I took a screenshot at the bottom of one of your reps. Parallel means the hip crease going below the top of your knee. I’ve circled both here. It doesn’t look parallel to me, but maybe that’s just the camera angle.

Not ideal, but it’s not bad either. You’re making progress.

How does failure look like for you? Do you fail in the sense that you drop the bar on the safeties, or do you complete part of the set and rack when you think you can’t do another?

How is your progress on T2 squats? If that’s still going up, I wouldn’t be too worried about T1 stalling.

I just checked, and the program also prescribes switching up the set/rep scheme when you fail. Have you done that?

You didn’t say anything about your sleep and diet, but I want to reiterate that they’re both very important. They have a huge effect on your recovery, and how well you recover is one of the main factors in determining how much stronger you get. Make sure you get enough quality sleep. Make sure you’re getting enough protein. But of course, not all is lost if you can’t improve here. It just means you’ll have to live with slower gains at the gym. Slower progression, and more frequent deloads.

So if I understand correctly, between the first day you started the program until now, you’ve only gone up 10lbs on your squat?

I’ll check the video again later, but I’m pretty sure you didn’t reach parallel.

There’s always form improvements your can make, but I don’t think that’s the problem here. I see from your other comment that you’re following GZCLP. The program prescribed a deload when you can no longer progress in weight. Have you done that? Are you sleeping and eating well?

As for form, there are a few things I’d try to work on if you want to optimize how much you can squat, but if you just care about getting a good workout, only the first point would matter imo.

• Depth: Consistency is key, and the best way to achieve that is either going to parallel or as low as possible. You will have to decrease the weight if what we see in the video is the depth you’re used to.
• Unracking: you’re basically doing a partial good-morning to unrack. That’ll sap away the energy you have available for your squat, but it looks like you might not be able to change that with the rack you’re currently using.
• Walk-out: Get practice with taking exactly 2 or 3 steps. The more steps you take, the less energy you’ll have for squatting.
• Shoes: A more solid base means less energy waste. Your feet are visible wobbling around here.

I don’t understand the image. Is that supposed to be a Venn diagram?

Anyway, to answer your question, I use GitHub Copilot for all of my coding work, and ChatGPT here and there throughout the week. They’ve both been great productivity boosters. Sometimes, it also gets hoisted onto me when I don’t want it. Like when trying to talk to customer service, or Notion trying to put words in my mouth when I accidentally hit the wrong keyboard shortcut.

It’s only gambling if you intend to sell it off for a profit. I just want to own a piece of a cool company.

Microsoft is working very hard at getting into this data game. Don’t think they won’t try making similar deals.

Are we looking at a future where we need a search engine to tell us which search engine to use for your queries?

I just read “e.g.” as “for egxample”, and “i.e.” as “that is”

Many restaurants I go to will tap the “no tip” button for you before letting you pay.

That’s a weird way to phrase it. Customers are always “subsidizing” businesses by paying for their goods/services. That’s how businesses work, whether they’re well run or not. What tips do is hide the cost of what you’re buying. It was at least possible to calculate it yourself when everyone agreed on the standard 15% and only at places like dine-in restaurants. But that’s no longer the case, so how much you’re expected to pay is a mystery until you’re handed the machine.

BMW is a German company. Are you sure that’s not just people saying it in German?

I always hear “triple double-V” in Quebec French.

Does it actually make a difference if it dissolves in your mouth? Everything ends up in your stomach eventually.

Fat is your body’s energy store. When you need energy, your body will consume it from your bloodstream. If there isn’t enough there, it’ll break down fat to create more.

So what consumes energy?

• Moving
• Thinking
• Being alive

The last one is what uses up the most energy and you’re already doing it.

This comment is the reason why they teach us how to structure essays in school. I should not have to read this far into your comment before getting any hint of what you’re trying to say.

I’d usually start with easily digestible content like YouTube videos or ChatGPT. At this point, I’m not too concerned about the correctness of the information. It mainly gives me vocabulary that I can then look up for further reading along with the perspective of one or two individuals. That might be all I care about, and if so, I’d stop there and go on with my day. If I want to dive deeper, I’ll look up textbooks and papers on the topic, or any other relevant primary sources. Basically do a light literature review.

Framework sounds great in theory, but it’s hard to justify nearly double the cost compared to a Lenovo T-series.

If no one can make sense of the change, then you reject it. Makes no difference if it was generated with an LLM or copy-pasted from Stackoverflow.

Locals: shop around for the place that sells it at the lowest cost. Take extra time to go to different stores for different products even if they’re all available in one place. Regular price too high? Vote with your wallet and don’t buy it. Good price but you don’t have much money? Buy less.

Wealthy foreigner: This is cheap. I’ll take it.

No one needs to know your income. The price may be the same for everyone, but if you’re willing to pay a higher price, then they’ll be more likely to keep the higher price, thus reducing everyone else’s buying power. If you buy more than the locals and help eat up their stock, that again incentivises keeping prices where they are, or even increasing them. The storekeepers don’t care about how much money you have. They look at whether things sell or not, then make their decisions based on that.