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BaculumMeumEst··on Abdominal fat predicts heart disease risk better than BMI
Cool, I am 185cm and 68kg, work out 6 days a week, and have very little body fat. I am making this argument because it bothers me that this measurement treats visceral fat and muscle as the same thing. It’s often useless, unless you’re measuring degrees of obesity or something.
BaculumMeumEst··on Abdominal fat predicts heart disease risk better than BMI
For two people that are the same height, one could have X lbs of pure muscle, and one could have X lbs of pure fat, and they would have the same BMI. Color me shocked that it is not always a good predictor of disease.
BaculumMeumEst··on Professor denounces mass AI fraud on an exam at Brown
Nobody is going to do that.
BaculumMeumEst··on MacPaint Art from the Mid-80s Still Looks Great Today
Why did Denis have to fuck up Jimi's headstock like that
BaculumMeumEst··on Claude 4
Same! Rock and roll!
BaculumMeumEst··on Claude 4
Anyone see news of when it’s planned to go live in copilot?
BaculumMeumEst··on Claude can now search the web
Can you search the web for probable corrections to broken links? Has anyone had luck doing this with a web enabled model?
BaculumMeumEst··on Kevin Rose, Alexis Ohanian Acquire Digg
Holy shit!
BaculumMeumEst··on Music and Geometry: Intervals and Scales
I've seen a few complaints about the limitations of CAGED so I've been trying to focus on theory rather than just mindlessly learn tricks and regurgitate songs. Having a lot of fun so far.

The book I'm reading (recommended in another comment) does talk about minor forms of CAGED forms, though - pentatonic scale patterns, arpeggio patterns, and chord forms.

BaculumMeumEst··on Introducing S2
S2 is, in my opinion, the sweet spot of PRS's lineup.
BaculumMeumEst··on Music and Geometry: Intervals and Scales
Thanks, this is exactly what I needed. It's amazing how much of this information other people decided to omit.
BaculumMeumEst··on A comparison to Waymo’s auto liability insurance claims at 25M miles
It seems contradictory to care immensely about traffic safety but lament the idea of wearing a vest to cross the street. It seems like something that logically we should probably already be doing. Self driving cars are just making it more obvious.
BaculumMeumEst··on Music and Geometry: Intervals and Scales
Somewhat unrelated: I’m looking for a comprehensive overview of why the CAGED system works on guitar. I see lots of mechanical explanations of how to use it to play various chords down the neck, but nothing explaining the theory behind it.
BaculumMeumEst··on What we know about CEO shooting suspect
My guess is that initially he intended to avoid being caught, but at some point changed his mind and embraced it.
BaculumMeumEst··on gptel: a simple LLM client for Emacs
Yeah, I like a lot about VS code and it feels far less annoying to use. It just sucks that there's no undo equivalent to undo-tree, the Git equivalents are not up to snuff (I just end up using CLI, which is fine I guess). But gptel is also super useful, and there's no good VS code equivalent I've found for that either.

wgrep is nice, I use it very rarely but its useful. I did not know about wdired, looking that up now, looks very cool, you are NOT helping me escape this damned editor..

BaculumMeumEst··on gptel: a simple LLM client for Emacs
gptel is great because it does exactly what you would expect and stays up to date with new models from anthropic and openai. Before settling on gptel, I went through FOUR programs that had a lot of buzz but were not being kept up to date with new models!

gptel has joined magit and undo-tree in being so damn useful and reliable that they are keeping me from ditching emacs, even though I want to.

BaculumMeumEst··on Jeff Bezos killed Washington Post endorsement of Kamala Harris
She came from wealth, dude, her parents manufactured her success at a young age. Did you seriously listen to that music and think it was grassroots success from raw talent?
BaculumMeumEst··on The Anvil Text Editor
I’ve spent a fair amount of time with Acme because it’s fun, but you’re not misunderstanding anything. Anyone who unironically tries assert the superiority of their niche editor is delusional and/or full of shit. It’s just personal preference.
BaculumMeumEst··on Ozempic linked to lower Alzheimer's risk in people with Type 2 diabetes
- Significantly increased mortality risk

- Higher rates of cardiovascular disease

- Type 2 diabetes

- Sleep apnea and breathing problems

- Osteoarthritis due to excess pressure on joints

- Multiple types of cancers (colon, breast, endometrial)

- Depression and anxiety from social stigma

- Reduced mobility and quality of life

- Higher medical costs (~$1,429 more annually per person)[1]

- Decreased workplace productivity

- Shorter life expectancy (can reduce by 5-10 years)

Oh no wait, sorry, those are the effects of obesity.

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19635784/

BaculumMeumEst··on Ozempic linked to lower Alzheimer's risk in people with Type 2 diabetes
It is such a fucking no-brainer. The costs of obesity, both monetary and in terms of human suffering, are staggering. Absolutely fucking staggering. We should be making this as available as humanly possible, NOW.
BaculumMeumEst··on Rider is now free for non-commercial use
It means a wink, a nod, and perhaps a nudge nudge.
BaculumMeumEst··on A new artificial intelligence tool for cancer
Expecting the code to be plagiarized and for the results to fail to replicate
BaculumMeumEst··on Commonly used arm positions can overestimate blood pressure readings: study
The goal is to get a clinically relevant measurement, captured at rest under specific conditions, not a measurement that's representative of a random moment during everyday life.
BaculumMeumEst··on Dance training superior to physical exercise in inducing brain plasticity (2018)
I think if your exercise involves you regularly getting choked out you probably shouldn’t be expecting neurological benefits
BaculumMeumEst··on AMD GPU Inference
how about they follow up 7900 XTX with a card that actually has some VRAM
BaculumMeumEst··on Show HN: A macOS app to prevent sound quality degradation on AirPods
If this is as effective as you claim it to be, then I look forward to Apple including it in the operating system for free in the future. You should consider applying there and making it happen!
BaculumMeumEst··on Visual Studio Code is designed to fracture (2022)
Do you guys think Microsoft is pissed that Cursor exists? Do you think there are internal execs raging about the decision to open source VS Code because of it?
BaculumMeumEst··on NotebookLM's automatically generated podcasts are surprisingly effective
Probably spent an hour waiting for it to get to the good part. Haha!
BaculumMeumEst··on TSMC execs allegedly dismissed OpenAI CEO Sam Altman as 'podcasting bro'
This is like posting a reaction video. Just post the actual source.
BaculumMeumEst··on TSMC execs allegedly dismissed OpenAI CEO Sam Altman as 'podcasting bro'
I don't find this very compelling. Hardware is becoming more available and cheaper as production ramps up, and smaller models are constantly seeing dramatic improvements.
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