drakonka

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by drakonka 1y ago
I think I am relatively smart and I can feel myself getting dumber when I over-rely on AI for certain things. I've had to carefully observe the effect and choose what I "allow" myself to use it for. Example: when I use it for
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by drakonka 1y ago
For me it's been getting involved in seminars after moving to a university town. I started showing up to philosophy roundtable seminars, where the idea is to read someone's paper beforehand and then discuss it around the table. Kn
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by drakonka 1y ago
Do you mean that the experience is meant to have more structure if you pick the intermediate or advanced level? (fwiw I did pick intermediate for my Swedish level in the app). My thinking is - I can have unstructured conversations with Adva
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by drakonka 1y ago
I had a similar feeling with Swedish just now. It isn't really much different than conversing with ChatGPT in advanced voice mode - it's up to me to drive the conversation and it all feels quite arbitrary (and I find myself instin
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by drakonka 1y ago
This looks like Meetup or Facebook events. I'm not entirely sure what the need for another platform is and won't use it myself to organize my events as others have larger user bases, but the website looks quirky and fun.
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by drakonka 1y ago
I am turning 37 soon.
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by drakonka 1y ago
Fiction is alive and well. This article is specifically about the decline of literary fiction. I think people simply realize how boring and pretentious much of contemporary literary fiction is; many choose to go pick up a science fiction, o
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by drakonka 1y ago
Purely anecdotally, when plastic bags in my country started costing 5-ish SEK I switched to fabric reusables (which I already had lying around from conventions and stuff) almost immediately. In the uncommon case where I don't have one
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by drakonka 1y ago
I wonder if it would be possible to compare the introduction and adoption of erythritol to stroke rate in the population.
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by drakonka 1y ago
I cancelled my subscription a few months ago for this reason.
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by drakonka 1y ago
I got into programming originally because for me it was an act of creation in a very similar way to my sketches and paintings at the time. Software can be art. Interactive art, in fact - so, much 'more' than a painting in some dim
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by drakonka 1y ago
I feel a little stupid (or naive, maybe) each time I read one of these types of posts, because I've always just taken for granted that people don't need convincing to write if they feel like it. And if they don't feel like it
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by drakonka 1y ago
I want to practice speaking and last time I checked Advanced Voice Mode was not available in custom GPTs - is that still the case? Advanced Voice made a really big difference to conversational practice for me, but I do feel like I need to w
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by drakonka 1y ago
I'm not sure if you meant to reply to someone else or if we're just agreeing with each other? I already said "I still write a lot on my personal blog and still use writing as a way to process and solidify my learnings".
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by drakonka 1y ago
This rings true for me. I still write a lot on my personal blog and still use writing as a way to process and solidify my learnings, but as I outsource more to LLMs during the process of writing (e.g., helping me find a source or something,
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by drakonka 1y ago
Not really. AI will be ubiquitous of course, but humans who will offer advice (friends, strangers, therapists) will always be a thing. Nobody is forcing this guy to type his problems into ChatGPT.
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by drakonka 1y ago
The good news is you don't have to use any form of AI for advice if you don't want to.
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by drakonka 2y ago
> We can never be sure who funded the studies and whether or not the results can be trusted. Studies have shown that studies cannot be trusted. I err on the side of caution. What does this mean for you in practice? Do you see just fluori
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by drakonka 2y ago
Does initiating deletion through your 23andme profile settings effectively invoke right to be forgotten/ensure data will be deleted in 30 days? Or is that effectively a soft delete that requires additional followup for a RTBF request?
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by drakonka 2y ago
It seems like you could apply similar thinking to aliens, but if we actually got proof of aliens it'd still be a big deal, right?
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by drakonka 2y ago
I was specifically looking for examples of the original commenter's referenced law-mandated unions: "In some countries/industries you have to be a member of an union by the law. Just by working in industry, union is forced u
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by drakonka 2y ago
Ah ok, but that seems very different from the comment I was replying to, which said "In some countries/industries you have to be a member of an union by the law. Just by working in industry, union is forced upon you by law, and y
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by drakonka 2y ago
And just to be clear - there is an actual law forcing you to join these unions and pay their membership fees? (Not in the US, maybe this law is actually common knowledge that went completely over my head so far!)
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by drakonka 2y ago
Could you please point me to which countries/industries those are? Just a link is fine. Googling isn't helping :(
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by drakonka 2y ago
I am hoping my level of self-delusion would be strong enough. When I was a kid and wanted to play sick to get out of school, I'd always quickly develop an actual low-grade fever and begin feeling legitimately sick. Even after I noticed
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by drakonka 2y ago
What makes you think it is trying to gaslight anyone? The post makes it clear that it just not working on the author is a possibility, but also fairly points out that there are other studies with more participants that weren't really p
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by drakonka 2y ago
I use Hugo with GitLab CI that deploys to an S3 bucket.
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by drakonka 2y ago
I never knew it as "shop class", but my high school in Austraia had a "metalworking" elective and it was _so cool_. I made a mirror frame and a sword.
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by drakonka 2y ago
I do not. I've stopped subscribing since I learned they use Yandex.
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by drakonka 2y ago
This is how I've been using my blog for years - writing about something I did to process and solidify that knowledge, even if I think it's something silly that most other people already know or won't find interesting. I end u

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