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by wenc 3y ago
Yes. I used to live in a smaller city and my friends were from even smaller places (small towns, farms). They have a relationship with open space and with crowds that I don’t have. This is particularly pronounced here in the US where there’
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by wenc 3y ago
Sure. But consider that not everyone is like you. There has been a normalization of nature lovers in our time (mostly correlated with upbringing and environment, but in some cases possibly partly correlated with affluence ironically — most
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by wenc 3y ago
Before we go in circles, one definition of loneliness is the difference between the amount (and depth) of social connection desired and the amount obtained. There are two variables, both adjustable. Loneliness is eliminated is when that del
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by wenc 3y ago
Would be interesting to see this study. I personally feel more lonely in nature, especially in forests. I need the energy of big cities to feel a warm glow. I suspect I’m not the only one and there’s a large percentage of the population who
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by wenc 3y ago
I would say 95-99% of transportation signage have English translations. There's still the remaining few percent where it's entirely in Japanese (source: visited the Kansai region a few months ago). They're usually signs on th
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by wenc 3y ago
You're right, it's die Trauer https://dict.leo.org/german-english/trauer
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by wenc 3y ago
I gave GPT4 that prompt and as far as I can tell, the list is correct. GPT answer: It's difficult to determine the "200 most common" nouns for a particular gender in German since the frequency of word use can vary greatly dep
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by wenc 3y ago
Curious, could you share your prompt? I just tried asking GPT4 (paid) to create a list of German nouns with der/die/das and it managed to do it correctly.
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by wenc 3y ago
The takeaways from NNT’s books are summarized in the top Amazon review. The summary is actually pretty useful and relevant and highlights some of the pitfalls of applying common statistical concepts to fat tailed distributions and the chang
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by wenc 3y ago
Actally he did that. Turns out even in the Vatican, most clergy aren't completely comfortable in conversational Latin. Even though the church official docs are still in Latin, Vatican residents speak Italian and English in daily life.
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by wenc 3y ago
As someone who’s mid career trying to navigate corporate life and understand the hidden whys in business, I think so. I think of it like a Patreon or Substack. The blog has changed my mental model for the better on quite a few subjects and
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by wenc 3y ago
Exactly. It’s easier to deliberately practice skills in closed domains or with an established pedagogy like piano where there are clear feedback loops. It’s harder to deliberately practice an open domain like doing business. That’s where yo
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by wenc 3y ago
Unlike individuals, large enterprises rarely pay sticker price but a heavily discounted negotiated rate for software and services. I can’t say how much exactly but it’s less than that.
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by wenc 3y ago
That might be it. I’m not sure about devcontainers (I don’t use them) but as a data point I dual boot into kubuntu on an 7 year old i7 with 8 gigs of RAM and there are no responsive issues.
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by wenc 3y ago
Fountains pens are nice if you write by hand a lot. When I was taking humanities classes, I would get assigned 30 page of readings a week -- which meant a ton of summarizing and note taking. I started out using a ballpoint pen, but I would
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by wenc 3y ago
My code resides entirely on the remote EC2 instance while VS Code UI runs locally. There is no sync as such. You’re working off the remote copy via SSH. (I do back up my code periodically) VS code takes care of spinning up the remote Jupyte
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by wenc 3y ago
I’ve no idea what the cost is since the company pays for it — I do need the horsepower to run some really large models and I suspect most people don’t need this kind of spec. But for my company it’s just part of the cost of doing business.
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by wenc 3y ago
Would be curious how long ago you tried this and what your setup is? The lowest spec machine I have is a Windows 10 machine with an i7 and 8 GB RAM and it is super responsive on the latest version of VS Code.
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by wenc 3y ago
I too use VS Code as my Jupyter platform (running remotely on a powerful EC2 instance with 32 CPUs and 256GB RAM — my own desktop is a 7 year old Intel core i7 with 8GB RAM). VS Code’s Remote extension is amazing, works over any SSH host an
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by wenc 3y ago
ChatGPT has a free tier that anyone can sign up for. It’s eminently usable.
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by wenc 3y ago
I know we shouldn’t comment on comments but I appreciate this rigorous and even-handed reasoning. Comments that are reactionary and unnuanced (“all big tech is bad! Because they’ve done this in the past.”) do not contribute to the discussi
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by wenc 3y ago
Scott-e-vest looks promising but wondering if it's primarily suited to tall and bigs? I'm wondering if shorter individuals might look a little bulgy with stuff in their pockets. I wear this vest and it doesn't have too many p
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by wenc 3y ago
I have a different view on that.
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by wenc 3y ago
If there’s a good “why”, the “how” is merely iteration and execution. Apple has been known to be extremely good at materials science and hardware engineering so if it’s within the bounds of physics and economies I don’t think that’s remotel
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by wenc 3y ago
You assume Apple is entering the VR market. I already think this is the wrong take. To me the market is still being discovered. There are many products whose business models are not what is apparent. We make category mistakes when we pigeon
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by wenc 3y ago
I love contrarian takes but I don’t love uninformed cynical takes not backed up by data or experience, especially the kind we’ve been seeing the past few days with Apple Vision Pro. (John C Dvorak was also commenting about the unreleased
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by wenc 3y ago
First principle's thinking's counterpart is analogical thinking -- which is pattern matching.
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by wenc 3y ago
I grew up in the tropics where it's hot and humid all year round. It's very energy sapping, and you feel drenched all the time and are in no mood to do any kind of brain work. With the proliferation of A/C, things became more
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by wenc 3y ago
I have the same experience with Logseq. I just dump stuff into it without much organization, but through its list management capabilities, I find that I can see connections across different snippets. I can coalesce different ideas that I jo
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by wenc 3y ago
Yes, I learned about Imago dialogue through a book called "Getting the Love You Want" (which sounded gimmicky, but it was recommended by a therapist friend, and I've found it surprisingly practical, not just for intimate rela

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