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carrychains··on Are women better than men at endurance running?
If this is ever to be so, they will need to overcome the q angle to get there-

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11675324/

carrychains··on Ask HN: Advice on Migrating from 1Password?
It is both a racist rightie conspiracy theory and a plausible possibility worthy of serious consideration. Any reasonable person needs to recognize it as both simultaneously and will have no trouble fitting in among anyone outside the fringe at either end of the political spectrum.
carrychains··on Lines of code. 1,596 BTC gone
Give it a sample of your own technical writing and tell it to match the voice. I did this with Fable just today and it nailed it.
carrychains··on Farmer, marketer at odds over sales of white nectarines
Holy astroturf
carrychains··on 'Wow, it really worked ': 70s TV show causing worldwide panic today
This reminds me of a series of recurring stories from the 2000s. These were decently mainstream stories in the media about the untimely demise of prominent microbiologists hinting at conspiracies involving deep knowledge they held in common that few others shared. I don't know if those stories faded or if I just stopped paying attention.
carrychains··on Fake building: Claude wrote 3k lines instead of import pywikibot
pebkac
carrychains··on I quit drinking for a year
I recommend therapy in addition to not drinking for anyone who thinks eating a chocolate is drinking.
carrychains··on The death of social media is the renaissance of RSS (2025)
Can't wait to try some of the readers in this thread. I landed on inoreader not long after the Google reader died. The old reader wasn't doing what I needed back then. I've probably been using this a little too long without checking for what else is out there.
carrychains··on I'm Not Consulting an LLM
Same can be said of search engines, encyclopedias, or wikis compared to seeking out books, journals, and other source material. If you don't sit there for 8 hours in a library to find the same information on your own, you've missed out on the experience. It's a standard Luddite's argument. Tools of any kind that enhance efficiency have always actualized lazy outcomes. It has always been the human responsibility to, not only rely on their best effort, but to figure out what actually encompasses their best possible effort.
carrychains··on Regulator contacts Meta over workers watching intimate AI glasses videos
No one's in the same boat as meta. They've been out front leading the fleet all by themselves since their inception.
carrychains··on 'PromptQuest' is the worst game of 2025 (trying to make chatbots work)
This article is garbage. I was half expecting or hoping for a nuanced analysis of regressions manifested in a specific leading model as a result of purported "upgrades" but instead found an idiot who doesn't understand how LLMs work or seem to even care, really.

Idiots like this seem to want a robot that does things for them instead of a raw tool that builds sometimes useful context, and the LLM peddlers are destroying their creations to oblige this insatiable contingent.

carrychains··on I don't care how well your "AI" works
It's me. I'm the LM having work assigned to me that junior dev used to get. I'm actually just a highly proficient BA who has always almost read code, followed and understood news about software development here and on /. before, but generally avoided writing code out of sheer laziness. It's always been more convenient to find something easier and more lucrative in those moments if decision where I actually considered shifting to coding as my profession.

But here I am now. After filling in for lazy architects above me for 20 years while guiding developers to follow standards and build good habits and learning important lessons from talking to senior devs along the wa, guess what, I can magically do it myself now. The LM is the junior developer that I used to painstakingly explain the design to, and it screws it up half as much as the braindead and uncaring jr Dev used to. Maybe I'm not a typical case, but it shows a hint of where things might be going. This will only get easier as the tools become more capable and mature into something more reliable.

carrychains··on Work after work: Notes from an unemployed new grad watching the job market break
I'm 47. It has always been like this with resumes.
carrychains··on What Hallucinogens Will Make You See (2023)
The visual experience is last on the list of things psychedelics are proven through clinical study to help with. Also, unless one of those objectives is to avoid the help psychedelics can provide, having clear objectives in life isn't a predictor of how helpful it will be. Finally, "contact with the spiritual universe it whatever" isn't even on the list things that actually help subjects in these studies.

Cool story, though.

carrychains··on Fire destroys S. Korean government's cloud storage system, no backups available
The first thing that comes to mind when I think of the South Korean government is the storied tradition of physical confrontation in their parliament along with more than a few viral videos of brawls and such over the years. It used to be better in the US, but with the intensity of discord in our government lately, I don't think anyone really knows anymore.
carrychains··on The Amazon Kindle War Against Piracy
The industry standard is draconian.
carrychains··on Cinematography of “Andor”
That "cut" happened before they even started working on the show. Despite the original thought of 5 seasons, it was essentially planned for 2 seasons right from the start.
carrychains··on A Reddit bot drove me insane
Seems like the resulting attention on the repost makes for decent justification in this case. I'm glad to have seen this, and I don't like the idea of good content slipping through the cracks because of timing and circumstance.
carrychains··on Estimates of plant CO2 uptake rise by nearly one third
That's not the opposite. It's different context.
carrychains··on AI Is the Black Mirror
Indistinguishable to who?
carrychains··on Horse – The Organized Browser
I use it as a work main because it's a Microsoft ecosystem with Teams, ADO, SharePoint, etc., and I learned a very long time ago that there are consequences to shunning slices of the Microsoft ecosystem for preference. I spot legit little quality of life integrations occasionally, but on the balance, I have no idea if it has been worth it to deal with some of the bugs and occasionally terrible design decisions that come and go. It's, at least, nice to stay aware and be reminded that my persistently disdainful view of Microsoft over the years actually extends to the poor quality of their recent offerings. I still keep Firefox running for personal browsing. Is this stupid? Maybe. I cannot recommend it.
carrychains··on The Unforeseen LSD Overdose of 1972
Bad psilocybin mushroom trips are similarly common as bad LSD trips.
carrychains··on 0-days exploited by commercial surveillance vendor in Egypt
Poignant, not really. Prescient, maybe.
carrychains··on NYU Chemistry Professor Fired After Students Said His Class Was Too Hard
The students were not petitioning to have him fired and were reportedly surprised with that outcome. The petition also seems to have circulated before the redo offer. This is on the uni.
carrychains··on LSD-like molecules counter depession without the trip
Your preference is unnecessarily pedantic and logically reduces in specificity to the exact phrasing that peeves you.
carrychains··on Flip the Switch for 5.5 Seconds
As a child I was taught to count out 1 one thousand, 2 one thousand, 3 one thousand... I used a clock to set my cadence the same day that I received this instruction, and I've recalibrated a couple of times since. 5.25 first try. 5.44 second try.
carrychains··on Greenland ice sheet climate disequilibrium and committed (274mm) sea-level rise
Your definition of "really even close" is either absurd or you don't much care about the data nearly as much as the point you wanted to make.
carrychains··on Ask HN: Bluetooth kinda sucks. Why don't we have something better?
Exactly. At this point, it's not the protocol. It's devices with shitty implementations of the protocol.
carrychains··on 45 SF traffic cops issue just 10 citations combined a day
Power fantasies... I had a shitty acquaintance in my 20s who horrifyingly pondered aloud and with alarming detail about how he wished he was an off duty cop in that moment so he could intimidate and punish a loud group in the next hotel room over after telling them to keep it down and not getting the result he wanted. He was too busy freeloading off inheritance and offering nothing of value to society at the time, but he was open about his ambition to become a cop some day if/when his nest egg was depleted.
carrychains··on Microdosing with psilocybin mushrooms: a double-blind placebo-controlled study
.5 is definitely a low dose for anyone who has experienced it more than a few times or an actual low dose at least once. Realistically, I'd expect only a first timer could possibly think .5 is imperceptible.
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