each LLM has its own personality and preferences. I choose different LLM to answer different needs. Claude is good to create a website from scratch, but if I ask it to fix one specific thing, it goes and modify something else too. GPT-5 has more of this. it is harder to control. it even answers me using incomplete sentences, and once used slang. It may be because i use slang and incomplete sentences.
But yeah, it is not clear to me when i will go to GPT5 instead of others
most new software runs in the cloud. you only need the browser for many tasks. I even code in the cloud. for many people, why pay for something you dont need.
Because people with this point of view infest us with Electron apps which need 100000x the processing power that took men to the moon in order to run a chat app.
there are new reportsin humans that intermittent fasting doubles your rate of heart disease. I am curious to know if it decreases mortality at same time.
I think that what is important is to give time for your body everyday to recover from the food intake (which can be an inflammatory insult) and give it time to repair. Maybe some people may reach ketosis in 8h, which is an injury itself. It is like the need to sleep and the need to rest after exercise or the need for vacation after long work days. Every insult needs to be compensated for and repaired.
Also the idea of having to eat 3 meals a day, does not exist in nature or in our past history. This developed with industrilization when hard working men needed energy at work.
But it is clear that evolution never needed to limit excessive food intake. It mainly dealt with famines and low food intake. We never aquired the necessary breaks to stop eating. we need to keep this in our thoughts daily to actively stop ourselves from eating till our death
I got a Xiaomi GT3 watch for less than 40$ including shipping. it has blood pressure measuring. How accurate? I dont know. I have a normal BP, and it always shows me normal values. Whe I try it on my son or wife's wrist, it always measures a lower BP.
Anyways, I stopped looking at it, and I only use it for the looks and to show me notifications.
I've got a dubious watch bought from AliExpress that was even cheaper and that claims to monitor blood pressure as well as blood glucose levels, blood lipids and even uric acid levels (that's why I bought it as I get gout). It's obviously not going to be calibrated and accurate, and I did get my brother (who's Type 1 diabetic) to compare the watch readings with his own glucose measurement and it was over 10% out, but that could also be a timing issue as he had just recently eaten. Definitely not a device that you would use to determine insulin injections.
Have you considered comparing it to a regular blood pressure monitor in parallel? My guess is that since it isn't certified as a medical device, it's essentially just a random number generator. No smart watch from a big name brand offers this feature yet, so I doubt a $40 device has figured it out.
I got my pcb sample, 5 pcbs + assembly (had to make sure all components are in their library)
How many days ?
including shipping 6 days from order to delivery!!! cost ~250$
They are unbeatable!!
I suffer the same problem. It is all about conserving mental energy.
The way I see it, each person has 2 different mental power gears. A high power one, that drains you and makes you excited at same time. You need this for planning and thinking big or learning about a new tool.
And a Low power gear that allows you to fix bugs and create a small feature for a known tool. We mostly use this low power gear in our daily life, in meetings, while driving or preparing coffee. The high power gear is used sparingly, when we can't sleep at night because of an idea, when we try to learn something new. it is exciting, but draining and painful at the same time. We want to do it again only after forgetting the pain.
I think proscratination is because we use a high power gear too frequently, we are exhausted mentally, and it is too painful. so we say let's do it later. But what if you have a small task that does not need a lot of thinking to do? something not painful? Well this is easy. I can do it. The trick is, it needs to be easy. you should not waste 1 hour to set up your environment to be able to start. it has to be easy.
So to advance on a project, I need to make sure I always have low energy, easy tasks ready for me when i am not in my mental capacity to use my high power thinking.
It is as if I am 2 persons. a developer and an intern. you need to make sure there is enough easy tasks for the intern to work on. You have to accept this about youreself
Dont waste days planning and creating issues for youreself. This is too draining. you need to write the big plan only and make sure you have few tasks ready. not all of them defined from day 0. do a big planning every 2 to 3 weeks (looks similar to a sprint)
I really like this take! I've been doing software professionally for over thirty years, and really relate to all of the discussions here and the root post. I typically beat myself up about "why is this task taking me so long?! it should be easy by now!", etc. But it's likely because I typically take the "focus on the next hardest problem first, otherwise I'll only have all the hard problems to solve at the end" route, and have to use the high-power gear all the time.
Image recognition software could read a trauma xray to find a broken bone years ago. But this was not used by hospitals. The problem is that the medical profession is not ready to give control as the losses for doctors is too high. I am sure that chat GPT will be used in poor countries that lacks doctors, and it will then spread to rich countries when it prooves its accuracy and reliability.
