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New comment by sedivy94 in "The Pentagon Feuding with an AI Company Is a Bad Sign"

sedivy94 — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 17:23:25 +0000

Anthropic signed a $200 million contract with the world’s largest military and hadn’t considered if it would be used for military operations? When an article reads like fiction, I can’t help but assume there’s an entirely different political disagreement happening behind closed doors.

New comment by sedivy94 in "FBI is investigating Minnesota Signal chats tracking ICE"

sedivy94 — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 21:31:16 +0000

Military personnel are currently only allowed to use Signal for mobile communications within their unit. Classified information is a different story, though.

New comment by sedivy94 in "Resistance training load does not determine hypertrophy"

sedivy94 — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 06:28:00 +0000

Novelty of stimulus is a huge factor, especially as training continues over years. Failure from a set of 20 is very different than failure from a set of 5, and bodybuilders will periodize their training to cycle through the different flavors of stimulus. I think a big contributor might be neuromuscular adaptation. Cycling through those different intensities over training periods measured in months will make this apparent anecdotally.

New comment by sedivy94 in "Resistance training load does not determine hypertrophy"

sedivy94 — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 06:24:28 +0000

The activation energy or stimulus required for hypertrophy in untrained individuals is so low that it’s hard to differentiate the results. Studies like this absolutely need to be done in trained individuals if you want reliable data.

New comment by sedivy94 in "Affinity Studio now free"

sedivy94 — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 17:45:02 +0000

The Affinity apps are great but there are some critical missing features that have been on the back burner for years.

Most impactful example that comes to mind is the vector blend tool. You can take, say, a circle and create step-wise transformations to another shape like a square.This is found in Illustrator and a few others, but absent from Affinity Designer.[0] I share the concern that a new feature like this will be paywalled.

Additionally, Serif was very transparent with detailed changelogs and a community to submit bug reports and request new features. I have doubts that Canva will do the same.

[0] https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/tool-techniques/bl...

New comment by sedivy94 in "Vitamin D reduces incidence and duration of colds in those with low levels"

sedivy94 — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 18:00:14 +0000

Minnesota, not Wisconsin. Same latitude and a fair point.

New comment by sedivy94 in "Diphtheria, a once vanquished killer of children, is resurgent"

sedivy94 — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 07:02:22 +0000

Everything you listed are tail risks of COVID, even in individuals with comorbidities, and are far more characteristic of the early strains than what’s circulating today. The only exception in your list of side effects is myocarditis, which is also a side effect of the COVID vaccine. Furthermore, the vaccine’s target population is individuals over 65 years old, immunocompromised individuals, obese individuals… not newborns or infants.

Alarmism, militant shaming, and omission of details like the ones I mentioned above are three strategies that steer vaccine hesitant people away from taking vaccine advocates seriously. Personally, I would raise concerns about anything but COVID and ease up on the Newspeak.

New comment by sedivy94 in "Undisclosed financial conflicts of interest in DSM-5 (2024)"

sedivy94 — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 02:12:46 +0000

Hi, not the parent poster here. I believe the argument being made is that diagnostic criteria, and diagnoses themselves, can be shaped by cultural norms. As the Overton window shifts, so do the thoughts and behaviors that we deem pathological.

New comment by sedivy94 in "Undisclosed financial conflicts of interest in DSM-5 (2024)"

sedivy94 — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 02:07:50 +0000

What’s the right word to differentiate this from a psychiatric diagnosis? Neurological?

New comment by sedivy94 in "UK drops demand for backdoor into Apple encryption"

sedivy94 — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 13:46:32 +0000

Why litigate it when you can buy it from the NSO / IDF?

New comment by sedivy94 in "Minimum effective dose"

sedivy94 — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 23:25:41 +0000

“Minimum effective dose” is a concept I picked up from years of amateur bodybuilding. Seeing that same context in the beginning of the article was a treat! Minimum effective dose has been a pretty powerful concept for me over the years and has some overlap with “The 80/20 Rule”. It’s allowed my to make small investments in goals and snuff out insecurities that arise, such as the feeling of not trying hard enough.

New comment by sedivy94 in "Visualizing the Nucleus [video]"

sedivy94 — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 17:58:47 +0000

I found this film recently and cannot recommend it enough. One of the most visually captivating and thought-provoking pieces of media I've consumed in recent memory. It details the emergence of space-time, matter, chemistry, abiogenesis, and human culture. The CGI and sound design are especially good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FJVCrldAfM

New comment by sedivy94 in "Libgourou: A Free Implementation of Adobe's Adept DRM on ePub/PDF Files"

sedivy94 — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 20:17:48 +0000

Isn’t the pinyin for “肉” typically “ro”?

New comment by sedivy94 in "So you wanna de-bog yourself"

sedivy94 — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 16:34:01 +0000

Fellow Neon Genesis fan here. Watching the original series was an incredibly frustrating experience for me. It does not follow the typical hero’s journey. There few wins, if any. Mostly losses. Idiot Shinji was a helpless and pitiful protagonist, so much so that you eventually stop rooting for him. The 1.11, 2.22, 3.33, and 3.0+1.0 rebuilds were much, much better in my opinion. But they also lacked that depressing trajectory that made the original series so unique.

New comment by sedivy94 in "U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone monopoly"

sedivy94 — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 16:30:55 +0000

Poor analogy. This is already an issue with servicing automobiles. Overly-complicated construction and proprietary tools that can only be acquired by licensed dealerships. Read: Audi, Mercedes-Benz.

New comment by sedivy94 in "U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone monopoly"

sedivy94 — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 16:25:01 +0000

Completely hamstringed? SMS is the standard, and yes it sucks horribly. Elevating the experience with additional software features and cloud services on one platform does not immediately entitle all smartphone users on the globe to the same experience. Google made a push for RCS, botched it, service providers either didn’t adopt it or only partially implemented it. That was upsetting to me. Do we sue Google and service providers as well?

I do agree that losing app licenses is upsetting. But this is no different than the licensing model for many softwares in the desktop market (e.g. per-user and per-install licenses).

New comment by sedivy94 in "U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone monopoly"

sedivy94 — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 16:04:51 +0000

I agree with this wholeheartedly. The USA is a surveillance state and Apple’s security posture combined with its market share is a considerable hindrance. The arguments against anti-competitive and consumer-hostile mechanisms ad nauseam pale in comparison to this. I very much want to see real numbers, perhaps survey data, supporting the narrative that customers are locked in, unhappy with their experience, or otherwise underserved by Apple. Because IRL, I see nothing but happy customers.

New comment by sedivy94 in "Email addresses are not good 'permanent' identifiers for accounts"

sedivy94 — Sun, 31 Dec 2023 16:10:47 +0000

That’s surprising to hear. I have zero DB experience, not am I a developer, and my default assumption is that some UUID maps to object / entry containing email address (and all other attributes).

New comment by sedivy94 in "DeskHop – Fast Desktop Switching"

sedivy94 — Wed, 27 Dec 2023 16:50:25 +0000

I experienced a very unusual bug with a Tripp Lite KVM once because a feature like this was baked in.

New comment by sedivy94 in "Why do programmers need private offices with doors?"

sedivy94 — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 15:04:20 +0000

I’m not not a developer, I work in the IT space and require deep focus for a myriad of other tasks (like anyone else, I presume). I’m no longer a musician but consider myself to have a rich musical background. Music does wonders for my focus, but it also generates fatigue. So I’m often alternating between music and silence. Have you noticed the same thing or is this less common?