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It's called nonviolent communication. There are quite a few books on it but I can recommend "Say What You Mean: A Mindful Approach to Nonviolent Communication".

Seems you can't go anywhere these days without walking into an argument between a descriptivist and a prescriptivist.

It's interesting how easy it is to spot LLM-written text after you familiarize yourself with its general writing style (at least for the GPT-based models).

Imagine the literary possibilities when it can write 100%! Rowling's original work was an amusing, if rather derivative children's book. But Llama's version of the Philosophers sto…

Azerbaijan is an ally of Turkey, whereas Armenia has historically been more aligned with Russia. As a result, the west (NATO) is fairly lenient with Azerbaijan when it comes to con…

The weather in Norway has always been warmer than its latitude would imply (compared to ex. Anchorage) due to the Gulf stream.

I'm in a similar situation to you. In my experience there are a lot of people these days who get the sense that they're falling behind despite feeling like they've done everything …

Norway and Denmark have national card schemes (BankAxept and Dankort) which are used for virtually all PoS transactions. They cost a fraction of the transaction costs that Visa and…

Maybe a bit pedantic, but Norway (founding member of NATO) shares a border with Russia, although the invasion concern is less pressing.

My understanding is that increasing the interest rate causes capital to be more likely to seek low-risk guaranteed returns. The effect of this is to disincentivize investments and …

Clearly, but that doesn't mean it's a nice way to treat people.

>To clarify, I'm only talking about code in the same project that everyone has access to. I'm not talking about defining an API for other people to use that don't have access to th…

FYI: Successful is written without two L's. Looks like a useful tool though :)