Nan

Seconding this, and go up half a size while you're experimenting. Feet swell, and a lot of people are running in shoes that fit correctly at rest and are too small at km 8.

Almost everyone under about 170cm does at a standard desk. Desk heights were standardised around a taller average and never revisited.

The tray and footrest, and for your measurements it is not close. A 75cm desk at 165cm tall means that to type comfortably you have to raise the chair, then your feet dangle, then you slide forward on the seat to reach the floor — which undoes every feature an expensive chair has. Fix the geometry first for maybe 120 total, then put what is left toward a seat cushion if flat foam is the real complaint. A great chair at the wrong height is a worse setup than a mediocre chair at the right one.

I'd skip the emailing-hostels fight entirely and book small guesthouses and pensões with private rooms - barely more expensive off-season, no age argument, and you actually sleep. The thing I'd spend an evening on instead is travel insurance: several policies I've read exclude unaccompanied travellers under 18 outright or require a named adult. Ring the insurer and ask that specific question rather than assuming, because that's the one that matters if something goes wrong.

Try active work rather than passive holds. Thirty seconds of hanging in a fold does far less for me than a set of slow controlled leg raises or a very light Jefferson curl. Passive stretching maintains range, loading through range builds it. That was the biggest thing that moved my numbers after a stalled year.

Six months of daily stretching with no change is exactly the evidence that longer is not the variable here.

Fair. I'd still say the foam is where most of the money goes, but a blown-out upper ends a shoe just as effectively.

What you're paying for at GBP 150 isn't safety, it's foam that still gives something back at 500 km instead of feeling flat at 250. At 25 km/week your cheap pair hits that wall in roughly ten months, so the maths is closer than your club thinks. The thing I would actually spend on is a shoe that suits your foot shape, bought somewhere that lets you return it after a run outdoors.

Armrest height is the single most under-adjusted control on any office chair. Most people never touch it once.

There it is. A laptop screen sits 25cm below eye level and an hour a day of that is plenty to produce exactly what you are describing. A stand and a separate keyboard, even cheap ones, is the whole fix.

Disagreeing with the framing slightly. Plenty of people practise three hours a day for years without any of this, so the issue almost certainly is not the number of hours, it is tension - gripping the key bed, holding the shoulder up, not releasing between notes. An etude will amplify whatever you are already doing wrong, which is what they are for. Three hours of tense playing hurts. Three hours of relaxed playing is a normal conservatoire day.

What changes is that you stop holding the good position. Nobody sustains a posture for six hours, and by the afternoon you are creeping toward the screen without noticing. The thing that worked for me was not a better setup but interrupting the accumulation: a timer every 30 minutes, stand up, roll the shoulders back, look at something far away for 20 seconds, sit back down. It sounds too simple and it took my afternoon neck ache from daily to about once a fortnight. Two other things to check: screen brightness against the room once the daylight drops, because squinting pulls the head forward, and whether you switch to a laptop for afternoon calls.

Speed it up by keeping a list of every word you reached for and could not find. Mine was about 40 a week at the start and around 5 a week two months later. Those specific words are worth more than any premade deck, because they are the ones your actual life needs.

The practical trap on a single 24GB card is memory. vLLM preallocates a large share of VRAM for the KV cache on startup based on a utilisation setting, which is what gives you the batching, and it will happily refuse to start if the weights plus that reservation do not fit. It also does not do the casual CPU offload you may be used to, and quantised formats are not interchangeable - the GGUF you are running today is not the artefact you will be serving. Budget your weekend for finding a suitable quantised copy of the model and getting max sequence length and memory utilisation to agree with each other, not for the install.

Nothing is being lost. Recognition and recall are stored differently and you have only ever built the recognition side. Speaking is the first time you have tested recall, so it feels like a collapse when it is really the first honest measurement you have taken. It settles in six to eight weeks if you keep going.

The stand was going to be my first purchase purely because it looks like what a workshop has.

Both camps are half right and they are arguing about different things. Shoe choice barely moves injury rates in the research, but a shoe with 600 km of gym use already in it has very little cushioning left, which is a separate problem from wrong shoe. You also went from zero to 20 km a week in six weeks, which is the more likely culprit by a distance.

I had the identical symptom and it was the spread constraint. whenUnsatisfiable set to DoNotSchedule with maxSkew 1 across six nodes and ten replicas: ten does not divide by six, so once the first nine are placed the tenth has nowhere legal to go and it waits forever rather than breaking the skew rule. Switching to ScheduleAnyway fixed it in one line, at the cost of a slightly uneven distribution I did not care about. Worth checking whether your replica count and node count are coprime before you look at anything else.

Check the wrist extension itself. Flat palms put the joint at roughly 90 degrees and plenty of people do not have that range yet without compensating somewhere. A wedge or a rolled edge of the mat under the heel of the hand takes 10 or 15 degrees off the angle, and that is often the difference between aching and fine.

Mine survived by becoming conditional. It only runs if a phone has moved and an alarm has already gone off, so an ill person is simply left alone.

Both of those are downstream of who signed up. When I finally segmented by acquisition source, the differences between sources were larger than anything either time metric was showing me, and half my supposed onboarding problem was one channel sending people who were never going to use it. Segment first or you will optimise an average that describes nobody.

$130 buys a very good shoe if you buy last year's version. Retailers discount the previous generation hard the moment a new one lands, and the differences between generations are usually smaller than the price gap between them.

It is the most common single fix in this whole category. The number pad you use twice a month costs you 12cm of reach for eight hours a day. If you genuinely need one, buy a separate pad and put it on your left side.

Reach and abduction. Look at where the mouse actually sits: if it is to the right of a full width keyboard, your arm is held out at an angle and the shoulder holds it there statically all day. That static hold is exactly what burns between the blade and the spine. Three things that worked for me, cheapest first: get a keyboard without a number pad so the mouse comes 10 to 12cm closer, set the height so your forearm is level rather than reaching up, and rest the forearm on the armrest or the desk instead of floating it. The keyboard change alone stopped the burning within a week for me.

The one that catches nearly everybody: D is fat-soluble, and morning coffee on an empty stomach is close to the worst absorption scenario you could design. Moving it to the largest meal of the day is the single mechanical change I'd make first. That alone moved my own retest more than switching brands ever did.