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@jon-nyc said in Gym culture question - ‘working in’:

Oh yeah, most of the people in my gym don’t. Unless they’re sweaty.

Over here, it's the most reliable indicator of age. Over 65? 90% wipe. Under 40? 5% at most.

It should be easy to disable that behavior with an appropriate preset.

I currently have three subscriptions: ChatGPT, Claude, and Github Copilot.

The only annoying thing about Claude is that I perpetually run out of token budget.

I had basically stopped using ChatGPT because Claude 4.6 is so much better, but with 5.4 they seem to have caught up.

@mark said in What are you playing now?:

Nocturne Op. 9 No. 1 has been memorized for 3 weeks or more. Still polishing it but I can play it all the way through with very few mistakes.

Next up is Op.72 No.1

It's not a hard piece in most places but I hate Chopin for this:

What subject does boy-nyc want to study?

@jon-nyc said in Reflections on college visits:

@Klaus said in Reflections on college visits:

At UCLA, did you see the Jim Morrison locker?

Nope. They didn’t mention it.

That locker was in the computer science building when I visited UCLA.

It's full of stickers, and it is said that most stickers are laced with cocaine

At UCLA, did you see the Jim Morrison locker?

If a man can never look at or talk to a woman, how do they ever find a partner?

My own daughter was approached by guys like that more than once. Luckily she was clever enough to not deal with him. But some of her friends were not.

Money? But he seems to believe his own shit.

Can you use money to corrupt yourself? Maybe...

Bret Weinstein used to be a mostly reasonable and interesting person.

What is the process that turns a reasonable and interesting person into a lunatic conspiracy theorist?

Oh, happy belated birthday! I hope you had an extra good home-roasted coffee for your birthday!

Anybody who would say that, say, the polio vaccine is worse than the disease is just insane. Like, that person should go into a mental institution immediately.

For Covid vaccines, there are some grey areas, as you say.

@jon-nyc said in Beyond the antivaxx stuff MAHA is either banal or fake:

It's a silly question. It depends on the concrete vaccine, and it is not about whether it's more dangerous than the disease, it's about the likelihood of getting infected compared to the likelihood of undesirable side effects.

For instance, for most people in the US, a yellow fever vaccination would not make sense because there is a significant side effect risk and the likelihood of getting infected is very low.

@Horace said in The impact of AI on jobs:

Vibe coding will advance more and more in line with the promise of its name. What % of professional programmers work from spec currently anyway? I bet most.

I see it as imminent that product owners will get together in a meeting room and create an app by talking an AI through it in real time.

Anthropic had this impressive breakthrough recently where they let 10 Claude agents simultaneously produce code for a C compiler - which is insanely impressive, but if you look at the details you'll see that the "prompt" contained, among other things, thousands of test cases (which is part of the spec).

I for one doubt that good programmers will be out of jobs anytime soon.

For once, only programmers can write specifications that are precise enough that AIs can generate code from it.

Of course programmers need to learn how to use LLMs to boost their productivity. But we'll also have a much higher demand for software. It's a kind of self-correcting system.

What we won't need much anymore are programmers that perform boring repetitive work.

Would be epic if he'd be cremated and somebody would give a "I love the smell of cremation in the morning" speech.