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by nicbou 2mo ago
You can also use it to write and see the corrected version of your sentences. This got me to practice a lot more.
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by nicbou 2mo ago
I use it like a pokedex. Yesterday I was using it to know if I see swifts or swallows in the evening, and learned a bit more about them. For low-stakes questions that blogs cover well, it’s great. The stakes are low and it gives me a better
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by nicbou 2mo ago
This mirrors my own journey, although I have never submitted my citizenship application. I also came here for an internship and stayed. 11 years and counting. Congrats on becoming a citizen. Having seen many of my friends go through it and
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by nicbou 2mo ago
I live from releasing free information. If people get my information through an LLM controlled by an American corporation, it still serves its purpose. However I need food and shelter, and when these corporations capture the value of my lab
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by nicbou 2mo ago
I think that also extends to "software for few". It lowered the bar for building calculators and widgets for my users. Instead of lengthy explanations, I can just build little calculators and decision trees for my small user base.
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by nicbou 3mo ago
I get spam calls in Germany, but it's maybe two dozen a year in random bursts.
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by nicbou 3mo ago
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pfAg15cAcRY&pp
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by nicbou 3mo ago
Or investing in broad funds.
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by nicbou 3mo ago
It's not as satisfying when the entire economy and everyone's pension is tied to it.
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by nicbou 3mo ago
That's in line with all the wisdom I've received. A rejection is not a measure of your worth, just the cost of doing business. After all I reject a lot of perfectly fine people for various reasons.
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by nicbou 3mo ago
Yep they went from a rare to an almost daily occurrence for me this summer. It upsets me because I have met so many interesting people through my inbox.
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by nicbou 3mo ago
My closest friendships and two relationships started with a cold email. I love when strangers write to me and I give them my full attention. I also write words of praise to bloggers. A simple heartfelt email goes a long way. An LLM-authored
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by nicbou 3mo ago
I think that accepting rejection is part of the being extroverted and meeting strangers. It’s better than waiting for the perfect opening or only talking to people you are sure will be receptive. Or so I was told.
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by nicbou 3mo ago
I am reading Letters from Birmingham Jail, and I'm stunned by how good Dr. King's writing is. I want to read more and learn how he managed to do it. I'm fascinated by the metaphors he uses and how vivid they are in my mind. I
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by nicbou 3mo ago
...what?
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by nicbou 3mo ago
It's because we can't tell where your effort stopped and the machine took over. It's hard to assess the quality of something that may or may not have had any human curation in it. Using AI is not wrong per se, but it's a
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by nicbou 3mo ago
That's not my experience at all. My friends have plenty of hobbies and so do I.
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by nicbou 3mo ago
One thing I love about living in Berlin is that you can meet a dozen stranger and spend hours with them, and no one remembers to ask that question.
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by nicbou 3mo ago
Every single thing substack does reeks of growth hacking. I suspect that it will only get worse. For that reason alone I chose to avoid it for my newsletter.
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Ask HN: Where do those LLM-generated outreach emails come from?
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by nicbou 3mo ago
Appreciation comes from understanding. Most things are interesting if you learn how they work. For instance I didn't really care about football until someone explained all sorts of details about the game to me. You can also develop tha
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by nicbou 3mo ago
They are the creation of the industry. Consent is not the problem.
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by nicbou 3mo ago
No, the websites picked it. They consciously made cookie banners as annoying as possible so that you would give up and accept.
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by nicbou 3mo ago
I like getting books instantly. I like continuing on my phone when I forget my ereader at home. I like that it’s easier to hold. I like that it can pull my Instapaper articles for reading over coffee. I like that it’s lightweight and small
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by nicbou 3mo ago
I went and I loved it. The owner encourages you to pick things up and try them. I am glad I went.
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by nicbou 3mo ago
On the other hand I vaguely remember a comment from a printer who was radicalised by the amount of paper wasted on printing flyers, day after day, week after week.
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by nicbou 3mo ago
Google is actively working on not sending you visitors anymore.
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by nicbou 3mo ago
Yeah it's just the big budget movie with the non-stop marketing. It's everywhere.
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by nicbou 3mo ago
My website also gets LLM visitors to URLs that never existed, and in many cases to topics that I have never covered. This means that they use my name to give authenticity to things that I have never said.
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by nicbou 3mo ago
There's a difference between giving your neighbors eggs from the chicken you raise, and the local chain hotel including them in their breakfast buffet. Even if the output is free, you might enjoy the community, the gratitude or other i

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