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Comment · 12 hours ago
They have tree pruning heuristics. Probably all human masters of any craft have them. They're precise to some given extent, after which tacit/embodied knowledge, aesthetics and vibes take over.
Comment · 1 month ago
There's a widespread perception that models are worse for prose and creative writing now. That would track.
Comment · 2 months ago
If you want to try your hand at powerlifting as an amateur, there's plenty of programs and templates with different styles of periodization that will have you doing micro- and meso-cycles of effort running up to a competition (or just testing your maxes in the gym).

I'd figure similar programs exist for traditional athletics. I guess much of the issue is the boundary between amateur and pro; most casual lifters in the gym have no hopes or business trying to compete in bodybuilding, powerlifting or strongman.

Comment · 2 months ago
For quite a period up to LLMs, coders had high amounts of social power and gleefully asserted it by e.g. flouting dress codes and asserting their preference in tool choices. This is why we still see articles like this arguing everything from a point of view akin to that of a hobbyist, rather than articles by heads of engineering establishing that this kind of screwdriver is optimal for industrial automobile assembly.
Comment · 2 months ago
Respectfully, that's a cool illustration of the idea of xRMs etc but is missing the whole point of programming for higher or lower reps. E.g. lower reps are more stressful / higher cost of recovery but more strength-specific; high reps are better for hypertrophy work. But then, any well designed program will have you working across a range of rep ranges and so on.

Please don't make an app based on this.

Comment · 3 months ago
I wonder if Hylang is still alive.
Comment · 3 months ago
I'm scared of having a lithium battery on my finger like that.
Comment · 4 months ago
why is the lemonade purple
Comment · 4 months ago
It's rather easy to ask claude code to make you plugins, although you need to instruct it to break the sandbox in which Obsidian run and I think I'm currently hardcoding some paths.

e.g. I have a plugin that when triggered reads a text and asks the LLM whether there are unclear points and unwarranted leaps of reasoning.

Comment · 4 months ago
This is a very mac-centric view. It makes business sense to plan for multiplatform.

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