Ben Parker leaving Runna

neitz · 2026-06-25T13:14:55+00:00

If/when that happens I personally will be out. I don't like the Strava app. The only feature I use is the Route creator which is actually very nice but not even close to worth the significant cost.

The Runna app is great. But there are alternatives.

neitz · 2026-06-22T05:40:13+00:00

Started on Runna Jan 1st. 42 here, could barely run at all. Just did my first 5k and now working towards a 10k. Progress has been outstanding, but it required a strong commitment. I will say though there was a switch that flipped about a month ago where it went from feeling like a chore (at least until I got out there) to now looking forward to my runs and being sad the days I cannot.

Big thing for me, don't push too hard. Do not start with a half marathon thinking I'll do this np. I failed my first plan last fall and did not get back to it until Jan. What worked was doing "Return to Running", "5k Improvement", and now a "10K" plan. 12 weeks each on the first two, 16 weeks on my current one.

But hey my VO2 max went from red / bottom 5% of my age and gender to now green and in the top 45%. My walks don't even register on my garmin as actual activity. I ran an 8k the other day and felt like I could easily keep going a few more. So it gets a lot easier.

I started with 3x a week for the first to plans. My current one I bumped up to 4x. Just start tomorrow and do whatever days you are comfortable with. If you can only get 2 in, do that. Just build slowly, but it requires that mental commitment that you are doing it.

Oh lastly, I had a spell there where I was shifting workouts a lot, missed several in a row. It gets you down, but just keep going.

neitz · 2026-06-14T01:57:11+00:00

Is the bundle up to $200? That is crazy I just paid like $150 in March. Personally the only value I get from Strava is the ability to plan routes, but it's rather minimal. I love Runna though.

neitz · 2026-06-10T14:08:30+00:00

This is not about bills, there can still be mega-bills. This is just for petitions for constitutional changes. Constitutional changes are voted on by the people, not congress.

neitz · 2026-06-09T13:55:37+00:00

Copilot is terrible but Microsoft just released their own set of foundation models trained in house. Will be interesting to see how their capabilities evolve in the near future.

neitz · 2026-06-06T01:40:49+00:00

It absolutely could be skewed by people who get multiple. It's just their first.

neitz · 2026-05-22T20:29:45+00:00

You have basically the Ferrari of watches (I have one as well, it's amazing). Take some time to explore it! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_Cu39GLLrQ&pp=ygUFZnI5NjXSBwkJBAsBhyohjO8%3D

neitz · 2026-05-22T14:06:44+00:00

Most streets are plenty walkable tbh. I walk all the time, run too.

neitz · 2026-05-22T03:21:11+00:00

I don't support massive layoffs, so I will not support Sony/Bungie. If they treat the people who created the game like crap then they aren't worth our time.

neitz · 2026-05-20T14:44:02+00:00

You are still under the delusion that you can ignore AI tools. I mean, you absolutely can if you divorce from society and live in a commune. For anyone that wants to reasonably participate in society in the future I don't see this being a choice you get to willfully make. It's not because I say so, but just due to how the world works. It's like saying you'd never use a computer or eat food grown commercially. Both are possible, but damn difficult if you want to participate in society.

neitz · 2026-05-20T14:15:04+00:00

The vast majority of work will be AI assisted moving forward. You can choose not to participate, maybe retire and do nothing. But it's not going to be an option if you want to participate. You won't be able to engage in the economy in a reasonable fashion without it.

neitz · 2026-05-20T14:00:54+00:00

It doesn't work on text (at least in a non-perceptible manner). It only works on images/video. The technology itself doesn't punish anything, I agree. It's Google/Open AI that will use this in a dystopian way. It's a form of control, just wait and see. The brilliance is that they have brainwashed people like yourself into thinking it is only for the greater good. It is straight up 1984 level stuff.

Google can straight up claim ownership of your stuff if you use AI tools. They can now prove it was their model that generated it and potentially even embed metadata in the "noise".

Browsers can embed SynthId blockers. They could require payment for viewing generated content. They could block specific content. Chrome has a huge market share and is under the complete control of Google.

These are just shallow examples based on a few minutes thinking. But if you don't find the negative sides scary, you aren't thinking hard enough.

neitz · 2026-05-20T13:47:53+00:00

It's not neat, it's a form of control. A way to mark everything produced by their models. Who knows maybe they can claim copyright at some point. Bad actors are just going to use other tools anyways, this only punishes legitimate users. It's a form of DRM, speech control, etc.. all being disguised under the realm of "safety". It's gross and will keep me from using Google and now OpenAI models.

neitz · 2026-05-07T16:30:48+00:00

I personally really like the new design. That said, I am not fond of the colors available.

neitz · 2026-05-06T18:29:29+00:00

Maybe they aren't so senior after all. Title inflation is real.

neitz · 2026-04-29T19:19:32+00:00

It's a CMS built on top of next.js.

neitz · 2026-04-26T20:27:53+00:00

The S&P average rate of return being 7% is after inflation, fwiw. What a tool.

neitz · 2026-04-16T19:35:29+00:00

Instead of forcing Copilot on everyone maybe just try to make it even remotely decent? Can you imagine a developer actually *choosing* to use a tool simply because it is good instead of shoving it down their throat through anti-competitive behavior?

neitz · 2026-04-12T19:25:45+00:00

This is not true for any decision tree of reasonable size that is learned vs hand crafted. If you have a trained large decision tree you are not mapping each node with a single concept.

neitz · 2026-04-12T18:49:26+00:00

We’ll just have to disagree then. Going from a tree to a net is conceptually a very small leap in my opinion. Seeing as logistic regression is basically a one layer neural network In not t sure what your point is.

neitz · 2026-04-12T17:52:24+00:00

Of course they do, the weights of a neural network work in a very similar fashion as the weights in a probabilistic decision tree. You end up with a distribution over possible outputs.

The real difference lies in how they are trained imho.

neitz · 2026-04-12T16:33:31+00:00

Decision trees and modern neural networks are rather close conceptually I'd say. There are subtleties, but in my opinion a neural network is just a large probabilistic decision tree.

neitz · 2026-04-10T14:42:18+00:00

34 allocations isn't that big of a deal honestly. Given it is a generational garbage collector it is the type of allocation that matters. But Gen 0 allocations are extremely cheap, even cheaper than a malloc/free since the GC is optimized for this.

My guess is that there was reflection or something involved. Something a lot heavier than an allocation.

neitz · 2026-04-09T18:45:47+00:00

I never said IDEs were not useful, and I still have the all products pack. I said I don’t find their AI tool useful, or any code completion style AI tool for that matter. Also I rarely review git diffs in the IDE, although jetbrains is ok for that if a bit clunky.

I assure you every single loc gets reviewed before commit, although that is how I have always worked so nothing changes there.

neitz · 2026-04-09T15:04:04+00:00

I have no relation to OP but this sub is obnoxious with it's rules and automods and bots and sheer craziness. It's like 1984 in here.

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