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by bowsamic 1y ago
It’s the opposite, actually
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Changing keyboard ergonomics is absolutely not the way to deal with RSI. You should instead go to the gym and do proper physio exercises
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It’s an obsessive thing imo, I don’t think it’s actually rooted in a practical thing. They’re just trying to justify an addiction
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Very fun if you get to shoot the AI in the face
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It happens way more than you expect. In my PhD I used to cite unreviewed preprints that were essential to my work but simply for whatever reason hadn’t been pushed to publication. More common for long review like papers
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by bowsamic 1y ago
This is basically my experience. LLMs have made me deeply appreciative of real human output. The more technology degrades everything, the clearer it shows what matters
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by bowsamic 1y ago
I don’t understand why American things absolutely never have dual measurements. I’ve been reading books on pregnancy and newborns written in the US but available across the world and every table is in only US units
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by bowsamic 1y ago
It's really being forced on us too. Jira, Confluence, and Notion are three products I've used where they've purposefully ignored requests to allow us to disable or hide the bundled generative AI. It's really intrusive. I
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by bowsamic 1y ago
I'm surprised at how bad these are
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1. Generally people using such systems to learn language only need to do so if they aren't immersed in the country where it is being spoken. I stopped using Anki for German after a while of living here, even though I'm still learn
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by bowsamic 1y ago
You have fallen into the very trap he is criticising: you are entirely focussed on the product and how it differs from other ones, and have no sense of your individual journey of thinking being relevant
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> I don't mean that their jobs will be automated: I mean that they will cede sapience and resign to becoming robotic. Exactly, there’s a huge section of humanity that actively wants to give away its humanity. They want to reduce the
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by bowsamic 1y ago
Coding and writing is like arithmetic and algebra, use it or lose it. You don’t gain fluency by throwing everything into Mathematica. Of course the real question is, is there any reason to be good at coding and writing, if LLMs can just do
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by bowsamic 1y ago
> There is no emotion. There is no art. There is only logic. I would say that logic is a distinctly human activity, in fact, I would say we are arguably the living embodiment of logos
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I totally agree and it really bothers me that people put so much weight into last regrets
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I'm sure insider gambling also goes back centuries, probably even since before Christ
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I wouldn't be shocked if that's one of the reasons why they sequester
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Jeez that Bastien Nocera guy's reply > no-longer "Don't think that's in the OED" > This is rather unfriendly and considerably more effort than editing logind.conf "I don't like the tone in this sente
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Is that not a desktop environment?
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by bowsamic 1y ago
You don't use a desktop environment?...
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by bowsamic 1y ago
“Sorry, I cannot advise on medical matters such as discontinuation of a medication.” EDIT for reference this is what ChatGPT currently gives “ Thank you for sharing something so personal. Spiritual awakening can be a profound and transforma
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There is nothing more natural than fear of death itself
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Social Justice Warrior but it’s worth noting that actually the acronym has cultural connotations that the words alone do not
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by bowsamic 1y ago
I remember being taught this in A level physics case study of lift alongside a better third law explanation, with absolutely no acknowledgement or justification for one over the other. It caused a bit of a scandal among the class. Gave me a
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by bowsamic 1y ago
Yeah this is how all therapy works. It’s about learning what change you can make and taking responsibility and making that change. Not sure why you’re being downvoted but likely because there’s an idea floating around now that all such issu
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by bowsamic 1y ago
Well yes, the essential working part of all interventions and therapies is to help the client understand how they can take responsibility and what control they have, and to believe in it. They aren’t pure victims, no one is.
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It’s millennial speak
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Why should I worry about that?
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by bowsamic 1y ago
> try to make it better for others, since you will never be able to make it better for yourself. What is the logic here? Why not?
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by bowsamic 1y ago
Calorie counting is the only truly reliable way to lose weight

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