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jbird99··on Pentagon rescinds new testosterone screening policy without explanation
You will still gain size and strength without training, but obviously training produces much better results.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8637535/

jbird99··on Pentagon rescinds new testosterone screening policy without explanation
that's why most bodybuilders take other drugs to counter the estrogen, like arimidex or aromasin. It definitely makes you bigger and stronger.
jbird99··on The ChatGPT/Codex app bundles a full copy of LibreOffice
Almost like it's... vibe coded.
jbird99··on Migrating a Synology NAS to a UniFi UNAS Pro 8 with Robocopy, SMB Multichannel
I use bbcp for that, it supports multiple streams.

https://docs.nersc.gov/services/bbcp/

jbird99··on Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border
A better feature would be a 2nd PIN that unlocks the phone to a secondary profile, which you would leave pretty bare for situations like these.
jbird99··on Rules of good social skills (2025)
Many tech folks I work with fall into the trap in #31 and try to lecture people too often. From what I've been told, the "professor" style is a typical ASD trait. Very interesting.
jbird99··on We replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations and it scaled
The lengths companies will go to avoid running different pieces of software...
jbird99··on Shopify replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations–and it scaled
I guess it depends on how the replenishment process works. Unless you're ordering over 1000 of an item, I doubt it would be a problem.
jbird99··on Show HN: Run an 80B Qwen in 4.3 GB of RAM on a Mac, and a 35B on an iPhone
At what, 10 tokens per hour? These disk swapping methods all have the same drawbacks - kill your drive early, and slow as hell.
jbird99··on Benchmarking Opus 5 on SlopCodeBench
At this point I don't even bother with it. Constantly falls back to Opus anyway, so I may as well save myself some time.
jbird99··on The Corporate Creep of Plex: Why it may be time to move to Jellyfin
I last used Jellyfin about 2 years ago, and the chromecast functionality on Android needed some work. Has the Android client been improved?
jbird99··on Jellyfin founder Andrew leaves team
Cool to see fellow Mohawk alum making the front page of HN. I wish you all the best in your future endeavors Joshua and team!
jbird99··on JumpServer: Open-Source Privileged Access Management
This looks like a less trustworthy version of Apache Guacamole.
jbird99··on US Supreme Court rules geofence warrants require constitutional protections
Because Polymarket is full of corrupt folks with insider information. Trump Jr. Is a senior advisor to Polymarket. Iran admitted they would observe Polymarket bets during the height of the war to see when they were next likely to get bombed.
jbird99··on GLP-1 drugs led to weight loss and reversed depression-like behavior in mice
Could be related to endorphins and BDNF, similar to the effect from fasting.
jbird99··on Windows 10 quietly gets one more year of support and updates
Especially with hardware prices at the moment, this is a welcome announcement for many companies right now who need a refresh.
jbird99··on Ask HN: Will programmers write more efficient code during the memory shortage?
I'd hope so. Not just because of the memory shortage, but because of the speed at which AI can help write code. Most high-level languages came about in order to speed up development, at the cost of performance and resource consumption. It's time to revisit some of these applications and see if we can use less resources to accomplish the same task. My work laptop with Teams and 2 Edge tabs open uses roughly 11GB of memory, which is insane.
jbird99··on Leaked OpenAI financials show $38.5B loss and compute burn
In a surprise to no one.