I had to set the language of my google account to English to make it finally stop auto translating YouTube. Setting the language in YouTube had worked for a few weeks, then it would be reset again. Setting the language of the google account itself appears to have fixed it for good.

I have a similar experience. It feels like riding your bike in a higher gear - you can go faster but it will take more effort and you need the potential (stronger legs) to make use of it

It's more like shifting from a normal to an electric bike.

You can go further and faster, but you can get to a point where you're out of juice miles from home, and getting back is a chuffing nightmare.

Also, you discover that you're putting on weight and not getting that same buzz you got on your old pushbike.

Hey, that's a great analogy, 10/10! This explains in a few words what an entire article might explain.

Looking at the numbers posted I suppose it was just undeclared sarcasm :)

I'm willing to believe that, but Poe's law is almost as much a certainty as gravity. :-)

Today I tried to use Copilot to go through a code base and export unexported types, interfaces and unions (typescript). It had to also rename them to make sure they are unique in context of the package. Otherwise I would have used search&replace :)

It started out promising, renaming the symbols according to my instructions. Slower than if I had done it myself, but not horrible slow. It skipped over a few renames so I did them manually. I had to tell it to continue every 2 minutes so I could not really do anything else in the meantime.

I figured it’s quicker if I find the files in question (simple ripgrep search) and feed them to copilot. So I don’t have to wait for it to search all files.

Cool, now it started to rename random other things and ignored the naming scheme I taught it before. It took quite some time to manually fix its mess.

Maybe I should have just asked it to write a quick script to do the rename in an automated way instead :)

> One of the great secrets to life is that happiness is found primarily through changing your mindset, not through changing your circumstances.

Not at all in relation to dating (rather to something related to age) that was exactly what I needed to read today :)

Yes, I notice the benefit of having the same faces around regularly at the $sport I do few times per week. You don’t say much more than hello and goodbye, but after a while you appreciate each other's company and really miss it when you can’t go.

Exactly. If you just throw things at it, it will fail. You have to break down the complex problems into sets of simple ones (for now). Then it can shine.

If those 30 seconds are the total time the bar is in your hands and off the floor it sounds reasonable tho, doesn’t it? The numbers quoted match about what I personally experienced

I don't know about that, 30 seconds is for the whole set and was just a rough estimate. Time-holding-the-bar isn't particularly relevant here (other than to emphasize the point it doesn't take much).

Agreed, it’s like doing static HTML instead of an SPA for a simple website. It’s not glamorous, it’s not exciting but it’s incredibly efficient.

I have been lifting for 18 years now and it’s become like brushing my teeth: I just do it without thinking much about it. Just basic stuff - squats, bench, deadlift, few vanity additions. The older I get the more I see how much my peers physically suffer without it.

True. The best time was a decade ago. The second best time is now.