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New comment by jliptzin in "Creatine raises brain energy levels and slows cognitive decline: study"

jliptzin — Sun, 31 May 2026 22:59:31 +0000

Pure creatine

New comment by jliptzin in "Creatine raise brain energy levels and slow Alzheimer's cognitive decline by 30%"

jliptzin — Sun, 31 May 2026 18:30:24 +0000

No but every time I try to take creatine supplements I get heart palpitations. Everyone says I am crazy and that it’s impossible but I have proof from my Apple Watch, one time it was so bad it said I had atrial fibrillation. I went to a cardiologist and he acknowledged it is a possibility but he hasn’t seen it before.

New comment by jliptzin in "Google employee charged with $1M Polymarket insider trading bet on search term"

jliptzin — Thu, 28 May 2026 05:03:32 +0000

If 0.01% of people engaging in insider trading are caught and prosecuted, it is effectively unregulated.

New comment by jliptzin in "I'm Tired of Talking to AI"

jliptzin — Wed, 27 May 2026 13:20:01 +0000

Not just the workforce, my parents still barely know how to use a computer because any time they hit the slightest snag, they immediately call me for help.

New comment by jliptzin in "Maryland citizens hit with $2B power grid upgrade for out-of-state AI"

jliptzin — Mon, 11 May 2026 10:43:35 +0000

That just delays the problem a couple years

New comment by jliptzin in "Talking to strangers at the gym"

jliptzin — Wed, 06 May 2026 13:26:08 +0000

That’s been my strategy as well

New comment by jliptzin in "Talking to strangers at the gym"

jliptzin — Mon, 04 May 2026 22:55:07 +0000

I just assume any guy trying to make small talk with me at the gym is trying to hit on me, which I am correct about maybe 80% of the time. I know because I am a gay guy so I know how this kind of thing goes. Not that I have a problem with it, I am always happy to talk to any strangers if they want to, for pretty much any reason. As a straight-passing guy though, women at the gym never approach me except to ask if I am done using a machine, and I also don’t approach them because I assume they’ll just think I’m trying to hit on them. I’m just unsure how to approach people at the gym while making it immediately clear that I am just looking for a friend/workout buddy and not anything more than that

New comment by jliptzin in "Using coding assistance tools to revive projects you never were going to finish"

jliptzin — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 23:33:54 +0000

We have closed-source and open-source software, I think the next phase is going to be self-source or llm-source software (not sure what the term will ultimately end up being), but basically if you have a need for something that is not filled exactly by any app, you will just give the spec to an LLM and in X amount of minutes/hours you will have bespoke software built just for you to use personally, fully tested and to spec. For example, I still haven't found a workout/weight lifting tracking app that does 100% of what I want and at this point I may just build it myself because I could probably do it in half a day with claude and won't have to pay any annoying subscription fees. Maybe it'll still be called AI slop but if it works it works.

New comment by jliptzin in "ChatGPT Images 2.0"

jliptzin — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 22:51:27 +0000

Yea, especially when they know all that work will be completely pointless in a few years when open source / local models will be just as good and won't have any legal limitations, so people will be generating fake images of famous people like crazy with nothing stopping them

New comment by jliptzin in "Notes from the SF peptide scene"

jliptzin — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 00:14:10 +0000

Not sure what is so surprising. People take health advice from comedian podcasters these days. RFK Jr is HHS Secretary. Maybe 10 years ago this would be wild, but today it is completely and utterly unsurprising.

New comment by jliptzin in "I Won't Download Your App. The Web Version Is A-OK"

jliptzin — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 15:15:39 +0000

I still remember when everyone was saying the only way to access a service would be through its AOL keyword.

There is still no better interface than the command line.

New comment by jliptzin in "LaGuardia pilots raised safety alarms months before deadly runway crash"

jliptzin — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 17:35:11 +0000

Is it possible to automate the job of an ATC controller? At least partially? Or at least just as a sanity check on every human decision? Not saying I want human ATC controllers replaced, but if there’s a severe staff shortage, I feel like a computerized version is better than nothing at all.

New comment by jliptzin in "US Job Market Visualizer"

jliptzin — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 22:03:47 +0000

#2 only works if the public is allowed to invest when the new technology is in its early stages, which is currently not the case. Microsoft went public in 1986 at a valuation of $2.3 billion (in today's dollars). What's OpenAI / Anthropic going to be worth by the time they IPO? $1 trillion? $2 trillion?

New comment by jliptzin in "The optimal age to freeze eggs is 19"

jliptzin — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 19:32:17 +0000

If everyone had kids at 18-20, then the grandparents could take care of the grandkids while in their 40s while the parents build their careers from 20-40, then start taking care of the grandkids as the cycle repeats

New comment by jliptzin in "A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks"

jliptzin — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 13:31:34 +0000

The tenacity part is definitely true. I told it to keep trying when it kept getting stuck trying to spin up an Amazon Fargate service. I could feel its pain, and wanted to help, but I wanted to see whether the LLM could free itself from the thorny and treacherous AWS documentation forest. After a few dozen attempts and probably 50 KWh of energy it finally got it working, I was impressed. I could have done it faster myself, but the tradeoff would have been much higher blood pressure. Instead I relaxed and watched youtube while the LLM did its work.

New comment by jliptzin in "Floppy disks turn out to be the greatest TV remote for kids"

jliptzin — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 15:55:54 +0000

I haven't used AppleTV in a while but I assume it's very similar. The latest chromecast devices have very low latency and have worked well for me.

New comment by jliptzin in "Floppy disks turn out to be the greatest TV remote for kids"

jliptzin — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 21:17:28 +0000

Plug a new chromecast into one of the HDMI ports and use that and only that and weld the setting shut so that you never have to deal with the TV’s default UI ever again.

New comment by jliptzin in "2025: The Year in LLMs"

jliptzin — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 19:45:28 +0000

There are some things it's really great at. For example, handling a css layout. If we have to spend trillions of dollars and get nothing else out of it other than being able to vertically center a

without wrestling with css and wanting to smash the keyboard in the process, it will all have been worth it.

New comment by jliptzin in "I sell onions on the Internet (2019)"

jliptzin — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 00:30:01 +0000

Yes, I have seen it happen many times.

New comment by jliptzin in "I sell onions on the Internet (2019)"

jliptzin — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 18:58:49 +0000

Not really sure what's so crazy about that. A brick and mortar shop will spend way more than that on renting a good location for their business when they have no clue whether they'll turn a profit. This is just the digital equivalent of that. People trust authoritative domains like vidaliaonions.com way more than something like vidaliaonions-direct.net and they're given more SEO weight as well. At least I know that used to be true; not sure how true that is today but I'd imagine it still is.