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by nwienert 1y ago
Chrome caught up in the last year or so, but also speedometer is also fairly arbitrary. Open/close, tab open/close, tab switch, scroll, initial load, resizing all still far better. Actual app performance depends on the app but for
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by nwienert 1y ago
Safari has been better for going on 5 years now, funny thing is it was worse for long enough that it seems everyone, even to this day, refuses to believe it. Faster in basically every dimension. Supporting way more than FF in terms of specs
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by nwienert 1y ago
Those tasks they are measuring are extremely well-defined problems that are extremely well-known. They don't really represent general programming as it is practiced day to day. "Find a fact on the web", "Train a classifi
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by nwienert 1y ago
Have you tried Opus? It's what got me past using LLMs only marginally. Standard disclaimers apply in that you need to know what it's good for and guide it well, but there's no doubt at this point it's a huge productivity
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by nwienert 1y ago
Actually it's both instant UX and far simpler code. With Zero I define a table schema, relationships, and permissions in beautifully simple code, then I also write my queries including relations with a nice typed query-builder, and I g
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by nwienert 1y ago
Agreed, I did a talk about exactly this earlier this year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjV3Dm5giko
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Their code example underwhelmed too, the first one started out with 2/X progress, all of them looked terrible, third didn't have mouse icon.
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by nwienert 1y ago
As someone who saw miraculous cessation of lifelong immune issues on it, saw another friends dramatically improved allergy symptoms, another lifelong smoker finally quit, and other friends generally get in great shape, I actually do believe
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by nwienert 1y ago
Its the same risk as losing weight regularly when you’re older
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by nwienert 1y ago
Not them, but I find that people who take out political frustration against non-political things quite annoying. For example, when Tesla was blue-coded, way more comments here were highly forgiving, if not outright glazing. They became red-
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by nwienert 1y ago
Let's look: GPT-1 June 2018 GPT-2 February 2019 GPT-3 November 2021 GPT-4 March 2023 Claude tells me this is the rough improvement of each: GPT-1 to 2: 5-10x GPT-2 to 3: 10-20x GPT 3 to 4: 2-4x Now it's been 2.5 years since 4. Are
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by nwienert 1y ago
It's been like this, Americans heavily subsidize the world in healthcare/research. Which becomes annoying when fairly rich Europeans ride these coattails (and defense) while being incessantly snobbish about their healthcare superi
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by nwienert 1y ago
But not rare.
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The GLP-1 drugs are strong auto-immune regulators and neuroprotective and show promise with related disease: https://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/26/6/2741 https://aaic.alz.org/releases-2024/gl
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by nwienert 1y ago
Rarity isn’t a catch all, it’s a lot closer to winning $20 on a scratcher than 5k. When the game is Russian Roulette no one should call it rare.
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by nwienert 1y ago
Not that rare, anyone with predisposition to psychosis/schizophrenia has a high risk of permanent effects, and that’s not that small of a segment of people, and nearly unknowable beforehand.
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by nwienert 1y ago
My least favorite type of argument on this site is when someone takes a word with a specific meaning and warps it well beyond the reasonable interpretation just so they can claim they’re making a good analogy. It seems to happen every day h
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by nwienert 1y ago
It’s trivial to look this up which is funny - I double checked everything i said, so I know it’s true, and never claimed you’re making things up. But you are claiming I’m making things up while obviously not even doing basic research.
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by nwienert 1y ago
I don’t like him, only argued he’s relatively consistent. Funny how people can’t help but think you support someone just because you’d prefer they argue from facts.
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by nwienert 1y ago
It’s so much easier for me to prompt by: - cmd-t fuzzy finding files of cmd-p finding symbols to open the various files that are relevant - selecting a few lines in each file using fast IDE shortcuts to move and add - drag and drop an image
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by nwienert 1y ago
Too many miraculous stories so far I’ve heard, numerous people close to me quitting lifelong addictions cold turkey within months of starting. I’ve never had an addictive personality but I also found I gave up a couple habits while on it. I
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by nwienert 1y ago
Crazy to hear all these stories. My wife’s friend was a pack a day smoker for a decade that had transitioned into a heavy vape smoker, normal weight but couldn’t get off vaping despite trying. She tried Tirz to see if it would help and afte
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by nwienert 1y ago
Lower your dose a little? Gastroparesis is a choice on these and only at high doses for long periods, you get signs weeks in advance and you choose to stay on a high dose. Myself never experienced it even when I had extremely strong effects
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by nwienert 1y ago
GLP-1 - Mild nausea, always temporary and in the beginning, easy to avoid by tapering dose. Extremely effective. SSRI - about 10% chance of major sexual disfunction, often permanent, significant likelihood of sleep disturbance, majority get
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by nwienert 1y ago
How are people so consistently wrong about GLP-1s? The side effects are minuscule in comparison to SSRI’s and the effects on improving habits are massive.
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by nwienert 1y ago
I don’t think happening to not fall mostly within left or right makes any of your ideas necessarily more valid, there’s a smart and dumb versions of left, right and center to an extent. All the things you listed imo are either extremely mar
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by nwienert 1y ago
This is nearly perfectly wrong. There’s nothing in these drugs that makes you lose more muscle than fat, you don’t lose any more muscle than if you do a regular diet, not even slightly. Second, the drugs don’t do anything to cause you to ga
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by nwienert 1y ago
It's a once in a generation drug with less side effects than most OTC, likely net positive even for healthy weight people. I'd bet within the decade it'll be approved for a whole basket of other benefits - at the least a whol
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by nwienert 1y ago
In the 10 or so people I know who are on it, nearly all actually seem to enjoy it - reduced addictive tendencies/bad habits, appetite control, and reduced allergies seem to pretty well outweigh the minor side effects.
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by nwienert 1y ago
Classic lose lose too

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