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mpalczewski··on Less Protein, Not More, May Lead to Healthier Aging
that optimal amount likely varies too. by age, sex, percent body fat, and genetics. uk's recommended level is likely way too low to be optimal.
mpalczewski··on Less Protein, Not More, May Lead to Healthier Aging
What a shit article that doesn’t match what it is saying. If you are active you benefit from more protein. If you are not then maybe it’s not good without any reporting on how they even got to the main conclusion except for a citation which may or may not pan out.
mpalczewski··on The motion-sickness cure hidden in iPhone settings
pretty sure it was on by default for me
mpalczewski··on Google Discloses $94.1B in SpaceX Stock, Marking 6% Stake
they typically offer a brokerage option. fidelity and vanguard both offered this when I had them. if that wasn't on the table I'd roll it into something that gave me flexibility.
mpalczewski··on Google Discloses $94.1B in SpaceX Stock, Marking 6% Stake
You can buy IVV instead and get the same exposure but this time you get to vote. Or you could just not own spy and buy the shares individually.
mpalczewski··on Google Kills Custom Search API on Jan 1, 2027
use ai to read it. we're increasingly moving to world of ai reading the ai slop that someone else wrote to basically get back their original prompt.
mpalczewski··on Shall we play a game? My AI nuclear simulation
I have so little faith in "high-level" officials that I prefer our AI overlords.
mpalczewski··on Ultra-processed foods in the global food system: The role of tobacco companies
One beer company tried to do it. But because beer has vitamins in it, they were prohibited from doing it as it might have made the beer seem healthy.
mpalczewski··on Open source Kanban desktop app that runs parallel agents on every card
and it's wrong. a 6000 line class is not easier for a model to understand. the same things that help humans also help agents. I find myself adding linters that must pass and the agent muss fix that limit file size, function length, function complexity, how many files in a directory. a little more work for the agent, but the codebase is healthier and the agents write fewer bugs.
mpalczewski··on Gemini 3.5 Flash
Gemini models have consistently disregarded rules and gone their own way for me. They will finish a task and get it done frequently way above the scope that you gave it, but they take a million shortcuts to get there. e.g. deciding the linter isn't important and disabling the pre commit hook. coding features you didn't ask for.
mpalczewski··on Fame! A Misunderstanding: A new translation of Albert Camus's complete notebooks
I tried reading Myth of Sisyphus by Camus recently. I found it tedious and boring. Sort of a rehash of stoic and Taoist teaching. Yes embrace the absurd but sooo long winded. Has anyone else read this, am I missing something?
mpalczewski··on Removable batteries in smartphones will be mandatory in the EU starting in 2027
My iphone 15 pro max. manufactured in Aug 2023. 536 cycles. is at 84%. I doubt it will make it to 1k at above 80%.
mpalczewski··on Tariffs Raised Consumers' Prices, but the Refunds Go Only to Businesses
only true for commodities
mpalczewski··on US special forces soldier arrested after allegedly winning $400k on Maduro raid
It's literally how you got those things. Without leverage to get them, they would have just been complaints. You ask what you can do, and then you do it.
mpalczewski··on US special forces soldier arrested after allegedly winning $400k on Maduro raid
> Maduro was president of a sovereign country.

It's funny how we accept the importance given to that statement. when he's just some dude who took control of a country and gave himself that title. As if the social construction means anything in this situation.

mpalczewski··on Changes in the system prompt between Claude Opus 4.6 and 4.7
They aren’t necessarily experts at using Llm’s. They have different incentives as well
mpalczewski··on Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Definitive Oral History of a TV Masterpiece
I helped fund that kickstarter. The first season released on that kickstarter was such a disappointment. As if they forgot to be funny.
mpalczewski··on Trump wins presidency for second time
California has the worst roads of any state I've driven in. San Fran and San Jose, rank among the top 10 in the country of the worst roads. Whatever they are using it for, isn't for road maintenance.
mpalczewski··on CNN and USA Today have fake websites, I believe Forbes Marketplace runs them
Propaganda source
mpalczewski··on How Airline Lobbyists Just Got Humiliated
They should get out of that business altogether and let anyone sue an airline
mpalczewski··on Google News is shutting down purchased magazine content, offering refunds
This is par for the course. We've had the gulf of tonkin incident, and weapons of mass destruction. The difference is now we have more information, so it only looks like it's gotten worse.
mpalczewski··on Android App Devs now require 20 people to test before publishing to Play Store
I bought a t-mobile g1 the first android phone. At the time my school's wifi needed you to log in every time you joined the network. I wrote an app that logged you in automatically. Solved a need I had, I then put in in the app store for $0.99 and sold a few hundred.

I went to a small company career fair for the free lunch. When they saw I had an app in the app store, I had immediate interest and got an internship.

mpalczewski··on Android App Devs now require 20 people to test before publishing to Play Store
This would have prevented me from publishing my first app, which ended up getting me my first job and a great career.
mpalczewski··on Google pays Apple 36% of the revenue it earns from searches in Safari
I've always had the sense that Google was really bad at negotiating.
mpalczewski··on Why banks are suddenly closing down customer accounts
A big centralized government bank is not somehow going to be magically better than multiple commercial banks. At best it would be equally bad but more likely it will be worse than the dmv and irs put together. Going to the bank will be like doing your taxes. Maybe it would be so bad that it would solve this problem because people would have cash.
mpalczewski··on Apple's use of Swift and SwiftUI in iOS 17
I’m in a similar boat. Header files typically led to faster compile times. OCMock worked like magic.

Where both languages are poor is how large the binaries they produce are.

mpalczewski··on Working in Silicon Valley was fun. Now it's just another miserable corporate gig
I’m most productive when I’m having fun. There’s always going to be not fun shit. Is on you to find the fun and on the employer to make it possible. Otherwise I’m unable to give my best.
mpalczewski··on Cats Are Perfect. An Evolutionary Biologist Explains Why
The way they carry themselves it's like they know it.
mpalczewski··on B.C. government hit tweet limit amid wildfire evacuations
They would have posted and much fewer people would have seen the announcements. You have to go where the users are.
mpalczewski··on Monster gravitational waves spotted for first time
Gravitational waves warp space/time. so the distance between two points will be slightly longer/shorter.
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