencers tell you that you need 8 hours of sleep, stretching followed by a good warm up, train scientifically, the sauna, a cold plunge and no microplastics

Most fathers are running on 5 hours of sleep, 400mg of caffeine, a quick warm up, crush a lift, meat & potatoes & disciple to get through the day

The world was built by men who showed up tired, not by men waiting for perfect conditions

[Ben Axelrod @BenAxelrod]

Airports really need to reach a consensus on whether we’re leaving laptops in the bag in the security line.

[Nathan McCarthy-Gilmore @softbinary_ng]

@homegymcoop This is the other side of the coin for membership fees. It’s not just the money, your time is money, wear & tear on your car this money. Time away from your family has negative value.
The innovation in the home gym market is incredible. There is something for every space & budget

[Adam Stiebing @AdamStiebing]

What could have been!

[Nathan McCarthy-Gilmore @softbinary_ng]

@uniquemoviemom She’s a Palpatine. Agree, it was too easy but she’s mega powerful. Granddaughter of the most powerful with ever.

[Nintendo Prime @NintyPrime]

Nah.

Disagree here. Let me explain a bit, as someone who really enjoyed the Wii U era.

The Wii U era had all sorts of issues. The terrible name and marketing, the absolutely slow pace of new game releases, the several month gaps at times where we didn't even get a third party game, let alone a Nintendo game, etc. BC via the worst method of BC we had ever seen.

But, it if you owned one, it had charm. While the releases took a lot of waiting, most of them turned out to be really damn good.

The system introduced miiverse, a social network just for Nintendo fans - and Miiverse was incredible on Wii U specifically. It is also the last generation where we got to enjoy free online play - which was more important then as Nintendo was making more online games - including the new IP Splatoon.

It had arguably the very best version of the Virtual Console, and my lord for one gen it was so nice to not need friend codes and have a more standard account system.

I loved my Wii U. Despite its faults. And yeah, console warriors were coming after Wii U owners hard that entire generation online. I know, they came after me. And? That's them being asshats. Had nothing to do with my enjoyment of Wii U.

The off-tv play was so revolutionary for me at the time, it's how I even got to game for the longest time because we were poor and had one TV in the entire house for a family of 4 at the time.

I have very positive nostalgia for the Wii U. And I turn 40 this year. And yeah, if a Kid grew up with it, they probably do too. But most of the people I see that think positively about Wii U are around my age bracket. A lot of the early 20's people I see barely even mention Wii U. Probably because they never played one.

Anyways, Wii U had to crawl so Switch could run, but there will always be things I miss from that era.

[Valentin Ignatev @valigo]

Imagine giving a keynote on PyCon, and then Guido himself tells you to delete your account......

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

You can’t really argue this. They believe in investing in the people and infrastructure.

[Nathan McCarthy-Gilmore @softbinary_ng]

@homegymcoop You use metric?

[Nathan McCarthy-Gilmore @softbinary_ng]

@homegymcoop Accuracy?

[Nathan McCarthy-Gilmore @softbinary_ng]

@anymanfitness A proper form push-up? Not arms, 90° like an airplane wing? A genuine 45° proper form push-up. 0 to 1.

[Nathan McCarthy-Gilmore @softbinary_ng]

@NES_Professor Only one TV and was very old, only RF input. Ditto for SNES! Wasn’t until N64 that we had a TV with inputs like those fancy smasy cables.

[Nathan McCarthy-Gilmore @softbinary_ng]

@asparagoid Point to where the blue book hurt you. Is that book in this room with us now?

[XBOX @XBOX]

We Are Xbox

[Nathan McCarthy-Gilmore @softbinary_ng]

@aakashgupta Never forget.
Trump directed it to be canceled early in his second term.
I cannot wait to see what Roman brings to science!

[Nathan McCarthy-Gilmore @softbinary_ng]

@PaulMarcoe White Vans with Candy

[Nathan McCarthy-Gilmore @softbinary_ng]

@SuperSisi That movie had no business going that hard
Incredible seeing at age 6 or 7 and absolutely crying as my heroes are all killed off!

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

The sun you see right now exploded 7 minutes ago and you'd have no way of knowing. You'd still feel its warmth. Still see it in the sky. Still orbit it. For 8 minutes and 20 seconds, you'd live in a universe that no longer has a sun and have absolutely no way to detect the difference.

This is because gravity also travels at the speed of light. If the sun vanished, Earth would continue orbiting the empty space where it used to be for the same 8 minutes and 20 seconds. Einstein proved this. The gravitational wave carrying the information "the sun is gone" propagates at exactly c. Light, gravity, and information all share the same speed limit.

Now scale the paradox in this post. 90 light-years is nothing. The Andromeda galaxy is 2.5 million light-years away. Every photograph of it is a 2.5 million year old snapshot. The entire galaxy could have collided with something catastrophic 2 million years ago. We'll find out 500,000 years from now.

The James Webb Space Telescope routinely photographs galaxies from 13.4 billion years ago. Those galaxies no longer exist in any form we'd recognize. The stars burned out. The civilizations, if any, rose and fell billions of years before Earth formed. Webb is photographing ghosts.

The deepest implication: "right now" is a local phenomenon. It exists only in the space you can physically touch. Beyond that, everything you see, measure, or interact with is a time-delayed recording. The further you look, the older the recording gets. There is no method, even in principle, to know the current state of anything beyond your immediate surroundings.

The entire observable universe is a 13.8 billion year old museum where every exhibit is labeled with a different date and nothing is current.