To be charitable to both the article and the OP - his advice of “hard work over time” is still good advice.

I think many people tend to get stuck in premature optimization, which can take the fun away and thus you end up quitting. I did that a few times, so it might be a me-thing.

Nowadays I exercise 4x/week without really worrying about a strategy or about optimal protein intake etc.

But then again, nowadays my goal is just to live healthy rather than gain strength.

Going further, you don't even need to count your reps or track how much weight you're lifting. Literally just do any exercise with any weight per muscle group to near failure for 2-5 sets. Rest the muscle groups you targeted the next 1-3 days, and be consistent every week. Bodyweight, free weights, machines, bands, kettlebells, etc. are all fine. That gets you 80-90% of the benefit with no stress.

5.2 is good. But at this point every few months company A trumps company B with a new “SOTA” (for some definition of SOTA).

OpenAI has no real moat. Anthropic is focusing on developers as a clear target, and Gemini has the backing of Google.

I don’t see OpenAI winning the AI race with marginally better models and arguably a nicer UI/UX (ymmv, but I do like the ChatGPT app experience).

That said, my usage decreases month over month.

Good, social media should be considered a harmful substance. Even for adults it’s probably a bad thing.

It sounds like you don't like social media. With that in mind, why is it good to add a layer of user surveillance on the Internet? Where's the connection between "social media is harmful" and "it is good to add surveillance"?

If you think social media is harmful, wouldn't it be good to regulate social media? What does regulating French (or Australian, or wherever) citizens have to do with it?

> Where's the connection between "social media is harmful" and "it is good to add surveillance"?

There doesn’t have to be one.

> If you think social media is harmful, wouldn't it be good to regulate social media?

Literally what a ban for under-15-year-olds is.

I'm not talking about theory, but what's happening in practice. In case you're unaware, Australian style ban is enforced via surveillance, such as a a mix of methods, such as facial age estimation, behavioural signals and an option to upload government-issued ID.

Literally what a ban for under-15-year-olds is.

If you're going to argue, please do so in good faith by taking my whole post into context. Thank you.

In existing areas where France requires age checks, such as adult sites, they require sites to offer doubly anonymous verification. In doubly anonymous verification the site does not learn the user's identity, and the site that actually does the age check does not know which site the check is for.

Furthermore, France is in the EU. They expect to deploy their implementation of the EU Digital Identity Wallet by the end of 2026.

That allows users do age verification using protocol between the user's smart phone and the site with the age restriction. (Later they are expected to add support for smart cards and security tokens like YubiKey so a smart phone won't be required).

That system works by storing signed identity credentials tied to a hardware security device you provide, and using a zero-knowledge proof based protocol between your device and the site to prove to the site that your identity credentials show an acceptable age without providing any other information to the site.

The EU has been working on this for several years, and it is currently undergoing large scale field trials.

> Furthermore, France is in the EU. They expect to deploy their implementation of the EU Digital Identity Wallet by the end of 2026.

> The EU has been working on this for several years, and it is currently undergoing large scale field trials.

Considering the recent track record from the EU regarding digital privacy, I would soon rather use a VPN than let the EU digital ID wallet verify my age and pinky promise not store any data about the sites that I browse.

How does Mark Zuckerberg triggering a genocide in Myanmar, among election interference, rank up with your disdain for EU digital policy?

Are politicians not supposed to do anything about Zuckerberg after watching Sarah Wynn Williams testify about Mark Zuckerberg selling out Americans for his fetish for kissing up to the CCP? Or hearing the current administration threaten the EU over impinging on Zuckerberg to engage in election interference in EU countries?

> In case you're unaware, Australian style ban is enforced via surveillance, such as a a mix of methods, such as facial age estimation, behavioural signals and an option to upload government-issued ID

Sure. Australia opted for private compliance. Adults who choose to use social media are subject to more surveillance (because that’s how the social media companies chose to comply). In exchange, not only does that level of surveillance not apply to children, but the default state of surveillance they were under from social media companies (and being normalized towards) is gone.

Thanks for clarifying some of your points. I agree with you that the methods (like ID uploads and face recognition) aren’t the best. But I’m not sure if there are viable alternatives.

Definitely well past time to ban social media.

Happy New Year from Toronto!

Even if so, would it have mattered? The point is showing off the SQLite DB.

But it didn’t read LLM generated IMO.

I mean that gives us another ~18k years to adapt so we’ll be fine :)

I wonder what Meta their play would actually be though. Do they have any successful GenAI products yet? I don’t use their social media apps so not sure how integrated that is these days.

Edit: commercial products, not Ollama*

I strongly agree with the author to be honest. I can see the various perspectives in the comments here. In my view, some people care about shipping products (i.e, seeing their idea come to life). Some people enjoy solving the problems more than the shipping.

I'm in the second camp, and I think the author is as well. For those of us, LLMs are kind of boring.

Dungeon Crawler Carl has been on my TBR for some time. But your review saying it’s like Always Sunny made me want to read that next. I love the dark humour in that series.

It is so good :), this one is a bit more absurdist, I think, but equally dark. I read them over 2 weeks last Christmas. I hope they are a match for you!

The embodiment of “don’t judge a book by its cover” lol.

IMO it’s cleaner to have the cover and then click into to read the description. But I do see your point, more information density can improve the overall UX flow.

I'm not optimistic that this would be the outcome. You likely will just have poor running software instead. After all, a significant part of the world is already running lower powered devices on terrible connection speeds (such as many parts of Africa).

> a significant part of the world is already running lower powered devices

but you cannot consider this in isolation.

The developed markets have vastly higher spending consumers, which means companies cater to those higher spending customers proportionately more (as profits demand it). Therefore, the implication is that lower spending markets gets less investment and less catered to; after all, R&D spending is still a limiting factor.

If the entirety of the market is running on lower powered devices, then it would get catered for - because there'd be no (or not enough) customers with high powered devices to profit off.

In general what you are saying makes sense. But there are specific counter examples, such as Crysis in 2008 or CyberPunk 2077 some years ago.

Both didn’t run great on the “average consumer hardware”.

But I’ll admit this is cherry picking from my side :)