toshinoriyagi (u/toshinoriyagi)

toshinoriyagi commented on Switzerland to vote on capping population at 10M nytimes.com/2026/02/11/wo... · Posted by u/bookofjoe

FranklinJabar · a month ago

Switzerland is a state. Talking about what they're "allowed" to do is just meaningless.

But, it does seem like a terrible place to live. I fear for the immigrants who form the basis of the economy.

toshinoriyagi · a month ago

I don't think immigrants make up the basis of the Swiss economy. Looking at their demographic data[1], it was pretty strongly European dominated for a very long time, and is still ~80% European.

When people talk about immigrants in this context, I don't think they mean people from the US, but lower socioeconomic asylum-seekers and refugees etc. from the middle-east.

It definitely seems their economy was built on European labor, which I believe the vast majority of European countries were.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Switzerland#Pe...

toshinoriyagi commented on State of the Windows: What is going on with Windows 11? ntdotdev.wordpress.com/20... · Posted by u/xd1936

btown · 2 months ago

macOS (not iOS) used to be this. POSIX underpinnings. Iconography and visual language designed for clarity and simplicity. Balances between customizability and system stability with deactivatable gatekeepers.

Now, the same way Windows serves Microsoft’s AI investments, Apple serves a nebulous corporate goal for inimitable (read: too unpredictable/unreliable for competitors to copy) Liquid [Gl]ass user interfaces at the expense of clarity, and launch speed at the expense of stability.

I’m not sure if Steve Jobs would have complained about the market capitalization - but he certainly would have executed product improvements more cleanly.

It’s not yet the year of Linux on desktop, I don’t think - but we get closer every year.

toshinoriyagi · 2 months ago

I swapped from Windows 11 to Linux in 2024 (Arch for a bit, NixOS for the last 1.5 years) and can never go back. Linux isn't perfect yet, but my experience is so much better now, and it will only improve. Windows seems to be regressing in many ways.

toshinoriyagi commented on Resistance training load does not determine hypertrophy physoc.onlinelibrary.wile... · Posted by u/Luc

QuercusMax · 2 months ago

Andre the Giant said he never worked out, he just wrestled. He had some kind of growth hormone disorder, if I recall.

Think about gorillas, who are pretty similar to us - they don't lift weights in the gym, do they?

toshinoriyagi · 2 months ago

I don't know much about Andre's strength feats. Was he exceptionally strong? Wrestling definitely involves lifting heavy opponents, especially in Andre's weight class. So, if he was extremely strong, I can see why despite no explicit resistance training, given his wrestling and increased HGH.

Yeah, this whole discussion is based on assuming human genetics. Every animal, without any resistance training, will develop an amount of muscle within some range. This can be massive, like for gorillas. Perhaps someday we will have gene editing that allows us to have the muscle building genes of gorillas, so we can all bench 1,000lbs with no training.

I wonder, do gorillas possess the mechanism for stimulating muscle growth via resistance training? How strong could one be with a dedicated training plan and coach?

toshinoriyagi commented on Resistance training load does not determine hypertrophy physoc.onlinelibrary.wile... · Posted by u/Luc

astura · 2 months ago

> think most people will make a distinction between the burn of acidosis, or what you call unease, and actual pain indicating damage is occurring.

There's not a discernible distinction for me. Which is why I always hate hearing shit like "It should feel uncomfortable but not painful." Like, no, it's FUCKING PAINFUL! It HURTS!

toshinoriyagi · 2 months ago

I understand you, I just think there is value in using a separate adjective, to avoid beginners thinking pain caused by damage to tissue is normal and you need to push through it to get gains.

toshinoriyagi commented on Resistance training load does not determine hypertrophy physoc.onlinelibrary.wile... · Posted by u/Luc

mahdi7d1 · 2 months ago

If it's not painfull you are not exerting enough effort at least that's the case in the gym. People who are refreshed and more energetic after going to the gym are the same people who won't improve beyond intermediate levels. The ones who let go of the any set at the first feelings of unease and never take a set close to failure.

