I track the reps weights of every exercise (in my own app). But the historical values are only useful up to last couple of weeks just to now if the general trends go up and what is stalled. Unless your goals are the numbers themselves and not health, I don’t think there is a reason to track everything. But it is fun.
I realized that there is no journaling program I like, so I wrote my own. Authoring is done purely by iOS shortcuts and is writer (the only thing I want is to create a new entry, or create a new entry with a photo and metadata from said photo)
Rendering is done by a go server. I wanted to learn go for quite a while and this is the perfect excuse.
I feel that. I am expecting my first child in a couple of months and the lack of support infrastructure makes me extremely anxious. We don’t have our family around to support us. The cost of services to take care of young children are so high that it makes almost no sense for both parents to continue working. The declining birth rates are truly no surprise.
This isn't TOR, though it's not completely unfounded that the definition of CSAM could be broadened in the future by legislators to include things that are, by current definitions, not CSAM, e.g. works of fiction that include scenes of abuse.
Wow it’s even worse than I thought. I thought that convictungly morhing would be the only problem. The nonsense and inconsistent arrowheads, the missing annotations, the missing bubbles. The “tirm” axis…
That this was ever published shows a supreme lack of care.
This passage from the post by the original creator of the diagramme summarises our Bruh New World:
"What's dispiriting is the (lack of) process and care: take someone's carefully crafted work, run it through a machine to wash off the fingerprints, and ship it as your own. This isn't a case of being inspired by something and building on it. It's the opposite of that. It's taking something that worked and making it worse. Is there even a goal here beyond "generating content"?
That reminds me of the (earlier) Apple and people saying that Apple just copies from the competitors. Well, they took the good parts and improved the bad parts. That's the excellence level you can achieve when copying.
This here is just so cheap, I would not even dare to call it a copy.
What do we “need” more of? Here in France we need more doctors, more nurseries, more teachers… I don’t see AI helping much there in short to middle term (with teachers all research points to AI making it massively worse even)
Globally I think we need better access to quality nutrition and more affordable medicine. Generally cheaper energy.
Counter-argument: what if LLMs can help alleviate a doctor's work by providing quick diagnostic for simple cases?
How much time does a doctor spend writing prescriptions for cough-like symptoms?
How much time does an ophthalmologist spend measuring eye sight?
I totally agree that this is a bit of a radical opinion, and not everybody would be pleased with the idea of a program making diagnosis, so I am not fully advocating for it, but I think that we should not limit the potential of AI.
Also, to point out to France specifically. We need more teachers, yet new teachers are treated as commodities (you have to relocate to wherever the Education nationale tells you to go and in most cases, that means new teachers are relocated to difficult areas).
We need more doctors, yet the number of new doctors each year is fixed by the number of people that are allowed to pass the exam.
Wait, my job is not cushy. I think hard all day long, I endure levels of frustration that would cripple most, and I do it because I have no choice, I must build the thing I see or be tormented by its possibility. Cushy? Right.
How is that 1st world, there are plenty of people that "think hard" and deal with really hard problems in the "3rd World"
Give compiler engineering for medical devices a whirl for 14 hours a day for a month or so and let me know if you think it's "cushy". Not everything is making apps and games, sometimes your mistakes can mean life or death. Lots of SWE isn't cushy at all, or necessarily well paid.
Go get a bachelors and masters in EE while being eating just two bowls of rice and lentils everyday for 5 years and let me know if that's cushy.
As compared to risking life and limbs every day in a mine, breathing in cancerous powders, finding yourself with most of your joints fucked at 45, likely carrying PTSD from accidents happened to you or your colleagues... Yes, "hard thinking" looks pretty cushy in comparison.
Have you any idea how many people die every day on their workplace in manufacturing, construction, or mining; or how many develop chronic issues from agriculture...? And all for salaries that are a tenth of the average developer (in the developed world; elsewhere, more like a hundredth). Come on now.
Everyone has problems and everyone is entitled to feel aggrieved by their condition, but one should maintain a reasonable degree of perspective at all times.
Chances are most other people have the same idea about yours.
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