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by spudlyo 1y ago
I'm still on Sonoma on my Mac, but I've recently been splitting my time between macOS and Linux and I'm starting to be pretty happy with Linux. The main problem I had with living in a Gnome desktop environment, is with the ke
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by spudlyo 1y ago
The problem with accepting VC money is they will eventually demand a return on their investment, which means that the forces that drive enshitification will eventually come for Zed in some form. I suspect that we'll see more and more f
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by spudlyo 1y ago
This is one reason why I employ the Scriptorium language learning technique developed by Alexander Arguelles which focuses you on actively engaging with a text by reading it aloud, carefully writing it down while saying each word, and then
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by spudlyo 1y ago
When I was trying to extract as much meaning out of George Eliot's Middlemarch as I could, I would read a chapter, and then upload that chapter's text file (thank you Gutenberg) to NotebookLM. I'd then have it extract unusu
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by spudlyo 1y ago
Invoke comes from Latin invocō, invocāre, meaning “to call upon”. I wouldn’t view it as a misuse, but rather a shortening.
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by spudlyo 1y ago
The greatest, and the most American sandwich in the world. The BLT is incredibly balanced, I feel like all three elements are stars in their own right.
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by spudlyo 1y ago
At least people can't see vote counts, on Reddit it encourages groupthink.
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by spudlyo 1y ago
At a previous job most of our services supported gRPC reflection, and exploring and tinkering with these APIs using the grpc_cli tool was some of the most fun I had while working there. Building and using gRPC services in golang left a stro
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by spudlyo 1y ago
I'd love an option to be able to filter out all videos from my feed that have sponsored segments. For me, I find the best content is the underground stuff made by folks who don't have a clear profit motive.
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by spudlyo 1y ago
Feh, more music about middle class white boy pain. I like his older stuff, but producers with computers fix all his shitty tracks these days. Seriously though, it's often fraught with peril to try to compare two artists directly, espec
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by spudlyo 1y ago
Thanks for the tip! I love well narrated audiobooks, and I've been meaning to get into one of le Carré's books for a while. I see he narrates the "John le Carré Value Collection" on Audible which has Tailor of Panama, Ou
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by spudlyo 1y ago
I'd like to think that in the future this will be possible, but at present I believe there are still too many uncanny valley problems for me to regard any TTS generated audio books as high quality. I can sometimes tolerate listening to
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by spudlyo 1y ago
I’m not likely to watch an 80 minute video so I can understand what you mean, perhaps you can add some additional context?
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Delightfully meta at times, a fun read! I recently binged all of Jane Austen’s novels, and her dense prose is so chock full of clauses and sub clauses, that I like feel she uses semicolons and emdashes the same way programmers might nest wi
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by spudlyo 1y ago
To be fair, I probably wouldn't have been able to do it all if I didn't start out by eliminating work-related stress, which gave me some bandwidth to attempt something difficult. That was the first step in the flywheel, followed b
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by spudlyo 1y ago
I feel like the field of metabolic psychiatry is a very promising one. I can say from personal experience that switching to a ketogenic diet along with regular monitoring my blood ketone levels has had a huge impact on my ADHD related doldr
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by spudlyo 1y ago
I think "pointless as a means of exercise" perhaps overstates it a bit. I agree you're not going to see much benefits in terms of cardiovascular fitness, but every bit of activity figures into one's energy balance. You o
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by spudlyo 1y ago
It depends on your weight and current fitness levels, for sedentary and morbidly obese folks walking can be a zone 3-4 workout, as it's more like rucking.
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by spudlyo 1y ago
“Normalize ’til it hurts, denormalize ’til it works.”
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by spudlyo 1y ago
Even in a humorous context, cursing and insults land much better if they're used more sparingly. At some point in the essay they became distracting, and by the end I found them tiring.
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by spudlyo 1y ago
Consistent exercise is right below getting consistent quality sleep in the category of "benefits you would happily pay $1000/mo for if they came in a syringe". The benefits are both mental and physical. If you value your mind
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by spudlyo 1y ago
> I'm still hungry. Hunger signals can be very confusing. Is it an actual hunger signal or is it a craving for another hit of dopamine? As a formerly morbidly obese person, who through deliberate fasting has tried hard to understand
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by spudlyo 1y ago
Fiber is also not a worthless foodstuff, but it's a hard sell to be told to eat a dry, gritty bran muffin when I'm starving at brunch.
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by spudlyo 1y ago
While I generally appreciate this advice to allow yourself to be bored for all the creative benefits that come with it, I also resent it. When large portions of my life were outside of my control due the 8 hour workday, I felt like I don&#x
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by spudlyo 1y ago
It sounds like there is a department of propaganda at your company. CARTHAGO DELENDA EST. It's worth noting that this was a bottom-up initiative, and management got on board after it was shown to be successful and morale boosting. ICs
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by spudlyo 1y ago
One company I worked for had a culture of semi-regular hackathons and are they were often a lot of fun. As an old, I got to work with some non-jaded wide-eyed interns from U of Waterloo who worked their asses off on inspired hackathon proje
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by spudlyo 1y ago
It's funny, but I always found English grammar (also my native language) to be completely pointless, but I find myself really enjoying learning about Latin grammar, and as a result marveling about how weird English is. It's fascin
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by spudlyo 1y ago
These are some great tips. Having consistent daily exposure to your target language I think is important. Compelling graded readers can make spending that time every day enjoyable and not feel like a chore. A stress-free positive learning e
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by spudlyo 1y ago
Having enjoyable text to read/listen to that is just comprehensible enough to get you to keep working at it really a pleasurable way to learn a language. LLPSI is also great, and at times is a delightful read. I find myself also really
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by spudlyo 1y ago
Thanks! It has helped explain a lot of things about my life, and what I now understand as dopamine-seeking behavior, as well as why I found it so difficult to switch focus once I became obsessed with something. I got a prescription for Adde

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