How can I prevent Windows 10 from upgrading to 11? I have a gaming pc that's basically just for VR, and is ~5 years old. I play non-VR on my SteamDeck, so really I just want to keep my old pc gaming box running on 10 for (occasional) VR gaming at this point... also, pretty heavily invested in Steam (VR and non-VR) so I really prefer not to switch to something like Meta Quest, etc.

Agree - plus it’s a FF fork so it allows UBlock.

Ublock lite works just fine

Until you want to block a custom selector.

"There has to be a round in the chamber for a round to be fired" seems sort of tautological if I'm being honest.

Very, very few serious people would argue that anyone carrying a firearm should carry it without a round in the chamber. Yes, "Israeli carry" is a thing, but is almost entirely endorsed simply as a training carry-over from a time when people carried different weapons of widely varying mechanical safety features in a very unique high-threat environment.

If you're carrying a firearm professionally, or in the US "recreationally" for personal protection, carrying without a round in the chamber will be seen by most people as a pretty stupid decision.

As a Sig 320 owner, and someone that knows at least 3 other sig 320 owners, I disagree. None of us ever carry our weapon chambered. I probably know 10+ guys that own guns, including a few police officers, and I'm going to ask the officers about this because honestly, I would be surprised if they even carried their weapons chambered.

I wouldn't carry with a round in the chamber if I carried a 320 either.

There is zero chance that those police carry un-chambered

Your experience is an outlier.

My father was taught to use condition 3 carry (unloaded chamber) with a 1911 in the 1970's US Navy. It all depends on circumstances.

You might not, but this is exactly how a pistol like this should be carried.

The usual response to this is that if you don't carry with a round in the chamber, you could spend the rest of your life racking the slide.

That's exactly how guns are supposed to be carried. Exceptions exist, but if you're carrying a gun you ought to be ready to use it.

N=1. Just because your wife's business doesn't fall under the conditions that the article is talking about, it doesn't mean that her business is the norm.

Sure, my experience isn’t with sharing, basically. Nice.

I'm just planning on tipping less to make up for it. In California minimum wages are already $20/hr, and on top of that so many places expect a higher %ge, tip, just cutting my tip by the 10% they pay in tax and being done with it. I pay taxes on my wages. They should too

Agree - I’m 58 and still do the same workout I did in my 30s and 40s including 3 sets of 15 to 20 pull-ups depending on the day. I also still skate (hockey) 2 -3 times a week with a bunch of retired pros (echl, nhl, etc) and typically put up a bunch of points every skate (possibly slightly more assists now but I attribute that more toward enjoying that more these days and not needing to be so flashy)

>"3 sets of 15 to 20 pull-ups depending on the day"

It is always 20 for me. 4 sets. I am 64. I used to do 30 when I was a teen but I was much lighter then. also lots of swimming, cycling, hiking canoeing etc. etc

That’s awesome. I’m 60 and find pull ups are getting harder. I’d be delighted to get 20 in a set.

Prolly because I was doing those all my life. Funny that even after more than a year long break at 50+yo due to trauma it only took me a 1.5 month to recover from 5 to back to 20. I guess once you do something long enough body just gets accustomed.

You are reaping the benefits of having an active fitness regime in your 30s . The average 50 year old who starts exercising today will never get to your fitness level .

I don’t think I’m convinced of that. Most fitness measures saturate as you approach a limit. For example, you can build muscle mass rapidly in the first couple of years but it slows dramatically as you approach your genetic limit. It only takes a few years of consistent training to get to that asymptotic level. So on that measure, you can basically “catch up” to your hypothetical “always trained” self.

While you might not be able to get to the exact same level of fitness as if you had trained for years, I think you can get fairly close. And without a doubt, you can drastically improve from wherever you’re starting.

Ah, interesting that explains why my gains are way slower this year, which is my third year of being consistently 5 days/week in the gym.

I do have a question: is there benefits in pushing harder if my goal is just health, or should I keep my training as is to limit injuries?

I'm 36, so not related to the article yet.

What about the relative fitness of the average 50 year old who starts exercising today vs the one who doesn't when they both turn 65?

Rowing machines seem to be one of the best approaches to attempt it, though.

Are you still taking rapamycin and if so what are your observations from taking it for the past few years?

Ditto - I’m on Zen browser a FF fork, it’s a clone of Arc and quite love it. No way I’m going back to chrome or any chromium browsers.

You’re probably thinking of The Browser Companies Dia Browser (replaced Arc). Came out last month, same AI focus.

Sparx - they make a great high tech home skate sharpener. Me and just about every serious player I know own one:

https://sparxhockey.com/

These are insanely popular in the US too. And I can verify that most of the guys I play with own one. They say their kids teams travel with four or five so the kids get their skates tuned before every game.

That product was an absolute game changer.

I was using Claude 3.7 exclusively for coding, but it sure seems like it got worse suddenly about 2–3 weeks back. It went from writing pretty solid code I had to make only minor changes to, to being completely off its rails, altering files unrelated to my prompt, undoing fixes from the same conversation, reinventing db access and ignoring existing coding 'standards' established in the existing codebase. Became so untrustworthy I finally gave OpenAi O3 a try and honestly, I was pretty surprised how solid it has been. I've been using o3 since, and I find it generally does exactly what I ask, esp if you have a well established project with plenty of code for it to reference.

Just wondering if Claude 3.7 has seemed differently lately for anyone else? Was my go to for several months, and I'm no fan of OpenAI, but o3 has been rock solid.

Could be the prompt and/or tool descriptions in whatever tool you are using Claude in that degraded. Have definitely noticed variance across Cursor, Claude Code, etc even with the exact same models.

Prompts + tools matter.

Cursor became awful over the last few weeks so it's likely them, no idea what they did to their prompt but its just been incredibly poor at most tasks regardless of which model you pick.

Me too. (re: Claude; I haven’t switched models.) It sucks because I was happily paying >$1k/mo in usage charges and then it all went south.

This is why I’m using Zed now, and Claude Code. I like to keep Zed pretty minimal and I’m slowly weening off of Cursor in favor of Claude Code when I need it

have you tried zed agent? how does it compare with cursor?

It’s getting better fast. It’s still needs refining but I have no issues spending the entire day in it

Yeah, it took me a few weeks to wean off cursor but I’m now happily using Zed exclusively.

Cursors tab predictions are still a bit better and snappier but I feel like Zed is a better editor experience over all and I don’t rely on AI anyway. Agent mode works pretty well for me though. Also cursor leaks memory pretty bad for me.

There’s still room for improvement but Zed is working on fixes and improvements at a high pace and I’m already pretty happy with where it’s at.

I've been getting rate limit errors with Zed (using my own Claude API) while the same query will work in Claude Code. So still some rough edges there.

I pay that 20€ a month for a subscription, and the claude opus thinking model from Zed is really solid now.

Had similar issues earlier, now it works.

Also it's great that I do not need to use the vscode ecosystem. Zed is snappy, has a great UI and now a good assistant too.

I’m not a fan of the 20 tool limit unless you use the Max option which costs you 1 credit for each and every tool call + message. Seems like an artificial limit and it always rips me out

You can just click continue and keep burning tokens. It's not such a big deal.

Doesn’t it require you to create a new chat?