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It's probably the combination of both. The smartphone itself is innocuous, but increases the availability of the social media.

However if social media wasn't as ubiquitous it'd likely be less of an issue then it is today.

However, if social media wasn't a thing people just wouldn't constantly pull out their phones, hence id blame it instead of the form factor.

The kids? I mean sure, they too - but seriously... It's not just the kids that have been affected.

Things have been spiralling out of control ever since social media was introduced.

Ever more extreme positions are being agreed as the norm, and what had previously been the norm is being decried as evil itself.

I'm an atheist myself but I cannot help but think that a lot of our western issues is because we generally no longer see the world from the lens of religion.

Evil has lost its meaning, and people started randomly selecting other behaviors as "evil", and excusing actual evil deeds like rape, murder etc because "reasons".

This has opened up social media to become a echo chamber of ever increasing insanity.

I'm not seeing things get better through initiatives like that. I suspect things are gonna keep spiralling more and more out of control until we end up in a dystopia in which the populus looses a lot of their rights. And not in the too far future either, I'm almost certain I'll witness it before I grow old.

People can't even discuss about any politics anymore.

Back in Obama's days there were always interesting discussions in the political threads and they were rarely insta flagged. And it was mostly nuances wrt business needs and what that means for our societies. The PRISM news also frequently got heated, and still stayed somewhat technical.

Extremely noticable compared to the platform it is today.

Tbf though, HN always had a few topics it was extremely irrational about.

Eg Apple since the start and Musk post 2012...

Taking it 2 weeks is not a big investment, and by that time you'll know whenever it works for your body or not.

The thing that's unclear is wherever there are long term health issues when taking a lot of creatine over months and years - but with it being so cheap and highly available by countless cheap brands, astroturfing initiatives would be highly unlikely.

But inversely, unless you actually go above 10, eg 15... The blood saturation isn't enough for your brain to take advantage of it.

But there is very little studied about sustained use of such a dosage. (Only short term - eg 1 week - which isn't long enough for the benefits again)

It's safe enough for anecdotes of people doing it for years and not having issues - but despite others claiming that it's well studied, it's really not - at least not with dosages above 5g in humans.

Personally I've been doing so for a year now and can unquestionably confirm a strong effect, which goes away if I reduce the dosage below the threshold. So at least my body responds to it.

But you're not getting a proper study unless you get thousands of people to take it for years... Which is basically impossible as there are too many confounding factors to get meaningful results.

And organizing such a study is gonna be too expensive too, with no sponsors willing to take up the tab

I've already written and edited this comment a lot, but as a final remark I'd like to point out that the benefits I'm referencing is having an easier time concentrating. This can also be a demerit, as you can easily be caught thinking about something for pretty long before you realize.

If you're only after the lifting benefits, 3-5g/day is sufficient.

Title:

> Creatine promotes cancer metastasis through activation of Smad2/3

Tldr is basically that creatine helps body cells (in rats) to grow. Regardless wherever they're bad (cancer) or good (muscle). At least that's how I understood that study the last time I came across it. So probably stop using creatine when you've a cancer that's growing. Or its liable to use the creatine to turbocharge it's growth

But that's an entirely different matter to the original claim.

The stated reason for the "terrorist" title was not them being not-rich. It was facilitating a platform which hosted organizations which behave on the extreme end - because it's privacy centered and those elements obviously want that.

If would be a valid discussion point wherever that justifies setting the whole platform on fire, but the way you're making the point ultimately sabotages your message.

It's essentially the xr-glasses /vr glasses category. Plenty of options around on stores

After all the delivery is different.

With traditional advertising you're being sold a fantasy. The advertisment is usually produced so you're self-inserting yourself into the production. So when you're seeing the fit and good looking cowboy smoking a Marlboro... You subconsciously think: that's who I wanna be, and consequently may be more likely to buy it.

Influencer marketing is however inherently contextualized to the para social relationship between the viewer and the creator. The people that buy the product do so because "their" creator told them about it.

At least that's been the feeling I've got on every sponsorship pitching to date. It's aimed at people that want to get closer to the Creator. At least in their head.

Not a big deal if you're basically the only developer and handroll the process - but poly repositories make release and dependency management a lot more straightforward to wrangle

I'm not questioning it. I know it does. I just cannot wrap my head around it beyond the initial marketing angle (you cannot be interested in an article unless you know it exists).

Eg I like to watch some pretty mainstream creators like mkbhd. Never was I actually interested in any of the products he pitched. Literally every marketing $ spent on him that ultimately reached my eyeballs was entirely wasted by the sponsors

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Not sure what you didn't understood in their comment though, maybe the raph loop (and jev which was just released)? Isn't the rest completely self explanatory?

You'd consequently only need to implement your custom git gui and extension to visualize this information.

Maybe a good project for the next weekend? Just eg make a prototype tui in golang and see where you end up

You think wrong.

I maintain multiple Linux system on the side an know about it well enough.

The Nvidia drivers however are not bios/uefi in case you didn't know. That's what firmware is.

Those can still be flashed from a root Linux booted into a graphical interface, but nonetheless were not the topic of discussion.

