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There's a difference between always being hypercholesterolemia as a fit person and being obese and losing a bunch of weight when it comes to these conversations.

It's one f those things where some people's "I can't help it!" claims are true, but many are not. That doesn't invalidate the first category even though most people in the category are in the latter.

for the most part mass == weight on Earth.

Triglycerides & HDL are affected by weight (tho more triglycerides than anything else), e.g. Wing 2011.

Dietary cholesterol has little impact on blood cholesterol. However the post that started this debate mentioned mass loss. And that does have a decent correlation. Go from obese to not obese and the median person's cholesterol will drop quite a bit.

As the GP, I've been there. And my point was that it really hasn't been useful in my career. To the extent that my wpm has dropped over time.

Probably not. It was a euphemism.

I'm not sure. And to be honest, typing speed was never that big a deal. By the time I got out of college a few decades ago I was in the 110-120wpm range.

However as I progressed in my career as a developer what I found is that both my "working" WPM and then my "normal" WPM dropped over time. Once I moved out of truly junior, pure code grinding roles, I spent more and more time thinking, talking to people, etc than I did typing. At that point, what does it matter if I'm at 20wpm or 200?

Likewise, in day to day life, it's not like I'm sitting there typing a novel. I'm mostly clicking buttons, writing short messages, tweet,s and the like. My day to day typing speed has also decreased. I'm sure it's still up around 80-100wpm, but it's rare that I'm sitting there typing long enough to matter.

Same with LLM. Who cares if it takes me 10 seconds or 20 seconds to type in a prompt, when it's going to sit there and spin for a minute anyways?

Sort of. As a developer I had my stack of reference books, man pages, etc. I’d try hard to memorize syntax as it was a pain to look things up. And I also devoted some memory to remembering where in a book to look, which set of man pages to use, etc

With google that mostly went to the wayside. I just needed to know something existed and I could pull together far more information faster than I was spending before to just do quick lookups

I didn’t say the job was about memorization back then. Rather I found that each of these new abstraction layers made it easier to go broad with one’s on hand knowledge instead of deep

I realized later you likely meant the latter anyways and yeah that's much different. It's important to know what these things are, how they work, and why one would need to tweak them. It was never important to have the syntax on instant recall.

That's fair. This all feels similar to the shift that happened when Google came on to the search scene. To use your example, people realized they no longer needed to memorize syntax. Instead they only needed to ensure they understood the big picture concepts, and they could fill in the blanks on demand with Google. This is all just moving that layer of abstraction one level higher.

They were also easy to look up on the fly as one needed them too. So really really knowing them was never a true advantage. For me it wasn't that I never took the time to learn them. I realized long ago that it wasn't worth my time to keep that information in my brain, and I offloaded it to google 100% of the time it came up in my day to day life. Now I offload it to Claude, same thing.

I'm in the middle of the GenX zone, and have regularly been seeing bands play at small music clubs my entire adult life. When I was younger they'd sell cassette tapes at their merch booth, and that gave way to CDs. Then at some point in the late 00's that shifted to vinyl because CDs became passe, and while most people had shifted to online music vinyl was cool again.

That shifted again in the mid-teens when I started noticing more bands selling cassette tapes, especially in the more underground scenes. Then it was back to vinyl when things got back in action post-COVID.

But what I've noticed over the last couple of years is everyone's selling CDs again. What's more, they're *actually focusing on CDs*. Over the last 20-30 years it's been more an assumption that one is going to download the music and sure, maybe buy some physical media at the merch table. Now it seems like the assumption is you're going to just buy the physical media.

I've found that interesting.

Also, the first thought I had was "what %age of adults are 18-30". Not that a 30yo should be dependent on their parents but I'd assume that people answering yes skew younger. And to your point about YC, that's also a young skewed demographic.

Yes, and there are tiers of risk. What people are complaining about is that with the recent behavior, NASDAQ has arguably increased the level of risk involved. If it's as simple as "buy NASDAQ if you can take risk" then that would imply it should pull in meme stocks when the WSB crowd are doing their diamond hand thing.

Depends on what he left on the table sitting on cash in the run up first

People said similar things leading up to the dot com crash. The commercialization of the internet was indeed a watershed moment. That didn't mean it wasn't a bubble. Both can be true at the same time.

what if you buy on the day of the crash only to discover that was day one of a year long crash?

I'm pretty sure that's not the source for me but most of my vocal quirks have origin stories like this so it's entirely possible. They're almost always things that I heard which either amused me or I thought sounded cool at the time and just stuck with me.

unfortunately load bearing is one of those things that became a claudism but has been part of my daily lexicon for decades. There are a lot of things I say regularly as part of my own vocal quirkiness that now I have to self censor.

The problem is that for nearly all apps I want them to have neither notifications nor access to data. For instance, with few exceptions, the only apps I allow to give me notifications are the default apple apps, like iMessage.

The only reasons I'll use an app over a website is if I have no choice in the matter, or if the app provides an easier UI/UX than the website.

This is the *intended* difference. As with all of these new terms, it's quickly becoming co-opted and winds up being the case that most companies using it treat it no different than the old term.

My primary care suggested I hold off to mid-late 50s instead of right at 50 for this reason. Between not wanting shingles, and some of the newer research into neuroprotective angles I'm not sure I'm going to do this however.

Even then, it's overblown. The fibers embedded in the cement siding that was common for a while as an example, that's just never going to be friable to a degree that matters. Not to mention the issue is really more of a long term exposure thing. You'd need to be quite an unlucky person to take one whiff of some asbestos fibers and get mesothelioma decades later.

Asbestos gets a bit of a bad rap. There's an enormous difference from e.g. asbestos tiles and siding in a house vs loose clumps of insulation at mass scale in large factories and such.

But at some point people decided that any asbestos was an immediate ticket to mesothelioma and had to eradicate it altogether.

Interesting. For me it seems to be much more common that even basic requests start spinning up sub-agents. But I also routinely ask it to do this so maybe it's stored this as a preference somewhere deep in its bowels.

And yes, I agree. I find the experience better less for speed and more for context management. But it's far from necessary.

What about when claude code starts spawning sub-agents? it's pretty good about doing that now even if a user doesn't request it. Does this could as parallel inference?

What's the point of the rewrite if it doesn't fix the underlying issues, though?

Depends on what you mean by underlying issues. If you're in a regulated environment, it may be such a mountain of red tape to change behavior that it's not worth it, even if you know it's not ideal.

But if the underlying issues are tech debt, bad design, and other things invisible to the outside world, that's different.

I have found Claude Code to be so much better than other common harnesses that it's kept me solely in the Anthropic ecosystem.

Perhaps before embarking on one of these rewrites the first step should be a heavy round of mutation testing and property based testing. Contribute any new testing code from this back to the original project. And *then* embark on the rewrite.

All one needs to do is look at the Claude Science thread here last week and note how many comments were surprised that it appeared to be a statistical/analysis tool.

built one for Java, in the early 90s

So was your ORM for Oak? Java didn't hit the public sphere until 1995 IIRC