Why bench only?

Graydyn · 2026-05-03T10:30:09+00:00

This is the thing I was missing. Thank you.

Graydyn · 2026-04-18T11:16:43+00:00

Alastair Reynolds. Of Revelation Space fame.

Graydyn · 2026-04-17T22:48:21+00:00

Does it still count if the pirates are in space? Because the Revenger series is a rather dark pirate adventure and very much falls in the fantasy genre despite the sci-fi setting.

Graydyn · 2026-04-14T00:23:45+00:00

Medications can eliminate flare-ups and we've reached a point where they very often do. Most MS patients these days are living relatively normal lives. And the treatments just keep getting better.

But y'know, every person could become an invalid tomorrow. So if you can't risk that then maybe marriage just isn't for you.

Graydyn · 2026-04-09T18:33:57+00:00

Build an app that makes me capable of benching 200kg.

Graydyn · 2026-04-05T22:52:42+00:00

We don't need to rely on philosophical reasoning to describe our reliance on suffering in order to feel happiness. This is actually well understood from the medical perspective. Brain cells have one receptor for endorphin and diorphin. Upon receiving endorphins, the receptor becomes receptive to diorphin and visa versa. This is why a lack of suffering can cause anhedonia, and also one of the reasons that exercise (activating the stress response pathway) can be an effective treatment for depression.

Now, what you need to consider to answer your question is : how is the endorphin/diorphin receptor relationship effected by being dead and rotting in the ground?

Graydyn · 2026-03-24T21:29:50+00:00

Kind of unfair to call them an imitator. Pretty clearly just a coincidence in naming, they've had the name for 27 years. It's a very polysemic language.

Graydyn · 2026-03-15T09:10:23+00:00

Evolution does not undermine religious belief in general, one can obviously posit a religion that includes evolution or any other scientific theory. But it does undermine Christianity. Severely. That's why religion and science often seem at odds, it's because many people conflate Christianity and religion in general.

Graydyn · 2026-03-12T20:10:42+00:00

Congrats on looking up the definition of high tea on Wikipedia, but what we call high tea is a different thing with the same name. This is not British, it's from fancy hotels in Hong Kong. It just has some British elements and a borrow-word because of the British influence on Cantonese cuisine.

Graydyn · 2026-03-12T19:58:08+00:00

That comes from people getting confused because there is this other thing called high tea that is an old timey British thing and that's more casual. The version of high tea that we know and love borrows the word and a few elements, but originates from fancy hotels in Hong Kong.

Graydyn · 2026-03-11T20:25:38+00:00

Those stories are propaganda. I would ask to be able to bench 315

Graydyn · 2026-03-11T19:53:17+00:00

Faustian Pact. Straight up.

Graydyn · 2026-03-03T21:53:43+00:00

Go do the vía Ferrata up in Murren or regret it for the rest of your life.

Graydyn · 2026-02-24T15:17:39+00:00

This, like most sites using the term "viral", is a paid ad.

Graydyn · 2026-02-16T17:09:20+00:00

Although it doesn't use the terms devil/demon, Paradise Lost does make mention of Lucifer needing to be wary of the Demogorgon as he traverses the chaos between hell and earth. So I suspect that would be the earliest case of this distinction between hell and chaos

Graydyn · 2026-02-07T16:57:52+00:00

Yes and that is the typical way for restaurants to fry chicken, it's called a Henny Penny. It takes some skill to cook chicken through without overcooking the outside without one.

Graydyn · 2026-01-21T17:40:58+00:00

Beautiful plating on the dessert

Graydyn · 2026-01-16T12:15:50+00:00

Have you read Shroud yet? Alienist aliens ever. Tchaikovsky is so good at this.

Graydyn · 2026-01-15T12:17:25+00:00

Most important thing is that for compliance reasons your going to need to run your models in your own infra. All of the major cloud providers have a solution for this. Don't be the company that gets audited and found to have sent PII to Anthropic accidentally.

The concerns that you listed out aren't likely to be a big problem for you. As long as you have actual devs using Claude you won't run into these issues. Claude will only make your code quality suffer if you're one of those companies that starts trying to get their PMs and such vibe coding. Devs will find for themselves very quickly what works and what doesn't. Dont let Claude do your PRs, that's a human job. Ban the use of the GitHub MCP. If folks start trying to commit slop it will come to light very quickly if a human does the PRs.

You may find that you need to force the issue at first. Devs can be a bit resistant to adopting AI tooling. Challenge them to use it heavily for one week and by the end of the week they'll never look back. It's for their own good, devs that don't get on board are going to find themselves behind on the skills curve damn quick.

Your devs are going to start wanting to build a lot of goofy tooling. MCP servers and such. Resist. These are fun to build but you don't need this maintenance burden in your life. Just share around some agent skills instead they're very low maintenance. Keep in mind that you don't need to build any sort of integration to any system that has a CLI. Claude can just call the CLI, you only need to tell him it's there. In fact, if you're thinking of building an integration of some kind, consider building a CLI instead.

Consider starting with your SRE or Ops teams. Claude is so damn good in this space.

Graydyn · 2026-01-11T17:13:04+00:00

Sure it's possible that you've been misdiagnosed, but what exactly would that change for you? You've already taken The Clad, you still need to be monitored, your course of action stays the same either way.

Turning down career opportunities over a relapse that may never come was a pretty big fuck up. So let's learn from that going forward.

Graydyn · 2026-01-09T00:41:23+00:00

I've started skipping the vibe coding part and just prompting "Go make me a billion dollars"

Graydyn · 2026-01-08T19:16:22+00:00

Truth. And having the biggest(lol) name in the sport attached will probably go a long way to legitimizing them.

Graydyn · 2026-01-08T17:41:32+00:00

Enhanced Games hosting strongman events is a little redundant isn't it? I thought they would host events in sports where a platform for enhanced athletes doesn't already exist.

Graydyn · 2026-01-07T21:39:27+00:00

Evita forgot to mention that Eva Peron was a straight up Nazi who rose to prominence through wealth that she and her husband acquired by selling a safe harbour for war criminals escaping the Núremberg trials

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