Right… But in the age of AI, data-harvesting the right data (i.e. the human/non-AI-slop) becomes very interesting to a lot of companies, “age-verification” is an easy argument (for policy-makers) of e.g. social-media companies to know whether the user is an actual human, thus the verified data is a lot more valuable.

Around 15 kCal/kg daily, maybe not very high indeed, but it’s significant, say I have 10-15kg more muscles than the average untrained person, that would be 150-225 more calories at rest, also you’re not always resting as you say already, the number will likely be higher, when considering daily activities, also since there’s more strength, it’s likely that the muscles are more used when doing sports (faster running/cycling, more weights, etc.), which is also relevant.

(For my case, I have a very inefficient metabolism likely (rather results in heat than fat-increase), I eat a lot even when I’m not trained, but right now, as I’m a little bit more packed I eat absurd amounts of food (due to a lot of drumming mostly btw. wouldn’t have thought it results in that much extra muscle/calories-burning))

Actually the more I have read into what is a healthy active routine (more on the athletic side of things, because I have overloading issues) Cycling to work, is like the perfect active rhythm for the body.

Especially when you do it fast (VO2 max).

The body needs time to recover and needs just little stimulus for growth/maintenance (so marathon is not good for your body, it’s just wear and tear), and after ~6-8 hours, needs stimulus for further growth again (so cycling back from work).

I have always wondered why I was comparatively muscular to others (for some part it’s likely genetics), I think it was/is because I cycle like a complete madman to work (well… VO2 max), because I’m an adrenaline junkie.

I just recently discovered that this is actually quite healthy (well not in the casualty sense obviously, but for cardio and general health).

If you’re interested I can recommend this talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anB-UMXIDQA

I think that just means, that you have changed your microbiota to like more healthy stuff (I too just don’t like unhealthy food anymore, but that took years…).

Carbs though are something that you really crave while being active, the muscles want to be fed, whether that happens via Oreos or say more healthy fruits or something like that is a different story.

Yeah and don’t forget that the newly built muscle needs more energy as well just to maintain.

I have to eat painfully much… (I’m quite active, and even when not I eat a looot more than others…)

There’s vaultwarden, I don’t think it’s difficult to migrate to that.

I have to admit I chuckled, because it’s probably true… (and it’s not difficult to dwell in cynicism these days…)

So you haven’t had “zero” problems. AFAIK wayland is already usable with AMD since almost a decade or so… (well not every program was supported yet a decade ago obviously, but, at least these kind of issues that Nvidia has/had are non-existing AFAIK).

It doesn’t fix the drivers but for many the installation and set up is where things go wrong. That’s how it was for me.

For me it was never the installation, just the risk after updating the drivers that yet another issue appears (sometimes old ones were fixed though, to be fair).

That doesn’t improve the quality of the drivers though… But you seem to not have had issues yet… Are you on wayland though?

There’s always a new issue. One time I can’t resume of suspending (I think this is still an issue…). Then shutting off a monitor leads to a crash of the driver-stack. I could go on. Just the fact that Nvidia took so long to support GBM properly is a tragedy.

In the US…

Different in other parts of the world, even in Europe this is a high salary (but it reminds me to still ask for a raise…)

The beginning of time…

I honestly think, it’s very cool for prototyping ideas at this point. It’s also parasitic. Although I think because of (maybe) different reasons: It gives people the power (which they unfortunately use way too much) to imitate an art, but in an non-arty imperfect way that doesn’t comprehend details (of the art), resulting in slop. For software that can go very wrong as we see here. This is also a reason why I mostly quit open-source, because now everyone can code a bad version of a library, it sucked the art out of good open source etc. and it’s increasingly difficult because of good wording/“look” etc. to differentiate on quality of code, previously you could often check a code-base review it somewhat and know how good the quality is, now it’s more like “is this slop or not?” (in which case I go a big circle around it, because reviewing is often not worth it)

At some point though, I think this automation of work is inevitable, we need to think about a society that can peacefully exist without having the requirement to work to exist. I actually think this could easily be utopian, everyone can focus on what they actually think is fulfilling life.

Though, it’s sad and concerning that technology is developing faster than society can adapt, which is why I’m mostly with you, because people (or representatives like politicians) just aren’t “programmed” for these fast-paced changes, to adapt the technology such that the future may be more utopian as it currently is heading towards a dystopian future…

I only trust math with my data (i.e. encryption…)

Yeah true, I actually also have thought about trying muscaria, but I’m fearing a little bit the anticholinergics group of drugs… (among others because of potential to increase risk for dementia etc.)

Not only that mushroom, the death cap as the name suggests has similar effects (same toxin), but is actually the most deadly mushroom. But yeah Amanita are the most deadly/toxic species of mushrooms.

Munich with their new major also had a win in this direction just now. I do think that local policies likely are more important anyway for at least traffic policies.

Don’t wanna be that guy, but: You misspelled Microslop.

US is liked

Brave assumption, there might be some people outside the US who like them, but I guess that’s true for all countries. I for my part started hating the US, it’s such a bad development for humanity, since capitalism/oligarchy takes over. Even China starts to look good in comparison…

Also:

world stability for a huge portion of the globe

Just LOL. Probably the force that causes the biggest global instability. Do I have to mention Iran as most recent event?

There might’ve been a period where that might’ve been true, but it certainly isn’t anymore.

You will always be better at decisions than an n-dimensional matrix of numbers on an overpriced GPU.

I’d be careful about these claims. Maybe with our current iteration of “attention-based” LLMs, yes. But keep in mind that our way of processing information is strongly limited compared to how much data is fed to these LLMs while training, so they in theory have a lot more foundation to be able to reason about new problems.

We’re vastly more capable at the moment at interpreting our limited view on foreign code, being actually creative, find new ways to reason, yes. Capable developers (open source…) often have seen quite a bit more code than the average developer and are highly skilled, still with just a tiny subset of the code that an LLM has seen.

But say these models improve in creativity and “higher-level of thought” through whatever means (e.g. through more reinforcement learning). Well, let’s just say I’m careful with these claims. These LLMs are already quite a help with stupid boilerplaty code (less so with novel stuff, and writing idiomatic non-redundant code, but compared to 2-3 years ago it’s quite a step already, to the point that they’re actually helpful, disregarding all the hype and obvious marketing strategies of these AI-companies)

the future generation is learning the lesson that the way to get ahead is by grifting.

So basically how it always was?

There’s a reason why there are billionaires…

But yeah it’s likely getting worse, like an elite and otherwise brain-dead propaganda following society (to exaggerate a little bit…). Initially after reading Adorno years ago, I never thought that the rather negative way he wrote, and something like the third Reich will not happen again, yet here we are repeating mistakes, fueled by accelerating climate-change (and the resulting conflicts)…

We are leaving (or rather have left) the most peaceful era of humanity, back to smashing each others heads without a real reason, leaving a more positive holistic utopian future… Sad.