Aside from that - a borked kernel can still be easily recovered for most nowadays, as they usually keep the old versions around with a simple picker after an unsuccessful boot.

Still, I'm unable to grasp the point youre making in relation to what I said. I thought I was very explicitly recommending against people without any technological capability to use Linux... You seem to agree?

Are you unaware that they likely want to talk with you, and the technological issues are likely just the vehicle for this?

I suggest you just help them and try to savor the time you have with them. The time is likely a lot shorter then you expect. But of course, just a random bystanders perspective

I suspect we won't for several years yet - and it's likely going to be way more integrated/specialized for specific technology than our previous ides were.

But you're unlikely to go back once you've the full stack integrated with full observability, release pipeline, system integration tests etc pp

Still, it needs way more integration to work well and not be DOA, hence this is still far out I think.

For both windows and Linux you'll have to find someone thats willing to help you, essentially. Usually a lot harder for those people. Especially with Linux ime, as even fewer places know enough to help you, even if they may be able to handle windows

It's fine most of the time, so it's not a big deal... But if you're unwilling and they're technologically illiterate: they will not be able to recover. Apple has the genius help desk which will sort them out, with Linux... You're gonna have to find "someone", "somewhere".

Can be done for sure, however once again: I would not recommend

That's defined as "the device has become a brick, cannot be recovered". It was mostly popularized by broken firmware updates which effectively destroyed the device, as it could no longer be salvaged.

You calling a borked package install in userspace almost bricked is telling about your technical capability.

And I agree that people that are basically technologically illiterate should not use Linux.

They could if someone administers it for them, but if nobody can help them - it's just not the right choice.

Literally every one, even 1-2 prompts later it starts to go back

i've been working on my own toy "software factory" concept (roughly 300k backend and 100k frontend loc across all components of the platform as of today). I've been building it to ultimately run it on my homeserver - its strongly focused on maintenance tasks like automatic library updates and rebuilding base images for deployment (and actual deployment), etc pp.

My explicit goal of the project was to replace my currently manually managed TrueNAS Scale installation, on which i'm currently (more or less) manually managing the lifecycle of various self hosted applications.

So i'm expecting the factory to eg versionbump dependencies, read changelogs, copy the data of the selfhosted applications to prerun the migrations and verify the migration does not encounter issues. Or similarly for my own written software, eg if the framework i'm using in a project has released a new major version... same route, read changelogs, trial migration etc.

While I would be able to build such a system on my own, realistically speaking I would never because the needed time to actually do it far exceeds the amount of time I have available next to my full-time dev job.

So I've basically decided to go with the llm-driven development flow, where I still have a mental model of the system to the bone/internals, and explicitly state how it should be developed. It usually takes roughly 15-30 minutes to properly scope a development, which then takes agents 4+ hours to implement and fully e2e test on the dev platform. eg. yesterday evening i decided to merge the Ticket and Epic/Story/Task concepts into a unified model / same entity table. I scoped it yesterday afternoon, sent of the process to develop it in the evening and it got finished around 4am this morning. (And it totally wasted multiple hours waiting on events to occur which it filtered out via a shell pipe, sigh)

My mindset building it is basically the same as i tread a Factorio, DSP or Satisfactory game: there is some jank to it for sure, but if the process keeps going, its fine. And its kinda fun to see things getting more and more streamlined over the months.

I dont think i'd be comfortable treating my dayjobs codebase like that, however. To a large part because i'm missing essential QA that I automated in my own project, eg you cannot have any unattended mutations unless theyre easily revertable. At my dayjob, if I merge and deploy a faulty commit, i _will_ impact others. When the same happens on my personal project ... some agents may be inconvenienced, which is not particularly high on my priority list.

really? i honestly dont have _too_ much experience with functional languages, basically only elixir and consequently some amount of erlang in that vain... but i'd feel like thats not the same? but it may be that my point of view is too narrow.

from my experience with that functional language, the equivalent to this scenario would be a struct - and wherever i can mutate properties within it -- or need to reconstruct the struct from scratch.

both have technical consequences, eg if i passed the struct into a consumer somewhere which keeps it, it would get the "modified" version automatically when the property was changed

but on reconstruction, it'd have to introduce some kind of event listener to handle the reconstruction.

simple example for such a scenario would be eg a session within a SSE api. the mutated struct would trivially allow for an uninterrupted stream no matter how long the session is extended, the latter needs to pay attention so its not opening a memory leak to support that feature.

but as usual with ai written content, the word bloat is roughly x5 of the words necessary to convey the message - with basically no effort on the meat proxy's part to clean it up in any way, shape of form

You seem to be confused about this relationship. It's usually exactly the opposite.

The wasteful applications are generally not well reasoned about and half assed implementations. That's why they're guzzling resources

There is ofc a middle ground, because targeting eg incredibly resource constrained embedded systems will naturally increase complexity, but that's something entirely different to the scenario this discussion was about up to this point.

When prompted to write to it, it will always try to write into the Claude.md and error out with that approach.. It eventually figures it out, but it's a ymmv situation I think