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New comment by fcpk in "A Periodic Map of Cheese"

fcpk — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 18:22:27 +0000

human milk is pretty delicious?

New comment by fcpk in "Claude usage limits hitting faster than expected"

fcpk — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 10:46:07 +0000

it's high time actual price starts to hit subscriptions rather than VC subsidized first hit is free stuff

New comment by fcpk in "Quantization from the Ground Up"

fcpk — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 18:18:57 +0000

that's brilliant, I wonder why we haven't seen much use of it to do very heavy quantization

New comment by fcpk in "Scientists Discover Protein That Turns Brown Fat into a Calorie-Burning Machine"

fcpk — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 18:17:45 +0000

quite brilliant though don't expect any easy therapies out of it yet. there is no known small fragment(ie manufacturable peptides) that bind to PLXNA1 , and the terminal fragment is about 400 amino acids, way more than what can be produced with solid peptide chemistry (100-150 amino).

New comment by fcpk in "Quantization from the Ground Up"

fcpk — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 17:51:29 +0000

something I have been wondering about is doing regressive layer specific quantization based on large test sets. ie reduce very specifically layers that don't improve general quality.

New comment by fcpk in "SSH has no Host header"

fcpk — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 08:29:34 +0000

I mean it works... but it's really ghetto. You have to handle username collisions(or enforce unique usernames). IPv4 should be non free, and that'd cover the costs...

New comment by fcpk in "[dead]"

fcpk — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 21:49:25 +0000

Iran International (Persian: ایران اینترنشنال, romanized: Irān Internašnāl) is a Persian-language satellite television channel and multilingual digital news operation based in London, United Kingdom. Established in May 2017 and reportedly linked to Saudi Arabia.

from wiki

this is just a mouthpiece of the Saudis probably condoned by MI6. take it with a grain of salt.

New comment by fcpk in "Garry Tan's Claude Code Setup"

fcpk — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 21:45:45 +0000

and where's the result? LOC as a side a measure of success is typical for the "omg LLM are amazing and can do it all phase" but once you enter the "actually shipping products people want with human complexity and experience meltdowns" it's usually different....

New comment by fcpk in "Drosophila Fly Brain Emulation"

fcpk — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 12:49:21 +0000

this begs the question... how are we seeing life patterns appear from that?

New comment by fcpk in "Hardening Firefox with Anthropic's Red Team"

fcpk — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 12:14:26 +0000

The fact there is no mention of what were the bugs is a little odd. It'd really be nice to see if this is a "weird never happening edge case" or actual issues. LLMs have uncanny abilities to identify failure patterns that it has seen before, but they are not necessarily meaningful.

New comment by fcpk in "Why exercise isn't much help if you are trying to lose weight"

fcpk — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 08:58:59 +0000

this is true for weight loss while in a mostly health range. it isn't true for people with high BMIs. for them the scale is a mostly direct match to health and how they look

New comment by fcpk in "Why exercise isn't much help if you are trying to lose weight"

fcpk — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 08:57:33 +0000

human bodies are incredibly optimized to store energy for bad times and maintain a good balance at the ideal level. this is why the whole "calories in calories out" is technically true but mostly useless for a lot of people as the calories out is a very hard to compute variable. it also ignores entirely the negative effects of muscle loss.

there is a lot of complexity and difficulty in long term weight loss, we are fighting biology hard there. that's why glp1 agonists are having such a success, they allow to fight hormonal homeostasis with proper weapons.

I have yet to see any research showing a way to durably affect the body's set balance, which would be the revolution.

but this research all in all confirms what we know: * high intensity muscle fiber tearing exercise is much better at not affecting metabolic compensating mechanisms * cardio might be good for health and other things, it's very much neutral or possibly negative for weight loss, as cardio does not build muscle mass * pure diet changes are difficult to make sustainable for many. I have seen it first hand where a constant 300 calories deficit a day resulted in weight gain and muscle mass loss despite cardio.

New comment by fcpk in "Taiwan rejects possibility of transferring 40% of semiconductor capacity to US"

fcpk — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 18:56:34 +0000

why would they want to remove the main asset giving them protection.

New comment by fcpk in "New wave of GLP-1 drugs is coming–and they're stronger than Wegovy and Zepbound"

fcpk — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 22:43:12 +0000

retrarutride has significant more Gip activity than known drugs. it also has the glucagon receptor activity that raises heartbeat of a large amount (10bpm at typical doses). I wouldn't be surprised it has more side effects if taking long term than the "milder glp1" drugs.

New comment by fcpk in "Nova Launcher added Facebook and Google Ads tracking"

fcpk — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 11:26:20 +0000

same thing here. com.teslacoilsw.launcher.prime is a different version and from what I see it doesn't have the tracking ... changing launchers when you have 200+ apps neatly grouped in folders would suck.

New comment by fcpk in "What it's like to be banned from the US for fighting online hate"

fcpk — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 18:12:55 +0000

this is just ridiculous anti free speech. just because he assumes a point of view that is mostly disagreed with doesn't make it a target for censoring. it's not a slippery slope, it's the straight path to 1984. dangerous idiots should be allowed to speak. and regarding money there is not a single hint he received any, and he lives in a country that is pretty well policed and not corrupt.

New comment by fcpk in "Grey Market Peptides: Not for Human Consumption"

fcpk — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 20:00:23 +0000

it's an usual market. you need to procure very close to the source. grey market vendors from china are ideal. testing their peptides seem to always be above 99.9% purity

New comment by fcpk in "Is beef tallow making a comeback?"

fcpk — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 23:15:52 +0000

sadly one of the most frustrating things is that everyone groups saturated fats in one big group. there is lots of evidence that only specific types of saturated fats actually cause CVD, in particular some specific configurations of palmitic acid. the other saturated fats are not nearly as problem causing.

New comment by fcpk in "Mapping Protests in Iran"

fcpk — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 12:30:08 +0000

It's a Foundation with strong evidence of ties to Israel and an open agenda against (current) Iran. Don't be surprised.

New comment by fcpk in "Mapping Protests in Iran"

fcpk — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 12:28:52 +0000

FDD -> Founded 2001 after 9/11 as "Emet"(truth in hebrew). Foundation for improving Israel's image in North America. Focused on "militant islamism" and has as primary architect a "maximum pressure against Iran" Mark Dubowitz.

Consider the bias that this can imply. This is not to give credence to either side, just that there are very strong partisans everywhere pushing specific agendas.