drakonka

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by drakonka 10mo ago
These are entry-level courses that don't require previous university studies. There are some basic eligibility requirements, but those are just high-school level. As I gain credits over time there'll be increasingly more options,
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by drakonka 10mo ago
Do I have to pick? I moved to a university town last year and started registering for whatever sounds interesting. There are so many fascinating things to learn about! My first ever university course ended up being about nuclear weapons. I
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by drakonka 10mo ago
Aside from the challenges you mentioned I just want to say that this looks really cool, and at first glance looks like a great way to also just bond with your partner while learning.
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by drakonka 10mo ago
Totally agree and I do all those things. My desire for a calm, non-gamified learning app would not be a replacement for all other methods.
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by drakonka 10mo ago
I'd love an app like this. I usually go through my Anki deck in bed before sleep and in the morning and am always on the lookout for other language learning methods. Being in bed, I don't want anything too gamified or exciting dur
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by drakonka 10mo ago
* What made it worth it was just the act of blogging itself. For me writing down what I've learned is a great way to consolidate that knowledge for myself. And making it public also inspires me to spend a bit more time thinking about i
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by drakonka 10mo ago
At work I'm working on autonomous agents for web application testing, and in my spare time I've been taking some part-time evening courses at the local university for the first time. Last term I did a course on nuclear weapons and
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The Power of Creative Destruction – Philippe Aghion Nobel Laureate Lecture Notes(liza.io)
1 points by drakonka 10mo ago|1 comments
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by drakonka 1y ago
Icarus - the way it went from a semi-interesting topic of a guy doing steroid self-experimentation to blowing open a whole Russian doping operation brought me joy.
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by drakonka 1y ago
Self-publishing books. Low barrier to entry, high barrier to sustainable profitability.
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by drakonka 1y ago
What about approaching it from the other direction, where instead of trying to physically inhibit the thing you don't want to be doing you aggressively fill your schedule with things you _do_ want to be doing instead? What do you want
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by drakonka 1y ago
I've also been more likely to cry at movies. Not so much at people's sad experiences in real life, but I've found myself tearing up sometimes with someone I really care about sharing a dream or nostalgic childhood memory. For
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by drakonka 1y ago
I always thought of empathy as being able to really relate, emotionally, to what another person is feeling/going through. As a kid I'd sometimes see people crying together on TV when something bad happens to one of them and wonder
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by drakonka 1y ago
For my run training agent hobby project I'm just building my own, it's fun and lets me focus on building stuff rather than wrangling frameworks.
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QA.tech 1.0 – A New Way of AI Testing for Developers(qa.tech)
12 points by drakonka 1y ago|1 comments
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by drakonka 1y ago
I could have sworn there was a seahorse emoji...
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by drakonka 1y ago
I don't feel worried about how others perceive me in these situations.
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by drakonka 1y ago
I just say that: "I don't know, but I'll get back to you [today/after the meeting/after my current task/whatever]." Or if it's another developer and it would be useful: "I don't know, but le
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by drakonka 1y ago
Hmm I wouldn't say I feel anxious during this, nor nervous before social situations. People around me would say I'm overall a social and outgoing person. It's more just playing a certain part of yourself that is relevant for
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by drakonka 1y ago
I've mentioned to relevant people a couple of times in the past that I generally feel like I am "acting" in most social situations. Like I have an idea as to who/how I need to be in that moment and act accordingly. I&#x2
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by drakonka 1y ago
The evolution of smart glasses has totally passed me by since the Google Glass thing. Whenever I heard about them I just thought they were still in the "gimmick" stage. But last week I heard about Meta glasses for the first time a
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by drakonka 1y ago
I do, but that's not what I'm looking for. If you annotate a PDF directly you then have to detangle your notes from the PDF on export. It is very different from having a document open that you can scroll/flip through and taki
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by drakonka 1y ago
I have a RMPP and like it for reading and briefly annotating papers, journaling, drafting fiction. But I am so disappointed that they do not have split screen functionality. One of the core use cases for the device is reading a document and
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by drakonka 1y ago
Having worked at a company with a collective agreement in Sweden, nothing within it restricted my salary or my ability to negotiate as an individual. Upon coming into effect, the agreement simply gave me more vacation days and set a minimum
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by drakonka 1y ago
One of my cursor rules is literally: `Never, ever say "You're absolutely right!"`
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by drakonka 1y ago
Started in QA in 2008, moved to build, then tools engineer, core tech, backend, etc etc. I wouldn't say I'm self-taught though - there were a few excellent and thorough code reviewers on my teams early on who taught me a ton.
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by drakonka 1y ago
This is an interesting idea, and I wonder if it could be a response to some of the increasingly reported 'brain rot' experiences with AI usage. There are things that I opt not to use ChatGPT for because I know it will be harmful t
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by drakonka 1y ago
This looks great! At first glance the dive/skim/skip suggestions it offered for me are well judged (I'm now actually diving into the dive ones).
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by drakonka 1y ago
They are; we're working on agents for web application testing over at qa.tech.
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by drakonka 1y ago
I see it now, thank you! This looks like what I was hoping for. I wonder if there's some way to communicate very clearly that you'll need to talk for around n minutes to get a structured curriculum prepared - and maybe even show a

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