HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

piskov

1,516 karma · joined September 12, 2020

submissionscomments
piskov··on Creatine raises brain energy levels and slows cognitive decline: study
Well, I did. Also with chatgpt agent to specifically go through pubmed and what have you.

The results were zero

piskov··on Creatine raises brain energy levels and slows cognitive decline: study
Please give me a link to at least one study with verified cognitive benefits of high-intake creatine which is not for sleep-deprived case.
piskov··on Creatine raises brain energy levels and slows cognitive decline: study
For now there are zero studies that I know of that support this.

The only ones are for sleep deprived.

piskov··on Creatine raises brain energy levels and slows cognitive decline: study
You don’t have Parkinson and you probably don’t take that much coffee

Usual espresso from 42mm puck is 18g of coffee beans in, something around 40g of total coffee out. This has 90…150 mg of caffeine. The study focused on people having more than 300 mg daily.

So don’t drink more than 2 cups per day and you’ll be fine.

piskov··on Creatine raises brain energy levels and slows cognitive decline: study
Try the micronized (even finer powder) version — never had an issue with 7.5g daily
piskov··on Creatine raises brain energy levels and slows cognitive decline: study
High dosage is not for your daily intake

It’s called a loading phase to quickly saturate the tissues i.e for a week or so for someone who never took the creatine. You can absolutely skip this.

I wouldn’t go higher than 10g daily on a regular basis.

I personally take 7.5g for the last couple of years.

piskov··on Creatine raise brain energy levels and slow Alzheimer's cognitive decline by 30%
Try micronised (even finer powder, maxxwell has them) or even in jelly gummy form.

I take 7.5 g every day for a couple of years now and what I definitely noticed is much lower sugar cravings during hard programming days: previously I would eat almost one chocolate every day.

Though YMMV, as I also bench press 140 kg.

piskov··on The Eternal Sloptember
No or not economically feasible:

https://x.com/mitchellh/status/2060088112257372610

piskov··on Outsourcing plus local AI will soon become more economical vs. frontier labs
How much time do you think it would pass before that guy comes back to reality and will lay off a bunch of agents? :-)
piskov··on No More JetBrains Products for Me
For windows “Dev drive” (it is a windows feature) is a must.

Also at least Rider makes special tweaks with elevated access and what have you for antivirus exclusions

piskov··on No more JetBrains products for me
Install ideavim and press “yyp” :-)
piskov··on No More JetBrains Products for Me
The main point of IDE is not code completion but lots of static and dynamic analysis to keep you from writing bad, slow, insecure, what have you, code.

Most of that stuff is proprietary and cannot be plugged into terminal.

The only attempt I’ve seen was actually by Jetbrains with Resharper beta for vscode

piskov··on No More JetBrains Products for Me
It depends.

For C# development Jetbrains Rider is second to none.

The number of static analysis, refactorings, inspections, dynamic analysis, slow code paths hightlights, profiling, etc.

It just cannot be done in neovim no matter how I would like to switch.

For C++ (like the OP’s case) — maybe the situation is different. I’ve heard CLion is a meh.

—

Also Jetbrains IdeaVim plugin is the best vim emulation I’ve seen. Nothing comes close with vim plugins support, vimrc, and what have you.

I tried vim mode in Zed — it’s a joke. Immediately uninstalled and got back to vscode, at least it has some vimrc support for custom bindings.

—

Also I don’t get the start-up argument: just don’t close the app, dummy :-). YMMV of course depending on the language.

—

tldr; there is nothing to replace rider with. Because Rider is an actual IDE with tons of proprietary bells and whistles that actually matter

Then again, my dev machine is a Threadripper with tons of ram. I would probably sing a different song if I needed to work on a macbook air with 16gb of ram.

piskov··on Red hot chili peppers ink $300M deal with Warner music to sell catalog
Sting reportedly got $300 mil back in 2022
piskov··on A Theory of Deep Learning
Font is atrocious.

Uppercase letters have different stroke width than lowercase ones — it’s like they are *B*old *L*ike this.

Not only that: tracking, kerning is basically non-existent.

Please don’t use that open-source font

You need real paid Bembo, not that piece of shit.

piskov··on A Theory of Deep Learning
Layout is fine but font is atrocious.

Uppercase letters have different stroke width than lowercase ones — it’s like they are *B*old *L*ike this.

Not only that: tracking, kerning is basically non-existent.

Please don’t use that open-source font

You need real Bembo, not that piece of shit

piskov··on Apple Cuts More Mac Studio and Mac Mini RAM Options as Memory Shortage Worsens
Chinese fabs will alleviate some of the pressure
piskov··on Apple Cuts More Mac Studio and Mac Mini RAM Options as Memory Shortage Worsens
It is still ram, not some magic thing

Still LPDDR

piskov··on Russia Poisons Wikipedia
Yes. It also mentions quite a lot of other things
piskov··on Flue is a TypeScript framework for building the next generation of agents
Natural language is too vague, ambiguous, and inefficient.

That’s why we have _programming_ languages.

And once you specify everything you need, the “prompt” becomes a program.

Anything else is to lossy

piskov··on Flue is a TypeScript framework for building the next generation of agents
Tell me next time Codex app would be rewritten to native stack scross all platforms: swiftui, winui, etc.

Should be easy, yeah?

piskov··on Flue is a TypeScript framework for building the next generation of agents
If only there were great backend languages

Go, C#, what have you.

Nah, thank god we have javascript

piskov··on Russia Poisons Wikipedia
Compare the content and the sheer volume

The thing you are referencing says US reconsidered the support in the end of 2023 yet here is a happy photo of McCane from the deleted article from december 2023:

https://web.archive.org/web/20240630174704/https://ru.wikipe...

piskov··on Russia Poisons Wikipedia
This one was deleted from wiki :-)

https://web.archive.org/web/20240630174704/https://ru.wikipe...

Like god frobid you will know about McCain, Nuland and what have you changing the Kiev regime in 2013 despite literal photos. Imagine the shitstorm if Russian state department officials were giving out food to guys that were attacking Capitol in 2021

https://web.archive.org/web/20240630174704/https://ru.wikipe...

piskov··on Show HN: WhatCable, a tiny menu bar app for inspecting USB-C cables
> I don't like the idea of it taking up menu bar space

You know you can close it? :-)

piskov··on Zed 1.0
Could anyone tell me what’s the point of this when you have neovim?

This will never be an IDE like Jetbrains Rider if you use a language like C# where those guys excel at: sheer volume of refactorings, static and dynamic analysis, cpu and memory analysis, what have you.

And for a scratchpad: is this really better than neovim?

piskov··on Zed 1.0
https://youtu.be/ltE30UmsBlY
piskov··on Our principles
Funny how true adherence to this is only with open-sourcing the models.

And this won’t happen.

So another “do no evil” bla-bla which will ultimately be dropped

piskov··on GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing
Copilot pro, not github pro
piskov··on All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027
Stereotypes are not fiction.

Become a nation that cherishes quality and this will change.

Noone forced them to produce junk, manufacturing prowess nonwithstanding

← PreviousPage 3 of 17Next →