yodsanklai

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by yodsanklai 4mo ago
I noticed that with some people (and possibly most people), it's not even a matter of who's wrong or right, simply asking to justify or explain their claims may be perceived as an attack and enough to trigger an argument.
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by yodsanklai 4mo ago
> Sure, thus the "find a trainer" suggestion Not sure a trainer is a silver bullet. After 50, it gets increasingly harder to improve as we become more and more injury-prone and start developing chronic issues. Staying active an
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by yodsanklai 4mo ago
> And if you're injuring yourself regularly during weight training or other gym activities, I'd suggest you might hire a good coach/trainer for guidance and programming, because that shouldn't happen either. After a c
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by yodsanklai 4mo ago
> can have views on all four quadrants but you'd never know that if I end up in any of all four Curious of examples of views falling on all four quadrants (not close to the center) without too much cognitive dissonance.
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by yodsanklai 4mo ago
> Israel are doing their best efforts to avoid civilian casualties. According to wikipedia, there have been 80K people killed in Gaza, 80% are civilians, 30% are children. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_
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by yodsanklai 4mo ago
There are many Israelis who conclude that their country is conducting a genocide in gaza and ask for it to stop [1]. Conversely, there are people who are "far far away", who have access to the same information as everybody else a
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by yodsanklai 4mo ago
There's simply no excuse for what Israel has been doing and everyone with a functioning moral compass should be denouncing it. Debating about Hamas is a distraction. They have a right to defend their country, but not treating a whole p
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by yodsanklai 5mo ago
> is pushed by powerful and wealthy elite down the throat of society. Adoption has been exponential. We don't need to be AI to be pushed down the throat. People use it because it works and it's useful to them. > The debate t
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by yodsanklai 5mo ago
> top universities experimented with removing test requirements from admissions What could go wrong...
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by yodsanklai 5mo ago
AI should be a formidable booster for learning if used properly. I know that some students it to prepare for competitive tests, sometimes with very good results. I've also been using it a lot recently to brush up on my math and physics
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by yodsanklai 5mo ago
> There is more to life than money That's what I told myself when I was in my 20s and early 30s. And then I realized that I had no savings and no opportunities to save, unless I switched to a more lucrative career (which I did, with
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by yodsanklai 5mo ago
Meta isn't nowhere near cigarettes manufacturers in terms of damage. Tobacco kills millions every year. Meta may need even more regulation, and you can argue that social medias aren't the greatest invention, but I don't think
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by yodsanklai 5mo ago
There are tons of good reasons to work for Meta. You can work on interesting projects, build your resume and network, work on interesting engineering problems, learn from other people, and of course, they pay very well. People do need to su
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by yodsanklai 5mo ago
> how many people finally get it because of animations and playing with the maths instead of some old dude drawing a formula on a blackboard Visualisation helps of course, but if you want to be good at maths, you need to put the work and
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by yodsanklai 5mo ago
Same here. I didn't find the drink especially nasty. I drank it very cold, it had a somewhat chemical taste but very fluid, not disgusting texture. I do remember it was a lot of liquid to drink though. As for the bathroom part, no pain
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by yodsanklai 5mo ago
He seems to be a nice guy and this contrasts with big tech CEOs, but this is pretty demagogical. AI is going to causing disruption but is here to stay, so what should be done about it? "Think different", "you have actual inte
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by yodsanklai 5mo ago
Gemini helped me a lot for my tax return. It actually did a better job than Deloitte, it found several mistakes in previous returns they filled for me.
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by yodsanklai 5mo ago
Stuff like that should be regulated at a much higher level than unions.
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by yodsanklai 5mo ago
I don't think it's about trust, but they're using employees behavior for training their replacement.
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by yodsanklai 5mo ago
> American companies should not be allowing their tech to ... Do they have a choice?
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by yodsanklai 6mo ago
> My brain does not work the same way, as when I was before 36. I'm not sure it's that bad if you do it full-time like any other student. Getting a degree should be doable even at 40+. I used to be a university lecturer in CS,
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by yodsanklai 6mo ago
Sometimes I wonder if people praising AI work on the same type of code as I do. Just now, I was working on a bug report. I had Claude write the code. Perfect, CI is green, new tests, everything seems fine. Took me 5 minutes. Then looking cl
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by yodsanklai 6mo ago
> there could be another person here that i have the capacity to be really good friends with but i will probably never know it. I often have the same thoughts. There are many lonely people eager to make friends. I used to live in NYC whe
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by yodsanklai 6mo ago
Compared to a gym, the class setting almost forces you to talk to people. I wouldn't see myself talking to people in a gym, but in a snowboarding club or martial arts class, or a group hike, it's difficult not to. Once you exchang
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by yodsanklai 6mo ago
> “do your hobby with other people, frequently”. I think it's decent advice, but from my experience, it can take years to make friends that way. I practiced various sports my whole life in the context of sport clubs (martial arts, c
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by yodsanklai 6mo ago
I'm forced to do so at work. I don't like it, but no doubt I'm more productive with it. Certainly not 10x like leadership claims, but it helps.
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by yodsanklai 6mo ago
> People coming from highly respected universities are doing everything with AI Nowadays, everybody is doing everything with AI, young and old alike. It's very hard to justify not doing it. That being said, you can produce good code
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by yodsanklai 6mo ago
> I am still waiting on the news that they are killing the quest headset though. That would be sad. I've never owned a Quest, but the technology is starting to be very impressive. I would consider buying a new generation one.
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by yodsanklai 6mo ago
I believe they optimize for fairness and consistency. They interview a huge number of people from very different backgrounds so they need a standardized process. It's not perfect but I can understand the logic. And there's team ma
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by yodsanklai 6mo ago
The recruiting process has barely changed since then.

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