It's actually fascinating how an ancient proverb could line up with modern science so perfectly.

toshinoriyagi · 2 months ago

It certainly does not need to be painful. I think most people will make a distinction between the burn of acidosis, or what you call unease, and actual pain indicating damage is occurring.

But yes, if you never train close to failure you will not grow, not past beginner gains, unless you take steroids.

toshinoriyagi commented on Resistance training load does not determine hypertrophy physoc.onlinelibrary.wile... · Posted by u/Luc

toomuchtodo · 2 months ago

Can we replicate the process of reaching muscle fatigue/failure to spur muscle growth without the strength training or anabolic steroids? Think GLP-1RAs but for this specific biological pathway.

https://www.biopharmadive.com/news/lilly-terminate-obesity-t...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/medicine-and-dentistry/...

toshinoriyagi · 2 months ago

Steroid use has been shown to increase muscle in untrained males by around 25-30% I believe, without adding any exercise. That doesn't accomplish too much. If you want any worthwhile results, you will still have to train, although the steroids produce significantly more results for the same investment.

toshinoriyagi commented on Resistance training load does not determine hypertrophy physoc.onlinelibrary.wile... · Posted by u/Luc

bob1029 · 2 months ago

There's no way this works in practice. A lot of heavy lifting (maximums) is about neurology and mind-body training. You cannot develop the ability to deadlift 405lbs by spending 2 hours using a cable crossover machine every day. Picking up something that weighs 2x more than you do requires your brain to send an extremely strong, synchronized signal. This is something that takes a lot of practice to develop. You have to consistently push your maximum voluntary effort in order to expand this capacity.

toshinoriyagi · 2 months ago

There is a minimum weight you must use to create a training stimulus, but yes, you can increase your 1RM with higher-rep sets (again, to a limit, they can't be sets of 100, the weight is too light).

To increase your 1RM at the most optimal pace, yes you need to specifically train the movement so that you can benefit from improved technique and neurological adaptation. But if I do tricep, pec, and front delt isolation exercises at higher reps, to failure, and see significant hypertrophy in these muscles, my bench press will be stronger, other things constant.

toshinoriyagi commented on Resistance training load does not determine hypertrophy physoc.onlinelibrary.wile... · Posted by u/Luc

armcat · 2 months ago

I thought it was already well understood/researched that it's not the weights that matter, but effectively taking your sets to muscular failure. While one might think "I can do 50 reps with low weights" there is practical aspects to this - you don't wand to spend hours at the gym, and doing heavy weights at 5-7 reps is sufficient as long as you are close or at muscular failure.

toshinoriyagi · 2 months ago

The weight does matter. You will never get bigger if you don't add weight to the bar, and you will never get bigger if you only train at 1% of your 1 rep max, no matter the number of reps. Producing a training stimulus requires placing the muscle under sufficient tension (enough weight) enough times to be at or near failure.

toshinoriyagi commented on Framework Laptop 13 gets ARM processor with 12 cores via upgrade kit notebookcheck.net/Framewo... · Posted by u/woodrowbarlow

MBCook · 3 months ago

So this isn’t an official thing, this is a 3rd party selling a replacement motherboard, is that right?

toshinoriyagi · 3 months ago

Correct, it's not sold by Framework, but is a replacement mainboard sold by a 3rd party. I think that is one of the big appeals of a modular laptop like Framework, though. You can create an ecosystem around it, customize, and not be locked in to just what the primary manufacturer makes.

toshinoriyagi commented on Microsoft lowers AI software growth targets finance.yahoo.com/news/mi... · Posted by u/ramoz

OsrsNeedsf2P · 3 months ago

Have you switched, though? I hear people talking about it, but I doubt they stay the first time they need to configure WiFi. Get a MacBook.

toshinoriyagi · 3 months ago

I've been on NixOS full time for probably 1.5 years. 0 problems, other than some games that need kernel anti-cheat to run.

EDIT: I was also able to connect to my solar panel gateway trivially from the CLI just a few days ago.