nicbou

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by nicbou 8mo ago
Try Unhook (desktop) and Untrap (iOS). At this point, my YouTube experience is just the channels I subscribe to, and the video player. It reduced my usage to almost zero. I'm not exactly curing cancer, but my media consumption is more
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by nicbou 8mo ago
I moved back to paper notes, watercolours and paperbacks novels. On paper (ha) it is much worse than a cloud-connected device with an undo function, but the experience is just better for me. I love how you can act with those media in ways t
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by nicbou 8mo ago
AI is sucking up that content and denying traffic to its creators. This model is becoming obsolete.
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by nicbou 8mo ago
Every website that was driven by traffic is also dying. I have put nearly a decade of work into mine, and AI overviews and ChatGPT have reduced traffic by over 60%. At some point I will need to give up and find a job, and that corner of the
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by nicbou 8mo ago
You can just lie. There is literally no wrong answer here.
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by nicbou 8mo ago
You get a long-lasting device that's usually pleasant to use. User experience is harder to measure than specs, but at least for me, Macbooks are consistently better laptops than everything else I've used.
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by nicbou 8mo ago
I think that someone getting hung up on something so irrelevant would probably not be a good culture fit.
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by nicbou 8mo ago
I used a simple “tell me what you had for breakfast” line to filter out people who don’t read. It required no work from the applicant but filtered out some of the spam. I wonder if an AI-resistant version could be made.
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by nicbou 8mo ago
It's been around for a while and recommended by many. I tried it myself and it's okay.
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by nicbou 8mo ago
Monthly is fine, but not monthly all at once , because I watch multiple pages on one website, and that triggers the rate limiting. The ideal pipeline for me would be "notice a change in a specific part of a page, use a very small LLM
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by nicbou 8mo ago
Buddy I love you! I have wanted this for so long! My job relies on following many German laws, bureaucracy pages and the like. In the long run I want specific changes on external pages to trigger pull requests in my code (e.g. to update a t
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by nicbou 8mo ago
"A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in." Instead we're razing the forests and bragging about our indifference.
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by nicbou 8mo ago
The way I see it, "from each according to their ability" is the right approach here. If you can afford 30% less flying, red meat etc, then it's your duty to do it. You don't need to make your cat go vegan; just... do wha
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by nicbou 8mo ago
"No individual rain drop ever considers itself responsible for the flood."
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by nicbou 8mo ago
You might enjoy Dr Sarah Payne's lectures on YouTube.
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by nicbou 8mo ago
Invisible Women If you liked Freakonomics, you will like this. It's not a rant, just one example after another of how we fail to account for half of the population. I just finished The God of Small Things. The writing is phenomenal,
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by nicbou 8mo ago
It's an "all hands on deck" situation, yet everyone seems to think that someone else has to do something. You don't need to be a martyr, just to make an effort. At the very least don't brag about not giving a crap.
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by nicbou 8mo ago
The thing is that everyone alive today and in the future is footing the bill for that indifference. It's nice that you don't care, but it's not something I'd brag about.
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by nicbou 8mo ago
Yes? As I wrote, the mere act of writing down your feelings forces you to acknowledge them and see patterns in them. Sometimes while writing something down I realise "wait, I've been through this before" or "every time t
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by nicbou 8mo ago
The message here was "journaling is a useful form of introspection". > Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.
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by nicbou 8mo ago
I think it's good to track mood swings, because it makes you notice them. After a while it makes you call out your own BS.
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by nicbou 8mo ago
I have built a much more limited version of this that combines my journals, sketches, photos, geolocation etc. I found it useful for noticing patterns in my behaviour and in my irrationality. Journaling helped the most, because recording my
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by nicbou 8mo ago
It's a shameless rip-off of Maggie's website, but done too lazily to be noticeable. The colour palette was literally the same until recently.
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by nicbou 8mo ago
Ah darn, someone already mentioned Maggie Appleton's website. It's simply gorgeous. https://allaboutberlin.com is optimised for readability and ease of navigation. That's what a website should do, although I love
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by nicbou 8mo ago
German armaments production increased dramatically despite Allied bombing. If I'm not mistaken, the impact of bombing Germany is still hotly debated. The loss of alloy mines in the East was far more devastating, again if I'm not m
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by nicbou 8mo ago
Not just tanks but the entire economy and railways in the same time period.
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by nicbou 8mo ago
Germany is desperately wishing for a wonder weapon that will help them catch up and overtake other nations technologically. They constantly talk about smart cities and AI pie-in-the-sky projects while their administration is paper-based, ri
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by nicbou 8mo ago
I would start migrating to an email domain that you control. It will come useful at one point or another.
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by nicbou 8mo ago
This reminds me of the anti reading list, for books that you'd like to say you've read. The charitable perspective is that if everyone in your circle likes a thing, you might be missing an opportunity to enjoy something Objectivel
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by nicbou 8mo ago
It's not a guilty displeasure. I get annoyed by smart stuff. It's grating to deal with a smart TV demanding more attention than a display deserves. Over time we just stopped trusting that technology will better our lives.

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