iamacyborg

Not upset, but increasingly concerned that all channels are being intermediated by big tech.

You think there might be some sort of interaction between both facets there?

How is bad summarisation good for a user, for example?

I’m in the UK so I don’t catch all us news, good spot though

> first they are deserving of some level or respect

Are they?

> because they have incentives that are different from our political leaders

Do they?

Given how those virtues have changed over time and how badly behaved a large number of popes have been, yeah, no. The more cynical read is that the Papacy has for a very extensive period been about increasing the personal worldly power of the Pope and his close associates.

I don’t know that the Papacy has ever been about that though

Apparently new checks in Chrome Lighthouse are checking for the existence of the file.

https://searchengineland.com/google-llms-txt-chrome-lighthou...

Yeah there were only so many interesting graphics I could pull from the papers that show the underlying architecture.

Which bits are you finding hard to understand?

That’s a lot of blurays…

Given that these platforms are increasing intermediating experiences between websites/companies/etc and end-users, I suspect we’ll soon see a strong push back in that direction to adopt more things like schema markup to get more control back in some sense. Things are only going to get worse though.

Reminds me of PingIt.

https://www.retailbankerinternational.com/comment/barclays-r...

Maybe? Like, the shoes are certainly a contribution factor, but you're basically talking about stacking multiple 0.1 percenters at that point, which one tipped things over the line is hard to say, and you obviously have to account for the fact that Kipchoge is a genetic freak (like all top athletes) with a couple decades of consistent training behind him and a team hell-bent on finding all incremental gains they can. That period also saw significant improvements in fuelling strategy, amongst other things.

> It's to do with the purpose of the running. Eliud Kipchoge only broke 2 hours because of the shoes he was wearing

That’s a vast oversimplification.

Do you have any evidence that modern shoes encourage over striding?

If you care about the sport and want to see people running even faster, yes.

Anecdotally we see more injuries in the form of bone stress than we used to, because modern shoes allow for greater training loads that aren’t quite as hard bounded by muscle tolerance as flats but without seeing any data I suspect the balance of injury has shifted rather than the general incidence of injuries.

I wouldn’t say “never”. Stuff like ITBS presents as knee pain when the actual problem area is typically weakness in the hip, for example.

They’re very good for the sport though? Modern shoes allow runners to train more, which is one of the primary reasons we’ve seen world records get absolutely slammed since they were introduced. Just look at how may people can consistently run 100+ mile weeks with modern shoes vs before.

Yep, over striding is the problem in many cases.

You’re peddling mostly nonsense.

Modern shoes don’t force you to heel strike.

Running shouldn’t hurt or harm your knees, in fact it’s more likely to be beneficial.

You might find stability shoes to be beneficial until you’ve built up the right muscles, high stack shoes can be quite unstable.

I see they’re following Shopify’s marketing model where they’re presenting their platform as some sort of magical panacea to building a business and making money online.

Great read, that site is also super useful for fairly objective shoe reviews and breakdowns in a world full of influencers trying to peddle you shit they don’t understand

Which is wild because the aggregation and “big data” element is where the harm actually happens in very real terms. Of course, much harder to explain to typical laymen.

Both

Company I just left is reportedly now using Claude to analyse the metadata generated from the company MDM that tracks actual laptop use, and then pulling people up if they're not working "enough".

They're also reportedly now giving staff AI-related "homework" in an attempt to force staff to use AI more.

Yep, I've received a few powerpoints like that.

I'm using Claude to write large files too, but it's a very iterative process and involves a lot of reading and correcting.

Mediawiki seems pretty solid on that front in my 10+ years of running and using it

This is actually a good use of an LLM, get it to scan the legalese for you and look for anything unusual.

I'm somewhat dissapointed that no one's made a "goblin these nuts" comment yet.

This thing's been trained on Reddit, hasn't it...

I wouldn’t say they’re wild and I have a big book buying habit.

A new hardback is typically in the £20-30 range, a new paperback somewhere around £10. These are bookshop prices, not Amazon prices.

As a fairly avid reader, I try to get through a book a week, so £520 a year for a hobby. Sure it’s more than a netflix sub, but books really are quite cheap, particularly once you look at cheaper retailers and second hand.

Granted if you’re collecting lettered editions from fine press publishers, that’s perhaps a different problem.