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Any resources you'd recommend for learning about reasoning about the security of code?

friendly Socratic arguing with another engineer who happens to be a robot

Ha! Same! Still feels like the best way to go about it, really. I know the dream is to one day remove humans from the loop... but I'll enjoy the dialectic while it still seems the most productive!

as long as humans keep producing new content and innovation

Well.. we won't have to as we'll have models to do it for us!

goddam, that's beautiful. thanks for sharing!

This is unfortunate, because (and probably much to the article writer's chagrin), I am a fan of making use of the formatting tools available for a given platform. When convenient, I love using an em/en-dash. And, when I'm up for it, italicizing and bolding words to convey prosody. It just feels right.

Now, though, I may be dismissed as an LLM (probably as an older model that can't quite use them formatting tools effectively).

Yea, probably. My "old-man" pet peeve is people using "lol"/"lmao"/etc. as punctuation lol.

As this post has been (to my sensibilities) obviously composed by an LLM, I can tell you: this does not read "human."

What constitutes "this bullshit"?

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox

From where did you hear this rumor?

Yep, this, so far, proven the most promising use of LLMs, to me. I've read about people's Rube Goldberg machine-eqsue setups for getting agentic LLMs to work for them, but I find simply having a dialectic with an LLM to be more fruitful. Rubber-ducking with a duck that quacks back.

but this still allows arbitrary markup to the page (even <style> CSS rules) if I'm reading the docs correctly.

If that's true, seems like it's still a security risk given what you can do with CSS these days: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47132102

This is exactly what I’ve done for my Google settings after feeling more and more upset with what the Youtube homepage was showing me. Not so much in that it was necessarily contrary to what I may have wanted to watch, but more-so me thinking “My god.. is this what I’ve become?”

I now much prefer to open Youtube (quasi)tabula rasa. I still have subscriptions set up so I can follow “vetted” accounts, but for other things I now rely on that intentionality.

The one minor bummer is that Youtube won’t remember your spot in a video, say if you’re watching in your phone and want to continue on your desktop (or vice-versa). Not the biggest hassle to manually check the time and sync it up, though.

A good video on this: https://youtu.be/n7h8H4nGeMw

Isn’t this just “Gitflow”?

https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/comparing-workflows/...

“Essentially” in the sense you can’t really change the 8 frequencies you have to choose from quickly. Kinda impractical to do if you wanna play a set that spans different keys/tonalities.

I keep telling myself to stop lusting over gear and just start making music, but…

EDIT: Saw that it’s pretty much a fixed-key device, which makes it much less appealing. Still pretty damn cool, though.

Oh, nice! Yea, was wondering what Genelecs, combined with your other gear, could be less than the price of this monitor. Makes sense that it’s the smaller ones!

What Genelecs are you using??

Oh, yea, for sure. One thing that keeps me consistent is that I know what happens when I take > 1 week off (which is sometimes unavoidable) and attempt to get back into it. DOMS⁰ for days.

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0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delayed_onset_muscle_soreness

Mornings (~6am), I often walk ~40min to my gym, do heavy compound lifts (~1hr total with ~2-3min rest between sets), walk ~40min back, and I tend to feel fine by the time I get back home. It's usually at the end of the day where the fatigue seems to catch up to me.

I use standard GNOME as my desktop environment and nothing about it feels like it was designed for tablets and/or smartphones. Not that it isn’t capable of being used as such, but my desktop usage doesn’t indicate that tablet/smartphone use-cases were the primary goal. Is GNOME even in wide use for those contexts?

What makes this “neurotypical?” I don’t necessarily consider myself as such, but I’ve made it a point to have some routine in my life. In fact, I think being highly regimented and sticking to a routine can be very neuroatypical. I would never go so far as to say I’m autistic, but there are markers on that spectrum, like becoming upset when a routine is disrupted. I certainly am perturbed when I’ve set some routine for myself and something interrupts it.

Wonder how Anthropic folk would feel if Claude decided it didn't care to help people with their problems anymore.

Yea, I tried to give it a go on Fedora, but the terrible text rendering made it a insta-delete, for me.

This is one of those rare cash-grabby schemes I don't mind. I find it pretty fun to go watch some old favorites in a communal environment on the big screen!

What's leftist about supporting the LGBTQ community?

TFA is non a scientific journal, but summarizing/editorializing results from scientific journals. They don't cite their sources for that particular claim, but it appears to be from this^1 journal, which itself is an overview of other research. The "10-20%" number comes from this^2 2003 review of existing research on creatine that states 70% of the existing research at that time showed statistically significant results and give some example numbers of performance gains with regards to resistance training in the 5-15% range. However, I believe that's just an example from one study out of the many reviewed and I don't have access to more than the abstract. Not that I'd have the scientific/statistical knowledge to properly interpret the meta-analysis, anyway, but ..point being that "10-20%" number from the article can be misleading (surprise, surprise).

1: https://jissn.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12970-017-...

2: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A:1022465203458

I recommend this "Stronger by Science" episode on it: https://www.strongerbyscience.com/podcast-episode-117/

A 10% in strength drop after stopping creatine intake seems like quite a bit. Creatine certainly helps out in resistance training (if you're a responder), but generally by way of maaaybe being able to add another rep to a set at a given weight or maaaybe being able to add 2-3% more weight to a given set. This has cumulative effects, of course, but I wouldn't expect such a steep decline.

Unless you are a super-responder, that is!