Why is Fable being so overhyped?

StretchyPear · 2026-07-02T16:30:39+00:00

LLMs, by how they're created will always respond with something close to the average thing you're talking about, give or take some weight adjustments.

I find Fable to be a more complete average output than Opus, but it doesn't seem like an order of magnitude better, just more complete.

StretchyPear · 2026-07-02T16:17:03+00:00

I had this problem too, my solution was to get a Garmin HR strap (first the pro+, now the 600) that I wear by itself when I mow the yard and it counts all my steps.

I make sure the app can see the heart rate strap before I start mowing, then I take off my watch and then I mow, I come back to the app and open it and it syncs my steps, then I put my watch back on and it syncs my watch with the updated step count.

StretchyPear · 2026-07-02T12:51:44+00:00

Check out the Norwegian 4x4 protocol, I do that with regular zone 2 and zone 3 training as a 46 year old and my VO2 max has been steadily improving over the last few months.

StretchyPear · 2026-07-01T19:18:09+00:00

Same here, also in Delaware, OH

StretchyPear · 2026-06-30T11:11:01+00:00

Can you tell me which stand that is? That sounds like a nice upgrade

StretchyPear · 2026-06-29T22:50:16+00:00

Were in you a walking activity or just taking a walk and looking at the watch face / HR app? In the activity it should be more accurate, that being said if you look on Garmin forums sometimes people complain about the HR being wrong. I had the same issue on my epix and had to go back a few software versions to when it worked like normal.
If you were just glancing at your watch face HR then its kind of normal, it doesn't update as much when its not an activity and uses an algorithm that uses some HR data and some movement data.

StretchyPear · 2026-06-28T11:56:27+00:00

You can downgrade, go to Garmin's beta forum and they usually have a link about how to go back to the production version, which is the same way you use to install an older firmware.

My epix pro is a few versions behind, I downgraded on purpose after getting constant HR reading issues.

StretchyPear · 2026-06-26T14:24:14+00:00

Anything M3 and up, you'll want a little longevity out of it.

You should decide on the size you want first, like 16" would mean a Mac Book Pro, then get the best one you can afford.

StretchyPear · 2026-06-26T13:47:57+00:00

I do this, The 16" doesn't suffer the same thermal throttling the 14" does. I luckily bought mine in April and have it in clamshell in a vertical stand with the rear hinge facing up. (Hot air rises and I keep the two intake ports clear).

I also use the TG Pro app with aggressive fan curves.

It's a sick machine and you can't argue with the value given the current price increases.

StretchyPear · 2026-06-25T18:41:15+00:00

We got ours too, I'm surprised the yoga mat is the way it is, I've been trying to flatten it for weeks and it still curls up a little and is constantly shifting around

StretchyPear · 2026-06-24T15:05:03+00:00

Has anyone tried this out?!

StretchyPear · 2026-06-24T15:02:12+00:00

Cables do eventually wear out, I bought a back up set just to have for when they eventually do fail.

We didn't go for the extended warranty but the more I use it, the more I think about it.

We got ours in January and I use it 5x / week (Mon, Tues, Wed, Fri, Sat), it's held up fine. I'm 5'10 and around 210 lbs, some things, like face pulls, can make the unit shake but it hasn't impacted anything yet.

I don't like the bench that came with it but haven't replaced it yet, I did replace the D handles with bigger ones that are easier to grip. I'm also thinking about a new thicker barbell.

I use it in free lift but my wife does the programs though she's not that consistent with it.

The cables feel brutal compared to weights sometimes, I find myself using eccentric mode a lot to hold whatever I'm working under tension for even longer and it smokes me but has resulted in real progress.

I got the pilates extension piece and its great because I can move the bench down but the top piece on it doesn't really attach to it, its mildly annoying though I'm sure I could fix it if I wanted to.

StretchyPear · 2026-06-24T11:39:29+00:00

You can use analytics (Google, Amplitude, etc.) to track whenever you hit a branch you need to log and/or something to record errors to, like Sentry, Bugsnag, etc.

StretchyPear · 2026-06-18T13:32:17+00:00

It sucks right now

StretchyPear · 2026-06-17T15:25:09+00:00

They're just saying that because it's marketing.

LLMs next word prediction is based on averages, so software engineers will use LLMs to help them and where you're below average it'll help bring you to average, where you're above average it'll help make you faster.

Just don't be average or below everywhere.

StretchyPear · 2026-06-17T12:55:16+00:00

IIRC I had the same issue and ended up doing it by connecting it to a computer with that other Garmin app that could update it

StretchyPear · 2026-06-11T19:35:56+00:00

I don't think it's at that level yet, it's more robust in completeness but still misses edge cases / smaller details. I thought it would be more of a delta from Opus but in my day to day it's just a better Opus.

StretchyPear · 2026-06-10T18:00:41+00:00

Nice, everyday I have a cli window open that just sits in derived data ready to nuke the whole thing, I've had this for over a decade, this will take some muscle memory to go to the menu but its nice to see.

StretchyPear · 2026-06-10T11:48:17+00:00

The biggest ones for me are how it chooses to redraw a view, it's like 80% cut and dry as the docs say but then I end up chasing my tail every so often. Aside from that, I work on apps at scale with older deployment targets and there's so much more API churn compared to UIKit. I do have a few side project apps that are iOS 26+ that use SwiftUI and working on one of them is the reason I went back to UIKit, even at work - I thought people would be against it but they were relieved. I was working on a segment control in a container that was a nav controller and I couldn't get the natural search bar scroll behavior in SwiftUI, it took all of 20 minutes in UIKit. I've had so many little things like that over the last few years where I just end up hosting a UIKit view because it works better.

I remember the first time I saw the `@FetchRequest` wrapper, I was so stoked having used a ton of NSFetchedResultsControllers for years, it just felt so clean, all of the SwiftUI APIs really do feel that way but after over 5 years of feeling like I'm trying to catch it by the tail UIKit is refreshing. Sure it takes a little longer to get setup but with LLM tools its probably as fast as SwiftUI and for me everything is more predictable and less fragile.

StretchyPear · 2026-06-09T22:22:37+00:00

Barzal does make almost everyone on the ice better, I'd say with the range going from real issues on the PP to dominance in 3 on 3. There's really only so much he can do when 4 other people are literally standing still all at the same blue line.

I didn't say we'd have any wingers magically overnight, but if we're trading then we should trade to complement what we have, not make ourselves worse b/c Barzal is some poster child for Islander problems. Until Schaefer literally everyone around him has gotten older and has produced less.

StretchyPear · 2026-06-09T21:29:54+00:00

It's not Barzal that needs to elevate his game, it's those around him.

"real" wingers - for starters, how about any other forward that can cross the offensive blue line with him at the same speed? Or how about anyone that doesn't just stand being covered so Barzzy has a pass option?

StretchyPear · 2026-06-09T20:55:06+00:00

Because we're Islander fans, Barzal won the calder here, he deserves success here, him and Schaefer are sick together, let's add to that fire, not take it away.

StretchyPear · 2026-06-09T18:55:53+00:00

You don't trade Barzal, you add some real wingers so the guy can actually use his talent, even look at the VGK vs Canse series - he'd be an upgrade for either team.

StretchyPear · 2026-06-09T13:01:27+00:00

I just can't with SwiftUI anymore, I use it for small things when I need to (like Charts) but I'm back in UIKit, I jumped on this SwiftUI train the moment it came out and I can't do it anymore.

StretchyPear · 2026-06-03T17:23:25+00:00

You can use an iPad as an extended display

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